Unfortunately, there is a *huge* amount of software out there that assumes phone numbers in the 3-3-4 format. Much of this software lives in the phone network itself. Changing this would be essentially impossible unless you replace the entire telephone network.
Replacing the entire telephone network is, of course, what I'm working on. :-) But once you've decided to do that, you're better off converting to something more sensible than "telephone numbers." The goal is to go to e-mail style addresses instead.
(BTW, that huge long link in your entry screws up the formatting of my friends page -- Mozilla decides that the whole page should be formatted to the width of the longest word it can't word-break. Could you edit it to add a space or something? Thanks.)
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Date: Jan. 16th, 2003 03:20 pm (UTC)Replacing the entire telephone network is, of course, what I'm working on. :-) But once you've decided to do that, you're better off converting to something more sensible than "telephone numbers." The goal is to go to e-mail style addresses instead.
(BTW, that huge long link in your entry screws up the formatting of my friends page -- Mozilla decides that the whole page should be formatted to the width of the longest word it can't word-break. Could you edit it to add a space or something? Thanks.)