Hello Bj”rn.

24 Apr 06 16:00, you wrote to Carol Shenkenberger:

 BF>    As for the entire Z7 idea, it's doomed from day one. There's no way
 BF> we would create yet another zone i Fidonet now that we've eventually
 BF> realized that the entire zone idea was a really stupid one.

Exactly! There never was a technical need for zones and it was implemented
badly anyway. As for maintainig the nodelist, we never needed zones either.
Plus thet we never needed that many hierarchical levels of organisation.

It was a bad idea, all it ever got us was zone wars.

 BF> Today we could easily scrap the entire zone thing and solve lots of
 BF> problems related to e.g. seen-bys, dupcheck, msgid, zonegates,
 BF> Bink-folders etc. with one pencil draw.

Indeed. Unfortunately we Fidoians seem have this bad habit of having great
difficulty with dropping bad ideas. There are always a few who insist on
hanging on to it....

 BF>    What I would suggest that the Russians, that's not happy with
 BF> belonging to zone 2, should do is simply individually apply for a zone
 BF> 6 nodenumber. At least those few nodes that are located east of the
 BF> Ural (aka Asian nodes) should easily qualify for a zone 6 node number
 BF> IMHO.

That would split up Region 50. is that what they want?

Michiel

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