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"�fooguy?" <johns_spam_address@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> JmG <jmgreen@bestweb.net> wrote in message
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> > 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.

Has nothing to do with a population explosion in urban areas and everything
to do with first the growth in fax machines, then the growth in second phone
lines for modems (now being replaced by high speed connections) and finally
the HUGE growth in cellular phones.  None of those technologies were
envisioned when the area code scheme was first devised.