2343 lines
111 KiB
Plaintext
2343 lines
111 KiB
Plaintext
|
F I D O N E W S -- Volume 13, Number 32 5 August 1996
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
|
|||
|
|
| FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" |
|
|||
|
|
| _ | 1-407-383-1372 [1:1/23] |
|
|||
|
|
| / \ | |
|
|||
|
|
| /|oo \ | |
|
|||
|
|
| (_| /_) | |
|
|||
|
|
| _`@/_ \ _ | |
|
|||
|
|
| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
|
|||
|
|
| | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:374/14 |
|
|||
|
|
| |__U__| / \// | |
|
|||
|
|
| _//|| _\ / | |
|
|||
|
|
| (_/(_|(____/ | |
|
|||
|
|
| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
|
|||
|
|
| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 |
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| MORE addresses: |
|
|||
|
|
| |
|
|||
|
|
| submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net |
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
|
|||
|
|
| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
|
|||
|
|
| please refer to the end of this file. |
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
IS FIDONEWS WORKING FOR YOU YET?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Table of Contents
|
|||
|
|
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
|
|||
|
|
So far, so good? ......................................... 1
|
|||
|
|
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
|
|||
|
|
Creating Network Wide Bulletins [I] ...................... 2
|
|||
|
|
A GNU Fido? .............................................. 6
|
|||
|
|
Is He In A Godda Da Vida? ................................ 8
|
|||
|
|
ANIMANIACS Echo! ......................................... 13
|
|||
|
|
There might be some point in this ........................ 14
|
|||
|
|
3. FIDONET HISTORY .......................................... 17
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet History 30 Jul 93 [Part 3 of 3] ................. 17
|
|||
|
|
The VERY FIRST FidoNews ever published! .................. 19
|
|||
|
|
4. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 24
|
|||
|
|
5. NET HUMOR ................................................ 26
|
|||
|
|
Fido is a dog, yes? ...................................... 26
|
|||
|
|
6. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 29
|
|||
|
|
Mapping your FidoNet Node? ............................... 29
|
|||
|
|
7. ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ........................ 30
|
|||
|
|
Sorcery v0.72 Wide Beta RELEASED! ........................ 30
|
|||
|
|
8. QUESTION OF THE WEEK ..................................... 31
|
|||
|
|
How many of you have regular FidoNet gatherings? ......... 31
|
|||
|
|
9. NOTICES .................................................. 32
|
|||
|
|
Future History ........................................... 32
|
|||
|
|
10. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................ 33
|
|||
|
|
Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 33
|
|||
|
|
And more!
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 1 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
EDITORIAL
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews is moving right along. Submissions are becoming stable and
|
|||
|
|
steady. The format has settled in and folks are even sending in new
|
|||
|
|
dates for the calendar. [grin]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Regarding submissions - if you want to have an article title appear
|
|||
|
|
in the Table of Contents of the Issue, you MUST put the title line
|
|||
|
|
on the FIRST LINE at the FIRST COLUMN of your text. I will adjust
|
|||
|
|
ARTSPEC.DOC to make this more clear. If the asterisk line appears
|
|||
|
|
ANYWHERE else in your text, it will be treated as part of the text
|
|||
|
|
and will neither be added to the Table of Contents nor stripped out.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The FidoNews public-key has been removed from direct publishing in the
|
|||
|
|
Issues due to concerns expressed by ZC1. The public-key continues to
|
|||
|
|
be available by file-request for FNEWSKEY or download from this
|
|||
|
|
system. I have requested a ZCC ruling about its future inclusion in
|
|||
|
|
the FidoNews. Nothing beats the weekly distribution of FidoNews as a
|
|||
|
|
transport mechanism to most of FidoNet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Please note that the FidoNet Software Listing section begins its
|
|||
|
|
second incarnation in today's Issue. These listings will now be
|
|||
|
|
