Subj : 2:280/1141
To   : TODD COCHRANE
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Sat Jun 09 2001 11:04 am

Hi Todd,

> -> Let me try to set you straight on this.  ZC2 does not submit his complete
> zone
>-> 2 segment in Zsegs, he only submits a difference file for his zone 2 segmen
>-> (ZONE2.AD?).  This must be applied to the Zone2 segment each week to create
> a
>-> new ZONE2 segment.  The IC does not create a master nodelist or nodediff fo
> -> the ZCs to use.  Each ZC creates the master nodelist themselves.  They do
> this
>-> from segments sent in ZSEGS by the other ZCs.   All the ZCs except for Ward
> -> send in a complete segment like I do.  Once all the segments are in or
> created,
> -> a nodediff is created by each ZC and released in their respective zones.

> That is one of the more stupid things I have heard now  you have a
> chance of having 6 very different nodelist spread out across the globe.
> Interesting read anyway.

Not really so stupid when you think about how it came about, Todd.  We had no 
active IC for a while, and then a period of no IC at all... Who then would 
produce the diff?

All in all I think it's a good idea having each ZC be responsible for creating 
and distributing of his or her Zone's diff file.  The chance that each zone 
will produce a different nodelist is slight since each ZC submits a new segment 
weekly and all of the ZCs then receive each other's segments.  We each make our 
nodelists out of the same parts - the copyright statement, and other 
informational text might be different, but that's it.

Take care,
Janis

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