Subj : Re: Asia/Asian?
To   : Flavio Bessa
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Tue Apr 12 2022 16:49:26

  Re: Re: Asia/Asian?
  By: Flavio Bessa to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 21 2022 10:04 pm

 > On 21 Mar 2022, Carol Shenkenberger said the following...
 > 
 >  CS> I think if telegram existed when Russel Tiedt was running Z5, they migh
 >  CS> still be here todaay as a zone.  In the end, it was a collection trying
 >  CS> to push fidonet over packet radio and some other oddball thing explaine
 >  CS> as related to ham radio related signals.
 > 
 >     One thing that I never understood about Z5 and Z6 demise is that at leas
 > here, in Latin America, we have a strong retrocomputing community, so every 
 > and then someone from our glorious past joins back to the family. In a slow
 > pace, but steady, we were able to add 10 systems to Argentina, Brazil and
 > Panama in the last 5 years.
 > 
 >     It's been a while since Z5 and Z6 are gone... There should have been
 > someone on that area willing to come back...
 > 
 > ... I put a dollar in one of those change machines. Nothing changed.
 > 

I can speak to Z6.  When I left, I had no one able (or if able, willing) to
keep it going.  We voted to move to Z3 so did that.  I transitioned 8 members
(I think it was that) to a net in southern Z3 who had the right connectivity
under a good NC of the time, then moved stateside again.  Russel Teidt was left
with less to work with and finally tossed in the towel.

  xxcarol
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