Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "Craig R. Watkins" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: AT&T 800 Directory Message-ID: <10507@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 14:45:00 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: HRB Systems 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 545, Message 12 of 15 I seem to receive the {AT&T Toll-Free 800 Directory, Consumer Edition} year after year for free for just returning a post-paid card that AT&T sends to me. From what I can tell, AT&T really does SELL these things, but mine comes with "A special gift for a special customer" printed on the cover. No friends that I've asked receive them. For quite sometime I thought how clever AT&T was to track my 800 dialing habbits to know that I could use a directory! Then it hit me -- I don't have phone service in my name! (It's in my wife's and she has a different last name.) I do have a calling card in my name on her service and I also have a directory listing tho I still wonder why I get the book and she doesn't. Anyone else get this book for free? Have any idea why they send it to you? Just curious after all these years ... Craig R. Watkins Internet: CRW@ICF.HRB.COM HRB Systems, Inc. Bitnet: CRW%HRB@PSUECL.Bitnet +1 814 238-4311 UUCP: ...!psuvax1!hrbicf!crw