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Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > 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 Commas in AT commands and on fax machines mean pause. Not sure why space isn't a good enough separator for phone numbers. Periods are used as separators for sequences of three numbers conventionally in most European (ie continental) countries likewise the comma is used for decimal notation. ten thousand 10.000 ten and 51 hundredths 10,51 and for good historical measure: seventeen hundred sixty one M. DCC. LXI. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Joel Jaeggli Unix Consulting [email protected] GPG Key Fingerprint: 5C6E 0104 BAF0 40B0 5BD3 C38B F000 35AB B67F 56B2
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