Dale Shipp wrote to Dan Clough <=-

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

No argument from me on the *Cs doing their jobs. The reason my
way would be better is that it would ACTUALLY GET DONE. I mean,
how many decades are we gonna wait for the *Cs to do their jobs?

If every member of Fidonet was in the same Zone, wouldn't that put
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.

Yes, you're probably right on this. I'll concede that point.



... A woman drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her.
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