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From: sean@ukma.UUCP (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: net.misc
Subject: Re: telephone bill bug
Message-ID: <1746@ukma.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-May-85 21:45:59 EDT
Article-I.D.: ukma.1746
Posted: Fri May 10 21:45:59 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 11-May-85 04:49:27 EDT
References: <386@sii.UUCP> <342@petrus.UUCP>
Organization: The White Tower @ The Univ. of KY
Lines: 33
Summary: You aren't serious are you??

In article <342@petrus.UUCP>, dan@petrus.UUCP writes:
> > Howdy
> > 
> > Recently, I received an AT&T bill that had the following sort of
> > entries in it:
> > 
> > No.   -Date-    -Time-    --Number--    Code   -Min-   -Amount-
> >  10.  Mar 12    1159PM    617 xxx-xxxx   ND       1        .18
> >  11.  Mar 13    1200AM    617 yyy-yyyy   NDM
> >                 CONVERSATION MINUTES     1443           253.10
> >  12.  Mar 13    1210AM    616 zzz-zzzz   ND       6        .70
> > 
> 
> This is not a bug.  We are doing research in the area of
> "income enhancement".  The theory is that some customers will pay
> an overcharge rather than dispute it.  The object of this experiment
> was an empirical derivation of the functional relationship between
> magnitude of overcharge and probability of payment without complaint.
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.  We originally thought that netnews readers
> would be less likely to notice large telephone bills.  I guess we
> were wrong.

Nawwww it can't be.  You aren't serious.

(are you?)
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