Text 2090, 41 rader
Skriven 2004-11-24 11:10:18 av JOHN GUILLORY (1:396/60)
   Kommentar till text 2084 av MARK LEWIS (1:3634/12)
Ärende: RE: FidoNews 21:38 [09/09]: Fidonews Information
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On Nov 24, 2004 09:59am, MARK LEWIS wrote to JOHN GUILLORY:
     I've seen that option and all, but he was running Remote
Access, and at least at the time....

 JG>> (While complaining that the other BBS's where
 JG>> carrying too many echo's and needed to cut back on
 JG>> the number of echo's they carried.... So, I just
 JG>> started requesting 10-20 echo's each night, then
 JG>> dropping them the next night and requesting another
 JG>> 10-20 the next night.... He added all the echo's

 ML> this just shows that the additions were an automated process...
     I wouldn't have a problem with him adding the echos, if it
wasn't for the fact that he was:

       1> using the fact that he had the most echomail areas
          as a way to try to lure the callers away from other
          BBS's.
       2> He was telling everyone else they couldn't carry more
          than 5-10 echomail areas, while he had over 100 listed
          on his BBS.

          Once I dropped the echos, he continued to keep them, then
  added any I added, until he reached his BBS's limit.... Granted,
  it does seem like it was an automated feature, but if bandwidth
  was the real issue, once I'd remove the echos, he'd removed them
on his end....  But, instead of dropping them on his end when no one
else was carrying them, he continued to carry them....

 ML> that's not why he does that... perhaps you should ask him why
he does it
 ML> instead of speculating?
     He's claimed to have done it to rescue dieing echos, though
when an echo has no users writing messages, the Moderator gave up,
so he decided to list his self as the moderator.  The echos remain
on the backbone with no messages being posted, except his rules.  I
fail to see that "Rescuing" is the correct word....

... Platinum Xpress & Wildcat!..... Nice!!!!
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