On 2017 Apr 07 23:19:18, you wrote to me:

 ml>>>> i haven't seen the FAQ posted in a long time... you can
close it if
 ml>>>> you like but i would keep the echolisting in place if
it were me...

 DH>>> I've never had a copy of the FAQ, so that would explain why I
 DH>>> haven't posted it! :-) Do you want the job?

 ml>> oh wow! i wonder who it was that took over the echo some years back
 ml>> that i gave a copy of that FAQ to? that was, i'm guessing, roughly 20
 ml>> years ago... i don't even know if i still have a copy here any
 ml>> more... i'll have to dig around on the main system and see if it is
 ml>> still hiding out there...

 AL> Gord Hannah, IIRC.

i definitely remember gord's name... what i remember about that situation
was that someone had the echo and was posting the FAQ... they disappeared
and someone else took over but they didn't have the FAQ... i sent it to
them... now we have what is a similar situation... i just don't recall if
it was gord that i sent the FAQ to or not...

 ml>> as for "the job", which one? the one of moderator or the one of
 ml>> posting the FAQ (if the FAQ still exists somewhere)?

 AL> I might have to check out some old backups to see if I still have a
 AL> copy somewhere.

if the echo is archived over on ozzmosis, they may have a copy, too...

[time passes]

YUP! it was gord that got the echo relisted in the echolist back in
2002/2003 and took over the moderatorship... he posted the 12 post primer
from then until Mar 2011... richard webb took over the echo in Jun 2011...
in his rules, he posted this link to the COMM primer which is the FAQ,
IIUC...

  http://www.filegate.net/epub/ep-ascii/comprimr.zip

it looks like dallas took over moderatorship Sep 2014 and started posting
the rules with MSGPOST... this was after richard left fidonet and handed
all of his echos over to others... dallas and i were benefecieries as was
another couple of folks...

here's two links to the COMM archive on ozzmosis...

newest posts
  https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/comm

the initial posts
  https://fidonet.ozzmosis.com/echomail.php/comm/2000

the second link will change as more posts are archived...

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