Kevin Q. Brown writes:
I'm intrigued about the use of a 900 number because I thought that they were prohibitively expensive for a small-scale business to run.
I believe they cost a small fortune if you get the service from the phone company, with high startup and monthly minimum. There are, however, firms that act as resellers of the phone company service, and most of the smaller fly-by-night 900 operations do business with these. They can set you up as a 900 business inexpensively enough to allow even small enterprises to use 900 service. A lot of the weirder information hotlines come through such companies, and all you have to give them is a tape of your message and a small fee for the service -- Mike Duvos $ PGP 2.3a Public Key available $ mpd@netcom.com $ via Finger. $