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F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 16 19 April 1999
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
| _ | +27-41-581-5913 [5:5/23] |
| / \ | |
| /|oo \ | |
| (_| /_) | |
| _`@/_ \ _ | |
| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
| | (*) | \ )) | Henk Wolsink 5:7104/2 |
| |__U__| / \// | |
| _//|| _\ / | |
| (_/(_|(____/ | |
| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 5:5/23 |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
| MORE addresses: |
| |
| submissions=> editor@fidonews.org |
| hwolsink@catpe.alt.za |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
| please refer to the end of this file. |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 2
Election ................................................. 2
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
4. NOTICES .................................................. 10
5. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 11
Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 11
6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 16
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 20
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 1 19 Apr 1999
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EDITORIAL
=================================================================
Greetings,
I must apologise for the mishap not having the usual editor section
in last weeks issue. It was not left on purpose, believe me.
So an election is under way in Zone 1, or is it? Nothing official
has been seen by me, but whatever, lets hope it goes on peacefully.
AND, do let us know what the outcome is, so that it can be shared by
all. Thanks.
So the debate on piracy has died down and once again, nothing concrete
came from it, at least from here it showed that Policy does not
matter.
Happy reading for the little we have this week.
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FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 2 19 Apr 1999
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GUEST EDITORIAL
=================================================================
Election
I reckon I've stirred the soup in the Z1_ELECTION echo by publicly
musing that the election of a new Zone 1 Coordinator seems to have
stalled. Joe Jarad commented that this may not be a bad thing since
a new Coordinator should be selected carefully.
So what do we have in Zone 1? A ZC election which has stalled and
is sputtering, or simply a deliberative process proceeding at an
appropriate pace?
I should point out that I have already expressed interest in
standing for the ZC position, so an extra burden is imposed on you,
the reader, in evaluating my objectivity while commenting on this
question.
I don't believe that the RCs have begun a deliberative process yet -
not with regard to considering candidate qualifications, anyway.
The announced actions so far have been:
1. Some talk among the RCs in their restricted echo concerning the
best way to select a new ZC, and
2. A request from the individual RCs of their regions concerning
the best method of selection: direct election by the sysops,
election by the NCs, or closed selection by the RCs.
I believe that, at this point, there has been adequate time to
gather input from all the regions, and adequate time to decide on the
mechanism of selection. It's time to put the candidates forward and
begin the deliberative process... whatever it's going to be.
--
| Fidonet: Douglas Myers 1:270/720@fidonet.org
| Internet: doug@mdtnbbs.com
| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
| From Mdtn_BBS @mdtnbbs.com [ In the Heart of Three Mile Island ]
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FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 3 19 Apr 1999
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ARTICLES
=================================================================
FidoNews Article Submission Guidelines
FidoNet address 5:5/23
Updated 16 August 1998 by Henk Wolsink
Updated 1 Mar 1998 by Zorch Frezberg
Updated 1 Jan 1998 by Christopher Baker
Updated 29 May 1991 by Tom Jennings
Based on the original work by Thom Henderson
| denotes a change since the last update |.
"Fido" and "FidoNet" are registered trademarks of
Tom Jennings, Box 410923, San Francisco CA 94141, USA
and are used with permission.
-----------------------------
SYNOPSIS:
FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network,
for both its Sysops and users. It is passed to its readers
electronically via the FidoNet and other computer networks
and to non-network readers as well as to the InterNet.
This document intends to tell you how to write and submit
articles for publication in FidoNews. Much of it describes
the technical specifications which an article must meet in
order to be included in the newsletter, as well as broad
(very) guidelines on content. (Of course you realize
articles can be submitted only electronically.)
Please read this document carefully.
The article you save might be your own.
-----------------------------
INTRODUCTION:
FidoNews was originally founded in early 1984 to include
all parts of the lives of its member Sysops and users,
which of course means not just technical matters. We do
not have fixed goals of maximum distribution or maximum
readership (i.e. lowest common denominator) but only to
meet the needs of our individual network members. The
success of this venture has always been contentious at
best (ahem).
