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    From Nil Alexandrov@2:5015/46 to Gleb Hlebov on Thu May 2 18:32:18 2024
    * Originally in fidotest
    * Crossposted in ru.ftn.develop
    Hello, Gleb!

    Thursday May 02 2024 08:57, from Gleb Hlebov -> Nicholas Boel:

    | + 2:15/0
    | | L 2:340/400
    | | L 2:340/1101
    | L 2:229/307
    Except, a lot of the above should be zone 1. I also think there
    was one or more zone 3 addresses in your tree too, that were
    shown as Z2.

    It's a funny historical "bug", because looking at many SEEN-BYs you
    have to guess which zone (of the four) it is now. HptTree seems to
    default everything to z2.

    Exactly, it has a notion of home zone. FTN is a pretty dated and legacy system with some workarounds here and there to overcome the limitations and have a backwards compatibility with the DOS software from late 80x, early 90x.

    PATH and SEEN-BY keywords, not really kludges even, have been stuck with 2D-address schema since the introduction of FTS-4 back in 86-87.

    When IP took over the world, the zonegate guys became obsolete cause you just cannot control the amount of cross zone links sysop could establish. I really appreciate the decision made at some point to have network numbers unique across all zones.

    Best Regards, Nil
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  • From Gleb Hlebov@2:5023/24.4222 to Nil Alexandrov on Fri May 3 08:52:04 2024
    Hi Nil,

    Thu 02 May 2024 at 18:32, you wrote to me:

    I really appreciate the decision made at some point to have
    network numbers unique across all zones.

    Hm... They are, indeed. Funny I haven't noticed that before.
    There is 1:220, but we can't have 1:221 and 2:221 on the same list. :-)


    ... End of message. Confused? Me too! :-)
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