03 May 06 10:41, Vladimir Donskoy wrote to Ward Dossche:

 VD> Hi Ward!

 VD> Tuesday May 02 2006, Ward Dossche wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 >>> WD> This must even predate P4 ... 1980-ies somewhere.

 >>> So this document is out-of-date, or not FTS - and now it can ignore,
 >>> isn't it?

 WD>> I've been in Fidonet now for close to 20 years and I've never seen
 WD>> such a document. Most likely the thought existed in the minds of the
 WD>> founding fathers, but these people lived in a one-country
 WD>> environment and had no idea whatso-ever about telco-operations in
 WD>> multi-country environments such as Europe with high international
 WD>> dialing-costs which voided the idea of just 10 regions only ...

 VD> I think also.

 WD>> I wonder, how can one ignore something of which we don't know it
 WD>> exists?

 VD> But Carol wrote that it (was) exist... May be it was exist in old
 VD> Policies or another zones?

It did exist, at one time. That no one can remember what document it is,
or where it is now is irrelevant. Since there are so many dead regions, it
shouldn't be a problem to revive them for use again. There are at least 5
in Z2 that might just as well be dead or merged into another. There are
even a couple in Z1 that no longer exist, save for the nodelist.


Roy
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