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From: root@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Phone numbers
Message-ID: <198@cheviot.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 04:35:06 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 04:35:06 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 22-Dec-84 02:18:05 EST
Reply-To: root@cheviot.UUCP (Lindsay F. Marshall)
Organization: U. of Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
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This is a mild flame! I was just looking at the contents of the USENET
map data files and the thought struck me - "Wouldnt it be nice if everyone
in the US admitted the existence of the rest of the world and specified
their phone numbers CORRECTLY, preceded with a +1, instead of the (parochial)
area code in brackets." I dont care all that much but it would seem like
common politeness......

(By the way why is the map file for the UK called eur.gb not eur.uk??
We have uknet, ukucp, /usr/group/uk etc. etc. Why this remnant of our
Imperial past from before the time we joined the Third World??)

Lindsay F. Marshall - Computing Lab., U of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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