-=> On 03-22-19  08:02,  Dan Clough <=-
 -=> spoke to David Drummond about Re: Fidonet => one unizon <=-

 DD> Then what is the advantage to Fidonet as a whole to redo our
 DD> addressing system?

 DC> That's a difficult question to answer because of each person's 
 DC> differing idea of what the definition of "advantage" is...  I'll 
 DC> try to answer using *MY* definition and reasoning:

 DC> It would amount to what we call here in the US a "spring 
 DC> cleaning".  A chance to get rid of the old cruft and useless junk 
 DC> that clutters up our houses, and our nodelists.  Everybody gets a 
 DC> Zone 1 (or 2, or 3, whatever) address, and by carefully going 
 DC> through that during the re-assigning process, most (all?) of the 
 DC> dead/useless entries in there go away.  Now, does that help the 
 DC> flow of mail work any better?  Maybe not.  But it's still a good 
 DC> thing.  It would simplify the process of nodelist updates and 
 DC> distribution.  

That dead wood could also go away by the *Cs doing their jobs within
their respective areas.  Not clear why it would be done any better by
what you propose.

 DC> If every member of Fidonet was in the same Zone, wouldn't that put 
 DC> a stop to the so-called "Zone Wars"?  Yes, a few *C's might lose 

No, it would not.  Because the zone wars are as much about cultural
differences as they are about the zone numbers that label the different
areas.  The same disagreements would still happen.
                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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