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From: n313ap@tamuts.tamu.edu (Mark Saum)
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Subject: Re: Fun With ANI
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Date: 18 Jul 90 17:15:16 GMT
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>> An OTC pharmacutical company is sponsoring something called "Pollen
>> Trak" (with the same announcer on the machine that did "Weather
>> Trak").  You call the number and you get a pollen report for your
>> area. Based on the ANI data obtained in real time you are given,
>> supposedly, the correct report. It gives me a Sacramento area report;
>> that's hardly useful since San Jose is somewhat outside Sacramento's
>> geographic sphere of influence.

> Just tried it from NJ.  It apparently didn't get the ANI, as it
> prompted me for my phone number.  I entered it (908-647-xxxx) and was
> then given the message for Buffalo (about 500 miles from here!).  I
> know that area code 908 is a recent addition to the geography, but I
> expected something more helpful than Buffalo!

When I called this number from our phone here at the lab. We are on
some sort of private exchange in which we control two exchanges
409-845-xxxx & 409-847-xxxx.  I'm still very fuzzy on the details.
Anyway, it also prompted me to enter my phone number.  I put in
409-555-1212, and it gave me the Dallas pollen count.


Mark Saum                           Remote Sensing/GIS Lab
Programmer/Student Technition       Dept. of Forest Science
n313ap@tamuts.tamu.edu   <---O.K.   Texas A&M University