Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: amdcad!amdcad.AMD.COM!rpw3@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Payphone Booths as Confessionals Message-ID: Date: 31 Mar 89 06:53:41 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Rob Warnock Organization: [Consultant] San Mateo, CA Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 118, message 5 of 6 In article telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) writes: +--------------- | Confession, they say, is good for the soul. It's also good for your financial | bottom line, if you market the concept of using the phone to make confession | to the world, while other callers pay to listen to you 'spill your guts', | as the introduction to the outbound version of "I Confess" describes... +--------------- Shades of John Brunner's novel "Shockwave Rider"! But Brunner's "Hearing Aid" service ("the ten 9's") was *free*, and no one else but the operator on the other end would *ever* know what you had said. (*sigh*) That was fiction; "Confess" is ugly reality... Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {amdcad,fortune,sun}!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 627 26th Ave, San Mateo, CA 94403