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--- Following message extracted from BLOWHARDS @ 1:18/14 ---
By Blowhard Detector on Wed Jan 07 22:20:40 1998
From: Blowhard Detector
To: All
Date: 07 Jan 98 22:19:44
Subj: BLOWHARDS Echo Rules for BlowHards - Trustee repost
Background:
BLOWHARDS is a non-Backbone Echo distributed via past or present members
for the purpose of microdebating non-important non-issues by
self-appointed 'sealawyer-type' Sysops of FidoNet most of whom have
recently migrated into FidoNet from military bases or walks of life
where personal power was denied to them.
This Echo serves to relieve the crap level from the real Echos [like ZEC
or MODERATOR] where nitpickers previously plied their dissatisfaction
with FidoNet and real world ops.
It is modeled on a previous and similarly designed local Echo called
R18COORD which was a circular flame Echo for dissatisfied Net
Coordinators in Region 18 to bitch and moan about standard FidoNet ops
they didn't agree with.
Blowhards are concentrated in New Jersey but are also found in Texas,
Missouri, New York, Oklahoma, and Alabama among others. You probably
have Blowhards in your own Net. Most Nets do.
Blowhards can be identified in FidoNet Echos by their
self-referential and circularly reinforcing rhetorical style as well as
the number of ad hominems per Echo message. Masters of the 'Big Lie'
school of revisionist history, Blowhards seldom recognize themselves
even upon detection and notification.
Now, this is their own Echo to pollute and in which they may be
blissfully content to continue fantasizing they have any inkling of what
FidoNet is or does. [But don't count on it.]
Rules:
1. Blowhards always pontificate and expound in circles so please try
to be circumspect and self-referential. Get your fellow Blowhards
to repeat your 'thoughts' as if they were facts many times.
2. Blowhards always use personal attack by preference over facts or
logic so please try to be rude and nonsensical.
3. Blowhards always complain about the work other folks do but never
do any work of their own so please tear down the efforts of others.
4. Blowhards always claim to be 'protecting Sysops' or 'protecting
FidoNet' from 'power mongers and control freaks' while acting just
like power mongers and control freaks so please make authoritative
pronouncements in the name of 'saving' FidoNet from the people who
do the actual work of FidoNet.
5. Blowhards always create more traffic and perpetuate more arguments
than normal Sysops so please argue for the sake of seeing your name
in print and please cross-post all your traffic to at least four
more Echos that have nothing to do with the current subject being
argued.
6. Blowhards always whine about other folks whining so always pretend
to be injured whenever called about your own whining.
7. Blowhards always claim Policy is the be-all and end-all in FidoNet
and discount the spirit of cooperation and friendliness FidoNet is
actually based on so please cite actual and imagined Policy sections
regardless of applicability to the subject at hand while doing all
you can from keeping any real Policy changes or adjustments from
occurring.
8. Blowhards perseverate at all times over trivial items so please
remember to ignore any corrections or substance in replies and stick
to belaboring points that are irrelevant to any discussion.
9. Blowhards have no concept of humor, its application, or its useage
so please take every indication of humor in the traffic of others
as a deliberate and cynical attempt to personally wound you.
10. Blowhards don't know they are Blowhards so please use this Echo as
soon as it is pointed out to you by a normal Sysop that you belong
in the BLOWHARDS Echo.
Anyone who posts reasonable or logical traffic in this Echo will receive
endless warnings until their access is suddenly revoked one day without
notice. Anyone who complains about this Echo elsewhere will be sent
here because they obviously belong here.
The Moderator of this Echo will be soley responsible for every Blowhard
that posts here and will be determined by message volume and vitriol.
Welcome, Blowhards, to your new home.
P.S. Look for the BLOWHARD nodelist. It will contain many of your
favorite Blowhards. File-request BLOWHARD for the current BlowHard
List(tm) and the BLOWHARDS Echo rules file and FidoNews article.
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Origin: Rights On!-Home of the BlowHard Detector-Edgewater_FL (1:18/14)