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From: wiml@milton.u.washington.edu (William Lewis)
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Subject: Re: Octothorpes
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Date: 18 Sep 90 05:27:43 GMT
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In article <11857@accuvax.nwu.edu> cowan@marob.masa.com (John Cowan)
writes:

>In article <11637@accuvax.nwu.edu> v116kznd@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu
>writes:

>>I sometimes wonder if they should have just called those buttons A&B.

>Please, no!  Remember that the 2 buttom is already labeled with both
>an 'A' and a 'B' character.  Hopeless confusion would result in

    Perhaps "Q" and "Z" as they've been left off of the alphabet on
the other buttons? On a related question, is there any "standard" for
what the * and # buttons do on pulse-dial phones? Mute and redial are
(respectively) fairly common in my experience, how widespread is this?
Maybe sending 11 and 12 pulses would be more consistent, if less
useful =8)


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