RD = Reader's Digest. They published (condensed) articles from other magazines. I don't know if they are still around. They were a big deal in the 1950s. --Rich ------ Quoting Whitfield Diffie <whitfield.diffie@gmail.com>:
A lot of people were unhappy losing the alpha mnemonics, and the RD
Who are the RD?
suggested harassing operators with "could I please have three billion, one hundred twenty nine million, four hundred thirty one thousand, two hundred ninety three?"
That is better than what I head which is that something called the Anti-Digit Dialing League would ask for the Pentagon as Warmonger 6 ... rather than Warfield 6, which it had been. I have never checked any of this.
I did have direct experience in the late eighties of giving an operator a number as a pure nemonic, because that was how I knew it, and having her tell me it wasn't a phone number. I attributed it to stupidity, not policy.
Whit
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