Hello Dale,
The time he was challenged to prove he understood what a BBS was by
logging in to a board, he didn't... he just posted a message from
another stupid NNTP site in Finland. He's never called any other board.
Ever.
I have a record of him posting messages from 3:800/432 -- probability in 2003.
You should check them. Then you will know the truth.
I have posted messages from many lands. But from Finland? That came
later, given the date you mentioned.
It all started in Texas. I was using Frank Vest's system at the time,
having been invited to his board. We were all enjoying a general chat
echo, and then I noticed Frank was posting messages in the Fidonews
echo. It was fun reading, but I had no write access from his board.
I have no idea as to why Frank had it listed as a "read only" echo.
Especially since I had read and write access from other boards.
Including boards in the USA. I simply thought it was an oversight
on his part.
So I asked Frank to grant me write access to the Fidonews echo.
He refused, but not for long as I had other places to do so from.
That is when I started posting messages in the Fidonews echo from
Steve Asher's sytem - in Australia.
It did not take long for Frank Vest to notice. So he decided to
retire as editor of the Fidonews, naming Bj”rn Felten as his choice
to replace him. And then he walked away, shutting down his board.
This act deeply upset Ross Cassell, who never fully recovered.
Has always blamed me. Ever since. For causing Frank Vest to name
Bj”rn Felten as editor of the Fidonews rather than himself.
Not that I had anything to do with it. I mean, Frank Vest was
editor of the Fidonews and free to name his own replacement as
editor. So please. Don't blame me.
But Ross Cassell was not done. He still had dreams of taking over
the echo he has always dreamed would make him "King of Fido".
That is when I set my true plan into action.
I never knew until then I had so much influence over Fidonet sysops.
Go ahead. Check your logs. And then you will know the truth.
The real truth. As to why Ross Cassell left Fidonet.
Well, not entirely my fault. There was one other factor.
The other factor being Wayne Chirnside. He was the one factor
that could (and did) send Ross Cassell totally off the edge.
That's right. One lunatic is bad enough. But two of them, teaming
up together, was just too much for any sysop to handle.
You see, the entity known as Wayne Chirnsde is/was not really a he,
but rather a she. A clinical psychologist, by profession. And she had
a study she was conducting, with one special project - megalomania.
When the basis of her study found out we were both posting messages
from the same board in the land of Oz, it just could not go unanswered.
So Ross sent Steve Asher a bunch of netmails, loaded with obscenities,
showing the Aussie from Adelaide how upset he was.
So Steve Asher did what any other sysop would do. He dropped the
Fidonews echo from his board. And messages continued being posted
in the Fidonews echo. With no restrictions on anybody who wanted
to do so.
Ross Cassell was still upset, and continued to whine. Finding the
same two individuals who were posting from a board in the land of Oz
posting from a different board.
We all know how well that went.
Bj”rn Felten did what any other sysop would do. He reminded the whiner
that a sysop is lord and master of his own board.
Ross Cassell made his exit from Fidonet shortly afterwards.
For Life,
Lee
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It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken
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