In any case the grand experiment continues.
Over fifteen years later and roughly 20,000 Nodes in the
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 4 19 Apr 1999
network, the editorial policy, or lack of one, of FidoNews
has shown to best fit our ever-changing and unpredictable
needs.
-----------------------------
SUBJECT MATTER:
Articles on any subject of interest to FidoNet members and
users are welcome and encouraged, not necessarily of a
technical nature, though priority may be, but not
necessarily, given to articles of importance to the FidoNet,
its technology and its uses; other networks such as uucp and
the Internet; social aspects of communications; ethical
issues; other related matters.
-----------------------------
ARTICLE LENGTH:
Try to keep articles short. The longer it is, the less
likely people are to read it. Consider splitting long
articles (more than five pages) into smaller articles to
be run serially.
Exceptions will be made at the whim of the editors.
For practical reasons, we will attempt to keep FidoNews to
a "reasonable size", which is of course a highly subjective
and variable thing. As of Mar 1998, the goal is to keep
each issue under 100,000 bytes. Decisions regarding content
may be made based upon this, though in general it shouldn't
be an issue.
As above, exceptions will be made at the whim of the
editors.
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WRITING GUIDELINES:
We are not all professional writers, nor is that even a
goal for the FidoNews -- we want real communication to and
from real people; even at the expense of so-called "good
writing", which is frequently a tool to exclude.
There are, however, a few minimum requirements for any
successful writing, even for the lowly FidoNews:
* The subject discussed must be clear to people other
than the author! Don't assume that people will pick
up the context from your writing. Tell them
_explicitly_.
* Why are you writing this? It may _seem_ obvious --
"Review of the new Acme 75-baud Modem" -- but it's
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 5 19 Apr 1999
not. Are you the manufacturer? An irate customer?
Let us know your point of view.
* Who *are* you? A good question! Anonymity is
acceptable, though most people want to take credit
for their work. Include full contact information
including NetMail and E-Mail addresses, where such
is feasible.
* Articles submitted via Netmail or E-Mail must
contain all the technically required lines and
delimiters in the BODY of the message. This
includes the *[title] line and the 70 character
width requirement. To indicate the filename type for
one of these message submissions, place the
FILENAME.TYP in the SUBJ: line of your E-Mail,
NetMail, or EchoMail. Those that require extra
editing may be delayed from appearing in FidoNews.
* Articles will appear when space becomes available,
not necessarily the "next" issue. If your article
is of a time-critical nature, please say so when you
submit it; the editor still has final say.
* The editor reserves the right to request changes
from an author to meet these "standards", which you
have to admit are pretty loose. It is not the intent
for this to be a mechanism to refuse articles the
editor does not like, but simply to keep the
contents intelligible.
* If we have a backlog of articles, we may get fussier
about things. Historically, this has not been a
serious problem.
-----------------------------
SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
If all that hasn't scared you away, the next step is to
create a text file which contains the text of your article.
The resulting file should be sent or uploaded to "Editor",
| FidoNet address 5:5/23, or to "editor@fidonews.org".
The "physical" location (and phone number) of FidoNews
varies, and hence must be found elsewhere, such as
within a recent copy of FidoNews itself.
Filenames must follow the MSDOS standard:
FILENAME.TYP
a 1 to 8 character file name (A - Z, 0 - 9)
a period,
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a 0 to 3 character file type (A - Z, 0 - 9)
File types are used to distinguish types of submissions, as
follows:
.LET Letters to the Editor.
.ART An article, commentary, open letter, or
general news item.
.GUE Want to write a Guest Editorial?
Place [*Name & Node on line 1]
.RTX Need to make a Retraction of a previous
article or notice?
.COL Want to become a regular contributor
with your own column?
.ANS Answers to the Question of the Week.
.BIO FidoNet biographies - tell us your
personal story.
.TRU True stories of FidoNet.
