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- From: rcmolden@parmesan.cs.wisc.edu (Robertc. Moldenhauer)
- Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.142710.13838@cs.wisc.edu>
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Computer Sciences Dept.
- References: <24JAN93.01717854.0033@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <1juep1INNdhj@life.ai.mit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 14:27:10 GMT
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- In article <1juep1INNdhj@life.ai.mit.edu> petrilli@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Petrilli) writes:
- >[ Narrow-minded DOS drivel deleted. ]
- >
- >While I think that there is an excellent concept in standardizing BBS
- >software so that it can talk to eachother, the document you sent out is
- >worthless to a large number of people. There are more people on Usenet
- >than on FideNet, so the mail addresses are useless. Why don't people
- >just use the standards that are already there.
- >
- > Mail: RFC822 with MIME extensions for multi-media
- > News: RFC1032 with use of the "X-*" header extensions
- > Config file: Is it really that important?
- > Dates: Try the internaltional standards: DAY MON YEAR
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- Yes, makes much more sense.
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- > Phone numbers: Same thing: ISO standard: +1 XXX XXX XXXX
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- He did suggest this, BTW, +1 is only the USA and Canada, +44 would be the
- UK, etc. Also 7 digit phone numbers are *NOT* all that common outside
- North America and many countries don't have city/region/area codes, a
- proper french telephone number would be: +33 XX XX XX XX
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