> 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 zon
>matters. The late Roy Witt once registered a bogus area with the name of one o
> 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 automaticall
> purged from the list after he failed to update it after he died...

I do not know the specifics of your example, and the specifics might be
off-topic. But at a general level, it seems like an UNbiased list keeper
would let the unbiased bot run based on what gets submitted to it, while a
biased list keeper would intervene and make case-by-case decisions (or give
in to special-pleading requests to make case-by-case decisions) on which
listings to permit. Just as in political philosophy, there is a big
difference between making decisions by deductive application of abstract
principles and making decisions by the subjective decision of an
individual.



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