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From: poulin@acsu.buffalo.edu (Marc C. Poulin)
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Subject: Re: What are 700 and 555 Numbers?
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Date: 17 Dec 90 05:43:48 GMT
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In article <15341@accuvax.nwu.edu> SABAHE@macalstr.edu (Arun Baheti)
writes:

|I'm glad that they at least use 555- numbers now.  I remember about
|ten years ago when a muscial group (the B-52s?) did a song about
|someone's phone number.  All over the country, the poor owners of
|xxx-xxxx were driven batty by fans just trying out the number to see
|if anything would happen.  I'm not sure how the phone company (at
|that time it was just Ma Bell) dealt with it.

Actually, the B-52's song in question is "6060-842", which is from
their first, self-titled album, which came out in 1979.  Back then, I
don't believe there were any valid seven-digit numbers of the form
N0N-XXXX.


Marc      poulin@{acsu.buffalo.edu|softvax.radc.af.mil}