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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No.20 (15-May-1995)
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| A newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" BBS |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Editors: |
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| |__U__| / \// | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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| _//|| _\ / | Sylvia Maxwell 1:221/194 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: editors 1:1/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Tim Pozar -- pozar@kumr.lns.com |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of fidonews or the internet gateway faq |
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Table of Contents
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1. Editorial..................................................... 2
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2. Articles...................................................... 2
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Subject:World Wide Web browsers (Part 1).................... 2
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Net Voting Issue............................................ 3
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Announcing some freeware nodelist utilities................. 4
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Free Listings in the Encyclopedia of Associations........... 5
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EuroCon / DutchCon announcement............................. 6
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Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory.......... 7
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An Alien Looks at FidoNet................................... 7
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Picture this, if you will................................... 9
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A response to "Computer Users and the Graphic Age........... 9
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 11
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 2 15 May 1995
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Editorial
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It has always struck me that an inordinate number of problems
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within Fidonet center arround the fact that the nodelist is
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controled by a select few. In 99% of all cases, the ones doing
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the work do it faithfully, and respect the fact that nodelist
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maintenance does not confer the right to bully. The 1% left are
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the problem.
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What rather astonishes me is that the entire process could be
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automated. Why not make every individual sysop responsible for
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their own nodelist entry, and simply forward them upstream. It
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would take new software, but there is probably at least one
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person in the net that could figure out how to do it. Couple
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that with a timeout (say an entry is good for six months, and
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then needs renewal), and we would also get rid of a lot of
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deadwood.
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I would be willing to bet money that there are plenty of
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nodes that have not existed for months ... how many NC's
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actually send out mail to check on a regular basis?
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Here is the snooze.
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Articles
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Subject:World Wide Web browsers (Part 1)
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Ari Pollak (1:107/302)
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First off, I would like to tell a little about the World
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Wide Web (W3 or WWW). The WWW is not just the sites where you
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log on and you can display pictures and hypertext. The WWW is
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HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), FTP, and gopher. FTP and
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gopher can be displayed by different programs, but for HTTP, you
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need a special program called a browser. I will be reviewing
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the major browsers: NCSA Mosaic 2.0Beta4, Cello 2.0, Internet
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Works, and Netscape, all for the Windows PC, with 3.1 or higher
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with Win32s, a free upgrade that allows you to run 32-bit
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programs on Win3.1.
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Mosaic: This version of Mosaic is being used as a comeback
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to Netscape and Internet Works, the two top-most rated browsers.
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Since it is only in Beta 4 stage, I can only tell you what it
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has at the moment. NCSA Mosaic was the first and still the most
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used browser. Even the new version might not have many
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features, it is still the best to use because of the standards.
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Mosaic is also slow, but not the slowest. A disadvantage in the
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current Internet World is the ability to retrieve only 1 file at
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once. To sum it up, Mosaic is still one of the best browsers in
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the world, but only when the official version. NCSA admits that
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there is still much work to be done on Mosaic before it is
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released, so only time will tell. Right now, try to stick with
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Netscape. The latest version is on the FTP site:
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 3 15 May 1995
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ftp.ncsa.uiuc.edu/Web/Mosaic/Windows .
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Internet Works: Internet Works stands right behind Netscape.
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It has many features, but the makers overdid it, and destroyed
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most of the ease of use. Its "card catalog" format of hotlists
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is very confusing. However, on the good side, it is easy to use
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if you don't use all the features of it. For example, there is
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a very nice local file that has many links to different places,
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with a full-color menu. This also includes a full-featured
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program for sending and receiving mail, and for reading and
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posting to newsgroups. You may get it by FTP'ing to
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ftp.booklink.com.
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If you have an idea about an article I can write, something
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that would be of interest to the general public, or about a
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problem that many people should know about, just e-mail me (not
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crash, I'm a private node) at:
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Ari Pollak, 1:107/302 or Ari.Pollak@ari.metronj.org
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Coming next week: More WWW browsers
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Net Voting Issue
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Joe Klemmer - 1:109/370
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klemmerj@hoffman-emh1.army.mil
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I was a little surprised when I read in the editorial of
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issue 1219 that only hubs were allowed to vote in (I assume)
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Net-221. Call me naive but I didn't think this kind of stuff was
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done down on the Net level. Sure, on the Region and Zone level
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its tradition, but on the Net level? This doesn't make sense to
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me. That's probably due to the fact that I've only experienced
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one net firsthand. Just to give other nets an idea I'll tell you
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how Net-109 handles serious, "We need a vote" issues. (More or
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less<g>).
