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From: cmoore@brl.mil (VLD/VMB)
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Subject: Re: Why Did I Reach "215 A Y"?
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Date: 1 Oct 90 14:23:24 GMT
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I can only guess that, in your attempted 800 call from Detroit to San
Jose, you reached a switching center in southeastern Pennsylvania.

It used to be that you could determine what area code you were
reaching for an 800 number, at least when dialed from out of state.
Perhaps you reached a wrong number and the wrong number happened to be
in the Philadelphia area.