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From: ¿fooguy?
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2002 04:09

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JmG <jmgreen@bestweb.net> wrote in message news:<hea87uckdjdscn7dnavgih9iq7o3mn542a@4ax.com>...
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:44:28 -0500, JmG <jmgreen@bestweb.net> wrote:
> 
> >|On 20 Feb 2002 07:56:26 -0800, johns_spam_address@yahoo.com (�fooguy?) wrote:
> >|
> >|>|The Bell System divides 914 into Upstate and Downstate for calling
> >|>|areas. I usually just think of the area in terms of Poughkeepsie and
> >|>|Whiteplains.
> >|
> >|Not anymore. 914 is now downstate while 845 is not upstate. It took Ma Bell to
>                                                  ^^^
> make that now. 845 is now upstate.
> 
> >|J
> 
> J (I hate when I do that)

That silly number plan arrangement. They spent all that time designing
sequences of numbers that were easy to remember. What they didn't do
was plan for population explosions in urban centers. That was
illustrated early on when 212 filled up.

Not any better than the Brits - they had to add a digit a few years
back. The people of this country would be like a raped ape if someone
added a digit.

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