Subj : Re: I think things have gone overboard.
To   : Jack Yates
From : George Roberts
Date : Sun Oct 06 2002 03:41 am

<*> Jack Yates was spouting off to Michael Gothreau -->

 MG> If the victim of the crime, Ed Koon, did not feel the threat was
 MG> serious enough to cut Wayne out and have him charged, then not one of
 MG> us has a right to judge him further, until he breaks the rules in one
 MG> of our echoes.  Am I right?

 JY> I certainly would not condemn a SysOp for not wishing to carry a
 JY> particular echo; it's his system let him do as he pleases; I can only
 JY> counter his actions, if indeed such as you describe should come to pass
 JY> by offering a feed to that particular echo or any and all other echoes
 JY> to those who may have become disadvantaged by his actions.

Pardon me if I'm wrong on this, but Dale is a Distro Hub, correct?  I don't
have a problem with Dale removing any particular echo from his BBS, but I
feel that unless the whole backbone removes an echo, ALL hubs should be
required to carry that echo for downlinks.  And I believe that is part of
the rules of each of the backbones, no?



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.... I'm not rude, I'm attitudinally challenged.
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