Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: levin@bbn.com (Joel B Levin) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Yet Another Area Code Split Message-ID: Date: 19 Oct 89 16:10:10 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Lines: 21 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 463, message 2 of 11 >Date: Wed, 18 Oct 89 13:15 PDT >From: David Kuder > >This appeared in the Tuesday, Oct. 17, 1989 [Los Angeles Times]. >"Forget Signs - What's Your Area Code?" by Robert A. Jones ... >[Moderator's Note: I won't even bother to correct some of his errors, but >I have to wonder where he gets the impression that 212/202/213 is all that >matters in the network. . . . I think the author of this piece in the >El Lay Times is one doughnut short of a full dozen. PT] David does not say whether this is an [op-]editorial or other column or a news story. I thought it was meant as a humorous column, and not bad at that. That's not a place I believe actual facts necessarily have any use. Regards / JBL [Moderator's Note: Interesting you mention it. Some of my detractors say the same thing about this Digest: the part about the actual facts having any use. PT]