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From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Long Distance Circuits
Message-ID: <844@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 16-Feb-84 14:46:04 EST
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Posted: Thu Feb 16 14:46:04 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Feb-84 04:30:31 EST
Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp)
Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica
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Whose Brilliant idea was it to make the long distance phone circuits the
effective equivalence of half-duplex, anyway?!?  Do they really think
that phone conversations only have one person talking at a time?  I sure
don't.  When I get to talking with my old friends in Boston, we get to
laughing and remembering the good old days.  And beleive me, I don't want
to not here what my friend is saying, just because I'm laughing too loud
and having a good time that I accidently trigger some circuit to cut off
his voice.  Beleive me this pisses me off.  I pay good money to a large
company that advertises its long distance calls sound like there coming
from next door.  They may be better than all of the competition, but the
calls don't sound like they come from next door--the next planet maybe.

While I'm flaming on the subject, what about calls where the first consonant
sound of every word is chopped off.  #ould #ou imagine ##at #at #ould #ound
#ike? #ard #oo understand, #o?  And how about cross-modulated calls?  I don't
want to hear someone elses conversation, and I don't want anyone to hear mine.

If they are going to charge me that much money and make such grossly
ridiculous advertising claims, they should provide me a mechanism to
reclaim my charges when the service doesn't meet my quality expectations.

	Joel (hotter than ever)