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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.13 No. 5 (29-Jan-1996)
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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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| | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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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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| submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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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..................................................... 1
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2. Articles...................................................... 2
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QFBBS09.ZIP................................................. 2
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Internet Killed The Fidonet Star............................ 3
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The Modem Problem........................................... 4
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** The Free Ride is Over! ***............................... 5
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 5
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Editorial
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 2 29 Jan 1996
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There is an article in today's snooze that I am embarassed
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to print. Why? because it is nothing more that a string of foul
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mouthed, small minded insults against somebody that has worked
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hard for fidonet for many years. It is somewhat typical of this
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net, and one of the reasons fidonet is falling apart.
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Mr. Juda recently took down his internet gate. He removed
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it specifically because of the harrassment by a small group of
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cyber terrorists. The fact is, though, that he ran that gate
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for years on his own nickle, and on his own time. What thanks
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does he get? An idiot that will not sign his name (C.I.A is
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probably as good an alias as any for this well known braggart)
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goes on a name calling spree and brags about how much better a
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job s/he would have done if only they had been given a chance.
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Well, there were all the chances in the world. Still are.
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Talk is cheap, and indicative of the mind that created it.
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Whatever fights Mr. Juda and C.I.A have had in the past are
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irrelevant. There was a lot of work done by Mr. Juda on our
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behalf, and he deserves, at the very least, a thank you. He
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does not deserve to go out the door with some cyber-boor
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shouting insults.
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So, Mr. Juda, thank you. I do not know you, and I have
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never corresponded with you. However, I have used the service
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you provided, and you deserve the thanks of at least this
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fidonetter.
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Articles
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QFBBS09.ZIP
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Pedro Jaramillo (1:102/160)
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Hello ALL!
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This is the latest release of QFBBS.EXE, please upgrade/delete your old
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Pedro Jaramillo
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 3 29 Jan 1996
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Internet Killed The Fidonet Star...
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Is this the beginning of the end?
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by Ronald Hass (2:240/5311.25 and rhass@rzbd.fh-hamburg.de)
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Since spring 1995 the Internet began to boom. Articles concerning the
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subject popped up in FidoNews whereas subjects concerning Fidonet
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became rare.
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Since summer 1995 the FidoNews began to drip across Fidonet. Every
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other week it didn't reach my boss node. Then came three issues
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together, two of them late. We got used to it.
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Since fall 1995 FidoNews ceased to come at all. To keep the archive
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of my boss node up to date I FTPed them via the Internet every week
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and uploaded them. What a weird idea: I had to use the Internet to
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get the major publication of the Fidonet!
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Was it worth the effort? Reading the issues became pretty boring as
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nothing of interest was submitted anymore. Where have all the authors
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gone that felt commitment to their hobby? Where have all the
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arguments gone about Steve Winter and Bob Germer, "four letter words"
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in FidoNews, ANSI art, etc.?
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When I FTPed the last issue of 1995 my heart jumped when I saw the
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size of the file. Something had changed! There must be quite a bit of
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articles in it, maybe the engaged authors came back!
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I unpacked the file and sent it to the printer as I have done it all
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the years. Usually I read the Snooze in the train when heading home
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after work. This time I couldn't wait to see what's in there...
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A mere outcry from the editors! Nothing had been submitted this week!
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Don and/or Sylvia (never really found out who was writing the
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editorial) had posted a chat log from just before Christmas from
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their BBS to fill the gap. The essence of this "article" was the
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essence of Fidonet!
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To calm myself down I thought the reason might be the holiday season.
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Everybody is busy with Christmas, nobody has time to write. It's going
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to change with the first issue of 1996.
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In fact it didn't. I don't want to review any articles in the first
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two issues of 1996. Fact is that the third issue was an empty one
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again. Sylvia obviously was fed up with the job of editoring nothing
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and quit her job. This was the one and only nevertheless
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important information contained in FidoNews 13-03. Did anybody
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notice?
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How long will it take until Don gets the same feeling? I don't blame
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him.
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Fidonet is breaking apart. Netmail is even more unreliable these days
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than it has ever been. I get the impression that echomail in certain
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 4 29 Jan 1996
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echoes is not routed worldwide properly anymore. SysOps seem to stick
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to local communities. When their systems are of the bigger kind they
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HAVE TO offer Internet access these days to their - in the
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meantime mostly paying - "customers". The interest in keeping up a
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worldwide functioning Fidonet is ceasing.
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WWW is offering glossy magazines like www.hotwired.com. Who needs
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FidoNews? Internet E-mail IS reliable. Who needs Fido Netmail?
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BBSes decay to support centers where you call for the latest printer
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driver or to chat with other users in your local community. And even
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here the Internet offers glossy alternatives like "Internet Relay
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Chat" and FTP sites like ftp.xxx.com which often are cared for far
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better than the corresponding BBS. CompuServe, AOL and all the others
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are close at hand. The same modem that served you for years as your
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feed to the Fidonet now takes you to the data highway and connects
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you even to The White House. Did they ever offer a Fido node?
