19 Oct 15 02:50, you wrote to Leslie Given:

 LG>> 203/0   = Bjorn Felton in Norway. and or..
 LG>> 221/1 0 = Tommi Koivula in Ylojarvi, Finland.
 LG>> The same people who posted about just removing the Mystic echo months
 LG>> ago.

 JC> *IF* that is true and there are people intentionally restricting my
 JC> posts then wow thats sad :(

it isn't people intentionally restricting /your/ posts but systems that have
decided not to carry the area for one reason or another... where they failed is
that they did not send areafix disconnect messages to all of their links for
the areas they don't want to carry... they just removed them manually from
their tosser and that broke the distribution lines... some folks might want to
reconsider their linkages in light of this...

 JC> The MYSTIC echo has been around since the 1990s.  Its more active and
 JC> more on topic than most any other echo.  What motivation could someone
 JC> possibly have to blindly do something malicious like that?

in the case of the MYSTIC echo it was because someone saw a few of those gated
spams from the newsgroup side...

 JC> Its a shame too because Mystic has decent a presense here on FidoNet.
 JC> The network would be doing itself a pretty big disservice if it tries
 JC> to push Mystic and its SysOps off the network.

it isn't "the network"... it is a few individuals with their heads in their
nether regions...

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