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- Date: 15 NOV 92 20:22
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- Subject: 'Allo 'Allo: Paris, France is Included in New Los Angeles Area
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- This is from {Computergram} (Nov 5 & 6, '92)
-
- + 'ALLO 'ALLO: PARIS, FRANCE IS INCLUDED
- IN THE NEW LOS ANGELES AREA CODE
-
- Strange but true -- telephone users in Los Angeles have been trying to
- dial local numbers, only to find themselves put through to France. A
- slip of the finger? Apparently not -- Joshua Greenbaum, a freelance
- writer based in Paris has received eight different calls in the last
- month from callers in Los Angeles who dialed a local number. The final
- twist -- which propels the affair into the Twilight Zone -- came when
- a Los Angeles-based acquaintance tried to dial the facsimile machine
- on the desk next to him and found himself talking to his Paris-based
- buddy.
-
- The next day a call appeared on Greenbaum's answering machine, a
- recorded conversation in which a Pacific Bell operator explained to
- Greebaum's Los Angeles chum that she had just tried to call the
- number, had got no connection and that anyway "it is absolutely
- impossible to dial a seven-digit number in Los Angeles and get
- connected all the way to Paris, France". The problem seems to be a
- glitch in the implementation of a new Los Angeles area code: all of
- the callers who mistakenly got through to Greenbaum were trying to
- call a number within the new Los Angeles 310 area. The code for Paris
- is +331. Will the tangled tale ever get sorted? In the words of the
- immortalised PacBell operator "Well, sir, I'll just have to check into
- this."
-
-