cmoore@BRL.ARPA (Carl Moore, VLD/VMB) (10/31/85)
In my recent credit-card calls, I have noticed that the prompt tone is shorter and softer than it used to be. I have seen comments about 617-460 not being reachable from some long-distance point. I recall trying to place 0+ call within Md. to 850 prefix and finally had to ask the operator to call it. (850 was new and not yet recognized by the system although I was dialing a working number?) I hear from a lecture on flirting that some people have had bad experiences which harm later flirting; one such experience is receiving a wrong phone number when the couple has to break off a conversation. I wonder in what ways would the phone # be wrong? 10 dialed from my residence phone (302-731) used to get the local operator without waiting for timeout, but equal access apparently put an end to that.