Subj : P4 covers echomail
To : Ward Dossche
From : Sean Dennis
Date : Sun Apr 21 2019 03:18 pm
Hello Ward,
21 Apr 19 20:14 at you wrote to me:
WD> Your reasoning is as good as mine, but neither has been tested really.
I'd like to think that it wouldn't be tested.
WD> At that point a minor technicality comes into play ... "what
WD> determines who the moderator is?" ... and there's no uniform way of
WD> defining it between the zones...
Indeed. I would have to say that a "gentlemans' agreement" would have to be
the probable solution as in all parties involved that there is one caretaker
of the echo. Not to start a war with this but that's why the echolist
(amongst various reasons) is in existance in Z1. I know that other zones
don't agree with it but that's not my point here. The echolist can establish
who the moderator is publically without arguing the point to death. I don't
know how that's handled in other zones so I can only speak from my experience.
However, in today's Fidonet, I'd say that it would be common knowledge of who
a moderator is in a particular echo. There's not many of us left in Z1 who
moderate echoes. I moderate 15 echoes myself now and there's rarely a reason
to actually moderate though when it's needed, it's needed, if that makes
sense.
I'm mainly there as a caretaker now.
(I didn't select the tagline on this message, really.)
Later,
Sean
... Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.
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