Replying to a message of Earl Croasmun to Roy Witt:

 EC> ~> I wonder if he got this idea from Elvis Hargrove, former moderator
 EC> of the ~> AVIATION and OLD ENGINE echoes. He claimed that some of the
 EC> FLAME echo ~> conspirators were planning a takeover of one of these
 EC> echoes, running ~> around like Chicken Little, telling everyone who
 EC> would listen. When it ~> didn't materialize, he really looked like
 EC> the same fool we have in Klahn.

 EC> Klahn did exactly that in Roger Nelson's Coffee-klatch echo.  Roger
 EC> let the listing lapse very briefly, and Klahn quickly posted a dire
 EC> warning that a new moderator had to seize control of the echo because
 EC> "nasties" would come and take over.

That's not exactly what happened, Earl.  The listing may or may not have lapsed,
and I've no idea who listed it originally, but at the time of Klahn's comments there
was no moderator of the echo.  ISTR that Roger was first to list the echo with
himself as moderator - that in itself caused some adverse commentary - and that
may be the listing that lapsed when Lofaso briefly picked it up.
,
 EC>  Lofaso grabbed the echo the same
 EC> day, so there may have been back-channel conspiring going on.

I doubt that.

 EC>  There
 EC> was a period of ugliness as the rest of the echo pressured Lofaso to
 EC> give it back, and he finally gave in.

And he did.

 EC>  One person in particular
 EC> ripped Klahn's skin off in some blistering posts, and I believe she
 EC> used exactly that "Chicken Little" analogy on him!

Cindy hasn't posted in the echo in months.  And while she was critical of
Klahn's comments she didn't rip Klahn's skin off and her posts on the subject
weren't blistering.  Her main problem seemed to be she didn't want the echo
to have a moderator.

You may just be upset that you didn't think to grab the echo, or maybe you
did and just weren't in time.

--- FleetStreet 1.19+