Ralph.Hyre@IUS3.IUS.CS.CMU.EDU (07/27/88)
>Digit 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 >North America ABC DEF GHI JKL MNO PRS TUV WXY >UK and France ABC DEF GHI JKL MN PRS TUV WXY OQ This is one instance where I might have wished we followed an overseas 'standard'. We had a problem with people (trying to) call XXX-JOBS(5627) for a career development center, but they would confuse '0' and 'O' and dial XXX-J0(that's Zero)BS instead, ringing our phone instead. It usually took 2 or 3 calls to convince the person that they were stupid, but I suppose that's why they were out of work in the first place :-) When I called the phone company to ask for a number change, they understood my problem because they had 30 or so lines in a hunt group starting at YYY-5000, and there was another one of these career places at YYY-5627(JOBS). Someone would dial 5027 instead and end up ringing a direct line normally accessed through their hunt group. - Ralph