Hello Alan,


 AI> True, the zones are irrelevent but they are here to stay. All the FTN
 AI> software in existance today uses it.

I don't mean to do away with the Zone feature.  I just mean there is no
need for different zone numbers.  Someone in another echo said something
like "we need it to at least *see* where the message is coming from so
that we can understand the cultural reason of a posted bad remark.."
or something like that.  But then there was an intelligent reply that
explained that "we can see the origin (i.e. country) of a post from
the nodelist data".


 AI> I know in my own case 1:153/757 is part of my fido heritage. I would not
 AI> want to become 2:153/757 and I'll bet sysops in other zones fell the same
 AI> or something close to that.


Hmm..  There *is* the pride in having something like that.  BUT.. it would
never be forgotten anyway.  Just look up may name at,

http://nodehist.fidonet.org.ua/ 

Each represents the different places I operatted from. And in one case, I
was assigned to 3 different nets over time even when I was not moving
anywhere.

My numbers are there on record for posterity.  That's rather nice. 



../|ug

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