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From: roy%phri@UUNET.UU.NET (Roy Smith)
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Subject: Re: England to United States collect: on payphones!
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Date: Fri, 23-Oct-87 11:17:45 EST
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	When I was in high school, a friend of mine and I tried placing
collect calls to each other from (adjoining) phone booths just to see what
would happen.  What happened was I dialed 0-xxx-xxxx, the operator came on,
I said "I'm calling collect", and then the line went dead.

	I assume that operators are on standing orders to just ignore such
obvious prank calls and cut off the caller without bothering to argue.
-- 
Roy Smith, {allegra,cmcl2,philabs}!phri!roy
System Administrator, Public Health Research Institute
455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016