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: harvard!talcott!limbic!gil@eddie.mit.edu (Gil Kloepfer Jr.) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: NNX-0000 Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 02:13:12 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: "Gil Kloepfer Jr." Organization: ICUS Software Systems, Islip, NY Lines: 21 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 241, message 7 of 9 In article Roy Smith writes: > Anyway, just for fun, I just tried dialing 636-0000. I got a Just for fun, I tried dialing 746-0000 [area code 516] and I got the strangest message myself... It said, "The number you have reached, seven four six, oh oh oh oh, may not yet be connected." Some exchanges in 516 I picked at random said that the number was disconnected, one just kept ringing, and another was not in service. ------- | Gil Kloepfer, Jr. | ICUS Software Systems/Bowne Management Systems (depending on where I am) | ...icus!limbic!gil or gil@icus.islp.ny.us [Moderator's Note: Programming errors abound. For a laugh, try 312-922-4600. For about seventy years, that was the main number for Sears, Roebuck & Company at their downtown store and offices. They've been gone for years, and now dialing the number results in a recording, "you must dial one before calling this number". No matter how I dial it, with a one or not, that recording still comes on the line. PT]