Hi Michiel,

>> All this Aussie 000 problem is nothing but a hoax.

> Maybe.

> It does not make the /other/ problem go away: that some POTS mailers have no
> documented way of preventing them from attempting to dial *something* when
> encountering such a number. The only "number" that is
guaranteed to stop ALL
>POTS mailers from attempting to dial out is "-Unpublished-".

That hasn't been tested much, at this point.. As far as I know no one has
really tested it much at all... in a "live data" arena at least. 
I know that some mailers are capable of translating alphas to digits as
well.  It's been too long since I played with those mailers though, and I
don't remember if they defaulted to this behavior, or if it was something
"turned on", etc.

I don't know if secondary programs will have problems with it either
(compilers like xlat, etc.)

> So that should be
> the only thing allowed in field 6, when there is no valid phone number.

Perhaps.  We do know that 000- doesn't cause trouble, and hasn't all these years.

>Other then that: y'all have been very successful in distracting from what this
> was all about: An interzonal AKA that should not be there!

I think it's not a distraction.. we're discussing such things in some other
places to do with possibly standardizing the nodelist (if possible
).

Take care,
Janis

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