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   Hello Greg,   
      
    GD>>> Weblog? It's a video documentary there are 8 chapters.   
      
    LL>> Weblog is terminology for video documentary.   
    LL>> All 8 chapters are online, free to watch.   
      
    GD> To be clear the term Weblog was improperly defined by you. a video   
    GD> documentary.   
      
   The term 'blog' is short for 'weblog' - which may or may not include   
   video.   
      
    GD> A weblog as per Google is another word for a blog.   
      
   A shortened form of 'weblog' - but in essence the same thing.   
      
    GD> and just in case you were wondering a"BLOG" which is a regularly updated   
    GD> website or web page.   
      
   Not all blogs are regularly updated or a part of another web page.   
   A blog (or weblog) can be a video documentary, but does not have to   
   be. It might not even have any video at all. Or pictures.   
      
    GD> What I suggested was simply goto youtube.com and watch The BBS documentary   
    GD> chapter 4 covering Fidonet.   
      
   It is an excellent history or video documentary. But like all   
   histories (or documentaries) it is an interpretation.   
      
    GD> This will do two things...   
    GD> 1. It will provide that I was right as it relates to the facts of the   
    GD> formerly mentioned Jason Scott documentary.   
      
   Just because one person says his own version of history is the truth   
   does not make it so. For every history that is written, there is a   
   different interpretation. So which history is "the truth"? Was the   
   truth as told by The Union what really happened during the US Civil   
   War? Was the truth as told by The Confederacy what really happened   
   during the US Civil War? Depends on who was telling the tale, and   
   who was listening.   
      
   The same is true in regards to the history of Fidonet.   
      
    GD> 2. It will provide a correction to what you thought you new, which in this   
    GD> case is called a education.   
      
   From two messages, this morning. One from Vince Coen, the other   
   from Ward Dossche, in the Fidonews echo.   
      
   Vince posted a set of statistics showing his count of the number   
   of sysops in each zone, with a total of all sysops -   
      
   Zone 1 359 North America   
   Zone 2 509 Europe   
   Zone 3  26 Australia/NZ   
   Zone 4  17 Latin America   
   Total  911   
      
   Ward countered by posting his own count for total of all sysops,   
   without giving details for each zone -   
      
   Total 831   
      
   I have no idea as to who is right and who is wrong. It could be   
   both are wrong, and far from the mark.   
      
   And apparently there are no sysops in Africa, or any syops floating   
   about on open water.   
      
   As can plainly be seen, there is no rhyme or reason as to why there   
   should be any zones in Fidonet. There never has been a need, even in   
   Fidonet's heyday of 34,000+ sysops worldwide.   
      
   So why did Tom Jennings insist on Fidonet include 6 zones in P4?   
   And why did sysops later decide to drop two zones, with the excuse   
   there were not enough sysops in those parts to justify them?   
      
   How many sysops does it take to justify the need for a separate zone?   
      
   I am just using the stats as given by Vince and Ward.   
      
   For Life,   
   Lee   
      
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