TY MEISSNER was thinking about Re: Expiration Warning and keyed into 
cyberspace:
TM>	 Mr. Probert is the self-proclaimed ultimate authority here, as
You are correct. I am an authority here. You see, I happened to have 
read the rules. You didn't.
TM>	 anyone who archives these messages can easily see.   I suppose
TM>	 some moderators like that because they think it takes some 
burden
TM>	 off them.
TM>	 Actually Fidonet is structured entirely for the benefit of BBS
TM>	 sysops.   Conference moderators have no more political pull 
than
TM>	 you or I if they aren't BBS sysops, or unless they are friends 
of
TM>	 the Fido admins.
I suggest you read the rules. A complaint from a CH through the FIDO 
hierarchy can result in a permanent ban. 
TM>	 With the advent of the internet, these folks don't have 
exclusive
TM>	 right to control the nets.   I don't think Dia is a rigid 
control
TM>	 freak, at not to the extent that some folks are (YOU know who 
you
TM>	 are ;-).   That's why BBSs have been going down like flies in
TM>	 winter.   I would be very surprised (and happily surprised) if
TM>	 Fidonet were to still be in existence 10 years from now.
TM>	 One reason this conference has been going downhill is there has
TM>	 been VERY LITTLE discussion of alternative medicine is that the
TM>	 one-trick ponies here have been having this years long white 
hot
TM>	 harangue about ADD and ADHD (neither of which I see as a
TM>	 'medicine' alternative or otherwise.   As long as these folks 
are
TM>	 allowed to usurp Dia's authority as moderator (and it is SHE 
who
TM>	 has allowed this state of affairs), this conference will 
continue
TM>	 to lose participants.
The ADHD issue has long been over. 
               The Few. The Proud. The Chosen.
                     markprobe@aol.com
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