Jeff Smith wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:


 JS>     Ummm.. Thom. You are the one that brought this subject up.
 JS> Remember? I had simply asked a general question about the Elist.
 JS> You chose to approach me here and broach the subject. Let's not try
 JS> to twist things around ok? 

Gee, didn't look that way to me.


 JS>     Are you capable of receiving updates via direct crash netmail?

No, and that has been general knowledge for a while.

 JS> Given the security concerns that many/most might have.

And the concerns are what? That someone could hijack their echo?  That
might be a valid point IF there was not a human echolist keeper.

 JS> communication in Fidonet and most other FTN's that you would
 JS> deliberately avoid being available via direct netmail. Are you
 JS> reachable? Yes, but only though the channels that you prefer. It
 JS> would seem that if your goal was to make the Elist available to all
 JS> you would make the Elist available via as many paths of
 JS> communication as possible. But hey, maybe thats just me.

I have made the echolist avalaible via netmail and email....

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

You are entitled to your opinin...which doesn;t mean that it is an accurate
depiction of anythin other than your opinion.

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

 JS>     Not needed Thom. You have expressed your discontent with
 JS> people, and Fidonet a number of times. People have gotten a fair
 JS> sense of how you feel from your own posts and words.


Yes...and I have expressed my discontent with the folks who run my
neighborhood association....and in spite of that, I still testify before
city agencies, I still get appointed to task forces and local elected
officials still solicit my comments...which tells me that being a known
discontented person doesn't disqualfy me from performing various duties.



 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.


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

 JS>      Actually that was my first intention. I made the decision to
 JS> wait awhile after talking to Janis. In either case I also wanted to
 JS> talk to you prior to making it public. But you chose to make it
 JS> public here. 

Ahm, you chose to put out feelers here....please be accurate.

Basewd on your actions, I have no comfort level that you would have been
forthright and contacted me.

I can tell you that over the years each person who attempted to subvert the
echolist, its keeper has failed....

Who knows, maybe your attempt will succeed....I'll wait and see.

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