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From: dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com (David Tamkin)
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Subject: PBX Blocking of 10XXX Calls
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Date: 4 Sep 90 03:08:01 GMT
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It surely is frustrating when someone who has to read email and
netnews on his own time finds, in a single session's reading, that a
subject newly reaching his attention (or having just reached his
attention a day or two before without a chance to respond yet) has
already generated so much reply traffic that Pat has proclaimed it
closed.

Very briefly, one thing about the problem that a PBX wouldn't allow
10XXX dialing to override the MCI default on an international call
that MCI couldn't handle in the first place: if AT&T had an 800
dial-up number available for placing outgoing calls (instead of
holding dearly to their belief that they are THE long-distance company
and that use of AT&T should be automatic, with use if the competition
requiring extra work), the matter would be strictly theoretical.  The
employee who found that the PBX blocked 102880 would still have a way
to reach an AT&T operator.


David Tamkin  Box 7002  Des Plaines IL  60018-7002  708 518 6769  312 693 0591
MCI Mail: 426-1818  GEnie: D.W.TAMKIN  CIS: 73720,1570   dattier@ddsw1.mcs.com