Bob Stout wrote in a message to All:

 BS> Your recent behavior would have easily warranted action in the
 BS> past. Obviously, things have changed. You have your free speech
 BS> rights and everyone else has to pay for it. With the contraction of
 BS> FidoNet, perhaps the feeling is that even obnoxious members are
 BS> better than no members. 

I used to occasionally get "free speech" thrown at me while
moderating,  and this doesn't apply.  The (US) constitutional guarantee of
free speech says _only_ one thing:  That *GOVERNMENT* isn't allowed to
restrict what people can say.  The actions of a moderator in trying to keep
an echo focused on the topic of that echo isn't government,  by a long
shot,  it's maintaining the quality of that echo to the benefit of the rest
of the participants,  those who are here to discuss and learn about c
programming.  Anybody posting in here on any other topic dilutes that for
the rest of us (me putting this post in here included).

Enough said.

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