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Volume 7, Number 47 19 November 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 and for the Members of the
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FidoNet (r) International Amateur Electronic Mail System. It is
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a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors
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or authorized agents of the authors. The contribution of articles
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to this 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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Back from COMDEX ......................................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Should Zone 3 defect? .................................... 2
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General Elections in Zone 4: Results! .................... 6
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 8
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Talk me through it, Honey ................................ 8
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4. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 11
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 11
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5. NOTICES .................................................. 16
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PERNnet: Brigadoon Gift Certificate ...................... 16
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And more!
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EDITORIAL
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Hi.
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I'm really worn out, guys.
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I've been to COMDEX. I don't really know what to tell you about
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what I saw there. More Taiwanese (and other) crap, lots of 486
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motherboards, damn few 486 systems you can buy because the FCC
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is still frying eggs on the case -- Windows mania, Bob Denver in
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his Gilligan outfit, some poor brave UNIX-loving souls... and
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probably the first show where there was enough OS/2 product to
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make it seem that you could actually use it in your business.
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I think I'm going to wait for some PC rag to tell me What It All
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Meant To The Industry. Because I sure can't figure it out. All it
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means to me is that my feet don't like me one bit (and that I now
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have T-shirts from nearly every modem vendor EXCEPT USR).
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While I was gone, someone in Zone 3 sent an interesting article
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which you'll be reading in a few minutes. In it, he suggests that
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Zone 3 should secede from FidoNet. I have had a similar but
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perhaps more grandiose idea myself.
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What I would like to see is the breakup of FidoNet into separate
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domains, operating independently. The domains should be set up
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more or less the same as the Zones are now arranged (such as
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EUR.FIDONET.ORG replacing Zone 2, and so on). The passage of
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mail from one domain to another would be handled by the ING
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Policy that was published recently. My idea goes on and on, and
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I'll expound upon it more next week. I just thought it would be
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appropriate to put my idea and Garth's on the table at the same
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time, to get your creative juices flowing. Are you are up to it?
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Back to COMDEX. One of the nicer things that happened was the
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get-together on Wednesday night. I met Henry Clark, my most
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regular of irregular columnists. I met Ward Christensen. I met
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the authors of PCBoard and RBBS-PC. I got together again with
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Phil Becker, Scott Hunter, Rick Deming, Chuck Forsberg, Wynn
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Wagner, and many other people whose company I had previously
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enjoyed. As Henry points out in his column this week, there
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were some very DIFFERENT ideas emanating from the dais. I am
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going to attempt to get permission to reprint an article from
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Telecomputing magazine to give you a feeling for it.
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THAT was fascinating. I hope you can read it here soon.
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ARTICLES
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Garth Kidd
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FidoNet 3:680/828
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Here I sit, having had far too little sleep in the last week and
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a half. Unfortunately, in this tired state I decided that a good
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thing to do whilst waiting for the pizza to arrive was to read a
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few editions of FidoNews.
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Ouch.
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Guys, why are you all being so \serious\ about all this? You'd
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think the fate of the world rested on the editorial policy of
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FidoNews. (I have my own views on this, and I'll mention them
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later).
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For now, however, a wee question:
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_____________________
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Should Zone 3 defect?
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_____________________
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Actually, that should read "Should all zones but Zone 1 defect?",
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but since I'm not a member of the other zones, I won't make
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comments on their behalf. Come to think of it, a lot of people
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are going to be a little irked on my speaking "on behalf" of Zone
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3. Don't worry, guys, it's not like I'm in a position of power or
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anything. Noting wrong with expressing an opinion, unless you're
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in ZONE3_SYSOP. Oops, complete giveaway. :-)
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Back to the subject at hand: Zone 1 seems to be largely
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irrelevant to the rest of FidoNet, except as:
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a) something that acts as a really convenient feed point for
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the rest of the Net;
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b) something that keeps us supplied with this "wonderful"
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FidoNews, which hardly any of us read, and;
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c) something that helps coordinate the nodelist for us
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And, of course, there are all of the wonderful people in Zone 1
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that we talk to every day, swapping choice bits of information
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like baseball cards. There are also the people who ask really
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silly questions without bothering to read the manual first, but
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we can put up with them. Most of the time.
