Hi Mark,

 ml> correct, but they do have to if the 000 is the _country 
 ml> code_ in a listing... remember how phone numbers are 
 ml> laid out...

 ml>   countrycode-areacode-citycode-restofnumber
 ml>        1     -  800   -   555  -  0100
 ml>       000    -  192   -   168  -    2   -   1

 ml> and again, this all goes back to "properly configured 
 ml> mailer" and that includes a properly set up "dialing 
 ml> translation table"... that's where you tell the mailer 
 ml> what areacodes are local calls... everything else is 
 ml> not local and would get the national or the 
 ml> international dialing code prefixed to it... and that, 
 ml> right there, is the point at which it stops being a problem...

Sorry Mark, but you completely miss the REAL issue. What you say is
correct, but that is NOT the problem here. The issue does NOT appear for
CORRECTLY CONFIGURED or PROPERLY CONFIGURED mailers, but that is NOT at all
what the issue is about! 

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

Once they have experience, then they know how to resolve the problem, but
getting that experience requires that they have to put their toe into the
water first.

Explicity coding an invalid dialing code in the Phone Number field is the
cause of the problem.

BTW, I do not live in Australia, so do not see the problem here, but I can
at least understand the issue.

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


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