On 18 Aug 96  10:23:48, Paul Sanders wrote to Hamish Moffatt:



Hi Paul,



 HM>By what process were you appointed? I saw no announcement by a major

 HM>backbone site or by the ZEC or even yourself, only warnings and now this

 HM>rule posting. Please forward me a copy of the announcement if you would.

 HM>Netmail is fine.



 PS> He was elected by the majority that chose to vote.



Actually there wasn't any voting. Greg Hope was strongly against

moderation and suddenly he called fo nominations. A while later he

announced there were only 2 wolunteers but one didn't want the job.

So Greg announced the moderator. It looked strange to me, first that

change in opinion on Greg's side, then suprisingly quick result. But

personally I have no problems with his rules.



 PS> Dave Hatch gave his blessing. Isn't that good enough.



That's true but it doesn't seem good enough to commercial

advertisers who used this echo before - the echo is dead now. They

probably wanted an echo for ads, not one like this where a potencial

buyer has to sift through discussions and comments to find

something. As for my opinion on comments: true, some ask for it but

on the other hand a lot of small guys trying to do a good job and

sell well below "Harvey Norman" prices has to cope constantly with

"Bozzo Brown sells that $5 cheaper". They do get pissed off, they

can't buy containers of hard drives and a pallet of video cards do

get better prices so they go somewhere else.



I suppose this message wasn't on topic either but I don't expect to

loose much action if I get banned from here...



Cheers,

Tom             



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