Subj : Fraud in Echolistings
To   : BOBBY QUEEN
From : Thom LaCosta
Date : Sun Aug 20 2000 01:02 am

* Copied (from: z1backbone) by Thom LaCosta using timEd 1.10.y2k+.

BOBBY QUEEN wrote in a message to JACK YATES:

 BQ> Its about time someone brought up that me turning the echo over to
 BQ> a new moderator after I could not get any response out of the old
 BQ> moderator for months was not that wrong.  I had done likewise in
 BQ> the past and will continue to do so in the future.  If I crash
 BQ> messages directly to someones BBS and they don't respond in over 2
 BQ> months then they have no rights to the echo they used to moderate.

Let's get some points straight Bobby.  

Who re-listed the echo? You did.
Who supplied the name and address of the moderator? You did.

If there was a problem with the named moderator and/or the address, who placed 
inaccurate information in the echolist? You did.

On the other hand, had you NOT meddled in the echolisting process, someone 
could have relisted the echo tag.

I can find no reference in any documents that a "savior" of echo tags is either 
requested or recognized.  There is certainly no mention of the messenger acting 
a the sole arbiter of moderators and echo tags.

Concerning your statement that  you've "done likewise in the past and will 
continue to do so in the future", it should signal all moderators that use you 
to act as a messenger that for some reason, only determined by you, their 
rights could be abridged by your actions.

Please be advised that unless I have specific confirmation from the moderator 
of record, I will NOT process substanstive changes in echotag information that 
are submitted by persons other than the moderator of record.

You do not "own" the hockey echotag, in spite of your statement:

> Point is the echo was MINE and I chose a new moderator.  PERIOD!

Please don't try to confuse the issue with all of your protestations of helping 
etc.  Your statement above is an indication that either you do not understand 
the echolisting process, or that you feel you can place yourself above and 
beyond the rules that govern such listings.

Had you wanted to have the right to "assign" moderators, you should have listed 
yourself as moderator, as you have done with other echo tags.


Thom LaCosta
baltimoremd@baltimoremd.com
http://www.baltimoremd.com/ 
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