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Volume 5, Number 46 14 November 1988
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Editor in Chief Dale Lovell
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Editor Emeritus: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Contributing Editors: Al Arango
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FidoNews is published weekly by the International FidoNet
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Association as its official newsletter. You are encouraged to
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submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission
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standards are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from
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node 1:1/1.
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Copyright 1988 by the International FidoNet Association. All
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rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for
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noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances,
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please contact IFNA at (314) 576-4067. IFNA may also be contacted
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at PO Box 41143, St. Louis, MO 63141.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, 164 Shipley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107 and
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are used with permission.
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them.
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Everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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IMPORTANT NOTICE ON FIDONEWS DISTRIBUTION ................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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A Study of NetMail Traffic ............................... 2
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I finally get 'em right! ................................. 4
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Take an Echo Breather .................................... 5
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Why me, Goddess? ......................................... 7
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The ChessLine System: .................................... 18
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Improve Your Programs with Named Notation ................ 21
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The BIG Picture? Common sense plea on echomail ........... 23
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My Daddy is a Veteran .................................... 26
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 29
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Bodies Behind the BBS: Bob Swift ........................ 29
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And more!
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 1 14 Nov 1988
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EDITORIAL
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IMPORTANT NEWS ITEM!!!!
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I am going to be upgrading 1:157/504 to multiline over the next
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few weeks. Since 1:157/504 is also 1:1/1, this will be of major
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significance to everyone who file requests FidoNews from me. I am
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currently running TBBS 2.0S (Single line) and am going to be
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upgrading to TBBS 2.1M (Multi line) in order to help satisfy my
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user base. File requests will only be accepted from one hour
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before National Mail Hour to one hour after National Mail Hour
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(08:00-10:00 GMT).
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The standard distribution chain on FidoNews is that I send it
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directly to the Regional Coordinators. The RCs then forward
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FidoNews to the NCs, who distribute it to their own nodes.
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FidoNews should reach the RC's no later than the end of National
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Mail Hour. FidoNews is also sent to 1:1/0, the international
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coordinator.
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If you are interested in obtaining the absolute latest edition of
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FidoNews direct, your best bet is to file request it just after
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National Mail Hour on Monday morning. It will also be available
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for downloading on 1:157/504 as soon as it comes back up from
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mail processing (around 10:15 GMT).
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While I regret the inconvenience this will cause some of you, I
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have to put my users first in this matter.
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Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
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Dale Lovell
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1:157/504, 1:1/1
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FidoNews Editor
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 2 14 Nov 1988
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ARTICLES
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A Study of NetMail Traffic
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David Schuetz
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1:109/716.101
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Hello.
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I am a Junior Computer Science major at the University
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of Maryland. I am currently working on a proposal/study to
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develop the most effective routing for national and, if the
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method developed is transferrable, international net mail
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traffic. "Most effective" means "least cost and minimal
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hassle to the end user." My ultimate goal is to propose a
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simple method of routing that will be incorporated into
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general FidoNet policy, or, at the least, generally accepted
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by all for the good of all, much as our efficient EchoMail
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distribution system had developed. This system, ideally, will
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allow anyone in the nation to enter a message to anywhere
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else, without needing to establish credit with the Sysop of
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the originating board, and to be able to have it on good faith
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that the message will arrive within a reasonable period of
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time.
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In order to proceed with my study, I need to know as much
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as possible about net traffic in FidoNet. For this reason,
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I would like you to answer these questions and send me a
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response at 1:109/716, as soon as possible. The survey is
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intended to give me an idea of how much NetMail traffic is
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actually *out there*, how much there *could be* (if the method
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for sending mail were a bit easier), and what most people seem
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to think the best method for moving this mail is.
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Thank you very much for your cooperation.
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Sincerely,
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David Schuetz
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1:109/716.101
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8135 Easton Hall
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College Park, MD 20742
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(301) 985-9366
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(301) 454-3787 (dorm hall phone, leave message)
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P.S. I have no connection with IFNA. I am not even currently
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running a board. This really is being done for a class.
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If the results to my study are promising, then not only
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will I have completed a class requirement, but FidoNet
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as a whole may benefit.
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What is your....
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1) ...Node address?
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2) ...Modem speed?
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 3 14 Nov 1988
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3) Do you have Continuous Mail capability?
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4) Do you use PC-Pursuit, Reach Out America, or a similar
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long distance plan?
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5) Do you or your company "eat the cost" of long distance
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calls?
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6) What is your typical number of net-mail messages over a
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given period of time? (see also #10)
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7) How many of these are within your local net?
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8) Within your zone, but outside your net?
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9) Outside your zone?
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10) What period of time is this data based on (day, week, month)?
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11) How do you route Net-mail?
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12) How does your net handle net-mail?
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13) Echomail?
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14) Do you have an outbound host?
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15) An inbound host?
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16) Do they have backups?
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17) Do you have any objections to a routing standard being
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dictated to the net if it would mean minimum cost to a
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maximum number of users?
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18) Do you have any suggestions as to how, if at all,
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Net-Mail routing could be improved?
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19) What would you be willing to do to improve routing? (Cost
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eating, high-speed links, dedicated mail node, etc...)
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20) How, in your opinion, *should* (ideally) Net-Mail traffic
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work?
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Any other comments:
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Results of this study will be posted in FidoNews, and
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should appear in late December/early January.
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Again, thank you very much for all your help, it is much
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appreciated.
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 4 14 Nov 1988
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Don Dawson
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OPUS 141/730
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I finally get 'em right!
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Subtitle: I love those utilities, but.........!
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Have you ever noticed that most of those neat utilities that
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you use to keep OPUS humming along seem to require a
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control file of some kind? And often the control file requires
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some information that's spread across your hard disk in some
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other control file that's used with some other program, maybe
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even a file that OPUS uses. Maybe one day, all of the utility
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program authors will be able to agree on ONE PLACE to put all
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the information that these programs need. But until they do,
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enter........
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Area Manager by Tom Kashuba (167/1)
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Kash, as he's called by many, has created a dandy little program
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that actually creates all those little pesky control files.
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Yup, his program requires a control file too, but the
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information you put in it is used to build the control files
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used by those neat utilities. Sound like a ho-hummer? Read
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on.
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When you last added a new echomail area did you remember all
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the control files into which it had to be added?..starting with
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the ECHO.CTL file, maybe an AREAS.BBS, then the control file
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that your message reader uses and RASMAM and RENUM, and, and...
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the list goes on. Of course, I could never get every file
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correct and EXACTLY as they needed to be for each. Some of
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them use the Area number, some use the Area Name, some need the
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complete path.
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Well, with AM (Area Manager) you build a control file that has
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all of this information in it, then, using powerful commands
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that Kash has built into AM, it will generate all of those
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pesky control files. AM will even put them on the correct
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disk drive into the correct directory.
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If you haven't tried it, you should....it's a another fine
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piece of programming by the author of OOPS and others. It's
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File Requestable from 141/730, 24hrs as: AM_102.ARC...just in
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case a newer version shows up here before you do...you might
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want to file request AM_*.ARC
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One last comment....Kash asks that after you try it, if you
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continue to use it, that you register it. The price is small
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but the value is BIG!
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B-) Don
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 5 14 Nov 1988
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Take an Echo Breather
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Glen Jackson
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REC for Region 14.
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or...slow down the eyestrain when reading echomail!
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I finally installed a larger drive, so I felt I was deserving
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of a few more echos to read. I've changed my mind.
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I'd like everyone to know that this article is not written in
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ANY kind of "official" capacity, but merely my own observations.
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Things that aggravate me in echomail:
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1. Questions like "where can I get that whatever.arc" ?
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These questions get answered by multitudes. If it is a
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piece of network software, I have a solution to keep the
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message flow down:
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a. read the origin line, and do a file request.
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b. look in your nodelist for your closest Software
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Distribution node.
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c. check in your net to see if someone else has it.
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d. as a last resort, netmail the author, and ask him about it.
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2. Answering Twits in echomail. Someone posts a message that says
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something like "I think so and so's mother wears army boots".
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We are then subjected to many messages that look like this:
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TWIT> I think so and so's mother wears army boots.
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TWIT>
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TWIT> * origin The Twit calls here (nnn/nnn)
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Hey TWIT! who let THIS guy on??????
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Again, I have some helpful hints:
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a. ignore him.
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b. net-mail the sysop of the originating system and complain.
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(if the guy is out of line)
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3. Help! What init string do I use for the goofyblatz modem with
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Binkley? Again, the question may have been answered many times
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before. We all want to be helpful, but...
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Would it be out of line for the moderator to step in and say,
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"This has been discussed before". Here is what we came up
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with. (Don't flog me, please. I see a moderator as one that
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keeps track of what goes on with his conference.)
