* Originally in fidotest
* Crossposted in ru.ftn.develop
Hello, Gleb!

Thursday May 02 2024 08:57, from Gleb Hlebov -> Nicholas Boel:

| + 2:15/0
| | L 2:340/400
| | L 2:340/1101
| L 2:229/307

Except, a lot of the above should be zone 1. I also think there
was one or more zone 3 addresses in your tree too, that were
shown as Z2.

It's a funny historical "bug", because looking at many SEEN-BYs you
have to guess which zone (of the four) it is now. HptTree seems to
default everything to z2.

Exactly, it has a notion of home zone. FTN is a pretty dated and legacy system with some workarounds here and there to overcome the limitations and have a backwards compatibility with the DOS software from late 80x, early 90x.

PATH and SEEN-BY keywords, not really kludges even, have been stuck with 2D-address schema since the introduction of FTS-4 back in 86-87.

When IP took over the world, the zonegate guys became obsolete cause you just cannot control the amount of cross zone links sysop could establish. I really appreciate the decision made at some point to have network numbers unique across all zones.

Best Regards, Nil
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Hi Nil,

Thu 02 May 2024 at 18:32, you wrote to me:

I really appreciate the decision made at some point to have
network numbers unique across all zones.

Hm... They are, indeed. Funny I haven't noticed that before.
There is 1:220, but we can't have 1:221 and 2:221 on the same list. :-)


... End of message. Confused? Me too! :-)
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