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Volume 7, Number 36 3 September 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by the System Operators of the
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FidoNet (r) International BBS Network. It is a compilation of
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individual articles contributed by their authors or authorized
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agents of the authors. The contribution of articles to this
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compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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I hate it when that happens! ............................. 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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The BBS Humor Digest ..................................... 2
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Too Much Garbage ......................................... 3
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An Open Letter to Kwityer Bitchin ........................ 5
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Precycle - What is it & How to do it ..................... 8
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3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 9
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Heidi Seeman update ...................................... 9
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4. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 10
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 10
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And more!
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 1 3 Sep 1990
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EDITORIAL
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Hope everyone has been enjoying themselves in the past week or
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two. And that nobody out there is overly impacted by the events
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in the Tigris-Euphrates region. At least not beyond the cost of a
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"Peace through Superior Firepower" T-Shirt, anyway...
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But to the point of this brief "editorial": Could you folk who
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sent me update information on your software please do so again?
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I'm using a new version of my old favorite message editor and
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the most recent surprise it handed me caused me to lose your
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update messages.
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I can hear my friends chuckling already. So who said I was
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immune to such foolishness anyway? I feel so stupid.
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Sorry about that. I'll be more careful next time. Promise!
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Cheers,
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Vince
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 2 3 Sep 1990
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ARTICLES
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Danny Scriven
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Fido 1:152/6
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The NEWEST ISSUE of "The BBS Humor Digest" is READY!
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That's right, the AUGUST issue is now on the stands! To finish
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off SUMMER we've made it 64 printed pages BIG!
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What is the BBS Humor Digest? Glad you asked! The Digest is
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amonthly magazine that is dedicated to all joke enthusiasts
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aroundthe world. The Digest contains many kinds of humorous
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materialvarying from jokes to one-liners, limericks to poems, and
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otheritems. All material is categorized into sections (sexual,
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clean,gross, ethnic, & uncategorized) to make it easier for the
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readerto find their area's of interest quickly and to help them
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stayaway from stuff they would rather not read.
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Where do you Get Your Next Issue of "The BBS Humor Digest"?
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Calling on your own:
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Pandora's Box BBS You can Download right
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(503) 343-4520 from the MAIN MENU!
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Eugene, Oregon. Just press 'D' and
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enter the file name(s)
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File Request (FREQ) by Sysops and Points:
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Digest is available on the first call!
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14.4k HST Transfer Speeds
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Address: 1:152/6 and 8:7702/8
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To receive all Digests to date Request or Download: JOKE?-90.ARC
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We are on our 4th issue, so if you are behind here's the info you
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need to know:
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April [28 printed pages]: Joke4-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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May [30 printed pages]: Joke5-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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June [49 printed pages]: Joke6-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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July [61 printed pages]: Joke7-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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August [64 printed pages]: Joke8-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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Sept. [75 printed pages]: Joke9-90.ARC (available NOW!)
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The Digest is pure ASCII, and is pre-formatted so all you have to
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do is print it out and enjoy! If you haven't checked us out,
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you're missing out!
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Thank you: Richard Whitten & Owen Morgan
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* REMEMBER: Don't Screw up the Punch Line! *
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 3 3 Sep 1990
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Mike Robeson
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Fido 1:350/21.1
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What to do with our garbage!
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Each week, you probably throw away two to three cans of garbage.
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If you had to keep all this trash in your own yard, it wouldn't
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take long before even the mailman might have trouble finding
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your address ("Neither snow, nor sleet, nor rain, nor
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garbage....!").
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But you don't need to trash so much trash. You can easily cut
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the amount of garbage you generate in half or even by two-thirds
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by making a few wise shopping decisions, reusing as much as you
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can, and recycling the rest. Of all the environmental problems
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you have to contend with, you can probably have the most
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immediate impact on garbage overload just by creating less waste
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in your own home.