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If the moderator can't help, open it up for everyone.
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4. Finally, 7 screens (on one message), from one person, repeated
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by however many people he has decided to answer. Clear cut
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 6 14 Nov 1988
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answers can usually be taken care of in a few sentences. And
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to all of you others out there that can't stand this, why not
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send the guy a netmail message with your complaint?
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I don't like to have to keep hitting the [N]ext key whenever I
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see a message by a certain author. Those messages cost SOMEONE
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(or maybe lots of someones) money to send. If you feel the
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need to write a book, either:
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a. send it via netmail on your nickle, or
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b. write an article for Fido_news.
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I did. :-)
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Glen Jackson REC for Region 14.
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 7 14 Nov 1988
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Why me, Goddess?
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David Rice
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(1:103/503.0)
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I'm guilty. I freely admit the fact. I deserve to
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hang, and to be left swinging from the highest spreader on
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the ship. Yep! Guilty: That's me. Let me begin at the,
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er, beginning, and you'll agree, too.
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I run an Astrology BBS, with it's related astrology
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files, message base STARGAZE Echo, and I provide answers to
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astrology students free of any and all charges, if they have
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the courage to ask (as if the question is not well thought
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out I can be somewhat acerbic with the replies), and if I
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know the answers.
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I therefore get more than my share of, shall we say,
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interesting callers. I get (and don't really welcome)
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threats, demands, offers, and law suits thrown at me for
|
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|
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being "that Godless pagan SysOp." As astrologers are used
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to being considered somewhat, well, odd, this is not very
|
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annoying.
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Until one day. My brother in Christ who was assigned,
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presumably, to "monitor" my BBS, often calls once a week to
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screen capture the user list, check out the new subversive
|
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material (files) available, and hang up. (I say "hang up"
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and not "log off," as that's exactly what he does.) One may
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only guess at what he plans on doing with my BBS's user
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list, but visions of Jihad come to mind. . . .
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But I digress. Until one day, I continue, I got the
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Holy Bible from a very kind SysOp in San Jose, and posted it
|
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available for downloading. The Holy righteousness hit the
|
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fan.
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Answering an incessant YELL from a user, I was asked
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(well, demanded seems to fit better): "Isn't this a New Age
|
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Board!"
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I answered truthfully. "No, it is not. If it was 'New
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Age' I would have charged you $5.00 a minute for the first
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ten minutes, and $2.50 for each additional minute, and a
|
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dime for each character I'm typing at you now." As we all
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know, the only thing that "New Age" is good for is to make a
|
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great deal of money from ignorant fools.
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"Yes it is!" the reply came back. "What's the Word of
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God doing on a Satanist's BBS!"
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Hummm. Why me, Goddess? I thought. I don't eat Your
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|
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animals. I don't drink, smoke, or screw. I'm a good witch.
|
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Why, then, pick on me? The best answer I could think of
|
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|
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came to me, then, like a revelation, like a prophecy.
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 8 14 Nov 1988
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"Because my Witch's Coven in San Diego has subtly
|
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altered it in misleading, deceiving ways, to trap the
|
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|
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innocent, and to further our own, evil, unguessed of ends."
|
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|
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I don't much like being called a "Satanist."
|
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|
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|
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Click! the modem went. "Caller Vanished!" OPUS went.
|
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|
|
"Sigh," I went.
|
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|
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|
|
So you see, I am guilty. I didn't expect any more
|
|||
|
|
trouble after that, but I suppose I should have.
|
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|
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|
|
Two weeks later, someone was yelling at me
|
|||
|
|
unremittingly again. It was a new caller, and being a nice
|
|||
|
|
guy I answered the yell.
|
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|
|||
|
|
"GO VOICE!" it demanded. Sure, I thought, why not? I
|
|||
|
|
picked up my phone, and typed: "Pick up your phone and log
|
|||
|
|
off."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Hi," I said cheerfully, in my best SysOply voice. "How
|
|||
|
|
may I serve you?" Six words, but he only waiting for the
|
|||
|
|
first three before ranting:
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
"Take the Bible off your BBS!" He raved. I envisioned
|
|||
|
|
some short, scrawny twit spitting in his receiver,
|
|||
|
|
acne-scared of face, wearing a ratty sweater over a
|
|||
|
|
Perma-Press dackron shirt, and three sets of underwear in
|
|||
|
|
case of an "accident."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Ahumm, what?" I am slow at times. He repeated the
|
|||
|
|
demand, and added for my enlightenment:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"You can't have astrology and The Word of God on the
|
|||
|
|
same BBS!" He said "astrology" like you or I might say
|
|||
|
|
"Richard Nixon" or "Jane Fonda."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many years ago I learned the art of Not Listening.
|
|||
|
|
Most American kids learn this by age 14, taught by their
|
|||
|
|
parents when they rail against them. One learns to just say
|
|||
|
|
"Uhm, yes" and "Uhm, no" now and then (it doesn't matter
|
|||
|
|
which), to appear that one is listening.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He started on a long, drawn-out, dry, rambling spill
|
|||
|
|
that seemed to begin nowhere, and seemed just as endless as
|
|||
|
|
his capacity for ignorance.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Uhm, yes," I said over to the phone. I paused. "Uhm,
|
|||
|
|
no," I added next. After the witnessing was over, I was
|
|||
|
|
shocked to find he was waiting for my reply. Gee, I
|
|||
|
|
wondered, what did he said? I only heard the first demand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Sure, I'll delete those files. Anything else?" And
|
|||
|
|
off he went again. He mentioned something about killing the
|
|||
|
|
STARGAZE echo and all my astrology programs before I tuned
|
|||
|
|
him out again.
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 9 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Uhm, yes. . . Uhm, no. . . Uhm, yes. . . ."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
He finally hung up after assuring me that he would pray
|
|||
|
|
for my soul.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The next day I added three more Bible related files,
|
|||
|
|
and an area of "Christian" related text files. Gee, I hope
|
|||
|
|
he doesn't mind.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The whole point of this sad story? Well, I mistreated
|
|||
|
|
a user, slapping him silly with my prankish wit, just
|
|||
|
|
because he was ignorant enough to call me a "Satanist." And
|
|||
|
|
he really didn't deserve it. So It's my fault, and I'm
|
|||
|
|
guilty as, er, Hell, and I'm real sorry.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have since disabled the YELL option of OPUS for those
|
|||
|
|
under PRIVILEGE level. This isn't fair to other NORMAL
|
|||
|
|
level users, but some had to die.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 10 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
October 19, 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Editor
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Letters to the Editor"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sir:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I am attaching selected items from both the Articles of
|
|||
|
|
Association and the By-Laws of The International FidoNet
|
|||
|
|
Association which were filed with the State of Missouri
|
|||
|
|
for the expressed purpose of Incorporating the entity known
|
|||
|
|
as IFNA.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I am providing a edited version of these documents along with
|
|||
|
|
comments on each so that I can support the claims that I have
|
|||
|
|
or will be making in this letter:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Excepts from:
|
|||
|
|
ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION
|
|||
|
|
for the
|
|||
|
|
INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Be it known that we, the suscribers, do hereby associate
|
|||
|
|
ourselves as a body politic and corporate pursuant to the
|
|||
|
|
statute laws of the State of Missouri regulating the
|
|||
|
|
formation and organization of corporations without capital
|
|||
|
|
stock and the following are our Articles of Association:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I. The name of our corporation shall be the International
|
|||
|
|
[Text deleted for Space Reasons]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
II. The period of duration of the corporation is perpetual.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
III. The address of its initial Registered Office in the State
|
|||
|
|
of Missouri is: 120 S. Central, Suite 1400, St. Louis, Missouri
|
|||
|
|
[Text deleted for Space Reasons]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IV. The purposes for which our corporation is formed are the
|
|||
|
|
following:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A) the promotion of interest in telecommunications and
|
|||
|
|
experimentation;
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Ok, if this is true, then why are Networks
|
|||
|
|
other than FidoNet excluded from the
|
|||
|
|
promotion of Telecommunications and
|
|||
|
|
experimentation? Why are there limits
|
|||
|
|
placed upon other International Networks
|
|||
|
|
who wish to communicate with FidoNet?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
B) the establishment of telecommunication networks to
|
|||
|
|
provide publicly accessable and publicly available
|
|||
|
|
electronic communications;
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 11 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Is this true in today's environment? Can it
|
|||
|
|
be that a person holding a position of
|
|||
|
|
authority within IFNA's structure is denying
|
|||
|
|
access and electronic communications? I
|
|||
|
|
think someone should look at this one real
|
|||
|
|
close!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
C) the furtherance of the public welfare;
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Keeping people from diverse backgrounds from
|
|||
|
|
free and easy access to the IFNA regulated
|
|||
|
|
Nodelist (via Zone Gates) is not in the
|
|||
|
|
interest of "public welfare" in my eyes.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
D) the advancement of telecommunications art the fostering
|
|||
|
|
of education in the field of electronic communication;
|
|||
|
|
E) the promotion and conduct of research and development
|
|||
|
|
to further the development of electronic communication;
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: This is the one which really gets me, you
|
|||
|
|
expect a lot when IFNA does not even live up
|
|||
|
|
to the "promotion" of Inter-Network
|
|||
|
|
development. Promotion and development
|
|||
|
|
occur when two parties (ne Networks) try
|
|||
|
|
to develop a new technology when the old
|
|||
|
|
one doesn't fit any more. To establish a
|
|||
|
|
link and then take it away, because of a
|
|||
|
|
non-delivered piece of paper is really
|
|||
|
|
pushing it to the maximum.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
F) the dissemination of technical, educational, and
|
|||
|
|
scientific information relating to electronic communication;
|
|||
|
|
G) the printing and publishing of documents, books,
|
|||
|
|
magazines, newspapers and pamphlets necessary or incidental to
|
|||
|
|
any of the above purposes.
