Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: lotus!bobf@uunet.uu.net (BFrankston) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Longest Time Allowed For Intercept? Message-ID: Date: 10 Oct 89 01:40:27 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 14 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 440, message 10 of 12 Recently my wife got a call. Turns out the person was given our old number and got a recording giving our new number. Nothing unusual except that we moved 8 years ago! [Moderator's Note: For many years during the 1950-60 period, a famous house of prostitution in Chicago apparently known all over the United States, if not the world, had the number DElaware 7-1515. When the joint was finally raided for the umpteenth time and the place closed for good, IBT said the number would not be re-assigned until the volume of calls to the number decreased. (They had been getting 30-40 calls daily for their `outcall service'.) Ten years later, there were still two or three calls daily, apparently from businessmen around the world who had never updated their little black books. I think the number was re-assigned after about twelve years. PT]