I am getting quite tired of replying to Rod's part 1/10E6 
messages, so I have been putting it off.  I've decided to
just skip it and go back to it later, as there are indeed
some times in my life where I have nothing better to do.  

 PE>> Which is why any excuse about someone else knowing your
 PE>> password won't wash. You might want to FREQ POLICY4.* from
 PE>> here. If I don't follow that I will get booted out of Fidonet.
 PE>> So if you do something bad, I have to show that I have taken
 PE>> action, otherwise there will be no mail for anyone. BFN. Paul.

 BL>   No... all I have to do is not let you know about it. No one can
 BL> accuse you of being slack when you asked me for a new password when
 BL> the old one was still a virgin. Not even Father O'Malley knew it.

 BL>   As I understand it, you sysops are controlled by fido policy, but us
 BL> users have no rights, or responsibilites either. I could run an ad in
 BL> the SMH publishing my password. What's it got to to with fido - as
 BL> long as you don't know I'm doing it?

 BL>   For all you know, my real name may be Ebenezer Eisenstein-Smith.

Well yes you can take out ads, and it won't matter a damn
until your userid posts 4000 messages in DR_DEBUG.  As soon
as that happens, I will be getting a "please explain very
quickly" message, which I will respond to by saying "I'm
extremely sorry about that, I have deleted the user".  It's
only if I fail to take action that I will get kicked out,
because then I am being annoying as a recurring event.

A sysop (or more to the point, the owner of the node number
which is listed in the nodelist) takes responsibility for
all messages entering the system, which is the only sensible
way to run things.  The other members of Fidonet only have
to argue the toss with the sysop, and it is the sysop who has
to argue the toss with the users (including points).  It
seems to work OK as far as I can tell.  The only problems are
technical problems (like lost mail going via 20 different
systems running 10 different software packages, and no-one on
the path is interested in anything except FLYING, ASTRONOMY,
etc etc).  BFN.  Paul.
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--- Mksmsg