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From: "Donald E. Kimberlin" <0004133373@mcimail.com>
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Subject: Re: How Should Telephone Numbers be Listed?
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Date: 30 Aug 90 03:57:56 GMT
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In article (Digest V10, iss594), Joel writes:

>In general, I think that a large percentage of the questions of this
>nature in this newsgroup have good answers in the E-series
>recommendations: the touch tones, why the tri-tone is SO DAMN LOUD,
>etc.  If the Moderator agrees, I'd be willing to type in some of the
>"official CCITT" answers to some of the more commonly and hotly
>debated questions here.  Note, of course, that the CCITT is the CCITT
>and Bell is/was Bell, so no answer is authoritative -- and the
history >is often more interesting than the answer.
 
To which I must say, "Amen, Brother Snyder."  I hope you will become
the resident reference authority, and to give the readers some sense
of antiquity to their many discoveries, quote some of the heading
material in the Recommendations that shows a lot of these "standards"
have been in the CCITT books since it was called the CCIF and the
CCIT. And, don't make it just the "E" series, but show them the "F"
series on registered cable addresses and such, the "G" series about
analog and digital transmission, and dig out others as they come up.
It seems to me the Digest goes around in loops about certain topics as
new readers come on board and recite the latest misleading tripe they
got from their local telco about "standards."  Whose "standards,"
indeed?