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From: pace@usace.mil (Joe Pace)
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Subject: Re: Leaving Brief Messages With Free Collect Calls
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Date: 25 Sep 90 00:27:41 GMT
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A friend and I came up with a method for letting the other know that
he was on a local pay phone, and what the number was, by using a
collect call with an odd name.  It has worked very well, and now we
have an easy way to refer to particular phones.

Since all the numers in our area begin with 75, only the last five
digits are important -- the goal is to form a name like:

   Paris H. Bulb

Where the first and last letter of the first name and last name and
the middle initial are significant.  So, the number is encoded as
"PSHBB" using the mapping:

	1-9 -> A-I
	1-9 -> J-T

	U-Z are left out...

So, this name maps to 756-9822. The trick is to figure out a good name
for your pay-phone, one that will be easy for the operator to repeat
and will make sense if it's a little mispronounced.


Joe Pace
US Army Corps of Engineers                                     pace@usace.mil
Sacramento District                                     JPPACE@UCDAVIS.BITNET
650 Capitol Mall, Sacramento, CA  95814         (916) 551-1133, FAX: 551-1100