09 Dec 06 16:45, Jeff Smith wrote to Roy Witt:

 JS>>>      After your announcement of the crash. I was amazed at how
 JS>>> soon a number of people wanted to restructure echo distributions,
 JS>>> setup temporary Z2 nodelist processing and even setup a temporay
 JS>>> Z2C.
 RW>> Too bad they didn't succeed before he got it fixed.
 JS>      Would not the chaos that resulted have been worse?

For a few days. Once it's settled out, they can move on without the
dictator.

 JS>>> If it had been possible I was temped to speak up and say come on
 JS>>> people... give the guy a chance.
 RW>> Why? He wouldn't do the same for you.

 JS>      Oh... I think he would. Regardless of whether I like someone's
 JS> atitude or POV. If they are real need I can set aside my personal
 JS> POV and offer a helping hand. I would like to think that Ward would
 JS> do the same.

Doubtful.

 JS>>> I also agreed with Michiel in that making sudden and drastic
 JS>>> changes in a knee jerk reaction to something that can and will be
 JS>>> worked out in a matter of days

 RW>> You should have seen how quickly Michiel jumped into the HAM echo
 RW>> and attempted to take it over as moderator when my system went down
 RW>> and I had no means to get it back online until the utility company
 RW>> put the power lines back up after a California brush fire near my
 RW>> home. Fortunately, there were people here who knew who the echo
 RW>> moderator was and didn't allow him to move right in and make himself
 RW>> at home.

 JS>      There are a number of things and POV's that I dislike about
 JS> Michiel. But that doesn't mean that I am unwilling to say that I
 JS> agree with him when I think he is right.

What it does is point out that anyone can be childish at times. Michiel
isn't above that, given the opportunity.

 JS>>> was not the best way to deal with the situation. It would have
 JS>>> been real easy to have made the situation much worse. That is of
 JS>>> course just MHO.

 RW>> Yes, a naive one for sure.

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