30 Jun 16 16:01, you wrote to Björn Felten:

 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
 AI> to communicate with each other?

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

very...

 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
 AI> discuss the development of FD, or that the FTSC members have a private
 AI> area to discuss FTSC matters. There are many other examples of such
 AI> echoes as well.

if he can do it with those, then he can damned well do it for other restricted
access echos... SYSOP, FN_SYSOP and FIDO_SYSOP being the main ones i can think
of at the moment...

 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
 BF>> of 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
 AI> mean he should have access to FN_SYSOP or FIDO_SYSOP. He should not
 AI> have any access to those areas.

or other restricted access echos that he does not qualify for...

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

 AI> No. You have taken that from us.

pretty damned sad, isn't it...

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