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echo: ic
to: mark lewis
from: David Drummond
date: 2006-04-18 19:18:54
subject: none

mark lewis -> Carol Shenkenberger wrote:

 CS>> Huh?  They dont use an international dialing code in Z3 to reach
 CS>> 000 (emergency like 112 or 911 in other places).

 ml> correct, but they do have to if the 000 is the _country code_ in a
 ml> listing... remember how phone numbers are laid out...

 ml>   countrycode-areacode-citycode-restofnumber
 ml>        1     -  800   -   555  -  0100
 ml>       000    -  192   -   168  -    2   -   1

 ml> and again, this all goes back to "properly configured
mailer" and that
 ml> includes a properly set up "dialing translation table"...
that's where
 ml> you tell the mailer what areacodes are local calls... everything else is
 ml> not local and would get the national or the international dialing code
 ml> prefixed to it... and that, right there, is the point at which it stops
 ml> being a problem...

A "properly configured mailer" expects to find an dialable phone
number, or "Unpublished" in that field in the nodelist.

YMMV if you use a shim kludge.

-- 

regards

David

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