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 3 19 Nov 1990
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Unfortunately, Zone 1 also acts as something else entirely:
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d) a seemingly endless supply of documents like ECHOPOL and
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POLICY, none of which seem to have been formed with any
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zones apart from Zone 1 in mind.
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Guys, just in case you haven't noticed, Australia isn't the 52nd
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state of America yet. (51st? Whatever). And despite the wonderful
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things happening in Europe, they have some pretty definite ideas
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about being annexed to the USA, and they're not "yes, lets!".
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Here in Zone 3, the POLICY we inhereted from you only seems to
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get dragged out of the closet in a couple of situations:
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a) some stickler for rules and regulations has gone totally
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overboard, and is looking for some kind of fight. Usually
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combined with righteous indignation at people not agreeing
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with him or her, and usually to do with trying to kick
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someone else out of the Net, and;
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b) trying to get rid of the aforementioned stickler. Otherwise
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known as "fighting fire with fire". I personally reckon most
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rulebook-bashers are "annoying", often "excessively" so.
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Ditto for ECHOPOL, which I seem to remember reading once. I
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didn't like it. I'm a moderator of an echo, and I really don't
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like the idea of some book-wielding beuracrat being able to take
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an echo away from me and my users.
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Here in Zone 3, and I guess the situation also holds for zones 2
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and 4..infinity, we tend to try and get along without these
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hugely officious tomes. Unfortunately, we have our fair share of
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rulebook-bashers who just \love\ POLICY, and aren't going to give
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up their slice of power for anything.
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What I reckon should happen is that each of the Zones get treated
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essentially as its own FTN (FidoTechnologyNetwork), and pretty
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much IGNORE anyone from Zone 1 trying to tell them how to run
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their lives. Heck, we're already largely doing that. Why not make
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it official?
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WORLDPOL is a great idea, because it makes each Zone largely
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responsible for its own actions. We can all adapt the rules to
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suit our environment, which is great. It also allows the same
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kind of thing to happen at the regional and network levels. Oh,
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just one thing, folks:
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NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO JOIN A PARTICULAR
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NETWORK IF THEY DON'T WANT TO.
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Gosh, that'd mean removing the requirement that networks be
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formed on solely geographical boundaries, wouldn't it?
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Damn right it would.
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This means that if you don't like the rules a particlar network
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is using, you are actually allowed to leave it and look for
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another more to your liking. Without that little statement, all
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the nice "democratic" stuff is pretty useless, because people
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don't have the option of voting with their feet. The statement in
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caps above should be a part of WORLDPOL that simply can't be
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overriden by POLICY at any level.
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Back to WORLDPOL: it needs a little more work, mainly to do with
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correcting some of the more ambiguous wording. Also, section 6 is
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a little strange. What, exactly, are the "western standards" of
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democracy?
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As far as the Council is concerned with voting: their having to
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approve the voting method used to vote for WORLDPOL and the local
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POLICY is fine. Them being able to block a Zone from choosing its
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own extremely strange, "non western" system of deciding things
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from then on is not. Some networks work VERY well with benevolent
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dictators, and if people don't like them, they can always vote
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with their feet. So long as they're allowed to, of course, and
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they should be.
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So, support WORLDPOL and suggest changes to it if you like. I'm
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sure the authors will appreciate it. :-)
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Back to "defecting":
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If Zone 1 doesn't approve WORLDPOL or a variant thereof, it
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shouldn't be too surprised if the rest of the world sticks a
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symbolic finger in the air and approves it without them.
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On Editorial policy: Cute topic. Very hot. The debate on that
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one's going to last nearly as long as the abortion debate, and it
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too will suffer from people pushing the limits. I just hope
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someone doesn't UUencode bits of the nodelist archive and try to
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submit it as an article.
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Suggested modifications to the editorial policy:
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a) Incitement to violence of any sort should be vigorously
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supressed. Let people discuss (say) how evil and thick they
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think black people are until the cows come home, but as soon
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as they advocate killing them off, put the foot down.
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b) Most places have defamation and libel laws. Remember that.
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c) Where are all the disclaimers? Lots of people are saying
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 5 19 Nov 1990
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plenty radical things with \no\ disclaimers. The risks you're
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taking, especially in Zone "home of the lawsuit" 1, are
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pretty damn obvious.
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d) Each Zone should have its own FIDONEWS equivalent.
