From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Dec 21 16:28:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA19275 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:28:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lariat.lariat.org (lariat.lariat.org [206.100.185.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA19252 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 16:28:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from brett@lariat.org) Received: (from brett@localhost) by lariat.lariat.org (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA28883; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:28:18 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.1.19981221172549.06d732c0@mail.lariat.org> X-Sender: brett@mail.lariat.org X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:27:37 -0700 To: Mark Ovens From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: Phone rates Cc: tj-fbsd@funbox.demon.co.uk, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <367ED766.C2941435@uk.radan.com> References: <4.1.19981221111410.06cbb650@mail.lariat.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 11:19 PM 12/21/98 +0000, Mark Ovens wrote: >> I do recall that some pay phones in the UK also rejected the 0800 >> number for my MCI international calling card. Why? The phone was >> owned by a company that had an exclusive deal with AT&T. They >> blocked calls to anyone else's 800 number. >> > >Don't know. I didn't think that sort of thing was allowed. Not only did they do it, but an operator rudely refused to connect me. He told me, quite frankly, that I could bloody well go to another pay phone, because he'd lose his job if he put me through to MCI long distance. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message