On 07/01/16, Björn Felten said the following...
 
 BF>    Sorry, no can do. By default everybody have reading access to every
 BF> echo on my BBS. If I offer my computer resources to the fidonet
 BF> community I fucking well think I have the right to decide what to do
 BF> with those resources -- e.g. my BBS.

So you have decided that that we should/can not have a sysop only area to
communicate with each other?

How very inconsiderate and dishonourable of you, but thanks for the honesty.

 BF>    Except for (from the top of my head) two echoes where the moderators
 BF> specifically asked me to limit even read access: FDBETA and FTSC.

It is not surprising that the FD beta team has a private area to discuss the
development of FD, or that the FTSC members have a private area to discuss
FTSC matters. There are many other examples of such echoes as well.

 BF>    So keep on reading as much as you like. Here, as well as in all the
 BF> other JamNNTPd servers around the world. Funny thing is that nobody of
 BF> the Z1 bullies of yours seemed to notice that I didn't even have
 BF> FIDO_SYSOP available here until the "brouhaha", but that you still
 BF> posted comments made there in one of the echoes where you still know you
 BF> have total read/write freedom -- this one.

Lee should have read and write access to most echoes but that doesn't mean he
should have access to FN_SYSOP or FIDO_SYSOP. He should not have any access
to those areas.

Don't we also have the freedom to communicate between ourselves?

No. You have taken that from us.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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