Subj : Re: Check yer powder and
To   : All
From : Matt Bedynek
Date : Sat Sep 28 2002 02:30 pm

On Sat, 28 Sep 2002 00:53:00 UTC, "Dale Shipp" <dale.shipp@1:261/1466>
wrote:

> DS>   Because they are the rules accepted by the majority of moderators.
>
> MVDV> Majority? Really?
>
>  Yes really.
>
> MVDV> Please provide the figures to back up that claim.
>
>  I know of several hundred active international echos that use the
>  Elist and accept it as an information source for their echos.  Not all
>  of them have origin in zone 1 either.

You're logic is flawed.  Show me one moderator that has voted for the
echolist doctrine.  No, the truth is that moderators are required by
distribution (in this zone at least) to list their echo in order for
it to propagate.

Those that list, but do not propagate here, likely do so in order to
prevent cross linking into this zone.  I showed one good example of
where that happened when I created an echo.  It appeared that an
unlisted echo by the same tag existed on the other side of the pond.
I believe I even turned over my listing to the other moderator
because, like I said time and time again, I support moderators.

A comparison is the telephone industry.  Prior to deregulation, if one
desired telephone service, they had no choice but to pay bell.  Most
did not bitch and just went along with the system.

I do not deny that we need an echo list.  I only question the amount
of control we place in the hands of the keeper and the total reliance
of the data of a compromised system.

matt
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