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illegal phone numbers (Score:2)

by jmm (276) <johnNO@SPAMperlwolf.com> on 2005.10.18 10:51 (#43967) Journal

It used to be that having a 0 or 1 as the middle digit of an exchange number was illegal, but wherever 10-digit dialing is in effect it is now allowed (and leading digit 1 or 0 could equally well be allowed there too. Why build in a future failure?

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- Re:illegal phone numbers (Score:2)
  
  by jdavidb (1361)
  
  Because taking it out some day would be easy and because having it in in the meantime could cut down on a lot of fraud.
  
  Update is that the guy with this phone number is at least answering my emails, so maybe I haven't been defrauded. Still hasn't shipped the item I ordered last week, though, but he's claiming he'll send it tomorrow.
  
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  J. David works really hard, has a passion for writing good software, and knows many of the world's best Perl programmers

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