Xref: utzoo comp.misc:7920 alt.bbs:1315 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!uw-beaver!Teknowledge.COM!unix!hplabs!hpfcso!hpldola!hp-lsd!oldcolo!dave From: dave@oldcolo.UUCP (Dave Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.misc,alt.bbs Subject: Phone Book Finally Wakes Up Keywords: phone book Message-ID: <237@oldcolo.UUCP> Date: 11 Jan 90 12:07:09 GMT Distribution: usa Organization: Old Colorado City Communications, Colorado Springs, CO Lines: 41 After only 10 years of making Colorado Springs telephone number 632-3391 into a modem-answering one, and 5 years needing it for business purposes, then 2 years of jawboning it, and one year to get it, with a flurry of letters, calls, lobbying, US West AT LAST has let the public know via their Phone Directory that 6 of our company phones (the lines which ARE the business) are, in fact, hooked to modems and are for the public's modems! In the YELLOW PAGES they actually have a section called "Computer Bulletin Boards" and we (Old Colorado City Communications) are in it! With both voice line and main modem phone line there and so identified. No longer are we forced to choose the inaccurate 'Data Processing', or 'Computer Products', or 'Computer Graphics' or have nothing at all. Of course Computer Bulletin-Board for a computer conferencing, e-mail, data base, business system is hardly descriptive either. But slightly better than nothing, and much better than the other bizarre catagories. And believe it or not, in the WHITE PAGES we are also listed with voice and modem lines identified. And partner's fax is identified as a fax line. After paying the phone company only $12,000 these last 5 years for 6 modem-phone-lines, the public can find us! Glory be. Gee, do you suppose if I call information and ask for the modem numbers for Old Colorado City Communications I will actually get it? I am afraid to try. Because in no telephone book, in any city, have I ever been able to find modem numbers. Not just local BBS's, even business 'BBS's'. But government modem numbers, such as our Penrose Library who open up lines eight years ago for public access - but whose modem number has never been in either white, or blue pages. Or local Telenet, or Tymnet, or MCI mail, or any of the other basic numbers. One can find ZIP codes. And even radio dial frequencies. But phone numbers for data lines? What do you think we are, the phone company? -- Dave Hughes Old Colorado City Communications "It is better to light one screen than cursor the darkness" hplabs!hp-lsd!oldcolo!dave