Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sun, 19 May 91 14:05:42 EDT From: Ken Dykes Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Knowing if You Are Dialing a Toll Call Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest 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 376, Message 8 of 10 Lines: 27 johnl@iecc.cambridge.ma.us (John R. Levine) wrote: X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 370, Message 3 of 9 > In article is written: >> Here there is a rule (unwritten but pretty strong) that you can't be >> billed for a seven-digit call. > When interchangable area codes arrive in about 1995, dial-1-for-money > simply won't work any more. The leading 1 will have to mean that an > area code follows. Unlucky folks in areas with old equipment will... So, why doesn't the foney company come up with "Yet Another Dialing Prefix" which means "do not complete this call if it is a toll call." The paranoids and pager users can use it; the rest of us lazy-slobs-happy- with-the-status-quo can forget about it. Heck, maybe some brain damaged pbx/key systems could be programmed to prepend all outgoing calls with the prefix when coming from unauthorized extensions. Ken Dykes, Thinkage Ltd., Kitchener, Ontario, Canada [43.47N 80.52W] kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu [129.97.128.1] watmath!kgdykes