*** Quoting Vladimir Donskoy from a message to Michiel van der Vlist ***


 MV> The ones in favour of splitting the region is a small group.

VD> OK, what is size of "small group"? In practice of Zone2 -
smallest reg
VD> have 1 sysop. You want splitting R50 to 2000 regions? :-)

VD> More rights - split to groups near 100 sysops, and summary other regio
VD> to analogue count (for example - nord Europe, central Europe and so on

OUCH!  Can you imagine the pain that would cause in Europe Z2?  Have you
really ¨thought that through?

Lets go back to basic nodelist format.  There's a hard limit to the number
of 2 ¨digit assignments for RC's.  01-09 are not used (reserved for special
needs) ¨and i think we top out generally with 10 per zone though Z2 has
more than 10 ¨assigned (perhaps reuse of other zones sets not otherwise
needed).

Even at RC10-99, you cant get 100 nodes per region for your area without
taking ¨away the rest of us out of our hobby.  You'd need 30-40 RC slots
just for R50.

Yes, we all know you are bigger.  We aint dumb.

Now look from another angle.  I'm going to demize Z6 when i get back in
port ¨come high summer.  Thats because even though having more voices on
the ZCC is ¨important, I have reached the 'voice of one' level.  This is
NOT to Ward's ¨benefit at all as I seem to generally agree with him, but it
was a voice that ¨looked to more than just Z6 needs (as i hope all ZC's
do).


I've already had to disabuse a few folks that this means Z6 is no longer
¨reserved for Fidonet use. To use it for R50 when I am here, means it will
be a ¨scheduled reasonable shift not a splinter of all R50.  To use it
after I am ¨gone, will be up to the ZCC.  The 'vote/referendum' showed me
pretty clear that ¨R50 doesnt want to change as a group, just a small
portion of it and not ¨suffienct support in R50 alone to cause the people
there the problems that ¨*will* ensue.
                                       xxcarol

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