Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Ross Cassell:

 EC> By the way, you made these comments about the
"all-politics" echo.  As
 EC> I recall, it was created many years ago by John Hull and Stan
 EC> Hardegree.

And Bob Sakowski.  Dunno how John and Stan got rid of him.  AFAIK he's the
only moderator that's been banned from his own echo.

The reason ALL-POLITICS was created for was to pull posters out of POLITICS,
because at the time John and Stan weren't happy with Bloomberg's moderating.

 EC>  Stan voluntarily relinquished his co-moderatorship and
 EC> turned the echo over to John's sole control, just as Peter Bradie
 EC> relinquished moderatorship of his echo a few years ago.  Has John
 EC> ever turned the echo over to a new moderator?  Has he ever taken
 EC> action to pull it off the backbone?  Or is it still his?

AFAIK the echo had been abandoned and the listing expired, so Klahn adopted
it.  He certainly isn't the only person that's done that sort of thing.

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