Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!apple!bionet!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: lars@spectrum.cmc.com (Lars Poulsen) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: AT&T 800 Directory Message-ID: <10824@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 13 Aug 90 04:31:11 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Rockwell CMC Lines: 33 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 567, Message 8 of 11 From: Lars Poulsen >>I get it [the AT&T 800 Directory] for free, too, and always promptly throw >>it out. ... it is a directory of "selected, consumer-oriented ATT-based 800 >>numbers" that were willing to pay to get included. What a waste of trees. In article <10695@accuvax.nwu.edu> wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil (Will Martin) writes: >In these days of all the brouhaha about recycling, I'm surprised you >admit to throwing the directory away. After all, if it is a waste to >you, it may be of worth to someone else. Drop it off at your local >public library. If that is not feasible or too out-of-the-way, at >least leave it at work, at a laundromat, or by a public phone >somewhere so that somebody has a chance to find it and take it. It is >doubly a "waste of trees" to get something you don't need and just >pitch it instead of making some effort to pass it on to somewhere >where it might be used. I did indeed try to pass it on: I dumped it in the newspaper bin for our curbside recycling pickup. They returned it. They apparently only accept phone books one week of the year: When GTE passes out new directories. I did try to look up some customer service numbers of companies I might do business with: Sears, MCI :-), Fisher-Price toys, Scandinavian Airlines, and when none of these were in the directory, I declared it a loser ... it just did not have critical mass. Lars Poulsen, SMTS Software Engineer CMC Rockwell lars@CMC.COM