[59479] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: National Do Not Call Registry has opened
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Jul 1 05:29:15 2003
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Callahan, Richard M, SOLGV" <rmcallahan@att.com>,
"Joe Abley" <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: "Roland Perry" <roland@linx.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 11:28:05 +0200
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>
> It was occasionally amusing to keep them on the phone for about half an
> hour, and then say "of course, you realise this is an international
> call, there's no way I can buy what you're selling, and in fact this is
> costing you vast sums of money". Until I realised that they thought
> "international" meant out-of-state, and that they thought New Zealand
> was a town in Southern California.
>
And bulk buying international minutes to non-regulated destinations costs
you less than a consumer pays for interstate call within the US.
So if you time is worth less than $2 an hour, go ahead :-) If the event
you describe happened 10 years ago, you actually did some good.
Pete
