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Volume 7, Number 43 22 October 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. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Happy October to you all ................................. 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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DVNet for DESQview Users ................................. 2
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Put Idol Worship Back In Our Schools! .................... 7
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FidoNews: We +should+ print it all ....................... 10
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SURVIVOR Echo Available .................................. 12
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It's Obvious To Me ....................................... 13
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 15
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Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 15
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4. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 18
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And more!
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EDITORIAL
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As we approach All Hallow's Eve, some funny gremlins seem to
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have already appeared in this general vicinity. Some of them
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ate my netmail and a couple of days of files (I don't even
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know what they were). If you sent something in this week and
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you don't see it here, please send it again -- I lost it.
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My faith in humanity is finally proven in this week's issue.
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Someone actually figured out what the IMPORTANT point of that
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abortion article happened to be! Folks, it had nothing to do
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with abortion. It was about extremists in positions of power
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in this country -- and what they'll stoop to in order to inflict
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their views on you. Damned important reading in ANY forum.
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So much for my political views. They only reinforced my basic
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inclination to publish the article. I had no good reason NOT
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to. I've published articles that were a hell of a lot more
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inane and had even LESS to do with FidoNet. That's what you get
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when you have your very own electronic cork board. You get
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something damned close to pure entropy.
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Ah, yes. ENTROPY. Perhaps Congress should form a committee to
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study ways of keeping it under Governmental control. Perhaps
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it's too dangerous to be allowed out there in the public domain.
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Well, I don't think so. If you send me something (and if I don't
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pull some stupid stunt and lose it) I'll print it, unless it
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appears to be in violation of some law to do so. Fortunately I
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haven't had to make that call very often. You all are sensible
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enough to handle that on your own. I appreciate your discretion.
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Two of this week's articles make the point that an open
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editorial policy is the only way to run FidoNews. I couldn't
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agree more. In a world where one man's trash is another man's
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treasure, I can't imagine a formal policy that would not
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result in a net loss for all of us. As long as I have anything
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to do with it, there will be no such policy.
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Thanks for listening.
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 2 22 Oct 1990
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ARTICLES
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Peter Stern
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1:17/38 DVNet Headquarters
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DESQview File Support Network
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DVNet is one of the older specialized file distribution
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networks in Fidonet. When Quarterdeck Office Systems[QOS]
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released QEMM the expanded memory manager and DESQview 2.0,
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alot of Sysops discovered the joy of multitasking their BBS
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systems. Users began clamoring for programs written to run
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under the new environment.
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The popularity of DESQview has continued to grow and DVNet
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was started to fill a void in getting software spread to as
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wide as audience as possible and to offer a published
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listing of where to obtain it. DVNet nodes exist in Zones 1,
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2 and 3 thanks to the interest and support of sysops around
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the world.
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A complete listing of the member BBS's is published on the
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4th of every month in the DESQview echo. A complete listing
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of the files, or alternatively, files added during the
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previous 30 days is also published.
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Unlike SDS or SDN, sysops in DVNet are free to use whatever
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storage format they prefer. When requesting a file from a
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DVNet node, a wild card should be used for the extension.
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DVNet supports the magic file name DVNET for each member
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node's DVNet file area list. You may also request the
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listing using the convention net-node.DV ... 124-6101.DV
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The importance of DVNet to DESQview users was hi-lighted
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recently in a feature article written for the California
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based computer newspaper MicroTimes. The article introduced
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readers to DVNet as an excellent resource for information
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and software.
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Sysops interested in joining DVNet should obtain DVN-INF.*
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from any member node. This archive contains operational
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policies, set-up information and an application.
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DVNet is not affiliated with Quarterdeck Office Systems.
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DESQview & QEMM are registered trademarks of QOS.
