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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 18 (4 May 1992)
The newsletter of the |
FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
_ |
/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
/|oo \ | (415)-863-2739
(_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1
_`@/_ \ _ | Internet:
| | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
| (*) | \ )) |
|__U__| / \// | Editors:
_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
(jm) |
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
amateur network. Copyright 1992, Fido Software. All rights reserved.
Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews.
Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00US
Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free!
For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file.
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
Editorial: Playing catch-up ................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
FidoCon '92 September 4-6 Dallas, TX .......................... 2
"Cutesy" Origin Lines ......................................... 2
Telephone Fraud Control ....................................... 3
SEAmail version 1.10 revision F ............................... 4
MAILBAG New Conference Address ................................ 7
A_THEIST Echo now on Backbone! ................................ 8
A genuine "One God" Christian Network ......................... 9
SKEPTIC Echo now on the Zone 1 Backbone! ...................... 9
3. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 12
Software List ................................................. 12
4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 18
FidoNews 9-18 Page 1 4 May 1992
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Playing catch-up
by Tom Jennings (1:1/1)
Well, I really do intend to eventually write about the Computers,
Freedom and Privacy Conference I attended in March, where I got that
EFF Pioneer of the Telecommunication Frontier award.
However, I seem to do nothing with FidoNews except work to stand
still. Every week it's another fire to fight.
This week I have apologize to myself, or is that to "you", The Reader.
I, your esteemed (or is that humble I cannot remember) editor, grossly
overreacted to all the flame and noise I received regarding that
recent Issue That Will Remain Unnamed. (In my defense I'll simply say
the intensity at this end was unusual.)
A number of people wrote in to express dismay with my new reluctance
to air these sort of things in the future. I am glad to say I believe
I have come to my senses (if I ever had any is an open question) and I
will simply look at each individual piece far more carefully.
And as I had to point out to one careful reader, I was mainly
apologizing to one of the parties involved as to the lack of process,
rather than for content. That editorial was written in excessive
haste, and hence sloppily (unlike this gem hear XXX here.)
* * * * *
I also have a book or two to review, one of which is "The BMUG guide
to Bulletin Boards and beyond", by Bernard Aboba, which is far and
away the best specifically-BBS book I've seen yet. It convers how and
why of BBSing, with specific examples of BBS programs, excellent
descriptions of various networks, including FidoNet, even including
the social and political hows/whys. It's great! It's huge, 500+
full-size pages. Connector pinouts. Modem how-to's. Netiquette. File
transfer details, including dissimilar file system conversions.
Written by a sysop for sysops and users. Histories. Techie junk.
Friendly writing. Until I get around to the abstract, you can contact
BMUG at voice 510-549-2684, US Post 1442A Walnut St #62, Berkeley CA
94709, fax 510-849-9026.
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FidoNews 9-18 Page 2 4 May 1992
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ARTICLES
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FidoCon '92 "Gateway Networking"
September 4-6 Summit Hotel
Dallas, Texas
Net 124 and 130 are gearing up for FidoCon '92 to be held this year
in Dallas at the Summit Hotel. You'll save a few bucks by
registering before May 30th. File request REGISTER.FRM from 1:1/92
for the registration form and more information.
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Brooks Duncan
1:340/43
Though I have only been in FidoNet for about 8 months, lately
I have noticed many sysops, not only in my area, replacing their
origin lines with "cutesy" sayings, instead of their board
identification. This, to me, is insensitive not only to the
sysops, but to the users.
I for one, when I look at a _Origin_ line in a message, look
there for one reason: to see where the message originated
from. Now I know that the address is always there, but I know
when *I* started BBSing I had know idea what "89:684/1" meant,
and I know that many of my users have no idea either.
I have seen many instances where users have replied to messages
that may have "local only" interest, and when they were
blasted to bits by the moderator, I looked back at the
original message, and no location was was indicated!
