*** Quoting Michiel van der Vlist from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

 CS>> uses. Michiel is the root of it's development though he was not
 CS>> alone

MvdV>  MvdV>> Not true either. I *opposed* the use of 000- numbers in the
MvdV>  MvdV>> nodelist.

 CS> Yes, you always have, but you also pushed for a 'standard'.

MvdV> Eh? I really think you confuse me with someone else. I never advocated

Nope.  I am sure of the roots.  It just didnt develop like you expected nor
¨would have wanted.  Though you were the root, you had little to do with
the end ¨resolution.

MvdV> in field 6. That is not something I pushed as a standard, it was there
MvdV> long before I joined FidoNet.

 CS>   Now ya got one.

MvdV> It is not a standard.

It isnt?  Are you so sure?  The exceptions are there but the drive has been
¨established. If you dont have a static IP and cant be listed as PVT for
some ¨reason, 000-0-0-0-0 is the proper listing.  Zones using the newer
makenl can ¨replace that with -Unpublished- with safety as a known string.

 CS> Yes, you have been one voice on that for a very long time.  The
 CS> ramifications of your view took turns you did not expect.

MvdV> I do not accept that what emerged is in any way a
"ramification" of my

You dont have to accept it if you do not want to.
                                       xxcarol

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