On 2018 Nov 14 00:39:04, you wrote to Ward Dossche:

 WD>> Expanding from there, we have to deal with the nodenumber of the
 WD>> Fidonews editor which was determined by the powers- that-be when they
 WD>> drafted P4 in their infinite wisdom, decided it should be 1:1/1 never
 WD>> thinking a Fidonews-editor could be from a different zone.

 DS> As you recall, that was a reason for the previous attempt to amend P4.

ummm... that was _one_ of the reasons for the previous attempt to change P4...
there were two that got shoved together at that time... i tried to take steps
to present both as individual changes as well as presenting both as one set of
changes as per P4's change prodecures... we won't mention the problem of old
software not being able to properly handle messages longer than their
artifically restrictive buffers...

 DS> Even such a simple change could not muster a passing vote.  It is just
 DS> something that has to be lived with, and ignored in practice.

one step and one thing at the time...

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