Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: uvm-gen!jay@banzai.pcc.com (Jay Schuster) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Wrong Numbers From Directory Assistance Message-ID: <1860@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Dec 89 01:06:25 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: The People's Computer Company, Williston, VT Lines: 24 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 554, message 10 of 11 henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: >If you get a wrong number from Directory Assistance, is there any >point in calling them and letting them know, or do they just bitbucket >this information and keep giving out the wrong number? My company's name is The People's Computer Company. For a while after we got an office, DA was giving out our number as the PeopleExpress Airlines reservation number. Someone would ask for Peoples Express, the DA would type in Peoples... and come up with our number and give it out. We kept track of the number of times we had to give out the correct PeopleExpress phone number, and eventually billed New England Telephone for using us to give out the PeopleExpress phone number. After a fair amount of wrangling, we actually *got* a check from them, which we photocopied, framed, and hung in our office. Even after we had solved the problem with NETel, we continued to get calls from Quebec. Jay Schuster uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'