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Re: freedom of info

#677
From: mechjgh
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 1987 19:36
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>> *Hobbit* <AWalker@RED.RUTGERS.EDU> writes:
>>
>>Well, I suspect that your LOC in Virginia or wherever *still* won't tell you
>>exactly *what* "five-digit codes" actually *work* from a given central office.
>>It bugs hell out of me that they refuse to tell me this sort of stuff.
>>So *why* the hell won't they tell me this stuff, or who should I call to
>>get the straight poop?  In general, if you call a business office these days
>>and sound like you know what you're talking about, they get very huffy and
>>paranoid.  They love idiots they can walk all over.

That's like getting mad because the clerk at the grocery store
won't tell you what type of fertilizer was used to grow the tomatoes.
They have no idea, yet have to be as polite as they are trained.

Find out where the area headquarters building is for the LOC and
try to contact the network design engineer for the central office. If
it is a big LOC, find an employee and get them to look in their
company phone directory for someone in the engineering division.
Or, find a phone truck in the area and ask them, they know.

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Subject: Re: freedom of info
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