On Sat, 20 Dec 2014, John Kelly wrote to Mark Lewis:

-> JK> The echo was working for me before you took over. I get no 
-> JK> benefit from your efforts.

-> and when the next purge of non-echolisted areas came, the echo would 
-> have been removed...

 JK> Removed from what? The backbone?

the backbones that require echolisting for cartage over their links...

 JK> Or you mean nobody, nohwere, would see it?

if it were removed from the current links via the various backbones that
carry it, yes, it would be cut off and no traffic would flow... at most
would be private little separated islands... maybe confined to individual
systems or possible clusters of interconnected systems...

-> you do get benefit even if you are/were not aware of it ;)

 JK> Thanks for your efforts making it available to people. That is 
 JK> truly helpful. But please leave it at that, and quit the 
 JK> moderators job. It's obviously a headache for you.

really? it hasn't been in all this time... it is only recently that
anything close to moderation has been seen as desired...

 JK> I volunteer. My only rules are:

 JK> a) No top posting. And trim your quoted text.

 JK> b) No repetitive or pointless profanity.

 JK> c) No spamming off topic ads, e.g, viagra, penile enlargement, etc.

 JK> d) No relentless off topic threads. Chit chat is not categorically
 JK> prohibited, but at some point it must die.

 JK> Other than that, I won't play Daddy in charge. With so little 
 JK> traffic here, it's an easy job.

those are pretty close to those i post, aren't they?? i certainly don't
want to and never have tried to act like ""daddy in
charge""... if you want the task and can maintain the
echolisting, contact me in private and we can go from there... otherwise,
perhaps we should maybe hold an election or something? that hasn't been
mentioned but i am not against to it...

)\/(ark