mark lewis -> Peter Knapper wrote:
 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 number, or "Unpublished" in that field in the nodelist.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 find a contactable number in that field or "-Unpublished-"...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.


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

 ml> well, i happen to know that DD was trying to go after the use of the
 ml> SIO/vmodem package written for OS/2 systems by the creator of x00, ray
 ml> gwinn...

You happen to know nothing of the sort. I was "trying to go
after" those luddites who run DOS POTS mailers kludged to believe
they're dialling phone numbers when in fact they're dialling IP numbers.

How many of those luddites are there in the current nodelist?

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regards

David

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