Earl Croasmun -> Bob Klahn wrote:
 ~>>  However, in trying to encourage others to violate the rules in
 ~>>  my echo you are trying to sabatoge my echo.

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

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

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

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

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

Are you trying to short out his last three remaining brain cells?  :)

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