Re: Re: Alleged hijacking
  By: Earl Croasmun to Joe Delahaye on Mon Jun 13 2016 09:06:12

 >>What you are forgetting here, is that the EList is NOT part of Fidonet.
 >>It is a private list, which lists echos from Fido, and othernets.  It
 >> has no authority

 EC> It has whatever authority someone assigns to it. If a sysop gets a message
 EC> saying "one of your users has repeatedly violated the rules of
my echo, in
 EC> spite of repeated warnings from me," and the sysop knows
nothing about the
 EC> echo 
 EC> or the person, hopefully the first thing they would do is check the list
 EC> to see 
 EC> if that was the actual moderator. Seems like a valuable and convenient
 EC> service for everyone, without getting hung up on the notion of
 EC> "authority." 

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.  If all moderators would use it, then
it would make checked on who is moderator, so much easier.  As I am sure that
David will inform us, the moderator has no authority either, to remove anyone,
or tell an abuser that he/she is going against the rules etc.
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