Subj : Re: Asia/Asian?
To   : Flavio Bessa
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Sun Mar 27 2022 14:53:19

  Re: Re: Asia/Asian?
  By: Flavio Bessa to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 21 2022 10:04 pm

 > On 21 Mar 2022, Carol Shenkenberger said the following...
 > 
 >  CS> I think if telegram existed when Russel Tiedt was running Z5, they migh
 >  CS> still be here todaay as a zone.  In the end, it was a collection trying
 >  CS> to push fidonet over packet radio and some other oddball thing explaine
 >  CS> as related to ham radio related signals.
 > 
 >     One thing that I never understood about Z5 and Z6 demise is that at leas
 > here, in Latin America, we have a strong retrocomputing community, so every 
 > and then someone from our glorious past joins back to the family. In a slow
 > pace, but steady, we were able to add 10 systems to Argentina, Brazil and
 > Panama in the last 5 years.
 > 
 >     It's been a while since Z5 and Z6 are gone... There should have been
 > someone on that area willing to come back...
 > 
 > ... I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
 > 

Hehe, I tried with Z6 but in the end, we transitioned the remaining nodes to
Z3.  There have been a few popping back up, but in Z3.

  xxcarol
--- SBBSecho 2.11-Win32
 * Origin: SHENK'S EXPRESS, shenks.synchro.net (1:275/100)

.