Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca (Mark Anderson) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Satanic Long Distance Carrier Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 22:41:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: manderso@ugly.cs.ubc.ca Lines: 20 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 243, message 8 of 9 In , Patrick Townson writes: >[Moderator's Note: It is worth noting that '666' has never been, and probably >never will be assigned as part of a carrier access code, due to the ignorance >and superstition so prevalent among many Americans. Illinois Bell even has >a hard time getting people to take service on the old Monroe CO, which went >from Monroe to MONroe to MO-6 and finally '666'. Checker and Yellow Taxicab >Radio Dispatching was on there for over sixty years: MON ==> MO 6 ==> 666-3700 >and they finally gave up and moved to a different CO. They say they got a lot >of harassing phone calls from, uh, strange people. PT] Interestingly, the 666 prefix does have extensive use here in British Columbia (604) -- by Federal Government offices. Glancing at the 'Blue Pages' government listings in the directory, I noticed that most of the Vancouver numbers listed for Government of Canada offices are 666-XXXX. Just coincidence? :-) --- Mark Anderson {att!alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!{good,bad,ugly}!manderso "Narrow mind would persecute it, die a little to get to it..."