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Re: "fake" numbers outside US

#101
From: Kimmo Ketolainen
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 23:45
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wdh@fresh.com (Bill Hofmann) wrote:

> actual valid phone number, you choose a number of the form "555-xxxx", for
> instance, "1-510-555-1234".
> Do any of the participants in other countries know of similar conventions
> in their or other countries?  Thanks in advance...

I haven't seen anyone using such scheme in the Northern European
countries. I'm quite sure that there is no such reserved number
body part in Finland.
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From: Kimmo.Ketolainen@utu.fi (Kimmo Ketolainen)
Subject: Re: "fake" numbers outside US
In-Reply-To: wdh@fresh.com's message of Sat, 17 Dec 1994 05:50:42 GMT
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