From owner-nanog@merit.edu Thu Aug 18 11:04:41 2005 Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:56:10 -0700 (PDT) From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: New N.Y. Law Targets Hidden Net LD Tolls To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
--- Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com> wrote:
I assume the NY AG will also be targeting enforcement of Domino's Pizza because they have lots of phone numbers and consumers may unknowingly dial a phone number to order a pizza which may be a toll call in their area.
A typical call to Domino's lasts < 2 minutes, and if it's not actually a local call, you're almost certainly not in the delivery area (and would get redirected to the correct store). Accidentally dialing a nonlocal Domino's results in a $.10 bill (and no pizza).
A typical call to a dial-up ISP is what, a few hours? Multiple times per month? Accidentally using a non-local ISP number can result in a bill in the hundreds of dollars pretty easily (also no pizza).
All true, but *WHY* is that 'accidentally dialing a non-local ISP number' the *ISP's* fault??