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- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!news.acns.nwu.edu!telecom-request
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 03:34:41 GMT
- From: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU (Stewart Clamen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
- Subject: Eight Digit French Phone Numbers (was Australian Changes)
- Reply-To: clamen+@CS.CMU.EDU
- Message-ID: <telecom12.907.8@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Organization: School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
- Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu
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- X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 12, Issue 907, Message 8 of 11
- Lines: 27
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- In article <telecom12.906.13@eecs.nwu.edu> cmylod@nl.oracle.com (Colum
- Mylod) writes:
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- > In article <telecom12.904.10@eecs.nwu.edu>, lmadison@ie.oracle.com
- > (Linc Madison) writes:
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- >> I'm sorry, folks, but this is the most incredibly BRAIN-DEAD scheme
- >> I've ever heard of.
-
- > in the tiniest, most remote town in the nation. There are only a
- > handful of cities in the world that have eight-digit numbers: Paris,
- > Rome, Tokyo, Mataranka ...
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- Not only Paris but all of France: every city, town, village, hamlet,
- farm, barn.
-
- Actually, France has two eight-digit phone areas. "Paris et
- environs", and "Les Provinces".
-
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