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First off, hubs are specifically NOT allowed to vote. The
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only ones who can vote on an issue are the actual nodes. If
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you're in the nodelist, you vote. If you have more than one
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address (ie. a Hub admin address and your regular node address)
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you can only use the plain node one for voting. Votes coming
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from admin addresses, like hubs or the NC or such, aren't
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counted. This gives everyone in the net an equal say in things.
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Of course, we're lucky to get a 25% turnout on any election. The
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last one had about 56 nodes who voted out of some 220 total.
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Still, the opportunity is there.
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My personal opinion is that any NC who would allow the
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exclusion of nodes from voting on any issue of major
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significance to the Net should rethink how they are running
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things. This does not mean that every little thing has to have a
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vote. But things like electing a new NC/NEC, changes to the CRP,
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 4 15 May 1995
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node realignments and the like, those should be decided by the
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net as a whole. After all, Fidonet exists for the sole purpose
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of passing mail/echos/files to the NODES. The only
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responsibilities that the *C, *EC and hubs have is to make sure
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that the mail gets through. Why is this such a hard concept?
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SURFACE MAIL: USAPPC, ASQZ-IMA
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Bld I, Room 1034
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2461 Eisenhower Av.
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Alexandria, VA 22331-0302
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Announcing some freeware nodelist utilities
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Announcing some freeware nodelist utilities
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by Matthew Hildebrand of 1:247/128.2
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I have long enjoyed the use of free software packages: BinkleyTerm,
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Squish, MsgEd, and ARJ to name a few. These excellent programs have
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provided me with everything I need to run my point system, except for
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nodelist compiling and diffing software; when I heard that a friend of
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mine was writing a freeware nodelist compiler, I immediately volunteered
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to write a differ.
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Janice (Just Another NodelIst CompilEr) was written by Alex Brodsky of
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1:247/191. Janice produces V7 nodelists (very quickly, too), and is
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compatible with XlaxNode configuration files.
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Nodelist Differ was written by myself. ND updates nodelists. <grin>
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Janice is available for Linux, 32-bit OS/2, and 32-bit extended DOS; ND
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is available for Linux, 32-bit OS/2, and regular 16-bit DOS. Complete C
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source code for these two DPS label programs is also freely available.
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The ND source is distributed with the executables; the Janice source is
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distributed separately due to its size.
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If you're interested, Janice and ND are available under the filename
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JANICE11.LZH (about 270 kb) from the sources below. The Janice source
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is distributed separately as JANSRC11.LZH (about 60 kb), but is also
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available from the following sources.
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File request:
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1:247/191 (2400 bps), magic filename JANICE or JANSRC
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1:247/128 (14400 bps V.32bis), magic filename JANICE or JANSRC
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Other:
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SOFTDIST
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ftp:
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To be announced.
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If you have any questions, feel free to email me at either 1:247/128.2
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or mphildeb@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (preferred).
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 5 15 May 1995
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Free Listings in the Encyclopedia of Associations
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by Nigel Allen (1:250/438)
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Free Listings in the Encyclopedia of Associations
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People who start new new non-profit associations (including
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othernets, lobbying groups and associations having nothing to do
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with BBSes) should get their group listed, free of charge, in
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the Encyclopedia of Associations, so that prospective members,
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journalists and researchers can get in touch with them.
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Groups based in the U.S. should write to the following address
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and ask to be listed:
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Editor
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Encyclopedia of Associations
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Gale Research Inc.
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835 Penobscot Building
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Detroit, MI 48226-4094
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Telephone (313) 961-2242
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Fax (313) 961-6815
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Groups based outside the United States should instead get listed
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in International Organizations, a directory published by the same
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company. Its address is:
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Editor
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International Organizations
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Gale Research Inc.
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835 Penobscot Building
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Detroit, MI 48226-4094
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U.S.A.
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Telephone +1 313 961-2242
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Fax +1 313 961-6815
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As well, groups based outside the United States may also want to
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get listed in single-country association directories published
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in their own country, such as the Directory of Associations in
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Canada. Any librarian should be able to tell you how to get in
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touch with your country's national association directory, if
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one exists.
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Most large libraries have a copy of the Encyclopedia of
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Associations in hard copy or CD-ROM, but it is probably too
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expensive for someone to buy for home use.
