Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!mailrus!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: penguin@gnh-igloo.cts.com (Mark Steiger) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number Message-ID: <12859@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 1 Oct 90 04:16:05 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Organization: TELECOM Digest Lines: 15 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 701, Message 5 of 11 I tried this 800 number abd it told me I was dialing from 218-555-5555!!! Definitely something wrong there. Mark ProLine.:penguin@gnh-igloo America Online: Goalie5 UUCP....:crash!gnh-igloo!penguin MCI Mail......: MSteiger Internet:penguin@gnh-igloo.cts.com ARPA....:crash!gnh-igloo!penguin@nosc.mil [Moderator's Note: When this was an active thread, the consensus was that in the event the system can NOT tell what number you are calling from for some reason, it gives 555-5555 as a default value. PAT]