Subj : Re: Da Rulz
To   : Lee Lofaso
From : Gregory Deyss
Date : Sat Jan 14 2023 07:10:48

On 14 Jan 2023, Lee Lofaso said the following...
 
 LL> Hello Greg,
 LL> 
 LL> Please feel free to invite Tom Jennings to this forum so he can
 LL> answer the question himself.
 LL> 
 LL>  GD> Check out Jason Scott's BBS Documentary Chapter 4 covering Fidonet on
 LL>  GD> youtube
 LL>  GD> As you see this you will then be aware that you have no idea of what 
 LL>  GD> abt.
 LL> 
 LL> Jason Scott is a technological historian. While his history of
 LL> Fidonet is an excellent weblog, it does not address the issue under
 LL> discussion - the idea of zones in Fidonet.
Weblog? It's a video documentary there are 8 chapters. 
Chapter 4 covers fidonet, it is available on youtube.com
As the documentary states the zones within U.S. and North America
were based on NCAA Basketball brackets. 

Ben Baker explains in the documentary that they tried to make it so these new
zones (that they were carving out via a Map of the U.S.) 
They tried to make it to be equal population, proportional to each other.

I find this history really interesting for many reasons as I am the fidonet
hub here for all of New York State.

 LL>
 LL> No mention of zones was ever made until Tom Jennings brought it
 LL> up for inclusion in Fidonet Policy 4.01 - with no explanation given
 LL> as to why.
 LL> 
 LL> So tell me. Why are zones necessary for Fidonet?
before the -switchover- to fidonet, it was fido and this had a 250 node limit,
as indicated by Ben Baker within the BBS documentary chapter 4 covering
fidonet. 

   A few years ago
 LL> I brought up this very subject. There used to be six zones in Fidonet,
 LL> and then it was decided by whatever powers that be that only four zones
 LL> were needed. After that was done, another question was raised. Why not
 LL> go to three zones? Oh, could not do that. Would have to change all the
 LL> zone numbers and would be far too much trouble ...

I have no what your talking about or where you get your information. 

 LL> 
 LL> Bottom Line -
 LL> 
 LL> There is no sound reason for having zones or zone numbers in Fidonet.
You are aware that Fidonet spans around the entire globe right, for this
reason zones were and continue to be very much necessary.

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