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This is the listing of member nodes as of Oct 17, 1990
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 3 22 Oct 1990
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Zone 1
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*65'North, Fairbanks, AK 1:17/38
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Opus 386, Davis, CA 1:203/910
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Carl's Corner, San Jose, CA 1:10/1
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Carl's Corner, San Jose, CA 1:10/2
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SeaHunt BBS, Burlingame, CA 1:125/20
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Stingray!, Clovis CA 1:205/12
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Bertha Board, Mantica CA 1:208/204
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SF PCUG BBS, San Francisco CA 1:1/310
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Pacific Rim Info, San Diego CA 1:202/701
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Bink of an Aye, Portland, OR 1:105/42
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P C Support, Portland, OR 1:105/66
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Atarian BBS, Portland, OR 1:105/10
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Busker's Boneyard, Portland,OR 1:105/14
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Busker's Boneyard, Portland,OR 1:105/41
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Pacifier BBS, Vancouver, WA 1:105/103
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Puget Sound Gtwy., Puyallup, WA 1:138/3
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Rampart General,Kansas City,MO 1:280/6
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Icarus, Iowa City, IA 1:283/657
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Oregon Trail XRoads, Casper WY 1:303/5
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World Peace BBS 2, Denver CO 1:104/414
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World Peace BBS, Denver CO 1:104/415
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EET BBS, Nashville TN 1:116/24
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Dickson County, Dickson, TN 1:116/25
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Programmers' Attic, Will., MI 1:159/850
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The Royal Joke, Royal Oak,MI 1:120/183
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NHampton Data,Cuyahoga Falls OH 1:157/533
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Corvette BBS,Pickerington OH 1:226/110
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Wolfram Research, Champaign IL 1:233/17
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Someplace BBS, Indianapolis IN 1:231/120
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Ecclesia Place, Monroeville, PA 1:129/75
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The Other BBS, Harrisburg PA 1:270/101
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Optical Illusion, Allentown PA 1:273/603
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The Mountain Top,Cincinnati OH 1:108/107
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IBM Tech Fido, Pepperell, MA 1:322/1
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Waystar BBS, Marlborough, MA 1:322/14
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Pioneer Valley PCUG1,Amherst MA 1:321/109
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The Business Card, Lawrence MA 1:324/121
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The Toy Room BBS, Hudson NH 1:132/159
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SeaCoast Opus, Kittery Pt ME 1:132/225
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The Ozone Layer, Williston VT 1:325/118
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Andromeda Galaxy, Troy NY 1:267/167
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Rivendell * TAP/1,Syracuse NY 1:260/340
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Treasure Island, Danbury, CT 1:141/730
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Ascii Neighborhood,W Haven CT 1:141/333
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Plainfield News, Plainfield CT 1:320/452
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Addict's Attic,Germantown MD 1:109/423
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AviTechnic ,Lutherville MD 1:261/662
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The Night Shift,Hampton VA 1:271/245
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Just For Fun, Danville VA 1:264/610
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Maple Shade Opus,Maple Shade NJ 1:266/12
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Capital City , Burlington NJ 99:9230/1
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Capital City , Burlington NJ 8:950/10
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Capital City , Burlington NJ 1:266/21
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The Switch Room, Plainsboro NJ 1:107/436
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The Switch Room, Plainsboro NJ 1:107/437
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Atrium Way, Morris Plains NJ 1:269/107
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Southern Cross BBS, Miami FL 1:135/69
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Island Sun, Caparra Heights PR 1:367/15
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Dungeon Quest II, Havelock NC 1:3614/501
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Software Designer, Albany, GA 1:3617/1
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Software Designer, Albany, GA 8:928/1
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Dragon's Lair, Galveston, TX 1:386/451
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Conch Opus, Houston, TX 1:106/357
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Inns of Court, Dallas, TX 1:124/6101
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Dallas Email, Dallas, TX 8:930/101
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Spare Parts, Bedford, TX 1:130/38
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Southern Crossroads, Dallas TX 1:124/4115
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The Gas Company, Arlington TX 8:930/201
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QE2, Austin TX 1:382/58
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Last Chance TBBS,San Antonio TX 1:387/822
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TSTI INFO NET, Waco TX 1:388/1000
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Silver Streak RBBS,NewOrleans LA1:396/15
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Ascension, Norman OK 1:147/46
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AFI Comm, Nepean ON Canada 1:163/115
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Ned's Opus HST Ottawa,ON Canada 1:163/211
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Ned's Opus, Ottawa ON Canada 1:163/210
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Ned's Opus, Ottawa ON Canada 1:163/205
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Arcane BBS, Laval PQ Canada 1:167/116
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But Seriously Folks,Brlngton ON 1:259/101
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Information Corner, Edmonton AB 1:342/20
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Zone 2
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The HEKOM Board (Netherlands) 2:286/303
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Road Rnner Opus, Manchester UK 2:250/1
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BBS_D.C.V.V., Maaseik (Belgium) 2:295/26
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QBBS_H.S.P., Miskom (Belgium) 2:295/33
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Blumenkistl, Vienna (Austria) 2:310/10
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M.U.G. Info Board,Essen FRG 2:245/1
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File Fabrik, Werdohl FRG 2:245/2
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BitMaster BBS, Bielefeld, FRG 2:245/23
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E.I.S.2, Frankfurt FRG 2:247/14
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MIDI-Mailbox,Meerbusch FRG 2:247/816
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Data City, Moenchengladbach FRG 2:247/801
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Median, Berlin FRG 2:242/36
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Radio Kaos M-O,Duisburg FRG 2:507/1
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AVALON BBS, Roethenbach FRG 2:507/432
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Andi's BBS, Haan FRG 2:244/10
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MICS Lucerne BBS,Lucerne SUI 2:302/563
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Genova 2000, Genova Italy 2:332/201
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Capital City BBS,Haninge Sweden 2:201/211
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Zone 3
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Marwick's MadHouse (Australia) 3:640/820
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Sentry Lane Cove NSW(Australia) 3:711/401
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Sentry's Shadow, Lane Cove NSW 3:711/501
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FrontDoor Hdqrtrs,Melbourne Aust3:632/308
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Central Source ICBS(Australia) 3:632/348
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Southern Mail CBCS Vict Aust 3:633/320
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COMPUlink, Perth WA 3:690/628
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Phone Box,Inglewood S Australia 3:681/854
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TAIC Maximus Kowloon(Hong Kong) 3:700/1
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General Elections in Zone 4
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Elecciones Generales en la Zona 4
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Eleicoes Gerais na Zona 4
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List of Candidates for the November 9th
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Democratic Elections in FidoNet Zone 4, Latin America
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This list includes the names of the FidoNet members in Zone 4
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that have manifested interest in becoming Network, Region or Zone
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coordinators.
