Subj : In the future..
To   : Nick Andre
From : Kees van Eeten
Date : Mon Jun 01 2020 02:58 pm

Hello Nick!

01 Jun 20 08:38, you wrote to Deon George:

 NA> The use of 000- was a horrible ugly idea; a stopgap measure. From my
 NA> understanding it was determined that a net-wide survey was done and many
 NA> Sysops discovered that Unpublished could be used without the Pvt flag.

Actually an internal test, that limited the use of -Unpublished- to lines
tagged, with "Pvt", was removed.

 NA> That effectively resolved the issue of using 000- IP addresses in the
 NA> phone number field. That eventually vanished in favour of the INA/IBN
 NA> flags.

Unfortunately, after 5 years, some administrators are still reluctant to use
-Unpublished-, when no phonenumber is know.

Kees

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