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Nick,
 
NB> You're better off leaving it alone my good man. These are the same people
NB> that police the nodelist (and yes, they actually made an echo for it)
NB> because they have nothing better to do besides argue with others until
NB> whatever conversation they decide to jump into abruptly goes silent due
NB> to others not wanting to stoop to their level. Fidonet at it's finest.
 
With the nodelist being at the center of Fidonet-operations, maintaining it at
certain moments is a tedious business. Without a decent nodelist we're fried.
 
While one might get upset with the nodelist police's activity, it's possible
to just ignore it or try to turn it into a resource for monitoring what
happens to said nodelist-entries. I'm in-between both.
 
It resulted over the years into a pretty clean nodelist ... no more
fax-numbers, no more private phones, no more street-adressess, in a certain
case even someone's shoe-size. ill-formed flags, unknown flags.... more stuff.
 
The "invention" of the daily-lists was also a seed planted by the
nodelist-police and other things too all resulting from discussions.
 
Gone are the days of Bob Satti and Ron Dwight who just loved sitting on their
throne and dispensing their wisdom. In the case of Ron Dwight it meant a lot
of controversial things and Bob Satti fought like hell first to keep high
modem speeds and later IP out of the nodelist.
 
It seems to me a lot has gone over your head when you make the remarks quoted
above.
 
This is just a clarification, nothing more.
 
Take care,
 
 \%/@rd

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