Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Roy Smith Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How Can 411 Be Flagrantly Abused? Message-ID: <1997@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 9 Dec 89 21:46:53 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: Public Health Research Institute, NYC Lines: 15 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 564, message 1 of 8 > [dialing 411 from a payphone] didn't work, so I called the operator. She > said "Why would you dial 411? Directory assistance is at 1-555-1212" In New York City they used to have an interesting hack (I think this was before the 212/718 split). If you dialed 411, you got DA for the borough you were in. If you wanted DA for one of the other 4 boroughs, you dialed 555-1212 without an area code. I'm not sure if this still works. Roy Smith, Public Health Research Institute 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016 roy@alanine.phri.nyu.edu -OR- {att,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers,hombre}!phri!roy "My karma ran over my dogma"