ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) (03/08/91)
There has been some discussion of telecommunications-related topics recently in the misc.consumers newsgroup, although the level of sophistication is markedly less than here. Recent discussions in misc.consumers have dealt with Caller*ID and MCI's latest sales gimmick, a check payable to you that becomes a request to switch your long-distance default carrier to MCI if you endorse the check. There are also lots of messages unrelated to telecommunications, including flames about Amway-like companies and about labor unions. Misc.consumers is worth checking out occasionally, but a lot of messages there aren't worth reading. Nigel Allen ndallen@contact.uucp
kaufman@neon.stanford.edu (Marc T. Kaufman) (03/11/91)
In article <telecom11.193.6@eecs.nwu.edu> ndallen@contact.uucp (Nigel Allen) writes: > Recent discussions in misc.consumers have dealt with Caller*ID and > MCI's latest sales gimmick, a check payable to you that becomes a > request to switch your long-distance default carrier to MCI if you > endorse the check. No problem. Just put someone else's number in the endorsement block. BTW: I have *TWICE* received $10 from AT&T for letting them convert one of my lines to AT&T. Unfortunately for them, the number in question is a forwarding entry (only) in another central office (I wanted to keep my old number, even though I moved). Such forwarding numbers do not have ANY LD preference associated with them, so AT&T keeps trying to change it :-) PacTel says to keep the money, AT&T wouldn't understand. Marc Kaufman (kaufman@Neon.stanford.edu) [Moderator's Note: I wonder if they will start doing that with the old number for my second line, which is now the 'distinctive-ringing' number for my first line (with no outgoing calls through it)? PAT]