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Finally it occured to me that diamondcard *might* have something about twinkle
and in fact it has,
http://wiki.diamondcard.us/podwiki?page=TwinklePhone
and with that info it works (the essential bit was, it seems, that the "User
name" field has to be set to the numeric id *too*, not only the "Authentication
name".

Christian.