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From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@iwarp.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: 1-555-1212 for Local Directory Assistance?
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Date: 7 Aug 90 17:45:34 GMT
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In article <10523@accuvax.nwu.edu>, bernhold@qtp (David E. Bernholdt)
writes:

| I was recently in Cincinatti, Ohio & needed a number from directory
| assistance.  I dialed 411 and the got a recording saying (I think)
| "your call cannot be completed..."  I called the operator & discovered
| that local directory assistance was 1-555-1212.  I had never heard of
| this before & wonder how common it is?  Is 411 being phased out, or is
| this just a local thing?  

I think I said this about six months ago, but here in the Pacific
Northwest, in both GTE and US West (nee Pacific Northwest Bell), we've
*never* had 411.  It's always been 1-555-1212 for as long as I've been
able to operate the phone.  OK, in the early days, "113" would get us
to directory assistance in PNB-land, but they phased that out a few
years ago even.

It took travelling out of the area for me to know what everybody had
meant by calling "411".  This is *far* from being a universal number.

Just another phone user,

Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ==========
on contract to Intel's iWarp project, Beaverton, Oregon, USA, Sol III      
merlyn@iwarp.intel.com ...!any-MX-mailer-like-uunet!iwarp.intel.com!merlyn