Dale Shipp wrote in a message to Thom Lacosta:

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.

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



Regards,
           Richard
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