coordinated by Peter Popovich at 1:363/264. Send your corrections,
|
|||
|
|
additions, and updates directly to him via Netmail. He is beginning
|
|||
|
|
his task by repeating the last version listing that appeared in
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews back in 1992. Obviously, this means MOST if not all of the
|
|||
|
|
listings are hideously out-of-date. If you have personal knowledge of
|
|||
|
|
current versions of any of these listed programs OR of NEW programs
|
|||
|
|
not listed, please let Peter know ASAP and he will verify and adjust
|
|||
|
|
the listing. This will be a cooperative project that will take time
|
|||
|
|
to get up and running 100%. Your assistance is actively solicited.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Reviews column of Damian Walker is not ready yet while he's
|
|||
|
|
tracking down a couple more updates to test. It should be appearing
|
|||
|
|
next week or the week thereafter.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once again, EVERYBODY who reads FidoNews is ENCOURAGED to throw their
|
|||
|
|
two cents [or ten bucks] into this forum. The FIDONEWS Echo is flowing
|
|||
|
|
over the Stars and we're still waiting for Planet Connect to update
|
|||
|
|
their configuration to get it out to everyone else. If you don't have
|
|||
|
|
Netmail or email access, you can still contribute via FIDONEWS Echo
|
|||
|
|
once we get that going everywhere.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I hope you're enjoying the renovated FidoNews as much I am. [grin]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
C.B.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTE: I got several responses to last week's Question of the Week
|
|||
|
|
about archives of ALL the FidoNews issues ever published. My
|
|||
|
|
thanks to all who pointed me to obtaining a complete set. They
|
|||
|
|
are now available here for file-request or download as listed
|
|||
|
|
in the Masthead at the end of every Issue.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 2 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
ARTICLES
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Creating Network Wide Bulletins [I]
|
|||
|
|
Damian Walker, 2:2502/666
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
My article in FidoNews last week made mention of network-wide
|
|||
|
|
bulletins made possible by document server software. Starting this
|
|||
|
|
week I will elaborate on the idea, with a two-part tutorial on how to
|
|||
|
|
offer your own bulletin to other Fidonet systems and users.
|
|||
|
|
I shall concentrate on three pieces of software for the purposes
|
|||
|
|
of this article. These are NetMgr 1.00.g4, FDInt 1.00 and InfoMail
|
|||
|
|
1.11.
|
|||
|
|
NetMgr is a popular general-purpose netmail tool written by Gerard
|
|||
|
|
van Essen of 2:281/527. It is configured using a text file, and is
|
|||
|
|
capable of acting as much more than a document server. Needless to
|
|||
|
|
say, I will be concentrating on its abilities as a document server for
|
|||
|
|
this article.
|
|||
|
|
FDInt is a utility for FrontDoor sysops, written by Colin Turner
|
|||
|
|
of 2:443/13. Again, it is a general purpose tool, of which the
|
|||
|
|
document server is only a small part.
|
|||
|
|
InfoMail needs no introduction for regular readers of FidoNews, as
|
|||
|
|
it has been advertised in issue 1329. It is my own creation, and it
|
|||
|
|
is a dedicated document server for sysops using a *.MSG netmail area.
|
|||
|
|
Please accept my apologies for the lack of coverage of other
|
|||
|
|
platforms, as it is impossible for me to test the methods described in
|
|||
|
|
this article with any program that doesn't run on a DOS PC. I am also
|
|||
|
|
limited to software which I have found locally, or on the Internet. If
|
|||
|
|
you know of any other software with document server capabilities, be
|
|||
|
|
sure to let FidoNews readers know about it.
|
|||
|
|
Full information is available in the documentation which comes
|
|||
|
|
with the software, and I will not attempt to duplicate that
|
|||
|
|
information here. The purpose of this article is as much to show you
|
|||
|
|
what is involved in producing network-wide bulletins as to show you
|
|||
|
|
how to use the software for this purpose.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now we move on to the business of the day, that of setting up a
|
|||
|
|
bulletin. Before you start, you really need to know what information
|
|||
|
|
you want to offer, and indeed, if a bulletin is the best way to do it.
