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    From Fabio Bizzi@2:335/364.3 to All on Fri Oct 11 19:52:02 2019
    Hello, All.

    I remember when I was an italian hub in the old good times that there was an echo policy for the italian echo areas, is out there anything similar now for the international echo areas? :)

    Many thanks!

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757 to Fabio Bizzi on Fri Oct 11 16:51:00 2019
    I remember when I was an italian hub in the old good times that there was an echo policy for the italian echo areas, is out there anything similar now for the international echo areas? :)

    There is none that I know of. Fidonet is just the mechanics of getting it all done. Each echo is owned by the moderator and the moderator is free to run his/her echo as they please.

    In times passed a moderator would ask a bad actor to stop and if that didn't happen would ask the sysop to stop the bad actor. If that didn't work would ask the backbone to cut the feed of the offending systen.

    In most cases a feed cut was not needed.

    In today's fidonet the feed cut option is not an option.

    There are not many moderators active today.. so that leaves us pretty much where we are.

    How would you like to proceed?

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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Fabio Bizzi on Sat Oct 12 08:46:24 2019
    On 11/10/2019 19:52, Fabio Bizzi -> All wrote:
    Hello, All.

    I remember when I was an italian hub in the old good times that there
    was an echo policy for the italian echo areas, is out there anything similar now for the international echo areas? :)

    Can of worms warning!

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    Regards
    David

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  • From Fabio Bizzi@2:335/364.3 to Alan Ianson on Sat Oct 12 21:27:02 2019
    Hello, Alan Ianson.
    On 11/10/19 16:43 you wrote:

    [...]
    How would you like to proceed?
    I'm just the last arrived there and I'd like to learn before to do. ;)

    But I'm trying to do a rebirth of fidonet in Italy, I was luky and I have a bunch of people that would like to restart the good old italian fidonet, nice people, helpfully, and polite.

    So I'd like to find an echo policy to look at to write the Italian one.

    BTW I'm sure for the international side that all should start from a deep revision of the Policy and of the rules and first of all we need an IC. ;)

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    Fabio.
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  • From David Drummond@3:640/305 to Alan Ianson on Sun Oct 13 08:17:34 2019
    On 12/10/2019 10:43, Alan Ianson -> Fabio Bizzi wrote:
    echo policy for the italian echo areas, is out there anything similar now for
    the international echo areas? :)

    There is none that I know of. Fidonet is just the mechanics of getting
    it all done. Each echo is owned by the moderator and the moderator is
    free to run his/her echo as they please.

    In times passed a moderator would ask a bad actor to stop and if that didn't happen would ask the sysop to stop the bad actor. If that didn't work would ask the backbone to cut the feed of the offending systen.

    In most cases a feed cut was not needed.

    In today's fidonet the feed cut option is not an option.

    That is why we have the "next Key" and the filters in our readers.

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    Regards
    David

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