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Every day, Americans jettison food, from potato peelings and
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apple skins to the leftovers after supper or the last piece of
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crust in a loaf of bread. For every ten pounds of garbage the
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average household throws out each week, from one to three pounds
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are food that could be fully recycled. Here are a few
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suggestions for keeping the treasure out of the trash:
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* Separate your food waste and other organic material from the
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rest of your garbage. Even if you live in a high-rise apartment
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building, you can keep your food scraps separate from the trash;
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and if you dispose of them in a paper bag, rather than plastic,
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they'll compact more densely in the landfill and make room for
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more garbage (if the landfill is designed correctly organics
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will not decompose, as the landfill should be virtually air
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tight). To prevent the bag from leaking, put some newspaper in
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the bottom of the bag, or wrap juicy waste in newspaper before
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you toss it out.
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* Compost it. If you live in a house, townhouse, or apartment
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that is on or adjacent to some parcel of land, you should not
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only separate your organic waste from the rest of your garbage
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but compost it as well.
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Compost is nothing more than decayed organic matter. In many
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ways, it is the perfect form of recycling, not only because it
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converts organic wastes into rich fertilizer and thereby helps
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restore the soil, but because it's easy. Once the compost bin
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itself is built, it is just as quick to take your food scraps
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out to the compost pile as to your garbage can.
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* Reduce the amount of organic garbage you produce. Instead of
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tossing leftovers out, freeze them for later use in soups and
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stews. Or, if that doesn't suit your cooking style, try to cook
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more accurate portions so that you only prepare as much food as
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you're going to eat at one sitting. And don't go out to a
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restaurant when you have a refrigerator full of food at home;
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eat what's in the fridge first, and save dining out for an
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 4 3 Sep 1990
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occasion.
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In addition to food waste, packaging creates an unholy amount of
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trash. Fully one tenth of the average weekly shopping bill is
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spent on the packaging alone. To minimize your rubbish:
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* Use cloth napkins and dish towels instead of paper. Keep old
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towels, stained napkins and cloth diapers around to use as rags
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for mopping up spills.
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* Bring home groceries in the fewest number of bags possible.
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Ask for paper bags and remember, the fewer bags you bring home,
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the fewer you'll have to throw away. Try to reuse the bags you
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do bring home by taking them back to the store the next time you
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shop, using them as garbage bags, or storing your newspapers in
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them for recycling.
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* Buy food and other products wrapped in the least amount of
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packaging possible. Skip prepackaged produce in favor of bulk
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fruits and vegetables you can bag yourself, and ask your grocery
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store to stock paper, not plastic, produce bags. If paper isn't
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available, plastic produce bags can be washed out, dried and
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reused time after time.
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* Use glass dishes and cups and metal silverware instead of
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plastic. In fact, avoid buying anything that's plastic unless
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it's extremely durable, you can use many times over, and you
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have no other option.
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* Recycle glass and aluminum. If you can, buy the largest size
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glass container of the product you want, and reuse the container
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at home for iced tea, juice, or other food storage. No matter
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how many containers you reuse, though, you'll reach a point
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where you'll either have to start throwing them out or recycling
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them, along with your aluminum cans. Ask your local recycling
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center if it will accept aluminum, glass and newspapers. If
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not, find one that does.
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Remember, if you're not recycling you're throwing it away.
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 5 3 Sep 1990
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Mike Riddle
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Fido 1:285/27
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An Open Letter to Kwityer Bitchin
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Dear Kwityer:
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While the minor brouhaha over the switch from FNEWS*.ARC to
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FNEWS*.LZH appears to have died down now, I still must respond to
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what I think are some problems with your approach. It seems to me
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you are confused over the true nature of both today's network and
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its users.
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While Fidonet started life as a loose organization of computer
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hobbyists, it has grown to be much more than that. While studies
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show that entirely too many people today are computer-illiterate,
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when Fido got its start the problem was substantially worse.
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Computers were rare and expensive, small and underpowered, compared
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to today. Initially, much like amateur radio, the content of the
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messages was subordinate to the fact that they were sent.
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Today that has changed. The typical user of virtually all of the
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bulletin boards that I know about is /much/ more interested in the
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content of the message than the mechanics of how it is transmitted.
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I can think of more than a few sysops who don't know diddly about
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programming, and who are able to run their boards quite competently
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because of the few well-documented programs that are available and
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because of co-operative, friendly net coordinators and fellow
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sysops.
