• Summing Up

    From Earl Croasmun@1:124/311 to All on Sat Jan 15 20:44:08 2011
    On 1/15/2011 3:04 PM, Bob Klahn wrote to Earl Croasmun:

    Can you deny that the echo was unlisted and dead before I
    revived it?

    Everyone who has followed this thread as it has wandered through various
    echoes already knows the answers to these tired and empty questions. This
    is just for the benefit of casual on-lookers.

    ALL-POLITICS was listed for nearly a decade. The listing lapsed in early
    2006, but it remained in distribution with low traffic for several years.
    It remained unlisted until Jan 2010, when I listed it. For nearly four
    years there was no listed moderator, although in 2009 Klahn started posting
    in the echo and presenting himself as moderator. This in spite of the fact that he had been banned from the echo years earlier.

    In November 2010, Klahn tried to hijack the echo, which led to a "hijack warning" e-mail to me from the echolist. At the time of that hijack
    attempt, I had been the listed moderator of ALL-POLITICS for ten successive months. The listing was two months away from expiring, and I renewed the listing in December so it is there for another six months. And in his ramblings on the subject he has even claimed that he CHECKS the listings
    BEFORE he tries to list an echo. If that were true he would have KNOWN
    that I held the listing for ten months!

    In the course of his ramblings on the subject, Klahn has also called Bob
    Ackley and Tim Richardson LIARS when they simply stated what was clear, documented, and irrefutable fact. This is not exactly new, though, as he
    also tried to hijack POL_DISORDER from me a few years ago. He failed at
    that, too.

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  • From BOB KLAHN@1:123/140 to ALL on Mon Jan 17 05:31:30 2011

    Earl Croasmun is the master of deception. He posts half truths
    and supositions to deceive.

    Can you deny that the echo was unlisted and dead before I
    revived it?

    Everyone who has followed this thread as it has wandered
    through various echoes already knows the answers to these
    tired and empty questions. This is just for the benefit of
    casual on-lookers.

    ALL-POLITICS was listed for nearly a decade. The listing
    lapsed in early 2006, but it remained in distribution with
    low traffic for several years. It remained unlisted until
    Jan 2010, when I listed it.

    It had no traffice when I listed it in 2009. Only due to the
    fact that I did not notice the punctuation difference, Earl
    managed to relist it under the old name.

    Earl does not deny that I revived the echo, he just doesn't
    mention it at all.

    For nearly four years there
    was no listed moderator, although in 2009 Klahn started
    posting in the echo and presenting himself as moderator.
    This in spite of the fact that he had been banned from the
    echo years earlier.

    Since the echo was delisted and dead I relisted it. That is
    perfectly legitimate under Fido rules. Another point Earl just
    doesn't mention.

    ...

    months. And in his ramblings on the subject he has even
    claimed that he CHECKS the listings BEFORE he tries to list
    an echo. If that were true he would have KNOWN that I held
    the listing for ten months!

    Since I had a good faith belief that I had properly listed it I
    had no reason to check the listing of my own echo. Notice he
    says I tried to list it once. At one time I had 4 echos listed,
    and I had listed All Pol under two names. Sometimes I would try
    to renew an echo using the password from another echo, and would
    get one of those messages. Note, when you try to list an already
    listed echo you just get a message that you had tried the wrong
    password. Nothing about it being listed by someone else.

    When I renewed it with the name and password I originally used
    it went through. I had no reason to question it.

    Also remember, every poster in the echo, including Earl and Ross
    Cassell, recognized me as the true moderator. Therefore I had
    goodfaith reason to believe I had proper status as moderator. At
    no time was my authority questioned by either one of them until
    Ross Cassell recently brought it up. Ross also told me someone
    else brought it to his attention, he did not even discover it
    himself.

    Therefore, all accusations of any deliberate misconduct on my
    part are false. Since the accusers know of the facts as I listed
    them, those accusations are lies.

    And not one of them can deny this.

    In the course of his ramblings on the subject, Klahn has
    also called Bob Ackley and Tim Richardson LIARS when they
    simply stated what was clear, documented, and irrefutable
    fact. This is not exactly new, though, as he also tried to
    hijack POL_DISORDER from me a few years ago. He failed at
    that, too.

    What earl does not mention is Pol_Disorder was also dead and
    unlisted. And what he also doesn't mention is he tried to take
    All Politics from me when the echo robot had a problem and
    delisted the echo. In that case it required the echo robot
    problem be fixed, and the echo listing was returned to me.

    Also, Ross Cassell tried to take Debate from me the same way.

    IOW, Earl is guilty of what he accuses me of. As is Ross.

    Note also that Pol_Dis is now near dead anyway. Earl collects
    echos, changes the rules to allow what the previous owner
    forbade, and then they die.

    Again, Earl is the master of deception, but the facts are known
    to all who have been in All Politics for more than a few months.



    BOB KLAHN bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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