AM> What was the story there?

RS> Some of them went so far that some of the more sane Telecomers
RS> couldnt even stomach the worst of the abuse and even publicly
RS> apologised for their behaviour. BOG appeared to actually get struck
RS> off forever.

RS> The moderator, another Telecomer, basically did attempt to try to
RS> stop the worst of the attacks, but Greg appeared to get sick of it
RS> anyway. Damned shame, its rare to see such senior people in the know
RS> in an specialised echo.

AM> I also wonder whether someone like this would be left with the
AM> impression that all of Fidonet is like this...  Given the nature and
AM> position and calibre of this sort of person, it doesn't exactly do a
AM> hell of a lot of good for the modeming community as a whole...

True. He appeared to be a very easy going and helpful fellow, a bit
shocked at the abuse he was getting. OTOH I doubt that the extremely
rabid and one eyed fanaticism from the Telecom union against Optus came
as any surprise, presumably he was well aware of that before rocking up
in the echo. Hopefully he just puts it down to more of that coz with the
exception of a very few people, the rabid attackers were all Telecomers
and mostly made no bones about their affiliation.

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