Subj : Re: Nomination
To   : Ward Dossche
From : Carol Shenkenberger
Date : Mon Mar 21 2022 05:13 pm

  Re: Re: Nomination
  By: Ward Dossche to Carol Shenkenberger on Mon Mar 14 2022 10:54 am

 > Carol,
 > 
 > CS> Sean, all current ZCs are invited guests, and for good reason.  Been tha
 > CS> way for quite some time.
 > 
 > That is not completely true, but also not completely untrue .....
 > 
 > Waaay waaay back when animals still could speak I mentioned to an FTSC-chair
 > that they could decide upon standards as much as they wanted but without
 > ZC-backing it did amount to very little. This was around that time when a
 > particular (I think German) guy wanted to push something through and did not
 > succeed. So he got himself elected in the FTSC, pushed his thing through and
 > left Fidonet with some choicy words...
 > 
 > To prevent things like that from happening again I requested access to the
 > private deliberations of the FTSC ... and got it ... because I requested it 
 > not because it was granted out of vision.
 > 
 > I think Scott was the chairman around that time ...
 > 
 >  \%/@rd
 > 

Yes, Scott Little, Z3 and later Z3C and stepped down then as chair.

Memory dims of those 20 years or so ago times.  

  xxcarol
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