tep@tots.logicon.com (Tom Perrine) (07/26/90)
Yesterday, one of the people here was cleaning an old office and came
across a PC 5.25" diskette with a business card attached:
John Galt +
Computer Corporation
xxxxxx San Francisco CA
XXX-XXX-XXX CA ONLY 1-800-445-3313 1-800-JGC-COMP
(Note: the + is actually a little dollar sign in a circle! )
Being the curious sort (and wanting to know what might be on the disk,
WITHOUT TRYING IT OUR PCs), I decided to find out "who is John Galt" :-)
When I called the CA 800 number, I got a golf course in Evans GA !!,
which doesn't even have 800 service! I tried this twice, to make sure
I wasn't mis-dialing.
The other 800 number rang (over 20 rings), and the non-800 number is
disconnected.
Our PBX uses MCI as the default carrier, so I called the MCI operator
and explained the problem. She insisted that this was not possible, so
I asked to speak to a supervisor. He agreed to take the charges off
and report the problem. When I asked for the trouble ticket number, he
got *very* upset that I should even ask for such a thing, and
proceeded to lecture me about what was and wasn't my business.
That was yesterday. Today, I used 800-555-1212 to find "John Galt",
which got me the number of John Galt Construction in Owensborough KY,
which got a rash (over 200) of calls (in a one month period) for the
John Galt Computer Company about nine months ago.
It looks like the John Galt Computer Company went under and their old
CA-only 800 service was "lost" in the shuffle.
Is this mis-route just an MCI problem? Why didn't I get a disconnected
message on the generic 800 number? Why was the MCI supervisor so upset
when I asked for a trouble ticket number? Why is the sky blue? Who
*is* John Galt? And what is on the diskette :-) ?
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|+1 619 455 1330bob@morningstar.com (Bob Sutterfield) (07/31/90)
In article <10092@accuvax.nwu.edu> tep@tots.logicon.com (Tom Perrine) writes: (...discusses trying to reach the John Galt Computer Corporation at their WATS numbers...) The NIC lists JOHNGALT.COM and the associated JOHNGALT-DOM as registered to John Galt Enterprises. The (non-WATS) number in the NIC WHOIS listing happens to connect to the correct place.