Subj : Re: Trump Was There
To   : GREGORY DEYSS
From : BOB ACKLEY
Date : Mon Aug 12 2019 16:15:20

> On 11 Aug 2019, TIM RICHARDSON said the following...
>  
>  TR> When I spoke up and pointed out the hypocrisy of the two individuals
>  TR> refusing to live up to a standard they themselves demanded of others,
>  TR> and defended the user against them.....they made trouble for me such
>  TR> that my access to Fido was greatly restricted. In fact, I was only
able
>  TR> to `read' but not post for a long time.
> 
> That will never happen to you here if you connect at Capital Station BBS
> telnet://csbbs.dyndns.org as I am hub in all of New York State, and I
get my
> feed out of the United States. 

Way back in the dial-up dark ages Fidonet was very hierarchical, and it
was possible to enact and enforce discipline on the users.  At one time
POLITICS had a limit of 250 posts per individual per day, and I got
moderated a couple of times for exceeding that limit.  But we all got
along okay and pretty much behaved ourselves.  Moderating is no longer
possible and net discipline can't be enforced because anyone who
misbehaves can just find another feed and get around feed cuts that way.

In case anyone cares, the creator and first moderator of the POLITICS
echo was a fellow named Ed Cleary, who, if memory serves had a real job
as an attorney.  Ed passed the moderator hat to David Bloomberg (aka
'Crackpot') sometime back around 1990.  In the early 2000s David turned
the moderatorship over to Gary Braswell, who quietly vanished a year or
two later.

If memory serves, ALL-POLITICS was set up in the late 1990s by Bob
Sakowski, Stan Hardegree and one other fellow who's name escapes me at
the moment, primarily because they were not happy with the moderating in
POLITICS.
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