Hi Flavio -- on Jun 30 2016 at 23:42, you wrote:   
      
   -=> Dallas Hinton wrote to Denis Mosko <=-   
      
    DH> North America (both Canada and the USA - I don't know about Mexico) use   
    DH> the pattern 1-123-456-7890 Where 1 is the country code, 123 is the area   
    DH> code, 456 is the exchange within that area code, and 7890 is the actual   
    DH> unique subscriber phone number. In the old days, several subscribers   
    DH> would have the same phone number and the number of rings (e.g. 2 rings,   
    DH> space, 2 rings, or 1 ring, space, 1 ring) would indicate which of the   
    DH> "parties" was being called. This was called a party line. To the best   
    DH> of my knowledge there are no party lines in existence these days.   
      
   (I don't think *I* wrote this, but it's true!)   
      
   FB>    Actually, if I remember well, the country codes have been   
   FB> defined by the ITU, and each country has a slightly different   
   FB> order for the area codes compared to the US conventions.   
      
   Yes, I think you're right. And our area codes no longer indicate landline vs   
   cell (in the early days we could tell!).   
      
   FB>    Party lines were very popular during the 90's, but I don't   
   FB> believe they exist today.   
      
   I can't be sure about those people in the bush, but I suspect not even then.   
      
      
   Cheers... Dallas   
      
   --- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+   
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