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Re:Dear American Website Owner by jwr on Thursday April 01, 2010 @04:46AM (#1234180)
I don't think your assumption is right — if you tell a European to give you his phone number 'just as for SMS messaging', you'll always get the right thing, with the country code, beginning with a '+'.

To send a text message you have to use a full international phone number, so everyone uses them. You can't deliver an SMS message without a full number.

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Re:Dear American Website Owner by jasonlotito on Thursday April 01, 2010 @08:35AM (#1234415)
Couple things to consider. First, this was written up in 2003, and expanded on in 2004. I don't know if text messaging is as big then as it is now. Secondly, we weren't sending them a text message. While asking them might not hurt, we didn't want a cell phone. Asking for a phone number "just as for SMS messaging" might be more confusing. I'd rather just ask for the phone number, and fix it myself.

At least, that were my thoughts at the time.

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