Text 3656, 86 rader
Skriven 2004-12-19 20:47:38 av SHANNON TALLEY (1:275/311)
     Kommentar till en text av BOB SEABORN
Ärende: Re: Z1B <> EP1
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<BOB SEABORN> wrote in message news:1103497243.334.0@fidotel.com...

>      Because you, and others, seem to want exactly that.  Who's
> responsibility is it to decide to transport an echo or not to?  It costs
> absolutely zero to transport an empty echo, so why the fuss?  Is it the 
> mail
> mover's responsibility to decide that an echo is inactive (NOT), or is it 
> the
> moderator's?

Because it's a pain in the ass to setup a bunch of echos that will generate 
"zero" traffic.  That's why...

Bob -- you took the responsibility of hosting that list, why don't you 
contact the Moderators who have abandoned the echos and ask them if they 
want to continue to carry the echo or drop it?  That fits your set of rules 
doesn't it?

I'm amazed that you have the audacity to suggest someone else should clean 
up your mess.  "Echopolice"... ?!?!  Give me a break Bob.  You've got a 
screwed up, out of date, mostly abandoned list, and because I point this 
out --- you raise your finger and call me the "Echopolice"??????  Are you on 
Dope??

Do you sit around the house in your undies, unshaven, smelly, surfing porn, 
smoking dope, and point your finger at people who mow their lawn as the 
"grasspolice"??

Bob, you've got a lot of deadwood in that list....  It's obvious you are too 
busy on smellmyfinger.com to clean it up, so I guess we'll just have to mow 
around you...

>      And I've been in Fidonet since the early '80's.

Good for you...

> > I haven't heard from him in at least that long, which explains why.  For
>      Nor have you attempted to contact him, he's been gone from the 
> nodelist
> for as long.  His last entry was the last nodelist of 1999 I believe.

So... Who cares if I've attempted to contact George Peace or not??  I know I 
haven't spoken with him in at least 9 or 10 years anyway....

>      Which is still done today via 1:10/3, a very able top-level hub!

Naw.. It's broken S. of Mexico.  The gate to Panama and south of Panama 
broke a few years ago.  I haven't peeked in there in  several months, but I 
doubt it's fixed yet.

>      It lists every echo that moderators have requested the NAB to carry. 
> As
> stated above, it's up to the moderators to decide when/if their echo is no
> longer viable or not, not any distribution system hub - after all you've 
> agreed
> that NO mail-mover needs to play 'echo-police'.

There you go again....  Are maids known as the "dustpolice" in your world 
too?  Are they evil?

>      It's _your_ choice to carry them or not.  Just as it's your choice to
> contact the moderator and suggest they be removed (or not).  If there's no

There ya go again... It's your list Bob... If you don't want to clean it up, 
then pass it on...

> worked. But the NAB is _not_ echo-police.

It's winter time, watch out for the Snowpolice....

I'm being very condescending for a reason... I'm very simply pointing out 
how ridiculous your argument is.  You won't clean it up because you don't 
believe in echopolice.  Very well.  contact the moderators who own echos 
that have generated no traffic in a year.. Is that a reasonable time?  I 
would think so... Ask them if they want to continue the listing, and follow 
their wishes.  If they are not reachable, then simply remove the echo OR --  
as you said, take over moderatorship of that echo and then remove it.  It's 
your list Bob, take some ownership and pride in your work and fix the 
list...

Cheers!
Shannon 

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