= Сообщение: 1480 из 12549 ====================================== ENET.SYSOP = От : Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555 23 Nov 14 23:10:25 Кому : Björn Felten 23 Nov 14 23:10:25 Тема : Old nodelists FGHI : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:280/5555+54725e8c На : area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+54725660 = Кодировка сообщения определена как: CP850 ================================== Ответ: area://ENET.SYSOP?msgid=2:203/2+54726768 ============================================================================== Hello Björn,
On Sunday November 23 2014 22:49, you wrote to All:
BF> I often get the question why Sweden got the first region number BF> outside of zone 1. And whenever I answer "because we were first" I get BF> the reply from one or other Dutch sysop, claiming *they* were first.
One shpuld make a differnce between first Region, first net and first system outside North America.
BF> Well, the very first nodelists were actually distributed in the BF> Fidonews.
BF> And the first appearance from any system outside of USA and Canada BF> that I can find is this:
BF> 348. Day_Rainbow,Karlstad,Sweden,Conny Jonsson,01146-54-133170,CCITT BF> M-F and BELL Weekends and Nightly National Mail 349. BF> Sun_City_Fido,Karlstad,Sweden,Lennart,01146-54-166988,Svensson BF> National Mail Sunday Evenings Only
Look closer at that same nodelist.
33. Rod_Smallwood England Rod Smallwood 01144-635-4680
Contrary to the Swedish entries it is not prefixed wit a # to indicate a new entry.
Rod Smallwood in the UK was the first sysop outside NA. He was already listed in nodelist.328 of 23 Nov 1984.
The first NET, outside NA is no doubt net 500. At the time when Fidonet went 2D, the convention was that nets >= 500 would be nets outside NA. At that time there were used two regions. Region 1 was NA and Region 2 was Europe.
The Regions and Zones as we know them now came later. Region 20 probably was the first to organise itself into a region.
Unfortunately there is a large gap in the archives. The next nodelist I can find is #276 of 1986. Net 500 is listed there.
