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From: cambler@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Fubar)
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Subject: Re: The Phone Book
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djcl@contact.uucp (woody) recently informed us:

>The Phone Book - What the Telephone Company Would Rather You Not Know
>by J. Edward Hyde (a nom de plume)

A quick jaunt down to the Cal Poly library found this book on the
shelf, so I checked it out and read it the other night. I agree, it's
interesting, but quite dated. Pre-breakup, pre-ESS (well, not really,
it's mentioned, but in the vein of "here we have this new thing that
will make it all better")...

Very biased. The author does NOT like the phone company.

I suppose my favourite part is where the author lists the rates for DX
calling in 1976, and muses on what they will be 10 years hence. Heh.

He also lists some possible future scenarios, like vidphone, call
forwarding, call tracing (hints at ANI) and other things. He mentions
that all of these things "can be done today, but because of [blah blah
I-hate-the-phone-co] you won't see them for years." As of this time,
he's about 50% on the mark.

All in all, interesting, but I'm sure there's better...


Christopher(); --- cambler@polyslo.calpoly.edu --- chris@fubarsys.slo.ca.us