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Skriven 2004-12-07 22:11:16 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
   Kommentar till text 2948 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
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 >>>>>> It's quite simple:  The Moderator in this Echo has been
 >>>>>> conspicuously absent for some time.

 >>>>  MvdV> Not at all. He regularly posts rules.

 >>>> oh? i haven't seen any here in a long while...

 >>  MvdV> Check your links. The rules are posted at least once a month.

 >> my response was to your message of Nov 29th...

 MvdV> Yes and you responded on Dec 5th. Surely Björn's rule posting
 MvdV> of Dec 1st must have arrived at your system by then. If not
 MvdV> you you Do have a link problem.

it had not and no, there is no link problem... there was, however, a system
lockup problem on my end that caused mail to not be retrieved and processed...

 MvdV> And if it did arrive on your system, you put your foot in your
 MvdV> mouth by not reading all messages before responding.

 >>  MvdV> Last time was on Dec 1st.

 >> those i saw... i don't recall actually seeing those posted
 >> on the Nov 1st...

 MvdV> Than you have either one of the following:

 MvdV> 1) A link problem
 MvdV> 2) A memory problem
 MvdV> 3) An attention span problem.

or another problem that is no where near close to any of the above...

 MvdV> Either one should entice you to tone down a bit from that "mr
 MvdV> infallable" attitude of yours.

your perception and opinion... you, too, appear to act and come across that
way... and neither of us are the only ones and that is one big factor that
leads to many of the clashes we see these days...

 >> when i read your message on Dec 2nd, the
 >> new posting of the rules hadn't appeared on my system...

 MvdV> You read my message on Dec 2nd and only responded on Dec 5th?
 MvdV> without reading Björn's posting of dec 1st in the meantime?
 MvdV> Sorry, I don't believe that.

too bad... i was here on the 2nd and it was the last message i read in this
area before going on to other things and leaving it to respond to later...

 MvdV> I also don't believe that you have not read Jack's moderator
 MvdV> message when you wrote the message I am now responding too.

well, you shouldn't be so sure of yourself ;)

 MvdV> And so you are ignoring Jack's edict. The one that by your own
 MvdV> statements you recognise as the elisted moderator.

i don't know that i've ever written that i recognise jack as the moderator of
this area... elisted or not ;)

 MvdV> You are acting in violation of your ow standards.

so what... you've done the same, too... pot/kettle/black ;)

 >> in any case, there were no rules for this area in my
 >> message base at the time that i wrote because those of Nov
 >> 1st were purged 30 days after their arrival on my system
 >> and the new posting of Dec 1st hadn't yet arrived...

 MvdV> Nobody forced you to set the settings as they are. The rules
 MvdV> are posted once a month. That you missed that is your
 MvdV> shortcoming and yours alone.

i've never denied that and i don't have a problem with it, either... remember,
my response was based on the statements that the rules were posted and
available... i patently shot that down as they were not available in the
message bases on my system... now, extrapolate that to other systems who
operate in a tighter manner and carry less days or less numbers of messages per
area... i'm aware of at least one system in fidonet that regularly "looses"
messages because they are set to carry 100 or less messages in at least one
area and their software "packs and purges" old messages out as new ones are
tossed in...

)\/(ark

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