Re: Re: HI
  By: Roger Nelson to Anne Page on Sat Feb 09 2008 07:02 am

 > AP> What co-moderator?  So far as I know I am the only listed moderator.  Th
 > AP> co-moderator was Elvis Hargrove who disappeared from Fidonet a couple of
 > AP> years or more before I found myself the only one in the echo and stopped
 > AP> accessing it until recently when somebody told me I was still moderator
 > AP> according to the echolist and I came in here to receive the pleasant
 > AP> surprise of seeing traffic.
 > 
 > Cindy Haglund is the co-moderator and I am the moderator.  If you want to
 > retain moderatorship of an echo, you must keep it updated in the Echolist a
 > minimum of every six (6) months.  Some moderators do it monthly or even week
 >  No one was doing it and Cindy and I love dogs, so when I found out it was
 > available last year, I updated it, which automatically made me the moderator
 > Now I have to ask, and I don't mean anything by this, when were you told you
 > were still the moderator and which Echolist did the party who told you about
 > refer to?
 > 
 > AP> Until then I had no idea Doghouse was still listed as an active echo.
 > 
 > Then I'm sorry to say you didn't deserve to still be listed as the moderator
 > you didn't keep the listing current.  If you couldn't keep the listing curre
 > you could have turned it over to someone else until such time as you were ab
 > to devote more time to it.  I don't mean for this to be as harsh as it may r
 > to you, but that's just the way things are when you're the moderator of an
 > echo.  Having said that, if you are able to convince me you want the job of
 > moderator back and will update the echo according to the way it should be do
 > in a timely manner, I'll be happy to turn it back over to you.
 > 
 > 
 > Regards,
 > 
 > Roger
 > 
This is super news for me.  It's been too many years to recall details but this
is the basic scenario still in my mind.  Kathleen Weaver was the Moderator for
several years I believe.  At whatever point she left the Echo was not renewed
the next time and was off the backbone for a short time.  Elvis Hargrove said
he would get it back on if I would be co-mod with him.  This was I believe by
fidomail and we exchanged phone numbers and after that had voice chats.  He
wanted me to do most of the moderator chat in the echo when necessary because
he felt I could mediate in a non-confrontational way better than he could. He
said he would keep the echolist updated and post as moderator mainly to back me
up if necessary when two arguing people would not abide my moderator notices.
Some months or years later he said he was going to move to another city when he
could find a place and sell his and had arranged with someone (don't recall
name) to include Doghouse Echo in his utility that automatically updated his
echoes for him.  Over time echo traffic slowed and finally came to the point
that I was the only one in the echo and stopped accessing it.  Months before
that Elvis had stopped posting and when I tried to call him I got a
"disconnected number" recording from the telephone company.  So
when several
weeks of not seeing anyone in Doghouse caused me to stop going into it I wrote
Thom and told him as far as I was concerned Doghouse was dead and could be
buried.  A year or so later I happened to scroll a full Fido list on a BBS I
happened to be visiting and saw Doghouse listed and then scrolled the list on
this BBS and saw it there and went in and didn't see any message base.  So I
got Frank Vest to tell me how to check the echolist and went and did that and
saw Doghouse was current and showed Elvis and me as co-moderators.  I wrote
Thom and told him Elvis should be off as he had disappeared unless Thom knew
how to contact him and that I guessed that other person's utility was still
renewing the echo and asked that he tell whoever it was to stop.  I don't
recall what Thom wrote back but I am guessing he did that and some months or
years passed and you found the echo available and activated it with you two as
co-moderators for which I am very grateful.  From the time I wrote that to Thom
to a few weeks ago I had no idea Doghouse Echo was alive.  It was purely
accidental that I saw it listed here on Collin County when I was looking for
something else and went in and read the 3 or 4 posts and posted one of my own
about needing someone to take over as moderator.  Nobody answered and I waited
a few weeks and came back very recently to see what was in the message base and
tried again, this time with success of people answering me. Good luck with the
echo.  I am very happy you have it and that the traffic is building back for
you.
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