01 May 20 05:32, you wrote to Eric Oulashin:

 Ol>>>>> Obviously "Daniel" cannot be real. He has not even a Real Name
 Ol>>>>> (TM) or a node number.

 D>>>> Are you pulling my leg?

 LL>>> Only when I mistake it for a fire hydrant.

 EO>> I think you're replying to the wrong person. I didn't write the
 EO>> message you quoted, and I rarely read the FIDONEWS echo..

 ml> so it started with just his use of only his first name instead of his
 ml> first and last real name in his postings followed by a note that he
 ml> wasn't listed as the sysop of the BBS he was using...

 ml> that's another problem that many in here have glombed onto, too...
 ml> they think that every poster is the sysop of the board they post
 ml> from... this because BBS users are a rare commodity these days and
 ml> most of the posters in here are sysops... plus the huge fact that so
 ml> many in non-US locations haven't had users in like two decades which
 ml> is/was generally blamed on the cost of local phone calls so they
 ml> pushed folks more and more to being point systems and thus operators
 ml> and we come full circle on the "all posters are operators" fallacy...

some people need a big irony emoticon attached to the text (and than an
explanation what this emoticon means) before they recognize irony.

 ml> so anyway, just another fidonet-style spat that someone stirred up...
 ml> kinda like what we've seen in years past that many of us had thought
 ml> was finally over with :shrug:

having some guy that behaves like an asshole as a ZC doesn't help.