Anyone here from Oregon USA to help with collection pickup?

[der Mouse]

> It's very strange to think of "area codes" in terms of today's
> technology.  I'd have expected that the telcos would have long since
> assigned everyone their own personal non-area-coded 11 digit
> universal telephone number.

There would be tremendous privacy issues with having phone numbers
forcibly stuck to people (not to mention how it would interact with
cases like mine - I "own" four different phone numbers: house land
line, house fax line, house data line, and cell line).

Besides, it would be routing hell for the telcos - fine initially, but
as people move around you'd get the equivalent of what the Internet
routing tables would look like if every route were advertised as a /32.

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