TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: fidonews
to: DAN CLOUGH
from: PAUL HAYTON
date: 2019-03-16 13:28:00
subject: Re: Fidonet information

On 15 Mar 2019 at 06:37p, Dan Clough pondered and said...
 
 DC> Yes, but I think what I was trying to say was that you can 
 DC> identify a network by it's zone number.  Like fsxNet is 21:x/x and 
 DC> FidoNet is [1-4]:x/x and so on.  Not sure I'm getting across what 
 DC> I mean here...  But fsxNet (by definition) could not have any 
 DC> zones in the 1-4 range, because those are already "taken" by 
 DC> FidoNet.  That's all I meant by the above... 

Gotcha :)

 DC> Is there an interesting story behind your choice of 21 for fsxNet?

No not really, just simply I was casting about for an unused zone and started
with zone 18 and found after 2-3 days that was clashing with another othernet
so moved to 21 and found (thus far) it was a safe bet.

Best, Paul

--- E:avon@bbs.nz ------ W:bbs.nz ---
--- K:keybase.io/avon --------------

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A43 2019/03/03 (Windows/32)
* Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (3:770/100)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.