On Aug 20, 2016 08:13am, Timothy Richardson wrote to Moderator:

Tim,

 TR> GEEZ!! This echo is deader'n Kelsey's nuts!

 TR> Tell ya what; I'll post in here....you come smokin' out all pissed off
 TR> and remonstratin' with me....maybe it'll scare up some traffic in here!


Thank you for pointing out a few security holes I had in my system.  There are
many echos on fidonet that may (or may not as you pointed about p'ing someone
off) appreciate your interjection of a little humor (I hope you were
attempting humor) in them.  Unfortunately this is one area I do actively
monitor, just in case, because I am a moderator.

Again this BLIND sysop (who's vision is improving daily) has had to fix a
security hole here.  You may gladly look, but I have to honor the section
which you so kindly quoted back to me, below.

 -> Permission will be granted to recognized moderators of Fidonet echomail
-> conferences who are not themselves the operator of a system listed in
 -> the Fidonet nodelist.

Since you are not a nodelisted sysop and I'm not aware of you moderating any
conferences I have to remove the write access on your security level per the
instructions below.

 ->  The conference may be made available as read only to all other points
 ->  and users.

If you are an echolisted moderator and need access to this echo please follow
these instructoins to get access.

 -> Moderators who are not Fidonet system operators may send email to
 -> mark.lewis@ftn.wpusa.dynip.com with a subject line indicating that the
 -> message is requesting write privileges in this conference. Parties
 -> requesting access via email must state which listed Fidonet system they
 -> will be using to post in the conference, or a point address derived
 -> from a listed Fidonet system. When permission to post is approved it
 -> will be posted in the echo, and routed netmail sent to the sysop
 -> hosting the requester. IF an individual requesting posting privileges
 -> is not known to the moderator his/her request will be conveyed to the
 -> echo for the purpose of seeking additional information from echo
 -> participants.

Mark is a very honorable person, regardless of past opinions and history I
know he will abide by his rules above.

And as I consider you a friend, and have gone to bat for you several times in
the past few months please remember that the statement below applies to
everywhere on fidonet.

  "Sysops are responsible for any/all traffic that leaves their system."

That means I catch the flack first not you... and ultimately I can have my
node number excommunicated if things get too crazy.  I do hope you regard me
as a friend and understand.  Please be mindful about going into echos to stir
up trouble and rememer -I- went to bat for you... I'm sure Marc and many
others will attest to this as well.

Thanks

Allen

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