HI Anne,

Anne Page wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

AP> LOL.  What would you have done if weeks went by and you kept posting
AP> "Is anybody here?" messages with no replies ever being posted? 
AP> Would you keep going into the echo and doing that for more than a
AP> few months?  That is why I stopped and why I told Thom that I
AP> considered it a dead echo that could go away from the backbone.  But
AP> I wasn't the one updating it in my name and I didn't know who was
AP> doing it and at that point was not interested in contacting the
AP> person myself if Thom could figure out who it was and ask him to
AP> take it off his updating utility program that did the renewing
AP> automatically. 

Were you accessing fido through the same system you are now?  Just curious
about that one.  IF so, frank's ben around a long time, and is in fact a
former fidonews editor.  I'm sure he would or should have been able to
steer you to the right place.

I'd been away from Fido for a number of years before I put a system back up
and don't know how long you'd been away before Roger and CIndy took over
the echo. I'm sure glad they did . Anyway, Frank should have
interceded.  I know TOm does a lot of this and has for years with echolist
management through automation.  IF he was doing the auto updates for you he
should have ceased at that time. If he wasn't then that person should have,
but if they were doing it without your knowledge or conscent that wasn't
good either.
Were I a moderator of an echo and not a sysop I would have made sure I knew
how moderator updates were to be processed and made arrangements however.

There are a couple of fido folk who will do auto updates for users that
moderate echoes, but as a  system operator myself I handle that chore for
the one echo I moderate.

Anyway, it all worked out, and the echo is still alive .

NOw to keep this topical, glad to be moving in one respect.  the new place
will be safer for my rott and she won't have to be crated as much when I'm
busy in the office . Right now she spends more time in the crate
than I"d like when I must spend time at my  desk and the wife is away.

Regards,
           Richard
... A good captain is hoisting his first drink in a bar when the storm hits.
--- timEd 1.10.y2k+