Text 21965, 55 rader
Skriven 2011-08-24 09:15:47 av mark lewis (1:3634/12.0)
  Kommentar till text 21938 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
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ml> i don't know about others but i read both as much as i can...

 RB> I believe you're talking about Fidonews, the echo and newsletter
 RB> here... 

yes...

ml> ... it is also easy to understand why others have not been reading
ml> either what with the way things have been in the past years... the
ml> echo has been totally out of control with flaming and arguing being
ml> the dejour of the day... the newsletter has been completely empty and
ml> nothing but automated postings... i've not been participating in the
ml> echo BECAUSE of all the arguing and bickering back and forth that has
ml> not changed one iota in the last 10+ years...

 RB> Unfortunately true, at least for the most part. However, I seem to
 RB> remember a few posts of yours that were at least as acidic as
 RB> anything anyone else written. 

yes... very... and with good reason, too... not only here but in other venuse,
as well... for the very same reasons... however, it simply isn't worth it any
more...

 RB> No finger-pointing here, but I think everyone in the echo was
 RB> involved in the mess, and since the "moderator" was one of the main
 RB> abusers, he naturally had no interest in cleaning up the echo.
 RB> That's the reason we're on _this_ side of the divide at the moment.

agreed... and no one has followed the echo's rules in over 20 years... the main
one i'm pointing at is the topical discussion rule that says the topics should
be those of the articles posted...

ml> but those involved cannot see it because they are too deep in it... if
ml> only they would grow up and act their ages... i mean, geez, almost all
ml> of them are over 70 and if not, they are fast approaching it... you'd
ml> think they'd know how to act and at least they'd not look like a bunch
ml> of pre-teen/teen out of control youngin's :?

 RB> Old folks tend to be stubborn, Mark - how old are you, by the way? 

not only old folks, but also young folk... and middle aged, too... age is not
an excuse for being stubborn... personality is... as for my age, i was a father
at 19, have 5 grand children, have buried my oldest son, my 103yo paternal
grandmother and my mother each about a year apart, and would have been retired
from the USAF for 10 years now if i had stayed in...

 RB> My point is simply that a decently moderated echo would never have
 RB> gotten into the kind of shape it did - but when the moderator
 RB> himself is one of the main offenders, who do you turn to?

i don't know...

)\/(ark

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