|
|||
|
|
H) No part of the assets or income of our corporation
|
|||
|
|
shall inure to the benefit of or be distributable to the
|
|||
|
|
members, the officers, or any of them, or to other private
|
|||
|
|
persons except that our corporation shall be authorized and
|
|||
|
|
empowered to pay reasonable compensation for services
|
|||
|
|
rendered and to make payments and distributions in
|
|||
|
|
furtherance of the purposes set forth herein.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
V. The affairs of the Corporation shall be governed by a
|
|||
|
|
Board consisting of Directors as defined in the By-Laws.
|
|||
|
|
Each Director shall be elected for terms of two years by the
|
|||
|
|
members eligible to vote. Half of the Directors shall be
|
|||
|
|
elected for terms beginning on even numbered years and
|
|||
|
|
half shall be elected for terms beginning on odd-numbered years.
|
|||
|
|
[Text Deleted for space concerns]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
VI. During the intervals between meetings of the Board of
|
|||
|
|
Directors, the affairs of the Corporation shall be
|
|||
|
|
administered by an Executive Committee consisting of the
|
|||
|
|
[Text deleted for Space]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 12 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
VII. A vacancy in the Board of Directors shall be deemed to
|
|||
|
|
occur upon the death, resignation, recall, move of permanent
|
|||
|
|
[Text Deleted for Space]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
VIII. The officers of the Corporation shall be a President, a
|
|||
|
|
Vice President, Vice President - Technical Coordinator, a
|
|||
|
|
Secretary, and a Treasurer, who shall be elected by a
|
|||
|
|
majority of the Directors at the Annual Meeting.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: What No International Coordination positon
|
|||
|
|
defined within the limits of the Articles?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IX. These articles may be amended by the three-fourths vote of
|
|||
|
|
all directors, or, provided due notice of the proposed
|
|||
|
|
amendment shall have been sent to each director at least
|
|||
|
|
thirty days in advance, by a two-thirds vote of all
|
|||
|
|
directors.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
X. The membership of IFNA shall consist members as defined in
|
|||
|
|
[Text deleted for Space]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
XI. No person shall be eligible to serve in any of the
|
|||
|
|
positions or offices of Director, Alternate, President,
|
|||
|
|
Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, or Vice President -
|
|||
|
|
Technical Coordinator, whose service in any such capacity would:
|
|||
|
|
A. Violate any applicable law, statute, ruling or
|
|||
|
|
regulation of the State of Missouri or the United
|
|||
|
|
States of America, or of the country of domicile of
|
|||
|
|
such person; or
|
|||
|
|
B. Jeopardize the non-profit or tax-exempt status of
|
|||
|
|
IFNA, as defined by the laws, statutes, rulings or
|
|||
|
|
regulations of the State of Missouri or the United
|
|||
|
|
States of America; or
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Are not, given the above items, the actions
|
|||
|
|
of Mr. David Dodell, about to jeapardize
|
|||
|
|
the Non-Profit/Tax-Exempt status of IFNA?
|
|||
|
|
This providing that the above points are
|
|||
|
|
intrepreted to mean that David's actions
|
|||
|
|
are not in the best interest of IFNA and
|
|||
|
|
the IRS's view on furthuring public
|
|||
|
|
interest/telecommunications on an
|
|||
|
|
international basis. (AlterNet is an
|
|||
|
|
international fraternal organization)
|
|||
|
|
incorporated in the State of Delaware.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
C. Amount to, create or continue a conflict of interest
|
|||
|
|
between the activities, aims or purposes of IFNA and such
|
|||
|
|
person's private financial interests or such interests of any
|
|||
|
|
of such person's employer, family or relations.
|
|||
|
|
Each person nominated or elected
|
|||
|
|
[Text deleted for space]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Has Mr. Dodell obtained the BOD's permission
|
|||
|
|
to react the way that he has? Since the BOD has
|
|||
|
|
not attempted to either restrain Mr. Dodell in the
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 13 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
performance of his duties (which are not defined in
|
|||
|
|
the By-Laws) does this mean that the BOD approves
|
|||
|
|
of his actions? Does his attitude and apparent
|
|||
|
|
disregard for agreements constitute a conflict of
|
|||
|
|
interest when considering the purpose of IFNA and
|
|||
|
|
IFNA's stated aims and Activities?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
XII. Upon the dissolution of our corporation, the Board of
|
|||
|
|
Directors shall, after paying or making provision for the
|
|||
|
|
payment of all of the liabilities of our corporation,
|
|||
|
|
[Text Deleted for space]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The following from:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BY-LAWS
|
|||
|
|
for the
|
|||
|
|
INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DEFINITIONS:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The following terms have meanings as follows for all
|
|||
|
|
purposes of these By-Laws and Articles of Association:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IFNA: International FidoNet Association.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IFNA NETWORK: The current set of systems which have been
|
|||
|
|
certified as FidoNet compatible and conform to policies
|
|||
|
|
established by the Board of Directors.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Alternate Networks have met and continued to
|
|||
|
|
remain within the operating invironment of
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet compatible, and for the most part
|
|||
|
|
have taken the Network Accepted Policy3.doc
|
|||
|
|
as the basis for their own networks. This
|
|||
|
|
being a given, then Alternate networks should
|
|||
|
|
not be withheld from Zone Gating. There are
|
|||
|
|
after all only 7 Major Continents and I believe
|
|||
|
|
that the software currently provides for up to
|
|||
|
|
13 Zones.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IFNA NODELIST: The list of nodes active in the IFNA NETWORK,
|
|||
|
|
prepared by the IFNA Vice President - Technical Coordinator.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: The IFNA Vice President - Technical Coordinator does
|
|||
|
|
not produce the IFNA Nodelist, David Dodell does not
|
|||
|
|
hold this position although at one time he did hold
|
|||
|
|
the position within IFNA. At FidoCon '88, Ray Gwinn
|
|||
|
|
gave the position of International Coordinator to
|
|||
|
|
Mr. Dodell.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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PUBLIC ACCESS: A system that has a telephone number
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 14 14 Nov 1988
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published in the IFNA Nodelist, and in addition provides
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services to the public.
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ANNUAL MEETING: A yearly meeting of all members of IFNA with
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[Text deleted]
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BY-LAWS:
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1. The following membership categories are established:
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a) Regular Member. To be eligible, an applicant: must be the
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system operator in good standing of a PUBLIC ACCESS node;
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must have paid any dues required; is entitled to one vote.
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b) Associate Member. Any person who is not eligible to be a
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Regular Member, but who is interested in electronic
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communications, is eligible to be an Associate Member by
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paying required dues. Associate Members have all of the
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rights of a Regular Member except the right to vote.
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c) Commercial Member. Any entity using the IFNA NETWORK for
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the conduct of any business is eligible to be a Commercial
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Member by paying required dues. Any Commercial Member
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also satisfying the requirements to be a Regular Member
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shall be entitled to vote.
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d) Honorary Member. The Board of Directors may award
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Honorary Member status to any entity. Honorary Members
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have all of the rights of a Regular Member except the
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right to vote.
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e) Life Member. Any member may become a Life Member by
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paying the required dues.
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7. No person shall be an officer or director unless they
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qualify under all applicable statutes.
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29. The Vice President - Technical Coordinator shall:
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a) be responsible for maintenance and distribution of the
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master NODELIST;
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Comment:
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Ok, please inform me as to why the IC's position is
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still being held by Mr. Dodell and why it is not a
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part of Mr. Gwinn's job. Additionally, Mr. Gwinn is
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not provided with the power to delegate his authority
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on this one to anyone.
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b) creation and distribution of the weekly update file for
|
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the master NODELIST;
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See comment above.
