Re: Question for writers in New Zealand and Australia

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

All of the responses you got were "cultural."

Most people, regardless of where they are ,would be put off to some extent 
to find their country grouped with another country unless they already knew 
there was a reason it was being done.  That's cultural.

In the absence of context, people started speculating on the reason for the 
combination, with ideas ranging from inadequate equipment that couldn't 
handle all the countries individually to programmers who are illiterate 
baboons who can't look up standard international country codes.  Also 
cultural.

So by the time someone from the region got up, read your question and 
provided local perspective, you'd gotten "cultural" responses from every 
time zone in between.

Now that we know that it's based on RFs and that AUS and NZL share a common 
RF, we can surmise that NZL users probably will be put off, but they 
probably won't blame you because everyone else doing the same work is 
probably already doing it.

Gene Kim-Eng


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Martinek, Carla" <CMartinek -at- zebra -dot- com>