Subj : Re: fidonet.org
To   : Andrew Leary
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Tue Aug 13 2019 10:32:52

Andrew,
 
AL> It's been done that way ever since the International Coordinator
AL> position became vacant.
 
Bullshit !!
 
It has "always" been done like that with the home-Zone up front. For example in 
Z2 the sequence will be Z2 Z1 Z3 Z4, and in zone 3 it will be Z3 Z1 Z2 Z4. This 
dates from the days of slow processors and small/slow hard drives when software 
was unable to index and searches for a specific node were done sequential. As 
most searches were done in the home-zone, placing that home-zone in 
pole-position significantly sped-up the search.
 
AL> The ZCs have attempted to combat this with the daily nodelists by naming
AL> the files and archives with the zone number; eg. Z1DAILY for Zone 1.
 
Again: bullshit !!
 
The "daily" came into being in Z2 and was the pet-project of Michiel van der 
Vlist, Wilfred Van Velzen, Kees Van Eeten and myself. When we started with it, 
and as a consequence also with daily ZONE2-file, it caused a loud sigh in 
certain other zones (not in Z3 nor Z4).
 
It was only when Nick Andre ascended to the ZC1-position that all 
nodelist-issues faded-away in less than 2 weeks and he started producing a 
Z1-daily also with the reliability of a Swiss timing-machine. At that point in 
time, "I" decided to rename our Z2 DAILYLST to Z2DAILY in order to prevent the 
type of confusion that exists with NODELIST/NODEDIFF (and which was used 
happily by certain individuals to fuel the zone warz).
 
The naming was never subject of any broad discussion in the ZCC and I don't 
know if any of the other zones followed suit.
 
 \%/@rd

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