DD>>> Why inconvenience even 20 Aussies sysops when the IP
 DD>>> can be listed elsewhere that doesn't break anything?

 ml>> it does break something... it breaks my mailer that reads
 ml>> and operates on POTS or IP numbers or domain names in that
 ml>> field... my mailer doesn't pull connect info from the
 ml>> location field or the system name field because those
 ml>> fields do not contain connection info... ;)

 DD> so... the whole world must bend just to accommodate your
 DD> kludged mailer?

nope... instead the "whole world" must bend to a kludged nodelist
and kludged software to retrieve information that is in places where it
shouldn't be...

 DD> yep - that sounds fair.....

yup, sure does, doesn't it :(

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