08 Feb 07 21:51, Thom LaCosta wrote to Roy Witt:

 TL> Roy Witt wrote in a message to mark lewis:


 RW>> No one thinks the elist is any authority on echotags anymore. I
 RW>> recently removed a user from the HAM echo without varification that
 RW>> I'm the moderator of that echo by reference to the elist. (The HAM
 RW>> echotag has been elisted by Thom LaCosta)

 TL> Yes, since you didn't relist it

Right, I no longer see a need for such a list. Especially since it's been
contaminated by human hands.

 RW>> By regularly posting the echo rules in the echo on a weekly basis,
 RW>> that was all the proof I needed.

 TL> What, that you post the rules?  I believe you used the same ploy to
 TL> be known as the moderator of other echoes.

If you believe that, then you're more gullible than I thought. There is
one echo, and only one, where I post a 'no moderator exists' message, each
Friday. That one happens to be elisted by you as well. Then there is the
other person who claims to be the moderator of that echo, but has never
done any moderating.

 TL> It really gets down to who believes, for whatever reason, a person is
 TL> a moderator.

Yeup. And fortunately, those who distribute the mail know that you're not,
nor have you ever been the moderator of the HAM echo.

 TL> I believe folks have told you, in particular, that they don't
 TL> acknowledge you as a moderator in one of more of the echoes you
 TL> clain, and may have proven that feed cuts in today's network are
 TL> ineffective.

Oh yes, that one person was Michiel van der Vlist (your worst critic), who
no longer has posting privileges in the HAM echo, via his former feed. If
he were to find another feed and post there again, I'd show his new feed
his bad behavior in the echo and attempt to get cooperation from them too.

 TL> It's really academic these days, as fidonet continues in the downward
 TL> spiral.

As is the echolist. I believe only Bob Seaborn and maybe Brenda Donovan
would require proof of moderator status from the elist. And of course,
Janis. No one outside of z1 recognizes it.

 TL> The real battle and dinstiction may be who is the person to turn the
 TL> lights off and close the door.

There are several within the network who all claim that they'll be here
come hell or high water, or after everyone else dies.

               R\%/itt




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