.HIS FidoNet history - got an anecdote
to share?
.REV Reviews of related product, services,
or programs.
.JOK Net humor in print.
.FIC FidoNet (computer related) short fiction.
.CMX Comics in ASCII.
[watch those lines at 70 columns!]
[.CMX that are political will be
renamed to .GUE]
.PRF Want to Proofread? Get a cookie for
spotting errors.
.AD Advertising FREE services or events.
.SAL "For Sale"
.WAN "Wanted"
.NOT A notice for the back of the issue.
Keep them short.
.INT Internet addresses for FidoNet-related
Web Pages of general interest.
If your file doesn't have one of the above extensions, then
it will lay around taking up disk space until someone takes
a look at it and realizes what it is.
Maybe.
The name of the file is up to you, though you should use a
name which is not likely to be "stepped on" by someone
else -- the system will not guarantee file names are unique.
For example, FNEWS.ART is probably not a good name for an
article.
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CHARACTER SETS:
The character by character contents of the file itself must
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meet the following standards or it cannot be published in
FidoNews.
The FidoNews staff WILL NOT be responsible for making file
contents conform to these standards.
* FLUSH LEFT MARGIN: Please do not put a "left margin"
on your articles. Have the text start at the very
first column.
* RIGHT MARGIN AT COLUMN 70 OR LESS: Less is tolerable,
more is definitely not. If your cursor is resting at
column 71 when your line is ended, you're okay. But,
*one* character past that, even with trailing spaces
and MAKENEWS will barf on your submission.
If your submission is physically rejected, the Editor
will have to fix it manually or send it back for
reformatting.
* RAGGED-RIGHT TEXT: Word-Star style "justification"
(inserting spaces into sentences so that a paragraph
is perfectly rectangular) is extremely hard to read,
and consumes needless space. Please don't use it!
* NO FUNNY CHARACTERS: This includes formfeeds, returns
without linefeeds, linefeeds without returns, tabs and
other oddities.
The only control codes (character codes 0 through 31
decimal) allowed are carriage return (CR) and
linefeed (LF). The only exception is: Control-Z
"end of file" terminator characters are tolerated.
Not required.
* NO GRAPHICS CHARACTERS: Believe it or not, not
everyone in the world has an IBM PC. Please restrict
yourself to printable ASCII characters in the range
20 hex to 7E hex (space to tilde).
* LINES TERMINATED: Each line in the article should
be terminated with a 'newline' -- either the MSDOS
standard (CR/LF) or the unix standard (LF only).
-----------------------------
SUBMISSION FORMAT:
Below is a sample article properly formatted. Features of
it are discussed further below.
--article file example begins below this line--
*A Sample Article [this is in LINE 1 starting at COLUMN 1]
This is My Title
by Joe Schmoe, [Netmail/email address]
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And here is my article. Note that it is flush left (zero indent).
Also note that the right margin is at column seventy so that it
won't overflow "most" text windows. Each line has a newline. Note
the *'ed first line. My article will be listed in the table of
contents exactly as it appears after the * above.
Figure 1. Table 1.
+-------+ ========
| A Box | Alpha
+-------+ Bravo
Note that we am not using any funny-o characters. This ensures
that the final article will look the same to every user, no
matter what sort of hardware he has.
This is the last sentence of our article.
--article file example ends above this line--
The FIRST line of text is the Table of Contents line. It MUST
begin with an asterisk * as shown above. NO BLANK lines above
title line are permitted. If you do not follow this instruction
exactly, the article will not be listed in the Table of Contents.
This Table of Contents listing method works for all submission
file types.
* Everything that follows the *'ed line will appear in
the body of the newsletter. The *'ed line will be
stripped out of your article text so if you want it
repeated as your title in the article BE SURE to REPEAT
it on a second line without the *.
* Next should be the title or name of your article,
your name, and contact information (network
address(es), Postal Service address, etc). Try to
keep it to one or two lines each.
