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From: amb@ai.mit.edu (Andrew Boardman)
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Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number
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Date: 24 Sep 90 23:48:32 GMT
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>The most honest way to go about it would be to ask the person who owns
>the phone, "what number is this?"  PAT]

The easiest, at least in NYNEX and Atlantic Bell land, is to call the
operator and ask "what number is this?"  I've never had the request
refused.

(BTW, in the wake of recent talk about the book "The Phone Book," I
wandered over to the business library and gave it a read.  It was
somewhat interesting, but extraordinarily anti-Bell biased.  Its
attitude was matched only by the extraordinary pro-Bell attitude of
its shelf-mate, titled "The Rape of Ma Bell.")