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e) There should be a FIDONEWS equivalent dedicated to \just\ the
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operation of the network itself, discussion of rules, and so
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forth. This'll be less amusing, but more compact.
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Anyway, on with the show for the time being. Have fun, people.
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gk
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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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FidoNet's Zone 4 "Latin America" has just finished it's first
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"general elections for all coordinators" process, where all
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the coordination positions were democratically elected
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simultaneusly.
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This text is being publish simultaneously on the LATIN.SYSOP
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echo and FidoNews.
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The format used to display the results is the following:
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<Position>
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<Candidates> <Percentage of votes received> <Status>
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Here are the results of the election in which all the sysops in
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FidoNet were entitled to be candidates and to vote for all the
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positions in their area:
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Net Coordinator 801, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
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Rodrigo Martinez 100 % ELECTED
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Net Coordinator 802, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
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Lauro Henrique 100 % ELECTED
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Net Coordinator 806, Brasilia DF, Brazil
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Otto Brito 100 % ELECTED
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Net Coordinator 808, Recife PE, Brazil
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Clovis Lacerda 100 % ELECTED
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Net Coordinator 900, Buenos Aires CF/BA, Argentina
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Alejandro Hopkins 45 %
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Sunchie Yang 55 % ELECTED
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Net Coordinator 901, Rosario SF, Argentina
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Gonzalo Borracer 100 % ELECTED
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Region Coordinator 80, Brazil
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Charles Miranda 100 % ELECTED
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Region Coordinator 90, Argentina
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Billy Coen 72.7 % ELECTED
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Gustavo Zacarias 27.3 %
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Zone Coordinator 4, Latin America
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Pablo Kleinman 100 % ELECTED
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The newly elected coordinators will take over their positions
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next Friday November 16th, 1990.
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Elecciones (4:4/444)
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Henry Clark
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1:124/6120
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Comdex '90
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Due to the special weekly electronic nature of Fidonews, you
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are probably reading your first column on Comdex '90.
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It was bad... not terrible, but really almost boring.
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Sunday : Nice flight into Vegas and then all stop. It took my
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sister's husband 1.5 hours to get the car so even though they
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were there ahead of me, we waited. Hurry up an wait. I'll
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have to find a better time to arrive if I ever go again.
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I love to drive onto the strip and see the lights. It's always
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amazing. We got to Bally's hotel and joined the madhouse
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there. Finally got checked in. It's such a nervous situation
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with so many people packed around you, waiting in line, with
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only a reservation slip in hand. Pray they have your room.
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They did, and we all got rooms together, so slick.
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Up in the room, the computer works and the modem works;
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I'm set.
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Monday : register and badgemaking and another long line. Well
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not as bad as I saw later. I failed to receive my badge in
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the mail, and rather than fight the Convention Center lines, I
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just had a new one made in Bally's with a spare guest pass. I
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don't think anyone pays to attend the exhibits. There were
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guest passes lying on the floor.
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We cruised Bally's two showrooms first. Most interesting was
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the real-time video in a Window's window, which will be useful
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for our video conferencing product. New Media Graphics has a
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$800 board and software to put the video signal into a Windows
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window, sizeable and movable. Other companies had video on the
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PC screen, but they were pure hardware, not real time or cost
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$2000.
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Also checked out the ASP - Association of Shareware
|
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Professionals and the Mustang Software Wildcat BBS display.
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It's amazing who you find at Comdex. PKWare and Artisoft too.
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Then off to the Sands Convention Center. The next biggest
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exhibition hall. I looked at 486 boxes, 486 cards ( not
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motherboards, there were a ton of those ), rewritable optical
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disks, and the Dolch 486 lunchbox portable. The VGA Color
|
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plasma screen on the Dolch was beautiful and 3800 bucks ! I
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picked up a lot of junk too, which Kevin will like.
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 9 19 Nov 1990
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Nobody has synchronous multiport cards ( well, I do, but nobody
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else does ).
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Worn out feet and brain. Hopped a taxi back to the hotel and
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took a nap. Well, except it lasted 12 hours...
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Tuesday : Rest of Sands was boring. There's nothing new at
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Comdex. I've either heard about it before, or it's the same
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old stuff. I am happy to have seen several 486 on a card
|
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vendors for our passive backplane computer setup.
