Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 (MC830713); site vu44.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!mcvax!vu44!jack From: jack@vu44.UUCP (Jack Jansen) Newsgroups: net.news Subject: Re: Phone Numbers Message-ID: <554@vu44.UUCP> Date: Sun, 6-Jan-85 09:49:03 EST Article-I.D.: vu44.554 Posted: Sun Jan 6 09:49:03 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 8-Jan-85 02:42:23 EST References: <316@utcs.UUCP> Organization: The Retarded Programmers Home, VU, Amsterdam Lines: 22 > .... the world, for the sake of the telephone is divided into 10 > sections, 0-9. These sections were, with the help of local telephone > directory, are as follows: > > 1 - North America > 2 - Africa > 3 - Southern Europe > 4 - Northern Europe and the British Isles > ... Ah, this explains why Holland has country-code 31. (FYI: While I'm writing this, there is about 10cm of snow outside my window, and the temperature is 10 degrees below zero. And then we're in *Southern* Europe :-) > I wish people would post answers to questions they know the answers to on > this net, it might get rid of some of the junk. > > Taras Pryjma. Right :-). -- Jack Jansen, {seismo|philabs|decvax}!mcvax!vu44!jack or ...!vu44!htsa!jack If *this* is my opinion, I wasn't sober at the time.