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From: ejs@goldhill.com (Eric Swenson)
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Subject: 508-980-xxxx
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Date: 10 Feb 89 00:00:10 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 56, message 7 of 7

Does anyone know what the 980 prefix in the 508 area code is?  If you dial
the digits "980" from a 371 (Concord) exchange, you get a bizarre tone.
If you type 4 more digits (random ones) and wait a few seconds, the line
goes dead.  Staying on the line for a while longer will reactivate it
(disconnect and reissue a dial tone).  I discovered this while trying
to locate the ring-back number for numbers in the 508-371-xxxx
exchange.  (I was unsuccessful in locating the number after trying
quite a few unused (or unpublished) exchanges).