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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No.41 (09-Oct-1995)
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| A newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" BBS |
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| | | \ \\ | Editors: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: editors 1:1/23 |
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| submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Sylvia max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of fidonews or the internet gateway faq |
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Table of Contents
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1. Editorial..................................................... 1
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2. Articles...................................................... 2
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To All...................................................... 2
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Dear Reverend Visage,....................................... 3
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 4
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Editorial
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A short issue today ... only two articles. Doc Logger is
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back, trouncing us for filling the snooze with internet stuff.
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Of course, that is a bit better than sending an empty file ...
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I am bored with my board. Need some new echos that are not
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endless sniping of children over petty politics. The
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well run boards never seem to get involved in that nonsense,
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they just collect, forward and deliver mail week after week,
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month after month.
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Are there any echos where people talk about real things in
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sentences that are over three words long? Where the sentences
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that they write are not just punctuation for endless lines of
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FidoNews 12-41 Page: 2 09 Oct 1995
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quotes, quotes of quotes, and quotes of quotes of quotes?
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If so, where are they?
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Articles
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From: Sean Laurent (1:2207/120)
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To All
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Hello, my name is Jeremy Guthrie. I used to be NEC of 2207.
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Sean Laurent and I had designed new nodelist specifications that
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took a 3.3 meg nodelist down to 800K. I had every piece of
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administration software written up, nodediff generators, update
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doors, etc... I had api's written in c++ and pascal. I had a
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converter to take the new and old formats and interchange them.
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There was a browser for the new format and much more. I had a
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solution for the nodelist problem. In fact I was going to
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release it all as public domain. When net 2207 was removed,
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that all changed. I will be copyrighting the code and
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specifications.
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Why am I doing this? Because, Mark Lynch removed our new net
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without even asking our side of an argument. He just pulled it
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from us saying his approval of it was a mistake. I am a person
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who likes to be dealt with personally, I consider it a show of
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respect to deal with someone on such a matter. He did nothing
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of the sort, so at that I refuse to let this go to the public.
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I no longer run a board and do NOT want to return to 238 because
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I face the same problems there. Net 238 follows the same course
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as Mark did. Many there accused me of misleading Mark and then
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couldn't prove it.
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I had a great FREE solution to a big problem of FidoNet, but
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because persons couldn't talk to me or try to be objective, I
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refuse to help those who hinder me.
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Just thought people had the right to know,
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Jeremy Guthrie formerly 1:2207/1 1:2207/110
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FidoNews 12-41 Page: 3 09 Oct 1995
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Dear Editorbeings;
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This article is submitted by Charles Herriot of 1:163/110
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who was able to drag Logger from his perch. Logger kept
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raving about the William Kennedy Smith trial, trying to pull
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a condom over his head, while shouting: "If it doesn't fit,
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you must acquit." Roll da' flic, Sylvia....
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Dear Reverend Visage,
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You know, I think I was just plain puzzled by the fact that
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millions of people were cheering wildly at the latest
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trashing of justice in the Excited States. If, as Johnny
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assures us, he didn't "play the race card" then we can
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attach as much credence to *his* statement as we can to
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Furhman's assertion that he didn't use the "n" word. The
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verdict must give great comfort to women who are in abusive
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relationships and they must be all asking themselves whether
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their monster spouses have a spare nine million to beat the
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rap.
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I notice with dismay that Fidonews has been shilling for
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Internet. The process started subtly with the editors
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posting their Internet address in the masthead. The fact
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that my printer treats the ampersand symbol as a formatting
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command was only mildly annoying, but when whole pages were
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given over to advice on where to find the best selections of
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AntFarmMail I was aghast.
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In Region 12, the Children's Crusade in net250 continues
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unabated. Their last NC came painfully close to being the
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first person to serve a full term in the last four years but
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resigned in a petulant frenzy with seconds to spare. The net
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is convulsed with battles over who has the rightful claim to
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hijack Fidonet echomail funds to pay for Internet mail. As a
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good and decent gesture, we should cross-link old video
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feeds of The Friendly Giant to their mail supply. They won't
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notice the difference, honest.
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In my public service, African Killer Bee Watch type of
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service, I can now report that the California Spam 'N
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Timmies have advanced as far as Victoria, British Columbia.
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It seems that there is a quotaholic troll or two in Victoria
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who have been thrown into apoplexy over my assertion that
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their messages contain drooling cascades of quotes followed
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by short, thrusting, grunts. In one of life's many ironies,
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the only messages that they have *ever* written where
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original text exceeds plagiarized text are those where they
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take exception to the fact that they've been identified as
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witless morons.
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I would write more, Visage, but your secretary is none too
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happy. This really has nothing at all to do with the fact I
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turned loose a mere dozen Black Widow spiders in the office.
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FidoNews 12-41 Page: 4 09 Oct 1995
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She disbelieved me when I told her that they were here as
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consultants to create a web home page. As a good and decent
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gesture, I suggest we send her to Rockingham to help the
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murderous swine film a few Ginsu knife commercials.
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Regards,
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Doc Logger,
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Guilty, But With a Nine Million Dollar Explanation School Of
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Law,
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Furlang Island,
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South Pacific
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Editors: Donald Tees, Sylvia Maxwell
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar
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Tom Jennings
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Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Sylvia- 1:221/194, max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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voice: (519) 570-3137
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sylvia: (519) 579-8029
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Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
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of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
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does not diminish the rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in
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FidoNews.
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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Copyright 1995 Donald Tees. All rights reserved. Duplication
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in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the eds.
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FidoNews 12-41 Page: 5 09 Oct 1995
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OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or
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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above paper-mail
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.fidonet.org,
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Anyone interested in getting a copy of the INTERNET GATEWAY FAQ may
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freq GISFAQ.ZIP from 1:133/411.0, or send an internet message to
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fidofaq@gisatl.fidonet.org. No message or text or subject is
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necessary. The address is a keyword that will trigger the automated
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response. People wishing to send inquiries directly to David Deitch
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should now mail to fidonet@gisatl.fidonet.org rather than the
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previously listed address.
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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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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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trademarks of Tom Jennings, and are used with permission.
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' ' disgreement is actually necessary,
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or semethin to amuse ourselves,,
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and create the requisite chaos."
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-Tom Jennings
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