[oclug] REMOTE extension service...

[miden]

At band camp, one time, Charles MacDonald said:
> Actually, I recall that the real old fashioned phone company offered 
> this service even before 800 Numbers.  For the price on a business line 
> in say toronto, and agreeing to pay long distance charges and for a 
> "small Monthly fee" and probably also the price of a local business line 
> to get a physical phone on your desk, one could have a phone that 
> Thought it was in toronto.  Pick it up and dial any toronto number, 
> anyone in toronto could dial your number and it rings in barhaven.
> 
> BELL promoted it as a way to test to see if it was worth having a 
> presence in a given market before physically opening shop.
> 

Am I hearing the suggestion that others have done it before us so we
should not demand anything better? From a security standpoint?

I hope not. I hope that concern with security would lean toward
'increase' rather than 'status quo'.

Ah, Bell. I remember the thrill when we moved from a party line to
single user. Simple pleasures :-)

-m