Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: fff@mplex.UUCP (Fred Fierling) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Satanic Long Distance Carrier Message-ID: Date: 18 Jul 89 20:02:35 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Microplex Systems Ltd 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 247, message 1 of 10 In article , nathan@eddie.mit.edu (Nathan Glasser) writes: [ Article deleted. I'm responding to Moderator's note... ] > [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 > ... Here in Vancouver we have found a very appropriate use for the devilish 666- prefix. It is used by Revenue Canada (our equivalent of the I.R.S.) and other government "services". -- Fred Fierling Tel: 604 875-1461 Microplex Systems Ltd, 265 East 1st Avenue uunet!mplex!fff Fax: 604 875-9029 Vancouver, BC, V5T 1A7, Canada