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- Path: sparky!uunet!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 01:06:09 GMT
- From: mrose@prufrock.stsci.edu (Mike Rose)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Re: What Number am I Calling From?
- Reply-To: mrose@stsci.edu
- Message-ID: <telecom12.631.7@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: Space Telescope Science Institute
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 631, Message 7 of 13
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- In article <telecom12.614.2@eecs.nwu.edu>, ricochet@spatula.rent.com
- wrote:
-
- > Is there a way to get the number of the phone you're calling from?
- > For example, the payphone in my laundromat isn't marked and the store
- > owner says he doesn't know what it is. There's times when it would be
- > more convenient to have somebody call me back, but if I don't know the
- > number, how can they?
-
- Here in Baltimore (C&P telephone), 200-212-1212 will tell you.
-
- Does anyone know how universal this is? Is it just a number C&P made
- up for the convenience of their installers? Perhaps anyone with
- caller-id and a voice-synthesizer could provide it.
-
-
- Mike Rose, mrose@stsci.edu, 410-338-4949
-
-
- [Moderator's Note: This number changes in every community. No two
- places are the same. PAT]
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-