I can't press a magical Forward button it would seem, but I'll quote his
original message to you that I replied to since you said you didn't get it.
 
 
 
> Jeff Smith wrote in a message to All:
 
> JS>    I acknowledge Allen's interest in reviving dead echos by
> JS> injecting them with activity from the internet. And compliment him
> JS> for his efforts to filter the incoming messages from the
> JS> newsgroups. But a lingering question in my mind is "Is this the
> JS> best answer?".
 
> Ah..what would you propose....say having a set number of echoes a person
> could list?  Moderators need to get someones permission to list echoes?
 
> The biggest reason folks can collect echotags is that other folks don't
> have the interest to keep their listings active.
 
> The last echo-collector of note in Fidonet is no longer active as a
> collector....and the tags were/are being recycled.
 
> Hopefully Allen will quickly tire of raising the dead and either let the
> listings lapse or simply keep them as place holders.
 
> One could also state that if we don't like folks relisiting echoes, all
> we need to do is relist them ourselves...and either make the echoes
> active, or preserve the name as place-holders....If we don't do that,
> then why complain about something we have so little interest in we can't
> be bothered to participate?
 
 
> JS>     From the Echolist I see that 191 echos are controled by 8
> JS> people and 112 echos are controled by just 2 people. This grabbing
> JS> of echos has been done by others in the past.
 
> Relisting an expired echo tag is simply relisting something....why use a
> negative term like grabbing?
 
> JS> We all can remember
> JS> their names and the effect that it had on our hobby.
 
> Exactly what effects did it have, not only in the short run, but in the
> long run?
 
> JS> One of the
> JS> things that I have liked about this network is it's diversity. With
> JS> ideas, opinions, and thoughts coming in from many differant
> JS> directions. A hobby where control is not at the direction of a
> JS> smaller and smaller group of people.
 
 
> But Fidonet is shrinking...so there are less and less people in the
> universe.
 
> Criticise the folks not taking action....but you'll find a large number
> of them simply don't care.
 
> cya,
> thom
> http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/
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