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   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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