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echo: fidonews
to: ALAN IANSON
from: JANIS KRACHT
date: 2016-06-02 10:58:00
subject: Dictatorship in Fidonet

Hi Alan,

>> LOL! Almost a verbatim similarity to the rules that Janis "wrote" for
>> that other echo. I wonder why nobody discovered the huge mistake already
>> then.

> They were never Janis's rules. I suspect someone at the begining copied those
> rules..

Indeed, very true.  I changed one line at the top when I relisted Fido_sysop to
indicate we no longer have a current IC, current moderator, etc. and later I
added rule 12 after the membership of the echo voted on that rule addition.

> That rule file was from 2001. Here's a snippet of a rule file for
> FIDO_SYSOP from 2004..

> mid-March, mid-October, mid-february.

Yep... :)

> I don't think all this timing stuff is important. If an election is needed
> we'll have it. In FIDO_SYSOP we did have it and we did elect a moderator.
> That's enough.

Also very true :)

Take care,
Janis

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