|
|||
|
|
A few ideas spring to mind as ideal uses for a document server,
|
|||
|
|
some of which I may have mentioned in my article in FidoNews 1329.
|
|||
|
|
Echo information and rules, BBS adverts, electronic magazines and
|
|||
|
|
details of local events are good examples.
|
|||
|
|
Once you have in mind exactly what information it is that you want
|
|||
|
|
to share with other Fidonet users, you can make a start on setting up
|
|||
|
|
the bulletin.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The first thing you need to do is to install the software you
|
|||
|
|
intend to use, and to supply general configuration details to the
|
|||
|
|
program. The procedure is quite different for each of the pieces of
|
|||
|
|
software this article covers, and so I will touch on the subject only
|
|||
|
|
briefly here. Refer to the documentation for more details.
|
|||
|
|
To set up NetMgr, you need to create its configuration file. This
|
|||
|
|
is a standard text file which you will create using your favourite
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 3 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
text editor. The file should be called NETMGR.CFG, and you need to
|
|||
|
|
place the following line somewhere in the file:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Home <address>
|
|||
|
|
HudsonPath <path>
|
|||
|
|
ScanDir <area>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you are using a *.MSG area for your netmail, <area> should simply
|
|||
|
|
be the directory containing the *.MSG's. If you are using Squish,
|
|||
|
|
directory should be preceded by $; if you are using JAM, precede the
|
|||
|
|
area path with !, and if you are using a Hudson message board, <area>
|
|||
|
|
should be a # followed by the Hudson message board.
|
|||
|
|
<Address> is simply your netmail address. You can give as many
|
|||
|
|
Home commands as you have AKA addresses. This is all you need for the
|
|||
|
|
initial installation of NetMgr, although you will have to add your
|
|||
|
|
bulletins (see later) before the setup is of any use as a document
|
|||
|
|
server.
|
|||
|
|
<Path> is the path to your Hudson message base. This is only
|
|||
|
|
necessary if you use a Hudson area for your netmail.
|
|||
|
|
FDInt uses a proprietary setup program which is run automatically
|
|||
|
|
when you first install the software (it comes as an EXE file).
|
|||
|
|
Afterwards you run:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FDISETUP
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
at the command line. FDINT takes much of its general configuration
|
|||
|
|
from FrontDoor's setup file, so installation takes minimal effort.
|
|||
|
|
First, you need to set up the name(s) which FDInt will respond to
|
|||
|
|
in its capacity as a document server. You can access this option from
|
|||
|
|
the Names and Commands menu, Server Names option. For example, you
|
|||
|
|
could have users address their document requests to 'DocServ'.
|
|||
|
|
If you wish, bulletins may be split into groups. In this case,
|
|||
|
|
group names may be specified using the Groups option on the Names and
|
|||
|
|
Commands menu.
|
|||
|
|
InfoMail does not automatically interface with FrontDoor or any
|
|||
|
|
other mailer, so you will have to spoon feed it with a little more
|
|||
|
|
information. Like FDInt, it uses a proprietary setup program to
|
|||
|
|
access its configuration. To set up InfoMail, use the following
|
|||
|
|
command:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INFOMAIL -S
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The screen which appears contains five fields. You need to specify
|
|||
|
|
your netmail directory (the Netmail field): this is the full path to
|
|||
|
|
your *.MSG netmail directory. InfoMail can only respond to one name,
|
|||
|
|
and this is defined in the 'Name' field. You can leave this as
|
|||
|
|
'InfoMail' or change it to something else such as 'DocServ'.
|
|||
|
|
The last mandatory piece of information is the netmail address for
|
|||
|
|
InfoMail; this defaults to 2:2502/666 which will hardly be useful for
|
|||
|
|
your own system. You would usually put your own primary netmail
|
|||
|
|
address in here. The current release of InfoMail does not support
|
|||
|
|
multiple AKA's directly; see the documentation for ways to get around
|
|||
|
|
this.
