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  • Echo's without a current Moderator

    From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to All on Thu May 14 17:02:52 2020
    Hello All!

    As you all know (I hope) 3 moderators have died since last May.

    Namely Roger Nelson, Ben Ritchey and Bill McGarrity.

    Some of these effected echo's have now been taken over by others but there is still a number that have not.

    The issue is that when the elist program runs a WARNIng run to report on any that are expiring the netmails go into never-never land.

    So unless any one comes back to me to advise they wish to take any of them on will changes the MOD settings to that of elistmaint not not to update them as many are dead traffic wise at least according to my systems data.

    This could be a problem in bad links at my end or they are just dead.

    In any event I will not bother updating them and let them leave the ELIST system in 2 - 3 months time.

    So, if you want to take any of them on get in touch and I will send you a copy of MOD-UPD files that you can use to do that as it needs 3 files with names of:

    Each of these will require you to have a password created for yourself.

    echotag1.ECO where you have added yourself as COMOD1 and sent from the current
    MODerator where the MOD and FROM are still in the original mods name.

    echotag2.ECO Where you change MOD and FROM to yourself.
    echotag3.ECO Where you delete the COMOD1 [ COMOD1 DELETE ]

    See easy and it is all automated.

    I will leave it until Sunday and make the changes for all not taken over.

    Of course if you decide to take any on after that just look at the
    latest ECHOLIST archive for what is used for MOD and FROM which you should may do any way.

    I intend to see if I can work out how to set up the program postfix in order to
    get emails working but there are a lot of configutation files involved.

    Vincent

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Vincent Coen on Thu May 14 13:04:44 2020
    Re: Echo's without a current Moderator
    By: Vincent Coen to All on Thu May 14 2020 17:02:52


    As you all know (I hope) 3 moderators have died since last May.

    Namely Roger Nelson, Ben Ritchey and Bill McGarrity.

    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we don't??


    )\/(ark
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  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to mark lewis on Thu May 14 20:47:48 2020
    Hello mark!

    Thursday May 14 2020 13:04, you wrote to me:

    Re: Echo's without a current Moderator
    By: Vincent Coen to All on Thu May 14 2020 17:02:52


    As you all know (I hope) 3 moderators have died since last May.

    Namely Roger Nelson, Ben Ritchey and Bill McGarrity.

    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we
    don't??

    Nope, but he is non pollable for over a year.


    Vincent

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    * Origin: The Elist Maintainer (2:250/1)
  • From August Abolins@2:221/1.58 to mark lewis on Thu May 14 18:25:00 2020
    Hello mark!

    ** On Thursday 14.05.20 - 13:04, mark lewis wrote to Vincent Coen:

    Re: Echo's without a current Moderator
    By: Vincent Coen to All on Thu May 14 2020 17:02:52

    As you all know (I hope) 3 moderators have died since last May.

    Namely Roger Nelson, Ben Ritchey and Bill McGarrity.

    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we don't??


    Let's say, dXXd interms of fidonet. LOL

    Also, MIA, AWOL, NTBF.

    His nodelist entry has long been misleading in this regard. :(


    ../|ug

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  • From Andrew Leary@1:320/219 to mark lewis on Thu May 14 19:35:56 2020
    Hello mark!

    14 May 20 13:04, you wrote to Vincent Coen:

    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we
    don't??

    He isn't, unless it happened very recently. I talked to him on Facebook a few weeks ago. He is, however, no longer running a BBS or a member of FidoNet.

    Andrew

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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Vincent Coen on Fri May 15 10:20:15 2020
    Re: Echo's without a current Moderator
    By: Vincent Coen to mark lewis on Thu May 14 2020 20:47:48


    As you all know (I hope) 3 moderators have died since last May.

    Namely Roger Nelson, Ben Ritchey and Bill McGarrity.

    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we
    don't??

    Nope, but he is non pollable for over a year.

    knowing the circumstances of what happened, it is understandable to a point... i was, however, targetting your initial statement (above) which said that 3 died... don't freak me/us out like that! ;)


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  • From mark lewis@1:3634/12 to Andrew Leary on Fri May 15 10:23:11 2020
    Re: Echo's without a current Moderator
    By: Andrew Leary to mark lewis on Thu May 14 2020 19:35:56


    i don't think bill mcgarrity is dead... unless you have info i/we
    don't??

    He isn't, unless it happened very recently. I talked to him on
    Facebook a few weeks ago.

    this is good news, thanks!

    He is, however, no longer running a BBS or a member of FidoNet.

    i can understanding losing the drive to set things up again... especially after
    the problem that caused his system to go down... i hope the insurance covered things properly for him...


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