Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 12 Apr 91 20:53:22 GMT From: Kent Borg Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Invasion of the Phone Snatchers Message-ID: Organization: Camex Inc., Boston MA Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 287, Message 8 of 10 Lines: 23 In article hpa@casbah.acns.nwu.edu (H. Peter Anvin) writes: > friends -- also here in Chicago (suburbs) -- that have had the same > experience with Illinois Bell: a refund check for $0.25! A few years ago (like five) I got a check for 35 cents -- or some such -- from Pac Bell. I live in Boston, and the check was forwarded by my parent's in Minnesota. I hadn't been in CA for years, but I did faintly remember once getting ripped off by a pay phone in a BART station while I was at the First West Cost Computer Faire, must have been 1977. Nearly ten years earlier. My guess is that in the paperwork involved with the Bell breakup they found a slew of refunds they forget to send out. (I can't remember, but I think I saved the check somewhere as a momento of how these things work.) Kent Borg internet: kent@camex.com AOL: kent borg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617) 426-3577