Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!think.com!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!casbah.acns.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: collins@epsl.umd.edu (Bernard F. Collins) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 91 16:56:21 GMT Sender: news@casbah.acns.nwu.edu Organization: University of Maryland at College Park Lines: 17 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 138, Message 2 of 8 Originator: telecom@delta.eecs.nwu.edu In article <12672@accuvax.nwu.edu> scb@cs.brown.edu (Spyros C. Bartsocas) writes: >The easiest at NYNEX land (according to older postings and >experimentation) is to call 200-222-2222. For pay phones the number I discovered some time ago that in the Baltimore area (301), one could find out the number of most phones by dialing 811 or 311 (I forget which.) After dialing, I would hear some funny clicks and then a VERY faint voice that would recite my phone number. All of the X11 number combinations (except 011) terminate dialing. A few of them (411, 611, 911) have special functions. I have not tried the 811 trick in a few years so it may not still be true. Skip Collins, (301)792-6243, collins@wam.umd.edu