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In today's world, IMHO, some sysops and most users are here
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strictly for the information exchange. "Fixing a batch file" is
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quite a task for some of them. This is not intended to be a put-
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down. I have done quite a few different things in my life and like
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to think of myself as competent and successful. I use the medical
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system when I need it and, along with most people, I imagine, view
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many operations as "simple." I wouldn't, however, want to remove
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someone's appendix. It might be simple to a doctor, but it's not
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simple to me.
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Because of these changes in the network, and if we assume for this
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discussion that the switch to .LZH was a good thing, ranked with
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motherhood, apple pie, and the Fourth of July, we have to make some
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observations:
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1. We needed notice, at least a week, about the change.
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A lot of people needed to take action, preferably on a
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planned basis.
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2. We need to remember the difference between portabili-
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ty and interoperability.
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 6 3 Sep 1990
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Even if the proper executables were available for all machines in
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the network, sysops and coordinators deserved the opportunity to
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prepare on a reasoned basis for the event. Even a week would
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arguably have been enough, but it's not considerate to do it
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without any notice at all. In my own mind, it was annoying.
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Probably not excessively annoying, since I use an MS-DOS machine
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and had all the right files somewhere, but still annoying.
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What you appear to overlook is that .LZH utilities were not, and
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maybe are still not, available for all machines used by sysops,
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not to mention users, in the network. Since the network today
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exists much more for the information it transmits than for the joy
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of transmitting it, this becomes important.
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While the founders of FidoNet were invariably programmers, and
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often talented programmers, such as your yourself appear to be,
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that is simply not the case of users and sysops today. One simply
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cannot assume that the public existence of source code for one
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machine equates to a working program on another. /You/ might be
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able to port it over in a relatively short time, but not everyone
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can and maybe it just can't always be done.
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Since LHARC source code is available, we can say that .LZH is
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portable (this might not always be true, but let us assume so for
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this discussion). It still was not interoperable until someone
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wrote or obtained the utility programs. In our network we have
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several systems using CP/M. While within a week or so they were
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able to obtain workable utilities, many of them did not have it
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when the FNEWS*.LZH arrived in the mail. Other letters in previous
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issues of FidoNews have pointed out that some other systems (the
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CoCO, for example?) still don't have .LZH compatibility. This does
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not bode well for information exchange.
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Finally, let me point out that someone suggested that it might be
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a violation of policy for an intermediate node in the distribution
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to change the flavor of the compressed news. Policy, as I remember
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it, provides that:
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2.1.5 No Alteration of Routed Mail
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You may not modify, other than as required for routing
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or other /technical purposes/, any message, netmail or
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echomail, passing through the system from one FidoNet
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node to another. (emphasis added)
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I would note that FIDO*.NWS is the message, and the compression
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method is a mere technique of transmission. I personally don't
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feel repacking from .ARC to .LZH is modifying the message. Given
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the problem of interoperability, it seems to me that it would at
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least be annoying, and perhaps excessively annoying, for a coordi-
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nator /not/ to repack FidoNews for a system that didn't have .LZH
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capability, and his doing so would seem to be purely for "technical
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purposes."
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 7 3 Sep 1990
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So Kwityer Bitchin, I think you need to reassess the differences
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between the network of today and the network started by Tom, Dick
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and Harry. To sum it up, Kwityer Bitchin.
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 8 3 Sep 1990
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Mike Robeson
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Fido node 1:350/21.1
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PRECYCLE
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Have you ever heard of "Precycling"? This is the practice of
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buying products packaged in biodegradable, recycled, and/or
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recyclable material. One out of every $11 that Americans spend
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on food goes for packaging. In fact, we spent more on the
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packaging for our food last year than American farmers received
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in net income.
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Did you know that:
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* Each American uses about 190 pounds of plastic per year - and
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about 60 pounds of it is packaging which we discard as soon as
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the package is opened.
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* About 30% of all plastics produced are used for packaging.
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* Americans go through 2.5 million blastic bottles every hour.
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* Packaging waste accounts for approximately a third of all the
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garbage Americans send to landfills.
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* Roughly 5 million tons - more than half of all plastics we
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throw away each year - are packaging.
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Simple things you can do when you shop:
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* Keep your eyes open when you shop. everything you buy has an
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effect on the environment - try to make it a positive one.
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* Buy eggs in cardboard - not styrofoam - cartons.
