The unknown Florentine <root@surya.uucp> (06/05/91)
Brian.Gordon@eng.sun.com (Brian Gordon) writes: > The good news is that, as of today, 01 Jun 91, PacBell has expanded its > local calling area, so I can call work, for example, without incurring > toll charges. > The bad news is that, without notice, the "permissive" 1-plus dialing > has stopped working. The normal dialing from 408 has been, for > example, just 415-336-xxxx. It was permissible, however, to dial > 1-415-336-xxxx, which, I presume, will someday become the norm. As of > this morning, using the "1-" form reaches a reorder tone ... In 415 land where I work, they did that to us a year ago. Our phone people here reprogrammed the phone system to prepend a 1 to any number that is long enough to include an area code( unless it already has one) . It is amazing the lengths we will go to to stay lazy.