Actually..........
and yes, I promised not to get involved, but even I can't resist kicking this rotting horse a few times. Your conjectures are fundamentally flawed, if not vague, because infact, there were several different versions of EFCL. That's not a conceit, either. There literally, were more than one boards called EFCL, or some variation of the name, and I don't just mean EFCL and REFCL. A lot of what you say is true for one or two of them, but as a whole, EFCL was a lot more than the minor points, or anything else we could expound about now, after the moment is gone. Its easier to just say EFCL was many things to many people, and leave it at that. It was bigger than any one person and their individual experiences.