It happens that Kees van Eeten -> Lee Lofaso formulated :

 LL>> When Fidonet was founded by Tom Jennings & Co., there were no zones.
 LL>> And no need for the creation of any zones.  Not then, or any time in
 LL>> the future.  So why does Fidonet have zones?

 KvE>   One reason was that the nodelist grew beyond the size that Tom's
software
 KvE>   could handle.

 KvE>   There were more. You can probably find it in Fidonews issues, that were
 KvE>   published at the time.

 KvE>   To my memory, it was all about technical limits and limiting phone
bills.

 KvE>   Solutions had to be found and implemented quickly. Looking backward
from
 KvE>   a changed world and critisizing is always easy.

 KvE>   I a couple of years time someone will say there were no reasons for
 KvE>   regions of nets, it could all be fitted in one net, just as can be seen
 KvE>   in the earliest nodelist that survived till this time.


Lee is the pre-eminent expert on everything, he wont believe you.

:)

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