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Skriven 2012-08-11 17:45:56 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
   Kommentar till text 1822 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Ward's Z1 node number
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 MvdV>> I missed that single node that you mention. I would not say
 MvdV>> that creates a situation where Montana is covered by a net.

 ml> a simple search for "_MT," is all i did since MT is the two letter
 ml> abbreviation for montana... any nodes in montana would have it as the
 ml> last part of their location field... if that had failed for me, then i
 ml> might have searched for "_MT" or maybe not since i/we already know
 ml> that R17 covers that area...

 MvdV> It just never occured to me to hunt for _MT in the location field
 MvdV> of individual nodes. In this part of the world it is not custom
 MvdV> to add comparable information to the location field. 

deity knows i've run into that a major amount of times when i've looked to see
where someone was located... for example... where (what country) are these
located?

  Sodertalje
  Bergen
  Lakiala
  Altenholz
  Wakendorf_II
  Panketal

for just a few... i mean, when i see a message and i hit my reader's nodelist
lookup function to see where they are located or any other nodelisted
information, these don't really tell me much... 

 MvdV> It is only done when there is an ambiguity problem. 

and over here and other places, it is seen as part of the location field...

 MvdV>> Is the host of that net within local calling range of all of
 MvdV>> Montana?

 ml> the host of N138 is in Tacoma WA (Washington state)... so, no, i don't
 ml> think so... again, you could have looked this up in your nodelist...
 ml> vernon buerg's list.com is still a fantastic tool as is
 ml> maps.google.com and/or googleearth... i especially like googleearth's
 ml> linear and path measuring tool :)

 MvdV> There is no way that I can deduce local calling ranges from the
 MvdV> nodelist. It requires detailed information of the US phone system
 MvdV> that is not easely available here.

i don't have that information, either... those local calling ranges have been
pretty much tossed out long ago... heck, my network covers all of north
carolina... there's probably 99% of it that is not a local call to my system's
location...

 MvdV> All that is much too much topo ask of a candidate sysop. It is
 MvdV> much easier to just ask the RC, After all, it IS his job to
 MvdV> assist in these matter. 

most these days are using the internet... either wired or wireless ;)

)\/(ark

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