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From: S.PAE@DEEP-THOUGHT.MIT.EDU (Philip A. Earnhardt)
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Subject: Re: Toll Restrictor
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Date: Sun, 31-Aug-86 23:36:23 EDT
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> You can't win.  The best solution is to keep the phone under lock and key.

True true. Even real phone systems have difficulty with this. Our company
uses MCI. We accesses it via the local 7-digit number, even though we've had
equal access for over 6 months. Besides the loss in quality and added delay
in connecting, the MCI number is often busy during the day (and our phone
system is too stupid to detect a busy signal)!

A while back, I discovered you could bypass the long-distance programming
by dialing 1 then #######. This gave me an outside line and dialed a 1 on 
it. I then dial the area code and the number normally.