Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!DECWRL.DEC.COM!kent From: kent@DECWRL.DEC.COM Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: my new FONCARD Message-ID: <8709280124.AA03847@armagnac.DEC.COM> Date: Mon, 28-Sep-87 23:35:36 EDT Article-I.D.: armagnac.8709280124.AA03847 Posted: Mon Sep 28 23:35:36 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 30-Sep-87 04:36:45 EDT References: <8709270116.AA16625@decwrl.dec.com> Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: "Christopher A. Kent" Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 16 Approved: telecom@buit1.bu.edu Advantages? I can see only disadvantages. It used to be that I could go to most any phone in most any large city and dial 950-0777 and get a Sprint dialtone. Then I entered my 9 digit access code, which was short enough to memorize, and dialed away. Now, I have to either memorize a new access number + a fourteen-digit pseudo-random string, or carry the card with me. I *hate* carrying cards like this. They bulk up my wallet and are an incredible security risk. Lose it and grant some sucker free reign over your phone bill. I'd like to know what bright boy at Sprint thought this up, so I could write him a nastygram personally; so far I've only been able to point my venom at Customeer Disservice. Even Ma Bell knows better than this. chris ----------