*** Quoting Winston Smith from a message to Khaboh Ohmsford ***

WS>   Re: Fidonet and Usenet
WS>   By: Khaboh Ohmsford to Winston Smith on Sat Jul 19 2003 10:36 pm

WS> There are 7 FidoNet, continental zones.  Everything
"above" that, from
WS> to Zone 8888: is a FidoNET technology network that is *NOT* part of Fi
WS> but is -- in fact -- an "OtherNet".  Node numbers that
contain a '9' a
WS> mailers sending out test mail and have not been assigned a node number
WS> yet.

Not quite.  There are 6 Fidonet zones.  The far Russian ends are called
'zone7' ¨but only due to newsgroup translations of echo areas that seldom
work outside ¨their zone.

Technically Zone7-9999 are 'othernets' of which Rime is probably the most
¨famous with Familynet right up next to it.
                                       xxcarol

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