Hi Mark,

 DD> A "properly configured mailer" expects to find an dialable phone
 DD> number, or "Unpublished" in that field in the nodelist.

 ml> correction... a properly configured mailer expects to 
 ml> find a contactable number in that field or "-Unpublished-"...

 DD> YMMV if you use a shim kludge.

 ml> hunh? what shim kludge are you speaking of? my mailer uses a FOSSIL to 
 ml> contact and converse with remote systems and hardware... 

The shim kludge of software specifically set up to handle IP addresses
extracted from a Phone no. field...

So in reality it all comes down to identifying what is meant by "a
shim kludge"..........;-)


 ml> my system just happens to have the 
 ml> capability of doing something that your's doesn't... 
 ml> should i even mention that i also have an experimental 
 ml> FOSSIL driver that speaks native TCP/IP in a similar 
 ml> fashion to NFS?? what about the one that does the same 
 ml> thing except in FTP format? does that make them a 
 ml> shim?? i don't think so...

I actually think that nicely describes a "shim" or
"kludge". Your software is making something designed for one
thing think its something else so that it can use it...

But all this coems down to what is meant by "shim" and/or
"kludge"...

Cheers..........pk.


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