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Volume 7, Number 13 26 March 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by the System Operators of the
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FidoNet (r) International BBS Network. It is a compilation of
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individual articles contributed by their authors or authorized
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agents of the authors. The contribution of articles to this
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compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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Fidocon Discount Deadline Draws Near! .................... 1
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Menu Master Announcement ................................. 2
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 3
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A View from the Bridge ................................... 3
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Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 5
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 7
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 7
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 1 26 Mar 1990
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ARTICLES
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Bill Vanglahn 1:1/90@Fidonet
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As the deadline for the biggest savings to attend this
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year's convention draws near (April 1), I wanted to clear up a
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few questions.
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Q. EXACTLY where is Fidocon being held?
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A. Fidocon '90 will be held at the Quality Inn Sportsplex in
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Lyndhurst, N.J. The hotel is approximately 8 minutes from New
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York City, and about 10 minutes from Newark International
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Airport. It is located on NJ Route 17, near the intersection
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of NJ Route 3 and the New Jersey Turnpike.
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Q. The price of $350.00 is a LOT of money!
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A. Yes, it is! But, compared to the prices from San Jose
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(Fidocon '89), it works out to be LESS. The price of $350.00
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(valid through April 1) includes hotel, meals, reception
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party, and the cost of the conference. Last year, people paid
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well over $400.00, for the same period of time (4 days).
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Q. I want to bring my spouse (and/or kids). How much would it
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cost for them?
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A. For you and your family to attend, the cost for a member your
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family is $175.00 per person, before April 1. The price
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increases to $225.00 after that. This price includes hotel
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room and meals.
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The latest information is ALWAYS available by file requesting
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the magic name FIDOCON from 1:1/90.
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 2 26 Mar 1990
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Dale Barnes
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Fido 1:375/11
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PRODUCT CHANGE ANNOUNCEMENT
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"Menu Master" has been sold. Effective March 17, 1990, Dale
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Barnes of Montgomery, AL, is now the owner. All current
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registered users will be supported. A new updated version
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in currently in beta testing and will be released when ready
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with new docs. All registrations should now be sent to the
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address below. Once registered, you will receive your key
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via netmail.
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I believe Menu Master is a great package. It allows you to
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create new menus for QuickBBS systems. The upcoming version
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will also support Remote Access BBS systems. You can change
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any menu or all menus quickly and easily. It is menu driven
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which makes it a cinch to use and it also supports a mouse.
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Your ideas and registration will help me continue improving
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this product. I would like to encourage you to register
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Menu Master.
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All registration and any bugs, problems or enhancements
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should be sent to:
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Dale Barnes OR Netmail to FidoNet 1:375/11
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PO Box 230203
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Montgomery, AL 36123-0203
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 3 26 Mar 1990
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COLUMNS
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A View from the Bridge
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"Captain's Log, Stardate 9003.24"
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This week, I thought I'd take a moment to respond to some
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hatemail. Thankfully, I don't get much, but Fredric Rice called
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all the way from Florida just to put me down, and I thought he
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deserved a reply. Well, since he's not in the nodelist, and in
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case there are others out there who might think the same way,
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Fredrick, this column's for YOU:
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From: Fredric Rice
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To: Phil
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Subj: fidonews art
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> BTW, just for the record, NO, I don't hang up on someone
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> because they're not in my network. That's the same as hanging
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> up on someone because they're black, jewish, gay, or poor, no
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> matter what anybody else says. Private clubs are a thing of the
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Explain, if you would, what racial prejudice and private clubs
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have to do with refusal to accept a system access request from a
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node that's not in your network.
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Is it possible you didn't get a high school diploma? Perhaps you
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have spent too much time learning about Jesus and ignored the
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real-world scientific methodologies expounded to normal children.
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BTW, just for the record, I take exception to your opinion.
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From: Phil Buonomo
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To: Fredric Rice
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Subj: Re: fidonews art
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> Explain, if you would, what racial prejudice and private
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> clubs have to do with refusal to accept a system access
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> request from a node that's not in your network.
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Because the basis of "if you're not one of 'my kind' I don't
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want to know you" is the same root of both evils.
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> Is it possible you didn't get a high school diploma?
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No. Is it possible for you to express an opinion without
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flaming others?
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> Perhaps you have spent too much time learning about Jesus and
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 4 26 Mar 1990
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> ignored the real- world scientific methodologies expounded to
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> normal children.
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I would respond to this, but frankly I don't see any
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logic/point/basis to this comment at all.
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> BTW, just for the record, I take exception to your opinion.
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And I disagree with yours. But you don't see me taking you down
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on your own board because of it, do you?
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Have a nice day!
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 5 26 Mar 1990
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Henry Clark
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124/6120
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Am I Indexes ? --
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7-10 The Death of Shareware and Other Good News -- viewpoint.
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7-10 The Big Mistake -- file archive comments.
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7-10 Big Blue Subterfuge -- dangers of cooperative processing.
