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Volume 7, Number 48 26 November 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the Members of the
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FidoNet (r) International Amateur Electronic Mail System. It is
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a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors
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or authorized agents of the authors. The contribution of articles
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to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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Are all sysops criminals? ................................ 1
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Nets, Geography, Rules and Drivel ........................ 7
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Call for Zone 1 EC Election .............................. 9
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 10
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Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 10
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 13
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 13
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 18
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 18
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 1 26 Nov 1990
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ARTICLES
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Tom Jennings
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FidoNet 1:125/111
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usenet ...hoptoad!kumr!anomaly (anomaly@FIDONET.ORG)
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24 Nov 90
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The U.S. Constitution does not grant us rights. "Our" government
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does not grant us rights. They have nothing to give us, other
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than ostensibly services which it provides from our taxes. (I'll
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leave that one alone here.)
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The Constitution simply admits that, as humans, we have certain
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rights, and that the government recognizes this, and promises not
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to take them away. THAT was the revolutionary idea behind this
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government.
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This is an incredibly important difference, and one which our
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gov't doesn't like to emphasize. They want it to appear that they
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are the defenders of all that is good, when in reality they are
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one of the worst offenders.
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* * * * *
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Tim Pozar & I just got back from the Hackers Conference 6.0. (The
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Hackers' Conferences are an invite-only social event for the
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creative weirdos who make up at least part of the forces behind
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the (mostly) software frontier. When they were started in '84,
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the micro software industry was still somewhat laughable in
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large-industry terms (though given a lot of credibility (sic) by
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the IBM PC a few years before), and "hacker" usually meant more
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or less what "ham" did in amateur radio.
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I've been to four of them so far, 1, 2, 4 and 6. The first two
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were great, the 4th not so, in my peculiar opinion. It was too
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... isolated. The whole trickle-down thing revisited. Like this
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-- "We're making the tools that will benefit the world" and all
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that rot, and if it only cost $500, everyone could buy one.
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(Forgetting that they themselves are 1% of 1% and $500 is an
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unthinkable figure for *most* US citizens -- and growing.)
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But this year was different.
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* * * * *
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The unix-based usenet network has many corporations that pay for
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telecomm costs, unlike us bums who pay for it ourselves, or on
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the sly where possible. Until a year or so ago, FidoNet was not
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considered a "real" network, whatever that is. Part of it was
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simple snootiness, but a big part was simply that we sprung up
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from a place no one was expecting, and even when the wilder of
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the "traditional network" bunch looked in the right direction,
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 2 26 Nov 1990
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they weren't sure of exactly what it was they were seeing ... you
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have to admit we are a curious bunch.
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People don't just "build" networks. They are expensive, take all
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that expensive minicomputer hardware, and who takes care of all
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those user accounts? What user accounts?! Where's your VAX? Hey
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wait a minute ...
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Some INTERNET nodes specialize in FTP'able (filereqestable)
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files; utilities, documents, that sort of thing, just like
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FidoNet nodes do. One specialized in .GIF picture files,
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including some of variously erotic content. The (gov't) sponsors
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of the net (in keeping with the current censorious trend) ordered
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the stuff "off". The Finnish offered to take the files, where
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they quickly became 70% of the traffic ... and indication of
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their U.S. popularity.
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Then the feds (I forget the branch) told the Fins: if you
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continue to provide those files to the U.S., we will cut all of
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your network connections. The Fins had no choice; survival comes
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first.
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* * * * *
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The Hackers Conference was in a ski-lodge in Tahoe City, starting
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Friday afternoon, ending Sunday afternoon. Sleep optional. Dinner
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served at midnight. (Us vegetarian types had to sludge through
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greasy sauce-laden meat and such. Where "mint tea" is some grim
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lipton-clone where I swear they simply held a mint-leaf over the
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mixing vat ...)
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After the usual preliminaries (beer, M&M's, 10,000 "hello"s,
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finding rooms, etc) the fun begins -- a 48 hr long bullshit
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session, interrupted with food, sleep and occasional
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not-well-organized "sessions".
