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  • Anyone From Vietnam

    From SETH HURST@1:123/140 to ALL on Tue Jan 8 14:20:26 2019
    So is anyone from Vietnam and how is the fidonet comunity there? I read
    it was still active.
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  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to SETH HURST on Fri Jan 11 08:03:08 2019
    Re: Anyone From Vietnam
    By: SETH HURST to ALL on Tue Jan 08 2019 02:20 pm

    So is anyone from Vietnam and how is the fidonet comunity there? I read it was still active.

    Hi Seth, We haven't seen a post from Asia in about 2 years. The last of them transited to Z3 in 2007.

    The area is still active though with lots of freindly chatter and we get notes from people who used to live in Asia still. Topic is a friendly chat, often on
    *NIX tests or just about anything!

    xxcarol
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to CAROL SHENKENBERGER on Fri Jan 11 17:29:00 2019
    Hi Seth, We haven't seen a post from Asia in about 2 years. The last of them >transited to Z3 in 2007.

    At which point they decided not to talk to us anymore, or did the
    transition prevent them from doing so?

    I don't necessarily understand why folks from other zones can participate
    in some echos but not others, so it could be an FTN tech thing I don't understand.

    Thanks!
    Mike

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  • From SETH HURST@1:123/140 to CAROL SHENKENBERGER on Sat Jan 12 15:52:52 2019
    Sounds grate. Might run into Asian girls on bbs lol doubt it. By the
    way what is Z3?
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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12.73 to SETH HURST on Sat Jan 12 19:31:06 2019

    On 2019 Jan 12 15:52:52, you wrote to CAROL SHENKENBERGER:

    Sounds grate. Might run into Asian girls on bbs lol doubt it. By the
    way what is Z3?

    zone 3 is australia... zone 4 is south america, zone 5 was africa, zone 6 was asia... z1 is north america and z2 is europe... those are fidonet zones... other FTNs (fidonet technology networks) will have their own zones for the most part...

    )\/(ark

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    Do you manage your own servers? If you are not running an IDS/IPS yer doin' it wrong...
    ... Hell, yes. I want MY own country... it's the fad, non?
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  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to Mike Powell on Mon Jan 14 17:38:30 2019
    Re: Anyone From Vietnam
    By: Mike Powell to CAROL SHENKENBERGER on Fri Jan 11 2019 05:29 pm

    Hi Seth, We haven't seen a post from Asia in about 2 years. The last
    of them transited to Z3 in 2007.

    At which point they decided not to talk to us anymore, or did the transition prevent them from doing so?

    Nope, they weren't too prolific here before either. About 8 BBSs transited to Z3 and there was some traffic for about 5 years randomly after that.

    xxcarol
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  • From Carol Shenkenberger@1:275/100 to SETH HURST on Mon Jan 14 17:48:17 2019
    Re: Anyone From Vietnam
    By: SETH HURST to CAROL SHENKENBERGER on Sat Jan 12 2019 03:52 pm

    Sounds grate. Might run into Asian girls on bbs lol doubt it. By the
    way what is Z3?

    LOL! Anyways, Fidonet is split to functional 'zones'. Zone 1 (Z1) is
    North America (USA, Canada)

    Z2 is europe across Russia
    Z3 is Australia and New Zeland
    Z4 is South America and Mexico
    Z5 was Africa
    Z6 was Asia

    The center populated BBS area of Z6 falls in the same longitude as Z3 hence has
    a good time for ZMH match (when sites are supposed to not allow callers and stay open just for traffic between BBSs). In fact, when I first became the Z6 coordinator, one of the first thngs I did was change the Z6 ZMH hour to match Z3.

    Z6 and Z3 shared many things including message feeds. In fact, they shared the
    same person for the echomail coordinator when I got there.

    The Z3 remaining sysops voted summer of 2007, to move to Z3 when I was leaving so I transited them over. There were 7-8 BBSs at the time left.

    xxcarol
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