Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: John Higdon Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Marking COCOTS Out of Order Message-ID: <2703@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 8 Jan 90 07:22:48 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: John Higdon Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 29 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 14, message 2 of 13 In article <2669@accuvax.nwu.edu> Brian Kantor writes: >X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 12, message 3 of 4 >[Moderator's Note: But the proprietor may come along and rip the sign >down. Better to use some *very sticky* pre-printed (office copy >machine?) labels which say "Out of Order Due to Misprogrammed >Routing/Rates" which you slap on the phone across the coin slot area. As a matter of fact, a couple of years ago one of the inhabitants of essug.*, our statewide telephone news group, had a bunch of stickers printed up and sent them around to everyone that wanted them. I just ran across the few that I had left. There were some notorious COCOT violators and when all else failed, I started sticking it to them. These people were uncanny in their ability to remove them as fast as I stuck them on, usually the same day. There was one phone that charged for everything, including repair service and information, had no mention of who owned it, and required coin for all long distance no matter how paid. It was a vile thing and I would put stickers on it daily that invited people to take their telephony business elsewhere, but it was uphill all the way. Needless to say, I soon gave up. Even though the shopkeeper professed to know nothing about the phone, I suspect that it was he who was removing the stickers. "I don't know nuthin 'bout da fone, just putchya money in an' shuddap." John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot.ati.com | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !