Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:   
      
    BA>>>> He's telling the absolute truth, Klahn.  Everybody that   
    BA>>>> witnessed your hijinks is aware of what you tried to do.   
      
    BK>>>  And they are aware that you are lying here. Your ignorance may   
    BK>>>  be correctable, but your choice to remain ignorant makes it a   
    BK>>>  lie.   
      
    BA>>>> Not to mention that Earl saved the netmails he got when   
    BA>>>> Thom's system notified him that somebody was trying to   
    BA>>>> register HIS echo is someone else's name (yours).  You   
      
    BK>>>  Which does not change a thing, as you would know if you were not    
    BK>>> so ignorant of how Fido works.   
      
    BA>>>> tried the same trick some time back with POL_INC, and Earl   
    BA>>>> has that netmail too.  Had either echo *really* expired as   
    BA>>>> you claim, Thom's system would not have rejected your   
    BA>>>> attempt(s) to claim them.   
      
    BK>>>  And that is your ignorance. Thom's system works automatically,   
    BK>>>  the elist robot. The echo does not have to be in the last issued   
    BK>>> Elist to be listed, but the next one. I told you before, look  in   
    BK>>> the elists of the time. He was not listed as moderator. He  was   
    BK>>> listed in the *NEXT* elist, not the last one. And you can't  see   
    BK>>> the next elist until it's published.   
      
    BA>> Since that *NEXT* elist hadn't been published, how did you   
    BA>> know the listing had expired?   
      
    BK>  Because it was not in the *LAST* elist.   
      
   You just finished claiming that watever was or wasn't in the *LAST* elist   
   was irrelevant.  Note that Earl posted the ALL-POLITICS entry from the elist   
   preceding your hijack attempt, and Earl is listed as moderator.   
      
    BK>>>  I checked the elist before attempting to list an echo. You   
    BK>>>  should check it before spouting off on what you don't know.   
      
    BA>> Let's take a big leap and assume for a moment that what   
    BA>> you've posted here is really   
    BA>> true and not one of your delusions.  Why then, did Thom's   
    BA>> elist robot (a) reject your   
    BA>> attempt to list the echo and (b) warn Earl that you were   
    BA>> trying to steal it? The only   
    BA>> answer I can think of is that the listing had *NOT* expired   
    BA>> as you continue to claim.   
      
    BK>  Try to think. You used to be able to do that. He relisted it   
    BK>  *BETWEEN* elist releases. So the elist that was in distribution   
    BK>  showed it had expired. The Robot does not read that, but it's   
    BK>  own records.   
      
    BA>> When the elist entry for this echo did in fact expire, Earl   
    BA>> was able to list it in his   
    BA>> name with no problem, and Alan Hess later thanked him for   
    BA>> picking it up.   
      
    BK>  And just how do you know that? Oh, and why did he twist the   
    BK>  rules so badly, if he picked it up for Alan?   
      
   Earl said that he did.  As to why you'll have to ask Earl.   
      
   --- FleetStreet 1.19+   
    * Origin: Bob's Boneyard, Emerson, Iowa (1:300/3)