Ward Dossche : August Abolins wrote:
> AA> There is no reason that a bbs couldn't one day operate from an orbiting
> AA> satellite.
>
> There has already been a point that was operated from orbit and a node
> from Antarctica.

Hi Ward!  That's very interesting. Can you cite a reference?  Google was not
revealing its secrets to me.


> AA> Fidonet needs to visibly look unified.  One zone number to identify
> that.
>
> Nice, not new, but you have no idea what you would be breaking, probably
> it would be the definitive end of Fidonet as we know it today with just
> a mere pockets surviving.

Maybe you are referring to some specific technical issues that I am
mostly likely unaware of.  Fine.  But I am not convinced that Fidonet under one
number is impossible.

The build of the new zone Fidonet can start as an experiment, automated
assignments, and when confirmed via netmail (to "prove" a working exchange)
authorize the entry.  The build of the new onezone nodelist can get started and
conceptually proven before actually implemented.

BTW.. Maybe this echo is not the best place to continue this topic. Perhaps
FUTURE4FIDO might be better?

Cheers!
.../|ug

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