-=> August Abolins wrote to nathanael culver <=-

 AA> You see it the same way I do.  Fidonet was 1-6.  Now, 1-4.  It
 AA> could become 1-2 someday.  Then, why not just 1 that spans
 AA> globally?  1 that represents a unified cooperative happy family.

Yes, I agree.  The "zone boundaries" are part of the problem with 
FidoNet today.  Makes it easy for "turf wars" and big egos to get 
in the way of progress.

Look at some of the better "Othernets" today.  Every single one of 
them has only one "Zone", with very loose geographical groupings 
of nodes under a host.  Even a Region is not really necessary, or 
perhaps there's only one Region in the Zone.  The real point here 
is that they only need one Zone, and they work fine because of the 
new technology that doesn't care about dial-up phone costs.

An improved numbering system would just need:  Zone:Host/Node 
(which is how many/all Othernets are operating *TODAY*).

I say Fido could/should go to ONLY Zone 1, and keep zones 2-6 out 
of circulation for historical/sentimental reasons.  All other nets 
can be Zone 7+ (as they already are).



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