Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sdd.hp.com!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: barrey@ka (Barrey Jewall) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages With Free Collect Calls Message-ID: <11700@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 5 Sep 90 01:25:30 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: Barrey Jewall Organization: Novell, Inc., San Jose, Califonia Lines: 45 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 619, Message 5 of 10 In article <11569@accuvax.nwu.edu>BRUCE@ccavax.camb.com (Barton F. Bruce) writes: >In article <11465@accuvax.nwu.edu>, barrey@ka (Barrey Jewall) (ME!) >writes: >> About once every two weeks, my mom would call my number, person to... >> she replies "just have him call me when he arrives", and the operator >> says thank you for using AT&T, or somesuch thing, and we hang up. Then >> I called my mom. >Would seem wise to call back using 10xxx to select a DIFFERENT >carrier. Let the first carrier lose the return business for being >dangerous to use! >Just a thought... I'm afraid I may be dense, but what do you mean "being dangerous to use" ??? Is AT&T going to cut off my arms (or other, more neccessary body parts?!?) 8-) That's a BIG smiley for the Humor-impaired (no, NOT the guy I'm replying to!) + Barrey Jewall ++ "My opinions are my opinions" + + barrey@novell.com ++ (rather self-evident, eh?) + + Novell, Inc.- San Jose, Calif.++ + [Moderator's Note: As John Covert pointed out in a recent message, the tariff does say this is illegal, and the security forces of the respective telcos have very sophisticated detection methods in place. And sometimes, yes, they *will* make an issue out of it. As for body parts, the worst case I've ever heard of was when they had a guy in custody who had been caught phreaking; they took a large, sharp knife and cut off his ... uh, his dialing finger. Yes, that's it! His dialing finger. They told him since he wouldn't use it the way nature and Ma Bell intended, they would just cut it off and he wouldn't have one any more. Plastic surgeons built a new dialing finger for him, but it never did work as well as the original. The poor devil was in therapy for a long time afterward, and I understand to this day he still has to place all his calls manually through the operator. PAT]