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 Bj�rn 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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