Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Thu, 13 Jun 91 14:55:17 GMT From: roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu (Roy Smith) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: More Strange Recorded Messages Message-ID: Organization: Public Health Research Institute, New York City 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 457, Message 11 of 12 Lines: 23 Here's another good one. I just called the 800 number for a well known manufacturer of Unix-based graphics systems, which I got from 800 directory assistance, and got: "For your convenience, the number you have reached, 800-338-wxyz, has been changed. The new number is 800-676-wxyz ...". They changed the number for my convenience??? Sounds to me more like they changed long distance carriers and their new carrier didn't serve the same 800 exchange as the old one (they kept the same last four digits). Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu - OR - {att,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy [Moderator's Note: Someone I know here has all non-pub service except for one published number which is picked up by an answering machine at all times. His outgoing message says, "For your convenience, this line is answered 24 hours daily by this answering system ..." :) PAT]