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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by smudgymcscmudge on Monday April 16, 2018 @09:33AM (#16848843)
Wasn’t 555-1212 the only 555 number that worked?
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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by mikestew on Monday April 16, 2018 @11:12AM (#16849493)
It used to connect you to directory information (as in "I need to number for mikestew in Seattle...") for the specified area code (or local, if no area code specified). I don't know if it still works or not.
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Re:Over 65,000 Home Routers Are Proxying Bad Traffic for Bot... by jasonjayr on Monday April 16, 2018 @12:38PM (#16850350)
There are other codes in there, caller & circuit id read-backs and other utilities the telco will use. They're usually private, but no serious harm if the public find out about them.
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