bnick@andrews.edu (Bill Nickless) (11/16/89)
My apologies for not attributing an earlier poster, but the gist of their message was that their college campus has gone onto AT&T ACUS campus calling service. Originally we could dial 8 to get an ACUS line or a 5 to get a payphone- style line--one that allowed collect and standard Michigan Bell calling card calls. However, that changed such that 5 no longer worked in the residence halls. (They say the traffic was to high on the "5" trunks. I wonder why.....) In our phone system, 8 also works to get local area calls, as well as 1-800 numbers. So, I called US Sprint, applied for, and shortly received one of their FonCards. Since they use a 1-800 number I was able to call home and avoid the ACUS business altogether. Another anecdote about ACUS calls: Andrews is a very international school. We have an extremely high ratio of foreign students to domestic students. An acquaintance of mine went on to the ACUS calling plan, but his foreign roomate did not. This foreign roomate received a collect call from overseas. Guess who got the bill. That's right, our friend who went on ACUS. My advice is to avoid anything like this if you have to pay the bills and have any choice. Get a Sprint/MCI card and use it. If your department provides you a card for business calls use it, but don't get one personally if it can be avoided. Bill Nickless | bnick@andrews.edu or 71640.2533@compuserve.com Andrews University | sharkey!aucis!bnick or uunet!zds-ux!aucis!bnick Computer Science Department |------------------------------------------------ Unix Support Group | "Help! I'm locked up in a .signature factory!"