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From: RAF@cu.nih.gov (Roger Fajman)
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Subject: Re: New 410 Code for MD
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Date: 24 Nov 90 20:54:49 GMT
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> I think two changes in such rapid succession in the way to dial from
> DC to its Maryland suburbs would have been too much for the minds of
> our civil servants and way too much for the minds of our elected
> officials.

It seems to me that we can do without the gratuitous insults in this
forum.  The change to area codes for local calls in the DC area seemed
to cause few problems.  I heard few complaints other than a couple of
newspaper columns that seemed at least partly tongue in cheek.  Not
much different than the other areas, I suspect.  We had to update our
user data base, which previously had not contained area codes for
local numbers.

Yes, TELECOM Digest's reach is so great that even some of us civil
servants see it.  :-)


Roger Fajman                        Telephone:  +1 301 402 1246
National Institutes of Health       BITNET:     RAF@NIHCU
Bethesda, Maryland, USA             Internet:   RAF@CU.NIH.GOV