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From: cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
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Subject: Re: Broken Phone While Out of Town
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Date: 6 Nov 90 19:24:33 GMT
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In article <14329@accuvax.nwu.edu> Bill Huttig <la063249@zach.fit.edu>
writes:

>[Moderator's Note: That's very nice of them [ATT], if in fact they still do
>it. I know prior to divestiture the long distance operator would
>contact 'inward' in your community and that operator would turn in the
>report. Who knows now ...   PAT]

Sure 'nough, they do.

I had reason to believe that my father's phone was out of order one
fine night some months ago.  He lives in Bethlehem PA (Bell of PA --
Bell Atlantic) and I live in NYC (New York Tel -- NYNEX).  Dialling
10288-0 got me an operator who got me an operator who got me a number
in 215-land.  I called it and filed a report.  Bingo.


cowan@marob.masa.com			(aka ...!hombre!marob!cowan)