|
|||
|
|
If you want, you can also specify in the remaining fields global
|
|||
|
|
header and footer files for the bulletins InfoMail posts; these will
|
|||
|
|
be short sections of text placed at the top and bottom of the body of
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 4 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
every outgoing bulletin.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Once the general configuration has been done, you will want to set
|
|||
|
|
up the entry for the bulletin itself. Again, this procedure is
|
|||
|
|
different for each piece of software, but before examining the methods
|
|||
|
|
in detail, let us sketch out some details of the document record, for
|
|||
|
|
example purposes.
|
|||
|
|
There should be some way of identifying the bulletin from the
|
|||
|
|
user's point of view, as all the software under consideration allows
|
|||
|
|
multiple bulletins to be hosted. This would be the document Tag.
|
|||
|
|
NetMgr, as you will see, allows documents to be requested in whatever
|
|||
|
|
way you please, but both FDInt and InfoMail use a specific name and
|
|||
|
|
address in the 'To:' field and a document tag on the subject line, so
|
|||
|
|
for the purposes of this article I will standardise on this method,
|
|||
|
|
and use the tag 'MyDoc'.
|
|||
|
|
Next, we need to know where the text file is, which will contain
|
|||
|
|
the actual text of the bulletin. In these examples I will use the
|
|||
|
|
filename 'C:\BULLETIN\MYDOC.TXT'. Now for the technical details.
|
|||
|
|
Using NetMgr you specify a mask for each bulletin, and the mask
|
|||
|
|
contains details of how NetMgr will identify a message as a document
|
|||
|
|
request, as well as how it identifies the bulletin. Assuming we want
|
|||
|
|
the bulletin to be posted when a user posts a message to 'DocServ' at
|
|||
|
|
your address with the subject 'MyDoc', you would add the following to
|
|||
|
|
your NETMGR.CFG file:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mask *,*,DocServ,@myaka,MyDoc,*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The first, second and sixth fields are the originating name and
|
|||
|
|
address, and the attributes of the inbound message, and don't concern
|
|||
|
|
us here.
|
|||
|
|
The third field is the name we want NetMgr to answer to; it is the
|
|||
|
|
equivalent of the global features of FDInt and InfoMail, but has the
|
|||
|
|
advantage that you can specify a different user name for each
|
|||
|
|
bulletin, as well as a different subject tag.
|
|||
|
|
The fourth field is the address which bulletin requests must be
|
|||
|
|
sent to; as with the previous field, it is a global setting in FDInt
|
|||
|
|
and InfoMail which can vary from bulletin to bulletin in NetMgr.
|
|||
|
|
The final field is the document tag; NetMgr will examine the
|
|||
|
|
subject line of the message and identify a subject of 'MyDoc' as a
|
|||
|
|
request for our document.
|
|||
|
|
To get this far with FDInt and InfoMail is much more simple if a
|
|||
|
|
little less versatile. The 'to' user name and address have already
|
|||
|
|
been specified in the global setup, so we just have to add the
|
|||
|
|
document tag.
|
|||
|
|
Using FDInt, make sure you are in FDISETUP, and access the
|
|||
|
|
Document Manager from the main menu. Here you can hit INS and enter
|
|||
|
|
the document name 'MyDoc' in the 'Tag' field.
|
|||
|
|
Using InfoMail, you must be in the document list editor,
|
|||
|
|
accessible from the command line using:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INFOMAIL -L
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When the document list appears, currently empty, you can add a new
|
|||
|
|
document by selecting the empty entry. The document list window will
|
|||
|
|
disappear, being replaced by the document record window. Here you can
|
|||
|
|
enter 'MyDoc' against the 'Document' field.
