Subj : Bad behaviour not wanted.
To   : Alan Ianson
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Tue Nov 15 2022 03:11 pm

13 Nov 2022 12:58, you wrote to me:

 CN>> Indeed. But it can be a "sysop echo" or a "sysop only echo"
 CN>> depending on its rules...

 AI> Yep, this area is (or was) sysop only.

The most recent rules I've found were posted by Björn in 2016. It's not clear to me if read access was restricted to sysops only.

 AI>> I'm not sure where this read only idea comes from but when this
 AI>> area was created all those years ago it was setup that way.

 CN>> Perhaps that was FIDO_SYSOP? (Just asking, I don't really know.)

 AI> This is the original sysop echo. FIDO_SYSOP came a little later.

Ah yes, I found FN_SYSOP in an areafix list from an uplink I had, dated 1995. I think I didn't have it linked (at least for long), I guess it had too much traffic for me back then...

BTW there was also SYSOP ...

 AI> FIDO_SYSOP was created by a russian node and was private distribution
 AI> in it's easrly days.

Interesting :-)

Carlos

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