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In one of the bigger sessions, someone asked "how many people had
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been interviewed recently by the FBI?" Fully 1/4th raised their
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hands.
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* * * * *
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The FidoNet is nothing if not contradictions -- independent,
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unpredictable, paranoid, decentralist, self-sufficient, flexible,
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reactionary, technically sophisticated ... Some wonder how we get
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anything done. I wonder how anyone ELSE gets things done!
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What appears to be a liability to the "rest of the world", our
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"lack of organization", lack of resources (90's code word for
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money) may be our long-term survival and later cause for
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rejoicing.
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 3 26 Nov 1990
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Corporate "resources" don't come without strings, as the usenet
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may be about to find out. This past weekend, that bastion of
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liberalism (well, liberal capitalism; well, capitalism) Apple
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Computer just pulled the plug on the alt.sex.* newsgroups. (Their
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equiv. of echo conferences; ".*" means just what you DOS users
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might guess; it's a lot of conferences!) (Apple was a very big
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"backbone" distribution node.) Why? "Too controversial" or some
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such. I'm sure it's a "good reason". And of course they can do
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it, just like that. It is not unthinkable it will start a "run"
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on plug-pulling.
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Before we get too snooty ourselves, we have to keep in mind that
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we are just as vulnerable, maybe more so -- we don't have the
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resources to defend ourselves, nor the connections (yet) to the
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network community (though thanks to Tim Pozar we have ufgate
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(usenet/fidonet gateway) and INTERNET status). WE NEED THOSE TO
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SURVIVE. And we can do it while maintaining our utter and
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complete independence. And, the INTERNET will learn from us.
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To a few people, the high number of (ahem) interviewees was not a
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surprise. Mitch Kapor and John Barlow both had funny (if it was
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fiction) and foreboding (because of the feds power and ignorance)
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"interviews". The story is quite interesting, and was available
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on The Well and in print. To make a long story short, they have
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formed the EFF -- Electronic Frontier Foundation -- to defend
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First, (protected speech) and Fourth, (unreasonable
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search/seizure) Constitutional Amendments, as well to monitor
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ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) and other
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violations, and to work with legislators to work out fair laws.
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What was most heartening to me, was the approach -- instead of
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defending only the "nice, upstanding", positive-image type cases,
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they went for the real issues -- the kids and families getting
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busted at gun point by the feds, where literally every piece of
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electronics removed from the house, no recourse, no reason, no
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charges filed. The Niedorfer case, where the claimed $70K "stolen
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file" is found to be a brochure available to anyone for under
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$14. (And the press still calls it "stolen 911 software".) Steve
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Jackson Games; computers seized because an employee allegedly had
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on his home BBS a copy of the E911 doc (they were confused as to
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the location of the BBS; they later claimed that S.J's cyberpunk
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games (role playing like Dungeons & Dragons) were actually
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instructions on how to break into real-life computers!)
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In another case, the FBI thought that (1) John Draper (aka Cap'n
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Crunch) was CEO of AutoDesk and (2) AutoDesk was involved in Star
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Wars research, because they worked with something called
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"hyperspace". Yup -- it's hilarious, only they have guns,
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secrecy, bureaucracy and the power to evade legal process and
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accountability. And, you get hung in the press because their
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version of "reality" is so ... heavy.
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 4 26 Nov 1990
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It is so rare to find someone who acts "from the heart" in their
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life, politics and actions, willing to put reputations at stake
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and correctly defend the "undefendable" first, not last. I have
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nothing but good things to say about EFF and it's supporters.
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This years FidoCon should be the best one yet. I'm actually
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looking forward to going, a rare event. (I'll drive out in my
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propane-powered '63 Rambler.) John Barlow, now of EFF fame, will
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be speaking. And you ought to listen -- not only is he an
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interesting speaker (and lyricist for the Grateful Dead!), the
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subject is Your Personal Future -- our governments actions
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against all too ordinary citizens, and what the EFF is doing, and
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what you can do as well.
