Malcolm Miles wrote to Robert Bashe on Wednesday June 02 2004 at 20:58:

 RB>> My understanding was that ZCC-PUBLIC was founded by Ward as a
 RB>> reaction to the refusal of the other ZCs to make ZCC a read-only
 RB>> echo for all sysops. That was some 2-3 years ago.

 RB>> Are you saying he never even asked the other ZCs about this?

 MM> I don't remember being asked but my memory is not as good as it was!

 RB>> I find that difficult to believe since there would otherwise be no
 RB>> reason to go to the trouble of founding a separate echo and
 RB>> keeping it current.

 MM> ZCC-PUBLIC was originally created to cross-post only Ward's messages
 MM> from ZCC.

Which is true, but doesn't go far enough, since the _reason_ why it was
founded was, to my knowledge, as indicated above.

Cheers, Bob

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