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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Wrong Number Suggestions Needed
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Date: 11 Nov 90 13:14:12 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 810, Message 5 of 11


David Tamkin writes:

|"If you have a problem and want BETTER service, call J .C. Penney at
|xxx.xxxx"

|Followed, after a modestly long pause, by some suitable message for
|callers to Dave or Dan.

When Carterphone first hit, lots of garbage answering machines showed
up all at one. [Come to think of it, there STILL are lots of garbage
 -- but I digress] Well it seem that the local rep. for one of the
International Record Carriers (those folks that carry intl. Telex,
telegrams, etc, traffic) called up his competitor and got an answering
machine. Hmmmm, what's this? What neat things does it do?

For MANY weeks afterwards, Company A's OGM said:

	We're busy, call Company B

I do not imagine that *that* machine was used for long ;-}


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