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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Prentice Hall listening?
Message-ID: <1339@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 4 Sep 88 14:50:50 GMT
References: <3935@louie.udel.EDU> <5398@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
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In article <5398@killer.DALLAS.TX.US> sampson@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Steve Sampson) writes:
>You can interact with them [P-H] via U.S. Mail, and U.S. Dollers, or via the
>Telephone: 1-800-223-1360.  I don't know what our country prefix is.

If life were only that simple.  I can call any phone number in the world from
my phone, except U.S. 800 numbers.  Attempts to do so are intercepted by a
polite but firm machine-generated answer saying basically "No way."  Thank 
heavens that the U.S. phone system is so screwy that most companies have an
800 number for national sales, but a regular number for in-state, which also
works abroad.  I should talk, however. The Dutch PTT in its wisdom introduced
the 06 number, which is a merge of the 800 and 900 concepts.  Either it is free
or it costs a fortune, and there is no way to tell which.  For the record, the
U.S. does not have a country code of its own.  It shares the code 1 with Canada.
Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)