Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Mon, 3 Jun 91 21:16:10 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: ONA Offers New Horizons for Telesleaze Reply-To: allbery@ncoast.org Message-ID: Organization: North Coast Public Access Un*x (ncoast) 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 424, Message 3 of 8 Lines: 30 As quoted from by johnl@iecc.cambridge. ma.us (John R. Levine): (about advertizing between rings) > I don't know why it's suddenly coming back now, except perhaps that > the last of the old Bell System managers who thought of the phone > company as a service are retiring, and the new ones have less shame. I dunno, but it's been a progressive disease around here. First they combined the time and weather services, then they added advertising, then they moved it to a 900 number and put a current-time-and-temperature announcement on the old number with an advertisement for the 900 number (and, of course, they try to bore you off the phone before telling you how much it co$t$). I expect ads in the ring sequence wil be next. :-( At least they haven't figured out how to charge me for punching in 162.550 on my HT. :-) Me: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH: DC to LIGHT! [44.70.4.88] Internet: allbery@NCoast.ORG Delphi: ALLBERY uunet!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!ncoast!allbery [Moderator's Note: Hadn't you heard that NOAA was going to begin selling advertising space on that mobious loop tape they play over and over for an hour at a time? Its true! :) Of course it is. :) PAT]