Yes, I know I have no right to tell you what to put in your
origin line, but lets have some common courtesy here! If you
want to put little sayings in your messages use an Offline
Reader like SLMR, or use a Editor with a Random Cookie
feature, but I think the name and city SHOULD be indicated in
the Origin lines... isn't that the point of them?
Heh... I'll shut up now... have a nice day from Victoria BC :)
Brooks Duncan,
sysop: Versailles BBS
1:340/43 Fidonet
89:688/29 IMEx
40:7401/106 ISIG
64:100/114 Weirdnet
duncan@f752.questor.wimsey.bc.ca Internet
FidoNews 9-18 Page 3 4 May 1992
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Controlling Illegal Use of Your Phone Card
By Brian Murrey - KB9BVN
1:231/30
We have had some problems at my place of employment with our traveling
folks getting their phone card numbers lifted. Well, not actually
lifted, let's just call it "published". From the details that I have,
one of the victims was making a phone call from a payphone in a busy
airport. Nothing out of the ordinary. After he made the phone call,
AT&T security called the keeper of the phones to let us know that 20
phone calls had been charged to it within a one hour period and were
we aware of this.
Well, we weren't. The victim couldn't remember anything different
about this phone call and couldn't figure out how someone got the
number at all.
It seems that while the victim was making the phone call, a couple of
"kids" looking like they were about to board a plane were shooting
some video around the phone area. Well guess what. It seems that the
boys had been taping card numbers all morning all courtesy of the most
excellent zoom lens that can be found on most over the counter
camcorders.
I wish I had more details than that, but this event got me to
thinking. As a Amateur Radio Operator, I spend a fair amount of time
monitoring (listening) to the shortwave bands. When I get real board
and need some kicks I tune in the ship to shore frequencies and listen
to people say things like "I miss you", "I love you", "I'm real
drunk." etc etc...but they also say things like..."My calling card
number is......" and I'll bet that while they're way out in the
Gulf enjoying themselves, they don't even know that the whole world
may be listening in.
What's my point? Well, don't let your phone card out of your sight,
don't read the number off over a radiophone, don't read it off over
cellular phone (Cellular phone is probably the MOST heavily monitored
frequency band in North America), and don't let anyone borrow it even
for a minute.
Oh, BTW, if you are a SWL and are interested in Pirate Radio, then you
need to connect yourself the the FREE_RADIO echo. You can connect in
at any of the following locations.
231/30, 124/7009, 1/211, or 11/1
FREE_RADIO is for the discussion of pirate transmissions, trading of
QSL information, and it helps to verify what you heard. Stay tuned to
7415 Khz for all the pirate action. (Well most of it anyway)
FidoNews 9-18 Page 4 4 May 1992
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System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
520/519@AlterNet 1:107/519@Fidonet
SEAmail version 1.10
Revision F
Revision F to SEAmail version 1.10 has been released, and incorporates the
following changes:
* Phone book editing is now more understandable, and includes the ability
to create and edit mailing lists from phone book entries on the fly.
* DIAL was not properly invoking the script driver, with the result that
scripts generally didn't work with DIAL. This has now been fixed.
* The OS/2 version of DIAL had some problems with keyboard queueing that
have now been fixed.
* KITTEN now handles marking download lists differently if the caller is
in ANSI mode. The result should be more pleasing and much easier to
use.
* CFGEDIT now allows you to describe your modems in your own words.
* You can now define a dialup password for use with an address. The
dialup password replaces any occurrence of "*P" in DIAL macros.
* RENUMBER and the GRP* programs can now be told to operate on all
folders in a given sort block. For example, a command line reference
to "BLOCK X" would refer to all folders in sort block "X".
* KITTEN has a new review function, <T>urkey. This marks a caller as
having been reviewed and set the "turkey flag". When a caller who has
the turkey flag set calls in, he is sent to a TURKEY.CAT menu instead
of the CONTROL.CAT menu. The turkey flag is reset by the <R>eviewed
command.
* Some inconsistencies in the use of file date/time stamps have been
resolved.
