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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 28 (13 July 1992)
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The newsletter of the |
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FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
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/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
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/|oo \ | (415)-863-2739
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(_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1
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_`@/_ \ _ | Internet:
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|__U__| / \// | Editors:
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_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
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(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
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(jm) |
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| Newspapers should have no friends.
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| -- JOSEPH PULITZER
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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amateur network. Copyright 1992, Fido Software. All rights reserved.
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Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
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only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews.
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Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free!
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Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00US
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For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
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Editorial: Remotely yours ..................................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
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So, You wanna be a sysop? ..................................... 2
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PreRapture International Message Exchange (PRIME) ............. 3
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3. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 5
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Software Versions List ........................................ 5
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4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 6
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 1 13 Jul 1992
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Remotely yours
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by Tom Jennings (1:1/1)
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Your intrepid reporter is still (still) at a secret remote location
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somewhere in the Specific NorthWest.
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This will be the last week that FidoNews is done remotely at this
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time. Amazingly enough, when I called in, expecting the usual, weekly
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NO CARRIER, it all worked! I started extra early today, assuming
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everything would go wrong.
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A nice short Snooze today. One article, one echo announcement. The BBS
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here answered the phone. Assuming it does a second time (one call I
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read mail, move articles around; I hang up, write this gunk; second
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call I upload it and produce the FidoSnooze file) I might even get out
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of here this afternoon!
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It look like the modemectomy that Tim Pozar performed last week on
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FidoNews BBS (1:1/1) worked -- the patient survived.
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 2 13 Jul 1992
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ARTICLES
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by Scott Munhollon, 1:128/66@Fidonet
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A day in the life of a sysop.
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June 30, 1992
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I came into work this morning to find my BBS had crashed during
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midnight maintenence. This happens about once every two weeks now, I
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have a little utility that counts how many times a file has been
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downloaded and inserts the number into my FILES.BBS listings, it runs
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at midnight, about every 2 weeks I come in to see it staring at me
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from the screen. It's been sitting there since midnight. Ususally a
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reboot and a re-run of the midnight batchfile clears it up. Not today.
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I have removed it from the midnight event and am in desperate search
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of a new one that works.
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For some unforseen reason there was no backbone echomail
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yesterday, this is very unsettling to my users, they are experiencing
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withdrawl symptoms without their 24 hour fix of mail, I just answered
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3 messages explaining that there would probably be double the mail
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today. Since I poll between midnight and 5:00am for national mail
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there is none today, the download counter was counting downloads all
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night. I'll have to force a poll during daytime fone rates again so my
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users don't die from lack of echomail. So I do the poll. It looks like
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my new V.32bis modem will only work reliably when it's locked at
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19,200bps, it's supposed be able to lock at 57,600, it errors out when
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I lock it above 19,200, it won't accept a 16500 UART chip. So much for
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trying to save a dime by bying the cheapest one out there. I can't
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wait to see the errors when I add a second line and run this modem
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under desqview.
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A customer is here, she insists that she brought the power cord in
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when she dropped her computer off for a hard disk upgrade. I pull a
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spare one out of my surge protector that the BBS is plugged into.
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WRONG CORD, I just unplugged my BBS. It was tossing 2 megs of national
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mail. Shit. Plug it back in, D'Bridge continues tossing the mail, the
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second of 2 packets that came in. What happened to the first meg of
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mail? It's in the bit bucket, I wonder if my message base is still
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intact? Mail tossing is complete, 653 messages, it should have been
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3653 messages.
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I Undelete the mail bundles that D'Bridge had deleted when it tossed
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them, there's only 1, the second one, Where's the first one? The bit
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bucket, that's where.
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I Run CHKDSK/F, found 956,546 bytes in 1 lost chain, convert it to a
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file? YES.
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 3 13 Jul 1992
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I run PKZIPFIX FILE0000.CHK, then PKUNZIP PKFIXED.ZIP, 2 PKT files
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extracted, the third one fails CRC check and PKUNZIP aborts.
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I move the packets to my inbound files directory and run D'Bridge.
