DD> been running perfectly since day one not suddenly start dialling
 DD> emergency numbers

   If it's been running perfectly it just doesn't suddenly start dialling
emergency numbers.

 DD> Why does *your* individual freedom supersede mine?

   Regardless of the above, you still seem to miss the point, David. Had it
been just that zone 3 uses a filtered nodelist to fix a non-existent
problem, nobody outside of your zone would give a rat's ass about it.

   But when the entire zone 2 has to accept that it's segment *also* is
filtered, that's what makes some of us protest. Can you give any good
reason at all, why we should have all our 000-numbers censored in our
segment, when Malcolm later filters the segment anyway?

   Don't you think it is a much graver violation of *our* freedom, that
6614 zone 2 nodes plus the 690 zone 1 nodes that indirectly get affected --
all according to the latest stats -- will have to be sacrificed, on 
the altar of political correctness, because of the assumed stupidity of
some 20 Aussie sysops? Doesn't *our* individual freedom count at all?

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