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From: BRUCE@ccavax.camb.com (Barton F. Bruce)
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Subject: Re: Odd (617) Number
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Date: 29 Oct 90 04:03:44 GMT
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In article <14065@accuvax.nwu.edu>, zippy@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu
(Patrick Tufts) writes:

> Any thoughts on the function of this number, (617)958-6544?

Try dialing some TT digits after that. You will then get: "THANK YOU
FOR USING PAGENET". You just beeped someone's beeper, and whatever
garbage you TT'd in is displayed on his beeper.

There IS a concerted push to reclaim 800 numbers from the paging folks
in this area, and I think that at least three other exchanges are so
used, and, like the previous 800 based paging services, are FREE to
the local caller.  Don't know about LD callers, though. It probably is
the SAME whether dialled as a local number from 617 or 508.

I just asked the local operator and that IS a paging exchange, and she
did say there were others, BUT wouldn't volunteer any more info.