Path: utzoo!attcan!cmtl01!matrox!uvm-gen!uunet!lll-winken!ames!netsys!vector!nobody From: linimon@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Mark Linimon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Victims of Wrong Numbers Message-ID: Date: 24 Jan 89 04:56:00 GMT Sender: chip@vector.UUCP Lines: 26 Approved: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-Submissions-To: telecom@bu-cs.bu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.uucp X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 27, message 1 In article you write: >In a simple >accident, 922 was incorrectly translated by that office to 939....need I say >more? For two days straight, I was flooded with calls for Sears' credit >department. It was fun while it lasted. It's horror stories you want? At school (Rice) the dorms have fixed phone numbers assigned, per room. i.e. if you are in 701 Sid Rich this year you will have the same number whoever had 701 Sid Rich had last year. All in all, understandable. Well in 450 we always got calls for American Savings. Never could figure out why. Finally one day I was driving down I-45 (one of the major drags through town) to Galveston...and there's this giant billboard for American Savings... :-) We did try to convince American Savings to at least _change the billboard_, but to no avail. We were nice to the callers for the first few months, then after that we got to the point where we would walk them through getting their balance and make up outlandish numbers... Disclaimer: this was years ago. In the meantime I grew up. :-) Mark Linimon killer!nominil!linimon