On Mon, 2 Oct 2006, Rick Kunkel wrote: > I had users that appeared to be getting their email blocked seemingly > because in their sigs, they write their phone number that stupid > IP-Address-Wannabe method, like: > 206.555.1212 > As an aside, is this something that's the norm in other places, like > commas instead of periods for decimals in other countries? I'd hate to > sound critical if it was. It just seems that I know a large amount of > very American people who have decided that phone numbers with periods in > them somehow look more "hip" than dashes. I despise that. I remember running across a standards document which defined it once... ITU, probably. Plus sign, country code, area code, number, space delimited. I don't have the energy to google (hi, verb-searching IP lawyers!) for it exhaustively, but here's one reference, third paragraph down: http://www.eeicommunications.com/eye/utw/96feb.html and here's another: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.164 -Bill