-=> Tony Langdon wrote to nathanael culver <=-
TL> Yes. ZMH was totally necessary before the advent of CM systems, which
TL> freed BBSs from being restricted to ZMH only mail exchanges. And the
TL> geographic structure is due to phone charges, which are no longer
TL> relevant. Today, the network doesn't care where BBSs are, and more
TL> modern networks like FSXnet don't use geographic structures at all in
TL> their addressing.
We don't even need zones any more, when you look at the size of the
nodelist compared to days of old. Imagine that?
We'd still find lines to divide us. Pity.
... Do they dream?
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