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Subject: Re: What happened to 800 957-9999
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Date: Sun, 8-Jan-84 23:23:12 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  8 23:23:12 1984
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From: castor::covert  (John Covert)
It seems like it (and all the many others like it) which no one
was paying for disappeared shortly after they became widespread
knowledge.
 
Someone at AT&T Long Lines who cares must have read the message
about it.
 
(Actually, the story, as I've heard from a reliable source who
asks to remain unidentified, is that no one knows how the orders
to put them in were issued.  Nor do they know how 800 957-9999
got changed from WWV to Denver Directory Assistance.  But then
someone in Hawaii complained that "he needed that time service"
which caused the WATS manager to hear about them, and the rest
of them went away.)
 
You can always pay for a call to 303 499-7111.  Or pay for a call
to the Naval Observatory clock on 900 410-TIME.  Or pick it up for
free (and more accurately) over the airwaves.  I once had a filling
that picked it up.  But one day, in Las Vegas, where they don't want
anyone to know what time it is, the casino bouncer socked me in the
jaw, and it hasn't worked since :-)