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From: motcid!weiland%cell.mot.COM@uunet.uu.net (Michael Weiland)
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Subject: Re: Fourteen-Digit PINs (was Sprint Stuff)
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Date: 5 Feb 90 20:07:43 GMT
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X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 78, message 3 of 13


When I lived in Chicago, I had a U.S.Sprint FONcard, whose number was
my home number plus a PIN.  I moved (to a suburb) two years ago, and
was surprised that although I had a new number, my FONcard number
remained the same (containing my old number).  Since then, of course,
312 and 708 have split, so the number on my FON card is a different
area code as well as different number.

It's just as well -- as has been pointed out here, why have a phone
number as part of the account number.