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From: iwarp.intel.com!iwarpq0.intel.com!merlyn@omepd.intel.com
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Subject: Re: Bay of Eagle Fiasco
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Date: 16 Aug 89 16:35:03 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 302, message 8 of 9

In article  you write:
|>OK, gang, another mystery from the AT&T system of the late 1960s-early 1970s:
|
|>Once upon a time, my brother (who was about ten years old at the time) picked
|>up the phone and dialed:
|
|>1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8-9-0
|
|>[Moderator's Note: I just now tried it of curiosity. Dialing 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8
|>sent me to immediate intercept with a message saying, "When dialing a call
|>outside the 312 area, you must dial '1' before the number. When calling
|>within 312, do not dial '1' first."    PT]
|
|Here I got 'the number you have dialed has been disconnected or no longer in
|service.  If you feel that you have dailed the correct number, please hang
|up and try again.  Thank you.

A local freebie classified-ads paper owner paid $BIG$ $MONEY$ for the
right to use the phone number 234-5678 for his paper.  Within one
month, he had so many kids calling 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 on the phone
blocking his lines, he just stuck an answer-only answering machine on
the line telling them to call some other number to place a classified
ad.

Them's the breaks...
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