Patrick,
I wanna ask you a question if that's OK. First I should tell you that
I live in Europe. It's not clear to me: when you make an interstate
call within the US is it necessary to dial 1 before the area code and
number or can you dial just area code + number? What about when
calling Canada or other NANPA country -- is the country code 1
necessary?
Thanks:)
Dan
[TELECOM Digest Editor's Note: When _YOU_ in Europe and elsewhere dial
the USA you use '1' as our _country code_ (which includes Canada, USA,
various Carribbean places, etc.) When _WE_ here in these same places
dial '1' it is between any two _area codes_ which are different. The
general rule is we have to dial '1' between any two area codes in any
of those places. Between USA states (and sometimes in the same _large_
city in the USA), USA and Canada, USA and Carribbean, no matter where,
if my areacode is NNN and your area is XXX then we use '1' to call the
other area code. Our _area codes_ in the USA/Canada are roughly
eqivalent to what you call 'city codes' in Europe, or maybe, since so
many of your countries are very small compared to our states/provinces
(in Canada), our 'area codes' are eqivilent to your 'country codes'.
It is NOT that we are 'dialing our country code' (as you are doing to
reach us) but that we are telling the telephone switches to expect ten
more digits from us rather than simply seven digits total, meaning a
different area code will be included in the numeric address. And when
we call any of _you in Europe_ or elewhere in the world, we have to
use the prefix '011' to tell the switches what we want to do.
I will admit the international telephone dialing system is a bit
American-centric and biased where '1' is concerned with USA calling.
You mentioned earlier and requested a link for your 'callingabroad.com'
pages which is now installed in our links here.
http://telecom-digest.org/links.html . As you develop those pages
further, feel free to ask our experts here for advice as needed. And
readers, please check out 'international calling' on our links page
for some interesting interesting information. PAT]
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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 20:01:35 UTC
From: nospam4me@mytrashmail.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: Re: Stop AOL's Email Scheme
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Please bear in mind MoveOn.org was previously doing "opt-out"
emailings, that is using postal-mail type address gathering and
sending practices, something that is guaranteed to get any large
emailer placed in a lot of antispam block lists both public and
private, regardless of how worthy their cause appears to be.
Appears MoveOn didn't really learn too much from large providers
diverting their mailings to the Spam or Bulk folder or even rejecting
it completely.
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