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From: 0002003441@mcimail.com (Paul Wilczynski)
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Subject: Last Laugh! Re: How Should Telephone Numbers be Listed?
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"Programmin' up a storm." <JMS@mis.Arizona.EDU> writes ...

>there IS a CCITT standard for "how to write your telephone number,"
>and it goes roughly like this:

>        +1 602 795 3955

>Because of the magic wonderfulness of the US country code being "1"
>and the number we all use to access long distance being "1," this is
>incredibly cosmic and confuses neither NA nor European subscribers.

To the contrary, I would think it would confuses lots and lots of people,
who would all ask ...

        "But where is the + on my telephone?"


Paul Wilczynski
Krislyn Computer Services