henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) (02/27/90)
Inquiring minds are curious. # Henry Mensch / <henry@garp.mit.edu> / E40-379 MIT, Cambridge, MA # <hmensch@uk.ac.nsfnet-relay> / <henry@tts.lth.se> / <mensch@munnari.oz.au>
kaplanr@chaos.cs.brandeis.edu (Robert Kaplan) (02/28/90)
The 1990 NET white pages [for Boston] list 990 as being a regular New Bedford exchange; I don't have the New Bedford phone book immediately handy, but I seem to recall that it is just an ordinary exchange. New Bedford uses all of (508)99x. So far no 99x numbers have been assigned in the shrunken 617 NPA. Scott Fybush Disclaimer: This may not be my own opinion.
goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) (03/01/90)
In article <4462@accuvax.nwu.edu>, henry@garp.mit.edu (Henry Mensch) writes...
That depends. Do you consider New Bedford to be "Special"? (I
suppose it is if you're a fisherman, or have a linguica addition.) At
least that's where my phone book says 990 is, and has been for years.
However, 508-391 appears to be special; that's the one now used for
beepers that used to use 800 numbers. I think it's local from the
whole LATA. A previous article mentioned the corresponding 617
prefix.
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