From: Etaoin Shrdlu (no email)
Date: Mon Oct 02 2006 - 20:44:47 EDT
Judicious clipping; hope I kept the right attributions...
Ian Mason wrote:
> On 2 Oct 2006, at 23:39, Rick Kunkel wrote:
>> I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly
>> because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid
>> IP-Address-Wannabe method, like:
>>
>> 206.555.1212
>>
>> As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, like
>> commas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd hate to
>> sound critical if it was.
> Normal practice in France; Belgium too I think.
It's normal in a lot of places. When you start to add in country codes,
I suspect it's easier to type number dot number rather than plus number
parenthesis number parenthesis number hyphen number and so on. I
converted all my phone list numbers to that format long ago. It's just
cleaner. Never thought about whether it was cool, or not. "Cool" is not
on my radar.
--
In April 1951, Galaxy published C.M. Kornbluth's "The Marching Morons".
The intervening years have proven Kornbluth right.
--Valdis Kletnieks
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