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I am afraid we have to accept this development if we like it or not.
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I want to thank Donald and Sylvia for the good work they have done
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during the past years. I read every issue of the Snooze within the
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last four years and enjoyed it. I shall keep up to it to the last bit
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even if it hurts.
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I want to thank Tom Jennings for the whole of it. I still enjoy what
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is left of Fidonet although the lights slowly go out.
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And I want to thank everybody in Fidonet to whom I had contact even
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if it was just reading. I derived a lot of pleasure and knowledge
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from it.
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Last but not least I want to thank my Fido boss at 2:240/5311. He was
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and still is my mentor for years and introduced me to the wonders
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of "modeming".
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I wonder if somebody's left to read this...
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Cheers to everybody,
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Ron
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The Modem Problem
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by David de Regt
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Hello, all, I'm David de Regt, SysOp of Gargoyle Heaven at
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(203)454-9841. I'm new at this, so if the answer is just under my
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nose, don't be surprised. I run Frontdoor 2.12 Shareware and it
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always connects at 2400 when sending mail. It runs the BBS at 14400,
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but anything to do with mail, it sends it at 240 CPS(2400 speed).
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Does anyone have any tips to fix this? I need HELP!!! If so, send
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them to 1:141/245.
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 5 29 Jan 1996
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** The Free Ride is Over! ***
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BY C.I.A. CASINO NETWORK (1:2623/58)
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I, for one, say Good Riddance, Burt. If "The Gatekeeper" does not
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wish to act as a *real* Internet Email Gateway, get out of the way
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and let US do it! Your anal twit filtering and restrictions
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hampered communication.. It's not bad enough netmail/email has to
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rely on the feeble routing structure, but then to have every message
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sniffed for acceptibility, is ridiculous.
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I know I'll hear the whines and cries about how hard, expensive,
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etc, your job is/was... I'll hear the standard cop-out "You don't
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like it, do it yourself" - which is exactly what I plan to do...
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It's very incredibly simple, install linux, get a cheep SLIP, YOU
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GOT FULL USENET for the cost of yer SLIP!
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As far as personal email, thats relatively simple too, under a Unix,
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like BSD <gag> or Linux. Again, through a cheep SLIP account, this
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time, you need only have an ISP who assigns your slip in their hosts
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file - my system was, for example, fbn.<deleted>.com, I could get
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email as root@fbn, or any user name.... I am currently waiting for
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another company to open, one a little less anal than the one I was
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on..
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You leeched off the IEEE long enough. For a $30 a month SLIP
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acct, I can blow yer lame gateway a-way, friend... No, I have no
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interest in pandering to the entire globe - anyone who is a
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local call may be offered the service... *I* have no desire to
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port usenet to fido - Unix is superior to DOS, and Usenet is
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superior to FTS.
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That really made me realise how incredibly anal your policies
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were, was not so much the volume control, by disallowing
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uuencode and mailing lists, but you admitted to me in UFGATE a
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few months ago, August or so perhaps, that you had been
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(unbeknowst to yourself) "accidently" deleting the ENTIRE
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fidonet domain's incoming email JUST TO TWIT ONE PERSON - Brent
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Hamm!! (No, I didn't save the msg, so you're safe from me, but I
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do recall sending copies to Alan Boritz and ... Bob Moravsik,
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who I wouldn't be surprised to find still have the msg ;)
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Enjoy your retirement, old man.. Internet is ready to fill your
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void. Thank you for finally moving out of the way for it to do
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that :)
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 6 29 Jan 1996
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
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Editor: Donald Tees
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar
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Tom Jennings, Sylvia Maxwell
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"FidoNews" BBS
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FidoNet 1:1/23
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BBS +1-519-570-4176, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(DS)
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more addresses:
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Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews
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154 Victoria St. S.
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Kitchener, Ontario
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N2H 2b5
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voice: (519) 570-4899
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Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
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of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
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does not diminish the rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in
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these articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of
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FidoNews.
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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Copyright 1996 Donald Tees. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use
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in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the eds.
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OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or
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Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above paper-mail
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address.
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.fidonet.org,
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in directory ~ftp/pub/fidonet/fidonews.
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Anyone interested in getting a copy of the INTERNET GATEWAY FAQ may
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freq GISFAQ.ZIP from 1:133/411.0, or send an internet message to
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fidofaq@gisatl.fidonet.org. No message or text or subject is
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necessary. The address is a keyword that will trigger the automated
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response. People wishing to send inquiries directly to David Deitch
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should now mail to fidonet@gisatl.fidonet.org rather than the
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previously listed address.
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SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
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FidoNews 13-05 Page: 7 29 Jan 1996
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
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from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". Please read it.
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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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trademarks of Tom Jennings, and are used with permission.
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' ' disgreement is actually necessary,
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or semethin to amuse ourselves,,
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and create the requisite chaos."
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-Tom Jennings
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