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                      FIDONET REGIONAL NEWS
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              R55, the IP-only region and its nodes
                       By Ward Dossche
                      2:292/854 & 2:55/0

When the region-55 was created in zone-2 some years ago the reason was
to provide a 'temporary' home to IP-only nodes which could not be
listed in their home-region yet for whatever reason. It could have
been because of politics in the region, there could have been a
technical reason and I'm convinced that some people may have found it
handy to escape the wrath of some RC or NC with whom they had a less
than favourable relationship.

The days of such an IP-only region and the haven it afforded for such
nodes are over. There is no region anymore where these nodes cannot be
accomodated and the planning is that before the end of this year
region-55 will have been closed-down and all nodes being listed in
their proper region.

The transfer which is to be executed the next 3 months can be easily
done. Messages have already been written a couple of times in the
region-echo so people should have been aware that things are changing.

Part of the process is going to be a switchover at 2:2/0 to a new
version of MAKENL to cater for the listing of "-unpublished-" nodes
without "Pvt" as well as other add-ons.

In a first step I am now cleaning-out the nodelist segment of this
region-55.

A message has appeared in the region's sysop echo about that as well
and most concerned nodes have been sent netmails to inform them about
their status. Some nodes cannot be reached by netmail since for over a
year now they have not revealed themselves for netmail-delivery via
their netmail-hub. For all I care they might not even be in the
network anymore.

Mail is being kept on hold, without collection attempt by its sysop,
for:

  2:550/34   al Fomicheff
  2:550/5011 Semen Gavrilov

Both these nodes are listed as "Hold" since Friday September 28th in
the zone-2 version of the world nodelist. Other zones will follow a
week later. (yes, Michiel, I know...)

When no sign of life is emanating from them or no-one can help to get
these people to contact me, then in about 2 weeks they will become
"Down" and another 2 weeks later will be dropped from the nodelist.

Further, I need to absolutely get a sign of life from:

  2:550/140 Eugene Glotov

as his node is on "Hold" already and will be treated the same way as
the 2 gentlemen mentioned above.

Further, it is imperative that these people get in touch with me
immediately:

  2:550/222   Andy Karimov
  2:550/278   Vladislav Kushchinskih
  2:550/500   Vasiliy Arutyunov
  2:550/1313  Dasha Paramonova

Your systems are currently listed as "Down". Without a sign of life
these entries will be removed from the nodelist in 2 weeks.

Right. So now it has been written in echomail, it has been written in
netmail _and_ it has been published in Fidonews, which every sysop is
supposed to be familiar with.

Hopefully no-one will come after me now, when things start moving,
with an "Heyyy duuude, you never told me to ...."


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