Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!ames!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: Re: Directory assistance Message-ID: <1105@hao.UUCP> Date: Thu, 9-Aug-84 08:50:07 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1105 Posted: Thu Aug 9 08:50:07 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 11-Aug-84 01:41:41 EDT References: <1271@wateng.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 17 [] > Bell Canada, which serves Quebec (well, it's ALMOST part of Canada :-) ) > and Ontario, doesn't charge for directory assistance to numbers not yet > in the book. It's curious to see someone in North America who does. Sounds > more like the style of the telephone systems in the less civilized > parts of the world (Britain, France, Germany ... :-) ). US are getting less civilized, day by day. Expect the rest of the world to follow suit. -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!sa!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!sa!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307