Replying to a message of BOB KLAHN to BOB ACKLEY:

 BA>>>> He's telling the absolute truth, Klahn.  Everybody that
 BA>>>> witnessed your hijinks is aware of what you tried to do.

 BK>>>  And they are aware that you are lying here. Your ignorance may
 BK>>>  be correctable, but your choice to remain ignorant makes it a
 BK>>>  lie.

 BA>>>> Not to mention that Earl saved the netmails he got when
 BA>>>> Thom's system notified him that somebody was trying to
 BA>>>> register HIS echo is someone else's name (yours).  You

 BK>>>  Which does not change a thing, as you would know if you were not 
 BK>>> so ignorant of how Fido works.

 BA>>>> tried the same trick some time back with POL_INC, and Earl
 BA>>>> has that netmail too.  Had either echo *really* expired as
 BA>>>> you claim, Thom's system would not have rejected your
 BA>>>> attempt(s) to claim them.

 BK>>>  And that is your ignorance. Thom's system works automatically,
 BK>>>  the elist robot. The echo does not have to be in the last issued
 BK>>> Elist to be listed, but the next one. I told you before, look  in
 BK>>> the elists of the time. He was not listed as moderator. He  was
 BK>>> listed in the *NEXT* elist, not the last one. And you can't  see
 BK>>> the next elist until it's published.

 BA>> Since that *NEXT* elist hadn't been published, how did you
 BA>> know the listing had expired?

 BK>  Because it was not in the *LAST* elist.

You just finished claiming that watever was or wasn't in the *LAST* elist
was irrelevant.  Note that Earl posted the ALL-POLITICS entry from the elist
preceding your hijack attempt, and Earl is listed as moderator.

 BK>>>  I checked the elist before attempting to list an echo. You
 BK>>>  should check it before spouting off on what you don't know.

 BA>> Let's take a big leap and assume for a moment that what
 BA>> you've posted here is really
 BA>> true and not one of your delusions.  Why then, did Thom's
 BA>> elist robot (a) reject your
 BA>> attempt to list the echo and (b) warn Earl that you were
 BA>> trying to steal it? The only
 BA>> answer I can think of is that the listing had *NOT* expired
 BA>> as you continue to claim.

 BK>  Try to think. You used to be able to do that. He relisted it
 BK>  *BETWEEN* elist releases. So the elist that was in distribution
 BK>  showed it had expired. The Robot does not read that, but it's
 BK>  own records.

 BA>> When the elist entry for this echo did in fact expire, Earl
 BA>> was able to list it in his
 BA>> name with no problem, and Alan Hess later thanked him for
 BA>> picking it up.

 BK>  And just how do you know that? Oh, and why did he twist the
 BK>  rules so badly, if he picked it up for Alan?

Earl said that he did.  As to why you'll have to ask Earl.

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