[comp.dcom.telecom] SW Bell Readback Number

bei@cs.utexas.edu> (05/19/91)

	I just ran scross (by accident) a Southwestern Bell number in
the Austin area that read me back my own phone number.  When I've had
to find out which number that a series of unlabeled modem lines
actually was, I called an operator and requested the number that I was
calling from.  The machine that I reached has a lot less overhead, and
would save both myself and an operator some time.  The bad news is
that this was a misconnection, so I don't know what number actually
was dialed.


       Bob Izenberg [ ] Ralph Kirkley Associates
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