Subj : Nodelist Phone Field (consistency?)
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : mark lewis
Date : Wed Jun 20 2018 03:20 pm


 On 2018 Jun 20 18:40:42, you wrote to Ozz Nixon:

 BF> Many moons ago, before binkp was invented, someone came up with the
 BF> brilliant idea to put internet connection via TCP/IP into the
 BF> nodelist, in a way that didn't break any existing software.

 BF> The idea was to give the IP numbers the country code of 000. So, e.g.
 BF> my "phone number" today would be 000-90-227-100-38. FrontDoor was one
 BF> of the first mailers that could handle this.

+1

 BF> Unfortunately some ignorant kid in Australia claimed that this could
 BF> lead to mailers calling their emergency number (000). Happily ignoring
 BF> the fact that *all* POTS mailers back then had to translate the "raw"
 BF> node number in the node list to a number that the modem could dial.
 BF> And if the node could dial the NC (a requirement) there's no way that
 BF> the node could start dialling 000.

exactly! +1

 BF> Almost all of us knew that. Back then nodes (half a dozen I seem to
 BF> recall) in New Delhi, India had the country and regional number
 BF> starting with 91-1, but we never had any reports about mailers calling
 BF> the US emergency number.

and there were no reports of any Z1 nodes calling india either... the main 
reason this and the one above with 000- worked is because those are stripped 
off for numbers in your own country... in india 91-1 became 1... in the US the 
leading 1- is stripped off so all you have is the area code, the exchange, and 
the number...

 BF> But all five ZCs back then except Z1C fell for the hoax and banned
 BF> this brilliant idea. The rest is, as the saying goes, history.

+1

 BF> Nowadays we obviously don't need this bright idea any more, now we
 BF> have binkp and several mailers supporting that protocol, thanks to our
 BF> Russian friends.  <3

nice :)

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