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From: @ats.ucla.EDU@seismo.CSS.GOV (Bob Felderman)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Explain why....
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Date: 25 May 88 18:13:00 GMT
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In article <8805182031.1.137@cup.portal.com> Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.COM writes:
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>And this truly strange one --
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>"The voting has been concluded. There is no charge for this call."

This is probably where calls get forwarded from 900-xxx-xxxx numbers during
one of those times when you can call a number to vote on who won a debate,
or who's going to win the super bowl. After the end of the vote tallying,
people may still call. The calls generally cost $0.50.

Bob Felderman                   	         feldy@cs.ucla.edu
UCLA Computer Science   	...!{rutgers,ucbvax}!ucla-cs!feldy