10.3.8 The Case of the Bouncing Board

A local user decided to establish a node to promote a worthy charity. The
machine being used was also used for various other activities during the day,
and the sysop was often called away. His coworkers would often forget to
bring the board up at the end of the day while he was away, so the node was
often down for extended periods. The Network Coordinator, finding the node
unable to receive mail, would mark it down. The sysop would return, restart
the board, and ask to be reinstated.

The Network Coordinator eventually decided that the sysop was not able to
maintain a reliable system, and removed him from the nodelist completely.
Subsequent requests for a node number from the same sysop were turned down.
No appeals were made.


10.5 Credits, acknowledgments, etc.

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Index

-1/-1, 2.3
Additional mail events in local network 2.1.8
Address in message to request node 2.2
Administrative Region 6.1
Advantages to network membership 2.2
Alteration of mail 2.1.5
Answering machine 2.3
Announcement of voting results 8.2
Annoying behavior 1.3.5, 1.4.8, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.4, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.8,
2.1.11, 2.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 9, 10
Appeal chain 9.5
Appointment of coordinators 1.2.3, 1.2.4, 5.7, 6.1
Availability of NodeList 1.3.4
Balloting Period 8.4
Bombing run 4.2
BossNode 1.2.1.2
Boundaries 1.3.2
Business use of FidoNet 1.3.6
Calling areas 1.3.2, 5.6, 5.7
Case histories 9.10, 10.3
Chain of command 1.2.8
Changing node numbers 4.3, 5.2
Checks and balances 1.2.8
Commercial messages 1.3.6, 2.1.4, 4.2
Complaint (policy) 2.1.6.1, 9
Contributions to FidoNews 1.3.1
Current nodelist 2.1.11
Daylight Savings Time 2.1.14
Difference file 4.5, 5.8, 8.2
Disclosing private mail 2.1.6
Discussion period 8.2
Disputes 9
Distribution of ballots 8.2
Down 2.3, 4.4, 5.5
Downloading by users 3.6, 4.5, 5.8
EchoMail 4.2, 9.9
Effective date (policy change) 8.2
Election of coordinators 1.2.5, 6.2, 7.2
Eligibility to vote 8.3
Encryption 2.1.4, 4.2
Exceptions 5.6
Excessively annoying behavior 1.2.1.1, 1.3.5, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.4, 2.1.6,
2.1.7, 2.1.8, 2.1.11, 2.3, 4.2, 4.3, 5.2, 9, 10
Exclusivity of Zone Mail Hour 2.1.8
Excommunication 2.1.12, 4.3, 5.2, 9
Exemptions, node location 1.3.2, 5.6
Familiarity with policy 2.1.2, 2.2
FidoNews 1.3.1
availability 3.1, 4.5, 5.8
FTSC 2.1.8, 2.1.9, 2.4
Gateway 2.1.3
Geography 1.3.2, 5.6
Glue 4.5
Guarantee of mail delivery 1.3.6
Hats 3.4
Host-routed mail 4.2
How to obtain a node number 2.2
Hub 1.2.3.1, 4.4
Illegal behavior 2.1.1, 9.6
Illegal mail 4.2
Impeachment 8.7
In-transit mail 2.1.6.1
Independent node 4.2, 5.2
Inter-zonal questions 1.2.6
International Coordinator 1.4.1, 1.4.9, 7
Justification of private nodes 2.1.9
Language 1.0
Levels of FidoNet 1.2, 1.4
Local calling areas 1.3.2
Local policies 1.2, 3.3
Mail 1.2.3, 4.2
Mailer 2.2
Majority 8.6, 8.7.2
Member of area administrated 3.5
Modem 2.2
Modification of mail 2.1.5
National Mail Hour see Zone Mail Hour
Network
advantages 2.2
boundaries 1.3.2, 5.4
definition 1.2.3
forming 2.4, 5.3
hub 1.2.3.1, 4.4
numbers 2.2, 5.4
Network Coordinator 1.2.3
procedures 4
replacement 5.7, 9.3
Network Mail Hour see Zone Mail Hour
New sysops 2.1.2, 3.6
Node numbers 4.3, 5.2
obtaining 2.2
Nodelist 1.3.4, 2.2, 4.4, 5.5
availability 3.1, 4.5, 5.8
changes 4.4, 5.2
current 2.1.11
definition 1.3.4
format 10.3
official 1.3.4
Nodes
definition 1.2.1
down 2.3
Observing mail events 2.1.8, 2.1.10
Obtaining a node number 2.2
Offensive messages 2.1.5
Orders (commercial) 1.3.6
Partial nodelist 1.3.4
Pirated software 2.1.1
Point of origin 2.1.3
Points 1.2.1.2, 2.1.3
Policy 3.1, 3.3, 4.5, 5.8
changing 8
complaint 2.1.6.1, 9
familiarity with 2.1.2, 2.2
local 1.2, 3.3
Precedent 3.7, 9.10, 10.3
Private messsages 2.1.6
Private network 1.2.1.2
Private nodes 2.1.9
Problem resolution 9
Protocol 2.1.8
Public BBS 3.6
Ratification 7.1
Redundant nodes 2.1.9
Referendum 1.2.7, 8
Regional Coordinator 1.2.4
procedures 5
replacement 6.1, 9.4
Regions 1.2.4
Replacement of coordinators 1.2.8
Replacing services 3.4
Requirements to be in NodeList 1.3.4, 2.1.2, 2.2
Resignation of ZC 8.7.4
Resolution of disputes 9
Results Announcement 8.2
Review of decisions 3.7
Review of routed traffic 2.1.4
Routing 2.1.4 - 2.1.7, 4.2
Routing Hub 1.2.3.1, 4.4
Rules 9.1
Speedy decision 9.7
Standards (FTSC) 2.1.8, 2.4
Statute of limitations 9.6
Submissions to FidoNews 1.3.1
Sysop procedures 2
System operator (sysop) 1.2.1
Three-tiered networks 1.2.3.1
Time limit on decision 9.7
Timing of Zone Mail Hour 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 10.2
Top-down 1.4.9
Tradition 3.7
Trivial network 5.3
Unattended systems 2.3
Updates to nodelist 3.2
User 1.2.1.1
User access during ZMH 2.1.8
Vacation 2.3
Voice telephone number 2.2
Vote 8
eligibility 8.3, 8.7.2
ZMH see Zone Mail Hour
Zone Coordinator 1.2.5, 6
election 6.2
impeachment 8.7
procedures 6
removal 6.2
resignation during impeachment 8.7.4
Zone Coordinator Council 1.2.6, 7.1
Zone Mail Hour 1.3.3, 2.1.8
timing 2.1.13, 2.1.14, 10.2
Zones 1.2.5, 1.3.2


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