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 5 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Next, to the text filename itself. In NetMgr, you post the
|
|||
|
|
bulletin file using the EMPTYBOUNCE action, a command which is placed
|
|||
|
|
on the line beneath the mask. For our document, it would look like
|
|||
|
|
this:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Action EmptyBounce @myaka C:\BULLETIN\MYDOC.TXT
|
|||
|
|
Action Delete
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The second line is needed in order to remove the bulletin request
|
|||
|
|
message from the netmail area; otherwise NetMgr will continue to post
|
|||
|
|
the bulletin again and again, each time it is run.
|
|||
|
|
In FDInt, the bulletin filename is specified as part of the
|
|||
|
|
document record in the document manager, specifically the 'Path'
|
|||
|
|
field. In InfoMail, the 'File' field in the document record window
|
|||
|
|
exists for a similar purpose. You should enter C:\BULLETIN\MYDOC.TXT
|
|||
|
|
in the appropriate field.
|
|||
|
|
This is all that is actually necessary for the document record,
|
|||
|
|
but there are some extra features in each of the programs which you
|
|||
|
|
might like to take advantage of.
|
|||
|
|
NetMgr and InfoMail contain features which allow documents to be
|
|||
|
|
updated by remote users. This allows you to set up a document for a
|
|||
|
|
point or user who cannot run a document server themselves, or who
|
|||
|
|
would like users to have a faster turnaround time by hosting the
|
|||
|
|
document at their uplink's system.
|
|||
|
|
Assume that we want the document MyDoc to be updateable by the
|
|||
|
|
following method: The user posts a message to 'DocServ Update' at your
|
|||
|
|
system, with the document tag 'MyDoc' and a password (eg. 'Secret') on
|
|||
|
|
the subject line. In NetMgr you would achieve this by adding the
|
|||
|
|
following mask and actions to your NETMGR.CFG file:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mask *, *, DocServ Update, @myaka, MyDoc Secret, *
|
|||
|
|
Action File C:\BULLETIN\MYDOC.TXT
|
|||
|
|
Action Delete
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In InfoMail you would get the same result by specifying Secret as
|
|||
|
|
the update password in the 'Password' field of the document record
|
|||
|
|
window; InfoMail takes any message to its normal request name, plus '
|
|||
|
|
Update', as a document update, and takes the password as the second
|
|||
|
|
word on the subject line.
|
|||
|
|
Needless to say, NetMgr is much more versatile in this respect, as
|
|||
|
|
you can specify any way you like of identifying document updates. It
|
|||
|
|
has the disadvantage, though, that the message header is included in
|
|||
|
|
the updated document-- therefore the update password is quite useless.
|
|||
|
|
In this case, you could utilise the first two fields of the document
|
|||
|
|
mask to limit updates to a single user, and do away with the password.
|
|||
|
|
As another feature, both FDInt and InfoMail create document lists.
|
|||
|
|
FDInt sends out a document list when the word 'List' is encountered on
|
|||
|
|
the subject line. InfoMail sends out a document list whenever a user
|
|||
|
|
requests a document which doesn't exist (including List, if you do not
|
|||
|
|
host a document of that name).
|
|||
|
|
There are a few details in the document record which concern the
|
|||
|
|
creation of document lists. In FDInt the 'Invisible' field will
|
|||
|
|
prevent a document from being listed if set to 'Yes'. The 'Listed'
|
|||
|
|
field in InfoMail has the opposite effect; setting it to 'No' prevents
|
|||
|
|
the document from being listed. FDInt has another field,
|
|||
|
|
'Description', the value of which will be displayed alongside the
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 6 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
document tag in a document list.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now the bulletins are fully set up as far as the document server
|
|||
|
|
software is concerned, but the most important part of the setup, the
|
|||
|
|
document file itself, is not yet present.
|
|||
|
|
To avoid taking over issue 1332 of FidoNews entirely, I will round
|
|||
|
|
off this week's article here. Next week's article will deal with the
|
|||
|
|
writing of the bulletin itself, and will cover both the technical
|
|||
|
|
aspects of netmail bulletins and some non-technical hints on the art
|
|||
|
|
of bulletin writing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A GNU Fido?
