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- From: weave@apache.dtcc.edu (Ken Weaverling)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: "Secret" Phone Codes
- Message-ID: <telecom13.48.2@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 15:05:31 GMT
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
- Organization: Delaware Technical & Community College
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 13, Issue 48, Message 2 of 13
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- In article <telecom13.45.2@eecs.nwu.edu> tener@cs.widener.edu (Stuart
- Tener) writes:
-
- > A friend of mine tried this number, and said it works from 215! Only
- > thing is he said that it gave an "8" at the end of the number?!?
-
- Ah, you haven't been paying attention. This is in preparation for
- North America to switch to 8 digit phone numbers with existing numbers
- having an 8 added to them.
-
- !!! NOT !!!
-
-
- Weave's 10/90 recipe for insanity: Take one programmer, divide into
- portions: 10% programming consisting of equal parts in systems and
- applications plus admin duties broken down into 20% for Unix, 5%
- PRIMOS, 10% hardware and network, 35% DOS/Windows, 10% news, 5%
- postmaster, and 5% babysitting IRC kiddies.
-