Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To   : Dan Clough
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 05:06 pm

Hi Dan,

On 2025-02-21 08:31:47, you wrote to me:

 DC> So here's a question - does every little postage-stamp sized country
 DC> need to be it's own region?

Well, yes and no. These regions were all very big in the past, so there was a good reason to create them. Merging them turns out to be a lot more difficult. There are big cultural and language differences between most of them, some are even at war with eachother. Scandinavia did a succesfull merge (so far). Region 28 and 29 tried it for a while, but the former Region 29 sysops weren't happy with the situation and decided to become their own Region again. And there is the catch all Region 56, with a number of small nets for different countries.

 DC> In the USA we call those size plots "states", and there are multiple
 DC> states in a Region.

At least you all speak 1 language (mostly).


Bye, Wilfred.

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