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Grex > Coop8 > #110: Special Board Meeting Minutes (Sept 10) | |
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scott
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response 25 of 42:
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Sep 14 12:17 UTC 1996 |
We were actually talking about having a very simple PC and program that
connects and then gives the message in ASCII.
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rcurl
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response 26 of 42:
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Sep 15 03:03 UTC 1996 |
You have to keep the number for a while for that. I was only addressing
what happens when you cancel the number - isn't there still a "new
number" message for a little while?
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tsty
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response 27 of 42:
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Sep 15 11:58 UTC 1996 |
from whereever taht $60 figure came from, ~25 calls/day x ~30 days/mo x
$0.082/call is ~$60/mo. and i would strongly suggest putting a 9600 buad
modem on that line to attract the 'first call.'
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ajax
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response 28 of 42:
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Sep 15 14:01 UTC 1996 |
I'm not sure I get your point. Grex gets way more than 25 calls a day.
Are you saying we should move to the Red Cross, and forward calls, under
the assumption we get 25 or fewer calls a day?
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tsty
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response 29 of 42:
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Sep 16 06:23 UTC 1996 |
on a single line, 761-3000? that is the specific question.
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ajax
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response 30 of 42:
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Sep 16 13:53 UTC 1996 |
I think I see, you're saying 761-3000 would only forward one caller
to Grex at a time, and then remain busy until that caller hung up? If
that's your idea, it sounds bad from a busy-signal perspective. I think
a temporary 761-3000 system that just hands out the new number would be
better.
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rickyb
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response 31 of 42:
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Sep 16 19:03 UTC 1996 |
I didn't see any discussion of call forwarding costing _per forwarded call_.
In fact, I don't know where that idea came from. I have a phone number which
is forwarding calls to my office. Both numbers are local, and I've been doing
this for 14 years! I can't remember ever paying more than the basic service
and call-forward monthly charge...unless I switched the forwarding to some
long distance number or something.
Another option I considered at the time (14 years ago) was a _remote
exchange_. If I remember correctly, as long as the line can be kept alive
in its native exchange area, you can have a remote location looked up to the
same number, just like an extension in the next room, for a flat rate per
month. (oops.... hooked up ^)
This second option would permit the number to remain in the trunk hunt. You
could still script it to deny login after 3 or 4 sessions, to discourage its
use. After the transition period, when the use drops to near zero, you drop
the foriegn exchange line.
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robh
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response 32 of 42:
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Sep 16 21:24 UTC 1996 |
We got the idea about a per-call forwarding cost when we called
Ameritech and they told us there was a per-call forwarding cost. >8)
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nestene
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response 33 of 42:
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Sep 17 05:10 UTC 1996 |
They were probably wrong; this *is* the phone company, after all.
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ajax
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response 34 of 42:
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Sep 17 14:48 UTC 1996 |
i just called two ameritech numbers. residential said call forwarding is
$5 to install, $5/month for the feature, and no per-call charge unless it's
long distance. their medium- to large-business number said that for
regular (non-centrex) business lines, it's something like $3.74/month for
the feature, $7.50 install, and while there's no set per-call fee, you get
charged whatever it would have cost to call from the old number to the new
number. (it seems plausible that the residential line is like that too,
and the spokesperson didn't think of it - their computers were down. :-)
even local calls cost a lot of money in quantity...maybe that's where that
approximately 8 cent charge for forwarding calls came from?
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scg
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response 35 of 42:
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Sep 17 16:16 UTC 1996 |
Right. Since local calls on business lines cost 8 cents per call, and call
forwarding costs the same as making a call from the forwarding number to the
new number, forwarding calls would cost 8 cents per call, I think. Yeah, in
theory we could make 761-3000 a residential number and get around that, except
that I don't think corporations can convert their numbers to residential
numbers, and Ameritech isn't likely to just let us transfer that number to
some individual residence without asking some questions.
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tsty
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response 36 of 42:
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Sep 18 08:13 UTC 1996 |
if you fail to try you lose.
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tsty
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response 37 of 42:
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Sep 18 18:23 UTC 1996 |
this would be a worthy try.
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popcorn
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response 38 of 42:
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Sep 19 19:51 UTC 1996 |
What would, TS? Spending hundreds of dollars a month to forward calls, if
Grex's phone number changes (which it isn't going to do)?
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tsty
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response 39 of 42:
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Sep 20 11:12 UTC 1996 |
converting -3000 to a residential #3
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rickyb
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response 40 of 42:
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Sep 21 12:16 UTC 1996 |
I agree. If grex were to give up -3000, and a residential person requested
it, it would not be a commercial line. If the person chose to forward the
calls to a commercial location, that is not dishonest. Of course, to avoid
additional call charges the residential line would have to be "unlimited"
service (misnomer, since they will charge you if you exceed some rather high
monthly number).
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russ
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response 41 of 42:
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Sep 21 17:37 UTC 1996 |
The number is 400 calls per month, and I bet 761-3000 gets that
many per day.
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scg
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response 42 of 42:
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Sep 23 17:32 UTC 1996 |
Would Ameritech give 761-3000 to a residential customer? My understanding
is that numbers like that can only easily be gotten by large businesses with
lots of phone lines (such as Communications Electronics/Ken Asher, who got
761-3000 for us).
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