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 6 15 May 1995
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EuroCon / DutchCon announcement
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EuroCon / DutchCon '95 announcement
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by Hans Siemons,
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2:2/1995@fidonet
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eurocon@prime.morgana.nl
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We would hereby like to announce DutchCon/EuroCon '95 which will take
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place in Arnhem (a big city), The Netherlands. It will be held in our
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National Sports Centre Papendal (150 ha). It is situated in one of the
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most beautiful areas of Holland. Right in the middle of the vast woods
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of the province of Gelderland. About eight kilometers west of Arnhem.
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Tucked away under the lee of the green Veluwe-fringe. In brief: located
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in beautiful surroundings.
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EuroCon/DutchCon is the place for you to meet your fellow sysops and
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talk eye to eye with our ZC/2, Ward Dossche.
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EuroCon '95 will be held on Friday the 30th of June until Sunday the
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2nd of July 1995 in Arnhem, The Netherlands.
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Besides the social event, we have the following things on the program:
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"Fido: the next roadkill on the info highway?"
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By Alexander Holy.
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"Computer virusses and measures against them."
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By Jan Terpstra
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"internetworking (and ways to melt/interconnect
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Fido with other Nets)."
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By Alexander Holy.
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"ISDN"
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Roland van der Put and Arjen Lentz
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"*C discussion."
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With Ward Dossche (ZC/2)
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There are several prizes to be won during a device throwing contest
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and a bingo. Please read the weekly announcements in enet.sysop for
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an up-to-date list.
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The location (Papendal) offers various things to do for people not
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participating in the sessions. Like midgetgolf and Jeu de boules.
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There is also a swimming pool which you can use for free between
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0700 and 0900. And the capital city of Gelderland, Arnhem is only
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8 kilometers away. A city with it's own character and lots of shops.
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> We are still looking for persons and companies to sponsor the prices
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> given away during the Saturday evening "bingo" and the device
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> throwing contest.
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For more information about further details, please file request EUROCON
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 7 15 May 1995
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from either 2:2/1995, 2:512/149 or 2:512/65.
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Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
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by Nigel Allen (1:250/438)
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Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
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If you run a consulting business in the United States or
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Canada, you may want to get it listed free of charge in the
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Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory.
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To request a questionnaire for the directory, just write
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to the following address:
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Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory
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Editorial Code and Data, Inc.
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645 Griswold Street, Suite 3480
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Detroit, Michigan 48226-4015
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U.S.A.
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telephone (313) 961-2926
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fax (313) 961-5919
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Unfortunately, this only applies to consultants in the United States
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and Canada. The directory does not list consultants in other countries.
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An Alien Looks at FidoNet
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by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/6
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lisa@psg.com
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I am <gasp> female! I am <gasp> a dialup BBS user! I am an alien who
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uses a 10 year old Apple //e with an equally ancient comm program,
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Apple DOS 3.3 and 141K floppy disks! No IBM graphics. No VT100
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emulation. No ZIP, ARJ or RAR. XModem file transfer only.
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I first came online in the fall of 1985. Early in 1986 I became the
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sysop of an Apple BBS operating at a remote location. Shortly
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thereafter, I inherited the (Portland OR) Bit Bucket BBS List, when
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Rick Bensene, who started the list in 1982, retired from the BBS
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world to bring up a private unix system.
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Cruising local BBS in November, 1986, I found a new BBS named PSG
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Portland (sysop Randy Bush). Randy had just moved up to Portland from
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Coos Bay and was still acting as NC of the Coos Bay NET, 122/0. He
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became NC of Net 105 the following April. I asked a lot of questions.
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I got good answers. I learned a lot about FidoNet.
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Since 1989, I've occupied the Ruby Tuesday alias on one or another of
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Randy's systems, although I first heard the Rolling Stones song at
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Reg17Con last summer, when Bob Satti dug out an old album and played
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it for me. Occupying the alias happened as sort of a joke, but it
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gets me into sysop conferences without going thru a lot of hassle.
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FidoNews 12-20 Page: 8 15 May 1995
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Newer sysops may not realize it, but the structure of FidoNet is
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based on hostrouted netmail. I currently hang out at 1:105/6, which
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hosts the zonegates, 1:1/2, 1:1/3 etc. Randy routinely hostroutes
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incoming netmail from Zones [2-6] to Zone 1 destinations. He's one of
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the last big time hostrouters.
