Re: Off Topic - HUGE problem with 800 #'s

[Chuck Lewis <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Bob wrote:

<Chuck, What is your source for this? Is it Ameritech or all carriers?>

Heard just a little while ago that it is apparently AmeriSuck, uh, Tech...

<You are on my list of  "highly reliable" posters, but this is a rather 
sweeping statement!>

Well thanks :-) (for the first part). Earlier this morning when I had been told 
this, it was from
a BIG computer reseller (in Chicago). It apparently effected a big part of the 
midwest and maybe
some east coast stuff from what some others said on Ignite/400...

<And I have sent an email to my phone provider (McLeod) asking for 
confirmation/denial.>

We use them too for some stuff. It only effected 800, not 877's etc.

<Our phones have sure been busy this morning (that's a good thing)...but much 
of the traffic is
direct dial (non-800) so probably doesn't fall into what you are saying.  And I 
have made one 800
call this morning with no problem...but that doesn't prove anything.>

I could got through to one in Texas but we (our buyers, etc.) were having 
trouble with ones all
over the country. I apparently had something to do with an Ameritech switch 
that allowed 800 #
calling out of certain areas, thus the confusion...

Chuck