Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wugate!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: bandy@capmkt.com (Andrew Scott Beals) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Satanic Long Distance Carrier Message-ID: Date: 17 Jul 89 16:49:56 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 17 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 245, message 4 of 8 >[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] The Internal Revenue Service office in Manchester New Hampshire has a '666' prefix. I've also had cashiers change my tab to $6.65 when it's come out to $6.66. [Moderator's Note: Some people regard IRS as the Great Satan. I wonder if this is why IRS got phone service on a 'local exchange' -- ha ha! PT]