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From: jbray@bbncca.ARPA (James Bray)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: DECtalk announcement - (nf)
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 20:17:16 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  8 20:17:16 1984
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Again, it was a combination of both me and the Phone Company (now NYNEX
in these parts) being slightly fritzed. I though the 493 was a local exchange
for me (it wasn't) and so didn't prefix with 1. Instead of getting the
correct "You Must Dial One" type message, I repeatedly got the "Not In
Service" or somesuch type thing. The humor of having a machine telling me
that I couldn't talk to the machine I was calling got to me, so I wisecracked
about it.
  More on the Phone Company: recently, when I have tried to dial into my
system, I have got I think a "Has Been Disconnected" message when in fact
the line was not disconnected and was almost certainly just busy. I never
to my knowledge got these sorts of bum steers from The Phone Company.
I wonder if there is something weird about the local service...

--Jim Bray (decvax!bbncca!jbray)