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c) ensuring the smooth operation of the IFNA NETWORK as
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 15 14 Nov 1988
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prescribed by the Board of Directors;
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d) serve as a member of the Technical Standards Committee.
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30. Standing committees:
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a) The following standing committees are established:
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- Administration and Finance
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- Executive Committee
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- Nominations and Elections
|
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- By-Laws and Rules
|
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- Technical Standards
|
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- Publications
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- International Affairs
|
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- Membership Services
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b) Each standing committee shall include among its members at
|
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least one director. Additionally, the Treasurer shall
|
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|
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serve as a member of the Administration and Finance
|
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|
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Committee. Appointments of all standing committee members
|
|||
|
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shall be made by the President at the Annual Meeting and
|
|||
|
|
shall be for a term of one year. The Chair of the Board
|
|||
|
|
shall designate the chair of each committee. Standing
|
|||
|
|
committees shall make written reports at least 30 days
|
|||
|
|
prior to each regular meeting of the Board of Directors.
|
|||
|
|
Standing committees may originate studies in their fields
|
|||
|
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and may generate recommendations to the Board on their
|
|||
|
|
own initiative.
|
|||
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|
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|
|
36. The Technical Standards Committee shall be responsible for:
|
|||
|
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a) Providing a rigorous definition of FidoNet and all FidoNet
|
|||
|
|
protocols sufficient to implement a compatible electronic
|
|||
|
|
mail system.
|
|||
|
|
b) Providing IFNA the means to determine whether a system is
|
|||
|
|
compatible with FidoNet. This will allow IFNA to list
|
|||
|
|
compatible systems so Sysops may decide which system to
|
|||
|
|
install.
|
|||
|
|
c) Producing and enhancing standards for:
|
|||
|
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- Data Transmitted
|
|||
|
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- Connection
|
|||
|
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- Protocols
|
|||
|
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- Nodelist
|
|||
|
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- Routing
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Comment: From this one, since the SysOps in the Alternate
|
|||
|
|
networks are using much the same software as is
|
|||
|
|
being used by the SysOps of FidoNet/IFNA Network
|
|||
|
|
there should be no "Technical" reasons for not
|
|||
|
|
allowing Zone Gates into the IFNA/FidoNet
|
|||
|
|
Nodelist. In fact, the Alternate networks have
|
|||
|
|
kept the same schedules for a "Common" Mail Hour
|
|||
|
|
a "Common" Nodelist Format, a "Common" policy
|
|||
|
|
complaint handling procedure, a "Common"
|
|||
|
|
technical Standard for protocols and have gone
|
|||
|
|
to the trouble of "Dual Identies" in order to
|
|||
|
|
maintain a close relationship with the people
|
|||
|
|
they know and wish to communicate with within
|
|||
|
|
the FidoNet Network.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 16 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
37. The International Affairs Committee shall monitor the
|
|||
|
|
conduct of international liaison by IFNA staff. They shall
|
|||
|
|
initiate recommendations for IFNA representation at
|
|||
|
|
international meetings. They shall encourage the growth and
|
|||
|
|
strengthening of IFNA, its member societies and
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications worldwide. They shall coordinate and
|
|||
|
|
monitor planning and strategy for improving international
|
|||
|
|
telecommunications.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Comment: IFNA's International Affairs Committee is charged
|
|||
|
|
with the "of telecommunications worldwide", the
|
|||
|
|
last time I looked at a map, the United States,
|
|||
|
|
Canada, Europe, Australia, Asia and Africa were
|
|||
|
|
still part of the world. Therefore, are not
|
|||
|
|
networks which are located anywhere in the world
|
|||
|
|
something which IFNA should be working in a
|
|||
|
|
positive manner to promote connectivity with?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fido and FidoNet are trademarks of Fido Software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I appologize for the length of this article, but hope that it
|
|||
|
|
will be printed (which I will be surprized if it is), as the
|
|||
|
|
reader will note, IFNA appears free to augment the positions
|
|||
|
|
which it is chartered to have at the drop of the hat. It also
|
|||
|
|
appears as though they are willing to forsake some of their
|
|||
|
|
own By-Laws and Articles of Association to get things done the
|
|||
|
|
way that they want them done. They also have people who
|
|||
|
|
delegate job functions as they see fit without regard for the
|
|||
|
|
fact that they are still responsible for the actions of someone
|
|||
|
|
who is in the delegated job function.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you intrepret what I have written to be a slam at IFNA, it
|
|||
|
|
is just that. IFNA is supposed to promote communications on an
|
|||
|
|
International basis, they are not doing that, they are busy
|
|||
|
|
playing games with the United Nations, which is not all bad, but
|
|||
|
|
they are unwilling to deal with Alternative Networks within
|
|||
|
|
Zone 1, so why would a "Reasonable Person" believe that they
|
|||
|
|
would treat a network from Siberia any differently?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many of you know me, I was a FidoNet Sysop for over four years,
|
|||
|
|
having joined FidoNet just after the mighty Multi-Net
|
|||
|
|
implementation. I have served IFNA and FidoNet in many job
|
|||
|
|
functions, I wanted (initially) to see IFNA succeed. I spent
|
|||
|
|
my own money to go to New Hamster to help the committee
|
|||
|
|
understand exactly what a "Grunt Sysop" wanted from them. I
|
|||
|
|
have seen the By-Laws read the way that people wanted them
|
|||
|
|
read, namely to the benifit of those currently in power. I
|
|||
|
|
have also seen many changes in attitude especially from those
|
|||
|
|
who were elected by the people in IFNA to rule over FidoNet.
|
|||
|
|
I have seen you the people who make up FidoNet, let it be
|
|||
|
|
taken over by a few of the "Elected Representatives" of the
|
|||
|
|
people who paid $25.00 to join IFNA. I have been known to
|
|||
|
|
look for Cemetary Plots all over the place, I am not saying
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 17 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
that this is a Plot, I am saying that the IC is the VP-TC and
|
|||
|
|
that the person "Elected" to that position was not elected by
|
|||
|
|
the people who elected their representatives.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many who will read this, will say that I am simply speaking
|
|||
|
|
"Sour Grapes", but take a look at what has happened since
|
|||
|
|
FidoCon'87, the Network has grown by over 150%, IFNA
|
|||
|
|
membership is still less than 10% of the total Network, the
|
|||
|
|
attempts of the people who grew tired of the garbage which
|
|||
|
|
IFNA was attempting to push down their throats and left
|
|||
|
|
to form their own Networks are not sour grapes. At this time
|
|||
|
|
the Alternate networks have a total membership which is equal
|
|||
|
|
to or slightly greater than the network when I joined it.
|
|||
|
|
The Alternate Networks have taken the things that worked from
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet, the RC structure, the Policy Documents, the Dictator
|
|||
|
|
style of management and created something which works. They
|
|||
|
|
have applied for Zone Gate Numbers following prescribed
|
|||
|
|
procedures, namely asking for one, and were told "NO". How
|
|||
|
|
do you think that the United States was formed, just by the
|
|||
|
|
same type of actions by England!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a revolution, now that the die has been cast, as to
|
|||
|
|
which network(s) will be the one to win is unclear, but in
|
|||
|
|
one corner you have FidoNet, represented by IFNA, which is
|
|||
|
|
supposed to be a democracy telling the Alternate Networks
|
|||
|
|
you have to be so large and in place for so long etc.. In
|
|||
|
|
the other corners are the people within the Alternative
|
|||
|
|
networks who don't need an organization to speak for them,
|
|||
|
|
and who for the most part use to want to see IFNA succeed.
