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R10C Assumes New Duties
by Gerry Calhoun, 1:2004/200
gerry@petpride.org

The R10C, Bob Kohl, seems to enjoy taking on new duties. If you recall he was just recently confirmed by Bob Satti in the past ZEC election. Soon after that, his REC, David Hallford, submitted his resignation as R10EC. David was kind enough to give three weeks notice to Kohl so that Kohl could arrange for a replacement for the R10EC position. Those three weeks have since passed and Region 10 has been without a REC in the NODELIST for three additional weeks.

In his credit, in the past six weeks, Bob has told folks in the regional admin echo a couple times that he is talking to someone in Northern California about the position. Not whom he was talking to or anything else of substance, just that he was talking to someone.

While he has been talking (for 6 weeks), he has decided to take on another responsibility, that of nodelist editor. He, as R10C, has decided to remove the NEC from Net 2004. This was not done due to her not fulfilling her duties as NEC, but rather because she is critical of his actions and inaction as R10C. His removal of her was done quickly and efficiently. He simply removed the UNEC flag at the end of her 1:2004/201 entry in the nodelist. He did not inform either her or the NC before he took this action.

Kohl's efforts just last February to remove her were opposed by the former R10EC when Kohl approached David Hallford on this matter. That was one of the reasons David stated that he could not function as the R10EC. This action by Hallford showed that he was able to put personal feelings aside when it came to work as he and the NEC in question (Ruth Argust) had some quite heated exchanges during the recent ZEC election campaign. As I understand it, Kohl, upon becoming the Z1EC, asked as one of his first questions to the RECC, how he could remove an NEC. I heard that the consensus of the RECC was that he could not.

Kohl seems to think it is important to take care of editing a net's nodelist segment and that it is one of his duties. On the other hand, he ignores the fact that one of the nets in his region has a still nodelisted NC who sent him a message in December giving him thirty days notice that he was shutting down his BBS. He did so on December 31,1997. The nodes in that net now have no NC and Kohl should have either see to a replacement, merged them into another net or moved them regional. It appears that since Net 204 does not talk badly about Kohl they are not a problem, the fact that they do not talk at all is irrelevant.

On the other side of the coin, we have a net with ONE node in it. Net 2003 for some time has had only one node in it. The system listed as 1:2003/2 has had a disconnected number for months. The other nodes for that net all refer to the same system.

While on the topic of the nodelist, it should also be known that Kohl has taken on a new hat under an assumed name. In Bob's home Net 102 segment, there is an improper flag of NEC with no preceding U. This in and of itself is not a great cause for concern. However, the fact that the nodelisted NEC is not in reality the NEC having resigned sometime ago is a bit questionable. Even more questionable is the listing for 102/2 that has traditionally been the Net 102 mail machine. The listing for this node is as follows: ,2,SoCalNet_EC,Los_Angeles_CA,Echomail_Coordinator,1-310-553-6379... If we were to simply go by the listed system and sysop name, it would appear that this is the NEC for net 102 and that the NC had simply overlooked removing the NEC flag after the former NEC resigned. However, upon closer investigation calling 1:102/2 reports a sysop of Pat Paulsen, a known "hero" of Bob Kohl, a man whom Kohl admires. In fact, you may remember that Bob had even made an entry in the nodelist last year in the R10 regional section for Kohl's phone number with Paulsen listed as sysop. Further investigation has shown that Kohl is attempting to run the mail machine from his home, along with all of his other duties but for almost THREE MONTHS has not been able to get it functioning because he can not configure the software. Thus, the Net 102 CRP has no backbone echomail, no local echomail and it has been reported that their routed netmail is also non-functional. Almost THREE MONTHS to set up a mailer? I think if you locked twenty chimpanzees in a room with twenty computers loaded with the software for a week, one of them would have hit enough of the right keys to get a mail machine working.

This, folks, is what our new Z1EC has been up to. One of the duties assigned to him as ZEC per the duty list he had a large hand in creating, is overseeing the formation of a Zone 1 Echomail Policy. If you have followed what has happened in FIDOECHOPOL, the echo created to assist in the formation of said policy, you have seen it degenerate into chaos because of the rules, published and unpublished there. The one question that has been repeatedly asked by the participants is why an echo policy is needed but this has been declared off topic.

This, my friends, is some of what our R10C and new Z1EC has been up to and what he has not been up to. It appears he has plenty of time to work in the backroom without enough time to work in front of us, doing what he has been charged with for the various positions he holds. Lately he has been claiming that real life has not been giving him enough time to perform his FidoNet duties. Let's hope that before he gives us more of his attention that someone explains to him that the "C" in his titles stand for COORDINATOR, not CONTROLLER and that when he devotes more time to us, it is in the front room instead of the back.

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