Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Fri, 24 May 91 08:49:47 EDT From: Nickolas Landsberg Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: 540 and Other Booby Traps: Info Not Available Message-ID: Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories 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 394, Message 6 of 10 Lines: 33 In article wrf@mab.ecse.rpi.edu writes: > Since several people have claimed that any person mature enough to use > a phone w/o a keeper should be aware of these booby trap, or > letterbomb, exchanges, I tried to find out more information about > them. > 1. (As I mentioned before) the phone book is silent, except about 976 > costing $0.35. > 2. I called NyTel again. They gave me the following list: area codes > 700 and 900; exchanges 394, 540, 550, 970, & 976. > i) How many of you people, who said everyone has the obligation to > know this, knew about 394? Huh? 394????? When I worked for dear old NYTel (I won't admit how many years ago) 394 was an "official" exchange (along with 395, 396, etc.) In the days when exchanges were pronouncable, this was "EXchange-4". Anyone from NYTel know when it happened that the 4 board went to being a toll call? As an aside, in those days I had craftspeople reporting to me. I was "assigned" 394-3825. The shop-steward claimed it was just a coincidence that 3825 spelled what it did. :) Nick Landsberg [Moderator's Note: 3825 as in "DUCK! Here comes the boss!" PAT]