*** Quoting Steven Horn from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS> PVT,67,northof60.tzo.com,Whitehorse_YK,Steven_Horn,-Unpublished-,30
 CS> 0,CM, (sorry, TG truncation got me) but IBN with no added DNS
 CS> lookup. 

 CS> You can be CM still but with no static IP or phone, need the PVT
 CS> keyword added. Its harmless for an ION and protects stupid POTS
 CS> people from making mistakes due to them not being setup right. 
 CS> Also the 1-000 was wrong.  Should have been 000- with no 1- before
 CS> it.

SH> I'll buy the "000" argument but fail to see why an ION
needs to fly a
SH> PVT flag. Using "000 ..." as a telephone number means that
a POTS node
SH> trying to dial the ION will never connect to anything.

Correct.  Remove the countrey code and it's only dangerous to have 000-
inside ¨OZ on an OZ node.  Thats why they do not use it.  With no country
code however, ¨they can block it easily.

If the IP isnt static, then PVT keyword and -Unpublished- is the best way
to ¨list.  There is no difference for ION's in being PVT at all.  It's just
a text ¨entry that's needed to prevent problems for others.


RVR> Also IBN:northof60.tzo.com is not required as you already have your IP
RVR> address in the system name field so you really only need the IBN flag
RVR> any further info.

 CS> Correct.

SH> But what if one has an IP address which is not the same as one's IBN a

Does it DNS resolve to the same IP?  If so, then not needed.  If they are
¨different, then list both (but only one of them on a flag and the other in
the ¨bbsname field).

                                       xxcarol

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