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From: vances@xenitec.uucp (Vance Shipley)
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Subject: Brother's Solution (really: 12345678)
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Date: 16 Aug 89 01:02:21 GMT
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In article  goldstein@delni.enet.dec.
com writes:

>So when he opened a new exchange near some mining camp or other such
>outpost (using Harris D-1200 PBXs as COs, btw), Ma gave him the prefix
>"234".  Gee, that's a nice one, though Art.  Until he noticed thousands
>of incompleted pegs to a vacant number.  Yep, 234-5678.

What I liked was his solution to the problem; he installed an answering
machine and started turning them into billable calls!

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