Hi Allen,

On 2016-06-06 03:43:56, you wrote to All:

 AP> Now that you have read the entire message, please share comments.

Now that I have red your message it's clear to me, you look to fidonet with
your experience from the distant past. Current fidonet is a very much
different thing. For starters it's so much smaller than in it's hayday.
Only 10% of the nodelist is left, and if you count active participants it's
even smaller. Further more as almost all links use the internet at zero
cost, anyone can connect every where. So all this hierarchical structuring
is mostly irrellevant, and moderators, where they still exist, have no real
power at all. Just the mere existence of moderators frustrates the smooth
operation of the network and seems to cause more aggrevation between the
participants of an area.

Further: the north american backbone (not "the backbone" as you
said), has made itself irrelevant since the fidonews coup, and the
"genesis" of the fidoweb as a concequence. So the elist because
it isn't recognized as being part of fidonet, and only part of Z1 uses it,
is even less relevant. It's mostly a mausoleum of dead areas anyway. There
seem to be more areas than active users!

So let's do without a moderator and rules in this area, it has existed
without it for more then 10 years now. The thought of having an election is
even more rediculous, it would only aggrevate things even more. No good
will come of it and would be a waste of energy!

And mind you, I don't object to you trying to revive the area. But you can
do that just as well without being the moderator. So put your energy into
that and drop the moderator nonsense...

Bye, Wilfred.

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