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From: bill@toto.info.com (Bill Cerny)
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Subject: Re: 800-800 Now a Valid Prefix
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In article <11923@accuvax.nwu.edu>, la063249@zach.fit.edu (Bill
Huttig) writes:

> I dialed a random 800-800 number and got the message 'your call cannot
> be completed as entered.... 44 431.... which sounds like a US Sprint
> recording' that I used to get when I would use them ocassionally.

I'm dismayed by the insurance company with 800-800-1212; it has a very
dumb "hack me" voice mail system.  For those of us on the receiving
end, the "800 is a free call" myth died in the early 80's.  Caveat
emptor: your 800 lines cost _real_ money; how much "free play" can you
afford? (no wonder insurance premiums have zoomed astronomically!) 


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