MvdV> Zones were a bad idea to start with. There waa never a technical
 MvdV> need and the implementation is buggy to say it mildly. Zones
 MvdV> amplify cultural difference instaed of bridging them. It was a
 MvdV> mistake  The last thing FidoNet is more of that mistake.

 > (Z2 is a classic case of needing to be chopped up into smaller
 > parts that have tigher cultural relationships).

who ever said that zones (and obviously regions in Z2) are to amplify
cultural differences??

zones and regions are mearly nodelist administrative pieces of the whole
network... they were created mainly to ease the generation and updating of
the nodelist and the assigning of nodenumbers to new members... where have
you gotten any other ideas about that??

)\/(ark