"Melissa" wrote in message
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Hi riverman,

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 22:56:27 +0100, you wrote:

It might suggest that to you. For those of us not in the US, '678'
is the country code for Vanuatu. ...

I hope I didn't offend you, as I was just trying to be helpful.

And likewise. It was after I sent my reply that I realized that you weren't
the OP. Whoops.


While I agree that it might have been nice if she had made her
specific location clearer, I should think you've been around this
news group long enough to *safely assume* that in spite of the
international nature of this news group, Debbie's post offered some
pretty decent hints as to her general location (including both area
code and email address domain), and Vanuatu, Mazatlan, or Haiti would
probably not be near the top of anyone's guess list...even if they
were residents of Vanuatu, Mazatlan, or Haiti. :-)

Knowing my luck, having said all that, I fully expect her to tell us
that she is in fact in Vanuatu, Mazatlan, or Haiti! ;-)

Well, I seriously doubt that :-) , but it still stands that, if someone
wants to sell something, especially something that probably won't be sent in
the mail, providing a location is a good idea. And I suspect that she (or
he, depending on whether or not you are looking at the reply-to addy or the
name provided) actually was suffering from momentary regiocentrism and
forgot to provide city information. Hopefully, other sellers reading this
thread will be reminded that not everyone on rbp or rbpt will take the time
to google their phone number to find out where they are.

--riverman
(phone code 243 g)