|
|||
|
|
If they have lost faith in IFNA/FidoNet then what do you think
|
|||
|
|
is going to happen after all the "Zone Wars"? In general, the
|
|||
|
|
whole idea that Tom Jennings started with Fido/FidoNet is going
|
|||
|
|
to disappear.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bob Morris
|
|||
|
|
SysOp, 1:141/305.42, 7:46/2
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 18 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Edward Hawes
|
|||
|
|
Fast-BBS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I wanted to let all sysops know about our new CHESSLINE
|
|||
|
|
system available for bbs operations. The ChessLine will give
|
|||
|
|
your BBS that extra feature which will attract the kind of users
|
|||
|
|
you want. Do you ever get tired of seeing users call in, skim
|
|||
|
|
the message base, then go to the files section? The ChessLine
|
|||
|
|
makes your board more interesting by giving them something else
|
|||
|
|
to do. Chess has been around for centuries, and unlike other
|
|||
|
|
past times, has not been harmed by the computer age. In fact,
|
|||
|
|
have you ever noticed that of the people you know who are
|
|||
|
|
interested in computers, probably more of them play chess than do
|
|||
|
|
not? While the game does not require a genius to play, it does
|
|||
|
|
attract people who are at least interested in exercising their
|
|||
|
|
intellectual dexterity. This is a prerequisite to personal
|
|||
|
|
computing and goes hand in hand with the users of a bulletin
|
|||
|
|
board system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The ChessLine operates in a fashion similar to 'postal chess'. A
|
|||
|
|
user will call your BBS, enter The ChessLine, make his move, and
|
|||
|
|
exit. His opponent will call later, enter The ChessLine, make
|
|||
|
|
his move, and then exit. What makes The ChessLine more
|
|||
|
|
interesting than postal chess is that you don't have to wait on
|
|||
|
|
the US mail. The ChessLine will store all moves and when your
|
|||
|
|
user calls, will set up an on-screen chessboard with the last
|
|||
|
|
played position shown. All moves entered are checked for their
|
|||
|
|
legality, as The ChessLine will permit no illegal moves. All
|
|||
|
|
legal moves including castling, enpassents, and pawn promotions
|
|||
|
|
are allowed. The ChessLine will terminate the game as soon as
|
|||
|
|
one player check-mates the other or if the game becomes
|
|||
|
|
stalemated or a player resigns.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We have also added some other options to Chesline for you and
|
|||
|
|
your users enjoyment :
|
|||
|
|
1.. The ability to leave short comments to the other player
|
|||
|
|
2.. Sysop chat mode (with auto word-wrap)
|
|||
|
|
3.. Sysop online play with user
|
|||
|
|
4.. Netmail play (see Netmail doc's)
|
|||
|
|
5.. List of all moves
|
|||
|
|
6.. The ability to take back moves
|
|||
|
|
7.. View other games in progress
|
|||
|
|
8.. Online Help
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FUTURE ADDITIONS (Already under developement)
|
|||
|
|
1.. U.S. CHESS Federation ranking system..
|
|||
|
|
2.. Node to Node interactive play..
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CLMAIL.EXE
|
|||
|
|
This utility is the most exciting aspect of Chesline.. Clmail is
|
|||
|
|
the Net-mail utility that will send moves to any board
|
|||
|
|
in the E-Mail Network that has ChessLine installed.
|
|||
|
|
Let me explain. You see Clmail creates a outbound
|
|||
|
|
message with the record enclosed.. So if you wanted to play a
|
|||
|
|
game with a user in Washington D.C.,you make your move and clmail
|
|||
|
|
will send it across the wire to the Node in Washington then the
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 19 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
move applied to chesline on that board.. The next day the user in
|
|||
|
|
Washington would send his move to your board through Clmail
|
|||
|
|
and so on and so on... Now that i have you confuzed
|
|||
|
|
lets make it worse... Say you have 20 games going on and
|
|||
|
|
3 of them are network games to 3 different nodes,
|
|||
|
|
Clmail will automatically create the outbound messages with the
|
|||
|
|
node numbers there going to. (Have I got your attention?)
|
|||
|
|
This is a great concept because you can now play National Chess
|
|||
|
|
without having to call another board with procomm or whatever
|
|||
|
|
and sign on and go through lond distance networks just to
|
|||
|
|
make a move.. Now with CLmail you make all your moves
|
|||
|
|
locally and your mail system handles the rest..(NEAT HUH?)
|
|||
|
|
We are presently working on a player list utility that will list
|
|||
|
|
all Chessline players nationally and rank them according to
|
|||
|
|
U.S. Chess Federation rules and regulations then create a
|
|||
|
|
listing that will be distributed to all Chesline nodes so the
|
|||
|
|
users can select by player and ranking!! (Exciting HUH?)
|
|||
|
|
Well Im sure you can see how this could grow into a Chess Net!
|
|||
|
|
We are very excited about the possibilities this could bring...
|
|||
|
|
The program Clmail was written by James Brown at Brown BBS in
|
|||
|
|
Houston. Many Thanks to his hard work and dedication to the
|
|||
|
|
expansion of Chesline and the idea for the Net-Mail application.
|
|||
|
|
This concept has broken new ground in the E-mail Network and
|
|||
|
|
blazed a new path for bbs games..
|
|||
|
|
THANKS James Brown.. WE APPRECIATE THE WORK!!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ATTN: This program is still being tested and has not been
|
|||
|
|
distributed yet.. The netmail system will be sent to
|
|||
|
|
you free of charge if you purchase chesline...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Notes:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Chesline is a very high quality program designed with the sysop
|
|||
|
|
in mind. It is written in assembler and uses ansi graphics for
|
|||
|
|
the display. It also uses RAM for file processing so the speed
|
|||
|
|
is kept to a maximum. It monitors the carrier and has it's own
|
|||
|
|
ansi interpreter so you don't have to load ansi.sys and you can
|
|||
|
|
still see everything on your screen that the user sees. It will
|
|||
|
|
allow a max of 200 games and is set up to run under multiple
|
|||
|
|
nodes. It will automatically get the user's name and will run at
|
|||
|
|
2400/1200/300 even 9600 baud. Thise version will have the
|
|||
|
|
ability for the sysop to play online with user and has a
|
|||
|
|
chat mode as well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This program was specifically designed for opus but will run
|
|||
|
|
on PCBoard,Quik-BBS,GTPowercomm,RBBS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you would like to place an order then feel free to call
|
|||
|
|
106/12 The SoundingBoard and fill out the order form..
|
|||
|
|
Mastercard, Visa and American Express accepted. You can
|
|||
|
|
also call my board in Orlando to order!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For more information on Chesline call Edward V. Hawes voice=
|
|||
|
|
407 774-2511 data=407 660-0005 5pm-9am 7 days a week!
|
|||
|
|
BHC SOFTWARE
|
|||
|
|
3120 SOUTHWEST FRW #400
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 20 14 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Houston Texas 77098
|
|||
|
|
|
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PLEASE SUPPORT THIS PRODUCT SO WE CAN GROW THE CHESS-NET!!!
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John Herro
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1:363/6
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IMPROVE YOUR PROGRAMS WITH NAMED NOTATION
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In the article "THE VERY BEST PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE " in FidoNews
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533 (15 August 1988), I said that Ada has new features, not found
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in earlier languages, that make programs easier to understand. I
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also said that I'd try to give examples in future articles.
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When the first high-level programming language (Fortran) was in-
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vented in the 1950's, computer time was expensive and programming
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time was relatively cheap. Therefore, early languages were de-
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signed to generate code that's as efficient as possible, even at
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the expense of program readability. Today the situation is re-
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versed. Computer time is cheap, but program maintenance is ex-
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pensive. (Program maintenance refers to debugging, as well as
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making changes to the software and adding enhancements.) There-
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fore, the most important consideration today is to make programs
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as easy to understand as possible. Thanks to modern software en-
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gineering, we've learned to improve program readability without
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sacrificing efficiency.
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One of the language features new to Ada makes calls to subpro-
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grams (procedures and functions) much easier to understand, with-
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out affecting efficiency. It's called NAMED NOTATION or NAMED
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PARAMETER ASSOCIATION. Suppose, for example, that we write a
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procedure (or "subroutine") that computes the volume and surface
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area of a cylinder, given its radius and height. In Ada, the
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procedure specification might look like this:
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procedure COMPUTE_VOL_AND_AREA(RADIUS, HEIGHT : in FLOAT;
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VOLUME, AREA : out FLOAT);
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Note that the procedure specification tells us the names of the
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parameters (or "dummy arguments"), their types, and their modes.
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The mode can be "in," "out," or "in out." In this example, all
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four parameters are of type FLOAT. RADIUS and HEIGHT are of mode
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"in," while VOLUME and AREA are of mode "out."
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Except for specifying the modes explicitly, Ada subprogram speci-
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fications aren't much different from other languages. For exam-
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ple, in Fortran the first line of a subroutine, similar to our
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Ada procedure specification, might be:
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SUBROUTINE VAREA(RADIUS, HEIGHT, VOLUME, AREA)
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Here the subroutine name, VAREA, is a bit cryptic, but standard
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Fortran limits us to names of at most six characters. (Many ver-
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sions of Fortran allow names longer than the standard.) In Ada,
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the names are limited only by the maximum length of a line, and
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all characters of a name are significant.
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The real advantage of Ada can be seen in the CALL to the subpro-
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gram, rather than in the subprogram specification. In all other
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languages, the names of the subprogram parameters (or "dummy ar-
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guments") aren't known in the calling program. For example, in
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Fortran, a call might be
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CALL VAREA(1.5, 3.7, VOL, A)
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This is called POSITIONAL NOTATION, because the arguments in the
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call must appear in the same order as they do in the subprogram,
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and there's no reference to the names of the dummy arguments in
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the call. When the call occurs in this example, 1.5 in the call-
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ing program is associated with RADIUS in the subprogram, 3.7 with
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HEIGHT, VOL with VOLUME, and A with AREA. This association is
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done by position.
