PK> Sorry Mark, but you completely miss the REAL issue. What you say is

sorry, but i do not miss the issue, real or otherwise...
 
 PK> correct, but that is NOT the problem here. The issue does NOT
 PK> appear for CORRECTLY CONFIGURED or PROPERLY CONFIGURED mailers, 

exactly and that's what i've been saying all along ever since this
"hoax"(?) was first bandied about and the details came out...

 PK> but that is NOT at all what the issue is about!  

 PK> The issue ONLY appears for INCORRECTLY CONFIGURED mailers, and it
 PK> is only the NEW SYSOP within Fidonet Aus that is likely to miss the
 PK> point and can be stung by this issue, and New Sysops are exactly
 PK> the ones that NEED protecting, not the experienced Sysop.

errrmmm... this same problem exists for every entry in the nodelist,
then... not the specific problem of dialing emergency services but there is
still the same basic problem if one does not have their dialing tables set
up properly...

so.... what it _really_ comes down to is that it is /not/ a *technical*
problem but a social problem where one hasn't been taught or learned to
completely configure their software before using it as well as a second
social problem of letting the machine have its head without sufficient
monitoring...


glad we've finally gotten that all sorted out and now that it is known to
be a non-technical problem, then we can finally get back to trying to use
and work with what we have so that we can enjoy when little bit of fidonet
there is to enjoy ;)


)\/(ark