Subj : Re: May the Guilty Party Please Rise
To   : Nick Andre
From : Michael Grant
Date : Sun Apr 29 2001 11:45 am

> > There's lots of room for interpretation in the document... but what's
> > there is there, and the onus /is/ clearly on the sysops.
  
NA> Yes, but couldn't one just as easily say that an Echomail hub constitutes 
NA> being a Sysop because the person is participating in Fidonet?

Yes, and echomail hubs can cause problems too, and it's their responsibility
to fix any problems /their/ system might have caused. It is /not/, however,
their responsibility to fix someone /else's/ problem. The onus for that is
on the originating system, since in the case of an echomail hub, the message
did not enter Fidonet at their system.

> > In this case, I say the PX system has the bug, since it is altering mail
> > in a way it shouldn't be doing, and is causing problems for others in
> > the network. The onus thus should be on the sysop of that PX system to
> > fix things on his end.
NA> Well, I don't know much about PX, but I've seen a few tossers with some "o
NA> problems handling Seenbys and msgids.... The one for TBBS was an example..

Well, Andrea Santos, who certainly /does/ know about PX, said it's a
mis-configuration problem. Several other mail movers in Fidonet are also
running PX without experiencing these sorts of problems.

> > Sorry, but the only juice my modem will pass is electrons. Do you want a
> > nice negative particle cocktail?
NA> Depends on how drunk it gets me. :)

Watch out, too much of that stuff, and you'll get accused of being "drunk
with power"...   ;) 
  
> > Oops, sorry; that's what you've been getting anyhow, reading admin
> > echos... ;)
 
NA> NO! Don't expose the secret! I thought you carried admin echoes for every 
NA> region and zone? ;)

Oh, right... you want an illicit feed for the Singapore Region? How about
Abu Dhabu? Kuala Lumpur?

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