AWL> Limited control over distribution.

RS> Yes, if you are a control freak, maybe. Seems remarkably 
RS> silly tho.

AWL> I don't want to be responsible (in an editorial sense) for any traffic. P4 
AWL> requires it. Therefor XT_ETC is not now nor ever shall be a FidoNet Echo. 
AWL> If someone ports it to FidoNet, they can deal with P4 liablility at the 
AWL> gateway.

Hey Alex, as a fidonet point, it isn't even you that P4 refers to.
It's your boss.  For that matter, I can assure you I couldn't
give a flying fuck about something as crappy as that, and if I
get sent to the gallows for gating your wanknet messages into
Fidonet, I will laugh at the society that I live in, for 10
seconds before my neck breaks.  I am happy to be a Martyr for
echomail messages.

Therefor, you can get your wanknet echo into Fidonet by following
the following simple procedure:

1. Become a point off me
2. Send me buckets of mail through your point address (you will 
be responsible for the STD calls).

But if you are offering Frank to receive the echo, then presumably
someone has already put it onto fidonet.  In fact, if you don't
list yourself as the moderator of the fidonet echo, then you 
won't be, and all you can control is the fidonetwanknet gate.

AWL> A requirement that I bow to P4 whenever it is invoked.

RS> Nope, there is obviously nothing in that
RS> that would be a problem for an XT echo.

AWL> As moderator of XT_ETC, I rule differently...

You really are thick, aren't you?  Because you're the moderator,
you're ruling that you have to bow to P4?

RS> As it is with LOCUSER

RS> And participants in it arent members of an unincorporated 
RS> association either.

AWL> But they could become one quite easily by adopting a set of rules, and 
AWL> doing anything (related to those rules) acting towards a common purpose...

LOCSYSOP does have some rules, that it's meant to be somehow
related to the Fidonet node 3:711/934.  That includes messages
like this which consider the possibility of the sysop of 
3:711/934 getting sued for buckets of money.  It doesn't include
Bill and his poofter mates wanking on about how many times the
letter 'A' appears in the word 'WANKER'.  These rules are subject
to change based on Brenton's whim (apparently).

So now that the echo has some rules and a purpose, exactly how
are you going to sue me?  BTW, this exact same thing could be
achieved by Keith ringing me up and saying "hey Paul, guess
what happened to me the other day".  Then Bill rings me up and
says "Hey Paul, guess what happened to me the other day", to
which I reply "very interesting, now let me tell you what 
happened to Keith the other day".  Are you saying that friends
ringing each other up are bound by law to tell all of their
friends all of the gossip that all of their other friends told
them?  As the ad says, "I'd like to see that!".  BFN.  Paul.
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