|
|||
|
|
by Gregg Jennings, 1:331/109
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Our new Snooze Editor had asked (in FidoNews Vol. 13 Num. 29):
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Are there any reports from the FTSC [FidoNet Technical
|
|||
|
|
Standards Committee] on the state of our Standards?
|
|||
|
|
Updates to our practices? Presumably, software authors
|
|||
|
|
are still at it and things have changed in the last
|
|||
|
|
couple years, yes?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
David Rye, 1:3649/10, wrote an article in FidoNews Vol. 13 Num. 31,
|
|||
|
|
"A Call For Programmers Of A New Common BBS Interface", in which he
|
|||
|
|
summed up with the following:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyone that has an interest in trying to develop new
|
|||
|
|
software with a published data format that will allow
|
|||
|
|
the point and click, graphic based BBS is more than
|
|||
|
|
welcome to contact me at my FidoNet address of 1:3649/10.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
His article was another ponderance about what can be done to improve
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet. We have all heard many death knells before, and, as David,
|
|||
|
|
many people have (and will have) ideas about actually doing something.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So perhaps now more ideas about things to do will be coming in.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As these ideas are brought forth I would like people to ponder
|
|||
|
|
David's statement: "new software with a published data format".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I do not think that a published data format alone will do what he
|
|||
|
|
and others may suggest to improve FidoNet. To me any new
|
|||
|
|
developments in software must make the source code freely
|
|||
|
|
available to do some real good.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We already HAVE published data formats. We already HAVE software.
|
|||
|
|
What we NEED is source code. Freely available source code.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Implementing new programs and formats is a fairly long process.
|
|||
|
|
This implementation process is directly related to the number
|
|||
|
|
of programmers involved. With one it is the slowest, with several
|
|||
|
|
it is faster, with everyone it may not necessarily be fastest
|
|||
|
|
though without some sort of coordination.
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 7 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here is an example:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One programmer writes a new program and distributes it to
|
|||
|
|
testers as an executable and documentation. People use it and
|
|||
|
|
return ideas and bug reports. The programmer makes changes and
|
|||
|
|
the loop continues.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After a while the program is good enough for worldwide distribution.
|
|||
|
|
Then the programmer has a lifestyle change and leaves FidoNet and
|
|||
|
|
improvements can no longer be made.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some other programmer then takes over with a newer idea and the
|
|||
|
|
process repeats. Sometimes this process takes years. And we
|
|||
|
|
are stuck with a slowly improving, if improving at all, network.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Even if the original programmer passes on the source code to someone
|
|||
|
|
else, or there are a few programmers involved, the process is still
|
|||
|
|
slow and can still stagnant.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here is another example:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One programmer writes a new program and distributes it to testers
|
|||
|
|
as source. People use it and return improvements and bug fixes.
|
|||
|
|
The programmer keeps track of this and keeps all coordinated during
|
|||
|
|
this process.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After a while the program is good enough for worldwide distribution.
|
|||
|
|
No matter what the original programmer(s) do, as long as there is a
|
|||
|
|
way to coordinate improvements and bug fixes (like via an ECHO),
|
|||
|
|
there is continual and constant on going improvements and enhancements
|
|||
|
|
in the network for as long as there are people using it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is an AMATEUR (hobbyist) NON-COMMERCIAL network. I think we
|
|||
|
|
all agree on this. Yes, even the original Fido/FidoNet software was
|
|||
|
|
shareware. But this shareware process is what is holding back
|
|||
|
|
progress and growth.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To me, the idea of, "here's a better way slash improvement slash
|
|||
|
|
enhancement slash cool thing -- but everyone has to gimmee 25 bucks
|
|||
|
|
to use it -- and if I die (or get pissed) too bad" is the biggest
|
|||
|
|
log in the current log-jam of progress within FidoNet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I propose that people developing software seriously think about
|
|||
|
|
distributing their code under the GNU GPL or Artistic License
|
|||
|
|
or some variation. I am a software developer and I know that there
|
|||
|
|
are GigaBytes of source code throughout the world that is
|
|||
|
|
distributed freely. Why should a hobbyist network not do this?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now I'm not saying that everyone should give up their current
|
|||
|
|
source code to everything that is now running FidoNet. Many
|
|||
|
|
people worked long and hard and the want of a little bit of
|
|||
|
|
compensation is fine. But before anyone thinks FidoNet can grow
|
|||
|
|
and improve, remember that without the availability of the source
|
|||
|
|
code, any growth and improvement may just be a spurt and nothing
|
|||
|
|
more.
