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.

Not to pull people out but to act as a potential alternative in case the 
moderating became overly oppressive.  But Crackpot eventually bowed to 
public opinion and resigned.

If Bobski was in on the moderation, I had forgotten that.  But he was a key 
to the whole upheaval.  As I recall, the breaking point was when Crackpot 
suspended Bobski for "off-topic" posts.  The
"off-topic" posts involved Bob 
going out of his way to help people get set up as points off his system, 
receiving packets as internet e-mail so they wouldn't have to make long 
distance phone calls back when local BBSes were dying out and internet 
BBSes hadn't yet caught on.  There is a string of people - including me - who 
would have dropped out of fidonet more than a decade ago if not for Bob's 
help.  That is one of the reasons why, in spite of some of his post-retirement 
explosions and insult-fits and tirades, I find it impossible to dislike him or to be 
irritated by his behavior.
 
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