Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!shlump.nac.dec.com!carafe!goldstein From: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: How To Dial Long Distance Message-ID: <7359@shlump.nac.dec.com> Date: 10 Jan 90 17:10:40 GMT Sender: newsdaemon@shlump.nac.dec.com Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Littleton MA USA Lines: 37 Approved: goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com In article <2740@accuvax.nwu.edu>, goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com (Fred R. Goldstein) writes... > >In article <2724@accuvax.nwu.edu>, covert@covert.enet.dec.com (John R. Covert) >writes... > >> From: Greg Monti, National Public Radio; forwarded by John R. Covert > >>Syntax 1: Local within area code: 7 digits >> Toll within area code: 1 + 7 digits >I don't think so; rather, Syntax 2 is the "standard". Syntax 3 is >a hack for people who are so used to "1 for toll" that intra-NPA calls >must be dialed as inter-NPA. I think it's a bad idea, and not the >standard. In any case, 7 digits for inter-area is wrong, since you *********** >have to specify _which_ area code you want. (NYC has 4, for instance.) Some of you might notice an obvious inconsistency in this message which originally went out over my own .signature. I corrected Greg Monti's statement that in two of his synctaces, inter-area local calls had 7 digits. But the insertions don't show the error. I don't think I did that because of the "too many insertions" rule in news. Maybe I'm paranoid and don't remember what I sent yesterday, but I think the moderator "edited" my contribution. While the edits reduced its size by at least 8 lines, it also removed the included error that I was trying to correct. I was not consulted on these edits. Last week I got a nastygram from the moderator who denied my accusations of censorship. Methinks the gent doth protest too much. fred --- Fred R. Goldstein goldstein@carafe.enet.dec.com or goldstein@delni.enet.dec.com voice: +1 508 486 7388