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From: betz@marob.masa.com (Tom Betz)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number
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Date: 3 Oct 90 06:17:56 GMT
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Quoth ropg@ooc.uva.nl (Rop Gonggrijp) in <12741@accuvax.nwu.edu>:

|You can also call 1-800-666-6258. This gives you a lot of advertising
|bla-bla AND your phone no. 

Well, it got my area code right, but it thought my phone number was
"555-5555".

Doesn't look like a product >I'd< want to buy.  <g>

Can anyone tell me what the significance of the "5"s is?


hombre!marob!upaya!tbetz
Tom Betz - GBS
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[Moderator's Note: We've touched on this before quite a few times. The
machine did not 'think your number was 555-5555'. The use of all fives
in the display is a default indicating that for some reason, your
telephone number was not available to the system. That might have been
a one time glich, or it might be that your telco is not passing along
your number. Earlier results posted here indicated the device worked
quite well; it correctly identified almost all the test-callers.  PAT]