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Subject: Don't Leave Home Without the AT&T Voicemark Messaging Service #.
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Date: 5 Feb 90 02:02:12 GMT
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Not knowing where I might be or what I might have in the way of a
pocket telephone number rolodex on me, I decided to "check ahead" with
AT&T 800 information to see if they would have the toll free number
for AT&T's Voicemark Messaging Service.  Knowing full well the number
is 800-562-6275, a call to 800-555-1212, much to my surprise, was not
able to yield a result.

The information operator was so eager to please, that after trying to
look up "AT&T Voicemark" or just plain "Voicemark" (the closest they
could match being Voicemail International) i was transferred, without
requesting it, to the supervisor who tried the same queries in vain.
The best 800 information could provide was the AT&T business office 800 #.

I'm a bit surprised that AT&T doesn't bother to list their new
Voicemark Messaging Service with their toll free information service!
Could having an "unlisted number" be a marketing ploy of some sort
(like the Ma Maison restaurant in LA area) to have Voicemark Messaging
be a highly coveted or exclusive service that you only hear about
through friends??


Geoff Goodfellow, Anterior Technology, Menlo Park, CA.