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* Most cereal boxes are made of recycled cardboard. It's easy to
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tell - the boxes are grey on the inside. The packaging for many
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varieties of cookies, crackers, dry goods etc. are also recycled.
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look for the "recycled" logo, or send for the "Environmental
|
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Product Shopping List" from, Pennsylvania Resources Council, 25
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West 3rd St., Media, PA 19063.
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* Buy in bulk: It's cheaper, and uses minimal packaging (in some
|
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places you can even bring your own container).
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* Buy beverages in glass or aluminum containers, which are easy
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to recycle. You can also choose sauces, condiments, baby foods,
|
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spreads, etc. that are packaged in glass instead of plastic.
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* Avoid plastic containers, especially "squeezable" ones, which
|
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are ade up of different types of plastic in several layers, and
|
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are dramatically non-biodegradable.
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If 10% of Americans purchased products with less plastic
|
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packaging just 10% of the time, we could eliminate some 144
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million pounds of plastic from our landfills, reduce industrial
|
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pollution, and send a message to manufacturers that we're
|
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serious about alternatives.
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 9 3 Sep 1990
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=================================================================
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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=================================================================
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Nick Mesquiti
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Fido 1:387/406
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Vince, I want to thank you for putting the Heidi Situation Sheet
|
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in the current newsletter. Unfortunately Heidi's body was found
|
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Saturday in Wimberly, TX about a 1 hour drive from San Antonio.
|
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I and the other volunteers appreciate your help.
|
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Thanks
|
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|
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 10 3 Sep 1990
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=================================================================
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LATEST VERSIONS
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=================================================================
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Latest Software Versions
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MS-DOS Systems
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--------------
|
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Bulletin Board Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
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DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5f*
|
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.64 TBBS 2.1
|
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Lynx 1.30 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
|
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|
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Kitten 2.16 RBBSmail 17.3A Telegard 2.5
|
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Maximus 1.00 RemoteAccess 0.04a* TPBoard 6.1
|
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Opus 1.13+* SLBBS 1.77* Wildcat! 2.15
|
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PCBoard 14.2 Socrates 1.00 XBBS 1.13
|
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Network Node List Other
|
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Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
|
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|
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BinkleyTerm 2.40* EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0*
|
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.20 ARCAsim 2.30
|
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Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
|
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FrontDoor 1.99c* Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
|
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|
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.11 Crossnet v1.5
|
|||
|
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SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02
|
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|
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TIMS 1.0(Mod8)* XlaxDiff 2.35* Gmail 2.05
|
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|
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XlaxNode 2.35* GROUP 2.16
|
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GUS 1.30
|
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InterPCB 1.30*
|
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LHARC 1.13
|
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MSG 4.1
|
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MSGED 2.00*
|
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
|
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QM 1.0
|
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QSORT 4.03
|
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Sirius 1.0w
|
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SLMAIL 1.35
|
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StarLink 1.01
|
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TagMail 2.20
|
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TCOMMail 2.2
|
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Telemail 1.20
|
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TMail 1.15
|
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TPBNetEd 3.2
|
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TosScan 1.00
|
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UFGATE 1.03
|
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XRS 3.40
|
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ZmailQ 1.12*
|
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 11 3 Sep 1990
|
|||
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|
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|
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Macintosh
|
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---------
|
