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From: henry@GARP.MIT.EDU (Henry Mensch)
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Subject: Marketing a little-known (to the average joe) "feature"
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Date: Wed, 28-Oct-87 16:13:12 EST
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I got a letter recently from American Express offering a service
called "Expressphone."  It costs nothing to sign up, you fill
out the slip (complete with AmEx account number), return it, and
they send you a MCI charge card (whatevertheycallit) and a "five-digit
code number" which you dial (when using your home phone) before
your long distance number.

This sounds suspiciously like a 10??? number.  Anyone know if my
suspicions are correct here?


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