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An old system of mail addressing in UUCP networks, where the successive routing addresses were followed by exclamation points (also known as bangs) and the addressee was the last element.
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bang address - Thomas A. Horsley wrote, in reply to my reply to his earlier post: I'm afraid you'll have to explain the obviousness to me. The only thing I see as obvious is that 10 digit dialing should always be (and should always have been) permitted (I never understood the phone systems that would chastize you for dialing the area code for a local number), but I don't understand why it should be mandatory.Yes, it should have ALWAYS been permitted in non-overlay areas. Ihave NEVER liked the idea of being prohibited from dialing ten-digitsfor same/home NPA (local) calls.But once you get to an overlay situation, LOGIC ITSELF dictates thatten-digit dialing become mandatory. Our NANP telephone-numberaddresses are really TEN-digits long in their full format.Going to (mandatory) ten-digits (along with overlays) simplifiesmatters as it removes all ambiguties and code/numeric conflicts.Do you dial four or five digits in your own NXX c.o.code or switch?"NO, you dial at least seven, maybe even ten-digits for suchintra-switch or intra-c.o.code or intra-NX(X) code calls.(PBXes are a different matter, as they are "private" systems, not"public" ones).The public needs to get used to the fact that area codes can beintermixed with one another or at least there are numerous adjacentNPA codes within a large (split) metro area. Continuing to allowseven-digits on overlaid areas just adds to overall confusion,potential conflicts, and ambiguous numbering/dialing situations. Andagain, *NOBODY* in the NANP (at least the US and Canada) for "public"numbering, should be able to dial four or five digits on localhome-prefix or home-switch calls -- not even in the most remote of allrural areas. ALSO, there are *NO* more SXS (and not even any crossbar)c.o.switches in the "public" NANP anymore.EVERY "public" c.o.switch in the NANP is now electronic, and most arenow even DIGITAL electronic. There are some that are evenoptical/packet based as well! There's no need for "short" publicdialing anymore.(There might still be an exception to the dialing rules, that beingFishers' Island NY, +1-631-788-, but Fishers' Island NY is one of theweirdest places both geographically and politically/jurisdicationallyas well as telephonically; They supposedly have a digitalStromberg-DCO-SE switch, but there might still be some customers withgrandfathered three or four digit local dialing, with specialtranslations loaded into the switch; but Fishers' Island NY is localONLY unto itself anyways!)To "permit" seven-digit dialing to continue in areas where it shouldhave gone to *mandatory* ten-digits would require EITHER ...restricting certain code combinations from being assigned as c.o.codeswithin the "base" or "co-overlaid" or even local adjacent NPAs, toavoid code/numeric conflicts/ambiguities ...OR requiring post-dial-delay and timeouts if there are conflicts, oncalls intended as dialed as just seven-digits, of course most of usknow that a trailing '#' (POUND) button could eliminate the 3-5 secondpost dial delay if intended as just seven-digits ...OR requiring a mandatory 1+ if a ten-digit dialed call, which if localcould be unacceptable to those who (and RIGHTFULLY) so assume that a*requirement* of 1+ before ten-digits most likely would incur tollcharges.SO, more and more mandatory ten-digits is going to be implemented.AS IT SHOULD ALWAYS have been. People just need to get used to it! The reason we keep getting the truly idiotic area code splits is because of all the morons howling about having to dial ten digits. If mandatory 10 digit dialing disappeared, the outrage over overlays instead of splits would disappear, and my frigging area code might not change yet again (If I can remember all of them I think it has been 305, 954, and now 561, but I may have forgotten or mixed up a few in there :-)Again, portability in its logical conclusion will NOT mean a return toseven-digits but rather implementing TEN-digits even MORE so, AGAIN,as it ALWAYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN! While not ENTIRELY dis-similar,attempting to try to relate number porta
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