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Re: Is Anonymous Communication only for "Criminals"?
At 10:56 AM 12/20/97 -0700, Tim May wrote:
>I assumed a pay phone was Just
>Another Phone Number.)
My caller ID unit often identifies an incoming call as "Payphone".
I also had an interesting thing happen to me about ten years ago. My home
phone got listed as a payphone. When I moved and asked for a phone number,
I was told none were available. The area I moved into was the fastest
growing section of the fastest growing county in the country for two or
more years running. It took about a month to get a phone number from an
exchange that was from an area several miles form me. Then an odd thing
happened. I never got a phone bill.
I forget the exact details, but after several months of "free" telephone
service, my phone went dead one day. When I called to inquire, I was told
that my number was a pay phone, not a residential number. They finally
fixed things up, and got my service restored. But there appears to be a
database field that says a number is or isn't a pay phone.
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