Re: Fidonet => one unizone
  By: August Abolins to nathanael culver on Fri Mar 15 2019 03:41 am

AA> Just one zone number for Fidonet (modeled after the othernet style, and to 
AA> recognize Tom Jennings' regrets) could help unify this apparently fractured
AA> network. Instead of separate 1,2,4,5,6,7 zones, why not just make it 1234
AA> (to kinda represent the last existing zones) or add up the digits 1 thru 7
AA> (in recognition of the original 7) and make it 28. OR.. just place everyone
AA> in 1, to represent the 1st in Fidonet existence.


The last time this was discussed, someone in Zone 2 complained that they had
more nodes and that everyone would need to move to it, instead of them moving
to Zone 1. And the fun continues...

1234 is nice, and has the benefit of pissing everyone off equally as we'd all
need to renumber our configs. Makes me wonder how many nodes would fall off in
a renumbering because they were running on autopilot or dead listings?
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