On 2/09/2016 5:48 AM, Alan Ianson -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> Maybe you could try a logical explanation as to why that echo must be
 DD>> limited to only sysops.

 AI> We are a little beyond logical explanations now, don't you think?

To go beyond something you have to have already reached it.

 DD>> Just saying so may have worked with your son, but I am way past 5 or 6
 DD>> yo - I require a convincing reason to believe.

 AI> The questions and answers in this case are not hard and have been made.
 AI> You (and a few others) have chosen to ignore them.

Not one person has presented a logical case as to why FN_SYSOP and FIDO_SYSOP
should be accessible today only by sysops.

Some have suggested that it is because it has always been so. Many things have
always been so, but as time moves on they are no more.

Some have suggested that it is because "sysop" is in the tag. "United States"
is in the name of that country to your south, but I have yet to see an
affiliated collection of states any less united. The echo tags are "just a
name".

Some have suggested that it is because these echoes are for the discussion of
"renegade users". Both echoes are international in coverage. No-one has
mentioned an international renegade user in the echoes in years - we do not
have such in users (users are a rare breed anywhere).

Not one person has presented a proposition as to what detriment there is to
Fidonet having non-sysops access these echoes. Fidonet is about communication -
the more participants the more communication.

So far no convincing arguments as to why I (and others) should alter the access
settings at my (our) node(s).

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Regards
David

E&OE

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