On Nov 14, 1:09 pm, Mizter T wrote:
Let me be a pedant back at you - there is such a number, the spacing
between the individual digits doesn't change the fact that if one
dialled it it would work - hence it is a valid telephone number.

Yes yes it isn't written in the 'approved' format, but thousands
(millions?) of Londoners do the same and manage just fine.

And many of them get very confused when I tell them my WC1 address and
020 3xxx xxxx number, because to them it's 'not a London number'...

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On Nov 14, 1:09 pm, Mizter T wrote:
Let me be a pedant back at you - there is such a number, the spacing
between the individual digits doesn't change the fact that if one
dialled it it would work - hence it is a valid telephone number.

Yes yes it isn't written in the 'approved' format, but thousands
(millions?) of Londoners do the same and manage just fine.

And many of them get very confused when I tell them my WC1 address and
020 3xxx xxxx number, because to them it's 'not a London number'...

Same problem here, in leafy Surrey. Non geographic numbers might seem
good to some people, but I don't like them.
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bin me wrote:

In message , G
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And many of them get very confused when I tell them my WC1 address and
020 3xxx xxxx number, because to them it's 'not a London number'...

Same problem here, in leafy Surrey. Non geographic numbers might seem
good to some people, but I don't like them.

Why have you got one then?

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On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 10:30:42 +0000, G wrote:
On Nov 14, 1:09 pm, Mizter T wrote:
Yes yes it isn't written in the 'approved' format, but thousands
(millions?) of Londoners do the same and manage just fine.
And many of them get very confused when I tell them my WC1 address and
020 3xxx xxxx number, because to them it's 'not a London number'...

This is very transient - I lived in Nottingham when domestic households
were first getting 0115-8xxxxxx numbers (where the local number had
originally started with a 9) and people got used to the new numbers very
quickly.


On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:46:08 +0000, bin me wrote:
Same problem here, in leafy Surrey. Non geographic numbers might
seem good to some people, but I don't like them.

020-3 is very much geographic. :-)



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G wrote:
On Nov 14, 1:09 pm, Mizter T wrote:
Let me be a pedant back at you - there is such a number, the spacing
between the individual digits doesn't change the fact that if one
dialled it it would work - hence it is a valid telephone number.

Yes yes it isn't written in the 'approved' format, but thousands
(millions?) of Londoners do the same and manage just fine.

And many of them get very confused when I tell them my WC1 address and
020 3xxx xxxx number, because to them it's 'not a London number'...

Well, I got a laugh today - letter on my desk from British
Telecommunications plc quoting the number as (0208) 666XXXX.
They even quoted the international version as +44 208 666XXXX

(at least they did not use the horrid, and invalid +44(0)208 version)

See http://www.me.uk/BT02080.png

If BT can't get it right, what hope have the general public.

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