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All the members of the Zone were entitled to present themselves
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as candidates, and will now elect before November 9th, the
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NC for their respective networks, the RC for their respective
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Regions and the ZC for the Zone.
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Domain Candidates
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Net 801 Rodrigo Martinez
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Net 802 Lauro Henrique
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Net 806 Otto Brito
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Net 808 Clovis Lacerda
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Net 900 Alejandro Hopkins
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Sunchie Yang
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Net 901 Gonzalo Borracer
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Region 80 Charles Miranda
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Region 90 Billy Coen
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Gustavo Zacarias
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Zone 4 Pablo Kleinman
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This list of candidates is published on the LATIN.SYSOP echo
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and on FidoNews. The list of the newly elected coordinators
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will be published on November 11th on LATIN.SYSOP and on
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November 12th on FidoNews.
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Elecciones (4:4/444)
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 7 22 Oct 1990
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David Rice,
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The Astro-Net 1:103/903
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Node #9, PDN (Pagan Distribution Network)
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The Day Idol Worship Became Law
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Or
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Totalitarianism For Fun And The Prophets
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Well, first off we get the excellent article by Steve
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Watsky in the 7-40 issue of FidoNews. While I was mildly
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surprised to see an article concerning the reproductive
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rights issue in this media, I applaud the editor's decision
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to include it here. After carefully reading the article, I
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sat back, held my breath (as it were), and waited for the
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fecal matter to hit the air vent.
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Mercifully, things didn't turn out that badly.
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The first chunk of waste matter wasn't as vitriolic as
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I was expecting. I had expected to see rants by the
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anti-choice gallery objecting to the comic, acerbic wit the
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author used to portray the "pro-life" fraction. I had
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expected the pro-choice gallery to leap to the cause and
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elaborate zealously the need for legal, SAFE abortion.
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Instead, I was somewhat pleasantly surprised to see, in
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issue 7-42, only (so far?) the question put by Fredric
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Rice, "Do we need this crap in FidoNews?"
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My answer is, "Well, uh, yes."
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First it should be pointed out that ALL communication
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is political and manipulative to some degree, and to
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believe that FidoNews should not be, or even CAN be, isn't
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very realistic. Granted some articles are much more
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political than others (SEA vs PK, Ecology And Green
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Politics vs Industry, ARC vs LZH, and now Reproductive
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Freedom vs Totalitarianism Terrorists), FidoNews still is A
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Good Thing, and at present I for one see no requirement to
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change it.
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Second, what the editor says, goes. Any editor is in
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some sense a dictator, benign or malevolent, depending on
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how close the deadline is, and how much vodka is in her or
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his blood stream--- in simple words: Don't like it? Sorry,
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don't bother reading FidoNews then. The current editorial
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policy works.
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 8 22 Oct 1990
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Third is The Exceptions. The last thing we, presumably,
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wish to see in FidoNews is a dozen PACs (Political Action
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Committees) hashing out grievances, exchanging rants.
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Mercifully, that hasn't happened yet. I consider it highly
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doubtful it will be allowed (let's hope?). If this happens,
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I won't request or demand a change of policy--- I'll just
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stop reading FidoNews.
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That's my opinion. Thank current policy I was allowed
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to express it here.
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As to the REAL (?) question involved, was the article
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under debate appropriate for this media?
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You bet! (Duck--- here comes that rant I promised.)
