Vince:

I am going to have to check tomorrow and see about thse star and pound keys. It would amuse me if we had seen the birth of an urban legend.

It is really true. Cable and Wireless has disabled the pound and star keys on *all* of the pay phones in the whole country (20 or so). I am sort of amazed because I have been here 2.5 years and never heard of this till this last week. I don't use pay phones much, but I wonder if maybe this is a new thing. -- Vince

On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Tom Allard wrote:

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:ASCII:: [American Standard Code for Information Interchange]

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# Common: number sign; pound; pound sign; hash; sharp; {crunch}; hex; [mesh]. Rare: grid; cross-hatch; oc-to-thorpe; flash; <square>, pig-pen; tic-tac-toe; scratchmark; thud; thump; {splat}.

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Note that the Jargon File doesn't list "#" as a "hatch" at all, and calls "cross-hatch" is rare.

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