Hello Roy.

22 May 06 09:02, you wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>> For international document it is not correct: it must have
 VD>> understand by _any_ people!

 RW> I don't think that was of concern when it was written. Fidonet had
 RW> barely spread to Z2.

P4 was written with little or no concern for the situation outside Z1 period. 
For one it tacitly assumes local calls are free. So it does not matter who
calls who when it comes to the host's obligation of delivering incoming
routed mail. In Z2 local calls are *not* free and so it does matter who
calls who. That is just one example, there are many others.

 VD>> And Policy not include many things for procedures and methods.
 VD>> And many things stated "*Cs know best, common sense..."

 RW> Of course, but many of them didn't know best and they had no common
 RW> sense. Many of them ran their nets and regions like a dictatorship...

Actually in the past when FidoNet was run by the technicians, the *C's ever
so often *did* know best. Now that the technicians have left and the
politicians have taken over, it has become a free for all with little or no
regard for what once was called "the smooth operation of the
network" .....

Michiel

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