US> Another problem here: there are no Zonegates listed in Zone 2 Nodelist   
    US> for fidonet Zones 1-4, so Zone 1 Zonegate will no longer work ...    :-P   
    US> but this is another story ....   
        O.k. This is really messed up!  It'd appear our great elected officials   
   of fidonet are slacking.  ;-)  I'd have to look into the past nodelist files   
   to see where the removal of the zone gates occured.  Most likely the zone   
   coordinator changed something in the config file for his version of makenl or   
   nlmake, etc whatever he uses.  He most likely didn't notice that for some   
   strange reason he lost the zone gates.  Either that, or he was just a jerk   
   and didn't want Zone 1 communicating with Zone 2, and said "I'll just take   
   the zone gates out, so no one has to listen to Zone 1!" Who knows, maybe he   
   was kicked out of a Zone1 echomail area, and thought "Hey, if they can't   
   contact my echo mail feeds, they can't cut them!"   But otherwise, assuming   
   he removed the zone gates because no one could provide the gating service in   
   zone 2 due to expensive cost and lack of internet feed to various zones, then   
   I'd say why wouldn't he have the decency to contact the other zone managers   
   and let them know he was removing them.  Who knows, maybe he did and the zone   
   1 coordinator just got forgetful and said "Yeah, I'll remove it this week",   
   and this week never come....   
      
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