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Delivering 50+ bundles a night, in the course of a week or so,
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1:105/6 calls about half of the Zone 1 Net Hosts. There are a couple
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of NETS with special routing where the dawg never calls the NC, and
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in any given week, a few which are not answering or are undialable.
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Since 1:105/6 only calls if there is incoming international mail, it
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is not a random sample, but it's the best I've got.
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So here is my informal survey of the mailers Zone 1 NCs are running.
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Based on nodelist.125 [05-May-95], data from....
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Region 10 14 Net Hosts of 28 NETS 50.0%
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Region 11 28 Net Hosts of 59 NETS 47.5%
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Region 12 20 Net Hosts of 27 NETS 74.1%
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Region 13 24 Net Hosts of 48 NETS 50.0%
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Region 14 11 Net Hosts of 30 NETS 36.7%
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Region 15 8 Net Hosts of 27 NETS 29.6%
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Region 16 10 Net Hosts of 17 NETS 58.8%
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Region 17 23 Net Hosts of 44 NETS 52.3%
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Region 18 45 Net Hosts of 99 NETS 45.5%
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Region 19 22 Net Hosts of 53 NETS 41.5%
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Total 205 Net Hosts of 432 NETS 47.5%
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Mailer Number of NCs
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FrontDoor 2.30 5
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FrontDoor 2.20 20
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FrontDoor 2.12 34
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FrontDoor 2.02 10
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Total FrontDoor 69
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Binkley 2.59 60
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Other Bink (2.50, 2.56) 6
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Total Binkley 66
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InterMail 2.29 26
|
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InterMail 2.20 1
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Total InterMail 27
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D'Bridge 1.58 13
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Other D'Bridge (1.30, 1.54) 2
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Total D'Bridge 15
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TIMS 1.10 8
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Portal of Power 0.63 2
|
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Portal of Power 0.62 4
|
|||
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Total Portal of Power 6
|
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Lora-CBIS 2.40 3
|
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Opus (1.10, 1.73) 2
|
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MainDoor (1.00, 1.01) 2
|
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SEAdog 4.51 1
|
|||
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Unknown 0.01 2
|
|||
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Unknown 15.21 1
|
|||
|
FidoNews 12-20 Page: 9 15 May 1995
|
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|
|
|||
|
Trap Door (Amiga) 1.85 2
|
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|
StarNet (Amiga) 1.168 1
|
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|
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|
Brought to you by pencil.com, a liveware package from Serengeti
|
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|
Software run by a 1.4 kg water based cup with programable RAM.
|
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|
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|
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|
Picture this, if you will
|
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|
Fredric Rice (1:102/890)
|
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|
|||
|
Greetings, All.
|
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|
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|
I had an idea which has some merit. <smirk> In FidoNet we
|
|||
|
generally have magic file names for people's files (FILES,)
|
|||
|
for their system information (ABOUT) and for the PGP keys
|
|||
|
(PGPKEY.)
|
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|
|
|||
|
Many people have their photograph available as a GIF file on
|
|||
|
their system. It would be nice to be able to request the
|
|||
|
magic name PHOTO to get it if it exists on any system.
|
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|
|
|||
|
Additionally, SoundBlaster sound cards are fairly wide spread
|
|||
|
in FidoNet. Recording a one-minute introduction into the
|
|||
|
SysOp's system with sound effects or music which others could
|
|||
|
download using the magic name INTRO might be nice.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
After discussing issues with various participants in forums,
|
|||
|
one could download the picture and voice of a critic, for
|
|||
|
instance, and both see and hear what they look and sound like.
|
|||
|
It might serve to show that there are real humans on the other
|
|||
|
side of the wire or, alternately, confirm one's doubts of
|
|||
|
same.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Fredric L. Rice
|
|||
|
The Skeptic Tank
|
|||
|
1:102/890.0 (818) 335-9601
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
A response to "Computer Users and the Graphic Age
|
|||
|
Jim Howes (2:251/203)
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I have to thank Robert LaPrise (FidoNews c17) for his insights
|
|||
|
into this facet of computing for the masses. The following is an
|
|||
|
unorganised brain-dump of reminiscences of a bygone age of
|
|||
|
computer people and users, and a bit of a moan about Microsoft's
|
|||
|
plan to take over the world.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Although I am in favour of virtually anything that brings modern
|
|||
|
technology under the control of the ordinary man in the street,
|
|||
|
I too find the ease by which anyone can write software
|
|||
|
disturbing. Not only is it likely to do me out of a job, but
|
|||
|
most of the software that gets generated is at the mercy of
|
|||
|
Microsoft. Software today is developing like a new COBOL,
|
|||
|
FidoNews 12-20 Page: 10 15 May 1995
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
(which was an attempt to allow managers to understand programs).
