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From: bcsaic!carroll@beaver.cs.washington.edu (Jeff Carroll)
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Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number
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Date: 16 Oct 90 01:49:07 GMT
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In article <12952@accuvax.nwu.edu> levin@bbn.com (Joel B. Levin)
writes:

>>[Moderator's Note: Most telcos seem to change the number a lot, and 
>>they tend to be in the range of 200-xxx-xxxx.  PAT]

>Here in NETel land, I have never seen it change.  It's always been the
>above number (except one CO where it's always been 200-2622 (!)).  (At
>least since around 1970, anyway, when Cambridge got in a lot of new
>ESS stuff; previously you could find your own number on several
>exchanges by just dialing 225.)

	I tried the number given in the original post, supposedly
valid from "US West land", the other night at home (Bellevue, WA,
served by US West). Didn't work.

	I tried it from the office, too, but I didn't expect it to
work here (where the telco is Boeing Computer Services).


Jeff Carroll
carroll@atc.boeing.com