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In article <3e05eh$1ai@xcalibur.IntNet.net> jra@zeus.IntNet.net (Jay Ashworth) writes:
>roy@harlqn.co.uk (Roy Badami) 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".
>
>>If you're qoting a 10-digit number (ie including area code), you often quote
>>the area code as 555 instead.  eg (555) 123 4567
>
>Actually, from some Bell documents I have dating to the early 70's, the
>canonical dead numbers were (310) 555-2368 (,9,70,71, etc...)
>
>310 was, of course, in those days, not a valid NPA.
 ^^^
  !

Aggh!  NO.  It was NPA 311.  :-)  

Used to be pictured in the 'phone book' on the front of any 
rotary-dial phone set as I remember.

(Still get a reorder after 1 311 in these parts--209/632 anyways)

				-scott@csustan.csustan.edu