On Feb 21, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Dan wrote:
heh. Our home phone number is a logical transpo of a local doctor's office. Once or twice a month, we get their faxes, usually from one particular insurance company. The faxes include all sorts of patient information, always with full names and addresses, often with SSN etc. We have contacted patients, doctors and that company --- yet the faxes keep coming.
A friend I had growing up got a phone number that was a transposition away from an ambulance company. They would get panicked calls all the time...this lasted about two weeks until they convinced the phone company that they really did need another new phone number, that they were tired of telling freaked out people at 3AM with a dying relative that no, they WEREN'T the ambulance company.
(this was the Great Renumbering that Mountain Bell did to Tucson in the late 60's: a whole swath of customers on the east side of town all got new phone numbers, my family included, when they added a bunch of exchanges to account for growth.)
This was back in the analog days, when a new exchange in your physical neighborhood really meant that you had to get a new phone number.
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