Atekmdp.114 NET.general utzoo!duke!chico!teklabs!tekmdp!steveg Sat Jun 6 18:01:10 1981 Phone Number Botch It used to be that you could tell an area code from a exchange prefix by the fact that the middle digit of all area codes was either zero or one with exchange prefixes having 2 through 9 in that position. Now in Los Angeles you can have a phone in the 306 exchange (306 is also the area code for Saskatchewan). I wonder how many computer programs are now going to break (they had lots of fun trying to get our non-Bell PBX to understand it). ----------------------------------------------------------------- gopher://quux.org/ conversion by John Goerzen of http://communication.ucsd.edu/A-News/ This Usenet Oldnews Archive article may be copied and distributed freely, provided: 1. There is no money collected for the text(s) of the articles. 2. The following notice remains appended to each copy: The Usenet Oldnews Archive: Compilation Copyright (C) 1981, 1996 Bruce Jones, Henry Spencer, David Wiseman.