At 10:56 AM 12/20/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
I assumed a pay phone was Just Another Phone Number.)
My caller ID unit often identifies an incoming call as "Payphone". I also had an interesting thing happen to me about ten years ago. My home phone got listed as a payphone. When I moved and asked for a phone number, I was told none were available. The area I moved into was the fastest growing section of the fastest growing county in the country for two or more years running. It took about a month to get a phone number from an exchange that was from an area several miles form me. Then an odd thing happened. I never got a phone bill. I forget the exact details, but after several months of "free" telephone service, my phone went dead one day. When I called to inquire, I was told that my number was a pay phone, not a residential number. They finally fixed things up, and got my service restored. But there appears to be a database field that says a number is or isn't a pay phone. -- Robert Costner Phone: (770) 512-8746 Electronic Frontiers Georgia mailto:pooh@efga.org http://www.efga.org/ run PGP 5.0 for my public key