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Note Worthy Quotes from the Z1C Election

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Area : Z1_POLITICAL
Date : Wed Jun 16, 10:37                                                       
From : Martin Belcke                                            1:232/10
To   : Douglas Myers                       
Subj : Re: Final notice Any candidate attacked by you will be cut.  Immediate
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> I got to these two echomail messages from you.  I'm NOT going after
> you... I don't have a better moderator in mind than the one Martin
> appointed.  I'm just disagreeing on this one issue with you.
 
Just a small correction here.  The RCC appointed Joe.  As the elisted moderator
of the two echos, I agreed to list him as such and to temporarily remove myself
from active moderation.
 
--Martin--

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Area : Z1_POLITICAL
Date : Thu Jun 17, 13:58                                                       
From : Martin Belcke                                            1:232/10
To   : Clay Tannacore                      
Subj : Re: Final notice Any candidate attacked by you will be cut.  Immediate
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> Martin, if I were in your position.  I would consider reversing that
> agreement, if only to detach yourself from a very uncomfortable
> situation.  There is no use you suffering the consequences of the Jared
> appointment (as Moderator) when it's not necessary.
 
Unlike you, I don't go back on an agreement.  I agreed to turn over the echo
untill after the election process is concluded and that is exactly what I plan
to do.  It is no longer my call
 
--Martin--
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Area : Z1_POLITICAL
Date : Thu Jun 17, 13:04                                                       
From : Clay Tannacore                                             1:18/4
To   : Joe Jared                           
Subj : Re: Now is the time                                                   
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 * Message copied from "Z1_ELECTION"


 >> That's yet another example of the Jared duel-standard(s) employed during
 >> his tenant as Moderator of Z1_ELECTION echo.

 JJ> I had expected that my routed netmail would have gotten to you by now.
 JJ> Please refrain from posting until June 23rd.  Failure to comply hopefully,
 JJ> will result in an immediate feedcut.

Kiss my ass Jared, I'll post when I want too.  I'm not posting in any echo you
moderate, so get out of my life.


CT

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Area : Z1_POLITICAL
Date : Thu Jun 17, 22:55                                                       
From : Martin Belcke                                            1:232/10
To   : Clay Tannacore                      
Subj : Re: Now is the time                                                   
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In a message to Joe Jared, you stated.
 
> Kiss my ass Jared, I'll post when I want too.  I'm not posting in any
> echo you moderate, so get out of my life.
 
 
Hate to burst your bubble, Clay, but Joe is the Moderator for Z1_ELECTION and
Z1_POLITICAL until after the ZC election is concluded, so you ARE posting in an
echo that he moderates.
 
--Martin--

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Area : SUPER-BITCH
Date : Fri Jun 18, 03:13  
From : Ruth Argust                                            1:2404/201
To   : Fellow Conspirators and Guests      
Subj : Emergency Meeting  
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Hello Fellow Conspirators and Honoured Guests!

Welcome to the SUPER-BITCH echo where all the wayward persons who have had their
feeds cut from the Z1_ELECTION echo will find a home. We are glad that many of
the candidates have come to visit with us here, else we might never get a chance
to malign them again without their knowledge.

Now that calling this meeting of the conspiracy to order has been accomplished,
I wonder how many of you have been paying attention to comments made by the
candidates in regard to echomail policy.

At this particular meeting, we shall proceed to discuss only three of the
candidates. I know that's not fair whatsoever but the other two have not given
me a chance to condemn them as yet but I will be ever vigilant.

Do we need or want an echomail policy? Do we need or want moderator appeals? As
far as I have seen, no.

This is why both Douglas and David will not be hounded today, they have both
said that *if* any such action is needed they would respond. They did not say
that they would seek such action.

Let's take a snippet from each of the other three candidates next. All quotes
have been excerpted from that over Moderated echo, Z1_ELECTION.

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Dallas said on 6-15-99 to Jack Yates:

JY> - Create an appeal chain for redress of moderator action?

 DH> Indirectly. By that, I mean that I would like to see the *EC
 DH> chain become more independant of the *C, including recognizing 
 DH> that the moderator is boss, and implementing a proper echomail 
 DH> policy with a complaint procedure and an appeals process. This 
 DH> would then put echomail under the jurisdiction of the *ECs rather 
 DH> than the *Cs.