* Put a blank line between paragraphs. Paragraphs that
all run together are very difficult to read, and may
be rejected.
* If you want to put in a table or a figure, go right
ahead. We do not rearrange text if you follow these
submission guidelines, so your table or figure should
remain exactly as you entered it. Try to limit them
to ones that make the communication CLEARER.
* Don't put a lot of blank space at the top or bottom.
The FidoNews-generator programs will visually
separate articles automatically.
* Please check for basic errors in spelling, grammar,
and punctuation. We're not publishing a textbook, but
you don't want it to embarrass yourself do you?
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 9 19 Apr 1999
* Don't use FidoNews to grind your personal axes
against other FidoNet members. An article presenting
a side of an internal dispute is one thing. An
article defaming or perseverating over several
Issues is another. Articles that merely quote
endlessly from other sources to no particular effect
are also not a good idea.
* Don't republish copyrighted material from other
sources WITHOUT the permission of those sources.
Include the permission in such articles.
* Remember that FidoNews is no better or worse than
the articles submitted to it. If you want FidoNews
to be a useful newsletter, get involved and submit
useful articles. It's up to YOU to make it work.
-----------------------------
SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
FidoNews is published on Monday of every week.
| To assure the best possible chance of being published in
| this week's issue, the deadline for file submission to
| the FidoNews Editor via FILE-ATTACH is at 0800 UTC/GMT
| on the previous Saturday.
| The deadline for submissions via NetMail, E-Mail, or in
| the FIDONEWS Echo is 1800 UTC/GMT the previous
| Friday.
Submissions which miss the deadlines will be processed the
following week. Submission by deadline is not a guarantee
of appearance in that week's FidoNews but it is likely
depending on volume of submissions.
As well, submissions may be missed due to changes in the
personal schedule of the FidoNews Editor, but should be
published in the following issue.
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FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 10 19 Apr 1999
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NOTICES
=================================================================
Future History
12 May 1999
12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.
14 - 16 May 1999
V. BBachCon in Bleichenbach, Germany.
For further information see: www.bbachcon.de
24 Jul 1999
XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
9 Jun 1999
Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.
10 Sep 1999
10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
26 Oct 1999
Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.
31 Dec 1999
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
1 Jan 2000
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
1 Jun 2000
EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
21 Sep 2000
10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)
1 Jan 2001
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
=================================================================
Latest Greatest Software Versions
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:228/158
Well, it has been quite a while. Been wondering if I should come
back. Guess I just did. <grin>
Everything is out of date. I've got a backlog, but while I catch
up on old mail, I also want to get new mail as well. So write me.
There's been some speculation about web page listings and e-mail
addresses for this list. I do plan to add them to the web version
of this list within the next couple of weeks. Please send them in.
Please note the new contact info:
Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
fido@popovich.net
http://www.popovich.net/fido
Peter Popovich
-=- Snip -=-
Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column
OS Platform :
Software package name :
Version :
Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. :
Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? :
Author / Support staff contact name :
Author / Support staff contact node :
Magic name (at the above-listed node) :
Internet e-mail address :
Web page :
Please include a sentence describing what the package does.
