From: johnl@taugh.com   
      
   In article ,   
   Phil Kane   wrote:   
   >>Nowadays a live operator is very hard to find, and probably will   
   >>cost you.  Lots of inquiries that used to be free are now a charge   
   >>and some support services have been discontinued.   
   >   
   >Can you sat "deregulation"?  I know that you can...  :)   
      
   You are of course right, but it's also true that a lot of operator   
   services don't make much sense these days.  Person to person calls   
   made sense when a call could cost a dollar (back when that dollar   
   would buy lunch) and a single phone was often shared among many people   
   so it could take a while for the person who answered the phone to find   
   the person you wanted to talk to.  These days, not so much.   
      
      
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