Subj : Re: Nomination
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Mon Mar 21 2022 05:13 pm

 Re: Re: Nomination
 By: Ward Dossche to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 14 2022 10:54 am

> Carol,
>
> CS> Sean, all current ZCs are invited guests, and for good reason.  Been tha
> CS> way for quite some time.
>
> That is not completely true, but also not completely untrue .....
>
> Waaay waaay back when animals still could speak I mentioned to an FTSC-chair
> that they could decide upon standards as much as they wanted but without
> ZC-backing it did amount to very little. This was around that time when a
> particular (I think German) guy wanted to push something through and did not
> succeed. So he got himself elected in the FTSC, pushed his thing through and
> left Fidonet with some choicy words...
>
> To prevent things like that from happening again I requested access to the
> private deliberations of the FTSC ... and got it ... because I requested it
> not because it was granted out of vision.
>
> I think Scott was the chairman around that time ...
>
>  \%/@rd
>

Yes, Scott Little, Z3 and later Z3C and stepped down then as chair.

Memory dims of those 20 years or so ago times.

 xxcarol
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