Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site cheviot.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!mcvax!ukc!cheviot!root 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 Article-I.D.: cheviot.198 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. Lines: 14 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 ARPA : lindsay%cheviot%newcastle.mailnet@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA UUCP :!ukc!cheviot!lindsay