Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 3 May 91 12:21:40 EST From: HERRICK, DANIEL Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Has Anyone Heard of This? Message-ID: Organization: TELECOM Digest Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu 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 330, Message 6 of 9 Lines: 35 [John Higdon's description of prerecorded phone invitation to call a number in (312) land and some of Pat's report on his investigation truncated.] > numbers from 9050 up to at least 9099 are not in service. I tried > several of the numbers just now (midnight) and got a busy on > everything I tried; my assumption is the numbers are out of order or [...] > the 312-292 exchange. I tested at random and mostly got 'not in > service' or 'has been disconnected' messages. PAT] Maybe people in that neighborhood take the phone off the hook before they go to bed. Do you often call all the numbers in some range around midnight? Have you programmed your computer to help you make these calls? I enjoyed your report, but Good Grief! Pat. dan herrick herrickd@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com [Moderator's Note: I tried numbers which were 99 percent certain to be business numbers (had they been connected); i.e. numbers ending in hundreds and/or thousands. I also tried some which CNA reported as 'no record located', which almost invariably wind up being either actually not in service or in service as DID trunks behind a PBX or extensions on a centrex, etc ... not exactly the sort of thing which makes up residential phone service. And no, I would *never* program a computer to simply start dialing down the line at any time of the day or night. I concentrated primarily on the 9000 - 9099 group, with a few 'random' picks elsewhere based on what CNA records said and my own knowledge of how numbers would likely be assigned here. PAT]