Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!sun-barr!texsun!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: xait!soleast!turner@seismo.css.gov (James Turner) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: HELP!! With phone lines Message-ID: Date: 12 May 89 15:08:53 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Reply-To: James Turner Organization: Solbourne Computers, Eastern Regional HQ Lines: 28 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 163, message 4 of 9 In article pixar!unicom!dv@ucbvax. berkeley.edu (David W. Vezie) writes: >X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 158, message 4 of 8 >I have a problem. I have a lot of phone lines going into our >computer room, and I have no idea what the some of numbers are. >There was a number (760-7760) which would tell me what number >I was calling from. However, since the Pa Bell upgrade last >February, that number hasn't worked. > >Can anyone tell me what the new number is? I'm desperate! For some reason, people seem to delight in searching for these numbers, when there is a much simpler solution to their problem. When I was working in NY, I had a similar problem (multiple lines with unknown numbers). I simply hooked up a handset to the line and dialed the closely kept secret telephone company number, "0". When the operator came on the line, I explained that I needed to know the number of the phone I was calling from. She read me the number off the TSPS console. End of story. [Moderator's Note: That may be the end of your story, but many telecom participants, myself included, have found that normally the operator will NOT say what number the call is coming from. The rule is they aren't supposed to do it, for various security reasons. PT]