Hi Duane,
   Hmmm... hadn't heard about the SSN expansion .... tho I do know that the
little buggers ain't UNIQUE!!! hehehe We use 'em in the military and people keep
finding dups!!!   after all think about it... the first 3 digits denote where
you got the number issued... so the most you could have say in the Oregon area
would be like 1 million??  we have over 2 mil people in the state now I think???
hehehe :)

Art

>>> Duane Percox <[log in to unmask]> 07/28/97 08:45am >>>
Terry Simpkins writes:

>From the SF Chronicle "Business" section, Saturday, July 26
>
>"As supply of area codes shrinks, more digits needed"
>..........  "experts at Bellcore expect that by the year 2031, all area
>codes will be exhausted"
>and then we'll have to increase the length of phone numbers,
>"that time frame may be optimistic, said Hugh Burrows, a Canadian
>telecommunications consultant who is working with the Industry Numbering
>Group, a North American task force trying to decide what kind of numbering
>scheme to adopt in the future."
>
>Just as we begin to get a grip on the "YR2000" issue, we get to start
>worrying about phone number lengths.
>Since you are already going to be in the code, now may be a great time to
>start expanding those phone number fields.

And what about the "rumor" that the SSN (USA) being expanded from 9 to
10 digits?

Reminds me of a system I was involved in many many years ago. It was on
a DEC PDP-11 (RSTS/E) and encoded phone numbers using the fact that
the middle digit of the area code was always a 0 or 1.

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