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From: wb8foz@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (David Lesher)
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Subject: Re: Last Four Digits of Phone is '0000'
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Date: 23 Dec 90 21:39:57 GMT
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|That brings up an interesting point.  Just how long does the phone
|company wait before reassigning numbers?  According to my mother,
|calls for the previous subscriber *never* happened in the past (my
|mother is 58).  

|My mother lives in the Washington DC area, by the way.

The reuse time varies inversely with the number of empty assignments.
The DC area has been hurting for years (After all, it's the only place
[other than John Higdon's house ;-} ] where the phone to people ratio
is >1.0) hence the recent mandatory NPA dialing.

I've often talked Assigning into giving me numbers that were too
'fresh' but the price is lots of wrong numbers.