Anne Page wrote in a message to Roger Nelson:

 AP> This is super news for me.  It's been too many years to recall 
 AP> details but this is the basic scenario still in my mind.  Kathleen 
 AP> Weaver was the Moderator for several years I believe.  At whatever
 AP> point she left the Echo was not renewed the next time and was off 
 AP> the backbone for a short time.  Elvis Hargrove said he would get it
 AP> back on if I would be co-mod with him.  This was I believe by 
 AP> fidomail and we exchanged phone numbers and after that had voice
 AP> chats.  He wanted me to do most of the moderator chat in the echo
 AP> when necessary because he felt I could mediate in a 
 AP> non-confrontational way better than he could. He said he would keep
 AP> the echolist updated and post as moderator mainly to back me up if
 AP> necessary when two arguing people would not abide my moderator 
 AP> notices.

Okay.

 AP> Some months or years later he said he was going to move to another 
 AP> city when he could find a place and sell his and had arranged with 
 AP> someone (don't recall name) to include Doghouse Echo in his 
 AP> utility that automatically updated his echoes for him.

That most likely was Bobby Queen, who is no longer in Fidonet.

 AP> Over time echo traffic slowed and finally came to the point that I 
 AP> was the only one in the echo and stopped accessing it.  Months 
 AP> before that Elvis had stopped posting and when I tried to call him 
 AP> I got a "disconnected number" recording from the telephone 
 AP> company.

I don't know what happened to Elvis.  Maybe Frank Vest knows.

 AP> So when several weeks of not seeing anyone in Doghouse caused me 
 AP> to stop going into it I wrote Thom and told him as far as I was 
 AP> concerned Doghouse was dead and could be buried.  A year or so
 AP> later I happened to scroll a full Fido list on a BBS I happened to
 AP> be visiting and saw Doghouse listed and then scrolled the list on
 AP> this BBS and saw it there and went in and didn't see any message
 AP> base.

If Bobby Queen was updating the echo, it most likely was done by robot
postings -- something I don't do.  I was kind of surprised to see it still
on the Backbone with no moderator.

 AP> So I got Frank Vest to tell me how to check the echolist and went 
 AP> and did that and saw Doghouse was current and showed Elvis and me 
 AP> as co-moderators.

Now there's a surprise.  Do you remember the date on that list?

 AP> I wrote Thom and told him Elvis should be off as he had 
 AP> disappeared unless Thom knew how to contact him and that I guessed 
 AP> that other person's utility was still renewing the echo and asked 
 AP> that he tell whoever it was to stop.

Thom would consider and act on a legitimate request, but my guess is that
for some reason or another (best guess is a link to his system was broken),
he didn't see your message.

 AP> I don't recall what Thom wrote back but I am guessing he did that 
 AP> and some months or years passed and you found the echo available 
 AP> and activated it with you two as co-moderators for which I am very 
 AP> grateful.

Thanks.  I got into a bit of trouble with a certain Canadian for relisting
this and one other echo (ABLED).

 AP> From the time I wrote that to Thom to a few weeks ago I had no 
 AP> idea Doghouse Echo was alive.  It was purely accidental that I saw 
 AP> it listed here on Collin County when I was looking for something 
 AP> else and went in and read the 3 or 4 posts and posted one of my 
 AP> own about needing someone to take over as moderator.  

Do you exchange mail with Cindy?

 AP> Nobody answered and I waited a few weeks and came back very 
 AP> recently to see what was in the message base and tried again, this 
 AP> time with success of people answering me. 

That's odd.  I saw your message and replied to it.  I'll see if I can find
it and resend.

 AP> Good luck with the echo.  I am very happy you have it and that the 
 AP> traffic is building back for you.

Thanks for your best wishes.  Cindy and I will do our utmost to see that
the echo lives on.


Regards,

Roger 
--- timEd/386 1.10.y2k+