Jeff Smith wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:


 JS>      Before I presented the idea publically I wanted to get some
 JS> input from people and from you too. 

I guess I missed the netmail or email that you may have sent asking me.


 TL> From the statements in the first two sentances above, are you saying
 TL> that is not how the echolist is operated at this time?

 JS>      That is how I peceived it to be looked at by Roy and several
 JS> others. I worded my question that way to Roy to find out just what
 JS> the conflict between you and him started from. 

Let's see, I guess I also missed that message....but that's OK, you're
choosing to do your business in a public venue.


 JS> There are several
 JS> concerns about the current state of affairs regarding the Elist
 JS> that people have expressed. 

I am trying to find them....apparently they didn't comminicate those
concerns to me....please ask them to forward to me.

 JS> I can't speak to the complaints of some
 JS> because I personally have not experienced them in my dealings with
 JS> you reagarding the Elist. The concerns that I pesonally have are
 JS> your statements that the Elist and Fidonet are down toward the
 JS> bottom of your ladder of priorities. 

Yes, they are....but that doesn't mean they are ignored.

 JS> That and the fact that you
 JS> have taken a number of steps to make the Elist unreachable via
 JS> netmail to many in Fidonet. 

Ah, routed netmail doesn't work?  And email is not available?  I'm tryiung
to figure out how a Fidnet node could not communicate via either routed
netmail or email....has the technology changed?

 JS> To me that says that your interest in
 JS> the maintenance of the Elist is diminishing. 

How would you know?  I don't recall submitting logs to you.

 JS> Also as a result you
 JS> appear to be letting your personal opinions affect your treatment
 JS> of people that use the Elist. Another reason for asking Roy if
 JS> treating people equally and working to maintain accuracy and
 JS> integrity were important factors was because those are important to
 JS> me. 

Really, please tell me more.....be factual, as your opinions are simply
that, opinions.  There are folks in Fidonet of which I have very negative
opinions....but they are free to list echoes, modify their listings, delete
them....There are also folks in Fidonet who I respect quite a bit...and the
same operations are available to them.

 JS>      In preperation for the task of maintaining the/an Elist. I
 JS> registered a domain name (ECHOLIST.ORG) and setup a website to
 JS> support and provide HTTP access to the Elist. 


You could always do what I did.....put it up and see if it's used.... 
But I suspect you would feel more comfortable doing that after you've
whipped up the troops a bit more.  

cya,
thom
http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/ 
--- GEcho 1.20/Pro