Text 3539, 46 rader
Skriven 2004-12-19 17:58:03 av Björn Felten (2:203/2)
   Kommentar till text 3526 av Robert Couture (1:229/2000)
Ärende: Z1B <> EP1
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 RC> That was how FidoNet echoes were operated for years and years.  It is
 RC> only a recent invention that you lot came up with that throws all that
 RC> away.

   If y'all started to read what we're trying to tell you, rather than stop at
the first sentence you don't like, you wouldn't be so misinformed.

   I was trying to tell you that for as long as I've been in fidonet (almost
twenty years now) we've never had the principle of one single dictator running
the entire show. We used distributed moderating, as I started to tell you, when
I immediately was dismissed as a fascist and who knows what.

   This never was a problem, since usually there were no more than a dozen or
two BBSs connected to any one echo. This was one of the big advantages of only
allowing BBSs to be directly connected to the network rather than one-man
systems, we could reach thousands of users via just a handful of systems, and
the dozen or so distributed moderators knew very well who most of "their" users
were, so they had no problem neither moderating nor cooperating with the other
moderators.

   If you, during all those years, have been using a totally different
moderating system, then so be it. I can only say, that it's easy now, to
understand why the decline of the Z1 BBSs have been so much faster than that of
the Z2 ditto.

 RC> And somehow, you think this is progress.

   To you guys, I honestly think it would be, to use it would be business as
usual.

 RC> Unbelieveable.

   I know. That's exactly my thoughts when I hear about the preferred method of
moderating, echo ownership, elist obedience and all the other remarkable
behaviour at your neck of the woods. :)


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