Subj : Re: Points/ Nodes out of Zone
To   : Ward Dossche
From : John Dovey
Date : Tue Mar 22 2022 18:12:03


 WD> John,

 JD>> can someone to lease tell me what the policy is for including nodes or
 JD>> points outside of my region (or even the zone)?
 JD>> I have a friend who is willing to get involved but he's in South
 JD>> Africa...

 WD> I saw Fernando's remark.

 WD> A point-address is a local thing, you do with it what you think is
 WD> appropriate.

 WD> An out-of-zone node is a different thing ... it is "not done" for a number
 WD> of practical reasons, so the ZCs have decided not to do this even while in
 WD> the days of IP there is a case to be made for it.

 WD> However, there is no Zone "Africa" anymore and just for a single node
 WD> we're not going to create one. We had that in the past and it is
 WD> ridiculous.

That makes sense

 WD> Now, the former Z5C Russel Tiedt still is in the nodelist per his
 WD> request/suggestion when Z5 folded, he was added to Z3 for a number of
Yes, I noticed that. I also wondered why they was but figured it was just pragmatism.

 WD> reasons so my suggestion is to get in touch with Scorr Little and have
 WD> this person entered in the 'Z5 section" of his segment.
That does sort of make sense.

 WD> Questions?
 WD> Shoot ...

 My actual question I'll Netmail to you rather.

All the best
John
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