08 Apr 09 05:50, Bob Ackley wrote to Earl Croasmun:

 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
 EC>> because "nasties" would come and take over.

 BA> That's not exactly what happened, Earl.

It is...at the time, Roger and I were discussing in netmail the need to
Elist an echo, when the Elist had become irrelevant to what it formerly
was. I don't Elist any of the echoes I moderate and Roger was asking
questions about it when Klahn brought up the fact that KC wasn't Elisted.

 BA> The listing may or may not have lapsed, and I've no idea who listed
 BA> it originally,

The former moderator was a CHATTER echo regular, who left Fidonet when
Jack Yates shut down his system. (I believe she was a point off his
system)

 BA> but at the time of Klahn's comments there was no moderator of the
 BA> echo.

There was an 'elisted' moderator, who let the elisting lapse for a day or
so. The echo participants also recognized Roger as the moderator. Everyone
but Klahn, it seems.

 BA>   ISTR that Roger was first to list the echo with himself as
 BA> moderator - that in itself caused some adverse commentary - and that
 BA> may be the listing that lapsed when Lofaso briefly picked it up. ,

Lofaso gave the listing to Roger due to peer pressure. It was rightly
Roger's to list.

 EC>>  Lofaso grabbed the echo the same day, so there may have been
 EC>> back-channel conspiring going on.

 BA> I doubt that.

He (lofatso) nearly admitted that there was.

 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.

 BA> 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!

 BA> Cindy hasn't posted in the echo in months.

Long story short, she was asked to stop fighting with those she disagreed
with.

 BA> And while she was critical of Klahn's comments she didn't rip Klahn's
 BA> skin off

Maybe not to that extreme, but she was very critical of Klahn's behavior.

 BA>  and her posts on the subject weren't blistering.

I think they were.

 BA> Her main problem seemed to be she didn't want the echo to have a
 BA> moderator.

That's odd, seeing as how she was listed as the co-moderator.

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

Why would anyone be upset that they didn't grab the echo? I don't see him
posting there, nor have I seen him post there in the past.

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