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        As I See It: Zone 2's Superstitions   
        An opinion column by Sean Dennis (1:18/200)   
      
        Welcome to a new opinion column in the FidoGazette!  This is where I   
        will express my personal opinions about all things Fidonet.   
      
        (Please note that the opinions expressed here are of my own and are   
        not representative of anyone or anything else.)   
      
        So let's start off the column with the latest stupidity: I am being   
        castigated by several sysops in Zone 2 for trying to "usurp power" in   
        echoes simply by elisting them and posting echo rules.  Now I know   
        these European sysops operate on feelings rather than facts but let's   
        start off with a few facts:   
      
        -- I am told that I have a "bad reputation" because of all of the   
        echoes I have elisted and moderate because Zone 2 feels that I am   
        trying to "usurp power" from unknown persons.   
      
        -- I am also told that in Zone 2, I am seen as a bad person by daring   
        to post echo rules and try to enforce a modicum of civility.   
      
        -- Echomail is not an official part of Fidonet.  This is an   
        oft-overlooked fact.   
      
        -- I cannot find anywhere in Policy 4 where I have to give credence to   
        Zone 2's silly superstitions about echomail (read EP1 for more).   
      
        -- All of the echoes I control originate in Zone 1.   
      
        -- I follow Zone 1's established procedures about elisting echoes.   
      
        -- The reason I post echo rules and enforce them are because of the   
        actions of these very same hypocritical and pious sysops.   
      
        -- Policy 4 only means something to these sysops unless it is   
        supposedly in their favor.   
      
        -- None of these other Zone 2 sysops give a damn until someone in Zone   
        1 takes action.   
      
        So, in short, Zone 2 is having puppies about my following my own   
        zone's established procedures when dealing with echoes.   
      
        Several zone 2 sysops havecastrated themselves on the altar of public   
        embarrassment while flailing their hands and bleating loudly to anyone   
        who will listen.   
      
        If you stop by WIN95, which I recently elisted, Wilfred van Veltzen   
        (2:280/464)is making a grand ass out of himself in the echo insisting   
        that I am not the moderator.   
      
      
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