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We all went through some internal hell these last few years, of
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which the growth and death of IFNA was merely a symptom. Look --
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the FidoNet doubled in size every few months for years, and is
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still growing at a rate that is completely, bar-none,
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unprecedented. How many of you have broad-based communications
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skills or experience? How many of you had telecomm. and/or
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conferencing experience before FidoNet? Simple experiences of
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speaking in a large group of diverse people? And I mean as in
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communications with humans, not hacking. Very few of us, I'm
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afraid, and while it's been a serious problem, it (1) affords us
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a fresh perspective and (2) simply something we have to deal
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with. The fun is in the learning.
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I think we are heading for the fourth phase of FidoNet growth
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(innocent start, echomail, paranoid self-consciousness, ...). The
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timing is good -- we have some real work cut out for us.
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So this year's Hackers Conference was different. How? Finally
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they reached my level of paranoia. There was an edge of stark
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reality in the air. A bit more tied to the planet.
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Personally, it completed a circle. Now, every single thing I'm
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involved in is officially disliked and under investigation and
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infiltration by police of one sort or another. I think those that
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though "well, you must have somehow brought it on yourself" are
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starting to see, it's not like that at all ...
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By the way -- you might have heard about the nonsense at Prodigy
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-- the idiotic administrators using broadscale censorship
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(correct word) to squash dissent. What you probably don't know --
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because the reports themselves were self-censored -- was that the
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original discussion, purged by Prodigy, was over gay rights and
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anything to do with gay people. This is what Prodigy claimed was
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"offensive material".
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 5 26 Nov 1990
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Shame, shame, on the so-called liberal types who in their turn
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did not report that. It was not simply not including the gay
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angle; it was intentionally removed, a very different thing.
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Everyone suffers from that removal.
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* * * * *
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(1) The usenet is our ally. We need as many interconnections with
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it, and other networks, as is reasonably possible. We are all
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under attack. Besides, it's technically interesting.
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(2) Don't fall for what Pastor Martin Niemoller did; ("In Germany
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they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak because I
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wasn't a Communist...") We're all "commies" in that sense -- the
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brat hackers are simply the thin edge of the wedge. Criminals are
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criminals -- which is decided in a court of law, not with a
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sealed search warrant and intimidation.
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(3) Watch for EFF stuff in the net, or contact them directly. EFF
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Inc, 112 Second St, Cambridge MA 02142. voice (617)-864-0665, or
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usenet eff@well.sf.ca.us Bug 'em for an echo conference. Tell 'em
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you are from the FidoNet.
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(4) The First Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy will be
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held 25 - 28 March 91 at the SFO Marriott. The goal is to open
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channels of communication between network and telecomm experts,
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info/datacomm providers, law enforcement, prosecutors,
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constitutional exports, computer users and civil libertarians.
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Attendance will be limited to 600 people. The event is sponsored
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by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and chaired
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by Jim Warren (of West Coast Computer Faire, amongst other
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notorieties). CFPconf, 345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062, FAX
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(415)-851-2814, or usenet jwarren@well.sf.ca.us
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It is of more importance to the community that
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innocence should be protected than it is that
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guilt should be punished, for guilt and crimes
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are so frequent in the world that all of them
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cannot be punished, and many times they happen
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in such a manner that it is not of much consequence
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to the public whether they are punished or not. But
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when innocence itself is brought to the bar and
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condemned, especially to die, the subject will
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exclaim, "It is immaterial to me whether I behave
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well or ill, for virtue is no security". And if such
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sentiment as this should take place in the mind of
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the subject there would be an end to all security
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whatsoever.
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 6 26 Nov 1990
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-- John Adams
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 7 26 Nov 1990
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Nets & Geography, Rules, Regulations, and other useless drivel
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by Kwityer Bychin
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Hi Ho folks, how did you enjoy your Thanksgiving? Have a good
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time? That's just wonderful. Now enough of the merriment, its
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time to pay attention to our ugly hobby and get all worked up
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again.
