~>  However, in trying to encourage others to violate the rules in
~>  my echo you are trying to sabatoge my echo.

That is still paranoid nonsense, just as it was every other time you
trotted it out.  The only people who can sabotage your echo are (a) you and
(b) sysops who carry the echo and who don't enforce moderator rulings.  The
(b) part hasn't been an issue for several years, so that just leaves (a): you.

The reciprocity rule was put into place in this echo more than three months
ago: "Henceforth, users of this echo will be expected to follow the rules
of this echo (not new yet) AND the rules of the echo or echoes that they
moderate (that is the new part).  This should go without saying, of course.
 If you put something in your rules, that is an expression of YOUR opinion
of how people (including you) should behave.  But apparently it doesn't go
without saying, so now it is said.  If you think personal attacks, for
example, are wrong, then don't engage in them yourself."

That does not affect your echo in any way.  Only YOU can affect your echo.
 In this instance, you have had the opportunity for the last three months
to serve as a role model for posters in fidonet, by following your own
rules.  But the flip side is that you also have had the opportunity to show
yourself to be a hypocrite by not being willing (or able) to follow your
own rules.

You have repeatedly assured one and all that you always follow the rules of
whatever echo you are in.  If that is true, then every post you have made
in THIS echo since September 8 has been acceptable under the rules of YOUR
echo.  You have gone BEYOND simply having abstractly-worded rules, to offer
your users operational examples of what is permitted in your echo.

But if it is not true, then you owe it to your users to specify what you
have posted in THIS echo in the last three months that violates YOUR rules.
 So, Bob, have you broken any of your rules in the last three months?

 
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