Unabasheded laziness and the phone edit

[Kenneth Brody]

Fairlight wrote:
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> Personally, I -hate- the dot syntax, and roll my eyes every time I see it.
> I started seeing it more commonly right around the dot-com boom, so I
> correlated it mentally with a pretentiousness that's hard to beat.  But
> Bill seems to indicate other reasons for it, which I can accept.  I don't
> like it, but it could be handy.

I tend to see them as strange IP addresses.  ;-)

Hmm...  Can I ping "212.555.1234"?

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