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Subject:Re: Convention for Telephone Numbers? From:Donald Ray <dray -at- CELCORE -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 9 Sep 1997 14:07:16 -0500
When I lived in Belgium, the telephone numbers were grouped into pairs
and separated by commas (eg., 32,55,78). I think the use of periods
came about as a result of the internet TCP/IP addressing scheme.
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>From: Tracy Boyington[SMTP:tracy_boyington -at- OKVOTECH -dot- ORG]
>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 1997 1:53 PM
>To: TECHWR-L -at- LISTSERV -dot- OKSTATE -dot- EDU
>Subject: Re: Convention for Telephone Numbers?
>
>John Lord wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure whether European numbers are ever shown separated by hyphens
>> or periods instead of spaces---I'm checking with someone in Europe about
>> this. I don't know about Asian, African, Middle Eastern, Pacific, or Latin
>> American telephone numbering conventions.
>
>While you're waiting, why not do a little web surfing -- check out some
>sites in those countries (I'm assuming that because you have email you
>also have web access... if not, I apologize).
>
>Tracy
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>Oklahoma Department of Vocational and Technical Education
>Stillwater, OK, USA
>http://www.okvotech.org/cimc/home.htm
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