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From: jimmy@denwa.info.com (Jim Gottlieb)
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Subject: Re: Phreaks of the Monolithic Era of Telephony
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Date: 16 Sep 90 22:39:50 GMT
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In article <12159@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E.
Kimberlin) writes: 

[description of telco employees listening in to
calls] 

>But of course, NOBODY ever listens in on YOUR calls...why, the Company 
>would NEVER permit that!  

>[Moderator's Note: I still don't think it is funny. I regard it as a 
>major violation of trust;

I always laugh when I hear telephone company spokespeople make the
(expected) claim that their employees would never ever listen in to
calls.  Everyone I know who has ever worked in a central office has
great stories about the calls they listened in to.

The employees in the central offices serving Beverly Hills, for
example, often liked to put famous people's lines up on the C.O.
loudspeakers.  I hear Lucille Ball's were pretty fun to listen to.