Philip Newton
Tue, 27 Mar 2001 03:26:11 -0800
Paul Makepeace wrote: > The world would be a much better place if everyone habitually quoted > their phone number +access_code area_code local_number. You don't > realise how important this is 'til you have to repeatedly find people > in various desolate stations dotted all over the world with scant, > unlabelled, and usually too few, digits culled from a unkempt LDAP > directory... > > C Paul S Makepeace, +1 831 238 0902 Still not enough. It'll work for the Americans (yet again...)[1] but if you have a phone number whose country codes identifies it as being in country X, and you are in country X on a business trip and want to call that person, leaving off the country code is, in general, not enough. In Germany and England, you have to add a 0 (e.g. +49-40-76470386 turns into (040) 76470386), but in other places, that might be a 9 -- or something else. If you're not familiar with the country, you may not know what to add. Cheers, Philip [1] Though, strictly speaking, I think America requires you to add "1" at the beginning; though it's not part of the area/STD code as the 0 is in England and Germany, I think most places require it to show you're dialling a long-distance call. -- Philip Newton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> All opinions are my own, not my employer's. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.