Subj : Removal
To   :  Ross & BQ
From : Jack Yates
Date : Fri Sep 07 2001 12:36 pm

 TC>> I suggest you remove your reregistration of USIIA *NOW*.
 TC>> Registered Trademark.

 RC> I am sure Bobby will comply, he had to re-list that echo in order to
 RC> request to have the echoes distribution discontinued.

 RC> However since this is a hobby for most of us, this network is not the
 RC> place for threats of legal action regardless if there is a case to be
 RC> had, perhaps you an Bobby can come to a mutual understanding and move
 RC> on?

Ross:  While I concur with your statement that this network is not the place
for threats of courts and lawyers, I'm now feeling a bit of acid reflux
regarding Bobby's action. This echo's elisting expired no later than February,
'01, AFAIK Tony Cambell was the last moderator.  Tony could have requested the
echo be removed from distribution while he was the moderator and it's quite
possible hta he did not as the echo remains in my configs and listed in
BACKBONE.NA.  It is not listed in BACKBONE.Z1B.

It appears to me that BQ, the Official Fidonet Echo Savior has appointed
himself the Official Fidonet Echo Mortician as well.

"This echo is not dead until *I* say it's dead!"  And so he elists it on 27
July and requests that distribution be terminated 6 weeks later.

Bobby, I've not really ever cared much about your echo management practices one
way or another until now, but I'm beginning to become concerned.  Why, for
Gawd!'s sake did you go to the trouble to relist an echo that had been missing
from the elist for at least 5 months and then request it be removed from
distribution?  Why couldn't you have just left it alone?  It wasn't yours,  it
was dead; leave it dead.  What?  You say that the NAB was still distributing
it?  So what!  Are you now in the business of intentionally managing the NAB's
affairs?

I think that this time you've carried your efforts a little too far.



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