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Did you read last week's Snooze article by that guy named Garth
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Somebodyorother from somewhere in Zone 3? Of COURSE you didn't
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(still can't unpack the Snooze eh?). Well, go back to Snooze
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#747 and read the damn thing. Then come back here.
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<time passes>
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All done? Ok, good.
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Now, it seems to me that this guy is on to something. Splitting
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off all the zones into independant Kinda-Fido-Related networks.
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I like it. Decentralize and all that stuff. Hey, if we did that,
|
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it would take the wind out of guys like MATT WHELAN who like to
|
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foist policies upon people. But that's a story for another
|
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day...
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What really piqued my interest, was his comment about trashing
|
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the geography rule for nets. This has potential. Its not such a
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bad idea to let someone be in whatever net he wants for whatever
|
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reason. I mean, why the hell not? Costs, you say? Piffle.
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See, all you gotta do is make the NCs not responsible to send a
|
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damn thing. As a matter of fact, they ain't responsible to SEND
|
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a damn thing now. All they gotta do is make the mail, diff, and
|
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the Snooze "available". So if some guy in California wants to
|
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join a net in New York, why should the New York net care? Make
|
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the California guy pick up EVERYTHING. I mean, hey, if the
|
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Califonia Dude is crazy enough to wanna call NY all the time for
|
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his stuff, who are WE to save him from himself??
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Garth is right about the democracy deal. Rumor has it that
|
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Fidonet is moving toward democracy (which is really horsepucky
|
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since all the "movement" toward it is people moving their lips,
|
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there ain't been one single change to policy instilling one iota
|
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of democracy anywhere) . And if that's REALLY TRUE, what good is
|
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it if a guy who doesn't like the local net's policy can't get
|
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OUT of the net?
|
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I mean if you don't like the town ordinance that prohibits
|
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overnight parking, you can always move the hell out of the town.
|
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Can't move anywhere in Fidonet.
|
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 8 26 Nov 1990
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Rules, rules, rules and more rules. Policy 4, Echopol, Gatepol,
|
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|
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Interpol, Yo Mama's Pol, do this, do it my way, because I said
|
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|
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so, I'm a *C, There AIN'T no vote, I make the rules - you keep
|
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|
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your mouth shut, I wanna send mail to Alternet, NO! you can't,
|
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|
|
you gotta send it through me, GET THAT NODE NUMBER OUT OF THE
|
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|
|
SEEN-BYs, Vote for ME, WAIT! you can't vote!, You're just a
|
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|
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sysop, You ain't a AUTHORIZED GATEWAY, Your mailer isn't
|
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|
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compliant, IT IS SO, *YOURS* isn't, policy complaint....
|
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|
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|
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Ain't this fun? Oh yeah. We all got computers that can send
|
|||
|
|
messages to each other, but in order to do that, we gotta have
|
|||
|
|
six billion pages of rules and piles of "administrators" who
|
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|
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make 'em up and throw 'em at you. And you can't vote THEM *OR*
|
|||
|
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the rules out.
|
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|
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|
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What's the POINT? I dunno, you tell me. Food for thought. Eat
|
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|
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THAT and save a turkey.
|
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K.B. '90
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|
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 9 26 Nov 1990
|
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|
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|
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To: George Peace, Zone 1 Coordinator
|
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|
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From: Zone 1 Regional Echo Coordinators
|
|||
|
|
Re: Zone 1 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Dear George,
|
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|
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|
|
We feel it necessary to respectfully request that you hold an
|
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|
|
election to replace the existing Zone 1 Echo Coordinator, as
|
|||
|
|
provided for in General Echomail Policy 1.0 (EchoPol).
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
We recommend that this vote be conducted in at the same time as
|
|||
|
|
the ratification referendum for the revised EchoPol, which is
|
|||
|
|
scheduled to begin on January 15, 1991.
