Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!cca!ima!johnl From: johnl@ima.UUCP Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Dial '1' first, etc. - (nf) Message-ID: <361@ima.UUCP> Date: Thu, 28-Jul-83 18:36:21 EDT Article-I.D.: ima.361 Posted: Thu Jul 28 18:36:21 1983 Date-Received: Fri, 29-Jul-83 12:29:47 EDT Lines: 19 #R:vortex:-7200:ima:14600007:000:1028 ima!johnl Jul 28 14:14:00 1983 International dialing is something that even Bell's international operators don't understand yet. Example: I wanted to call somebody in Devonport, Tasmania whose phone number I didn't know. So I called the 800 number for international information and got some operator in Florida, explained what I wanted, we got the Australian operator on the line, and got the local phone number. No sweat. All I needed then was the Australian dialing code for that part of Tasmania, but by then the Australian operator had hung up and I asked the U.S. operator, who was after all supposed to know about these things, and she looked and said something like "it says 04 so that means you dial 4." Of course, it didn't work. After a good deal of experimentation, it finally turned out that you DO dial the 0, somebody in AT&T has this bogus idea that all over the world you dial 0 for long distance so you always disregard a leading 0 in foreign dialing codes, but they're wrong. Bah. Humbug. Pfui. Flame off. John Levine, ima!johnl