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7-10 Honey Learns MSGED -- dangers of cooperative processing.
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7-11 In CASE You Wondered -- viewpoint on CASE tools.
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7-11 BBS For Sale -- nostalgic look at old front end.
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7-11 The Salesmanship Club -- dangers of cooperative processing.
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7-11 Danish for Honey -- foreign language processing.
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7-12 The Art of Deception -- high and low level languages.
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7-12 "Plug Away" -- machine generated messages.
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7-12 Interface 90 -- viewpoint on OSI.
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7-12 Tax Time, Honey -- working overseas.
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7-13 Am I Indexes ? -- global information indexing.
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7-13 Compuserve Blues -- problems with messages.
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7-13 The Big Trip -- rest and relaxation.
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7-13 Counting Carlsbergs -- little known facts.
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Since everybody is going to be back indexing the world in the
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90's, I figured I'd get a head start now.
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I suppose in about 4 years, indexes and indexing services will
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have grown so large, that they too will need indexing, leading
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to the Index Behemoth Corp.'s buy out of World Index and Media
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Production Systems by 1997. This will leave only one major
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player who in fact, knows where anything is that you need.
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While you're at it, think about that nodelist... Oh, and "Am I
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Indexes ?" Yes, Plain-O-Dexes.
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Compuserve Blues --
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What's FIDONET got that Compuserve doesn't ? The list is
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endless. I am especially disappointed in the horrible message
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gathering facilities, now that CIS has become so active. No
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archived message facility means you pull messages for later
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reading in LOG mode, straight ASCII transfer.
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I tried out the PC MAGazine forums, first the editorial forum,
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and then the programming forum. What a pain in the butt. At
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2400 bps ( really ) I saw no other way than to turn on SCROLL
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and start logging the messages. It took an hour to pull off 4
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days worth of messages out of two forums. ( Grabbing calculator
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) that's almost 90 bucks per month! Is it worth it, NO! I'm
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thinking this is close to the cost of ALL echomail traffic for
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our net per month. No comparison at all...
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 6 26 Mar 1990
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I can see reducing online time by selecting specific threads;
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this amounts to a terrible guess as to suitability. Something
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has to change. I'll still use it to get the FILES though
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<grin>.
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The Big Trip --
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Well, it's travel time again for the Clark family. We are off
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to Santa Barbara to visit my sister. She's this hot EW
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programmer ( that's E-lec-tronic War-fare ). Remember the
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Stark, the ship with the hole blown in the side by Iraq ( how
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embarrassing ). My sister's system was the one to stop that
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missile, if it had been turned on.
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My four-year-old and I will hit Dizzy-land and pay a call on
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old Mickey. ( Gawd, I hope his suit has been recently dry
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cleaned. ) A little golf, some work type effort in Thousand
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Oaks ( gotta pay for it you know ), and just some general
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stress relieving. Sort of an OPUS-FAM for the brain.
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Counting Carlsbergs --
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Here's a little known counting method employed by Danes. They
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count by 20s ( we call it a score, Danes call it a 'snes' (
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long e ). Not only do Danes count by 20s, they use a sort of
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clock language.
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Like we say "half past five", Danes refer to that as "half till
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six". Now we get to the counting and the Danish words for 50,
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60 : it's "half till three twenties" and "three twenties" (
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you got it? ). 70 and 80 are "half till four twenties" and
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"four twenties", and 90 is "half till five twenties".
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Even more unbelievable is that a hundred is, in fact, called a
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hundrede ( long u ). And a thousand, well it's 'tusind' ( long
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u ), but considering that Danes cannot make any of the dozen or
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so 'TH' sounds, this is probably OK.
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The 'ones' digits, you asked. Yes, BEFORE the tens digits. As
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in "five and half till five twenties", all that for 95.
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So now you know why Honey always quotes todays shopping bill in
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Danish; I fall asleep before she finishes.
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FIDONEWS 7-13 Page 7 26 Mar 1990
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The Interrupt Stack
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3 Jun 1990
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Comdex/Spring, which will run from June 3-6 in Atlanta, will be
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held at the World Congress Center and other locations.
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5 Jun 1990
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David Dodell's 33rd Birthday
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12 Jun 1990
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Fifth anniversary of FidoNet's switch to multiple nets.
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13 Jul 1990
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Start of Eurocon / Techcon conference in Antwerp, Belgium.
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Further information will follow.
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27 Jul 1990
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The beginning of the REGION 17 Convention at Menucha Resort in
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the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. For details contact Ken Zwaschka,
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1:105/54.
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1 Aug 1990
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Start of FidoCon '90. Contact Bill Vanglahn at 1:1/90 for
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details.
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5 Oct 1990
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21st Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
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6 Nov 1990
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First anniversary of Van Diepen Automatiseert, 2:500/28
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14 Nov 1990
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Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at
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2:332/16.0
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1 Jan 1991
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Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
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Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
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16 Feb 1991
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Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
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7 Oct 1991
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
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Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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