Path: utzoo!telecom-request Date: 6 Jun 91 17:59:49 GMT From: Dennis Blyth Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: Surprise!! Reply-To: dblyth@oatseu.Dayton.NCR.COM (Dennis Blyth) Message-ID: Organization: NCR International - Europe Group, Dayton Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 435, Message 7 of 11 Lines: 38 Regarding the suggestion to re-align area codes to handle situations like Cincinnati's where the metropolitan area includes three codes in three states: There have to be many locales with this situation. What about: Louisville, Saint Louis, Minneapolis-St Paul, Omaha-Council Bluffs, Philadelphia-Camden, Washington DC-Alexandria, etc. etc. So is that a practical suggestion, given how many would be affected? Apologies for lack of knowledge of geography and area code structure :-) Pls, flames and corrections by e-mail, not this newsgroup. It is interesting that the e-mail replies to my earlier post arrived to our NCR TOWER system before the newsgroup comp.dcom.telecom did. Ain't it so, the person most involved/concerned is usually the *last* to know? :-) BTW, might there be any interest in creating a news category for marketing research, and especially high technology marketing research?? I know this is not the place for such discussion, and if enough interest develops, I'll post to the net (in another newsgroup). I'm primarily interested in marketing research for both the telecommunications and computer fields, but have interests in other industries and topics as well. One hot topic in the research field is 'customer satisfaction' research tracking. May sound mundane, but there are a lot of ways to go about it, and enough organizations do it so there might be enough interest for a network newsgroup. (Here at NCR we have a separate, company private newgroup for quality. This is nothing new, but is almost always interesting. OR, feel free to have 'private' e-mail discussions with me. Dennis.Blyth@daytonOH.NCR.COM NCR/AT&T Marketing Research NCR Europe Group PMD AT&T: 1-513-445-6580 Fax: 1-513-445-6078