Re: Re: Fidonet information
  By: Dan Clough to Paul Hayton on Fri Mar 15 2019 06:37 pm

 > -=> Paul Hayton wrote to Dan Clough <=-
 >
 >  DC> The use of Zones does facilitate the administration of "Othernets"
 >  DC> which came after the original Fidonet zones though.  Right?
 >
 >  PH> Well fsxNet certainly came well after Fido I agree.. but you
 >  PH> could say any zone facilitates admin of traffic to any other zone
 >  PH> regardless of network using them or laying claim to them :)
 >
 > Yes, but I think what I was trying to say was that you can
 > identify a network by it's zone number.  Like fsxNet is 21:x/x and
 > FidoNet is [1-4]:x/x and so on.  Not sure I'm getting across what
 > I mean here...  But fsxNet (by definition) could not have any
 > zones in the 1-4 range, because those are already "taken" by
 > FidoNet.  That's all I meant by the above...

With 5D addressing, it *should* have been possible to have 1:1/2@fidonet and
1:1/2@fsxnet be two different systems with no conflict (that is the entire
point of the domain portion of the address afterall). But 5D address (domain)
support in FTN software is not ubiquitous, and frankly quite useless today. :-(


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