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From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein)
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Subject: Re: Is 990 a Special 'Exchange' in Area Code 508?
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In article <4462@accuvax.nwu.edu>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes...

That depends.  Do you consider New Bedford to be "Special"?  (I
suppose it is if you're a fisherman, or have a linguica addition.)  At
least that's where my phone book says 990 is, and has been for years.

However, 508-391 appears to be special; that's the one now used for
beepers that used to use 800 numbers.  I think it's local from the
whole LATA.  A previous article mentioned the corresponding 617
prefix.


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