|
|||
|
We fought back with C, a language where you have to have a
|
|||
|
fundamental understanding of a computer system before you can
|
|||
|
understand it.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I like C, I never liked COBOL. I also do Fortran, Pascal, 6502,
|
|||
|
68000, VAX Macro, but I 'll always go back to C by choice. I
|
|||
|
write C in a C++ fashion, but I don't use C++. (You can write
|
|||
|
modular, testable, reliable code in C).Now we have the Visual
|
|||
|
BASIC programmers arriving in the interview room. We have
|
|||
|
dabbled in visual basic, but on the whole, we are sticking with
|
|||
|
C. We just have not been able to get the performance we need
|
|||
|
from anything but C.I use window systems (preferably X-, not
|
|||
|
MS-) mainly to get more shellson the screen.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I'm not a fan of mice, mainly because I have alway s used the
|
|||
|
keyboard, and I am a bit of a traditionalist. I have several
|
|||
|
non-technical users of PC's here, who are getting to grips with
|
|||
|
Microsoft Access. I don't fully understand how it works, not
|
|||
|
being particularly interested, and having other concerns like'
|
|||
|
where's all my disk space gone?' to sort out. They are
|
|||
|
continually coming to me complaining that windows has crashed or
|
|||
|
hung, and scrambled their disks. They expect me to fix the
|
|||
|
problem.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
All I end up doing is re-installing the whole lot from
|
|||
|
scratch because they have used CHKDSK without rebooting first
|
|||
|
and ended up in a worse state. The main cause for the crash is
|
|||
|
windows applications being written badly. Bugs are expected,
|
|||
|
but the sort of errors we are getting stem from poor design, and
|
|||
|
poor error-checking. Poor error checking is endemic in windows
|
|||
|
software. Most applicationsseem to think that all users have
|
|||
|
512 Megabytes of RAM, and a 50 gigabyte disk drive.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
They check that creating a file worked, but never seem to
|
|||
|
check that they have managed to write stuff to it (having run
|
|||
|
out of space).Some software I've seen also assumes that memory
|
|||
|
is always available. Failing to check that memory allocation
|
|||
|
worked is the most dangerous bug a program can have. Typically,
|
|||
|
the program will t hen scribble allover areas of memory that
|
|||
|
control critical functions like disk writing, resulting in
|
|||
|
scrambled disks. With the average program requiring
|
|||
|
severalmegabytes of RAM to run, and more to do anything useful,
|
|||
|
this checking is critical. It never ceases to amaze me how much
|
|||
|
'stupid' software there is out there. One program we have
|
|||
|
refuses to write to a printer, because it doesn't understand how
|
|||
|
the driver works, but telling to write to a file called 'LPT1'
|
|||
|
works OK.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
I can't fix buggy third-party software (and a lot of it is
|
|||
|
buggy, just look at 'Word'), my only recourse being to call up
|
|||
|
Microsoft, who are difficult to get through to at the best of
|
|||
|
times, (not to mention that you can't get through to the same
|
|||
|
person who dealt with your call when their 'fix' doesn't)
|
|||
|
Previously we used a Micro-VAX system. All the users had
|
|||
|
FidoNews 12-20 Page: 11 15 May 1995
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
ordinary terminals, and ran software that myself and the other
|
|||
|
technical guys spent years fiddling with, until we got it right.
|
|||
|
We had a power over the users whereby if something went wrong,
|
|||
|
they would tell us, and we could actually do something about it.
|
|||
|
Nowadays, because the power is with a third party (I.e.
|
|||
|
Microsoft), us systems administrators spend our days
|
|||
|
re-installing DOS, mending network cables, re-installing DOS
|
|||
|
again, showing users for the Nthtime how to put files onto the
|
|||
|
network drives so they get backed up (and not turned into swiss
|
|||
|
cheese by the next software crash).