* Some inconsistencies in the use of record locking have been resolved,
which should lead to better performance on multiline systems.
* CFGEDIT will now check to see if a new password entry duplicates an
existing entry, and will merge the entries if so.
* When configuring a modem, the "Null modem" and "PAD" choices have been
FidoNews 9-18 Page 5 4 May 1992
combined into a single rotary "Modem type". Likewise, maximum baud
rate is now a rotary selection.
* A bug in Caller*ID support in the OS/2 versions has been detected and
corrected.
* A new configuration file, EXCLUDE.CFG, has been defined. It has the
same format as IGNORE.CFG, but is used to identify phone numbers (such
as PC Pursuit outdial lines) that cannot be used to identify a caller.
When calls are received from phone numbers listed in the exclusion
file, the system will act as if no Caller*ID information had been
received.
* Due to how some OS/2 device drivers handle a comm port, there could be
problems with using a null modem connection. This has now been fixed.
* KITTEN now recognizes another special menu, ONESHOT.CAT, which she will
call once and only once at the start of every session just before
calling the CONTROL.CAT menu. The ONESHOT.CAT menu should exit by
performing a RETURN command.
* GET, SEND, REQ, and TELL now have a "hold" option to indicate that the
created message(s) should be held for pickup. This allows GET and SEND
to be used with addresses that do not have a published phone number.
* PACKER should now recover better from having a previous run aborted.
* GRPIN will now notify a LAN mail server when it generates a pong
message.
* There is now a WAZOOZ netmail session handler for OS/2.
* MAIL2TXT was not correctly translating Caller*ID ports higher than
COM4. It is now.
* NLCOMP was not properly scanning nodelist lines with leading spaces in
front of a prefix (Zone, Host, et cetera). This has now been fixed.
* Many of the documentation files have been updated and improved.
Those with SEAmail 1.10 revision E for MS-DOS can upgrade to revision F by
going to their SEAmail directory and giving the command:
upgrade sm110f
Those with the OS/2 version should give the command:
upgrade sm110fp
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FidoNews 9-18 Page 6 4 May 1992
POST_POLIO ECHO NOW AVAILABLE ON BACKBONE...
During the 1940's and 1950's, hundreds of thousands (and perhaps more)
were struck down with Infantile Paralysis (AKA Polyiomyelitis) during
the widespread epidemics of those years.. Many, like myself, managed
to survive the epidemics with little to show for the ordeal but a
slight limp and some residual weaknesses. Now, almost 45 years after
my successful(?) bout with polio, I am finding my old Polio Symptoms
are returning with a vengance!! AND, I am not alone.. An overwhelming
number of other Polio Survivors have seen, or are in the process of
seeing, their crippling symptoms returning. It is these people, or
more importantly, those who DON'T know what is happening to them,
that we are striving to reach. Post-Polio Syndrome (sequalae) is a
very little-known condition in a medical profession that were taught
that polio was a "Cured" disease.. Diagnosis is difficult, and the
symptoms are frequently attributed to normal Aging or other reasons.
The reverse mis-diagnosis problem is a reality as well.. I attributed
my weaknesses climbing Stairs and walking to PPS.. I almost made a
deadly mistake.. Although my family Dr. did not think I had anything
more serious than overweight and PPS, I searched out a Cardioligist,
underwent a few tests, and ended up with a Quadruple Bypass 3/30/92!!
The Message for Polio Survivors around the World is that this can be
a two-edged Sword: Those who don't know why they are experiencing the
same Polio-like difficulties 35-45 years later NEED to know what is
happening to them.. Those who MAY have PPS, or suspect they do, need
to be aware that it can mask more serious problems, as was my case..
The POST_POLIO Echo has been serving as a medium of communication
between Polio-Survivors and interested parties on ADAnet(tm) for
over 6 months. There have been instances where the Echo may have
saved a life, or at least made substantial contributions to the
quality of life for some.. That is why I have decided to expand
POST_POLIO's scope of availability - The urgency of the message is
obvious.. The subject is timely..
