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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Written for Crisnews
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by: Jene Paris
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CLETON iS MAD AS HELL AND
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HE AiN'T GONNA TAKE
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iT ANYMORE
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OR
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HOW i STOLE THE ViRUS ECHO
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BY
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Geno Paris
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Brother Mikey contacted me by voice the other day, and asked
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me to document the specifics of how i got took over the moderator-
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ship of the virus echo. He said to make a nice article and not to be
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crude and say things like s*it and f*ck, so of course i shall
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not do anything like that :) The whole thing started about two
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months ago, when Paul Ferguson was claiming moderatorship of the
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Virus Conference echo. it seems that Paul was allowing encrypted
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messages to be transfered through the echo (using the PGP program).
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Now at the time i was a major hub (i am still a fidonet hub, but
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i transfer no where near the amount of mail that i did then) for
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fidonet, with just about all of the Z1 backbone being transfered through
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my system.
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SEX iS HiGHLY OVER RATED....UNLESS YOU'RE NOT GETTiNG ANY
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-COLOSTOMY BAGBOY
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i notified Mr. Ferguson that it was illegal to transfer
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encrypted mail and quoted him the part of BackBone Operating
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policy (BOP 1.03) regarding encrypted mail:
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5.2 Banned Messages
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The Backbone does not distribute any conference which routinely
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contains messages which are encrypted, contain illegal information or
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promote illegal activities. As used in this paragraph, "illegal
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activities" includes activities which are a violation of civil
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law as well as activities which would result in criminal
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prosecution.
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Now i want to point out that i was very polite to Mr. Ferguson,
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i informed him that as a sysop could not verify the mail if it
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was encrypted, to see if it did in fact violate state or federal
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laws, and that in any case since i was paying the long distance
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phone bill to bring the echomail in, i did not appreciate mail
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that i could not read. As i said, i pointed this out very politely.
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The next thing i know, i get the extremely nasty message from Mr.
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Edwin Cleton, telling me that he was the moderator, and that
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basically that i should in no uncertain terms shut up. Now at this
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point, i am confused. First Paul Ferguson is claiming moderatorship
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and now Mr. Cleton. So i checked out the Elisting (for those not familiar
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the Elist, is a listing of all fidonet echos and the moderators of
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each echo). After consulting the Elist i found something very
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interesting, neither Mr. Cleton or Mr. Ferguson were the proper
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moderator, someone named Marc Spain was. i pointed this out to Mr.
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Cleton in the echo, that neither him or Mr. Fergson was the proper
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moderator of the echo. At this point, Edwin lied to me. He told
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me that both himself and Mr. Ferguson were in fact Elisted and
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kicked me out of the echo, sending netmail to my sysop asking
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that my feed be cut.
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i AM CONViNCED THAT iF SOMEONE DOES NOT DO iT FOR YOU, EVERYONE ON THiS
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EARTH MAKES THYSELF THEiR OWN PARTiCULAR HELL ON EARTH
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-SON OF SAM
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Now a funny thing happened when Mr. Cleton sent my NC a message. You
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see my NC John Burton is a straight arrow in fido. He is not a bad
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sort, but he lives and breathes fido, goes to sleep with Policy4 and
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BOP 1.03. When he found that Mr. Cleton was not the proper Elisted
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moderator of the echo, well he just ignored him (funny thing is Cleton
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kicked John Burton out of the echo, and he doesn't even get it).
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Now personally, this whole deal made me a bit upset. i decided i was
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not going to take this lying down. i got on the phone to a friend (who
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though is a REC of fidonet, will have to remain nameless at this
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time) i was able to obtain the Elist password for Virus (but as it
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turns out i did not need it, the Elisting had expired). So i Elisted
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the echo, petitioned for it's return to the backbone which made
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me the moderator. Guess what, my first official act was to throw
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Cleton out of the echo :)
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YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU GOT, UNTiL iT'S GONE
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-"PHONEY" JONNiE MiTCHELL
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Mr. Cleton was quite upset when I threw him out of the echo, regardless
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of how this whole thing turns out, the following message makes the
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whole thing worth while:
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By: Edwin Cleton
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To: Dries Bessels
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Re: Moderator?
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St: Local Rcvd
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- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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> I'm confused!!! Who is the current moderator of this echo?
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> I thought Edwin but now it is Gene?????
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>> EC> Ec., Moderator VIRUS Conference
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>> Please stop posting this type of message. You are not the moderator
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>> of this echo. This is your second and last warning.
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>> Gene Paris Moderator
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Take no notice of this idiot, he has been access denied to this echo for over 2
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months, but some usa nodes either refuse to listen or are being blackmailed to
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not cut links, mr. paris has been and very likely still is involved in child
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porno where he managed to involve others who are now facing exposure if they
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cut links to his node, I am working on it, patients please.
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Ec., Moderator VIRUS Conference
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- ---
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* Origin: [MPwrHQ] #Cc.MisTeam Europe +31-10-4795892 [#Twin*] (2:285/817)
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Will i retain moderatorship of the echo? Well that remains to be
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seen, certainly by BOP 1.03 i am the moderator, it states:
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4.2 Recognition of Moderators
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A Moderator is recognized as follows:
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1) Upon formation of a conference, the person who forms the
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conference is the Moderator.
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2) Upon resignation or replacement of an existing Moderator,
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the conference's rules define how the new Moderator is
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selected.
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3) Should a conference which originates inside of FidoNet be
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without a moderator for over 30 days, the ZEC may cause a
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Moderator to be selected.
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Moderators are responsible for:
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1) Seeing that messages in their conference correspond to
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the conference's theme.
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2) Updating their conference listing in Echolist at least
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every six months.
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As you can see policy is very unclear about moderation of the
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echos. Generally, by tradition the Elisted moderator, is the
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moderator. He has the Zone 2 ZEC on his side but i am not without
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my own supporters. Regardless i am having fun, and even were
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i too lose i feel i have gotten even with Cleton. Those who live
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in glass outhouses shouldn't be so quick to throw shit :)
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So keep watching everyone, for as long as it lasts.
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Geno
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