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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
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Posted: Sun Jan  6 09:49:03 1985
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>         .... 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.