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

WD> There will be a major drop-out of nodes not willing to make the change
WD> ... or not being able to make the change.
WD>  
WD> There will be a mess as never before with dual listings and an 11-hour
WD> time-zone overlap as the larger group of nodes most likely will stay i
WD> zone-2 as R50 ... with another RC of course since he's one of the prot
WD> to shift I believe ...
WD>  
WD> There will be the most massive bouncing of netmail ever ...
WD>  

Grin, let me be hypothetical for a moment of dreaming up how it would be done?

1.  Whole nets, never partials.  Large swatches of geography involved and
¨conversion would start at the easternmost end and work westwards.

2.  If possible to work it out without causing acromony, dual list for 1
month ¨then clear the old listings.  Do this in batches so no one area is
swapping at ¨the same time (too much confusion).

3.  Consider bringing over old net numbers to the new zone but use cation
and ¨think about that a long time first (netmail bounce issues).

I've seen senseless ideas of up to a year of dual listing.  That would be very ¨bad.
                                       xxcarol

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