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We can use positional notation in Ada, too. In Ada (as in Pas-
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cal) the word CALL is omitted and we simply name the subprogram,
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but the call otherwise looks about the same as in Fortran:
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COMPUTE_VOL_AND_AREA(1.5, 3.7, VOL, A);
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However, in Ada the call can be made much easier to read by using
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NAMED NOTATION:
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COMPUTE_VOL_AND_AREA(RADIUS => 1.5, HEIGHT => 3.7,
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VOLUME => VOL, AREA => A);
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The symbol => is read "arrow," and the name of the dummy argument
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precedes it. With Named Notation, the reader doesn't have to
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keep flipping between the page containing the call and the page
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containing the subprogram specification to understand what's go-
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ing on. Also, the programmer need not remember the order in
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which the arguments appear, because with Named Notation, the ar-
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guments in the call may appear in any order:
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COMPUTE_VOL_AND_AREA(HEIGHT => 3.7, RADIUS => 1.5,
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AREA => A, VOLUME => VOL);
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As you can see, Named Notation is one feature of Ada that really
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improves program readability. In future articles, we'll cover
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other Ada features that will improve your programs. For example,
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closely related to Named Notation are Default Parameters, which
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we'll discuss next time.
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If you're not programming in Ada, learn the language and go first
|
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|
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class! There are now several inexpensive Ada compilers available
|
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|
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for the PC. And I've written a Shareware Interactive Ada Tutor
|
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|
|
program ADA-TUTR.ARC, available on 363/6. FidoNews 533 contains
|
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|
|
a list of many other boards that also have ADA-TUTR.ARC. The
|
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Tutor stresses good program design, not just syntax, so that
|
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you'll learn to take advantage of the special language features
|
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|
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new to Ada. As always, I welcome your comments and suggestions.
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 23 14 Nov 1988
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Joe Taibi
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FidoNet 280/302
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Reach out and FLAME someone?
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You know the symptoms as well as the multitude of causes behind
|
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|
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the obvious loss of focus evident in our echo areas. Sadly
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enough it does not seem there's much likelyhood of things
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|
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becoming any better in the near future unless something positive
|
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is undertaken to achieve such a goal. There are a wealth of
|
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moderations and coordinations and watchdog efforts being made
|
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|
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and I feel it time to at least state my own simple case
|
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regarding the effectivity of this approach.
|
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The eventual outcome that can be expected from a moderators
|
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efforts to control the behavior of so many individuals in the
|
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situation as it stands today, is burn out, or worse, the same
|
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|
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irresponsible insensitive behavior that they are in the position
|
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of policing. This is in no way to be interpreted as an attack on
|
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|
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any of these individuals, it is just an observation and an
|
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opinion as is the remainder of this note.
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What is needed is a movement lead by those who are already
|
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practicing a common sense method of control and have all along.
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We must effect a shift towards a more reasonable approach to the
|
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problem. I am quite certain that there are a great many users
|
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and sysops alike who are already practicing this very method of
|
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|
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control and I take heart in the unsung and unrewarded efforts of
|
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these individuals for they are the reason that FidoNet does not
|
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collapse in a fit of childishness.
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The method of which I babble, is the only one that ever actually
|
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|
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works! It is called " SELF " control. It is patently obvious to
|
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|
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any casual observer that we in Fidonet hold our individuality and
|
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|
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freedom to do our own thing in high regard. It is not however, a
|
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reciprocal arrangement by any stretch of the imagination. What do
|
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I mean by this? Glad you asked! I only mean that while we are so
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quick to jump up and down at every hint of an attempt to curb the
|
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childish inappropriate and just plain ignorant misuse of echomail
|
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|
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through moderation and such, we are slow to do anything in the
|
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way of suggesting alternative actions!
|
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The part that I am truly amazed at is the majority of those who
|
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|
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abuse echomail are the system operators themselves and not the
|
|||
|
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users! So we have people who try to do something about it and
|
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|
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they are met with screams and howls from every corner of the
|
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|
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globe. I know that I am merely mirroring the disgust felt by
|
|||
|
|
the majority of those in the Network who wake up daily and sit
|
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|
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bleary eyed at the monitor with mouth agape at the wonderously
|
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|
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idiotic verbeage that spews forth from nearly every echo and I'm
|
|||
|
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hoping we can try to educate the responsible <?> parties.
|
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|
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The abuses are far too common and all too often perpetrated by
|
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 24 14 Nov 1988
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the very people who are most aware of the infractions. The vast
|
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|
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majority are directly attributable to hasty responses. This is
|
|||
|
|
a demonstration of a lack of self control. I fear it is also
|
|||
|
|
indicative of the state of affairs in society as a whole.
|
|||
|
|
It is not necessary to irritate others in order to be an
|
|||
|
|
individual, and adhering to 'mandates of consideration' is not
|
|||
|
|
a loss of freedom. In point of fact it is one of the only ways
|
|||
|
|
to preserve it. Use it or lose it also relates to CONTROL!
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
So from those of us who practice self control at least most of
|
|||
|
|
the time ( we all have our moments ) here are a few helpful ways
|
|||
|
|
to detect an attack of inappropri-echo-itis or in-flame-o-gramia
|
|||
|
|
idiosys...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You should log off and get some fresh air if at any time you find
|
|||
|
|
yourself typing these words in a message:
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
" This type of message does not belong in this area "
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Or words to that affect, yes there are a myriad of variations...
|
|||
|
|
Please note, this includes all moderators and coordinators etc.
|
|||
|
|
Your control, as necessary as it has become, should be visible
|
|||
|
|
within your given area only to the extent that there are regular
|
|||
|
|
postings of policy or normal related Q&A. There is no excuse
|
|||
|
|
whatsoever for anyone to use an echo to respond to an improperly
|
|||
|
|
posted message no matter what the intent. Anyone who does so is
|
|||
|
|
as guilty of the infraction as the person to whom they are
|
|||
|
|
responding.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I know I am not alone in being absolutely sick of reading the
|
|||
|
|
unending debates over the applicability of a thread to a message
|
|||
|
|
base but let's be calm and think about it a little before
|
|||
|
|
reacting. Then react in a manner such that your need to
|
|||
|
|
communicate does not cost anyone else! Granted there are many
|
|||
|
|
times the message content could not be any less related but the
|
|||
|
|
place to deal with it is the MATRIX. There is also something to
|
|||
|
|
be said for tolerance since after all, we can't create and
|
|||
|
|
support an echo for each and every facet of the human mind.
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|
o Therapeutic excercise
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I too, have felt the urge to reach out and flame someone!
|
|||
|
|
On such occasions I find the following method of response to be
|
|||
|
|
quite therapeutic and I only wish I could recall the name of the
|
|||
|
|
sysop from whom I got the idea. I call it the ZEN FLAME.
|
|||
|
|
The process is simple to implement and takes only fractionally
|
|||
|
|
more time than its present day counterpart. You go right ahead
|
|||
|
|
and blast away, do it, jump up and down and scream! After you are
|
|||
|
|
finished and save your message, read it... Out loud if you so
|
|||
|
|
desire, now comes the ingenious part of the procedure, you DELETE
|
|||
|
|
it before you log off! Very simple, very easy. You get the
|
|||
|
|
benefit of releasing the pent up frustration and telling the no
|
|||
|
|
good so and so what you think and then seeing it in print without
|
|||
|
|
burdening all other sysops and users with even more irritation
|
|||
|
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than their lives already afford them!
|
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|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 25 14 Nov 1988
|
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|
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|
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All this babbling boils down to a simple plea from myself and the
|
|||
|
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others who may share my point of view.
|
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|
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|
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Stop and think of the BIG PICTURE each time you begin to post
|
|||
|
|
mail in any echomail area and above all, excercise self control
|
|||
|
|
so that others will not feel the need to impose it upon you! It
|
|||
|
|
has been said that " Freedom is the right to do your best. "
|
|||
|
|
The only true protection of your rights and freedoms lies in your
|
|||
|
|
willingness to govern yourself now before it's too late.
|
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|
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|
|
Common sense dictates a network is not a place for selfish
|
|||
|
|
behavior. To become involved in it one must become aware of
|
|||
|
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the rights of others who are affected.
|
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 26 14 Nov 1988
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|
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Brandy Witherspoon
|
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Fido 1:100/525
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|
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The Alamo and the Mexican War
|
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|
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"Remember the Alamo", is still a famous saying in Texas
|
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|
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which dates back to the middle 1800's during the time of the
|
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Mexican War. The war was between Texas and Mexico. Texas,
|
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fighting for it's Independance. Mexico, fighting to keep and
|
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rule Texas as part of it's country.
|
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Once, Texas was part of Mexico, and during the time when
|
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the South was depressed and people had depts to pay, they
|
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|
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would move to Texas in order to form a new life. At the time,
|
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Mexico was offering 640 acres of untaxed land to any family
|
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|
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who would turn thier back on America, pledge alliegence to
|
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|
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Mexico and change thier religion to Roman Catholic. But, soon
|
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|
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Mexico began to get worried because too many Americans were
|
|||
|
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moving to Texas. Within ten years after Stephen F. Austin
|
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|
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established his colony, thirty thousand settlers had moved.
|
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|
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In 1830 the Mexican government passed strict laws saying,
|
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|
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immigrants were no longer allowed to come to Texas. Mexico
|
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patrolled the border very carefully but, were unable to
|
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|
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patroll the long border between Louisiana and Texas.
|
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|
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Stephen Austin, for whom Texas's capitol is named after
|
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|
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arrived in July 1833 to discuss with Mexico the fact that
|
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|
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Texas wanted to secede and form thier own country with thier
|
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own government. Austin sent a letter to the Texans, advising
|
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them to form themselves as a separate state if his appeal
|
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failed. However, he was found out, and arrested in Saltillo
|
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on a charge of treason on January 3, 1834.
