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Re: "fake" numbers outside US

#106
From: Mike Barnes
Date: Wed, 21 Dec 1994 17:58
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In article <wdh-1612942150420001@wdh.slip.netcom.com> wdh@fresh.com writes:

>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...
>
>-Bill
>

Now what about a phone *ring* that, when it occurred on TV or
video, you couldn't confuse with the real thing.  That *would*
be useful.  Something like "Brrr brrr brrr ...  ...  brrr brrr
brrr ...".

Mike.

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