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 8 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Iron Butterfly Member Disappears After Allegedly Working on
|
|||
|
|
Faster-Than-Light Communication - Is He In A Godda Da Vida?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
By Fredric Rice (frice@stbbs.com)
|
|||
|
|
The Skeptic Tank (818) 335-9601
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Originally appeared in:
|
|||
|
|
Skeptic Magazine, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1996.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's a story that is so fragmented, so contradictory, so strange
|
|||
|
|
and bizarre I eventually had to tape all the bits and pieces of the
|
|||
|
|
story to my office walls to try to create some kind of a big picture.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The story is growing and I can't help but think of the possibility
|
|||
|
|
that all of this information on the wall will eventually form the
|
|||
|
|
basis of a legend among must-believers; a legend not quite as
|
|||
|
|
powerful as the Kennedy assanation conspiracy, true, yet a legend
|
|||
|
|
which should last for decades -- if not forever among believers.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I'm going to offer you what I've been able to learn about this story
|
|||
|
|
as well as my own conjectures.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Philip Taylor Kramer, one-time bassist for the rock group Iron
|
|||
|
|
Butterfly, disappeared on February 12'th, 1996, and hasn't been seen
|
|||
|
|
or heard from since. Among the computer networks, news of his
|
|||
|
|
disappearance created only a minor flurry of comments by rock music
|
|||
|
|
fans yet for the most part his disappearance remained of little
|
|||
|
|
interest. Until, that is, the rumors came down from both reliable
|
|||
|
|
and dubious sources that Kramer was working on a faster-than-light
|
|||
|
|
communications system just before his disappearance. In various
|
|||
|
|
paranormal and so-called "advanced science" discussion groups, the
|
|||
|
|
possibility that he had been abducted by a super secret agency of
|
|||
|
|
the United States, the Russians, or aliens from another planet
|
|||
|
|
began. A dozen "real reasons" for his alleged abduction have risen
|
|||
|
|
to the top of the conjecture heap and all of them are, well,
|
|||
|
|
imaginative.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I observed the growing rumors and the widening conspiracy yet I
|
|||
|
|
didn't think much of it -- until KTLA News here in Los Angeles ran a
|
|||
|
|
short five minute report on his disappearance and confirmed that
|
|||
|
|
Kramer had indeed been working on a faster-than-light communications
|
|||
|
|
system. KTLA reported that Representative James A. Traficant Jr. of
|
|||
|
|
Ohio was concerned about Kramer's disappearance due to the fact that
|
|||
|
|
Kramer held nuclear-oriented security clearances tied to the MX
|
|||
|
|
Missile project and due to the type of mathematical research Kramer
|
|||
|
|
was working on.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Though several tabloid papers covered this strange story, eventually
|
|||
|
|
reliable sources started to investigate and report. On May 5'th, the
|
|||
|
|
San Diego Union Tribune ran a lengthy story covering the
|
|||
|
|
disappearance. As I had expected, the story also covered the growing
|
|||
|
|
claims of conspiracy and possible abduction by mysterious agencies.
