Editorial

fidonews@netscape.net
editor@fidonews.org
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Please be aware of the NEW fidonews@netscape.net address which replaces my Pacbell.net address used in the past. Outlook Express has become suspect in opportunities for worms and hackers. This Netscape internet email address will be the preferred address in the future.

Now to share some salsa and chips and your favorite beverage... 8^) It seems that the water is about to boil in the Z1C electorial pot. Fingers pointing every direction. No one yet willing to openly agree on the proposed appointment of a temporary ZC to hold an election... or even when that will be. Hello, RCC. The ball is in your court... ( I hope I don't get fired for this little nudge). Oh! look! Black helicopters rising into the sunrise....

By: Dave Hamilton

David posted his intention to merge R14. Sysops here objected to it. Everyone who responded thought it was a bad decision.

Nobody proposed that in the future he make no decisions without zone-wide referendum. The complaint was that he made a decision about a specific group of sysops without knowing what those sysops wanted. I hope that those sysops who spoke up were motivated by a fear of "it could happen to me."

Had he responded to the protests there would have been hardly a ripple in the water. It was, after all, not a done deal.

I'm not sure where the RCC needs to fit into this example, but if it had been the RCC who stated this intention, I'll bet the response would have been the same.

I do agree with the proposal that the arcane RCC echo should be available as read-only to whomever wants it. People with comments could make them in their regional echos, netmail to their RC's, or here, depending on the scope of whatever point interested them.

--- FleetStreet 1.26
* Origin: Aurora Exploratoria - Ladysmith, BC, Canada (1:229/622)

By: Darrell Salter
To: Foxy Ferguson

Foxy Ferguson wrote in a message to Dave Hamilton:
Dave says:
Darrell keeps us very well informed about topics occupying the minds of the RCC. Foxey replies: It does not appear to be a two-way information flow, Dave, since other members of the RCC have stated that they want his input but do not seem to be getting it at anything like the frequency they would like...

Darrell states:
I serve the sysops, not the RCC. I couldn't care less what they think of the frequency of my posts or my level of involvement in their plans and discussions.

When the sysops ask me to relay something to the RCC, whether I agree or not, I relay it. When the sysops ask me what is going on in there, I tell them. The only reason I relay at all is because I have access to the RCC echo and the sysops do not. Were the sysops to have access to that echo they could read what is going on themselves and could ask questions of the Z1C, the RCs, Satti, and whomever else gets invited. Personally, I think it's a rather silly arrangement the way it is now and it leaves everything open to interpretation. The echo should be made public or dissolved and brought into an already existent public forum.

Darrell

darrell@sprk.com

http://sparkys.dyndns.org

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* Origin: Sparky's BBS (telnet://bbs.sprk.com) (1:229/1)

Your ol'editor feels the interest among sysops would be greatly enhanced if they had an inkling of the problems the NC/RCC deal with. Hiding their g-e-n-e-r-a-l chatter on the g-e-n-e-r-a-l day to day items that require their attention, is not a healthy way to build sysop level participation in the future.

Sysops ignorance of the NC/RCC agendas severally and collectively, breeds the mistrust and snipping that is detrimental to harmony, training, and experience necessary to build a strong reliable future Fido network.

IF data is so sensitive, or in a stage of development that would not be appropriate for general population at that particular moment, RCC knows how to use net&ip mails until it is ready for the "grunts"; but let them READ if they are interested enough... there may be an another great leader or two among them... RCC could designate another echo to WRITE questions, suggestions and comments to them by the sysops.