Hi Allen,

On 2016-06-06 03:43:56, you wrote to All:

 AP> Now that you have read the entire message, please share comments.

Now that I have red your message it's clear to me, you look to fidonet with
your experience from the distant past. Current fidonet is a very much
different thing. For starters it's so much smaller than in it's hayday. Only
10% of the nodelist is left, and if you count active participants it's even
smaller. Further more as almost all links use the internet at zero cost,
anyone can connect every where. So all this hierarchical structuring is mostly
irrellevant, and moderators, where they still exist, have no real power at
all. Just the mere existence of moderators frustrates the smooth operation of
the network and seems to cause more aggrevation between the participants of an
area.

Further: the north american backbone (not "the backbone" as you said), has
made itself irrelevant since the fidonews coup, and the "genesis" of the
fidoweb as a concequence. So the elist because it isn't recognized as being
part of fidonet, and only part of Z1 uses it, is even less relevant. It's
mostly a mausoleum of dead areas anyway. There seem to be more areas than
active users!

So let's do without a moderator and rules in this area, it has existed without
it for more then 10 years now. The thought of having an election is even more
rediculous, it would only aggrevate things even more. No good will come of it
and would be a waste of energy!

And mind you, I don't object to you trying to revive the area. But you can do
that just as well without being the moderator. So put your energy into that
and drop the moderator nonsense...

Bye, Wilfred.

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