Hello Alan,

 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.

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

Please.  Do not let me stop you from reading and writing messages
in your chat echo.  I would never do so, even if I could.

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

What are you mad about?  Bj”rn is not keeping you from reading and
writing messages in your chat echo.  Nor is anybody else.

 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.

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

If you want privacy, use netmail.  Or email.  Or old-fashioned
handwritten letters for correspondence.  But don't blame me, or
Bj”rn, or anybody else, for your own incompetence.

 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
 BF>> you have total read/write freedom -- this one.

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

When you get to be moderator of those echoes, feel free to dictate
your terms.  And you will be shown your own incompetence.

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

The only one who is stopping you from doing that is you.

 AI> No. You have taken that from us.

Bj”rn is Bj”rn.  I am me.  You are you.  Nobody can control
the actions of another.  Except for Giuseppi, when it comes to
Pinocchio.  But Pinocchio was too nosy for his own good, and
ruined a good thing ...

--Lee

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