Hello Bj”rn,

On Tuesday July 03 2018 14:49, you wrote to me:

 MvdV>> As I have already stated many times before, anything other than
 MvdV>> a valid dialable telephone number or "-Unpublished-" in field 7
 MvdV>> of the nodelist is a bad idea. Period.

 BF>    As I have already stated many times before, an IP number *IS* a
 BF> valid phone number in the 21st century -- when most of the
 BF> communications are made not via 20th century copper wires but mostly
 BF> by fiber.

Saying it is so, does not make it so and the physical transpor medium does not
make any difference. An IP number is not a telephone number any more than A ham
radio call sign or a post box number is.

 BF>    Your binkd mailer dials the IP number each time it makes a
 BF> connection, only you don't make it pulsating numbers via an outdated
 BF> relay equipped telephone station, you make it within milliseconds via
 BF> the internet.

Calling establishing the connection with an IP number "dialing" does not make
it a telephone number any more than me leaning over the fence and calling my
neighbour by her first name, makes "Joyce" a telephone number.

BTW, telephone numbers were not always dialled. In the beginning one crancked
the ring voltage generator on the fone to call the operator and then one told
the operator what number to connect to.


Cheers, Michiel

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