>>    Key word here is *accidentally*.

 MvdV> A new sysop (node- or point) could easily make this mistake.

   You conveniently left out all the other factors I listed, that also must
be met to make this elusive 000-call happen.

 MvdV> IMNSHO this 000- thing was a bad idea from the start.

   I think it was brilliant in all it's logic. IP-numbers are phone numbers
on the internet and what country code would be more logical for internet
than 000?

 MvdV> The main reason I think this was a bad idea is that POTS mailers were
 MvdV> never designed to have to deal with numbers that should never be
 MvdV> dialled.

   Fidonet was never designed to use internet in the first place. It sure
as hell is fortunate, that some of us never let that prevent us from
experimenting with different ways to overcome that shortcoming.

 MvdV> One simply can not expect all legacy  mailers to handle
 MvdV> the situation correctly.

   Why not? Some, at least FrontDoor, can, and has been doing so from the
early days of the internet boom.

 MvdV> I see no gain in using this method, only loss.

   Yeah, well, it's like with all those fancy nodelist flags that almost
nobody can see any gain in: as long as one, single node can benefit from
it, that's at least *one* good reason to allow it.

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