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|
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
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|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Red Ryder Host v2.1b10 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
|
|||
|
|
Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0d* ArcMac 1.3
|
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|
|
WWIV (Mac) 3.0 StuffIt 1.6b1*
|
|||
|
|
FBBS 0.91* TImport 1.331
|
|||
|
|
Hermes 0.88* TExport 1.32
|
|||
|
|
Timestamp 1.6
|
|||
|
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Tset 1.3
|
|||
|
|
Import 3.2
|
|||
|
|
Export 3.21
|
|||
|
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Sundial 3.2
|
|||
|
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PreStamp 3.2
|
|||
|
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OriginatorII 2.0
|
|||
|
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AreaFix 1.6
|
|||
|
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Mantissa 3.21
|
|||
|
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Zenith 1.5
|
|||
|
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UNZIP 1.02b
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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Amiga
|
|||
|
|
-----
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Paragon 2.06+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
|
|||
|
|
TrapDoor 1.50* AReceipt 1.5*
|
|||
|
|
WelMat 0.35 booz 1.01
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 1.10
|
|||
|
|
ChameleonEdit 0.10
|
|||
|
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ElectricHerald1.66*
|
|||
|
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Lharc 1.10
|
|||
|
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MessageFilter 1.52*
|
|||
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|
oMMM 1.49b
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30
|
|||
|
|
PkAX 1.00
|
|||
|
|
PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
|
|||
|
|
PolyxAmy 2.02*
|
|||
|
|
RMB 1.30
|
|||
|
|
TrapList 1.12*
|
|||
|
|
UNzip 0.86
|
|||
|
|
Yuck! 1.61*
|
|||
|
|
Zoo 2.00
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Atari ST
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-36 Page 12 3 Sep 1990
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
--------
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDOdoor/ST 1.5c* BinkleyTerm 1.03g3 ConfMail 1.00
|
|||
|
|
Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30
|
|||
|
|
QuickBBS/ST 0.40 ARC 6.02*
|
|||
|
|
GS Point 0.61 LHARC 0.51
|
|||
|
|
LED ST 0.10*
|
|||
|
|
BYE 0.25*
|
|||
|
|
PKUNZIP 1.10
|
|||
|
|
MSGED 1.96S
|
|||
|
|
SRENUM 6.2
|
|||
|
|
Trenum 0.10
|
|||
|
|
OMMM 1.40
|
|||
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|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Archimedes
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Mailers Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ARCbbs 1.44* BinkleyTerm 2.03* Unzip 2.1TH
|
|||
|
|
ARC 1.03
|
|||
|
|
!Spark 2.00d*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30
|
|||
|
|
BatchPacker 1.00*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
|
|||
|
|
* Recently changed
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
|
|||
|
|
reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
|
|||
|
|
all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-36 Page 13 3 Sep 1990
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
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|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
NOTICES
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The Interrupt Stack
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
5 Oct 1990
|
|||
|
|
21st Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
First anniversary of Van Diepen Automatiseert, 2:500/28
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
14 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at
|
|||
|
|
2:332/16.0
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
1 Jan 1991
|
|||
|
|
Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
|
|||
|
|
Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
16 Feb 1991
|
|||
|
|
Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
7 Oct 1991
|
|||
|
|
Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
|
|||
|
|
will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
|
|||
|
|
Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
|
|||
|
|
Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
|
|||
|
|
Islands will retain area code 415.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
1 Feb 1992
|
|||
|
|
Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
|
|||
|
|
eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
|
|||
|
|
code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
|
|||
|
|
West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
|
|||
|
|
Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
|
|||
|
|
Montebello) will retain area code 213.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
1 Dec 1993
|
|||
|
|
Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
5 Jun 1997
|
|||
|
|
David Dodell's 40th Birthday
|
|||
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|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
|||
|
|
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
|||
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|
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FidoNews 7-36 Page 14 3 Sep 1990
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|||
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|
|||
|
|
Brad Thurber
|
|||
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1:236/9
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
The following is an excerpt from a letter I received a few
|
|||
|
|
days ago:
|
|||
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|
|||
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Dear Sir;
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We would be grateful if you would, like us, respond to
|
|||
|
|
this request and help Craig.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Craig is a seven-year-old boy who has a brain tumor
|
|||
|
|
and has very little time to live. It is his ambition
|
|||
|
|
to gain entry to the Guiness Book of Records for the
|
|||
|
|
largest number of get-well cards ever received by an
|
|||
|
|
individual. Please send a card to:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Craig Shergold
|
|||
|
|
36 Selby Road
|
|||
|
|
Carshalton
|
|||
|
|
Surrey, CN8 1Ld
|
|||
|
|
England
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The letter requested that I send this information on to ten
|
|||
|
|
(10) other people. As a Fidonet sysop, I have decided sned
|
|||
|
|
it to the 10,000 plus readers of FidoNews instead.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please pass this information on to as many people as you
|
|||
|
|
can. Better yet, if you are a sysop, place it as a
|
|||
|
|
bulletin for your users to read. Send Craig a card today!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Very truly yours,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Brad Thurber, Productive Resources
|
|||
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|
|
|||
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|
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|||
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