Richard Webb wrote in a message to Dale Shipp:


 RW> NOw as I've always understood, you don't have to be a sysop to
 RW> moderate an echo. Back in the day I seem to recall more than one
 RW> echo moderator who was *not* a nodelisted sysop. Iirc KEn Anderson,
 RW> a moderator of Shareware and a couple of other echoes back in
 RW> 1995-96 was not a nodelisted sysop. THere were others too, just
 RW> can't think of names at the moment.

I believe part of the problem may be that at one time there was a
requirement that a moderator be a nodelisted person.  The premise was that
he/she could be reached via netmail.

As I recall, the next liberalization was that someone could be a moderator
if they could be reached via netmail....which then allowed users of BBS's
that offered netmail to users could be a moderator.

I can not remember whether the previous Echolist Keeper or I made the next
change, and that was that a moderator needed to be reachable by netmail,
email or whatever mode his/her network supported, in that when I became
Echolist Keeper, the list was no longer a creature of rf controlled by
either the Fidonet C structure and/or the echomail distribution system(s).

Some folks did not recognize that, and thus felt that their perception of
the echolist, or their echomail regulations(EP1) governed the list.


cya,
thom
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