Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!intercon!news From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Imminent death of UUCP Zone predicted Message-ID: <26A3CCAB.63D@intercon.com> Date: 18 Jul 90 02:42:50 GMT References: <1990Jul16.202721.271@chinet.chi.il.us> Sender: usenet@intercon.com (USENET The Magnificent) Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Organization: InterCon Systems Corporation, Herndon, VA Lines: 20 In article , Anselmo-Ed@cs.yale.edu (Ed Anselmo) writes: > The phone system was/is one of Peter Honeyman's pet examples of what > *isn`t* an absolute address. E.g. my work number (203) 432-1254. > Within Yale, you only have to dial the last 5 numbers (the seven digit > version won't work). From many offices, you'll have to dial "9" to > get an outside line (i.e. the number is relative to "the outside > world"). Bad analogy. Your fully qualified telephone number (+ 1 203 432 1254), is globally unique. Your PBX may require a '9' to get through your "gateway," and it may allow shortcuts within your "domain," but that's just local policy, and your business. Given your FQTN though, Anyone in the world with direct international dialing can call you, without having any idea where you actually are, or the path their vice takes to get from them to you. -- Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation