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From: rborow@bcm1a09.attmail.com
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Subject: Re: Alliance Teleconferencing
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Date: 6 Dec 90 17:03:08 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 871, Message 10 of 11


K. Jongsma and our esteemed moderator both wondered why ALLIANCE's
automated capabilities "shut off" for the weekend, while their
operators are there all the time. Got me to thinking, too, so I
chatted with a few of Ma Bell's (oh, am I allowed to say that, Judge
Greene?) operators and found out -- nothing.

I haven't found a thing in any tariffs, guides, etc., and the response
from the operators I talked to was a simple "I don't know." All the
operators do not seem too bothered by this, however -- probably
because it gives them work to do in an increasingly automated business
where these workers are being replaced by some diabolical machines.
(Has anyone been the victim of those obnoxious automated, personless
payphones which supposedly help you to place collect, third party and
calling card calls? Illinois Bell here has plenty of them, and I hate
'em! They also don't work well, anyway. Wait till you get your bill in
and look at those "collect calls" you supposedly told the talking
computer you would NOT accept.)


Randy Borow
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