Subj : Re: Bad behaviour not wanted.
To : Carlos Navarro
From : Ward Dossche
Date : Sun Nov 13 2022 11:48 am
CN>WD> Way way back in time when animals still could talk I decided to keep
CN>WD> ENET.SYSOP closed but quickly discovered that in Fidonet there will
CN>WD> always be at least one participant who'll send it to a person whom
CN>WD> does not qualify per the rules.
CN> When was that?
Somewhere the mid-90-ies, after I became ZC.
ENET.SYSOP was absolutely restricted, but how do you restrict an echo-conference with a theoretical membership of around 8.000 sysops...
We sometimes discussed restricted matters "which no-one else was supposed to know" but during the R24-schism certain R24-nodes used to funnel it to Z1-nodes (who were not supposed to have access) as a kind of payment for echo- and file-services. It was also a way to show how tough they were by going against a ZC who was considered to ber almighty in those days.
Early on I figured it was impossible to restrict "reading" that's when I started with restricted "writing" for ZCs only, the IC and invited guests. Becoming an invited guest never was a big deal, one merely needed to ask and I hardly ever saw anyone abuse that.
Sone people keep thinking it is possible to restrict the reading of echoes, but that is nonsense. Carefully guarded secrets such as Z1C and Z1_ELECTION can be freely read on bulletin boards to start with ...