I wish to publicly thank Bill Freeman and the many ADAnet(tm) Folks
for getting POST_POLIO it's initial exposure.. However, I now ask
the FIDONET folks who carry any Medical/Handicapped Echoes to now
consider adding POST_POLIO to their BBS.. The time is ripe...
The POST_POLIO Rules are attached for your Information.
Tom McKeever, W4NOV
Moderator, P_P Echo
----------------------------------------
FYI: First cut of POST_POLIO CONFERENCE Rules..
FidoNews 9-18 Page 7 4 May 1992
Conference Rules are reasonably simple..
PURPOSE: To provide a medium for interactive discussion and
Information-sharing between past Polio (Infantile
Paralysis) victims; present Post Polio Sequalae (PPS)
sufferers; Potential Post-Polio candidates (Those who
suffered Polio in the 40's and 50's, or at other times);
Medical Professionals, and ANY other interested parties..
DECORUM: Courtesy and Consideration of others are to be the dominant
Modes on this Echo. No Flames or griping about Hospitals,
unprofessional "Professionals", or fellow Echo Members, OK?
No Profanity or offensive language/subject material either!
SUBJECTS: No limitations except the above..
GENERAL: Feel free to use this Forum to exchange info and names of
Therapists, Neurologists, Orthopedic personnel, or others
familiar with Post-Polio Sequalae (Syndrome); to search for
others associated with Post-Polio in your area; for our
mutual Support and encouragement, and whatever is needed..
We DO ask, however, that the echo NOT be used to advertise
non-approved Medical Equipment nor any Human-Consumables...
We are building a database, which will be accessible on-line here at
SPACECON BBS, of Doctors/Therapists/Neurologists/Etc. who are familiar
with the Post-Polio problems.. We realize that there are all too few
Medical Professionals familiar with Post-Polio, and we are working, at
least locally, to rectify this problem. We solicit your help, and will
appreciate any inputs for the database. Take care, and welcome aboard!
Tom McKeever
MODERATOR
POST_POLIO ECHO
Spacecon BBS (1:374/22)
(407)459-0969
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Announcing new MAILBAG location, by Charles Lasitter, 1:3641/277
MAILBAG, a mail conference about the production and mass distribution
of letters, magazines and advertising circulars, has moved. It is
now available via V32, CM, from 1:3641/277.
Questions:
Charles Lasitter
919-286-0100 (voice)
FidoNews 9-18 Page 8 4 May 1992
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Christopher Baker
Rights On! 1:374/14
A_THEIST Echo Available
A_theism means free of religion in the way a_political means
free of politics or a_sexual means free of sex
characteristics or drives.
With that in mind and ever cognizant of the continued
pressure of religion to intrude itself into our government
and its operations, the A_THEIST Echo is provided to inform
and alarm and hopefully wake up the sleeping and too long
silent majority to the peril on our doorstep.
It is now a Zone 1 Backbone Echo Hosted and Moderated
by Rights On! [1:374/14] and Christopher Baker [card
carrying member of American Atheists, Inc.]. Initial links
may be obtained from your local Backbone source connection.
Zone 3 is being fed through 3:681/857 and Zone 2 through
2:243/11 via a Gate at 1:374/14 until direct links can be
made to those Zones via the international Backbone links.
The Echo is open to anyone who can discuss, without
proselytizing, the extreme desirability of maintaining the
absolute separation of State and church in this country as
provided for in our Constitution.
A sample of the first few messages and the statement of
purpose of the Echo is available as A_THEIST.ZIP from this
system anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone 1 ZMH [USR HST
V32 online] if you wish to get an idea of whether to commit
disk space to the Echo. An archive of the past traffic from
the Echo is also available as A_ECHO1.ZIP, A_ECHO2.ZIP, and
A_ECHO3.ZIP, A_ECHO4.ZIP, etc.