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
-=- Snip -=-
MS-DOS:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
ALLFIX 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
Announcer 1.12 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP
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BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO
FastEcho/16 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FEX
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD
FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO
GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED
GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO
InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB
IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET
JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV
Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY
Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386
JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H
JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G
MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL
Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE
McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP
Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD
NorthStar 3.31.29 B S A&B Darin 1:285/82 NSTAR
Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP
QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA
Searchlight 4.5 B S Paul Casey 1:343/117 DEMO450.ZIP
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
Silver Xpress
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP
Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH
StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK
StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 13 19 Apr 1999
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD
Terminate 5.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO
TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO
TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP
TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS
TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG
TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS
xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS
OS/2:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
----------------------------------------------------------------------
ALLFIX/2 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST
FleetStreet 1.21 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
FP-OS/2 97-03-21 O F Mike Bilow 323/107 FPOS2
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP
Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF
PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO2
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2
Windows (16-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
----------------------------------------------------------------------
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW
Windows (32-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
FIDONEWS 16-16 Page 14 19 Apr 1999
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Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I
Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_W32
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTW
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXN
Msged/NT 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41W.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFW
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAILNT
WinFOSSIL/95 1.12 r4 F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 WNFOSSIL.ZIP
WinFOSSIL/NT 1.0 beta F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 NTFOSSIL.ZIP
Unix:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ifmail 2.12 M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
ifmail-tx ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
ifmail-tx.rpm ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX.RPM
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Amiga:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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CrashMail 1.31 T X Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHMAIL
CrashTick 1.2 O F Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHTICK
DLG Pro BBOS 1.15 B C Holly Sullivan 1:202/720 DLGDEMO
GMS 1.1.85 M S Mirko Viviani 2:331/213 GMS
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
TrapDoor 1.86.b2 M S Maximilian Hantsch
2:310/6 TRAPDOOR
TrapToss 1.50 T S Rene Hexel 2:310/6 TRAPTOSS
Atari:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ApplyList 1.00 N F Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 APLST100.LZH
BinkleyTerm/ST 3.18pl2 M F Bill Scull 1:363/112 BINKLEY
BTNC 2.00 N G Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 BTNC
JetMail 0.99beta T S Joerg Spilker 2:2432/1101 JETMAIL
Semper 0.80beta M S Jan Kriesten 2:2490/1624 SMP-BETA
Function: B-BBS, P-Point, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser,
C-Compression, F-Fossil, O-Other. Note: Multifunction will
be listed by the first match.
Cost: P-Free for personal use, F-Freeware, S-Shareware, C-Commercial,
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X-Crippleware, D-Demoware, G-Free w/ Source
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
FidoNet:
Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
WWW sources http://travel.to/fidonet/
FTSC page http://www.ftsc.org/
Echomail [pending]
General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
http://www.nrgsys.com/orb/foti
List servers:
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
Region 14:
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
Region 19: http://members.home.net/hbh3/r19
Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/
Not sure where the following should be placed:
http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/fido.html
============
Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
ZEC2:
Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/echolist/
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)
Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/
Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)
Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
Region 42: http://www.fido.cz
Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
Net 5073: http://people.weekend.ru/soa/ (Russian)
============
Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
============
Zone 4:
Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
============
Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
============
Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
============
Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
-----------oOo-------------
Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
1:106/1 | Matt Bedynek | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $5/$15mo.
1:106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP,VMoT | 64k | $5/mo.
1:107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 28.8 | $10/yr.
1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | $15yr.
1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
2:335/535 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
2:254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
2:284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
3:633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP | 33.6 | n/c
4:905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
--
* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
[I'm only cataloging transfer methods, eg, ftp, email, telnet.
Specific programs using these protocols are no longer being listed.
Contact the system operators for details of which programs they have
available.]
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Compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@dandy.net
Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
Editor: Henk Wolsink
Editors Emeriti: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
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FidoNet 5:5/23
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more addresses:
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(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews Editor
P.O. Box 12325
Port Elizabeth,
6006
South Africa
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSGnn.ZIP] for a
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
current year [9], i.e., FNWSJAN9.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 99.
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Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
1 - 16 for 1984 - 1999, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
size from 48K to 1.4M.
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
http://www.fidonews.org
** http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
** ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/Fidonet/Fidonews
And in non-English formats via:
** http://www.hvc.ee/pats/fidonews (Estonian)
http://www.fidonet.pp.se/sfnews (Swedish)
** LINK HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED
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and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
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respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on
www.fidonews.org.
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
http://www.fidonews.org
and http://www.fidonet.dynip.com/public/fidonews/default.htm
and in the FIDONEWS echo.
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STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
=*=*=*=
The current week's FidoNews are now also available almost immediately
after publication on the FidoNews Editor homepage on the World Wide
Web at:
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html
There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an
email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
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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 Editor, or file-requestable
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should have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
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