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Skriven 2012-05-10 14:25:54 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
  Kommentar till text 28523 av Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Ärende: Fidonews v29 n18 run
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Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Dale Shipp on Thursday May 10 2012 at 12:17:

MV>>> Why should a collection of at best 500 sysops be able to outvote a
MV>>> group of 5000?

DS>> Because that is the way the rules are/were written.

MV> Ah yes, those holy rules....

MV> The holy rules written by Americans for Americans.

May I remind you that fido was a development of an American named Tom Jennings?
And that in the early days, Z1 was by far the largest zone? And the fact that
rules are there to regulate matters, and may be changed by consensus, but not
_retroactively_ by fiat?

That, and nothing else, was the bone of contentention between Ward and the
other ZCs.

But as I've written elsewhere, I personally think it's a waste of good time to
argue about history, as if it could still be changed.

MV> The holy rules that Americans rammed down our throats and the holy
MV> rules they themselves bend, twist, re‹nterpret or simply ignore when
MV> it suits them, but that they insist others follow to the letter when
MV> that is what suits the Americans. No matter how ridiculous the result
MV> is under circumstances twenty three years later.

MV> Ah, yes, /those/ holy rules....

Please, Michel, you're making yourself ridiculous with such wild comments. You
can be anti-American without trying to ram it down everyone's throat (to use
your own expression) everytime you write an echomail. I would say the same to
Bjorn, but have no hope he would listen.

Fido is NOT "real life" and it's not worth the adrenaline to fight each other
as if it were. Like it or not, we have more in common than that which divides
us.

Can't we some day, somehow, get back to that? To hell with the past!

Cheers, Bob

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