Subj : 2025 FTSC election
To : Dan Clough
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Feb 21 2025 04:54 pm
Hello Dan,
On Friday February 21 2025 08:31, you wrote to Wilfred van Velzen:
DC> So here's a question - does every little postage-stamp sized country
DC> need to be it's own region? In the USA we call those size plots
DC> "states", and there are multiple states in a Region.
It is a relic of the past. As you can read in P4, it is based on "areas of convenient calling". In the POTS age calling across a national boundery cost a fortune. Not "convenient". That is why even small countries had their own region. Some still have or have again. Not all of them.
WvV>> And it isn't like in Z1 where sometimes half to three quarters
WvV>> of the nodes in a region are ghost nodes that are not
WvV>> connectable.
DC> This is unfortunately true, and I'm no happier about that than you
DC> are.
I'd rather see aan accurate and up to date nodelist than a nodelist with dead wood. All the nodes listed in R28 are up and running. Contrary to many other regions...
