Re: "fake" numbers outside US

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From: Jay Ashworth
Date: Fri, 30 Dec 1994 05:23

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joe@bra01.icl.co.uk (Joe Harrison) writes:
>Well I'm always surprised how many films etc. don't bother with using
>one of these fake numbers. I was watching that old movie "10" on video
>once and Dudley Moore asks the hotel operator for some US phone number.
>I dialled it myself out of curiosity... got someone called "Randy"'s
>answering machine! 

Can anybody here say '867-5309'?  A little lady in St Petersburg, FL,
forced GTEFL to give her a new number about 10 years ago...

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From: jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth)
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Subject: Re: "fake" numbers outside US
Date: 30 Dec 1994 00:23:57 -0500
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