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valleyer
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Pink Floyd's Young Lust – explained and demystifie...
Is the assumption that the middle of the phone number area was spliced out for privacy reasons? The article doesn't appear to say...
dotancohen
on Oct 14, 2021
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Not at all. Nobody was thinking of phone number privacy in 1979. Quite the opposite, at the time we had books - dead trees - of phone numbers complete with names and even physical addresses.
jbledsoe2112
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It was. I guess you didn't read the article?
valleyer
on Oct 16, 2021
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Forgive my ignorance: where is it mentioned that the splice was for privacy reasons?
jbledsoe2112
on Oct 18, 2021
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In the detailed section towards the bottom.
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