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Watsky's article provided a brief window on the
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reproductive rights issue that many seldom look into-- the
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window that shows how the legislative process has been
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perverted and subverted by special interest groups, (in
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this case religious extremists, The Faithful, and the Well
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Intentioned on the anti-choice terrorists side, the
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Feminist extremists and Well Informed on the pro-choice
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reproductive freedom side). Pull a string here, throw some
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mud there, punch a face in now and then. . . all on network
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news.
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That's entertainment!
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It should also make you damn mad.
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At this very minute there are special interest groups
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lobbying and raising money for the right to force YOUR kids
|
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to pray in school (The Right, Honorable Jesse Helms for
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one. The god he most prefers happens to be Jehovah). How
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about if I dictate which idol your child worships in
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school?
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Special interest groups are fighting "sex education"
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(i.e. information on the mechanics of fornication) and
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birth control. "If you don't talk about it, they won't know
|
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anything about it and therefore won't do it." the argument
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goes. Oh, really?
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And of course, abortion. The anti-choice demand that
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every zygote and foetus must be carried to full term,
|
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wanted or not, healthy or not. (And after birth, food,
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clothing, shelter, and loving care are all optional, as far
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as they are concerned.) "Make it illegal, and it will go
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away." the argument goes. Oh, really? Consider:
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 9 22 Oct 1990
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"Estimates of the annual number of deaths due
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to abortion complications range from 155,000
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to 204,000 women worldwide. Abortion related
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deaths are especially common among poor and
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illiterate women living in countries with
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strict abortion laws. In Latin American,
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where legal abortion is generally restricted
|
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to cases of rape or endangerment of the
|
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woman's life, up to half of material deaths
|
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appear to be due to illegal abortions."
|
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Quoted from the FemEch, out of context, from
|
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|
|
"State of the World, 1988", A Worldwatch
|
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|
|
Institute Report.
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|
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Cults dictate policy in YOUR legislature. Certainly
|
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something worth reading about, and perhaps doing something
|
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about.
|
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|
|
D. Rice, supporter of
|
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|
|
Orange County Pro-Choice Coalition
|
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|
|
National Organization of Women
|
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 10 22 Oct 1990
|
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|
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By Randy Edwards
|
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|
|
Sysop: Socialism OnLine!, 1:141/552
|
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|
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|
|
I read with interest Frederic Rice's article in FidoNews
|
|||
|
|
7-42 about whether we should or should not print everything in
|
|||
|
|
the FidoNews. As Frederic pointed out, it's an old debate.
|
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|
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|
|
It's true, the article in question, one long article about
|
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|
|
someone's views on abortion, was not remotely related to BBSing,
|
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|
|
the FidoNet, or even computers in general. Myself, I didn't
|
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|
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read it until I read Frederic's article. Personally I am
|
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|
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pro-choice, as it seems the majority of the U.S. population
|
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|
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is, and therefore I disagreed with most everything the
|
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|
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article tried to point out. In my opinion, I don't want to
|
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|
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read about abortion in the FidoNews, after all, I get enough
|
|||
|
|
of that anti-choice crap from Republican politicians and from
|
|||
|
|
far-right religious groups. But that's beside the point.
|
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|
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|
|
The main point here is whether we should change the
|
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|
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time-honored editorial policy of the FidoNews from a "you write
|
|||
|
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it and I'll print it" basis to one of "you write it and I'll
|
|||
|
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think about printing it."
|
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|
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|
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I have several concerns about changing the editorial policy.
|
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|
|
First and foremost, let's face it, the FidoNews editor is not
|
|||
|
|
chosen by the network, s/he's chosen by a process where the
|
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|
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input by the net at large is limited, if not closed entirely.
|
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|
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If the editor was chosen by some democratic means by the entire
|
|||
|
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network we would have some input in case we ever run across a
|
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|
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"bad" editor. But as policy now stands, the "ruling clique" of
|
|||
|
|
the net choses the editor. With the FidoNews editorial policy
|
|||
|
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now, we could stand a "bad" editor -- there wouldn't be much
|
|||
|
|
s/he could do. With an editorial policy change a "bad" editor
|
|||
|
|
could spell disaster and endless flaming controversy.
|
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|
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|
|
With an editorial policy change there will always be the
|
|||
|
|
specter of censorship rearing its ugly head. I'm not talking
|
|||
|
|
about the censorship of an article that may be libelous, but I'm
|
|||
|
|
talking about censoring someone's views because they're not
|
|||
|
|
liked, or that they may be considered "too far outside the
|
|||
|
|
mainstream" of thought.
|
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|
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|
|
We see this in our own mass media, where editors "limit"
|
|||
|
|
the range of debate on various topics. Would "Mikey" (for those
|
|||
|
|
who remember him) or someone who is presenting very
|
|||
|
|
controversial or critical views of FidoNet policy be prevented
|
|||
|
|
from writing in the FidoNews? With a change of editorial policy
|
|||
|
|
that could possibly happen, not matter how well-intentioned the
|
|||
|
|
change may be.
