Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request
From: Andrew.Hastings@pogo.camelot.cs.cmu.edu
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Intercept Recordings
Message-ID: <11577@accuvax.nwu.edu>
Date: 29 Aug 90 20:29:40 GMT
Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu
Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI
Lines: 22
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 611, Message 5 of 11


In article <11439@accuvax.nwu.edu> cybrspc!roy@cs.umn.edu (Roy M.
Silvernail) writes:

>I'm used to "The number has been changed ...", but have never heard
>this particular version before. Any ideas what it means by "Calls are
>being taken on xxx-xxxx"? 

It means that the person who had service at the disconnected number
did not get new service at his/her new location.  The "calls are being
taken by" number was already in service.

When I moved out of the Twin Cities area, I told NW Bell to refer
calls to my sister who still lived in the area.  It would be incorrect
to say that my number was "changed" to her number.

Another situation where this message is used is if you decide to share
an apartment with someone who already has telephone service at that
apartment.


Andy Hastings			abh@cs.cmu.edu			412/268-8734