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Skriven 2006-10-04 14:51:32 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 40641 av Ward Dossche (2:292/854)
Ärende: DUD-file - may the real criminals step forward
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 WD> The Fidonews-editor's position is quite an easy issue for me ... it
 WD> has always been common practice that the title is passed-on by the
 WD> current editor to the next-one. It sometimes lands you in awkward
 WD> situations where a certain Mark Hernandez, known to all as Zorch
 WD> Frezberg, becomes the editor who then passes it on to Mark Wolsink
 WD> (or was that the other way around?) to piss-off a large group of
 WD> people. Many didn't like it either, we lived through that period,
 WD> Fidonews survived.

funny you should bring this up as i was just looking through my archive and
came up on Vol 15, Issue 7...

description: FidoNews 15 07  1998
             [this is a REAL FidoNews 1507]

and the following inside...

===== quote fnewsf07 =====

     =================================================================
                                 EDITORIAL
     =================================================================

     Hey! What goes on here? I get back from a week in the Bahamas [my
     first real vacation in YEARS!] and find that some miscreant I never
     heard of has cracked my password files and perpetrated some kind of
     cruel hoax on the world of FidoNet. Can't a guy take a break once in
     awhile? [crikes]

     Anyhoo, reports of my demise are remarkably premature, to coin a
     phrase. [snicker]

     Not only am I not dead, but neither is my wife, my son, nor my dog.
     We are all just fine and the dog says, "Hello, FidoNet." [No, his
     name is Humbert, not Fido {sorry, Tom}.]

     So if you received one of these bogus copies purporting to be FidoNews
     number 1507, please dispose of it with an anti-virus utility at your
     earliest convenience. It is a phony put out by somebody I don't even
     know. This HERE, FidoNews, right here, is the one, the only and the
     original FidoNews 1507 - accept NO SUBSTITUTES!

     The preliminary BS aside, the ZEC1 Election ended this week. I hope
     everyone took the rare opportunity to take a Sysop-wide vote in a
     Zonal election. If you didn't, don't bellyache about the choice the
     ones who did put into office. As is well known, I don't believe in
     Echomail so I made no predictions or editorial preferences. I wonder
     who won?

     This isn't a very big Issue. Not too many folks complaining this
     week. There's another brouhaha over in Zone 2 reflected further down
     but unless there's something coming in late, it's routine.

     On another note, I am retiring as the Editor of FidoNews as of this
     edition. I'm getting pretty busy with various other activities that
     will be taking the needed time away from doing a decent job with this
     effort. I've enjoyed the job and hope you've enjoyed and been annoyed
     at the same time. A newspaper should have no friends as it sez in the
     Banner. [grin]

     To make sure this one has no friends, I am transferring the Editorship
     of FidoNews to Zorch Frezberg as suggested by the counterfeit 1507. I
     think that is darn good idea in a sick, twisted way. [snicker]

     I'll send him all he needs and you send him all he prints.

     I'll be shutting down my FidoNet ops in general, too, for awhile. So
     if anyone wants to get in touch with me, send to the dreaded Internet
     at:

       cbaker84 (at) digital (dot) net

     and i'll get back to you.

     Thanks, for everything.


     C.B.

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i made a slight edit such that the email address is invalidated to protect
anyone who might have that address now...

and evidently is was "zorch" who turned the snooze over the henk wolsink... is
this the same henk wolsink that was Z5C?? is this the same one who was
supposedly keeping Z5 from growing due to some supposed racial problem?

)\/(ark

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