It has been on the Backbone for months. Ask your Backbone
connection to get it for you! The complete info is available
in the current ELISTnnn.XXX file available from your NEC or
REC or here. [Request ELIST.]
I hope you will join us or ask your Sysop to request a link
via their regular Backbone connections!
TTFN.
Chris
FidoNews 9-18 Page 9 4 May 1992
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Steve Winter
98:98/1
Find out for yourself what has the devils so upset!
Please spread this info around. Thanks!!
***************************************************************
* __________ __________ ___ ________ *
* | | | | | |\ /| | *
* | | | | | | \ / | | *
* |________| |________| | | \ / | |______ *
* | | \ | | \/ | | *
* | | \ | | | | *
* | | \ | | | | *
* | | \ _|_ | | |_______ *
* *
***************************************************************
* PreRapture(tm) International Message Exchange *
***************************************************************
Both Religious (Christian) and non-religious conferences.
Strict policy against profanity, lewdness, etc..
Supporting FidoNet, PCRelay, and QWK message networking.
* Intense Bible Debate * False Preachers Exposed *
* Popular Cults Unmasked in the light of the Bible *
919-286-3962 * 919-286-3606 * 919-286-3266
Using USRobotics Dual Standard Modems HST/V.32bis 14,400bps
FREQ PRIME.ZIP from 98:98/1 for network kit
This should work as a private nodelist:
Zone,98,PRIME_IC,Durham_NC,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,HST,
V32b,UIC
,1,PreRapture_BBS,Durham_NC,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,XA,
HST,V32b
,2,PreRapture_BBS_2,Durham_NC,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3606,9600,
CM,XA,HST,V32b
,3,PreRapture_BBS_3,Durham_NC,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3266,9600,
CM,XA,HST,V32b
;(The USR modem on node one, 98:98/1, has the &G2 guard tone)
;(The USR modem on node two, 98:98/2, has the &G1 guard tone)
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Christopher Baker
Rights On!, 1:374/14
FidoNews 9-18 Page 10 4 May 1992
SKEPTIC Echo is alive and well!
SKEPTIC is now a Backbone Echo that originally sprang forth
from the San Francisco area. It now originates from Zone 3
in Adelaide, Australia under the Moderatorship of Jackson
Harding at 3:681/857 and is Hubbed into Zones 1 and 2 by
1:374/14.
If any of you or your Sysops are interested in obtaining
this Echo, you or they should contact their regular,
Backbone Echo source! SKEPTIC now appears in FIDONET.NA as
of 2 May 92.
SKEPTIC is devoted to examination and report of paranormal
and fringe-science claims. It has NO official or unofficial
connection to CSICOP {Committee for the Scientific
Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal} but has a similar
philosophy. Claims are not rejected on a priori grounds but
rather are investigated by objective and critical inquiry.
The Echo is now fully activated and waiting for those with
an interest in the mission stated above.
Complete information about the Echo may be found in the
current issue of the EList and the ELRules files.
Come and join us in the pursuit of knowledge! [grin]
TTFN.
Chris
Zone 1 Hub for SKEPTIC
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Original Message Date: 30 Apr 92 10:52:58
From: Bob Seaborn on 1:140/12
To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
Subj: FidoNews Submission & "Press Release"
^AMSGID: 1:140/12 4f0aad36
cc: Tom Jennings, Mark Goodwin
Due to the emergence of TriBBS (formerly known as TriTel) as a
premiere BBS program, we have started a FidoNet echo called (what else)
"TRIBBS" in an attempt to be able to offer technical and moral support to
anyone either using or intending to use this fine program.
I am the moderator, and can be reached at 1:140/12 and the author,
Mark Goodwin, who can be reached at 1:328/104 are active participants, and
so far the echo has spread as far as a node in Africa as well as
throughout Canada and the USA. We are attempting to get it placed on the
backbone, and by the time you read this, it very well may be there. We
are both ready and willing to offer any and all support needed by any
TriBBS Sysop.
