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>(Even the _ability_ to block a pay phone, qua pay phone, must imply that >pay phones send out some kind of signal announcing themselves as pay >phones, which I had not heard of before. I assumed a pay phone was Just >Another Phone Number.) Caller ID identifies most pay phones as "PAY PHONE".
bureau42 Anonymous Remailer <nobody@bureau42.ml.org> writes: > >(Even the _ability_ to block a pay phone, qua pay phone, must imply that > >pay phones send out some kind of signal announcing themselves as pay > >phones, which I had not heard of before. I assumed a pay phone was Just > >Another Phone Number.) > > Caller ID identifies most pay phones as "PAY PHONE". Many years ago the phone company tried to assign pay phones phone numbers of the form xxx-9xxx. They no lobger do in area codes/exchanged where the numbers are very scarce. --- Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM Brighton Beach Boardwalk BBS, Forest Hills, N.Y.: +1-718-261-2013, 14.4Kbps