|
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|
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|
|
The policy as it stands now has worked pretty well over the
|
|||
|
|
years. Agreed, we sometimes do get some "trash" (depending, of
|
|||
|
|
course, on your definition of trash; one person's trash is
|
|||
|
|
another person's treasure). But so what. At least we're not
|
|||
|
|
distributing an empty newsletter. The argument of distributing
|
|||
|
|
a large newsletter because of the size of an occasional "trash"
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 11 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
article is weak, in my humble opinion. How long did we transfer
|
|||
|
|
extra bytes because we refused to change archive programs? The
|
|||
|
|
size in question is small, rarely will the "trash" articles be
|
|||
|
|
over a minute's connect time, so the cost argument is a bit
|
|||
|
|
weak, I think.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
I also think it's nice to have those off-topic "trash"
|
|||
|
|
articles sometimes. They tend to remind us that there is a life
|
|||
|
|
outside of BBSing and sometimes they're pretty neat. Recently I
|
|||
|
|
read an article about some experimental language and one
|
|||
|
|
person's interest in it. I thought it was interesting enough so
|
|||
|
|
I spent a 15-cent postcard to request more information on the
|
|||
|
|
language. I doubt I would have heard about the language if it
|
|||
|
|
had not been in the FidoNews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There's a trick to dealing with articles that you consider
|
|||
|
|
trash. After you read the first couple of sentences -- and
|
|||
|
|
realize it's trash -- you can hit the PgDn key a couple of times
|
|||
|
|
and you'll never be bothered by that article again. It works
|
|||
|
|
like a charm on those rare articles that aren't worth reading,
|
|||
|
|
believe me...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The bottom line: the editorial policy has worked pretty
|
|||
|
|
darn well for years. It ensures a minimum amount of
|
|||
|
|
interference (and work) by the editor, and it also ensures that
|
|||
|
|
everyone's views can get into the FidoNews. Leave it as it is.
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 12 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Dallas and Ardith Hinton
|
|||
|
|
1:153/715
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Survivors' Forum
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This echo is now available on the Backbone and is
|
|||
|
|
intended for people interested in cancer, leukemia, blood
|
|||
|
|
disorders, and related subjects including immune
|
|||
|
|
suppression, learning disabilities, and special needs
|
|||
|
|
children. The emphasis of the echo is on (but is not
|
|||
|
|
restricted to) pediatric oncology and hematology. Topics in
|
|||
|
|
the echo include book reviews, notices of special events,
|
|||
|
|
information exchange and chit-chat.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SURVIVOR originates from a family need to understand
|
|||
|
|
more about leukemia and is intended as a support network for
|
|||
|
|
those whose lives have been touched by serious or chronic
|
|||
|
|
illness, regardless of their location. Those in the helping
|
|||
|
|
professions may also find it useful.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A basic premise of the echo is that the body and the
|
|||
|
|
mind are interdependent. Pseudonyms are permitted, and
|
|||
|
|
no-one will be excluded or included on the basis of their
|
|||
|
|
chosen therapy. We welcome your participation and hope to
|
|||
|
|
see you there.
|
|||
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|
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|
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 13 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
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|
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|
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|
|||
|
|
Al Saveriano
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet 1:269/205
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The State of the Universe
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I realized, a long time ago, that the reason I never got my
|
|||
|
|
wonton soup at the Chinese restaurant, was because of the way I
|
|||
|
|
ordered it, coupled with the little known fact that the Chinese
|
|||
|
|
read from right to left. The waiter would say to me "Would like
|
|||
|
|
any soup, sir?". And I'd always answer "Wonton". Well, it's
|
|||
|
|
obvious to me that since wonton spelled backwards is "not_now",
|
|||
|
|
there was no way I was ever going to get my soup.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
However, this not the only weirdness that encompasses our globe.
|
|||
|
|
And speaking of weird, my younger daughter asked me what the
|
|||
|
|
little nursery rhyme was about "i before e etc. etc.". I told
|
|||
|
|
her it went - "i before e, except after c, when sounding like a,
|
|||
|
|
as in neighbor and weigh". So she wrote me this little sentence:
|
|||
|
|
"Thanks Daddy. That sure is a WIERD little rhyme!". Hmmm......