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Austin was jailed for 18 months before his release. But,
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by this time almost all power over the Mexican Government had
|
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been siezed by President Antonia Lo'pez de Santa Anna, who
|
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|
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was elected in late 1833.
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In the fall of 1835, Santa Anna sent his brother-in-law,
|
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General Martin Cos in charge of a band of mexican troops into
|
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Texas to patrol the border. On September 21st, Austin
|
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|
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announced that Cos had landed at Copano and Texas prepared.
|
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The Mexican Government was positive that the Texans were on
|
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the verge of rebellion from it's country.
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Cos's orders were to sieze the cannon kept there. The
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Texans refused to give up the cannon which they had put a
|
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flag on reading, "come and take it". Suddenly, hundreds of
|
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Texans came from the countryside and startled the mexican
|
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|
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army into retreating to San Antonio.
|
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|
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On March 2, 1836, 59 Texas leaders gathered in the tiny
|
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village of Washington, Texas. Together, they wrote the
|
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|
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Texas Declaration of Independance and the Texas Constitution.
|
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|
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The republic of Texas now existed, but the war to keep it was
|
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 27 14 Nov 1988
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yet to come.
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|
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|
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On February 23, 1836 Santa Anna's army of 6,000 tried to
|
|||
|
|
take on 200 Texans at the Alamo in San Antonio. Over a period
|
|||
|
|
of ten days the brave Texans killed over 1,500 mexicans. The
|
|||
|
|
Texans drove them back twice, before the mexicans finally
|
|||
|
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killed all the defenders of the Alamo on the third try.
|
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|
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|
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By then, the Texans had put together an army. Led by Sam
|
|||
|
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Houston they attacked Santa Anna's army during the night,
|
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during there time of slumber, on April 21, 1836, in San
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Jacinto.
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The left flank of the Texan line was comanded by a thirty
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year old Kentucky businessman who came to Texas with
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fifty-two volunteers he had found by himself. Colonel Sidney
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Sherman was more direct than Houston and rather irritated and
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impatient with his commander's Zen-like strategy. When they
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were a few hundred yards from the mexican lines he loudly
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shouted, "Remember the Alamo!!". Which set imeasurable fury
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in the minds of the Texans. Remembering the Alamo, the Texans
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were filled with slaughter. Attacking the enemy with bowie
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knives, tomahawks, rifle butts, and what little amunition
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they had left they brutally killed those who begged for
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mercy. Santa Anna then signed a treaty declaring Texas's
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independance from Mexico. And as the carnage of that day
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receded into history and Texas became a tamer place, The
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phrase "Remember the Alamo", began to stand more for
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rememberance than vengence.
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Seguaro Bulletin Board
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Home of KidsNews!
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Fido 1:100/525
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(618) 656-5447
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From the desk of the KidsNews Editor:
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Veterans Day is a special time. As Americans gather at
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cemeteries and memorials throughout this great land, we
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are reminded that fundamentally we are a family. We pause
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this day to reflect on the love and commitment of nearly
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40 million living veterans who have served that family.
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We acknowledge that none have given fuller expression to
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that love than those who have died or been disabled in
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defense of our nation.
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We demonstrate today through our ceremonies and in our
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private thoughts and prayers America's lasting gratitude
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and admiration for those who have allowed us to prosper
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in peace and freedom. We reflect that such blessings are
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not universally enjoyed; that tyranny, aggression, and
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cruel terrorism challenge what so many Americans have
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fought and died to protect.
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We honor our veterans in a manner that befits the American
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family. Our nation might have chosen the anniversary of a
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great battle. Instead, we chose the anniversary od a great
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silence; the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the
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eleventh month when the guns of World War I at last were
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still. We celebrate not war, but the end of war. We are a
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people of peace.
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As we look with hope toward the day when the guns are
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forever silent, let us once again express appreciation to
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those whose splended heritage lives on in a new generation
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of servicemen and women who have taken their places on the
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battlements of American freedom.
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=================================================================
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COLUMNS
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Steve Bonine
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115/777
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An Introduction of Bob Swift (140/24)
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Most of you probably know Bob Swift from his postings of IFNA
|
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news in the IFNA national echo. Bob is an IFNA Director at large
|
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who has been saddled with the job of keeping the membership
|
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informed of what is happening, as well as trying to keep the
|
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Board in line in the Board of Directors' echos. He generates the
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formal motions (based on netmail from members of the Board),
|
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collects the votes, posts the results, and generally brings
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organization to the whole process.
|
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Bob's "real job" is as a registered Professional Mechanical
|
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Engineer in a coal-fired electrical generating station. He's my
|
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|
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first international personality in this column, living in the
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small Saskatchewan city of Estevan. I got out my atlas, and it's
|
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just north of the North Dakota line.
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Bob's relative isolation was one of the contributing factors to
|
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getting him going as a BBS sysop. There were no systems
|
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|
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operating in his city of 10,000 people, so he had to cut his
|
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|
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teeth on the BBS scene as a user by calling long distance. To
|
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|
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save others from having to go through this expensive experience,
|
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|
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"Bob's Border BBS" was born. (No, I had never heard of the
|
|||
|
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original name of Bob's system when I named this column.)
|
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|
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|
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That system lasted for about three years, through two Commodore
|
|||
|
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64's and three power supplies. When Bob found that he had to
|
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|
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compete with his users to use the computer, he bought an XT clone
|
|||
|
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with a 10-meg hard disk and a 1200-baud modem. How could anyone
|
|||
|
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ever need more than that?
|
|||
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|
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|
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Bob joined FidoNet in the Fido 11w days, at about the same time
|
|||
|
|
that echomail was coming on the scene. "Bob's Border BBS" became
|
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|
|
"The Power Station", and has grown to 60 megs of disk and 9600
|
|||
|
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baud, with more expansion planned. Bob became the coordinator of
|
|||
|
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net 140, and was one of the first elected members of IFNA's
|
|||
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Board.
|
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|
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|
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When he's not watching sysops butt heads, Bob enjoys watching
|
|||
|
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football, especially the Canadian game. He's a long-time ticket
|
|||
|
|
holder for the Saskatchewan Roughriders. He also enjoys reading,
|
|||
|
|
music, and photography.
|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
I hope you've enjoyed this short glimpse of Bob Swift. Next
|
|||
|
|
week, Bill Albritton is "on tap". If there is anyone you want to
|
|||
|
|
get to know, let me know. If you're a "FidoNet personality",
|
|||
|
|
send me some dirt on yourself!
|
|||
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|
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|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 30 14 Nov 1988
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 31 14 Nov 1988
|
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|
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|
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|
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YACK
|
|||
|
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Yet Another Complicated Komment
|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
by Steven K. Hoskin
|
|||
|
|
( STEVE HOSKIN at 1:128/31 )
|
|||
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|
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|
|
Episode 16: Network Mail
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
FidoNet Network Mail is such a neat thing. The ability to
|
|||
|
|
cheaply use this electronic mail media to hold private
|
|||
|
|
conversations, or send letters that are readable and get there
|
|||
|
|
right away is just fascinating.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Oh, sure, it doesn't hold a candle to the glamour of EchoMail.
