Subj : Distribution systems
To   : Darrell Salter
From : Todd Sullivan
Date : Sun Apr 29 2001 02:16 pm

In a message of 26 Apr 01 Darrell Salter wrote to Steven Horn:

 SH>> I'm fully aware that mine was not the only NAB echo distributed by the
 SH>> Z1B but the Z1B owed it to those whose echoes they borrowed from the
 SH>> NAB to deal with them by NAB rules.

 DS> The echo is a Fidonet echo, not a NAB echo. Since the NAB and Z1B are
 DS> Fidonet systems they can carry whatever echos qualify.

This doesn't explain why separate backboning is required to get an echo
going.

It seems the accusations of exclusivity and elitism have some basis in
fact.

 SH>> I may now accept the proposition that I will have to carry an
 SH>> additional echo to stop Z1B distribution of an echo I moderate but
 SH>> that had not been made apparent to me when I encountered my
 SH>> difficulties with the Z1B.  In addition, dropping a distribution
 SH>> system through a message to an echo makes no sense for a moderator
 SH>> who is a mere user and may not have access to that echo.

 DS> Then you are a strange moderator indeed.

He's not the only one who feels that way.  I recently considered denial of
my echos on basis of the noises I didn't like, but I let it go.

At least until the next time.

Todd Sullivan

.... Oxymoron: Presidential ethics


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