* Carbon copied to Roy Witt, Ed Koon, Janis Kracht  
    
  Hello Roy!  
    
  28 Jun 13 12:24, you wrote to me:  
    
   RW> This is a Policy Complaint against Ed Koon, sysop of 1:123/140 BBS.  
    
   RW> When I asked, as the moderator of the AUTOMOTIVE echo, via netmail, to  
   RW> put an annoying BBS user on read only for a week, I get a message in  
   RW> the echo from the BBS sysop, to wit;  
    
  [..]  
    
  You of all people know that a Policy Complaint should be undertaken as a  
  *LAST* resort, in todays state of Fidonet, even moreso. You also should know  
  that using Policy as a baton over echomail matters is a no no unless the  
  smooth operation of the net can be shown to have been in jeopardy or the  
  operation of your system was hindered.  
    
  Even if you could have proven the merits of your complaint, I find that you  
  did not go anywhere near the effort needed to have shown a reasonable effort  
  on your part to resolve the issue before immediately pursuing a Policy  
  Complaint. You did request a feed modification which was granted.  
    
  Excessively Annoying behavior was not achieved, but one could say that you  
  were excessively annoyed.. In FIDONET past this could result in a reverse  
  Policy Complaint being filed against you.. However we are not going to go  
  there..  
    
  With all this said, I am dismissing your Policy Complaint on the fact that  
  it  
  both lacks merit and does not rise to the level of EAB.  
    
  I am ruling on this Policy Complaint as the NET 123 Coordinator and as the  
  Region 18 Coordinator, I am recusing myself.. Any and all appeals must be  
  made  
  to the Zone One Coordinator, also copied in this message.  
    
  I am not done...  
    
  This is to Ed Koon..  
    
  ED the service you have provided to Fidonet by giving users a place to use  
  is  
  greatly appreciated, Lord knows that there were occasions you wanted to  
  throw  
  in the towel. This is however not the first time you have gone out of the  
  way  
  to defy and annoy a conference moderator who was requesting you to deal  
  with a  
  user..  
    
  Your first duty as a BBS sysop, being the liason between the user and the  
  net,  
  should be to mediate the situation so that the moderators concerns are dealt  
  with and the user understands that his or her behavior reflects not only  
  onto  
  them but onto you. Tom Walker might be right in thinking Roy is an ogre, but  
  his obstinance cost you and your *OTHER* users access to write in an echo.  
    
  I also understand that Tom Walker not only is a long time user of your  
  system,  
  but a top contributor, that should not matter if donating to your system is  
  voluntary.. Might I also remind you that in the recent past, you warned  
  another contributor, Tim Richardson, about posting in the DEBATE echo and  
  annoying its moderator Bob Klahn.  
    
  Please in the future do not openly defy a moderator and please try to  
  address  
  their concerns.  
    
  -Ross NC123  
    
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