Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: [ on 11:44 AM 2/26/2008 ]
What this is like, is someone in a phone company in Atlanta screwing up and
announcing that everything in (say) the 781 area code belongs to his
telephone exchange, and is routed out of Atlanta rather than out of Boston
(which is where 781 is).
And then that Atlanta phone company sends out an update so that several
other phone companies actually believe it.
So, calls for boston people with 781 area codes end up getting rerouted to
Atlanta instead of Boston. And either getting lost in thin air (as theres
nobody in Atlanta who has a 781 area code phone) or making random unrelated
phones ring.
As a completely irrelevant addendum to your explanation:
in the above context, I take a deep and unholy delight in the fact
that Atalanta's area code is 404. (as in, document not found)
<g, d, r>
Udhay
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