Text 21561, 103 rader
Skriven 2011-08-04 00:52:34 av Nathan Prugh (35585.fidofidonews)
  Kommentar till text 21507 av North American Backbone (1:123/456)
Ärende: Re: The Fidonews
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North American Backbone wrote:

> Hello All!
> 
> IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT
> ======================
> 
> After much thought and deliberation, the North American Backbone in
> cooperation with several concerned sysops have opted to take the
> following course of action, for reasons that will be outlined further
> down:
> 
> * BjC6rn Felten for all practical intents and purposes is no longer
>   considered the editor of the FIDONEWS and moderator of the echo of
> the   same name. Anyone care to make reference to former fidonews
> editors who   were replaced without choosing their replacement?  Like
> Sylvia Maxwell,   Chris Baker or Doug Myers?

yep... good riddance of Bjorn!!!!  :-D


about time....  why did you all not take action right away? why it take
like 4 to 5 years to take action???

> 
> * Distribution of the version of Fidonews produced by BjC6rn Felten
> will   be blocked but would be available directly from his system.
> 

good.  keep that way... keep his sorry ass out of here lol 


> * The FIDONEWS echo will be limited to Zone One plus invited guests,
> with   distribution to be re-expanded later. All other zones will be
> read only.


yep... good plan...  but how do I for example i have europe and usa
uplinks  how to keep the echoes seperate without crossing linking to
the american echo? since z2 and z1 has same name...


> 
> * The new FIDONEWS editor will be Gary Perkins currently nodelisted at
>   1:1/1.
> 


congulations Gary!!!!  :-D you did great on the recent newsletter...
let keep that way!!!!

> * To avoid the mistakes of the past, the Fidonews editor will have
>   moderator authority in the Fidonews echo but it wont be a primary
>   responsibility, this will allow him to concentrate on the Fidonews.
> 

yes, it is the way to go, I agree with that... to prevent the
happenings with that idiot being editor for years....

> Why is this change being done?
> 

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> 
> Since assuming the editorship, the status of being the Fidonews editor
> has turned out to be more important to Mr Felten than the actual
> product itself. Mr Felten has converted the actual status of being the
> Fidonews editor into a soapbox to preach his *personal political*
> discomforts with the USA, ranging from its society, Government,
> foreign and domestic policy decisions made past and present. At every
> turn he was casting out insults towards the USA, to which he thinks
> are criticisms, but were ad naseum quips that constantly conveyed the
> same old political distaste that Mr Felten feels towards the USA and
> towards others who disagree with him. It was not enough for Mr Felten
> to repeat the same dislike over and over again as if each time he
> spoke it, was the first. When told of this, Mr Felten would deny and
> then demand proof. Recent examples of proof are met with exclamations
> of having a thin skins.
> 

yep... its all poltics and flamefeasts for years from those people and
finally its good he is gone and keep that way.  no poltics in the way
prevening publication  of artcles  but accept artcles and plublish
regardless.


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> 
> As previously mentioned, Mr Felten enjoyed the status of being the
> editor without expending much effort in doing the job of the editor,
> the vast majority of issues published by Mr Felten are empty shells
> devoid of content, just boilerplate, masthead etc.

yep that is him... he wont publish  artcles from usa due that fact he
is bised on  poltics from the usa.......



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