If the moderator is boss, what type of complaint procedure and appeals would be
put into place? Isn't this a contradiction in terms? I am not certain that we
need any echomail policy at all, so I am not certain what this statement
implies. The use of "a proper echomail policy" as used by Dallas need be defined
a bit more as well as the appeal.

Bobby on 6-15-99 to Jack Yates:

JY> - Limit or change the authority of the echo moderators?

 BQ> I can see situations where a moderators authority should be
 BQ> limited somewhat but it is the moderators job to see that the echo
 BQ> in question runs smoothly. So maybe limit them by creating the 
 BQ> appeal chain you address in your next question but at the same 
 BQ> time don't limit their ability to do their job.

If we use the moderator is boss in their own echo rule and abide by the long
held Fido tradition of voting with your feet, any limitation of the moderator's
authority is erosion.

JY> - Create an appeal chain for redress of moderator action?

 BQ> We definately need this.  I have seen moderators in the past ban
 BQ> someone for seemingly no reason and this shouldn't be allowed.  It
 BQ> just makes users leave FidoNet for other Networks where they are 
 BQ> allowed to post.

Some of us were banned from the discussions of selecting a Z1C but we didn't
leave for other networks. Again, this is eroding the moderator's authority. If a
person is a user in Fido echoes, they LEARN to obey the echo rules. The power
hungry moderator here is really the exception and not the rule. I hate to draw
on my own Moderator experiences since I don't think I am any expert but my echo
DOORGAMES has always tended to attract many user "flakes". Such is the nature of
the discussion. Yet in the last year, I have had only one feed cut and that is
probably the only cut I have had to make in the last couple of years. The users
of the echoes are generally much more cooperative and rarely break the echo
rules these days and our traffic is down. We are getting a much higher class of
participants...ones who want to be there as opposed to the hit and miss ones who
saw an echo as s/he was on a BBS and decided to have some fun.

(Off the record, the feed cut I had to place was after giving the person at
least 6 warnings. He was insisting on discussing how Canada could whip the US in
a war which had nothing to do with topic. Since our net was multi-national at
that time, being in both R10 and R12, I didn't wish it to come to an outright
war in real life as one of my homes would have been threatened. )

Todd on 6-16-99 to Jack Yates:

 JY>- Create an appeal chain for redress of moderator action?

 TC> Yes: Make it similar to Policy Complaint but make it a echo 
 TC> complaint and have the REC's make final judgement. Make all 
 TC> Regions REC's vote on the final ruling as a body.

Again, another appeal allowed against moderator action but this one goes even
further structuring it in the form of an echomail PC. Do we really want anything
like this? I say hell no! Think about it, it could lead to an excomm based on
echomail.

Now two more points that I have not seen anyone comment on so far. One of them
is terrifying. This excerpt is taken from a message from Todd on 6-15-99 to
Andrea:

AS> - Approximately how many times a year do you travel and expect to be
AS>   away from your system?

 TC> 3-4 times a year usually 3-4 weeks each trip. I do have worldwide
 TC> Internet access to all areas I travel. BBS is on the net so it 
 TC> is accessible worldwide..

So Todd will be gone a minimum of 9 weeks per year up to 16 weeks per year.
That's two 1/2 to FOUR months out of the year. I would say that's a long time to
be missing as Z1C, irregardless of his internet connections.

AS> - Why do you want to be Zone 1 Coordinator and what is your vision
AS>   of the future of Fidonet?

 TC> My vision is simple. Encourage growth through embracing with open
 TC> arms new technology. Encourage sysops to develop new user 
 TC> distribution methods. Push Technology, Fido Based News servers 
 TC> moderated. Encourage more gating to active networks like Rime.

Are we seriously going to gate to other NETWORKS? This is FidoNet! If this
comment didn't scare the crap out of you, you must be asleep!

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Some of you are still able to access the hallowed doors of the Z1_ELECTION echo.
I hope that you will try to follow up on any of these points that bother you
personally. Any candidates who are present at this meeting may feel free to
comment here without fear of moderator redress.

The meeting of the ousted conspirators is now concluded. Please remove your
secret decoder rings and leave quietly. Only speak to others members outside
this door in hushed whispers. Thank you all for your attention.

                                *ruth*


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 * Origin:  The Great White South                    (1:2404/201)
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