Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: "J. Deters" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Plagued by Wrong Number Calls Message-ID: <10668@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Aug 90 21:36:28 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: "J. Deters" Organization: Terrapin Transit Authority Lines: 35 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 556, Message 3 of 9 For over a year now, I've been getting wrong numbers and messages left on my AUDIX from people wishing to purchase Minnesota Twins tickets. My number is (612) 375-3116, and theirs is (612) 375-1116. (Notice how I don't care if I tell you all what my number is?) They have some goofball advertising agency that keeps using my number instead of theirs. It's interesting to see a television commercial with your own number on the screen. I just asked a guy last week where he saw the number. He told me "on the billboard by the Metrodome." You'd think someone might evenutally notice this. I get all kinds of messages left on my box. Most are short pauses with hangups. Some are friendly, some are background conversations like " ... not sure if it's the right number. Check it again ". Some are downright abusive, complete with drunken voices swearing at *me* for not being the Twins. I called the number, and the Twins general offices trying to rectify the situation. They've been zero help. Since I'm rarely at my desk and all I have to do is skip by the messages on my machine, I'm not pursuing the matter any farther. Instead, I periodically change my AUDIX greeting to: "Hi. This is John Deters. At the tone, please leave two reasons why the Oakland A's are better than the Minnesota Twins." (The usual response? "Jose" "Canseco".) Fortunately for me, the Twins are terrible this year, so I am not receiving just a flood. Well, I still have some tickets left behind home plate... J. Deters INTERNET: jad@dayton.DHDSC.MN.ORG UUCP: ...!bungia!dayton!jad