* Carbon copied to Terry Barlow  1:15/1

Hi Vincent,

On 2022-01-11 15:59:03, you wrote to Kostie Muirhead:

 AI>>> SBBS (and a lot of software) strips seen bys when linked out of
 AI>>> zone. That's the way fidonet software is designed to work.

 >> Quite correct, but there was a big discussion about that a while back.
 >> Given that I'm pretty sure there's no net number duplication these
 >> days it's pretty safe.

Unfortunately since a couple of years there is 1 duplicate net between Zones 1 & 2, Net 310. Luckily they don't have overlapping nodenumbers, so there are no issues with seen-by's. And besides net 310 in Zone 1 can be abolished, because the only node in this net no longer exists:

+ 12 Jan 10:31:18 [6886] call to 1:310/2@fidonet
+ 12 Jan 10:31:18 [6886] getaddrinfo failed: Name or service not known (-2)

 >> I had set zone blind for fidonet zones. Finally found it in echocfg
 >> again though and it seems to have been toggled off again. I wouldn't
 >> think that the most recent update would do anything to sbbsecho.ini
 >> though.

 VC> That could be classed as an assumption too far as things change over time
 VC> as networks can be added in for zones 1 & 2.

In a declining Fidonet as it is, there really shouldn't be a need to create new nets. And if the RC feels there is a need, it is his resposibility to check he doesn't use an existing net number in another zone. There really isn't a need to choose an existing number, because there are plenty of unused numbers left.

And if he by accident, does choose an existing number in another net, I think the ZC should intervene...


Bye, Wilfred.

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