Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: tep@tots.logicon.com (Tom Perrine) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: John Galt, MCI and Wrong Numbers Message-ID: <10092@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 25 Jul 90 17:49:38 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Tom Perrine Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, California Lines: 48 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 513, Message 11 of 11 Yesterday, one of the people here was cleaning an old office and came across a PC 5.25" diskette with a business card attached: John Galt + Computer Corporation xxxxxx San Francisco CA XXX-XXX-XXX CA ONLY 1-800-445-3313 1-800-JGC-COMP (Note: the + is actually a little dollar sign in a circle! ) Being the curious sort (and wanting to know what might be on the disk, WITHOUT TRYING IT OUR PCs), I decided to find out "who is John Galt" :-) When I called the CA 800 number, I got a golf course in Evans GA !!, which doesn't even have 800 service! I tried this twice, to make sure I wasn't mis-dialing. The other 800 number rang (over 20 rings), and the non-800 number is disconnected. Our PBX uses MCI as the default carrier, so I called the MCI operator and explained the problem. She insisted that this was not possible, so I asked to speak to a supervisor. He agreed to take the charges off and report the problem. When I asked for the trouble ticket number, he got *very* upset that I should even ask for such a thing, and proceeded to lecture me about what was and wasn't my business. That was yesterday. Today, I used 800-555-1212 to find "John Galt", which got me the number of John Galt Construction in Owensborough KY, which got a rash (over 200) of calls (in a one month period) for the John Galt Computer Company about nine months ago. It looks like the John Galt Computer Company went under and their old CA-only 800 service was "lost" in the shuffle. Is this mis-route just an MCI problem? Why didn't I get a disconnected message on the generic 800 number? Why was the MCI supervisor so upset when I asked for a trouble ticket number? Why is the sky blue? Who *is* John Galt? And what is on the diskette :-) ? Tom Perrine (tep) |Internet: tep@tots.Logicon.COM Logicon |UUCP: nosc!hamachi!tots!tep Tactical and Training Systems Division |-or- sun!suntan!tots!tep San Diego CA |GENIE: T.PERRINE |+1 619 455 1330