[62676] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: If Verisign *really* wants to help ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vivien M.)
Sat Sep 20 19:05:51 2003
From: "Vivien M." <vivienm@dyndns.org>
To: "'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>,
"'Lyndon Nerenberg'" <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 18:59:54 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0309201825250.291-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On
> Behalf Of Sean Donelan
> Sent: September 20, 2003 6:29 PM
> To: Lyndon Nerenberg
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: If Verisign *really* wants to help ...
>
>
>
> On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> > The logical follow-on to IP-based Sitefinder is SS7-based
> Phonefinder.
> > I propose we redirect all "not in service" telephone numbers to
> > Verisign's CEOs direct telephone number.
>
> Actually, AT&T already tried that once upon a time.
>
> If you dialed a number that was busy or not in service it
> redirected you to a "helpful" recording offering for a small
> charge to ring you back when the number was available.
>
> AT&T discontinued it less than a week later.
Just out of curiosity, why did they discontinue it?
Here in Bell Canada land, this type of thing has been around for hm... 8
years or so? There was a big outcry the first week or so from dialup users
(at the time, busy signals were more common than now), then eventually they
all did the *XX code to permanently disable it. It is still enabled on new
[residential, at least] POTS lines.
Vivien
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