Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!vector!nobody From: rog@hpcilzb.hp.com (Roger Haaheim) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Need a device to prevent outgoing toll calls Message-ID: Date: 17 Nov 88 14:26:43 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 13 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 8, issue 183, message 5 Why doesn't she just control her daughter rather than the phone line? [Moderator's note: Roger raises a very good point, worthy of discussion in a forum devoted to parent/child relationships. The horror stories in the local media here (Chicago Tribune) when the Nine Hundred Service Corporation first started operation were unbelievable. Illinois Bell wound up writing off several *million* dollars in uncollectibles as a good will gesture for parents who were stuck with phone bills typically in the hundreds of dollars because of their inability to discipline and/ or control their children. Now the various Bells offer 976/1-900 blocking on request. Why can't the parents handle this? **PLEASE** no response to this mini-flame required....at least not here! Patrick Townson]