Hello Janis.

23 Mar 06 10:33, you wrote to me:

 >>>> It is patently ridiculous to hold down the rest of FidoNet just
 >>>> because one zone can't educate their nodes.

 >>> I agree there, though like I said, I think Malcolm's fix is
 >>> perfectly understandable due to legal ramifications in his zone.

 >> So it is fine to discrinate against others ... :-)

 JK> Russell, someone might think you're anti-USA with such a comment.

Well, they are as always entitled to think what they like, that is both their 
problem, and privilege. :-)

But due to lack of co-operation/indecisiveness, possibly spite (?), there has 
not been a collectively acceptable standard adopted for all zones that does 
not discriminate/dis-advantage one or the other zone, and one way or the other 
Zone3 drew the short stick. A large part of the blame sits squarely on the 
shoulders of the USA-folks, as the matter was not on my "horizon" when I 
figure this should have been sorted out/solved, i.e. it was before my time.

Besides Zone 3 being discriminated against / dis-advantaged by the current 
sorry state of affairs with regard to the listing off ION's in FidoNet, it has 
produced an unpleasant suprise for a node in Zone1, and there are no 
guarrantee's that something similar will not / could not, happen elsewhere, in 
any of the other Zones.

Hopefully a lot off folks that where very happy/content, doing things the way 
they had "always" done things, are less complacent about the higgledy, 
piggledy way that ION's are listed, and that this will produce a more tolerant 
attitude, which will expedite, the adoption of a single standard means of 
listing ION nodes, without discriminating / dis-advantaging any zone, as has 
happened by default/accident with Zone3 with the current situation, and now, 
the unfortunate incident in Zone1.

From my point of view, the sooner this matter gets solved, the greater the 
benift to FidoNet as a whole. Rather than wait for some-one to decide to sue a 
FidoNet *C for negligence / ommision/co-mission, on the part of that *C or 
simply due to that *C representing FidoNet. The USA population, being by far 
the most "sue happy" segment of this worlds population ...

Some of the possiblities, and not too far-fetched either from the point of 
view here ...

Russell

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