Hi Roy!

Wednesday May 03 2006, Roy Witt 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 So this document is out-of-date, or not FTS - and now it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?

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

As I wrote "it can ignore" - now "it must ignore".

Regards, Vladimir Donskoy

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