Zone Announcements

News from Zone 4
by Renato Zambon, 4:801/161, 4:4/0
rczambon@sili.com.br, ICQ 84996821

New ZC: Luis Manterola (4:900/525) was our ZC4 from Dec/1997 to Mar/ 2001. On Mar 5 he announced in REGCON.LAT his intention to leave the ZC position and passed it to me, without having other candidate. His system was closed on Apr 1.

Echomail: there are five main groups of echomail distributed in Zone 4: Int'l areas (WWB/NAB/Z1B) with 40-60k msgs/month; Latin American (Spanish language) areas with less than 200 msgs/month (less than 50 excluding those automatically generated), almost desert ruins of old areas without any organized echolist, moderators or responsible EC; Brazilian (Portuguese language) areas with 1k msgs/month; Italian areas with 1-2k msgs/month; and Hispanic Backbone (Spanish language) with 2-4k msgs/month. Statistics for each group are published monthly in STATS, WWB_SYSOP, REGCON.LAT and LATIN.SYSOP.

Regions: there are six regions listed in Zone 4: 4:80 Brasil, 4:85 Uruguay, 4:88 Chile, 4:90 Argentina, 4:93 Colombia and 4:97 Mexico. The table show echomail messages generated by each region in sum of WWB, Latin American and Hispanic areas, in the last 15 months:

Mon\Reg    80    85    90    93    97
Jan/00     69     -   107     -    27
Fev/00     86     6    45     -    32
Mar/00    139     3    53     -     -
Abr/00    189     -   280     -     -
Mai/00    241     -   222     -     -
Jun/00    168     -   168     -     -
Jul/00    147     -   143     -     -
Ago/00    103     -   112     -     -
Set/00     94     -   116     -     -
Out/00     55     -   173     -     -
Nov/00    132     -    76     -     -
Dez/00    216     -   174     -     -
Jan/01    322     -    82    84     -
Fev/01    379     -    65   106     -
Mar/01    392     -    66   141     -

In the last 12 months, only 3 regions generated echomail messages in the set of WWB, LA and Hispanic areas. Two always present (Brazil and Argentina) and more recently the new sysop in Colombia. Others aren't present for more than one year.

I want to invite all RCs, NCs and border nodes of our zone that aren't doing it yet to participate in the well organized echomail groups, mainly the Hispanic Backbone since it's the native language for almost all regions in the zone (except mine, but Brazilians are there too!). I've direct links with central hubs in each group and can forward it to all those in our zone interested by direct link or email (TransX, Mime/Base64 or UUEncode).

As soon as possible, site for our zone will be inaugurated. For the time being, related files are available in http://fidobrasil.8m.com, including the Zone 4 edition of nodelist and nodediffs.