Tracy Johnson writes:

> 16 digits, whoop-de-do.  Because my company requires that I not charge the
>  client for outside calls I have to use Sprint every time I dial out.  It
>  adds up to 33 digits, domestic.
>
>  1 to get out (9)
>  10 for Sprint 800 number
>  10 for area code + number
>  12 for sprint secret code.
>
>  Now all I have to wait for is someone to say they do more, and they will.
>   :)

As Nick said when this thread began, something's gone terribly wrong with a
design when a technology imposes this kind of burden on its users. I don't
think Alexander Grahm Bell would have ever dialed a second person if he had
to have called Watson using Tracy's protocol.

Wirt Atmar