Subj : Revival of the AMIGA Echo
To   : 
From : Allen Prunty
Date : Sun Jun 05 2016 12:15:04


On Jun 05, 2016 11:03am, Richard Menedetter wrote to Allen Prunty:

 RM> Please stop posting this misleading information here!

 RM> You are not the moderator of this echo, stop pretending to be one!

It hasn't been relevant to you or anyone else since November 2015 so why is it
now?  The echo was effectively Dead... now it's an issue now that someone wants
to restart and get this going.  A derelict ship found floating at sea can be
salvaged by whomever comes upon it.  This echo was floating dead in cyberspace
now that someone wants to revive it why are you up in arms about it.  Not one
thing was being done to sustain and continue this echo and now it's an issue
when someone attempts to salvage a derelict.

It has hit me like a load of bricks to find out that Asha has passed away.  She
was a very dear friend of mine back in the day.  I was contacting her AMiga
group to see what we can do to get this going again.  The Amiga Society of
Kentucky (ASK) is still alive and well.

I know -very- well the history of the echo as I was there in the early 1990s
when it was formed.  BY echopol1 there is no moderator here, there was no
"host" system there were no rules posted.  Since this is an "international"
issue at this point according to echopol1 this echo has to be declared an
international echo.  Since there is no IC sitting currently and there isn't any
records other than the past two moderators being Zone 1, the jurisdiction
according to the ECHOPOL1 falls within the Zone one Echomail Coordinator who
recognizes the ELIST.  This echo was unowned, informal, ad-hoc at best.  No
rules have been posted in a very long time... I have messages dating back to
2011 and they are VERY few... no one has ever mention moderatorship at all.

If you want this to be declared an international echo then we need to seat an
IC... legitimize this as an international echo, as we have plenty of past
records in Zone1 (because we have an echolist... what record repository do you
have in Zone2) and follow all your steps as outlined in ECHOPOL1 to bring it to
your standards.  Or we can handle it the way that it's been handled in Zone1
since the creation of the Amiga echo.

You have two choices, you can stay along for the ride and try to be
constructive, building up the Amiga echo... and honoring Asha's memory (if you
even knew or remembered her) or you can simply disconnect from the echo and
start your own Zone2 Amiga echo, which is senseless.  We are far much stronger
together than separate.  I believe strongly that when push comes to shove we
are all here because of the Commodore Amiga now who is the moderator.

All you are going to do right now is cause discord in the echo, chase away the
fresh blood that I am working at bringing (and old faces I am contacting to
bring back) to the echo.

If you want to oust me then you will need to go appeal to a non-existant IC and
get it declared international then go from there.  Please take any further
comments to Netmail.

I've booted my old Amiga 1200, it still works, and I'm going to be onlineing
over 2 GB of Amiga files in the coming weeks.  I have many DVD-ROMS burned of
the old LiveWire BBS's filebase that were not destroyed in my house fire years
ago.  Luckily they were in a safe at a family member's house off site.  I do
hope that you will participate and enjoy what I am trying to do for all of us.

Allen

/\llen

.... Duct tape is like the Force. It has light and dark sides, and it holds the universe together.
--- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.0pr5
 * Origin: Derby City LiveWire - Louisville, KY - livewirebbs.dy (1:2320/100)

.