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From: tw8023@pyuxii.UUCP (T Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: the "real" winner in DH poll
Message-ID: <165@pyuxii.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Jul-85 08:44:10 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jul 25 08:44:10 1985
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WRONG!  The proceeds of both the DH poll and the Bob Eucker
poll were donated to a charity by both the phone company and
the pollers.  You see, the call costs .50 cents.  The phone
company keeps about .15 cents and the rest goes to the pollers.
You want to make money?  Get a 900 number and and a tape recorder
and get into the fun.  The dial-a-joke line makes a pile of money
every year for the owners of the 900 number.  This is off the
subject, however, the phone company did not make $100,000 on those
polls.  Right at the top of the program, they told us where the money
was to go.  I forget now, but it was some type of charity.  Its
attitudes like this that caused the breakup of the best phone
system in the world.
T. C. Wheeler