Jim.Riddle@f27.n285.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Riddle) (07/28/90)
I got my monthly negative dividend statement from US West two days ago, and on the sheet of AT&T details "billed as a courtesy" appeared 38 calls from Omaha to Lincoln of duration 1 minute each. It didn't take me too long to remember that that had been the Saturday that the Paul McCartney tickets went on sale and I had spent the better part of 2 hours dialing and redialing not only the local Omalot number (which was hopeless) but also via long distance to Lincoln, Cedar Rapids, Des Moines, Sioux City, Sioux Falls and Chicago. The inter-area-code numbers apparently were no problem; however, all of those busy signals in Lincoln got charged a minute apiece. So, I called AT&T yesterday and found out that when you use the redial feature on "some phones" (in this case a 4200 series portable AT&T) it "generates a tone which our computer interprets as a completed long distance call." This was at least cute news to me; it may be old hat on the echo by now, but thought I would pass it along. OBTW: I did get through (actually to Lincoln in the long run) and got two pretty good tickets; unfortunately they were for my sister-in-law, as I couldn't go to the concert which was, of course, reported by her in full detail as having been something I shouldnta missed! :) Jim Riddle @ Inns of Court on Fidonet --- Ybbat (DRBBS) 8.9 v. 3.11 r.3 [1:285/27@fidonet] The Inns of Court 402/593-1192 (1:285/27.0) --- Through FidoNet gateway node 1:16/390 Jim.Riddle@f27.n285.z1.fidonet.org