Guest Editorial

Interaction - Douglas Myers

INTERACTION
Doug Myers

I'd like to welcome Bob Satti back to the Z1C echo. Bob, you're actually giving better than you're getting right now - keep up the interaction. What's important about your interaction is the debunking effect it has. Folks really want to know what's going on with Fido, and the imagination will readily supply any details necessary to fill in the picture. When you are remote, the echoes fill with stories of vast conspiracies, awesome power struggles, and plots to keep the proletariat sysops firmly ground beneath the heel.

On the other hand, it was kinda good for this individual - who isn't otherwise "in the know" - to hear that Bob Kohl's denials just weren't that important to you, that every message that crosses your system isn't made public because it's just too damned much trouble, and that "noted" isn't really a ritual damnation.

As for our own behavior... well, I can't control it any more than you control all things in Fidonet.

Clay Tannacore will continue to believe you when you say Kohl resigned, then have doubts when Kohl denies it. Perhaps you could dig up the archives to satisfy him, but you'll continue to be in the position of having the authority to do what you want so long as you justify it to him and don't set any precedents.

Lynn Gypson will continue to want more input than you have to give. She's not a troublemaker, but she does think you have more time and resources than any one guy could muster in a lifetime.

Darrell Slater will continue to ask you to resign. There's nothing you can do about it - you're at the top of a structure he doesn't believe in and empowered by a policy he doesn't think is legitimate. You would need to fire the RCC and void Policy 4 to satisfy him, and I doubt that this is within your power.

And folks will continue to demand leadership while insisting that you're no more than a nodelist clerk. It's the nature of the family.

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