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D'Bridge tosses another 1000 or so messages, I'm still missing about
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2500 messages, oh well, I read somewhere that echomail is like
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Dorito's, They'll make more, lots more.
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My C: drive is making funny noises, sounds like bearings. I loaned my
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tape backup to my brother a while back, I don't have a backup of my
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hard disk.
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I fill another cup of coffee and look at my printer, it's buried under
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a mountain of tractor feed paper, why? When the download counter
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locked up it apparently started the printer, it printed the screen
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continuosly until it ran out of paper, about 500 sheets, probably
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printed for hours. I look for my cigarette lighter, my cigarette is
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already lit, I'm going to burn that mountain of paper along with the
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printer.
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Two nodes in our net lost hardware due to lightning this week. Our NEC
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lost everything but his HST modem, this was our nets HUB for national
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echomail, luckily he had spare hardware to bring it back online by the
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next day. He is praying to the good hands people that the insurance
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will cover it. I don't have insurance. I have a 2 year old surge
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protector. My modem is not protected. Our NC lost 2 HST modems
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yesterday, probably lightning. I have worse thunderstorms in my area
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than they do.
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It's 10am, I light my 6th cigarette this hour, I smoke non-filters,
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I'm 28 years old, I feel like I'm 50.
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Well, it's time to read my daily mail...
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Steve Winter
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98:98/1
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Please spread this info around. Thanks!!
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'The sun never sets on the PRIME network'
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-={ PreRapture(tm) International Message Exchange }=-
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USA, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, BELGIUM, RUSSIA, BULGARIA, and growing.
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* Both Religious (Christian) and non-religious conferences. *
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A wholesome, family oriented network with a strict policy
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against profanity, lewdness, obscenity etc..
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Features echos on educational and technical topics.
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* Elaborate Bible Discussion and Debate * False Preachers Exposed *
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 4 13 Jul 1992
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919-286-3962 * 919-286-3606 * 919-286-3266
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Using USRobotics Dual Standard Modems HST 16800 / V.32bis 14400
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* FREQ PRIME.ZIP from 98:98/1 or 1:227/150@FidoNet for network kit *
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This should work as a private nodelist (PreRapture BBS was illegally
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dropped from the FidoNet nodelist by corrupt FidoNet officials) :
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Zone,98,PRIME_IC,USA,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,HST,V32b,UIC
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,1,PreRapture_BBS,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,HST,V32b
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,2,PreRapture_BBS_2,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3606,9600,CM,HST,V32b
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,3,PreRapture_BBS_3,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3266,9600,CM,HST,V32b
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,4,PreRapture_BBS_4,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-4617,9600,CM,HST,V32b
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 5 13 Jul 1992
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Software Versions List
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Please refer to the article in this issue...
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 6 13 Jul 1992
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
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Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello
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"FidoNews" BBS
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FidoNet 1:1/1
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Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
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BBS (415)-863-2739 (9600 HST/V32)
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews
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Box 77731
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San Francisco
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CA 94107 USA
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual
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articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The
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contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the
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rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those
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of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews.
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FidoNews is copyright 1992 Fido Software. All rights reserved.
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Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
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only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews (we're
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easy).
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OBTAINING COPIES: FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from
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the FidoNews BBS via manual download or Wazoo FileRequest, or from
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various sites in the FidoNet and via uucp. PRINTED COPIES mailed
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may be obtained from Fido Software for $5.00US each PostPaid First
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Class within North America, or $7.00US elsewhere, mailed Air Mail.
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(US funds drawn upon a US bank only.)
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BACK ISSUES: Available from the following sources (and possibly
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others), via filerequest or download (consult a recent nodelist for
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phone numbers). Back issues are *NOT* available from FidoNews 1:1/1.
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FidoNet 1:102/138 (All issues)
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FidoNet 1:216/21 (All but 18 issues)
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Internet ftp.ieee.org, in directory ~ftp/pub/fidonew/fidonews
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SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
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from 1:1/1 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC".
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 7 13 Jul 1992
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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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trademarks of Tom Jennings of Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco
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CA 94107, USA and are used with permission.
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Asked what he thought of Western civilization,
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M.K. Gandhi said, "I think it would be an excellent idea".
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