Getting Technical

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By: Carol Shenkenberger
To: Ward Dossche
Re: Re: country code 000

*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***

WD> I would like to have an indication if the FTSC is still a functioning unit.

Carol> It is.

Carol>> that group this year. As it is, I am not able to do so but I am `educating myself' on Z2 nodelisting issues (as you can see) and have ideas on some possible things that they do there which are probably better than what's in use now. (Modem flags specifically).

WD> Don't confuse "zone-2" "with a handfull of people and myself. Fact is we do have a software "ERRFLAGS" which can be frequed here via PSTN with that magic and the config-file can be freqqed with "ERRFLAGS.ZC2".

Carol> I have a copy. It;s more useful to just look at the nodelist sometimes.

WD> There are several suggestions from individual nodes about improvements which reached me over the years and which have been incorporated. The result is a pretty clean nodelist, although not a perfect one. The simply are things which cannot be auto-corrected.

I don't like a lot of the things I see in the Z2 error list reports. Much of it is just flat wrong to error on. I provided that report back to Michiel.

xxcarol

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By: Lawrence Garvin
To: Ward Dossche
Re: country code 000

Ward wrote to Dave at 10:04 14 Apr:

WD> The reasons why "000-" is a bad idea have been stated and repeated and re-itterated and reworded over and over enough so that all willing to understand them have understood.

LG> Yet, Ward, is it not correct that these "reasons" hold equally well to the existing 91-11 codes in India that can just as equally be `misdialed' by any Zone 1 node and end up calling '911', just as a `misdialed' 000- entry in Australia would have the same results.

LG> To that end... we're already at risk for widespread accidental dialing of emergency services operators -- and THAT situation (India) is one we cannot ever do anything about.

LG> At what point do we cease exploring functional implementations of solutions because some idiot somewhere might misconfigure his nodelist compiler?

LG> Ergo.. whatever happened to "personal responsibility" for the proper configuration of one's software?

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