Subj : Re: Zone Numer Search for all FTN Nets w
To   : Visitor-0
From : Atreyu
Date : Tue Nov 08 2022 09:04:44

On 08 Nov 22  14:36:01, Visitor-0 said the following to Warpslide:

V> And this was the fist Contact for the Zone? Not 6:0/0? for Example.

At one time there were no zones, just Nets and Nodes.... 2-dimensional
addressing.

When things grew to the state of requiring 3-dimensional addressing with the 
introduction of the Zone number, there could not be an overlap of Nets for
compatibility with many 2-dimensional programs in use at the time.

Thats why you can have 1:1/0 and 2:2/0 but not 1:0/0 and 2:0/0.

Even today, Fidonet ZC's have an agreement not to allow duplicate Nets in Fido
to avoid breaking compatibility with Seen-by kludge lines and legacy software.

Atreyu

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