Subj : Re: 2025 FTSC election
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Dan Clough
Date : Sat Feb 22 2025 03:12 pm

-=> Kurt Weiske wrote to Michiel van der Vlist <=-

 MvV> If you go through your Fidonews archives you will find two aticles of
 MvV> mine. Each proposing to drop one level of hierarchie. One to drop the
 MvV> Region level and another to drop the zone level.
 MvV> I would not mind if you published them again.

 KW> I've posted the same thing - I thought you could get rid of the zone
 KW> politics by making everything one zone, but then people complained
 KW> about whether it'd be called Zone 1 or Zone 2.   :)

 KW> We're starting to see regional attrition, Z1C has consolidated zones
 KW> recently when a RC retired. That might help with some of the
 KW> complication.

It was two Regions that went away, because the RCs were on autopilot 
and/or braindead.  Good riddance.

 KW> Separate IP-only legacy networks are the biggest complication, I'd
 KW> think - why have a region with a handful of legacy nets with 1-2 nodes
 KW> and no NC? When I first took over R10 I was NC for 5-6 legacy nets that
 KW> had no separate NC. I took those and moved those into an IP-only net
 KW> where I could (except for one net that's well advertised and nets where
 KW> people wanted to be NC to manage their own net)

I think the term "IP-only" is a legacy thing, actually.  Nearly the 
entire FidoNet is IP only now, and there's no reason to have some kind 
of special network for them, or for the few remaining POTS systems.  
That's what nodelist flags and fields are for.



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