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Ärende: Food For Thought
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Hello Everybody,

A robot was hatched and began to speak -

FidoNews Robot -> All explained :

 FR>                    FOOD FOR THOUGHT

 FR> I have backed off my participation in Fidonet, trying to limit myself to
 FR> these type of discussions. The wars, past animosities and the constant
 FR> rehashing of the butt hurt isn't worth it any more.

 FR>                 -- Ross Cassell, 2016

And yet his actions tell a completely different story -

Subject: Update - FIDONEWS
Date: Tue Mar 15 2016 10:31 am
From: EchoList Robot
To: All

Echolist Announcement ...

FIDONEWS
    Discussion of the Fidonet Newsletter, Fidonews.

          Echo for discussing the content of the weekly editions
         of the FIDONEWS. Trolls from the political echoes are not
         welcome.
         Status: Active
    Origin:       1:123/500                         Group: FIDO1
    Distribution: All Zones

    Gateways:

    Language:
    # Nodes: N/A          Volume: N/A          Rules:
    Flags: <Real Names Only>
    Notes: /REAL

    Moderators:   Ross Cassell, 1:123/500, recassell@charter.net
    Last changed: 15-Mar-2016 by Ross Cassell, 1:123/500,

                      -=end quote=-

The actions of Ross Cassell speak louder than the words he writes.
Much louder.  Tim Richardson remains forbidden by Ross Cassell to
read and write messages in this forum (only within Zone 1), even
though the real editor/moderator (Björn Felten) welcomes his full
participation.  There are also others Ross Cassell has forbidden
to participate in this echo, and in Fidonet.  Even though he has
no legitimate authority to do and act as a censor of any kind.

"I have backed off my participation in Fidonet ..." - Ross Cassell

Time for Ross Cassell to ditch the act.

No private echolist has any official status in Fidonet.
Ross Cassell's fake claim to be the "elisted" editor/moderator
of the Fidonews (while claiming its origin as being in zone 1)
is a complete fraud.  He knows it.  And everybody else does,
too.

A few more words -

Even though he does qualify as being a nuisance, I do not find
him to be annoying at all.  That is what most folks have a hard
time to understand.  You see, nothing bothers a troll.  Nothing.
A troll's job is to troll.  The more responses a troll can get,
the better.  And if a troll can get others to do the trolling
for him, so much the better.

The glory days of BBSing.  Trolls in all their splendor, power
and might.  The best were never suspected of being trolls at all.
They just got things started, sat back, and watched the fireworks.
Gawd, I miss those days ...

Maybe now people will start to catch on to what is going on.
One troll is trying to out-troll another troll(s).

Now do try to keep up.

This is a trolling contest.  Not necessarily limited to any number
of trolls.  Unnerstan'?  While there may be many suspects, it is rare
for any to be admitted.  At least not without a certificate.

That is why P4 was written.  Included in the document is the
rule for trolling.  Actually, there are two parts to the rule,
which is why it is known as The Rule of One, rather than The
Rule of Two.  Kind of like the Tango.  It always takes Two
to Tangle ...

--Lee

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