Text 18945, 76 rader
Skriven 2005-12-17 15:10:53 av Roy Witt (1:1/22)
  Kommentar till text 18859 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
Ärende: FidoNews Story - Rejected!
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17 Dec 05 14:36, Björn Felten wrote to Joe Delahaye:


 JD>> and, the latter according to several

 BF>    Several? How many have you seen? I've only seen two claiming that.

 BF>    One that thought he could route a file. Even after he was
 BF> rightfully lectured, in public, by Ross for even trying, he kept
 BF> insisting that he *knew* I had received the file.

 BF>    The other, a notorious liar with an agenda, started out by
 BF> claiming that one of his users had sent an article (not true of
 BF> course), but strangely enough that user never made such a claim
 BF> himself. Later on this second person seems to be sliding over to
 BF> claiming that he himself has sent an article that has been rejected.

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 From : Michael Grant             1:134/11        18 Feb 02  13:15:28
 To   : Bob Short                                 21 Feb 02  15:30:18
 Subj : About time!  ;-)
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Hello Bob.

18 Feb 02 00:15, you wrote to me:

 MG>> I was hoping my Fidonews article might help with that;
 MG>> unfortunately, the editor saw fit to deny publishing it.

 BS> I have to ask just how he responded to your request for submission.
 BS> Did he decline for this issue, or indicate that it wouldn't ever be
 BS> considered?  Makes a difference, no?

His refusal made no sense. All he said was this:

"Sorry Michael, but I don't think an article about a single echo is of
general interest to the Fidonews readers. Your text would be better off in
the echo you're writing about, that way you'd reach the most readers you
try to address".

The article was meant to /promote/ the echo, and let others who are not
connected to it, or are not aware of it, know about it; in particular,
those from other zones.

My gut feeling told me that he denied it on political grounds, and I told
him so in an e-mail reply. I was willing to just let it go at that, and
said nothing publically about it, until he posted a message in the
FIDONEWS echo where he alluded that the article was denied because it was
"bashing" of Roy Witt, and he mentioned my responce to his rejection of
the article.

He's allowed several articles by Luke Kolin, and continues to allow Luke's
articles, and Luke has been constantly bashing Janis Kracht and others.
This has put a one-sided political slant on the Fidonews, and I feel it is
a disgrace for a Fidonews editor to act that way.

Even if he disliked my political commentary, he could have asked me to
re-write it, and tone it down, and I likely would have. The article still
would have been of interest to the rest of Fidonet regardless.


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