[83658] in North American Network Operators' Group
The off-topic thread
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Gibbard)
Sat Aug 20 13:05:52 2005
Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 10:05:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Steve Gibbard <scg@gibbard.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Cc: nanog-admin@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
How to get your customers to use the right dial-up number is presumably on
topic for NANOG. I know that when I worked for a dial-up ISP many years
ago, it was frequently a big issue for our customers.
However, the more general topic of how to dial a phone call in various
parts of North America is presumably something that NANOG readers who need
to make phone calls in North America can figure out on their own, or for
which they will at least be using references other than the NANOG
archives. While comprehensive documentation of how to make phone calls
from various locations all over the world might actually be quite useful,
the NANOG list really isn't the place for it.
How dial plans should work really seems like a question for phone network
operations list, although people on such a list would probably consider
the question long since settled. NANOG is an Internet operations list,
where we tend to deal with IP addresses and domain names rather than phone
numbers.
-Steve
One of the list administrators
