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

 > Then I'm sorry to say you didn't deserve to still be listed as the moderator
 > 

I'm glad you aren't bashful about speaking your mind. LOL.  Please understand
that I am not in any way a tekkie, just a user, and even though I read a
variety of information about what made Fido run most of it was Greek to me.  I
never had any responsibility for the updating of the echo nor any knowledge of
ways to get traffic back when people drifted away.  I was a participant who did
moderating duties when posters got into altercations or posted reminder
messages about staying on topic when there was a series of posts that had
nothing do with dogs such as the time someone mentioned something political and
a wave of messages began that got rather loud and argumentative with differing
positions on something being debated in the U.S. Congress and nary a word about
dogs in them. LOL.  What would you have done if weeks went by and you kept
posting "Is anybody here?" messages with no replies ever being
posted?  Would
you keep going into the echo and doing that for more than a few months?  That
is why I stopped and why I told Thom that I considered it a dead echo that
could go away from the backbone.  But I wasn't the one updating it in my name
and I didn't know who was doing it and at that point was not interested in
contacting the person myself if Thom could figure out who it was and ask him to
take it off his updating utility program that did the renewing automatically.

As I said at the start of this dialogue several days ago, I was surprised to
find an active Doghouse Echo and delighted it was on the backbone but not happy
to think I was or might be the moderator when I am not a dog owner and with
other activities online might not read the message base daily.  I don't read
Fidonet echoes these days, I come to the BBS to play BRE, and most of my time
online is Internet stuff.  So knowing Doghouse Echo is in good hands makes me
very happy and I will visit from time to time to share some of the
"dog stuff"
I have on hand and abide your echo rules when I am here.
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