As a former member of the Anti Digit Dialing League and fan of The
Prisoner (I am not a number...), I find the whole effort amusing.
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/ar...827416,00.html

Stan Freberg wrote a song excoriating all-digit dialing, for which he was
criticized as reactionary.

However, a telephone "number" is still a number -- that has nothing to do
with you as a human being -- whether it has a word or number exchange.