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From: seer!swu@seeker.uucp (Shawn Wu)
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Subject: Re: Best and Worst (was: Labor Day, 1990)
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In article <11894@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:

> AT&T won't give a credit card to someone who has no phone.

I don't know if they still are, but at one point, AT&T was issuing
cards to students without requiring a phone.  The reasoning was that a
student tends to move around a lot while going through school and his
or her phone number wouldn't necessarily be the same.  That's how I
got my card.  I even still have the "AT&T: The right choice" frisbee
they were giving away just to sign up.  And technically, I personally
don't have a phone.  (Living with parents is cheaper while going to
school. :) ) And every month, I get a bill in the mail from AT&T.


Shawn Wu
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