Hi Earl,

On 2016-06-14 10:03:10, you wrote to Joe Delahaye:

 >> The problem here is, that while I agree with you that it is a handy
 >> tool, not all moderators use that list.  In fact some absolutely refuse
 >> to use it, mainly because it is located here in Z1 I think.

 EC> Before I started reading some of the posts in fidonews, I would not have
 EC> believed that reason. Now, I believe it. If the listkeeper (actually the
 EC> listkeeper bot) had some sort of power like a European monarch to grant or
 EC> withhold echo status, that would be one thing. But it is just a list, a
 EC> directory, a map.

Unfortunately that is not how it is. The current elist keeper has shown to
be quite biased when it comes to maintaining the list where it involves
cross zone matters. The late Roy Witt once registered a bogus area with the
name of one of our local areas, which was clearly intended just to annoy
and insult. When I asked the keeper politely to remove that area from the
list, I was basically laughed at. So I returned the favor and also
registered such an area. That was met with quite some hostility from the
keeper, the area was removed immediately, and I was even threatened, by the
keeper, to be removed from fidonet if I kept doing that! The bogus area by
Roy Witt was only automatically purged from the list after he failed to
update it after he died...

Bye, Wilfred.

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