Subj : I think things have gone overboard.
To   : George Roberts
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sun Oct 06 2002 10:31 am

06 Oct 02 02:41, George Roberts wrote to Jack Yates:

 GR> <*> 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
 MG>> of us has a right to judge him further, until he breaks the rules in
 MG>> one 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
 JY>> only counter his actions, if indeed such as you describe should come
 JY>> to pass by offering a feed to that particular echo or any and all
 JY>> other echoes to those who may have become disadvantaged by his
 JY>> actions.

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

A moot point made even more moot by the fact that the echo wasn't removed
from the BBS, let alone the backbone.  Just more of the 'chicken little'
phenomina we see throughout the network.




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