Hello Ward,

21 Apr 19 20:14 at you wrote to me:

 WD> Your reasoning is as good as mine, but neither has been tested really.

I'd like to think that it wouldn't be tested.

 WD> At that point a minor technicality comes into play ... "what
 WD> determines who the moderator is?" ... and there's no uniform way of
 WD> defining it between the zones...

Indeed.  I would have to say that a "gentlemans' agreement" would have to be 
the probable solution as in all parties involved that there is one caretaker 
of the echo.  Not to start a war with this but that's why the echolist 
(amongst various reasons) is in existance in Z1.  I know that other zones 
don't agree with it but that's not my point here.  The echolist can establish 
who the moderator is publically without arguing the point to death.  I don't 
know how that's handled in other zones so I can only speak from my experience.

However, in today's Fidonet, I'd say that it would be common knowledge of who 
a moderator is in a particular echo.  There's not many of us left in Z1 who 
moderate echoes.  I moderate 15 echoes myself now and there's rarely a reason 
to actually moderate though when it's needed, it's needed, if that makes 
sense.

I'm mainly there as a caretaker now.

(I didn't select the tagline on this message, really.)

Later,
Sean

... Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.
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