JD> But...  you are not the moderator of this echo.   
      
    ml> oh but i am, sir... richard webb handed this area off   
    ml> to me along with several others of his echos when he   
    ml> had to take a leave of absense...   
      
    JD> That doesn't make sense.  I didn't give it to him, so it wasn't his   
    JD> to give you.    
      
   where have you been since before December 2012 at least?   
      
   my system has been posting the echo's rules since March 1st... there's not   
   been one word from you or anyone else concerning them... there has been other   
   traffic in the mean time...   
       
   how could you miss richard's post from back in December and not comment on it??   
      
   [quote]   
   Area : Squish EchoMail Tosser, Help & Support   
   Date : Mon Dec 17, 10:02                                             lok   
   From : Richard Webb                                            1:116/901   
   To   : all   
   Subj : conference information   
   ===========================================================================   
   ^AMSGID: 1:116/901.0 1841e6f4   
   ^APID: timEd 1.10.y2k+   
   ^ACHRS: IBMPC 2   
   This echo once again has a moderator/caretaker who actually   
   participates in Fidonet.   
   For those of you who might have tuned in by just linking to   
   everything available at your uplink, here's some basic echo   
   guidelines for you.   
      
   THe purpose of this conference is support for the squish mail conference   
   processor written by Scut Dudley.    
   Squish is a companion to Maximus BBS and is a full featured mail processing   
   package.    
      
   MEssages posted in this conference should pertain to squish and squish related   
   software.  some ancillary packages such as   
   sqafix may have their own echoes.  THose echomail conferences may be inactive   
   however, so discussion of any software   
   which can work with squish format message bases is permitted and encouraged.   
       
   Usual rules of echomail etiquette apply at all times in this echomail   
   conference. NO  test  posts,  etc.  When  a  thread drifts  off  topic  for    
   the   
   echo move it to an appropriate conference or to private mail.   
      
   NO widget wars  will  be  tolerated.  THis  means  operating systems, mail   
   processor packages and bbs software. THis does not mean that a discussion    
   which   
   addresses  strengths  and weaknesses  of  various  pieces of software is   
   automatically deemed off topic however. Those with common sense  shouldn't have   
   to be told when the line is crossed.   
      
   Should  there be a violation of these rules it will normally be addressed in   
   netmail by the moderator(s) of this echomail conference. At most you will see a   
   post to the thread from a moderator requesting that the thread be  brought    
   back   
   into compliance  with  these  posted  rules  and guidelines. This message    
   will    
   be  addressed  globally  to  all.  Any  other communication   regarding  rules    
   violations  or  moderation issues will be handled by netmail only. Since this    
   echomail conference is only relevant to system operators and those of point   
   systems it is felt that netmail should  be  sufficient for  dealing  with    
   other   
   moderation  issues.  Posters who violate conference rules and guidelines more   
   than  once  within  the same  thread may be subject to possible bannishment   
   from   
   the conference.   
   I'd prefer not to have to go that route however.  Difficult   
   to enforce if somebody's intent on circumventing it, and   
   most reasonable folks shouldn't need it.   
      
   Gating this echomail conference outside Fidonet is not permitted.   
      
      
      
   Regards,   
              Richard   
   -!-   
    - Origin:  (1:116/901)   
   [/quote]   
      
      
   the rules post my system posted is what i pulled from the echolist rules   
   archive in the ELST1302 archive... i should have posted the above (cleaned up   
   a bit)... i just found the above a few weeks ago in this echo on my main   
   system at which time i placed the "lok" attribute on it so it would not be   
   deleted... the next posting is planned to be the above (cleaned up) slightly   
   modified...   
      
   )\/(ark   
      
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    * Origin:  (1:3634/12.42)