From: utzoo!utcsrgv!bobr Newsgroups: net.news.newsite Title: Proposal for Naming Conventions of European Phone Numbers Article-I.D.: utcsrgv.971 Posted: Thu Feb 3 14:28:48 1983 Received: Thu Feb 3 14:52:26 1983 Now that European sites are joining usenet, may I suggest a standard way of expressing their phone numbers. I suggest "(""-" ")" where the default value of is "1", standing for North America. Thus people on this side of the ocean would not have to change their naming convention for phone numbers and European phone numbers would look something like (44-1) 123-4567 in London or (49-30) 123 45 67 in Berlin. Christoph Bobrowski Dept. of Computer Science, Toronto still: (416) 978-6027 soon: (49-40) 299 10 22