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From: mike@lurch.ktgroup.co.uk (Mike Pellatt)
Newsgroups: demon.ip.support,demon.tech.unix,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Batch FTP and Web Pages
Date: 3 Jul 1996 09:53:56 GMT
Organization: Knowledge Technology Group
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On 3 Jul 1996 08:08:47 GMT, Mike Pellatt <mike@lurch.ktgroup.co.uk> wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Jul 96 17:43:21 GMT, "David G. Bell" <dbell@zhochaka.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>ISTR that local call areas in the USA are far, far, smaller than those 
>>in the UK, which also makes a difference.  Isn't _all_ of London a 
>>single area, with the 081 and 071 charging areas adjacent and thus 
>>'local' to each other?
>
>Small nit (unless B H-K comes along to correct me). 0181 and 0171 are
>the same charge area. If that were not the case, then calling 0172
                                                               ^^^^
This looked wrong when I posted it, but couldn't figure out why.
It should, of course, be 01372

>(Epsom/Esher) numbers from 0171 (central London) would not be a local call,

Sorry for any confusion.

-- 
Mike Pellatt