Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Ted Koppel Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Odd Stuff at MCI Message-ID: <5406@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 20 Mar 90 06:20:16 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: CARL -- Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries Lines: 22 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 188, Message 5 of 10 I was trying to make a call this morning (Denver --> San Jose) on MCI from home. Got an intercept that said my call can't be completed at this time - for further information call 1-800-888-1800. Tried, of course, calling the 800-888-1800, but line was consistently busy, so eventually I went to work. Called MCI tonight to ask if they were having network problems this morning, but the (low-level) clerk I spoke to of course didn't know anything. 1 - was MCI not working to the West Coast today, or did I have a fluke? 2 - what is the point of dialing the 1-800-888-1800 number; what information might they have told me if it hadn't been busy? Ted Koppel CARL - Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries = Internet: tkoppel@carl.org -or- uunet!isis!tkoppel (uucp)