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From: Randal Schwartz <merlyn@iwarp.intel.com>
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Subject: Re: How Can 411 Be Flagrantly Abused?
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Date: 22 Dec 89 00:55:11 GMT
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In article <2239@accuvax.nwu.edu> you write:
 
| Regarding Andrew Schwartz's comments about never hearing of 411 used
            ^^^^^^ That's *Randal*, please.  Read comp.unix.questions! :-)
| for DA in the northwest, they used to use it, along with 611 for
| repair.  That was back when DA (information) was free. 

Nope, nope, nope.  Maybe in *your* neck of the woods, but it's always
been "113" for local directory assistance (state-wide was 1-555-1212)
and "0" for repair (or some seven-digit number).  This is in Portland,
Oregon.

|							  Then sometime
| in the 1970s Pacific NW Bell filed for new tarrifs, saying that they
| had to employ too many operators and that their studies had shown that
| most folks were dialing 411 rather than look it up.

Yeah, this is about the time they switched.

Just another old-timer 'round these here parts,
 

/== Randal L. Schwartz, Stonehenge Consulting Services (503)777-0095 ====\
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