> Hello Everybody,
> 
> It had to happen.  Sooner or later, it had to happen.
> Paranoid sysop has meltdown in FN_SYSOP echo -
> 
> "I guess I've never understood the paranoid (in my view)
> about letting the world read any Fidonet echo ..."
> - David Torrey, FN_SYSOP echo, 9-14-2014
> 
> The above message by David really hit a chord with a certain
> sysop, who hopped on his keyboard and pecked away the 
following -
> 
> "We have in this case a non-sysop user access FN_SYSOP from
> ozmossis and taking the content into the FIDONEWS echo, 
where
> he trolls with it.. Of course he thinks he has some right to
> that content.. If we cannot have echoes for a purpose, why
> have them at all?"
> - Ross Cassell, FN_SYSOP echo, 9-17-2014
> 
> A few corrections are at hand -
> 
> The entire world is free to view all messages posted in the
> FN_SYSOP echo.  Not just sysops, but everybody in the whole 
wide
> world.
> 
> Even if ozzmosis would cease to exist, the entire world 
would
> still be free to view all messages posted in the FN_SYSOP 
echo.
> Not just sysops, but everybody in the whole wide world.
> 
> Sysops and non-sysops alike are free to post whatever they 
wish
> in the FIDONEWS echo.  That includes posting comments about 
what
> sysops have posted in other echoes, such as the FN_SYSOP 
echo.
> 
> Quoting is allowed in the FIDONEWS echo, as it is in most 
other
> fidonet echoes.  That is not likely to change anytime soon.
> 
> Bj”rn Felten is still alive and kicking, and remains 
editor/moderator
> of the FIDONEWS, much to the chagrin of the 
NAB/Troika/Paranoid Sysop.
> 
> Echoes serve a purpose.  That purpose is communication.  
After all,
> that is what fidonet is all about.  Or rather, what fidonet 
is supposed
> to be all about.  When communication is stifled, by limiting 
access
> or other means, that purpose is diminished.
> 
> If fidonet is to survive, more participants must be found.  
As things
> are now, the only participants left are a small handful of 
sysops.
> Along with an even smaller handful of non-sysops.
> 
> A disappearing act would do just fine, if fidonet sysops 
want to
> go into oblivion.  Just withdraw from the world and pretend 
it does
> not exist.  Nobody will care.  Not even the 10 - 20 in the 
world
> today who still bother reading messages, much less write.
> 
> --Lee
> 
> --- MesNews/1.08.05.00-gb


I restrict the Sysop echos to Sysop's only. What I talk about 
here is NoneYa. However I opened up Fidonews to all.