The off-topic thread

Sat Aug 20 17:05:23 UTC 2005

How to get your customers to use the right dial-up number is presumably on 
topic for NANOG.  I know that when I worked for a dial-up ISP many years 
ago, it was frequently a big issue for our customers.

However, the more general topic of how to dial a phone call in various 
parts of North America is presumably something that NANOG readers who need 
to make phone calls in North America can figure out on their own, or for 
which they will at least be using references other than the NANOG 
archives.  While comprehensive documentation of how to make phone calls 
from various locations all over the world might actually be quite useful, 
the NANOG list really isn't the place for it.

How dial plans should work really seems like a question for phone network 
operations list, although people on such a list would probably consider 
the question long since settled.  NANOG is an Internet operations list, 
where we tend to deal with IP addresses and domain names rather than phone 
numbers.

-Steve
One of the list administrators