Bob,

 > Assuming you bothered to read my comment on this, you know what I think.

About half of your messages always require for the other party to re-read
¨what you wrote. Either everybody else in Fidonet must be extremely dumb or
¨you are a bad writer.

I go for the latter.

 > Assuming everyone really believes _all_ the messages are 
 > crossposted. But why should they? Your "solution" would 
 > be no better than attempting to keep ZCC a "closed" 
 > echo, and I wonder at your about-face in this matter 
 > since  you were originally the one who was in _favor_ of 
 > opeining ZCC read-only to all sysops.

I am and remain in favour of the openness. There's just no trust in certain
¨North American brethren-in-Fido that they would not abuse a read-only
¨status. For the moment I cannot handle "read only" material
except on an ¨honour-basis which has worked for years in REGCON.EUR. 

The only valid statement to be made is about legacy-software. But then
¨there's nothing in P4 that prohibits the use, I'm perfectly OK. Requiring
an ¨upgrade (which is not available since it's abandone-ware) or a change
over ¨to some other product even is a violation of P4.

Take care,

Ward

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