gnu@hoptoad.uucp (John Gilmore) (01/06/88)
This is a reminder for sites that feed mail or news via PC Pursuit.
Telenet, in an unmitigated excess of stupidity, has changed the
names of all the dialers in all the cities, and stopped supporting
the old ones. The old names had the form "DIALxxx/yy" where xxx is
the area code and yy is the baud rate/100. The new names are
"D/ssccc/yy" where ss is the state (mostly USPS standard abbreviations, but
not all!), ccc is the city (random abbrevs made up by them, e.g.
SFA for San Francisco, NYO for New York City, etc), and yy is the baud
rate/100. This means that, given a phone number, you have to do
table lookup in a Telenet-defined, always expanding, table to figure
out how to dial it.
Anyway, call 800-TELENET, 24 hours a day, if you never heard of the
new dial codes and your PC Pursuit account has stopped working. I'd post
the translation here, but they need to hear the screaming firsthand so
they don't do it again.
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useful ones ... just like Pascal and Fortran. Are we making progress yet?
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