||*()*||  Hi Janis!

23 March 2006, Janis Kracht wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 >> 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 is "-Unpublished-".

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

Well probably I've found such a feature in mine pots mailer, but to use it
I need manualy define translation, there are no defaults for it.


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

H-m-m, my nodelist compiler is rather old ('97 or so) and it understands
-Unpublished-, or dns name in the phone field, but you're right there maybe
some software that don't understand such constructions.


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

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

Of cource, *BUT* in some areas sysop has care about it.


   Best Regards. Andrey

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