FidoNews 9-18 Page 11 4 May 1992
Until "TRIBBS" is available on the backbone, it may be received from
either 1:140/12 by a simple netmail request. Get your NEC to request it
from the backbone, and if it's not there yet, please do not hesitate to
contact myself to arrange delivery.
We anticipate that this echo will grow as more sysops realize the
advantages and flexibility of the TriBBS software package, plus the
numerous support utilities.
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(COMMO) Echo
by Tim Spofford 105/99.0
{Commo} - yes, the curly brackets are program's name - is a small
(around 35k), DV-aware, comms program, written by Fred Brucker, now
in its fourth year of development and distribution. It uses external
file transfer protocols (e.g., DSZ) and runs in a 120 Kb window. It
is unique, though, because of its extensive use of a powerful macro
language to perform practically any function one could want or need.
In Northern California (where Fred lives) and a few other pockets
around the country, many sysops have been using it for their own
comms for several years now.
The {COMMO} echo - the area tag DOES include the curly brackets -
is, not surprisingly, for {Commo} users and is a forum for
additional development ideas and brainstorming and for the exchange
of macros to perform new and novel functions. Fred Brucker is a
regular participant.
Backbone status is being sought. In the meantime, feeds for the
echo can be gotten here, 105/99, at HST & v.32 speeds, or at
125/180, at HST and v.32bis speeds. The current version of {Commo}
can be file requested (no restrictions) from 105/99 as COMMO5?.ZIP
or with the magicname COMMO (165K).
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FidoNews 9-18 Page 12 4 May 1992
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LATEST VERSIONS
======================================================================
Latest Greatest SoftWare Versions
Latest Update: 01/27/92
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MS-DOS Systems
--------------
BBS Software NodeList Utilities Compression
Name Version Name Version Utilities
-------------------- -------------------- Name Version
ADTBBS 1.50@ EditNL 4.00 --------------------
Aurora 1.32b FDND 1.10 ARC 7.12
DMG 2.93 MakeNL 2.31 ARJ 2.20
DreamBBS 1.05 Parselst 1.33 LHA 2.13
Fido/FidoNet 12.21 Prune 1.40 PAK 2.51
Genesis Deluxe 3.2 SysNL 3.14 PKPak 3.61
GSBBS 3.02 XlatList 2.90 PKZip 1.10
Kitten 1.01 XlaxNode/Diff 2.53
Lynx 1.30
Maximus-CBCS 2.00
Merlin 1.39n Other Utilities(A-M) Other Utilities(N-Z)
Opus 1.73a* Name Version Name Version
Oracomm 5.M.6P@ -------------------- --------------------
Oracomm Plus 6.E@ 2DAPoint 1.50* Netsex 2.00b
PCBoard 14.5a 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 OFFLINE 1.35
Phoenix 1.07* ARCAsim 2.31 Oliver 1.0a
ProBoard 1.20* ARCmail 3.00* OSIRIS CBIS 3.02
QuickBBS 2.75 Areafix 1.20 PKInsert 7.10
RBBS 17.3b ConfMail 4.00 PolyXarc 2.1a
RemoteAccess 1.11* Crossnet 1.5 QM 1.00a
SimplexBBS 1.05 DOMAIN 1.42 QSort 4.04
