>  JD> Unknown quantity right now, but, that makes a case for educating
 >  JD> them. It would be ther responsibility of the highest *C to let those
 >  JD> in the chain below them know about this and to advise them to pass it
 >  JD> on right down to the last node, and point.
 >
 > 1) Dream on. You can't expect every NC to know the ins and out of every mail
 > and the workarounds for them.

Who said anything about an NC having to know the ins and outs of aall
mailers?  I mentioned that he should advise new nodes, and old ones as
well. to make sure that their mailer are set to not dial such.  It is
after all the sysop's responsibility to take care of his or her's own
system.

 > 2) Highest *C taking responsibility? Well it seems this is exactly what
 > happened. The highest *C in FidoNet discourages the use of 000- numbers in
 > general and banned the use in his own zone. What more do you want as far as
 > taking responsibility goes?

I want that 'highest' *C to educate people on how to set up their
mailers.  Not on how to set up a particular mailer, but in general,
that certain numbers should never be called.  Tell me what is
different about setting your mailer to NOT dial the local emergency #
and the (non) problem with the 000 solution?  I was told by my NC upon
joining fidonet way back in 1992, to do exactly that.

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