Text 899, 58 rader
Skriven 2004-10-15 13:21:02 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
    Kommentar till text 870 av mark lewis (1:3634/12)
Ärende: FidoNews 21:38 [09/09]: Fidonews Information
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 > >>  MvdV> There are just two ways one can moderate: in the echo or by
 > >>  MvdV> netmail. So if they do not moderate in the echo, they must have
 > >>  MvdV> netmail.

 >  >> Incorrect.....one can moderate by the moderator communicating
 > >> with the person to be moderated...the method is not specified.

 >  MvdV> It is. Netmail is the official means of communication in
 >  MvdV> FidoNet.
 >
 > that doesn't mean that moderators are required to use it...

They are required to /have/ it.

How else can the users contact them?

 > if so, where is that written in policy? for that matter,
 > where does the word "moderator" appear in fidonet policy?

The duties and rights of the moderators are decribed it EP1.

Ahm you don't recognise that? So moderators do not officially exist.

In that case what is th eproblem if someone comes out of the blue and call
himself moderator?

 >
 >  MvdV> Any other way of an attempt to communicate has no
 > status
 >  MvdV> whatsoever. F.e. if you were to send me an e-mail to
 > warn me
 >  MvdV> of a violation of the rules I could simply ignore it
 > and you
 >  MvdV> wouldn't have a leg to stand on as you could never
 > prove that
 >  MvdV> I actually got it.
 >
 > just another way of skirting the rules and doing what you
 > want, eh? you can't prove that someone actually got the
 > netmail,

If I drop it at his system I can be sure that it arrived at that system.

Or in the case  of a user: on the system of the person responsible gfor the
user: the sysop.

 > either... all that might be able to be proven is
 > that one system delivered a message to another system but
 > even then logs can be faked/edited on both sides... so now
 > what?

Does not matter. When I drop a message directly at soemeones system /I/ know it
got there.

Cheers, Michiel

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