Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: Will Martin Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: More ANI Fun! Message-ID: <10561@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 6 Aug 90 14:24:26 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 548, Message 5 of 11 My experience was similar to that of Ravinder Bhumbla. I called from work where my number is (314) 331-4593, on the NEC phone system GSA stuck us with when we moved into this newly-refurbished building. The ANI spiel gave me back my correct 314 area code, but the number that followed was a completely off-the-wall "421-2227". Some federal offices here are on "425" exchanges, but Defense Telephone Service is on "263", and a quick scan of the phone directory "blue pages" of federal office listings showed no "421"s. A call to "421-2227" got an intercept with a message about the number being "discontinued or no longer in service". I just wonder if their ANI got just the area code and no number, and the software didn't clear out the buffer where the "local number" was stored, and so then read out my area code followed by the local number of whoever called previous to me? Anybody out there call this ANI line about 0905 CDT or so on 6 Aug and have "421-2227" as their phone number? The ANI 800 number was busy for quite a while before I got through, so somebody was on it just before me. Would be ironic if it was a fellow Telecom reader... Regards, Will wmartin@st-louis-emh2.army.mil OR wmartin@stl-06sima.army.mil