Nick,
You're better off leaving it alone my good man. These are the same people that police the nodelist (and yes, they actually made an echo for it) because they have nothing better to do besides argue with others until whatever conversation they decide to jump into abruptly goes silent due
to others not wanting to stoop to their level. Fidonet at it's finest.
With the nodelist being at the center of Fidonet-operations, maintaining it at certain moments is a tedious business. Without a decent nodelist we're fried.
While one might get upset with the nodelist police's activity, it's possible to just ignore it or try to turn it into a resource for monitoring what happens to said nodelist-entries. I'm in-between both.
It resulted over the years into a pretty clean nodelist ... no more fax-numbers, no more private phones, no more street-adressess, in a certain case even someone's shoe-size. ill-formed flags, unknown flags.... more stuff.
The "invention" of the daily-lists was also a seed planted by the nodelist-police and other things too all resulting from discussions.
Gone are the days of Bob Satti and Ron Dwight who just loved sitting on their throne and dispensing their wisdom. In the case of Ron Dwight it meant a lot of controversial things and Bob Satti fought like hell first to keep high modem speeds and later IP out of the nodelist.
It seems to me a lot has gone over your head when you make the remarks quoted above.
This is just a clarification, nothing more.
Take care,
\%/@rd
--- DB4 - Oct 12 2021
* Origin: Hou het veilig, hou vol. Het komt allemaal weer goed (2:292/854)