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
If you desire, we would be happy to assist you in choosing a
|
|||
|
|
slate of qualified candidates.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
Sincerely yours,
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Norm Henke, Region 11 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
Ken Wilson, Region 12 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
Dan Buda, Region 14 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
John Valentyn, Region 15 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
Steve Ahola, Region 16 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
Tony Wagner, Region 17 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
Amnon Nissan, Region 18 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
|
John Souvestre, Region 19 Echo Coordinator
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
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|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-48 Page 10 26 Nov 1990
|
|||
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
COLUMNS
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
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|
|||
|
|
Henry Clark
|
|||
|
|
1:124/6120
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
Comdex '90 Gaming Dept. --
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Vegas sure has changed in the last 5 years. I remember when
|
|||
|
|
you could play blackjack with a single deck and a two dollar
|
|||
|
|
bet. I didn't look REAL hard, but a lot of places had a double
|
|||
|
|
deck, played 3/4 of the way through for three dollars.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I was staying at Bally's and playing five dollar bets. And the
|
|||
|
|
6 deck played 2/3 of the way through. I was unlucky and happy.
|
|||
|
|
Bally's lets you surrender, and they don't mind you bringing a
|
|||
|
|
cheat sheet to the table. I didn't do either, and I won a
|
|||
|
|
little money. I should have won a lot. Later, I'll tell you
|
|||
|
|
my system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Check out the poker room. The low exposure poker table is less
|
|||
|
|
expensive than blackjack; you can buy in for 20 bucks and play
|
|||
|
|
for hours. I didn't have much luck and lost money overall at
|
|||
|
|
the poker table. I had only one winning session there. One
|
|||
|
|
evening, Redd Foxx walks in. I didn't see his show, but he got
|
|||
|
|
some of my money anyway. "You big dummy".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I had mixed feelings about craps. I usually never play the
|
|||
|
|
game, but on the advice of my brother-in-law, played his system
|
|||
|
|
for a while. His system is to play 5 on the pass line, 10
|
|||
|
|
behind the line odds, and put 6 bucks each on the 6 and 8 odds
|
|||
|
|
bets. The '27' dollar system. It sort of made sense, but I
|
|||
|
|
lost money just the same.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I also played the slot machine with the 77 thousand dollar
|
|||
|
|
jackpot. Dropped a bunch of quarters in that, won nothing. I
|
|||
|
|
figured that a real long shot bet was something you had to try
|
|||
|
|
once.
|
|||
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1 Iron Dept. --
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Out at The Legacy : 18 hole golf course cut in STONE.
|
|||
|
|
Literally. If you got very far off the fairway, you entered
|
|||
|
|
the rough, which is usually about 1/8 inch of grass and dirt,
|
|||
|
|
then a gravel sand mixture which scratched my new irons. That
|
|||
|
|
and the idiots they let play in front of us; or maybe hack in
|
|||
|
|
front of us. We putted the last green in the dark. I shot 90
|
|||
|
|
but had 6 out of bounds penalties. We played from the blue
|
|||
|
|
tees.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-48 Page 11 26 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The second time, I thought I played much better, but had a 93.
|
|||
|
|
We played from the black tees, the way back markers. My new
|
|||
|
|
clubs were playing great. Again it was slow play, which I hate,
|
|||
|
|
but at least we finished in daylight. I'm so used to bermuda
|
|||
|
|
greens, and to get onto a bent grass course, like a pool table,
|
|||
|
|
was quite a new experience. Actually I did quite well putting.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From the Horse's Mouth Dept. --
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Vince "Bink" Perriello assured me that Bink 2.50 will be out
|
|||
|
|
before the new year. I have several changes of my own planned
|
|||
|
|
for this release, beyond those for 2.40 which Vince doesn't
|
|||
|
|
include :
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1. rid keyboard buffer clearing in b_initva.c at shutdown,
|
|||
|
|
2. expand outbound queue display down the page by narrowing the
|
|||
|
|
recent status and transfer status windows,
|
|||
|
|
3. separate the screen blank timer from the modem reset timer,
|
|||
|
|
in mailer.c/others, add screen blank timer config,
|
|||
|
|
4. add file size transmits, other counters to statistic screen.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The System --
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Believe it or not, I got my college degree in math and I'm
|
|||
|
|
perfectly capable of calculating the odds of card appearance.
