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From: eriksa@agora.UUCP (Erik Anderson)
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Subject: Re: Phone Book Finally Wakes Up
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Date: 16 Jan 90 21:31:44 GMT
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In article <90013.040751NETOPRWA@NCSUVM.BITNET> NETOPRWA@ncsuvm.ncsu.edu (Wayne Aiken) writes:
>In article <237@oldcolo.UUCP> dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes):
>>        Because in no telephone book, in any city, have I ever been
>>able to find modem numbers. Not just local BBS's, even business
>>'BBS's'.
>
>New Orleans does, or so they did the last time I was there a year ago, and
>calling up BBS's from the motel room.  Unless you have a list like the Darwin
>US BBS list or The List, before you go out on the road, it can be very
>difficult to find any BBS's at all.  I was amazed that neither NYC nor Boston,
>both very big computer/BBS locations, had any useful information at all in the
>phone book.
>

One solution that can be used in larger towns and cites is to look in
the classifieds for someone selling a modem and see if they know of any.
I did that to obtain my Portland list when I moved up here from Phoenix.


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