|
|||
|
|
So obvious.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
But enough of these matters. It is time to address the heart of
|
|||
|
|
the problem. You know we must. No option here. Sticking our
|
|||
|
|
collectives heads in the parabola simply will not cut it. It is
|
|||
|
|
so obvious that weird wonton soup can not be blamed for the
|
|||
|
|
absence of 8-bit wheat toast. It can not be the cause for my
|
|||
|
|
name to appear on the mailing list of "Incurably Strange"
|
|||
|
|
magazine. Nay. A plot to be sure. One of the magnitude to rival
|
|||
|
|
even that of the great Game_Boy scandal of '88. It's obvious.
|
|||
|
|
Just look at the facts. Eight is half of sixteen and sixteen is
|
|||
|
|
half of thirty-two. Do you think this is a coincidence? With the
|
|||
|
|
infinite number of numbers (number of numbers???) that exist,
|
|||
|
|
what were the chances of this occurring due to blind chance?
|
|||
|
|
(Blind Faith - Stevie Winwood et al. Circa 1969). Let us
|
|||
|
|
calculate so that the skeptics among you may become believers.
|
|||
|
|
If one takes the first derivative of the numerator and divides
|
|||
|
|
it by the second derivative of the denominator ..umm..well, it
|
|||
|
|
is difficult to show it here. I wish I could type out the actual
|
|||
|
|
formula. But that is why the Greek civilization could not
|
|||
|
|
sustain itself as a world power. They couldn't get those silly
|
|||
|
|
little Greek letters onto a keyboard! And that, obviously, lead
|
|||
|
|
to the vicious attack on Molly Pitcher and started the entire
|
|||
|
|
world oil crisis. But I digress. The real issue remains at hand.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Therefore, I expect to hear numerous pros and cons with regard
|
|||
|
|
to my brilliant but somewhat unorthodox analysis of the state of
|
|||
|
|
the universe. But I assume you've been expecting this for
|
|||
|
|
sometime now. You have? To bad, because when you assume you make
|
|||
|
|
an ASS out of U and ME. (Odd Couple - Felix Unger - circa 1972).
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 14 22 Oct 1990
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 15 22 Oct 1990
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=================================================================
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COLUMNS
|
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|
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=================================================================
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|
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|
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Henry Clark
|
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|
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124/6120
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|
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|
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|
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The Starshoot Company --
|
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|
|||
|
|
Kevin and I like to stand in the middle of the Marine Drum and
|
|||
|
|
Bugle Corp., cause it's real loud, and they can't stop to shoo
|
|||
|
|
us away. One of the highlights of the State Fair of Texas.
|
|||
|
|
We like to shoot the machine pellet gun and knock the red star
|
|||
|
|
out of the paper. This weeks column is sort of like those
|
|||
|
|
games.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
I ordered them June 11, but still no V.42 ROMS. I know, but
|
|||
|
|
I'm tired of calling them and hearing the two more weeks story.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
My personal copier cartridge finally ran out. It's been 3
|
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|
|
years and 3 months.
|
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Sure, I use Supercalc. I like to enter A1 instead of +A1, and
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SUM() instead of @SUM(). Supercalc has the /1 command to give
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you 123 menus ( with the added /S command to get back ). You
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won't see Lotus suing Computer Associates, though.
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CA is bigger, for one.
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One more broken Window : In last weeks section entitled
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Mini-Blinds I forgot to remind you that without Mini-Blinds, it
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would be curtains for us all ! I know, it's Pane-ful.
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CORRECTION : In last weeks column I said our region's policy
|
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vote was about echomail. Well, I errored, so SUE ME, OK. The
|
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policies were about election methods for RC and REC. It's that
|
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same old arguement about the **C structure only vote versus
|
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the all sysops vote. My psychiatrist gets richer.
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Kevin really wants to throw the dart. You know, the dollar for
|
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one dart, hit the balloon and win a prize. Well, he hit the
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balloon and the lady gives him a micro-batting-helmet, a little
|
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plastic hat about three inches across. He's got this big grin,
|
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like "Ha, I won." Then he tries to get me to carry it, and I
|
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start laughing, which he immediately understands as 'Oh, I
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lost.'
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Carbon Based Units Infest Enterprise --
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In next week's all new episode, Capt. Picard contemplates the
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use of force.
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 16 22 Oct 1990
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Shoppers Guide
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Norton 5.0 ................... $ 79.95
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Norton 4.5 ................... $ 695.95
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(Cheap shot, I know... I still feel cheated.)
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
|
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, heroes in a half-shell,
|
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TURTLE POWER ! I've permanently lost 12k of my brain.
|
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Comdex Las Vegas Hospitality Room :
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Liquor in the front,
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Poker in the rear.
|
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Hey,Iwantoneofthosespacesaverkeyboards,too!
