Hi Allen,   
      
   On 2016-06-06 03:43:56, you wrote to All:   
      
    AP> Now that you have read the entire message, please share comments.   
      
   Now that I have red your message it's clear to me, you look to fidonet with   
   your experience from the distant past. Current fidonet is a very much   
   different thing. For starters it's so much smaller than in it's hayday. Only   
   10% of the nodelist is left, and if you count active participants it's even   
   smaller. Further more as almost all links use the internet at zero cost,   
   anyone can connect every where. So all this hierarchical structuring is mostly   
   irrellevant, and moderators, where they still exist, have no real power at   
   all. Just the mere existence of moderators frustrates the smooth operation of   
   the network and seems to cause more aggrevation between the participants of an   
   area.   
      
   Further: the north american backbone (not "the backbone" as you said), has   
   made itself irrelevant since the fidonews coup, and the "genesis" of the   
   fidoweb as a concequence. So the elist because it isn't recognized as being   
   part of fidonet, and only part of Z1 uses it, is even less relevant. It's   
   mostly a mausoleum of dead areas anyway. There seem to be more areas than   
   active users!   
      
   So let's do without a moderator and rules in this area, it has existed without   
   it for more then 10 years now. The thought of having an election is even more   
   rediculous, it would only aggrevate things even more. No good will come of it   
   and would be a waste of energy!   
      
   And mind you, I don't object to you trying to revive the area. But you can do   
   that just as well without being the moderator. So put your energy into that   
   and drop the moderator nonsense...   
      
   Bye, Wilfred.   
      
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