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- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 05:26:35 EDT
- From: Paul Robinson <FZC@CU.NIH.GOV>
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Switch Names
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 711, Message 3 of 8
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- In TELECOM Digest 12-685, John Palmer <jp@tygra.Michigan.COM> and Pat
- talk about exchange names:
-
- [John Palmer:]
-
- > In Detroit, we live in an area where the exchange name used to be
- > TUXedo...I used to think that the CO name was the name of a street
- > on which the CO was located (or a street near the CO), but there
- > isn't a TUXEDO in that area.
-
- [Pat:]
-
- > [Moderator's Note: But here in Chicago we had a 'true TUXedo' as in
- > 889. The CO's here were variously named for the street they were
- > located on or the neighborhood; sometimes an historical person or
- > event (i.e. HAymarket [riots]; [Mayor Carter] HARrison. PAT]
-
- I'm not sure what they are doing here. We have several offices in the
- (unnamed) government agency I work out of (as a contractor, not as a
- federal employee) in which we cross two different switch zones of C&P
- Telephone. One of them is called 'Bethesda' for the office in
- Bethesda, Md., and the other one is a few miles up the road in
- Rockville, Md., and is located on Montrose Ave., and that switch is
- called 'Montrose'.
-
- "If I or any user of this account are caught making opinions, the
- secretary will disavow any knowledge of them ..."
-
-