Hello Mark,

>LL>Thom LaCosta's private elisting has no official status in Fidonet.
>LL>Janis Kracht (former Zone 1 Coordinator) told me that.

>RW>ONly correction I'll make to that is that Janis is not
>RW>"former" z1 coordinator, but is still z1 coordinator.

>LL>Only in her own mind.

>LL>Like members of a U.S. president's cabinet, each zone coordinator
>LL>serves only until a new international coordinator is elected.

ML>there is no international coordinator and likely will not be one...

Until now -

I hereby declare myself as being the one and only International
Coordinator of Fidonet, to do as I please if and when I want to.

ML>the ZCC takes care of the main job that the IC had...

And the main job is not defined.  And that means the IC can do
whatever he/she wants if and when he/she wants to.

>LL>The newly elected international coordinator might choose not to
>LL>appoint any zone coordinators, allowing those positions to remain
>LL>unfilled.

ML>can't/won't happen...

A self-appointed dictator can do whatever the heck he/she wants,
whenever he/she wants, if he/she wants.  Including doing nothing
at all.

ML>they would be lynched toot sweet and
ML>no one would pay any attention to them...

Hmmm.  Self-mutilation.  Never thought of doing that.  Not sure
if I want to do that.  Especially to myself.  :)

ML>[trim]

>RW>sysops will use it to determine the rightful moderator of
>RW>an echo for purposes of deciding to honor an access cut.

>LL>I can do the same, creating my own private elisting.
>LL>In fact, I already have.  And that makes me the official
>LL>owner/moderator/whateveryouwanttocallit of every echo
>LL>in fidonet.  :)

ML>that is why thom's list is the one that the backbones
ML>recognise and no others... this explains why your list is
ML>ignored like others ;)

It's a conspiracy, I tell you!  A conspiracy of sysops!  :)

--Lee


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