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Re: DO NOT BUY FROM SHREVE SYSTEMS!!
- Subject: Re: DO NOT BUY FROM SHREVE SYSTEMS!!
- From: hlevinsn@andromeda.rutgers.edu (Hank Levinson)
- Date: 1997/03/04
- Newsgroups: su.market, ba.market.misc, ba.market.computers, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.apple2.comm, comp.sys.apple2.marketplace, comp.sys.apple2.usergroups, comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.wanted, misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.software, misc.forsale.computers.mac-specific.misc
- Organization: Rutgers University
- References: <5edhqi$mkr@elaine17.Stanford.EDU> <zobkiw-1902972044570001@beethoven.triplesoft.com> <tjh-2302971128460001@p11.p.pn.ic.net> <5esqjc$pd4@inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>
cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer) writes:
>It was Sun, 23 Feb 1997 11:28:45 -0500. I was reading instead of working. And
>Thomas Hopper <tjh@ic.net> said:
>>In article <zobkiw-1902972044570001@beethoven.triplesoft.com>,
>>zobkiw@triplesoft.com (Joe Zobkiw) wrote:
>>> I don't think you are charged when the phone is just ringing...it's only
>>> if they actually pick it up on the other end.
>>In my experience, if you let a phone ring more than a certain number of
>>times--6?--you get charged.
>Then call your long distance carrier and tell them to remove it from your bill.
>You should not be charged
>--
I have heard that in Germany, one is charged by the second, as soon as the
phone starts ringing! This is presumably to stop people from sending messages
such as "I'm leaving now." by ringing once or twice, etc. If a phone company
is that stingy and picky, it deserves to have some generous competition!