RJT> I'm in a bit of a weird situation here with regard to 
 RJT> phone companies,  which means that there are a whole 
 RJT> lot of exchanges,  in fact a metro area,  which I can 
 RJT> call out to but for them to call me it's LD.
Here's another idea (if you can spend the cash)...
A friend of mine had the same problem and he solved it by contacting the 
phone companies and setting up a local number in the "metro" area with a 
call-forwarding link on it to his BBS. 
Works like this...
BBS in Statesville, N.C.
closest major city is Charlotte, N.C. (long distance)
town in between is Moorsville, NC
sysop has a Moorsville number (local from Charlotte) and
has it forwarded to Statesville number.
Now Charlotte callers call Moorsville number and are forworded to 
tatesville.
Works great, costs sysop about $20.00 a month.
Good luck.
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