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