DD> The fact of the matter is that I no longer run a POTS mailer so *my*
 DD> system is obviously not going to dial emergency services.

   So we can take you away from the list of assumed violators then? Do you
have any estimate about how many of the 32 sysops in zone 3 that a) lives
in Australia (I get the impression that NZ wasn't stupid enough to chose an
emergency number that will be the result of any computer based system with
a broken data base -- usually resulting in all zeroes) and that b) is doing
POTS?

 DD> Of course my IBN system isn't going to be able to contact those
 DD> 000-nodes either because they've chosen to put their IP in yet another
 DD> field that my software doesn't know about (and my ZC has removed).

   And that my friend is the really sad part of this entire hoax. Just
because Ward, so many years ago, painted himself into a 000-hoax corner,
where the paint will probably never dry, we will never get the most obvious
way for internet connection put into our nodelist, in the most logical
place -- i.e. using IP numbers, the preferred way for machines, as an
alternative to phone numbers. This rather than relying on URLs, the
preferred way for human beings, but also relying on third party services
like DNS.

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