Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!swbatl!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: msb@sq.sq.com (Mark Brader) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: 555-XXXX As A Valid Prefix Anywhere? Message-ID: Date: 26 Jul 89 23:36:57 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 15 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 259, message 3 of 10 Lisa Smith (lisa@mips.com) wrote the following in an article in (the Usenet newsgroup) rec.humor.d: > That prefix, 555, isn't fictional everywhere. One of my school friends > said that his grandfather's phone number, somewhere in South Dakota, is > a 555 number. He said that it was to his knowledge the only place in > the U.S. that it was a real prefix though. Someone else said that if this was ever true it isn't now. What do the experts say? -- Mark Brader "Well, I didn't completely test it, and SoftQuad Inc., Toronto of course there was a power failure the utzoo!sq!msb, msb@sq.com next day." -- Louis J. Judice