|
|||
|
|
In EchoMail you get to start, or more likely join, in electronic
|
|||
|
|
mail conversations with people you don't know. Eventually, if
|
|||
|
|
you stick with it, you get to sorta' know some of the regulars
|
|||
|
|
out there, start to feel at home in the conference, and maybe
|
|||
|
|
eventually meet them on vacation or at FidoCon.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
But once you know somebody, that NetMail is SO neat for direct
|
|||
|
|
communications. Cheap as SnailMail, fast as FedExpress.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But getting people to recognize this is like pulling teeth. I am
|
|||
|
|
the editor of a NewsLetter that keeps people I worked with in the
|
|||
|
|
Air Force on a special project in touch with each other. I
|
|||
|
|
offered multiple avenues; I'll make the current NewsLetters
|
|||
|
|
available for viewing online, downloading (normal or archived),
|
|||
|
|
NetMail attachments, messages, local messages...whatever. And
|
|||
|
|
I'd continue to mail it to those not taking advantage of the
|
|||
|
|
barrage of electronic alternatives.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I explained for several issues how to use FidoNet to their
|
|||
|
|
advantage. Step by step. Volunteered to send the part of the
|
|||
|
|
NodeList that applied to their area so they could pick a node.
|
|||
|
|
Volunteered to log onto their chosen board and find specific
|
|||
|
|
keystrokes to get at the proper areas. To contact the SysOp and
|
|||
|
|
set up the NetMail account. In short, do everything but send the
|
|||
|
|
money, that massive $5 most SysOps will start an account with.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
These are computer folk, too, by the way. Not computer
|
|||
|
|
illiterate.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One called my board and we CHATted about it for 45 minutes about
|
|||
|
|
it before he said, "Now that we've talked about it I can't wait.
|
|||
|
|
Get me that list!". Geesh! What do I have to do, network their
|
|||
|
|
voice lines into their local Net Hosts' boards?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
<Slap!>
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 32 14 Nov 1988
|
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|
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|
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=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
NOTICES
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The Interrupt Stack
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
23 Nov 1988
|
|||
|
|
25th Anniversary of "Dr. Who" - and still going strong
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
24 Aug 1989
|
|||
|
|
Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5 Oct 1989
|
|||
|
|
20th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
|||
|
|
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Election Notice for Zone 1 Echomail Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
David Dodell, 1:1/0
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As most of you know, Butch Walker has resigned as Zone 1 Echomail
|
|||
|
|
Coordinator.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It is Butch's desire to have an election for the new Z1EC, and I
|
|||
|
|
will be assisting by conducting those elections.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The plan is as follows:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(1) Applications for the position need to reach my system by
|
|||
|
|
Monday, November 14th. Any applications for the position should
|
|||
|
|
include a statement from the candidate. This statement can
|
|||
|
|
contain anything the candidate wishes, but I recommend that the
|
|||
|
|
candidate express why he/she would be good for the position, why
|
|||
|
|
he/she should be voted to the position, and/or his/her policy on
|
|||
|
|
echomail.
|
|||
|
|
This statement should be no longer then 80 x 24 (i.e. one
|
|||
|
|
screen).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(2) On the 14th of November, I will mail to the REC a copy of all
|
|||
|
|
of the candidate statements. These should be disseminated to the
|
|||
|
|
NEC's in your region.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(3) Voting will be done by the REC/NEC structure only. It will
|
|||
|
|
be the responsibility of all NEC to get their votes into the REC
|
|||
|
|
by November 30th. The REC's will then get the sub-totals for
|
|||
|
|
their Regions into me by December 4th.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Announcment and notification of the new Z1EC will be done on
|
|||
|
|
December 5th.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
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|
|
FidoNews 5-46 Page 33 14 Nov 1988
|
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|
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|
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Don Daniels
|
|||
|
|
1:107/200 & 210
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Notice Regarding Gene Coppola of 107/131
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To: All of you who have responded to Gene Coppola at 107/200
|
|||
|
|
regarding ram chips or his FidoNews survey
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please be advised that Gene's system, which is 1:107/131, is
|
|||
|
|
apparently down. My understanding is that it is in the
|
|||
|
|
process of being removed from the Nodelist due to Policy
|
|||
|
|
violations. Therefore, you should expect no replies to your
|
|||
|
|
messages as they are undeliverable and are being deleted here.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Sorry.
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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=================================================================
|
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|
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COMMITTEE REPORTS
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
IFNA Treasurer's Report
|
|||
|
|
October, 1988
|
|||
|
|
Steve Bonine 115/777
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
This will be a short report. As the saying goes, I have some
|
|||
|
|
good news and some bad news.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The good news is that the new IFNA checking account in Chicago is
|
|||
|
|
now open and usable. The bad news is that the funds are not yet
|
|||
|
|
transferred into it from the Hawaii account.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thus, I am not in a position to provide real numbers, and that
|
|||
|
|
isn't a great problem because (by definition) they haven't
|
|||
|
|
changed from last month. As soon as I recieve the records and
|
|||
|
|
the funds from the previous treasurer, I will provide a status
|
|||
|
|
report here in FidoNews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Steve Bonine
|
|||
|
|
IFNA Treasurer
|
|||
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|
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|
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 35 14 Nov 1988
|
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|
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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Hal DuPrie 1:101/106 Chairman of the Board
|
|||
|
|
Bob Rudolph 1:261/628 President
|
|||
|
|
Matt Whelan 3:3/1 Vice President
|
|||
|
|
Ray Gwinn 1:109/639 Vice President - Technical Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
David Garrett 1:103/501 Secretary
|
|||
|
|
Steve Bonine 1:115/777 Treasurer
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
DIVISION AT-LARGE
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
10 Courtney Harris 1:102/732? Don Daniels 1:107/210
|
|||
|
|
11 Bill Allbritten 1:11/301 Hal DuPrie 1:101/106
|
|||
|
|
12 Bill Bolton 3:54/61 Mark Grennan 1:147/1
|
|||
|
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13 Rick Siegel 1:107/27 Steve Bonine 1:115/777
|
|||
|
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14 Ken Kaplan 1:100/22 Ted Polczyinski 1:154/5
|
|||
|
|
15 Larry Kayser 1:104/739? Matt Whelan 3:3/1
|
|||
|
|
16 Vince Perriello 1:141/491 Robert Rudolph 1:261/628
|
|||
|
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17 Rob Barker 1:138/34 Steve Jordan 1:102/2871
|
|||
|
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18 Christopher Baker 1:135/14 Bob Swift 1:140/24
|
|||
|
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19 David Drexler 1:19/1 Larry Wall 1:15/18
|
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2 Henk Wevers 2:500/1 David Melnik 1:107/233
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Membership for the International FidoNet Association
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Membership in IFNA is open to any individual or organization that
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pays a specified annual membership fee. IFNA serves the
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international FidoNet-compatible electronic mail community to
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increase worldwide communications.
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Member Name _______________________________ Date _______________
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Address _________________________________________________________
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Zone:Net/Node Number ____________________________________________
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BBS Name ________________________________________________________
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Baud Rates Supported ____________________________________________
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Board Restrictions ______________________________________________
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Your Special Interests __________________________________________
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In what areas would you be willing to help in FidoNet? __________
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Send this membership form and a check or money order for $25 in
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US Funds to:
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International FidoNet Association
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PO Box 41143
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St Louis, Missouri 63141
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USA
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Thank you for your membership! Your participation will help to
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insure the future of FidoNet.
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Please NOTE that IFNA is a general not-for-profit organization
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and Articles of Association and By-Laws were adopted by the
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membership in January 1987. The second elected Board of Directors
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was filled in August 1988. The IFNA Echomail Conference has been
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established on FidoNet to assist the Board. We welcome your
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input to this Conference.
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FidoNews 5-46 Page 37 14 Nov 1988
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INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
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ORDER FORM
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Publications
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The IFNA publications can be obtained by downloading from Fido
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1:1/10 or other FidoNet compatible systems, or by purchasing
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them directly from IFNA. We ask that all our IFNA Committee
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Chairmen provide us with the latest versions of each
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publication, but we can make no written guarantees.
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Hardcopy prices as of October 1, 1986
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IFNA Fido BBS listing $15.00 _____
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IFNA Administrative Policy DOCs $10.00 _____
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IFNA FidoNet Standards Committee DOCs $10.00 _____
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SUBTOTAL _____
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IFNA Member ONLY Special Offers
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System Enhancement Associates SEAdog $60.00 _____
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SEAdog price as of March 1, 1987
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ONLY 1 copy SEAdog per IFNA Member
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Fido Software's Fido/FidoNet $100.00 _____
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Fido/FidoNet price as of November 1, 1987
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ONLY 1 copy Fido/FidoNet per IFNA Member
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International orders include $10.00 for
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surface shipping or $20.00 for air shipping _____
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SUBTOTAL _____
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MO. Residents add 5.725% Sales Tax _____
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TOTAL _____
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SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER IN US FUNDS:
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International FidoNet Association
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PO Box 41143
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St Louis, Mo. 63141
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USA
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Name________________________________
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Zone:Net/Node____:____/____
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Company_____________________________
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Address_____________________________
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City____________________ State____________ Zip_____
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