>When somebody lists an echo that is in use in a different zone, and manages to
> get it accepted by the list keeper, over the objections of the moderator of
> that echo, then I think it is wrong.

It seems like there is a very easy to avoid that ever happening. If the
echo tag was already listed in a nice, convenient, easily accessible list
of echoes, the duplication would never happen.

As for your statement "I think it is wrong," I understand that
opinion and I respect it. But I can think of at least two very different
reasons WHY it could be considered wrong.

Pragmatically, it could cause bleed-over between the two echoes: people
posting in one thinking it was the other, some systems dropping posts from
both into the same message base, general confusion. But in this instance it
was a private echo, only in one zone, and "made available by moderator
invitation-only."

Or you might think it is wrong because it is not polite to the moderator in
the "different zone." I suppose that if politeness were a
criterion to be on the list, there would have never been echoes with names
like "Wittless" (not subtle at all) or "Spot on Our
Lungs" (subtle only to those who do not know the backstory).

But if people in that zone ignore the echolist, how would they even know of
the impoliteness? 

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