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• Subject: Re: paterns for phones' numbers
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:30:20 GMT
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
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>> Don't !    Phone numbers don't need structure - you just dial them and
>> they work. Trying to impose a structure like this causes no end of
>> problems (I used to write commercial desktop apps - I learned this
>> _years_ ago).

>Right.

Really?  It used to be the case that in Britain that dialling the full
"long-distance" version of a local number *didn't* work; you had to
extract the local part.  I think it now generally works, but I wouldn't
bet on that being the case everywhere.

-- Richard

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