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Wednesday : Did the Hilton. Very interesting talk with a
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surface mounting company, who talked about board manufacturers
|
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and costs, etc. This is the good stuff. Saw the Quarterdeck
|
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X-Windows running, I thought it was ugly. A real-time video
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product called the Video Toaster looked like the hottest
|
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display at the show. Real-time manipulation of video,
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including colorization and lots of effects. Unfortunately, (
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for me ) it ran on an Amiga.
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Next the Convention Center proper. Big companies, shows and
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lots of interesting convention items, but again, no new PC
|
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stuff. I did make a point of picking up the PC-Mag and PC-Week
|
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benchmark diskettes.
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Stopped in at the Oracle meeting room. Many VARs showing
|
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Oracle and DB related tools and apps. I felt like I could have
|
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|
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shown an Oracle app or two there. Spoke at length with the
|
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|
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people from JAM, which makes a forms tool. Too bad their demo
|
|||
|
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was kind of ugly, I guess they go overboard showing features.
|
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Also checked in with the Oracle VAR program people, got signed
|
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|
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up for some info to do that.
|
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I now have little regard for Comdex '90. I know this was my
|
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|
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first trip, and I really am not doing business here, but 95% of
|
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|
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this stuff represents money better spent on support or new
|
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|
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products. I'm convinced that multimedia simply means you have
|
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|
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more than 12 chairs for your presentation.
|
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|
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All the PC distributors begin to sound the same. A 386 box
|
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|
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here for $695. A big hard drive there for $195. In quantity of
|
|||
|
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course. I'm just not interested in power supplys and
|
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|
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motherboards. Nor is there much point in watching the
|
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|
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Wordperfect/Word/Wordstart type presentations. For an
|
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|
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end-user, a good magazine subscription would be much better.
|
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|
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Across the street at the Dunes, the Telecomputing party was a
|
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|
|
highlight. There were keynote speakers and door prizes. In
|
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|
|
one room in one hour I shook hands with Vince Perriello, Wynn
|
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|
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Wagner, Chuck Forsberg and Phil Katz. I guess I won't wash my
|
|||
|
|
hand for a couple of weeks. For a BBS Sysop, it was quite an
|
|||
|
|
experience. The latest Telecomputing magazine had an article
|
|||
|
|
which was expounded upon several times by speakers : democracy
|
|||
|
|
thru modems. What a crock. These guys may write the software,
|
|||
|
|
but they certainly haven't tried to use it. [Editor's note:
|
|||
|
|
None of the folk Henry just mentioned had anything to say along
|
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|
|
FidoNews 7-47 Page 10 19 Nov 1990
|
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|
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|
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|
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those lines. We were trying very hard to be polite...]
|
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|
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|
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It was a good experience to end the week on. Oh, I stayed in
|
|||
|
|
Vegas for another day, I just didn't fool with the convention.
|
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|
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Next week, I'll give you the low down on the 'vacation' part of
|
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|
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my trip.
|
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|
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 11 19 Nov 1990
|
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Latest Software Versions
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MS-DOS Systems
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Bulletin Board Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
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GSBBS 3.01 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
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Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
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Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
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Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77 Wildcat! 2.50
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Opus 1.13+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
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PCBoard 14.5 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
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
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Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
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FrontDoor 1.99c Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
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SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02
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TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 Gmail 2.05
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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
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MSG 4.1
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MSGED 2.00
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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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SLMAIL 1.36
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StarLink 1.01
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TagMail 2.41
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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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FidoNews 7-47 Page 12 19 Nov 1990
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UFGATE 1.03
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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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OS/2 Systems
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
|
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ConfMail 4.00
|
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EchoStat 6.0
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oMMM 1.52
|
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Omail 3.1
|
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|
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MsgEd 2.00
|
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MsgLink 1.0C
|
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|
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MsgNum 4.14
|
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LH2 0.50
|
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|
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
|
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|
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ARC2 6.00
|
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|
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PolyXARC 2.00
|
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Qsort 2.1
|
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Raid 1.0
|
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|
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Remapper 1.2
|
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Tick 2.0
|
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VPurge 2.07
|
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|
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|
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Xenix/Unix
|
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|
|
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|
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BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
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MaximusCBCS 1.02.Unix.B0 BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
|
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ARC 5.21
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ParseLst 1.30b
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ConfMail 3.31b
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Ommm 1.40b
|
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Msged 1.99b
|
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Zoo 2.01
|
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C-Lharc 1.00
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Omail 1.00b
|
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Apple CP/M
|