|
|||
|
|
However, playing into a 4 deck shoe is just a bit much : "I'm
|
|||
|
|
not an excellent driver." So I used " The System ". I only
|
|||
|
|
won a little, so " The System " let me down.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The first rule : always double down when you should. You cannot
|
|||
|
|
overcome the house's advantage unless you double your bet at the
|
|||
|
|
appropriate time. The house advantage is that when both you and
|
|||
|
|
the dealer go over 21 ( bust ), you did it first, so you lose.
|
|||
|
|
Odds of player or dealer busting are about 28%, and both busting
|
|||
|
|
( remember you lose ) is about 8%. Odds of a tie ( push ) is
|
|||
|
|
about 8% which leaves your win/loss percentage at 42/50. You
|
|||
|
|
make up some of this by getting 2.5 times your money on a
|
|||
|
|
blackjack ( two card 21 ). You make up the rest by doubling
|
|||
|
|
your bet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The second rule : when 'ten' cards are in the shoe, your odds
|
|||
|
|
of winning are increased. The simple reason is that the dealer
|
|||
|
|
is more likely to bust. For every 13 cards, there are 4 tens,
|
|||
|
|
about 1 in 3. For every hand, there are about 3 cards played
|
|||
|
|
per player, so we compare the number of 'seen' tens per deal to
|
|||
|
|
the number of players. If there are a lot fewer tens, increase
|
|||
|
|
your bet. I wait until after the third deal, and divide tens
|
|||
|
|
seen by the number of hands. Double your bet when that ratio
|
|||
|
|
is less than 4 for 7 players.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-48 Page 12 26 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I liked " The System " so much, I wrote a simulator that plays
|
|||
|
|
blackjack as fast as it can, while keeping statistics. You can
|
|||
|
|
file request that program, with C source code from 1:124/6120,
|
|||
|
|
the name is S21.ZIP. According to the simulator, I should have
|
|||
|
|
a bunch of money. Oh, well, maybe next time. Have fun.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-48 Page 13 26 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
LATEST VERSIONS
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Latest Software Versions
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MS-DOS Systems
|
|||
|
|
--------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
|
|||
|
|
Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
|
|||
|
|
GSBBS 3.01 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
|
|||
|
|
Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
|
|||
|
|
Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
|
|||
|
|
Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.50
|
|||
|
|
Opus 1.13+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
|
|||
|
|
PCBoard 14.5 XBBS 1.15
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Network Node List Other
|
|||
|
|
Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BinkleyTerm 2.40 EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0
|
|||
|
|
D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
|
|||
|
|
Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
|
|||
|
|
FrontDoor 1.99c Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
|
|||
|
|
PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
|
|||
|
|
SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02
|
|||
|
|
TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 Gmail 2.05
|
|||
|
|
XlaxNode 2.35 GROUP 2.16
|
|||
|
|
GUS 1.30
|
|||
|
|
HeadEdit 1.15
|
|||
|
|
InterPCB 1.31
|
|||
|
|
LHARC 1.13
|
|||
|
|
MSG 4.1
|
|||
|
|
MSGED 2.00
|
|||
|
|
MSGTOSS 1.3
|
|||
|
|
PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
|
|||
|
|
QM 1.0
|
|||
|
|
QSORT 4.03
|
|||
|
|
Sirius 1.0x
|
|||
|
|
SLMAIL 1.36
|
|||
|
|
StarLink 1.01
|
|||
|
|
TagMail 2.41
|
|||
|
|
TCOMMail 2.2
|
|||
|
|
Telemail 1.27
|
|||
|
|
TMail 1.15
|
|||
|
|
TPBNetEd 3.2
|
|||
|
|
TosScan 1.00
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews 7-48 Page 14 26 Nov 1990
|
|||
|
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|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
UFGATE 1.03
|
|||
|
|
XRS 3.40
|
|||
|
|
XST 2.2
|
|||
|
|
ZmailQ 1.12
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OS/2 Systems
|
|||
|
|
------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 4.00
|
|||
|
|
EchoStat 6.0
|
|||
|
|
oMMM 1.52
|
|||
|
|
Omail 3.1
|
|||
|
|
MsgEd 2.00
|
|||
|
|
MsgLink 1.0C
|
|||
|
|
MsgNum 4.14
|
|||
|
|
LH2 0.50
|
|||
|
|
PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
|
|||
|
|
ARC2 6.00
|
|||
|
|
PolyXARC 2.00
|
|||
|
|
Qsort 2.1
|
|||
|
|
Raid 1.0
|
|||
|
|
Remapper 1.2
|
|||
|
|
Tick 2.0
|
|||
|
|
VPurge 2.07
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Xenix/Unix
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
MaximusCBCS 1.02.Unix.B0 BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
|
|||
|
|
ARC 5.21
|
|||
|
|
ParseLst 1.30b
|
|||
|
|
ConfMail 3.31b
|
|||
|
|
Ommm 1.40b
|
|||
|
|
Msged 1.99b
|
|||
|
|
Zoo 2.01
|
|||
|
|
C-Lharc 1.00
|
|||
|
|
Omail 1.00b
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Apple CP/M
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 15 26 Nov 1990
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
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MsgUtil 2.5
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PackUser v4
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Filer v2-D
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UNARC.COM 1.20
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Macintosh
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
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Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
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WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.33
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Hermes 1.01 StuffIt Classic 1.6
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FBBS 0.91 Compactor 1.21
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TImport 1.92
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TExport 1.92
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Timestamp 1.6
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Tset 1.3
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Import 3.2
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Export 3.21
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Sundial 3.2
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PreStamp 3.2
