Dale Shipp wrote in a message to Thom Lacosta:

 -=> On 09-20-04  20:10,  Thom Lacosta <=-
 -=> spoke to Matt Bedynek about ZC/2-status <=-

 TL> What the folks in Region50 do is their business...I was 
 TL> simply asking how they were going to work with the other 
 TL> users of Zone7

 DS> There is some evidence that some parts of fidonet already
 DS> consider zone7 to be in existence and part of fidonet. I just
 DS> saw an echo with origin lines (and paths) from zone 7, some with
 DS> an {at}fidonet after the node number.

That doesn't likely signify as much as you might think.  I've been involved
in several othernets over the years,  and in many cases the
"{at}fidonet" default domain wasn't changed to whatever the other
net was.  In fact trying to do so would break things.  It may be a matter
of convenience,  or a matter of technical competence,  or any number of
other reasons.

 DS>   I wonder what would happen if I attempted to netmail such a node?
 DS>   Probably BARF.

Probably not much,  unless you happened to get lucky and hit a situation
where your netmail got routed to a gateway.

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