From: believer@telepath.com Subject: IP: No dirty trick, just a computer program let loose Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:36:35 -0600 To: believer@telepath.com Source: Fox News - AP No dirty trick, just a computer program let loose 10.50 a.m. ET (1551 GMT) October 28, 1998 GREENBURGH, N.Y. (AP) When their phones rang in the middle of the night this week, many residents expected the worst. Death in the family? Fire? No, just the bureaucratic tone of town supervisor Paul Feiner's taped voice, advising of a change in local trash pickup times. Couldn't this have waited until morning? "I thought it was a member of my family,'' said Barbara Merriwether, 52. "I thought something was wrong.'' The timing of the 300 calls, of course, wasn't intentional. Someone at the police department had forgotten to turn off an automated calling program Monday evening, and the system ran through the night. The only bad news in the affair may be for Feiner, who is trying to unseat incumbent Republican Benjamin Gilman in the 20th Congressional District. Feiner said may throw a party with his own money for everyone who was called after 9 p.m. © 1998 Associated Press. All rights reserved. ----------------------- NOTE: In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving this information for non-profit research and educational purposes only. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ----------------------- **************************************************** To subscribe or unsubscribe, email: majordomo@majordomo.pobox.com with the message: (un)subscribe ignition-point email@address or (un)subscribe ignition-point-digest email@address **************************************************** www.telepath.com/believer ****************************************************