Text 4147, 43 rader
Skriven 2004-12-21 21:03:01 av Roy Witt (1:10/22)
   Kommentar till text 3938 av Carol Shenkenberger (1:261/1466.0)
Ärende: Z1b <> Ep1
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Hello Carol.

18 Dec 04 22:48, you wrote to me:


 RW> ST>> What is your take on this?  Would you like to see an "official"
 RW> ST>> list of Fidonet echos?

 RW>> I'd like to see one, but not one that's "officially" a Fidonet echo
 RW>> list. Official implies that the *C structure has some control over
 RW>> it and they shouldn't have that control. Doing so means that the
 RW>> echoes we moderators maintain belong to Fidonet and as far as I'm
 RW>> concerned, the TAG belongs to me. If it comes to *C control, I'll
 RW>> remove my echoes from Fidonet.

 CS> I think I fall loosely in your camp on this.  I like having the elist
 CS> for the ease of looking things up, but not all my echos are in the
 CS> elist and I dont really care hat much about 'whos listed as
 CS> moderator'.  If I need to know, then it's an echo I have and I will
 CS> already know who that is.

I think a lot of us know who moderates which echoes. That, however isn't
so with some of those who are unfamiliar with the echoes and need a place
to find out what's available.

What I object to is the pretense that echoes are Fidonet echoes, which
IMO, they are not. Those echoes with *C moderators may go either way,
depending on the theme of the echo. Z1C, ZCC_PUBLIC, etc, are echoes that
are needed by the *Cs to communicate with the sysops, but they're not
necessarily 'Fidonet' echoes unless the *C makes it so. You've been around
long enough to know how Satti ruled on this subject, a long time ago.

 CS>   Granted folks might be a little confused about Asian_link though.
 CS> That one is technically Bobby Queen.  He even posts now and again
 CS> there (grin).

Yeah, but we're also familiar with the echolistings he's been grabbing as
they either expire or are abandoned by their moderators. If that's his
bag, so-beit.


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