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From: floyd@ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson)
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Subject: Re: Playing Songs on Tone Telephones
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In article <15405@accuvax.nwu.edu> jkw@kodak.com writes:

>In V10 #880, Paul Schleck writes:

>>I'm sure we all remember from our elementary school "playing with the
>>phone" dialing "Mary had a Little Lamb" i.e. 321-2333.  In some area
>>codes, it's a valid number, in others it connects to dead air.  In yet
>>others, you get a busy signal or a "not in service" intercept.  Hmmm...

>It warns, "If you just pick up the receiver and immediately begin
>tapping out Strangers In The Night, you might find yourself connected
>to someone in Nome, Alaska."  This I doubt, since the first "notes"
>are 4-8-8.

Well that isn't that far off.  488-nnnn might get you...  North Pole!
For Nome try a 443-nnnn number.  (The area code is 907.)

I don't mean to be commercial about it (heh heh) but if a few thousand
call records show on account of this I may ask for a raise.


Floyd
(Fairbanks Toll Center, Alascom, Inc.)

Floyd L. Davidson                             floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu
Salcha, AK 99714                    paycheck connection to Alascom, Inc.
 When I speak for them, one of us will be *out* of business in a hurry.