henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) (11/29/89)
If you get a wrong number from Directory Assistance, is there any point in calling them and letting them know, or do they just bitbucket this information and keep giving out the wrong number? # Henry Mensch / <henry@garp.mit.edu> / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # <hmensch@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay> / <henry@tts.lth.se> / <mensch@munnari.oz.au> [Moderator's Note: They will start giving out a different number when the data-base lists a different number, and not before. That's because computers don't make mistakes and customers never know anything. I suppose you could call the business office to report your finding, some day when you have ten minutes to kill listening to muzak-on-hold. PT]
jay@banzai.pcc.com (Jay Schuster) (12/06/89)
henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes: >If you get a wrong number from Directory Assistance, is there any >point in calling them and letting them know, or do they just bitbucket >this information and keep giving out the wrong number? My company's name is The People's Computer Company. For a while after we got an office, DA was giving out our number as the PeopleExpress Airlines reservation number. Someone would ask for Peoples Express, the DA would type in Peoples... and come up with our number and give it out. We kept track of the number of times we had to give out the correct PeopleExpress phone number, and eventually billed New England Telephone for using us to give out the PeopleExpress phone number. After a fair amount of wrangling, we actually *got* a check from them, which we photocopied, framed, and hung in our office. Even after we had solved the problem with NETel, we continued to get calls from Quebec. Jay Schuster <jay@pcc.COM> uunet!uvm-gen!banzai!jay, attmail!banzai!jay The People's Computer Company `Revolutionary Programming'