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Article #104Re: "fake" numbers outside US
From: Eric Tholome
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 19:22
Date: Mon, 19 Dec 1994 19:22
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In article <wdh-1612942150420001@wdh.slip.netcom.com>,
wdh@fresh.com (Bill Hofmann) wrote:
>In the United States and Canada (World Zone 1 to be more precise), when
>you want to represent a phone number without the risk of it being an
>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 don't think there is anything of that sort in France, though I wish there
were: I happen to write books about telecommunications (once in a while),
and I always wonder what I should do when I need a phone number for an
example of how to dial this or that. This is always embarassing.
Eric
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