Hello Janis,

>>> I don't remember if they defaulted to this behavior, or if it was
>>> something "turned on", etc.

>> Not the mailers, but modems as well, read the dox on your USR
>> v.everything.

 > That's darn scary....

Basically the modems go into four catagories.


1) Those that will return an error when encountering "alpha"
characters in a telephone number.

2) Those that will ignore those characters.

3) Those that will generate the corresponding DTMF tones in row four, when
encountering the letters A-D and return an error on others.

4) Those that will dial out numerically when encountering A-Z, using a
translation table equivalent to the letters next to the push buttons on a
standard phone.

All this is irrelevant when considering "-Unpublished-". *That*
particular string will never be presented to the modem, the mailer will see
to that.


But... you are probably referrring to the use of "-Unpublished-"
without the Pvt keyword. In that case my asnswer remains the same: The
"string "-Unpublished-" will never be presented to the
modem.

Has this been tested? Yes, it has. No mailer has been reported that
violated this rule. Has it been tested *exhaustively"? No, od course
not, that's impossible without some real life testing. It hasn't stopped
the Fidonet community from experimenting with other changes in the
nodelist. Like allowing baud rates above 9600 or introducing new flags. You
test what you can test in simulation or on a small scale and then you jump
in the deep.

I think it is time the ZCC takes the lead in this and goes for the next
step: allow "-Unpublished-" without "Pvt" for the
distibution nodelist.

Cheers, Michiel





Cheers, Michiel










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