Hello Richard,   
      
   RW>* Moved (from: DEBATE) by Richard Webb using timEd 1.10.y2k+.   
      
   RW>HEllo LEe,   
      
   RW>On Tue 2039-Jan-04 12:15, Lee Lofaso (3:800/432) wrote to All:   
      
   RW>   
      
   >LL>Thom LaCosta's private elisting has no official status in Fidonet.   
   >LL>Janis Kracht (former Zone 1 Coordinator) told me that.   
      
   RW>ONly correction I'll make to that is that Janis is not   
   RW>"former" z1 coordinator, but is still z1 coordinator.   
      
   Only in her own mind.   
      
   Like members of a U.S. president's cabinet, each zone coordinator   
   serves only until a new international coordinator is elected.  The   
   newly elected international coordinator might choose not to appoint   
   any zone coordinators, allowing those positions to remain unfilled.   
   Which is the present case today.   
      
   In other words -   
      
   There is no Zone 1 Coordinator.   
   There is no Zone 2 Coordinator.   
   There is no Zone 3 Coordinator.   
   There is no Zone 4 Coordinator.   
   There is no Zone 5 Coordinator.   
   There is no Zone 6 Coordinator.   
      
   Of course, you can declare yourself as being Zone 1 Coordinator.  Or   
   Zone 2 Coordinator.  Or Zone 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 (yes, there is a Zone 7)   
   Coordinator.  But that does not mean that anybody (much less a sysop)   
   will recognize you as being any kind of zone coordinator.   
      
   RW>As you know if you look through TOm's echolist you see my   
   RW>name listed as mod of a few echoes as well.   
      
   So?   
      
   RW>Call it quasi official, as recognized by the following:   
      
   RW>TO add any echo to the backbone a confirmation message from   
   RW>the echolist robot must be shown;   
      
   RW>tHe echolist does get a special 1:1/21 address;   
      
   RW>sysops will use it to determine the rightful moderator of   
   RW>an echo for purposes of deciding to honor an access cut.   
      
   I can do the same, creating my own private elisting.   
   In fact, I already have.  And that makes me the official   
   owner/moderator/whateveryouwanttocallit of every echo   
   in fidonet.  :)   
      
   --Lee   
      
      
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