-=> LEE LOFASO wrote to WAYNE CHIRNSIDE <=-

 LL> Hello Wayne,

 >WC>Here using Doc's Place BBS I note a recent upturn in
 >WC>the fidonews echo after it went virtually dead for a couple of weeks.
 >WC>Has that moderator - sysop relented and lifted the feed cut or did you
 >WC>relink?
 >LL>"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain!"
 >LL>- The Wizard of Oz
 >LL>"Every sysop is encouraged to make this echo available to
 >LL>any user, that's interested in reading and writing in it."
 >LL>- Bjorn Felten, Moderator of the Fidonews echo
 >WC>Do you have a URL to this document?
 >WC>If so I'll post it to Ed Koon at Doc's Place.
 >LL>It is posted publicly every month in the fidonews echo.
 WC>In which event I've got it archived.

 LL> Keep it for future reference, same as rules for other echoes.

Actually I trippped over the bookmark for the current document in
my Misc folder.

 >LL>I am sure he has already read it.  ;)

 WC>So aren't I as of yesterday.

 LL> Not a problem.  Posted rules, unedited, in this echo.

 >WC>I've no desire in participating in the demise of fidonet.
 >LL>There are some remnants of fidonet that remain active.
 WC>Some.

 LL> Time to rebuild an empire!  :)

 >LL>"The Fidonews editor ... is the permanent moderator of this
echo."
 >LL>- Bjorn Felten, Editor of the Fidonews newsletter, and the Permanent
 >LL>Moderator of the Fidonews echo
 >WC>Yes but not the zone 1 mod right?
 >LL>There is no such animal.

 WC>Steve Asher begs to differ in a post to me in this very echo.

 LL> Not at all.  He merely unlinked the fidonews echo (and a few other
 LL> echoes) from his BBS.

OK, I inquired about that but he didn't address THAT point. 

 >WC>As I was led to believe those responsiblities are broken down into
 >WC>regional authority.
 >LL>The only authority that exists is the editor of the fidonews newsletter
 >LL>and permanent moderator of the fidonews echo, Bjorn Felten, as stated
 >LL>in the official rules of the fidonews echo (document cited above).
 WC>Well until I've an actual sysops word for it I can't risk another
 WC>BBS being cut due to myself posting there.

 LL> Bjorn Felten is a sysop.  Does his word count?

You Betcha.

 WC>Actually Cassell claims he no longer runs a BBS but rather instead
 WC>the Eastern Star NNTPD server.

 LL> Who cares?

Not I.

 >LL>In regards to the fidonews echo, any "moderator" other than
 >LL>Bjorn Felten should be ignored as they are nothing but pretenders
 >LL>to the throne.

 >WC>Sounds right but I want confirmation, thusly I'll forward
 >WC>this to Steve in this
 >LL>Steve already has a copy of that documentation, and has read it.

 >WC>echo as well as to Ed Koon to see his response.

 >LL>Ed can easily find it posted in the fidonews echo, as it is posted
 >LL>each and every month in public for all to see.

 >WC>I very much wish to participate in discussions with a certain number of
 >WC>Europeans and Scandinavians.
 >LL>The moderator of the fidonews echo has banned no one from
 >LL>participating.
 WC>Nevertheless Ed Koon DID cut my posting privileges for a time
 WC>so I guess he either does not accept that view or can't be bothered
 WC>to verify your argument.

 LL> There is no argument, as the rules clearly state -

 LL> "Every sysop is encouraged to make this echo available to
 LL> any user, that's interested in reading and writing in it."
 LL> - Bjorn Felten, Moderator of the Fidonews echo

 LL> "Every sysop" - regardless of zone.
 LL> "any user" - regardless of zone.
 LL> "reading and writing in it" - full participation.

 WC>Other people do have lives you know.

 LL> Time is a very precious commodity.  How we spend it is up to us.

 WC>I'm largely bedridden with a computer at my side 18 inches away.

 LL> So is Stephen Hawking

Had to bring HIM up!

That'sa about the ONLY time I feel I'm not so bad off.
Are you aware those with his condition usaully don't survive past 19?

Oh yeah and his latest thing about giant roving nomadic alien raider
threats I find ridiculous.

In any case we've a few tens of thousands of years before they could ever get
here unless they manage to circumvent the speed of light limitation.

 >WC>Don't worry as I won't post to that echo from your BBS, nor
 >WC>any others suggested to me by someone.

>LL>It is up to each individual sysop whether to carry, or not to carry,
 >LL>the fidonews echo on his/her system.  The same goes for any other echo,
 >LL>not just the fidonews echo.

WC>Well I can telnet into that BBS you suggested and ASK the sysop there.
 WC>ISTR synchonet boards being very Linux telnet compatable.

 LL> Be kind.  Especially to your web-footed friends.  Let them know
 LL> what echoes you are interested in, and most sysops would be glad
 LL> to help (including adding an echo if you ask nicely).  Those who
 LL> refuse to be of help aren't worth the bother, in which case you
 LL> simply move on to another BBS.  :)

Hey and Lee, I just ordered my new motherboard this morning for 3 day UPS 
delivery.

An internet google search for problems related to this board came
up returning a mere 201 links and most of those caught were the result
of "no problems."

Check out the stats AM3/AM2+/AM2 up to DDR2 1066 or even DDR3
Max processor 140 watt multicore.

I'm going with an AMD dual core 64 5200 Brisbane and two
sticks of DDR2 Crucial SDRAM memory 1024 800 to start off

3 USB2 with cable and six more headers on the M.B.
2xPCI/2xPCIe1/2xPCIe16 slots

1xATA IDE master - slave
6xSATA II

So I'm moving from a 1998 IBM 32 bit Aptiva with 450 MHz Pentium II Deshutes
alpha
to a 2.7 GHz AMD dual core 64 bit!

A pretty fair jump in performance I can expect no? ;-)

Oh baby!

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