[92671] in North American Network Operators' Group
International phone numbers (was Re: AOL Non-Lameness)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Etaoin Shrdlu)
Mon Oct 2 20:46:10 2006
Date: Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:44:47 -0700
From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <DF0D0DAF-EA6B-44B9-A862-EF57EC068067@ian.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Judicious clipping; hope I kept the right attributions...
Ian Mason wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2006, at 23:39, Rick Kunkel wrote:
>> I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly
>> because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid
>> IP-Address-Wannabe method, like:
>>
>> 206.555.1212
>>
>> As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, like
>> commas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd hate to
>> sound critical if it was.
> Normal practice in France; Belgium too I think.
It's normal in a lot of places. When you start to add in country codes,
I suspect it's easier to type number dot number rather than plus number
parenthesis number parenthesis number hyphen number and so on. I
converted all my phone list numbers to that format long ago. It's just
cleaner. Never thought about whether it was cool, or not. "Cool" is not
on my radar.
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The intervening years have proven Kornbluth right.
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