Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!netsys!vector!telecom-gateway From: ihlpb!dritchey@att.uucp Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Finding Your Own Phone Number Message-ID: Date: 11 May 89 13:22:00 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 22 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 161, message 4 of 10 Summary: Yes, he does mean satrapy. In article (Message-ID: ), you wrote > Here in Durham, North Carolina (a satrapy of GTE-South) the id number is a > > [Moderator's Note: Did you mean 'satrap' instead of 'satrapy'? PT] GTE-South = satrap - 1) the governer of a province in ancient Persia. 2) a: RULER b: a subordinate official : HENCHMAN Durham, NC = satrapy - the territory or jurisdiction of a satrap. Definitions courtesy of Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary, Copyright 1988. Humorously yours, Don -- Don Ritchey (312) 979-6179, AT&T Bell Laboratories, IH 4E-408 att!ihlpb!dritchey or dritchey@ihlpb.att.com {for smart mailers}