daemon@decwrl.UUCP (01/09/84)
From: castor::covert (John Covert) It seems like it (and all the many others like it) which no one was paying for disappeared shortly after they became widespread knowledge. Someone at AT&T Long Lines who cares must have read the message about it. (Actually, the story, as I've heard from a reliable source who asks to remain unidentified, is that no one knows how the orders to put them in were issued. Nor do they know how 800 957-9999 got changed from WWV to Denver Directory Assistance. But then someone in Hawaii complained that "he needed that time service" which caused the WATS manager to hear about them, and the rest of them went away.) You can always pay for a call to 303 499-7111. Or pay for a call to the Naval Observatory clock on 900 410-TIME. Or pick it up for free (and more accurately) over the airwaves. I once had a filling that picked it up. But one day, in Las Vegas, where they don't want anyone to know what time it is, the casino bouncer socked me in the jaw, and it hasn't worked since :-)