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From: tanner@ki4pv.compu.com
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Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages With Free Collect Calls
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Date: 27 Aug 90 02:32:20 GMT
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In article <11345@accuvax.nwu.edu> the Moderator writes:

) [delivering message via "collect" call] is fraud none the less,
) and a kind of cheap, petty fraud at that.

Yes, it probably is.  It annoys me, too, to hear of people pulling
such stunts regularly.

In fact, it annoys me ALMOST as much as the fact that, to legitimately
deliver that message from that payphone, I must dump in over a dollar
 -- in change -- to make a call which would normally cost about a
quarter at full day-time cross-country rates.


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