Pound sign (was Re: the Telephone Test)

[Peter Desnoyers]

In article <1558 at cfa.cfa.harvard.EDU> wyatt at cfatst.HARVARD.EDU (Bill Wyatt) writes:
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>But anyway, the character is formally called an `octothorp'.

That's been hashed around on the telecom groups several times, and the
conclusion seems to be that 'octothorpe' is a term that was used for a
few years by Bell Telephone and then dropped since no one else used it.

				Peter Desnoyers