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OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
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Mantissa 3.21
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Zenith 1.5
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Eventmeister 1.0
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TSort 1.0
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Mehitable 2.0
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UNZIP 1.02c
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Amiga
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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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Paragon 2.07+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
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TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 16 26 Nov 1990
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
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ConfMail 1.10
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ChameleonEdit 0.10
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ElectricHerald1.66
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Lharc 1.21
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MessageFilter 1.52
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oMMM 1.49b
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ParseLst 1.30
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PkAX 1.00
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
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PolyxAmy 2.02
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RMB 1.30
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Skyparse 2.30
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TrapList 1.12
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UNzip 0.86
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Yuck! 1.61
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Zoo 2.01
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Atari ST
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.00* BinkleyTerm 2.40j* ConfMail 4.02
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Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 ARC 6.02
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GS Point 0.61 FiFo 2.0b
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LHARC 0.60
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LED ST 0.10
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BYE 0.25
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PKUNZIP 1.10
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MSGED 1.96S
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SRENUM 6.2
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Trenum 0.10
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OMMM 1.40
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Archimedes
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
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ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
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ARC 1.03
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!Spark 2.00d
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 17 26 Nov 1990
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ParseLst 1.30
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BatchPacker 1.00
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+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 18 26 Nov 1990
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NOTICES
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=================================================================
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The Interrupt Stack
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1 Jan 1991
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Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
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Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
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16 Feb 1991
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Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
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31 Mar 1991
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Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
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years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
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"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
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12 May 1991
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Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
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second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
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8 Sep 1991
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25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
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7 Oct 1991
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
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Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
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Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
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Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Feb 1992
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
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eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
|
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code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
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West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
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Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
|
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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1 Dec 1993
|
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Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
|
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5 Jun 1997
|
|||
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David Dodell's 40th Birthday
|
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
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|
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 19 26 Nov 1990
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