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   This used to be a pretty lively echo. It was begun as a `flame' echo,   
   and it got pretty hot in here.   
      
   Along came Ross Cassell.   
      
   Cassell has been `collecting' moderatorship of echoes for a long time,   
   now. And each time he `grabs' the moderatorship of an echo, two things   
   happen;    
      
   He changes the entire motif of the echo with a bunch of new rules, which   
   have nothing to do with the echo's original purpose;   
      
   And almost immediately the echo goes dead, except for an occasional posting   
   by Cassell of his `rules'.   
      
   It happened to this echo, the `Holysmoke' echo, and most every other one   
   Cassell has taken over. Its dead in here because Cassell killed it.   
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