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Re: MEL07 1.5 year update.

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From: Aa
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:44
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On 12/10/2011 10:34 PM, victimothy wrote:
> Things have been developing and growing ever more heated since snapper
> disappeared from the radio and the internet (this newsgroup).  Where
> shall we start?
>
> His disappearance meant that his friend from up the road, "spring
> roll" (the handle adopted for its length, girth and the fact that
> everyone's had one in their mouth) started dominating the repeater,
> though with less prowess and ability as snapper.
>
> In the absence of snapper, fakeid has turned his attention to spring
> roll, introducing the now ubiquitous whispered phrase "springroll
> sucks cocks" to the repeater.  This sparked a fox hunt in february
> which to date has produced no results.
>
> FakeID's accomplishments on the other hand include finding and outing
> a number of the people stalking him, locating and breaking into the
> repeater, and causing the stalkers to break their midnight kerfew and
> assume a 24/7 watch that has now involved searching all of Melbourne
> by having fox hunters circling the ring road.
>
> There are some things that have been learnt from all this in the mean
> time:
>
> 1>  The ACMA is corrupt.  They have had ample opportunity to report the
> fox hunting to the police.  All such complaints to the police seem to
> come to them so the complaints go nowhere, and fakeid has repeatedly
> pointed out that this is stalking.
>
> 2>  During the 0wning of the repeater, its timeout was set to 15
> seconds for a few weeks.  Fights were almost non-existant during this
> period.  People wishing to fight decided to switch their boom stations
> to simplex.  This is a major discovery I think.  All repeaters on
> which fights occur should have a 15 second timeout.
>
> Things always seem to be reaching a boiling point, yet things always
> seem to get worse.  It's hard to imagine what can get worse now than
> spring roll and the fox hunters denying everybody else use of the
> repeater until fakeid is "brought" to him and nobody in a position of
> power caring what's going on.
God help us if he ever gets his ham ticket!!

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From: Aa <a@a.com>
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Subject: Re: MEL07 1.5 year update.
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:44:45 +1100
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