Hi Allen,

On 2016-06-06 03:43:56, you wrote to All:

 AP> Now that you have read the entire message, please share comments.

Now that I have red your message it's clear to me, you look to fidonet with
your experience from the distant past. Current fidonet is a very much different
thing. For starters it's so much smaller than in it's hayday. Only 10% of the
nodelist is left, and if you count active participants it's even smaller.
Further more as almost all links use the internet at zero cost, anyone can
connect every where. So all this hierarchical structuring is mostly
irrellevant, and moderators, where they still exist, have no real power at all.
Just the mere existence of moderators frustrates the smooth operation of the
network and seems to cause more aggrevation between the participants of an
area.

Further: the north american backbone (not "the backbone" as you said), has made
itself irrelevant since the fidonews coup, and the "genesis" of the fidoweb as
a concequence. So the elist because it isn't recognized as being part of
fidonet, and only part of Z1 uses it, is even less relevant. It's mostly a
mausoleum of dead areas anyway. There seem to be more areas than active users!

So let's do without a moderator and rules in this area, it has existed without
it for more then 10 years now. The thought of having an election is even more
rediculous, it would only aggrevate things even more. No good will come of it
and would be a waste of energy!

And mind you, I don't object to you trying to revive the area. But you can do
that just as well without being the moderator. So put your energy into that and
drop the moderator nonsense...

Bye, Wilfred.

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