MvdV> ..File request would not work for point systems anyway MvdV> and pointing was very popular at the time in The MvdV> Netherlands.
Why not? OpenXP doesn't seem to have a problem with it.
MvdV> Possibly. But in Fidonet we already have a way to MvdV> identify a system: the node number. And that is MvdV> guaranteed to be globally unique within Fidonet.
A few years ago, there were some duplicate net/nodes across zones. Not sure of the situation now.