Paul Makepeace
Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:51:14 -0800
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:35:56PM -0500, Chris Devers wrote: > I thought it had a purpose as a sort of control character for the phone companies, >with any number beginning with a 0 or 1 having special meaning. I guess that special >meaning evaporates under 10 digit schemes... I think you're right, it used to switch in different routing circuitry -- I was more commenting from a theoretical standpoint -- the only 'control character' number would be 0. Oh, and you could then use the 1.. .... 'local' numbers too. That's another 10^8 phone numbers :) My guess is a pretty hefty overhaul of the phone system... (Doubtless UK's BT could offer some advice to pointedly ignore.) > >PS That single-\n paragraph formatting is evil, IMO. > > Yeah I know, I don't like it either. Blame Eudora... I'm used to doing that. Paul, had to (indirectly) support Eudora in a 60k employee company.