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Anyway, back to the main point, which is this. Someone,
|
|||
|
somewhere, has to write the foundations on which the next level
|
|||
|
of software is based.(I.e. Admin's Access software runs on
|
|||
|
Access, which runs on Windows, which runs on DOS, which sits on
|
|||
|
the BIOS, which sits on the bare metal). The current computer
|
|||
|
culture is encouraging new ' programmers' to evolve who don't
|
|||
|
know how the metal works, and consequently are dependent on
|
|||
|
Microsoftfor support. I think this is potentially dangerous. I
|
|||
|
have found an understanding of the fundamentals extremely useful
|
|||
|
in seeing the whole picture in any system. By being familiar
|
|||
|
with the basic concepts you get to understand why certain
|
|||
|
concepts (like organising memory carefully to reduce excessive
|
|||
|
swapping ) improve the quality of your code. You don'tneed to
|
|||
|
continually upgrade your system to make it faster if you write
|
|||
|
the software properly in the first place. I think the time of
|
|||
|
the professional programmer has not passed yet, but it may soon
|
|||
|
do so. We are about to leave the age of the 'Software
|
|||
|
Engineer'and enter a new area of 'Microsoft User'. Background I
|
|||
|
am a Computer Systems Manager for a computer company in Fareham,
|
|||
|
England.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
An ex-hacker from Portsmouth Polytechnic, and a computer
|
|||
|
enthusiast since 1979. I run about 40 PC's, 8 MicroVAXs, A
|
|||
|
selection of Unix boxes including HP, OKI, Silicon Graphics,
|
|||
|
Sun, DEC Alpha (OSF/1 and VMS), Linux systems, various
|
|||
|
home-built PDP-11 systems, and even a Acorn BBC/B. At home I
|
|||
|
use an Amiga 2000 with various bolt-on's (68030, tapes etc.),
|
|||
|
and prefer a decent shell to anything the mouse has to offer. In
|
|||
|
my spare time, I do some work for Ladbrokes Racing in Southsea,
|
|||
|
and I am starting to wonder if I could make more money doing
|
|||
|
that than stayingin the computer world, although after 10 years
|
|||
|
(I'm now 27ish), I think it could be too late for me.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
========================================================================
|
|||
|
Fidonews Information
|
|||
|
========================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
FidoNews 12-20 Page: 12 15 May 1995
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Editors: Donald Tees, Sylvia Maxwell
|
|||
|
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
|
|||
|
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar
|
|||
|
Tom Jennings
|
|||
|
"FidoNews" BBS
|
|||
|
FidoNet 1:1/23
|
|||
|
BBS +1-519-570-4176, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(DS)
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
more addresses:
|
|||
|
Rev. Richard Visage -- 1:163/409
|
|||
|
Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
|
|||
|
Tim -- pozar@kumr.lns.com
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
(Postal Service mailing address)
|
|||
|
FidoNews
|
|||
|
128 Church St.
|
|||
|
Kitchener, Ontario
|
|||
|
Canada
|
|||
|
N2H 2S4
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
voice: (519) 570-3137
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
|
|||
|
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
|||
|
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
|
|||
|
authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
|
|||
|
does not diminish the rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in
|
|||
|
these articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of
|
|||
|
FidoNews.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
|
|||
|
Copyright 1995 Donald Tees. All rights reserved. Duplication
|
|||
|
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use
|
|||
|
in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the eds.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
|
|||
|
form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or
|
|||
|
Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
|
|||
|
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above paper-mail
|
|||
|
address.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.fidonet.org,
|
|||
|
in directory ~ftp/pub/fidonet/fidonews.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
Anyone interested in getting a copy of the INTERNET GATEWAY FAQ may
|
|||
|
freq GISFAQ.ZIP from 1:133/411.0, or send an internet message to
|
|||
|
fidofaq@gisatl.fidonet.org. No message or text or subject is
|
|||
|
necessary. The address is a keyword that will trigger the automated
|
|||
|
response. People wishing to send inquiries directly to David Deitch
|
|||
|
should now mail to fidonet@gisatl.fidonet.org rather than the
|
|||
|
previously listed address.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
FidoNews 12-20 Page: 13 15 May 1995
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
|
|||
|
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
|
|||
|
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
|
|||
|
from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". Please read it.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
|
|||
|
trademarks of Tom Jennings, and are used with permission.
|
|||
|
|
|||
|
"the pulse of the cursor is the heartbeat of fidonet"...
|
|||
|
-- END
|
|||
|
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|
|||
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