On 10 Dec 05  11:44:58, Maurice Kinal got back to Danny Ceppa    
   -> Re: bragging rights   
      
    DC> (aside!  I just opened my other BW pkt...  I got EXACTLY 20    
    DC> Echo Updates and everyone of them was moderated by Bob!)     
      
    MK> I wish him all the luck with that idea.  Without network support it   
    MK> can get very lonely, very fast.  The major criticism I've heard from   
    MK> users was there were far too much redundancy in the echolist(s) and   
      
   That's partially because the user base has shrunk.  IIRC, there were    
   over 3,000 Echoes in FIDO.     
      
    MK> the ones there are essentially dead.  I happen to agree with that   
    MK> assessment.  Without sysop support and participation in these echoes I   
    MK> don't see most of them going anywhere.    
      
   The one Echo I moderate that I'm worried about is SIMPSONS.  It    
   used to be a viable Echo.  But, the moderator left and it got    
   "rescued".     
      
   By the time I got to take over, it became a very pale shell of    
   what it once was.     
      
   A Moderator needs to be active in their Echo.  And no, not as a    
   Moderator unless necessary.  Popping in out of the blue because a    
   someone requested Moderator intervention doesn't cut it.     
      
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