Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: john@zygot.ati.com (John Higdon) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: An Example of Mis-parsing a Phone Number Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 89 04:01:24 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Green Hills and Cows Lines: 30 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 334, message 2 of 4 In article , ron@hardees.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie) writes: > Yes, used to be a party line that advertised it's number as > 100 411 7777777 (actually they said seven sevens). > It took me a minute to realize what the number actually was. I think I saw that ad. Didn't it go something like: 100 411 700 777-7777 ? Which opens the huge 700 can of worms. This is sort of a free-for-all area code. LD carriers can use it for almost any purpose and charge almost any amount for the call. Remember Alliance Teleconferencing by AT&T? And we all know 700 555-4141 which tells you your carrier (or the name of any carrier you wish by prefixing it with the appropriate 10XXX code). In the above mention, someone is using a "700" for a party line. Since it requires the caller to dial the carrier prefix (10041), there is no need to set up prior arrangements with anyone. With 900 service, the carrier must set up specific prefixes to be automatically routed to his point of presense by the operating company, regardless of the subscribers pre-subscribed carrier selection. BTW, I've got a little AOS horror story in the works. The final event should occur tomorrow. If the information I've received checks out, it could all be a little worse than we imagined. -- John Higdon | P. O. Box 7648 | +1 408 723 1395 john@zygot | San Jose, CA 95150 | M o o !