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From: cantor@proxy.enet.dec.com (David A. Cantor  24-Sep-1989 2042)
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Subject: AT&T's Prior Use of Fake Area Code 311
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Date: 25 Sep 89 00:49:45 GMT
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X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 404, message 3 of 10

In TELECOM Digest, Vol 9, Issue 395, in article from Linc Madison
(rmadison@euler.berkeley.edu), entitled "Area Code 510 Press Release
 From Pac*Bell," moderator Patrick Townson writes

>  [Moderator's Note: [...] Does anyone remember when AT&T used to
>  advertise their DDD service in its early days by showing a telephone
>  with the number 310-555-2368 on the dial?  PT]

AT&T used to advertise this number as 311-555-2368, not 310.  Before
that, they used Area 311, KLondike 5-2368.  I have a clear memory of
an advertisement I saw with an old style (type 300?) telephone with
the number MAin 0-2368 displayed on the dial's circular number plate.

Dave C.