Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site linus.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!brando From: brando@linus.UUCP (Thom Brando) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Please Leave Only Your Phone Number Please Message-ID: <132@linus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 26-Jul-83 08:20:50 EDT Article-I.D.: linus.132 Posted: Tue Jul 26 08:20:50 1983 Date-Received: Tue, 26-Jul-83 11:06:40 EDT References: <319@houxt.UUCP> Organization: MITRE Corp., Bedford MA Lines: 32 I don't think this got through the first time I tried to post it, so here it goes again! My apologies if you are reading this for the second time. ************************************************************************* * ...it is very presumptuous of you to * * assume that the whole world has to dial the '1' just because you do. * ************************************************************************* I would be sincerely offended were you speaking to me, NDK. Since I have never lived in an area which did not require a '1' before dialing an out-of-area number, I have 'known' since childhood that one must always dial a '1' before a long distance call (save for operator-assisted calls, which require a '0'). I am now deeply ashamed at my simplicity in making such a natural extension of my knowledge of the local telephone company to the telephone companies which service all of the other parts of the country in which I have not lived. ******************************************************************************* * So next * * time please leave just the 10 digit sequence of area code and phone number * * I don't care what your local requirements (if I'm calling from a hotel room * * I may have to call an operator to dial) are. * ******************************************************************************* I would assume that anyone with the mental capabilities necessary to use this net in the first place would be able to identify and delete a few leading characters from such an easily recognizable pattern as a 10-digit telephone number without so much as a conscious effort. If you not only require a conscious effort but find, in addition, that the effort taxes your strength, I suggest you refrain from wasting your limited energy on such diarrhea of the keyboard as the flame to which I am replying. Thom Brando linus!brando (617) 271-3156