SLBBS 2.15C* DEMM 1.06 RAD Plus 2.11
Socrates 1.11 DGMM 1.06 Raid 1.00
SuperBBS 1.12* DOMAIN 1.42 RBBSMail 18.0
SuperComm 0.99 EEngine 0.32 ScanToss 1.28
TAG 2.5g EMM 2.11* ScMail 1.00
TBBS 2.1 EZPoint 2.1 ScEdit 1.12
TComm/TCommNet 3.4 FGroup 1.00 Sirius 1.0x
Telegard 2.7* FidoPCB 1.0s@ SLMail 2.15C
TPBoard 6.1 FNPGate 2.70 SquishMail 1.00
TriTel 2.0* GateWorks 3.06e StarLink 1.01
WildCat! 3.02* GMail 2.05 TagMail 2.41
WWIV 4.20 GMD 3.10 TCOMMail 2.2
XBBS 1.77 GMM 1.21 Telemail 1.5*
GoldEd 2.31p TGroup 1.13
GROUP 2.23 TIRES 3.11
Network Mailers GUS 1.40 TMail 1.21
Name Version Harvey's Robot 4.10 TosScan 1.00
-------------------- HeadEdit 1.18 UFGATE 1.03
BinkleyTerm 2.50 HLIST 1.09 VPurge 4.09e
D'Bridge 1.30 IMAIL 1.20 WEdit 2.0@
Dreamer 1.06 InterPCB 1.31 WildMail 2.00
FidoNews 9-18 Page 13 4 May 1992
Dutchie 2.90c ISIS 5.12@ WMail 2.2
FrontDoor 2.02 Lola 1.01d WNode 2.1
InterMail 2.01 Mosaic 1.00b XRS 4.99
Milqtoast 1.00 MailBase 4.11a@ XST 2.3e
PreNM 1.48 MSG 4.5* YUPPIE! 2.00
SEAdog 4.60 MSGED 2.06 ZmailH 1.25
SEAmail 1.01 MsgLnk 1.0c ZSX 2.40
TIMS 1.0(mod8) MsgMstr 2.03a
MsgNum 4.16d
MSGTOSS 1.3
OS/2 Systems
------------
BBS Software Other Utilities(A-M Other Utilities(N-Z)
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
Kitten 1.01 ARC 7.12 oMMM 1.52
Maximus-CBCS 2.00 ARC2 6.01 Omail 3.1
SimplexBBS 1.04.02+ ConfMail 4.00 Parselst 1.33
EchoStat 6.0 PKZip 1.02
EZPoint 2.1 PMSnoop 1.30
Network Mailers FGroup 1.00 PolyXOS2 2.1a
Name Version GROUP 2.23 QSort 2.1
-------------------- LH2 2.11 Raid 1.0
BinkleyTerm 2.50 MSG 4.2 Remapper 1.2
BinkleyTerm(S) 2.50 MsgEd 2.06c SquishMail 1.00
BinkleyTerm/2-MT MsgLink 1.0c Tick 2.0
1.40.02 MsgNum 4.16d VPurge 4.09e
SEAmail 1.01
Xenix/Unix 386
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ARC 5.21
C-LHARC 1.00
MsgEd 2.06
|Contact: Willy Paine 1:343/15,| MSGLINK 1.01
|or Eddy van Loo 2:285/406 | oMMM 1.42
Omail 1.00
ParseLst 1.32
Unzip 3.10
VPurge 4.08
Zoo 2.01
FidoNews 9-18 Page 14 4 May 1992
QNX
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QTach2 1.09 QMM 0.50s Kermit 2.03
QCP 1.02
NodeList Utilities Archive Utilities QSave 3.6
Name Version Name Version QTTSysop 1.07.1
-------------------- -------------------- SeaLink 1.05
QNode 2.09 Arc 6.02 XModem 1.00
LH 1.00.2 YModem 1.01
Unzip 2.01 ZModem 0.02f
Zoo 2.01
Apple II
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DDBBS + 8.0* Fruity Dog 2.0 deARC2e 2.1
GBBS Pro 2.1 ProSel 8.70*
ShrinkIt 3.30*
|Contact: Dennis McClain-Furmanski 1:275/42| ShrinkIt GS 1.04
Apple CP/M
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Daisy 2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Filer 2-D
MsgUtil 2.5
Nodecomp 0.37
PackUser 4
UNARC.Com 1.20
Macintosh
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FBBS 0.91 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
Hermes 1.6.1 Tabby 2.2 AreaFix 1.6
Mansion 7.15 Compact Pro 1.30
Precision Sys. 0.95b EventMeister 1.0
Red Ryder Host 2.1 Export 3.21
Telefinder Host Import 3.2
FidoNews 9-18 Page 15 4 May 1992
2.12T10 LHARC 0.41
