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The FidoNet BBS_CARNIVAL (BBS Carnival) Echo Rules

Do we REALLY need these posted all the time? This is like the only message in this echo..

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Hello T,

24 Apr 26 19:34, you wrote to Moderator:

Do we REALLY need these posted all the time? This is like the only message in this echo..

1) It's posted on the first and fifteenth of the month, hardly all the time.

2) Instead of complaining about no traffic, why don't you try to make intelligent conversation instead of whining or maybe fix that netmail bug in Renegade that Nick fixed but you and your brogrammers can't fix?

3) It also helps if you read the echo rules:

* The moderators have the final say in dealing with problems in the echo.
If you have something to say about a moderator's action, please contact them via netmail (preferred) or email.

TLDR; don't complain if you break the echo ruloes while doing so.

-- Sean

... Open mouth, insert foot, echo internationally.
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To: Sean Dennis
Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: Sean Dennis to T.J. Mcmillen on Fri Apr 24 2026 09:19 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

Hello T,

24 Apr 26 19:34, you wrote to Moderator:

Do we REALLY need these posted all the time? This is like the only message in this echo..

1) It's posted on the first and fifteenth of the month, hardly all
the time.

2) Instead of complaining about no traffic, why don't you try to make intelligent conversation instead of whining or maybe fix that
netmail bug in Renegade that Nick fixed but you and your brogrammers
can't fix?

3) It also helps if you read the echo rules:

* The moderators have the final say in dealing with problems in the
echo. If you have something to say about a moderator's action,
please contact them via netmail (preferred) or email.

TLDR; don't complain if you break the echo ruloes while doing so.

-- Sean

Good job taking honest criticism.
It IS stupid to have it posted twice a month.


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On 25 Apr 2026, Jas Hud said the following...

Good job taking honest criticism.
It IS stupid to have it posted twice a month.

probably the only reason some of these people know their system still works

what's the criteria for being an echo moderator anyways? the previous guy graduates to assisted living?

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what's the criteria for being an echo moderator anyways? the previous guy graduates to assisted living?

Most of the youngesters in fidonet are in our 40s now :(

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2) Instead of complaining about no traffic, why don't you try to make intelligent conversation instead of whining or maybe fix that netmail bug Renegade that Nick fixed but you and your brogrammers can't fix?

Man, make one comment and the real Sean comes out. Go back to the nursing home buddy. You sound like Mro.

3) It also helps if you read the echo rules:

I did, but I also do not see the need to have it posted a million times for no reason at all.

1) It's posted on the first and fifteenth of the month, hardly all the tim

Maybe in 1996 it was needed that many times, but now it looks like
nothing more than a spammy message to keep the echo from being delisted.

... Dyslexics of the world untie!

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To: T.J. Mcmillen
Re: Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: T.J. Mcmillen to Sean Dennis on Sat Apr 25 2026 06:40 pm

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

2) Instead of complaining about no traffic, why don't you try to make intelligent conversation instead of whining or maybe fix that
netmail bug Renegade that Nick fixed but you and your brogrammers
can't fix?

Man, make one comment and the real Sean comes out. Go back to the
nursing home buddy. You sound like Mro.

hey what the hell. i'm not a big rule nazi so dont compliment him by saying he's like the professor mro.


shame on you! shame!

YOU'RE OUT OF THE UNION!


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To: Alexander Grotewohl
Re: Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: Alexander Grotewohl to Jas Hud on Sat Apr 25 2026 03:50 am

From Newsgroup: FidoNet.BBS_CARNIVAL

On 25 Apr 2026, Jas Hud said the following...

Good job taking honest criticism. It IS stupid to have it posted
twice a month.

probably the only reason some of these people know their system
still works

what's the criteria for being an echo moderator anyways? the previous
guy graduates to assisted living?

Yeah you hit the nail on the head with each point.


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shame on you! shame!

YOU'RE OUT OF THE UNION!

HA

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Re: Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: Matthew Munson to Alexander Grotewohl on Sat Apr 25 2026 09:20:44

what's the criteria for being an echo moderator anyways? the previous guy graduates to assisted living?

Most of the youngesters in fidonet are in our 40s now :(

Or more...GET OFF MY LAWN! >:(
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Mortar M. wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

Re: Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: Matthew Munson to Alexander Grotewohl on Sat Apr 25 2026 09:20:44

what's the criteria for being an echo moderator anyways? the previous guy graduates to assisted living?

Most of the youngesters in fidonet are in our 40s now :(

The concept of moderators has changed into, well, something else. I've
moderated echoes in the past. I advertised the echo on Fido, started
conversations and steered the conversations when they went astray or
insults started to get personal. Back then, moderators had the power to
ban users and even request a feed cut if needed.

Now, the threat of a feed cut is meaningless as you can get a feed
elsewhere for free. And, sysops collect dead echoes without posting on
them, save for the monthly rules posting to no one.

It makes Fido resemble an empty mall with a couple of stores open and a
mostly vacant food court.


food court.

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Re: Re: BBS_CARNIVAL Echo Rules
By: Kurt Weiske to Mortar M. on Tue Apr 28 2026 07:32:05

Most of the youngesters in fidonet are in our 40s now :(

The concept of moderators has changed into, well, something else. I've

This wasn't me.
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