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 13 19 Nov 1990
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
|
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MsgUtil 2.5
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PackUser v4
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Filer v2-D
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UNARC.COM 1.20
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Macintosh
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
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Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
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WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.33
|
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Hermes 1.01 StuffIt Classic 1.6
|
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FBBS 0.91 Compactor 1.21
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TImport 1.92
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TExport 1.92
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Timestamp 1.6
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Tset 1.3
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Import 3.2
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Export 3.21
|
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Sundial 3.2
|
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PreStamp 3.2
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OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
|
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Mantissa 3.21
|
|||
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Zenith 1.5
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Eventmeister 1.0
|
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TSort 1.0
|
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Mehitable 2.0
|
|||
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UNZIP 1.02c
|
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|
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Amiga
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|||
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-----
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Paragon 2.07+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
|
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TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
|
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 14 19 Nov 1990
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
|
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ConfMail 1.10
|
|||
|
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ChameleonEdit 0.10
|
|||
|
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ElectricHerald1.66
|
|||
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Lharc 1.21
|
|||
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MessageFilter 1.52
|
|||
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oMMM 1.49b
|
|||
|
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ParseLst 1.30
|
|||
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PkAX 1.00
|
|||
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
|
|||
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PolyxAmy 2.02
|
|||
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RMB 1.30
|
|||
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TrapList 1.12
|
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UNzip 0.86
|
|||
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Yuck! 1.61
|
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Zoo 2.01
|
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Atari ST
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--------
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.00* BinkleyTerm 2.40j* ConfMail 4.02
|
|||
|
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Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30
|
|||
|
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 ARC 6.02
|
|||
|
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GS Point 0.61 FiFo 2.0b
|
|||
|
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LHARC 0.60
|
|||
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LED ST 0.10
|
|||
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BYE 0.25
|
|||
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PKUNZIP 1.10
|
|||
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MSGED 1.96S
|
|||
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SRENUM 6.2
|
|||
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Trenum 0.10
|
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OMMM 1.40
|
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Archimedes
|
|||
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|
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
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ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
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ARC 1.03
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!Spark 2.00d
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 15 19 Nov 1990
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ParseLst 1.30
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BatchPacker 1.00
|
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+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
|
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|
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 16 19 Nov 1990
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|
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NOTICES
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regardless of the originating system's origin and network.
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Brigadoon Weyr is devoted to the weirder things in life -- fringe
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groups, nonstandard religions, Elvis searchers, cult movies, bad
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audio and video, and certified maniacs and politicians. It is
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the goal of The Brigadoon Weyr to allow the weird, the odd, the
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huddled masses yearning to be free an electronic playpen in
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which to espouse their varied belief systems. It is a network
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of losers, winners, dreamers, screamers.
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In time the Pernese conference where one will play out the roll
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of a Pernese name and also be able to have (a) Fire Lazard(s) or
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be a dragon rider to defend the planet Pern againsts the Red
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Planet that visits every 400 years.
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In closing, I point out that we are all of us doing this as a
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hobby, and will tolerate no politics or powerplays. We make no
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distinctions as to age, background, religion, sex, gender, et
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cetera. We are an Equal Opportunity Network, limited solely by
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the ability to move echomail around in a reasonably good manner.
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Problems with offending nodes will be dealt with via the path
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structure of the network until it reaches The Brigadoon Weyr
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Central (1:325/101@FidoNet) where we will deal with it as need
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be.
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For your free information package you may file requet the magick
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name of BRIGADOON from 1:325/101 @FidoNet, 9:1010/11 @ParaNet,
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69:2700/1 @KinkNet(AdultLinks) and this will get you the file
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BRIGADON.ZIP. If by chance you can not deal with ZIP type
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ARChives...FREQ the name BRIGADON.ARC. You may also FREQ
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BRIGADON.ZIP from Carl Finkeldey at 1:363/71 @FidoNet.
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The Interrupt Stack
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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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FidoNews 7-47 Page 17 19 Nov 1990
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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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31 Mar 1991
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Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
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years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
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"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
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12 May 1991
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Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
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second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
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8 Sep 1991
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25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
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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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Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
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Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Feb 1992
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
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eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
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code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
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West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
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Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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1 Dec 1993
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Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
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5 Jun 1997
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David Dodell's 40th Birthday
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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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