MacArd 0.04
Mantissa 3.21
Point System Mehitable 2.0
Software OriginatorII 2.0
Name Version PreStamp 3.2
-------------------- StuffIt Classic 1.6
Copernicus 1.00 SunDial 3.2
CounterPoint 1.09 TExport 1.92
MacWoof 1.1 TimeStamp 1.6
TImport 1.92
Tset 1.3
TSort 1.0
UNZIP 1.02c
Zenith 1.5
Zip Extract 0.10
Amiga
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4D-BBS 1.65 BinkleyTerm 1.00 Areafix 1.48
DLG Pro. 0.96b TrapDoor 1.80 AReceipt 1.5
Falcon CBCS 1.00 WelMat 0.44 ChameleonEdit 0.11
Starnet 1.0q@ ConfMail 1.12
TransAmiga 1.07 ElectricHerald 1.66
XenoLink 1.0 Compression FFRS 1.0@
Utilities FileMgr 2.08
Name Version Fozzle 1.0@
NodeList Utilities -------------------- Login 0.18
Name Version AmigArc 0.23 MessageFilter 1.52
-------------------- booz 1.01 Message View 1.12
ParseLst 1.66 LHARC 1.30 oMMM 1.50
Skyparse 2.30 LhA 1.10 PolyXAmy 2.02
TrapList 1.40 LZ 1.92 RMB 1.30
PkAX 1.00 Roof 46.15
UnZip 4.1 RoboWriter 1.02
Zippy (Unzip) 1.25 Rsh 4.07a
Zoo 2.01 Tick 0.75
TrapToss 1.20
|Contact: Maximilian Hantsch 2:310/6| Yuck! 2.02
Atari ST/TT
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.5.1 BinkleyTerm 2.40n9 ApplyList 1.00@
FiFo 2.1v The Box 1.95* Burep 1.1
LED ST 1.00 ComScan 1.04
MSGED 1.99 ConfMail 4.10
QuickBBS/ST 1.06* NodeList Utilities Echoscan 1.10
FidoNews 9-18 Page 16 4 May 1992
Name Version FDrenum 2.5.2
-------------------- FastPack 1.20
Compression ParseList 1.30 Import 1.14
Utilities EchoFix 1.20 oMMM 1.40
Name Version sTICK/Hatch 5.50 Pack 1.00
-------------------- Trenum 0.10
ARC 6.02
LHARC 2.01i
PackConvert
STZip 1.1*
UnJARST 2.00
WhatArc 2.02
Archimedes
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ARCbbs 1.61 BinkleyTerm ARC 1.20
Odyssey 0.37 2.06f-wimp !AskFor 1.01
RiscBBS 0.9.85m BatchPacker 1.00
DeLZ 0.01
MailED 0.95
NetFile 1.00
ParseLst 1.30
Raul 1.01
!Spark 2.16
!SparkMail 2.08
!SparkPlug 2.14
UnArj 2.21
UnZip 3.00
Zip 1.00
Tandy Color Computer 3 (OS-9 Level II)
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RiBBS 2.02+ Ar 1.3 Ascan 1.2
DeArc 5.12 AutoFRL 2.0
OS9Arc 1.0 Bundle 2.2
UnZip 3.10 CKARC 1.1
UnLZH 3.0 EchoCheck 1.01
FReq 2.5a
LookNode 2.00
ParseLST
PReq 2.2
FidoNews 9-18 Page 17 4 May 1992
RList 1.03
RTick 2.00
UnBundle 1.4
UnSeen 1.1
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Key: + - Netmail Capable (Doesn't Require Additional Mailer Software)
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NOTE: 8 Mar 92
FidoNews versions list update process is about to change, once again.
It will be taken over by someone else. In the mean time hold onto
your hats (and programs).
Watch for an announcement within a week or two.
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Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
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FidoNews
Box 77731
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The
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of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews.
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