Hello Bj”rn!

17 Sep 04 13:17, Bj”rn Felten wrote to Vladimir Donskoy:

 VD>> So: no problem for FIDONET and Othernets if we will start using Zone7
 VD>> addresses (with FIDONET nodelist, of course).

 BF>    BOC (that's But Of Course to Roy Witt, & al, that obviously haven't
 BF> seen this acronym before)!

 BF>    It's only a few arrogant Z1 hard-liners, with friends that were stupid
 BF> enough to choose zone 7 for their private enterprise, that objects. Just
 BF> you go ahead and ignore those stupid SOBs and form your zone 7. I think a
 BF> vast fidonet majority is supporting you, including ZC2, no matter what
 BF> some Z1 people, with their own axes to grind, will try to assure you.

And about number 7 of our zone: it is international phone code of Russia (+7).
Also +1 - number of USA, so - Zone1.
But other zones has 2-3 digits in code of their countries so have another
principles of numbering.

Vladimir Donskoy.

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