Subj : Third Party Updates
To   : Roy Witt
From : Thom LaCosta
Date : Tue Sep 05 2000 10:28 am

Roy Witt wrote in a message to Thom LaCosta:

 RW> Hello Thom.

 RW> 03 Sep 00 10:31, you wrote to BOBBY QUEEN:

 TL> As I've told you in netmail, and in various public announcements,
 TL> unless a moderator confirms with me that he/she wants you to do the
 TL> updates, they will NOT be processed.

 RW> If there's been no response from the moderators of these echos,
 RW> that'll be the best thing to happen to them anyway. Once those
 RW> echos expire, Bobby can 'rescue' them and name himself as moderator
 RW> and we can start this process all over again.  

The correct term is relist...there is no such thing as rescue.

 RW> Or is there now
 RW> going to be a new rule that you can't rescue an echo and name
 RW> yourself as the moderator, even though the previous moderator can't
 RW> be found?

No, but you can't relist an echo and hide behind someone else's name.

All one needs to do is relist the echo with him/her self as moderator...give up 
the rescue pretense and acccept whatever criticism, if any, for amassing a 
large collection of echo tags.

Once that's done, it's pretty clear when a dead echo is re-boned, or re-named, 
or killed off that the person doing is is the moderator, not some third party.

 RW> This is getting sillier by the day...

Sure is...and the silliness stems from folks distorting the expiration dates 
and accuracy of the echolist.

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