Subj : New echoes
To   : The Z1B
From : Jack Yates
Date : Mon Jul 02 2001 10:45 pm

 JY> ======================================================================
 JY> ======
 JY>    2.  Requesting Addition to BACKBONE.Z1B

 JY> ======================================================================
 JY> ======

 JY>    LAPTOPS (5/25/01001)
 JY>    Requested: Sean Dennis 1:115/776
 JY>    Tier 1/2, REC Support:

 JY>    FIDO-WATCH (5/7/2001)
 JY>    Requested: 1:261/1352
 JY>    Tier 1/2, REC Support: 1:379/1

 JY> [...]

 JY> <Gentle chiding begins>

 JY> It appears that not enough people in the Z1B care about listing new
 JY> echoes, and that the actual readership of the Z1B distributed
 JY> echomail is so small that no one cares whether new echoes get
 JY> Z1Backboned or not?  These moderators are wanting in but apparently
 JY> nobody's listening.

 JY> C'mon guys, get off yer duffs and wake up to the fact that there's
 JY> more to mail-moving than technical excellence and bitching about last
 JY> weeks insults from the people across the street, real or imagined, or
 JY> letting your well-run system move the mail in the closet with little
 JY> or no attention on your part.

 JY> <end gentle chiding>

.....All of which got me only one response from a Z1B member, via netmail.  That
member asks:

"And what REC or Z1B member did you request the addition of this echo
from?"

....or words to that effect.

Which was not the point; I already carry the echoes so I don't have to request
addition from anyone.

The point was that it appears to me that no one in the Z1B is concerned enough
with this end of the echomail-moving business to acommodate the moderators who
are working to provide content for the enjoyment of the members of FidoNet.
But then, as there seems to be little interest from your downlinks in adding
new and possibly productive echoes, maybe it doesn't matter, perhaps you're
playing to an empty house.

This is a negative message that you're sending to the moderators:  "Don't
bother us with your requests, we aren't interested in your echo personally and
nobody's reading the mail we distribute anyway."

And, too, maybe it would be too much to expect for anyone to see that the
above-quoted message could be construed as a thinly-veiled request for
addition, huh?  No matter, the request period has expired for them now and the
opportunity is gone.

Hopefully, someone in your organization will wake up and respond/react to these
requests real soon.


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