[NCLUG] unsubscribing broken addresses

[Michael Dwyer]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2002 at 10:42:15AM -0700, Daniel Herrington wrote:
> >OT, I also cancelled my long-distance service, and went with a Sam's
> >Club AT&T prepaid calling card.  It's 3.47 cents/minute, regardless of
> >in-state/out-of-state or time-of-day.  And I won't be paying the
> >$12.00/month just to have AT&T as my long-distance carrier.  It's a
> 
> You may be a bit shocked to find that you have to pay something around
> $10/month to *NOT* have a long distance provider, too...  Maybe that's only
> on business lines, but I don't think so.
> 
> It impacted ISPs fairly hard, I think they made that change back in 1998.
> ISPs suddenly had to start paying $10/month extra for every line they had
> -- that's where I heard about it.

I just got a brand-spankin'-new phone line out my a house.  I didn't
want any long distance on it, and I didn't want it listed.  I still
haven't seen what I have to pay to get no long distance, but I know I
didn't think PAYING to become non-listed was reasonable...

So, of course, the FIRST phone call I received on my brand new phone
line was the Denver Post trying to sell me a subscription:  "Uh, hello
mister Dye-were.  I see you've just moved in and wanted to welcom- " 
*click*

I think I ought to keep a modem hooked up to it, just in case. :)