Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: Sat, 22 Jun 91 10:32:25 EDT From: David Albert Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Reusing Numbers After Just One Day Message-ID: Organization: Aiken Computation Lab, Harvard University 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 478, Message 2 of 9 Lines: 19 In article David Gast writes: > I called a friend of mine who lived in one of the dorms at UCLA last > school year the other night....Instead I got connected to new tenants. > Less than one business day is way too quick in my opinion. The only > reasonable explanation would be that the old tenants forgot to cancel > their phone service or that GTE was slow in processing it. No; at Harvard, the dorm phone numbers are permanently assigned to the rooms. You can only get one phone line in each room, and if you move out then whoever moves in gets the same number. Intercept recordings are unheard of -- they won't put one on the line even if the room is unoccupied for a period of time. David Albert UUCP: harvard!albert INTERNET: albert@harvard.edu