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I like to get the 25-pin ribbon cable and put a male and a
|
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female 25-pin connector on each end. Radio Shack has the parts
|
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|
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and it was 8:30 at night, so I run over there. I get to the
|
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|
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counter and he asks for the last four digits of my phone
|
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|
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number. "It's the customer ID for our computer", he says.
|
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|
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"0000" says I. He's clearly angry. So I give him the modem's
|
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|
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numbers. No sense of humor. Then he asks for my name. I
|
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|
|
said, "I don't want your catalogs, how much for THIS stuff."
|
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|
|
Now he's really unhappy. These guys must be paid by the
|
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|
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data entry keystroke.
|
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|
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Steve Martin in The Jerk ...
|
|||
|
|
"Step right up and win some crap."
|
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The House of Mirrors --
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I bought a 'Learn Danish' set of tapes to listen to in the
|
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car. I know a lot of words, but I'm terrible at making
|
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|
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sentences. On the tape, they say 'Vaer saa venlig' before
|
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|
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everything. That's supposed to be Danish for please. I'd
|
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|
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guess the tapes are 50 years old, except that they didn't
|
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|
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make cassettes back then. Danes always make a request and
|
|||
|
|
end it with thanks. The funniest thing on the tape is the
|
|||
|
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line 'Please carry my bags to the taxi.' These people have
|
|||
|
|
never been to Denmark. We're all going for Christmas.
|
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|
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|||
|
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So Kevin tries the House of Mirrors, and takes 10 minutes to
|
|||
|
|
find his way through and up the stairs to the slide. Yep, its
|
|||
|
|
the $1.50 slide ride. After about 5 minutes he comes back
|
|||
|
|
through the mirrors, out the entrance and says, "That's the
|
|||
|
|
wrong slide."
|
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|
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|
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FidoNews 7-43 Page 17 22 Oct 1990
|
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|
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|
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|
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He's right, of course.
|
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-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
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|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 18 22 Oct 1990
|
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=================================================================
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|
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LATEST VERSIONS
|
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|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
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|||
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Latest Software Versions
|
|||
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|||
|
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MS-DOS Systems
|
|||
|
|
--------------
|
|||
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Bulletin Board Software
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g*
|
|||
|
|
Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.64 TBBS 2.1
|
|||
|
|
Lynx 1.30 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
|
|||
|
|
Kitten 2.16 RBBSmail 17.3B* Telegard 2.5
|
|||
|
|
Maximus 1.02* RemoteAccess 0.04a* TPBoard 6.1
|
|||
|
|
Opus 1.13+ SLBBS 1.77* Wildcat! 2.15
|
|||
|
|
PCBoard 14.5* Socrates 1.00 XBBS 1.15
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Network Node List Other
|
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|
|
Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
BinkleyTerm 2.40* EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0*
|
|||
|
|
D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
|
|||
|
|
Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
|
|||
|
|
FrontDoor 1.99c* Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
|
|||
|
|
PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14* Crossnet v1.5
|
|||
|
|
SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02
|
|||
|
|
TIMS 1.0(Mod8)* XlaxDiff 2.35 Gmail 2.05
|
|||
|
|
XlaxNode 2.35 GROUP 2.16
|
|||
|
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GUS 1.30
|
|||
|
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HeadEdit 1.15
|
|||
|
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InterPCB 1.31*
|
|||
|
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LHARC 1.13
|
|||
|
|
MSG 4.1
|
|||
|
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MSGED 2.00*
|
|||
|
|
MSGTOSS 1.3*
|
|||
|
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
|
|||
|
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QM 1.0
|
|||
|
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QSORT 4.03
|
|||
|
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Sirius 1.0x
|
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|
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SLMAIL 1.36*
|
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StarLink 1.01
|
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|
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TagMail 2.40
|
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|
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TCOMMail 2.2
|
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Telemail 1.27*
|
|||
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TMail 1.15
|
|||
|
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TPBNetEd 3.2
|
|||
|
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TosScan 1.00
|
|||
|
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UFGATE 1.03
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 19 22 Oct 1990
