*** Quoting Ward Dossche from a message to Philip Lozier ***

WD> did not reply to any of the requests to have this guy inserted. So I d
WD> it myself and eventually RC55/NC550 got him into his segment anyway, t
WD> way that node would not be dropped when sending in a new segment.
WD>  
WD> Then 2:550/36 Bruno Anthunes tried unsuccessfully for months to get in
WD> touch with RC55/NC550 to establish a link. When after a lot of elbowwo
WD> the link was finally established no mail was received by 2:550/36, so
WD> he asked me to send a routed-netmail myself to check the routing and a
WD> immediately received this automated response:
WD>  
WD> ************************* QUOTE *************************
WD> Date: 18 Jan 06  11:07:24
WD> From: Region55 Coordinator on 2:55/0  z2-iponly-region in Mortsel B
WD>   To: Ward Dossche on 2:292/854  many-glacier.mine.nu in Mortsel B
WD> Subj: Destination address doesn't belong to Region55
WD> ______________________________________________________________________
WD>  
WD> This is an automatically generated message.
WD>  
WD>  
WD> Sorry, but recipient system (2:550/36) doesn't exist in Region55.
WD> Therefore I cannot deliver your message and return it to you.
WD>  
WD> Serguei Trouchelle
WD>   Region55 Coordinator

Ouch.  So he'd not been compiling to current nodelist either?  

Back in times when I had lots of nodes to deal with (RC13 times) I didnt
have ¨nor see a need for an ION region or even an ION net.  I did make some
'odd' ¨placements inside the region due to connectivity type and authorize
several out ¨of region listings for technical issues (mostly, 1 or 2 were
political) but i ¨never had an NC I could track that didnt at least keep
pretty current with the ¨nodelist updates even if once in a 'blue moon'
they were a week behind.

WD> about this fellah is that he was not doing his job. Still he wasn't fi
WD>  
WD> As a reminder, this is the same person who administered that famous R5
WD> split-off poll, so how trustworthy would the results of thatone be?
WD>  

Key point though is you didnt replace him at all.  He quit and now you are
in ¨damage control over it (or have finished that phase hopefully but I
know it can ¨take a bit of time for that).

                                       xxcarol

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