Hello Damon,   
      
    LL>> Here's an idea for you, Damon.  Start a new echo, naming yourself   
    LL>> as moderator.  You get to name this new echo anything you want.   
    LL>> You also get to write whatever rules you want for this new echo   
    LL>> of yours.  Nobody will question your command, as you will be   
    LL>> the commander.  Even Bob K. will acknowledge you as commander.   
      
   DG>Wow, what an innovative idea.  Perhaps I'll do that.  Putting on   
   DG>my jackboots of ultimate free speech and nonoppression in moderation   
   DG>sounds like a joy.   
      
   Yeah.  You should try it sometime.   
      
    LL>> The one who will not be named can also do the same thing.   
      
   DG>I'm sure he'll be overjoyed, as well.   
      
   Oh, methinks he is having too much fun pestering his favorite   
   moderator rather than be one himself.   
      
    LL>> The question of the day is, what the hell is stopping you?   
    LL>> It certainly isn't me.  And it most certainly isn't Bob K.   
    LL>> So what is it?  Can you tell me?  Or is it that you simply   
    LL>> do not want to?   
      
   DG>I think you overestimate the amount of care that I have invested   
   DG>in this.  I engage in the banter that I do because I see an   
   DG>injustice and I want to comment on it.   
      
   I hate to bust your bubble, but you are no Noam Chomsky.   
   In order to be like him, first you gotta get yourself kicked   
   out of Israel (among other places).   
      
   "I am the voice of dissent!" - Noam Chomsky   
      
   DG>I'm not so naive as to think that it will be corrected.   
      
   Noam Chomsky (and Jesse Jackson) will correct himself.   
   As long as neither find themselves in Hymietown.  In which   
   case the both of them will probably get a good whoopin'.   
      
   DG>It's a good wind-up for my day when I'm getting spooled up for   
   DG>all of the red tape and useless bullshit that life in this society   
   DG>has to throw at me for the day-- drinking my coffee and engaging in   
   DG>really juvenile debate with people that have years (that they BRAG   
   DG>about) invested in picking up the same rotten glob of fly-egg   
   DG>infested feces over and over again and throwing it back and forth   
   DG>at the same people over and over and over again.  It hasn't ceased   
   DG>to amuse me yet, it scratches that irritated itch that I get when   
   DG>I see it, and like I said, it passes the time while I'm caffinating.   
      
   Dude, you are starting to sound like JFK -   
      
   "Life isn't fair!" - John F. Kennedy   
      
   DG>Why don't I start my new echo?  Because anything that I might   
   DG>start it about it already covered in the echo topics that I already   
   DG>have, and population of FidoNet pretty much goes to prove right now   
   DG>that people's needs are already met by the echoes in place.  It'd be   
   DG>a fool's venture to try to recruit sysops to pick up the new echo   
   DG>and to populate it and then begin gathering enough topical   
   DG>critical-mass to get the echo self-sustaining.   
      
   You really have to understand something.  Something very basic to the   
   nature of man.  Why does a man climb a mountain?  Because it is there.   
   No other reason.  Starting a new echo is done for the same reason.   
   That echo is there, just waiting for the moderator to show up.  Just   
   like that mountain, waiting for some dumb idiot to climb it.   
      
   DG>Why don't you go into detail on why my protesting of juvenile   
   DG>shit-slinging festivals and piss-poor moderation irritates you   
   DG>enough to try to sell me on an idea that you, surely, with your   
   DG>time invested in FidoNet, already know is destined to fail?   
      
   Because none of that really matters.  Did Noam Chomsky go into detail   
   as to why he is the voice of dissent?  No!  He does it because he can!   
   Did Sir Edmund Hillary go into detail as to why he climbed Mt. Everest?   
   No!  He did it because it was there!   
      
    LL>> Maybe you are a newbie, and do not know how to set up a new echo.   
    LL>> That could be it.  Too embarrassed to ask how to do it, having your   
    LL>> own pride.  I understand.  Well, here's how to do it -   
      
   DG>Pretty sure I could figure it out, bruh.  I'll just delete the   
   DG>rest of your benevolent tutorial here and not waste more of both   
   DG>of our time responding to that crap.   
      
   Words of wisdom are to the wise.   
   However, this being a fool's paradise ...   
      
   DG>[snip]   
      
    LL>> See how simple that is?   
      
   DG>It was really simple!  I don't know how I'll ever thank you   
   DG>enough.   
      
   Don't thank me.  I'm not a sysop.  FidoNet is a community of sysops   
   from around the world who made this place what it is today.  This   
   community of sysops includes the good, the bad, and the ugly.  Just   
   like the real world in which The Man With No Name made his fame.   
      
   God, I love Clint Eastwood and spaghetti westerns.   
      
   DG>Seriously, though, why does my conduct here stick in your craw   
   DG>so bad?   
      
   Actually, I find your conduct quite amusing.  Please continue ...   
      
   DG>Aside from the sarcasm that I heavily dosed this post   
   DG>with prior to this point, I _AM_ really interested in the   
   DG>answer to that question.   
      
   42.  That is the answer to life, the universe, and everything.   
      
   Thanks for all the fish.   
      
   --Lee   
      
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