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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XRS 3.40
|
|||
|
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XST 2.2
|
|||
|
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ZmailQ 1.12*
|
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
OS/2 Systems
|
|||
|
|
------------
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Maximus-CBCS 1.02* BinkleyTerm 2.40* Parselst 1.31
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 4.00
|
|||
|
|
VP2 4.07*
|
|||
|
|
oMMM 1.52
|
|||
|
|
MsgEd 2.00*
|
|||
|
|
LH2 0.50
|
|||
|
|
PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
|
|||
|
|
ARC2 6.00
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Xenix/Unix
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MaximusCBCS 1.02.Unix.B0 BinkleyTerm 2.30b* Unzip 3.10
|
|||
|
|
ARC 5.21
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30b
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 3.31b
|
|||
|
|
Ommm 1.40b
|
|||
|
|
Msged 1.99b
|
|||
|
|
Zoo 2.01
|
|||
|
|
C-Lharc 1.00
|
|||
|
|
Omail 1.00b
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple CP/M
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
|
|||
|
|
MsgUtil 2.5
|
|||
|
|
PackUser v4
|
|||
|
|
Filer v2-D
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 20 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
UNARC.COM 1.20
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Macintosh
|
|||
|
|
---------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Red Ryder Host v2.1b10 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
|
|||
|
|
Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0d* ArcMac 1.3
|
|||
|
|
WWIV (Mac) 3.0 StuffIt 1.6b1*
|
|||
|
|
FBBS 0.91* TImport 1.331
|
|||
|
|
Hermes 0.88* TExport 1.32
|
|||
|
|
Timestamp 1.6
|
|||
|
|
Tset 1.3
|
|||
|
|
Import 3.2
|
|||
|
|
Export 3.21
|
|||
|
|
Sundial 3.2
|
|||
|
|
PreStamp 3.2
|
|||
|
|
OriginatorII 2.0
|
|||
|
|
AreaFix 1.6
|
|||
|
|
Mantissa 3.21
|
|||
|
|
Zenith 1.5
|
|||
|
|
UNZIP 1.02b
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Amiga
|
|||
|
|
-----
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Paragon 2.07+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
|
|||
|
|
TrapDoor 1.50* AReceipt 1.5*
|
|||
|
|
WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 1.10
|
|||
|
|
ChameleonEdit 0.10
|
|||
|
|
ElectricHerald1.66*
|
|||
|
|
Lharc 1.21
|
|||
|
|
MessageFilter 1.52*
|
|||
|
|
oMMM 1.49b
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30
|
|||
|
|
PkAX 1.00
|
|||
|
|
PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
|
|||
|
|
PolyxAmy 2.02*
|
|||
|
|
RMB 1.30
|
|||
|
|
TrapList 1.12*
|
|||
|
|
UNzip 0.86
|
|||
|
|
Yuck! 1.61*
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 21 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Zoo 2.01
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Atari ST
|
|||
|
|
--------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDOdoor/ST 1.5c* BinkleyTerm 2.40* ConfMail 1.00
|
|||
|
|
Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30
|
|||
|
|
QuickBBS/ST 0.40 ARC 6.02
|
|||
|
|
GS Point 0.61 FiFo 2.0b*
|
|||
|
|
LHARC 0.60
|
|||
|
|
Lharc 1.13
|
|||
|
|
LED ST 0.10*
|
|||
|
|
BYE 0.25*
|
|||
|
|
PKUNZIP 1.10
|
|||
|
|
MSGED 1.96S
|
|||
|
|
SRENUM 6.2
|
|||
|
|
Trenum 0.10
|
|||
|
|
OMMM 1.40
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Archimedes
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Mailers Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ARCbbs 1.44* BinkleyTerm 2.03* Unzip 2.1TH
|
|||
|
|
ARC 1.03
|
|||
|
|
!Spark 2.00d*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30
|
|||
|
|
BatchPacker 1.00*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
|
|||
|
|
* Recently changed
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
|
|||
|
|
reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
|
|||
|
|
all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
|
|||
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|
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|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 22 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
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|
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=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
NOTICES
|
|||
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|
=================================================================
|
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|
|||
|
|
The Interrupt Stack
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
4 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
Area Code 214 fragments. Part will become area code 903.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
First anniversary of Van Diepen Automatiseert, 2:500/28
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
13 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
Third anniversary of Fidonet in Austria (zone 2, region 31).
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
14 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at
|
|||
|
|
2:332/16.0
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
16 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
100% Democratically elected administration takes over the
|
|||
|
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coordination structure in Zone-4 Latin America
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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1 Jan 1991
|
|||
|
|
Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
|
|||
|
|
Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
16 Feb 1991
|
|||
|
|
Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
12 May 1991
|
|||
|
|
Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
|
|||
|
|
second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
8 Sep 1991
|
|||
|
|
25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
7 Oct 1991
|
|||
|
|
Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
|
|||
|
|
will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
|
|||
|
|
Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
|
|||
|
|
Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
|
|||
|
|
Islands will retain area code 415.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1 Feb 1992
|
|||
|
|
Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
|
|||
|
|
eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
|
|||
|
|
code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
|
|||
|
|
West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
|
|||
|
|
Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-43 Page 23 22 Oct 1990
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Montebello) will retain area code 213.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1 Dec 1993
|
|||
|
|
Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
5 Jun 1997
|
|||
|
|
David Dodell's 40th Birthday
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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|
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|
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
|||
|
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
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