Subj : Funny code section
To : Andrew Clarke
From : Mike Luther
Date : Thu Mar 04 2010 08:23 am
Interesting remark..
ac> On Thu 2010-03-04 20:29, Mvan Le (3:800/432) wrote to Andrew Clarke:
ac>> Apparently 555-1212 is Directory Assistance in the US and Canada.
ML> Ah I see. I suppose that should be rejected back in the day when
ML> people actually took phone numbers seriously. These days nobody
ML> cares :)
ac> I don't think anybody really cared much back then either :)
I think if you look you will find that to this day there are a series of
telephone numbers here in the USA which are in the 555-#### area which are
still forbidden to be used for assignment to any person! The reason is that
they are 'reserved' for use in the motion picture industry for use in movies so
that people who try to call them cannot reach anything.
Actually, the entire QNODE declaraton and setup file for putting together a
very carefully chosen acceptable outbound call number matrix is still quite
important to me and I suspect many other people who still support phone dial
line BBS operations. Yes, it is true that things have moved largely to
'unlimited' long distance and even local area charge for phone service. But
not everywhere and for everyone,especially for those who must use POTS lines
for BBS support. It is still important to be able to segregate operations so
that only phone numbers one wants the system to be able to dial are actually
dialable. That to still guard against run-away cost issues. Where you are
actually still charged for every outbound call you make on a per second
connection even to a number you are trying to call that doesn't even answer the
phone!
I know. For sure. The LD service I must use here actually DOES bill me for
each call to a number outbound even if I don't connect for a minimum of one
minute even if that number still just rings and doesn't answer. And they will
not change this issue.
--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)
Mike @ 1:117/3001
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