-=> On 03-02-08  13:27,  Richard Webb <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about This echo <=-

 DS>    At that time, HAM was in the ELIST.   Michiel van de Vlist
 DS> announced    in the HAM echo that he was taking over as moderator,
 DS> according to    the rules of EP1, since the previous moderator (i.e.
 DS> Roy Witt) was no    longer in the nodelist and thus not able to
 DS> perform his duties as    moderator.   Michiel got soundly hooted at
 DS> by all, and was booted out    of the echo without further fanfare or
 DS> ceremony.

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

  That is correct.   I believe that the moderator of the MODERATOR echo
  when it was active years ago was not a sysop.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) comcast (dot) net
                              (1:261/1466)


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