Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site qantel.UUCP
Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!umcp-cs!gymble!lll-crg!dual!qantel!stv
From: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Save 50% on Long-Distance Phone Bills
Message-ID: <407@qantel.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 8-Apr-85 15:19:37 EST
Article-I.D.: qantel.407
Posted: Mon Apr  8 15:19:37 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 13-Apr-85 00:30:22 EST
References: <136@ncvet.UUCP>
Reply-To: stv@qantel.UUCP (Steve Vance@ex2499)
Distribution: na
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
Lines: 33

This article was posted just a little too close to April Fool's Day to
seem real.  Nonetheless, I dutifully sent the following letter to the
posting address.
===============================================================
To: nsc!gatech!msdc!ncsu!ncvet!mtj
Subject: Re: Save 50% on Long-Distance Phone Bills
Newsgroups: net.general
In-Reply-To: <136@ncvet.UUCP>
Organization: MDS Qantel, Hayward, CA
News-Path: vlsvax1!zehntel!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!mhuxt!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncvet!mtj
Cc: nsc!gatech!msdc!ncsu!ncvet!usenet

Advertising things like MCI on the usenet is not permitted.  There are
newsgroups in the system where things can be sold, but not things like
MCI subscriptions.  Net.general is about the wrongest place you could
have put such an ad.  I recommend that you find out more about usenet
before you post anything else.

As regards the contents of your posting, you are wrong again.  It has been 
a long time, over a year, since MCI could legitimately say that you could
save UP TO 50% on your bill.  With average calling patterns, 10-15% is
more like it nowadays, and this will go down to 0% when equal-access is
fully implemented.  You mention that MCI is the biggest of the ALDS.
They also save you the smallest percentage over AT&T.  There is an issue
of Consumer Reports from last year that documents this.  Incidentally, I
have an MCI account, although I don't use it much, so I am familiar with
their service.
-- 

Steve Vance
{dual,hplabs,intelca,nsc,proper}!qantel!stv
dual!qantel!stv@berkeley
Qantel Corporation, Hayward, CA