Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!att!bellcore!rutgers!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: morris@jade.jpl.nasa.gov (Mike Morris) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Phone Remarks in Clancy Novel Message-ID: Date: 20 Sep 89 23:00:20 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: Mike Morris Lines: 22 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 390, message 6 of 7 Amanda Walker writes: %In article , %loughry@tramp.colorado.edu (J. Loughry) writes: %> "Ryan terminated the call and placed one to his house, which had three %> lines. It was, perversely, a long-distance call. He needed a D.C. %> line for his work. Cathy needed a Baltimore connection for hers, plus %> a local line for other matters." %> Maybe someone can explain this to us Westerners. %The phone service around DC and Baltimore is a bit strange... In many areas, %you get a choice of what kind of line you want, with different kinds having %different areas that are considered "local". The quoted example sounds a %little stretched, but that kind of thing does happen in these parts :-)... When I read the book I just assumed that he had a electronic key system, with a local line and 2 foreign exchange lines. Yes, DC is wierd. Mike Morris UUCP: Morris@Jade.JPL.NASA.gov ICBM: 34.12 N, 118.02 W #Include quote.cute.standard PSTN: 818-447-7052 #Include disclaimer.standard cat flames.all > /dev/null