MM> I work for the phone company that is responsible for the 000 emergency
 MM> service and there is no way that I could responsibly distribute a
 MM> directory of phone numbers that include 000 numbers.

   So, what do you do about all the Aussie fax-machines, that resorts to
all zeroes when their internal database crashes? Don't you think it's about
time that you start lobbying against Oz using this stupid emergency number,
rather than having the rest of the world suffer the consequences?

 MM> Until other zones support this capability nodelist segments from other
 MM> zones are edited here for inclusion  in our nodelist by replacing any
 MM> phone numbers starting with 000 with -Unpublished-.

   How safe is that conversation? Do you really need the entire zone 2
segment to be pre-processed before you get it? Or can we safely assume that
Ward's censoring of the more than 90% entries, that constitutes the Z2 part
of the nodelist, is nothing but a political statement and does absolutely
nothing to prevent a fictional Aussie newbie from suddenly starting sending
out international crashmail unattended without even having checked how the
first mail or two went?

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