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 9 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Ron Bushy, Iron Butterfly's co-founder, was supposed to have been
|
|||
|
|
working with Kramer to schedule an Iron Butterfly reunion tour at the
|
|||
|
|
time of his disappearance. When the Union Tribune talked with Bushy
|
|||
|
|
about Kramer's disappearance, Bushy said "I honestly believe that he
|
|||
|
|
has been abducted by our government or an agency that is part of it
|
|||
|
|
or maybe a foreign government or a company." [Reference 1]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The reason for this suggestion was the fact that just days before
|
|||
|
|
his disappeared, Kramer and his father believed they had worked out
|
|||
|
|
a mathematical breakthrough which would allow the nearly
|
|||
|
|
instantaneous transmission of matter which would also revolutionize
|
|||
|
|
the communications industry. "We're talking 'Beam me up Scotty'
|
|||
|
|
time," Bushy said.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The research deals with a mathematical representation describing
|
|||
|
|
faster-than-light communication employing gravitational waves and
|
|||
|
|
magnetic particles. Current research on the detection of gravity
|
|||
|
|
waves consists of hugely massive aluminum or niobium cylinders,
|
|||
|
|
sitting inside of superconducting tubs of liquid nitrogen deep
|
|||
|
|
underground, and the only events capable of producing gravity waves
|
|||
|
|
of a high enough intensity to be detected by such devices is a
|
|||
|
|
supernova, the collapse of a black hole, or the creation of the
|
|||
|
|
universe. Contemporary research also suggests that using the Earth
|
|||
|
|
itself in conjunction with a distant spacecraft might also be used
|
|||
|
|
to detect these extremely weak waves. [reference 2] How such a
|
|||
|
|
technology can be used to transmit matter or communicate over any
|
|||
|
|
distance instantaneously hasn't been covered in any of the articles
|
|||
|
|
I've found and nothing in any faster-than-light conjecture books I
|
|||
|
|
have on hand talk about it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The headlines of some of the articles I've found are kind of
|
|||
|
|
interesting and guarantee to provoke the purchase of the publication.
|
|||
|
|
"Alien Abductions? Two Rockers Lost in Space" is a story in a
|
|||
|
|
publication by an organization called "Addicted To Noise" -- ATN --
|
|||
|
|
which covered the disappearance of Richey Edwards and Philip
|
|||
|
|
Kramer -- two rock stars who share a great many similarities in
|
|||
|
|
their disappearances.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Many web pages on Internet which offer comment on Kramer's
|
|||
|
|
disappearance also carry attention-grabbing titles and offer
|
|||
|
|
mysterious conjectures. Several comment upon how the story of
|
|||
|
|
Kramer's disappearance is worthy of something one expects to see on
|
|||
|
|
"The X-Files," the FOX Network's very popular science fiction
|
|||
|
|
series. Some speculate upon the meaning of the title and words of
|
|||
|
|
Iron Butterfly's highly successful song "In a godda da vida," the
|
|||
|
|
meaning of which is widely known among music fans as being a
|
|||
|
|
drunkenly slurred reference to the Christian "Garden of Eden" myth.
|
|||
|
|
Even KTLA's News anchor mistakenly stated that the song's contents
|
|||
|
|
and title remains a mystery. If mankind can learn the "true
|
|||
|
|
meaning" of Iron Butterfly's most famous song, several New Agers
|
|||
|
|
have suggested, we'll find out what "really happened" to Philip
|
|||
|
|
Kramer.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some of the newspaper accounts conflict slightly with others.
|
|||
|
|
Various report that Kramer either did or did not make an
|
|||
|
|
appointment to pick up an associate at the Los Angeles Airport
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 10 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
yet a $3.00 bill for 45 minutes of LAX parking was received by the
|
|||
|
|
Kramer residence 10 days after his disappearance containing a
|
|||
|
|
receipt with Kramer's IOU written on it. Kramer, it seems, didn't
|
|||
|
|
have the cash on hand for parking or -- it is considered by some --
|
|||
|
|
he didn't wish to waste three dollars on parking knowing in advance
|
|||
|
|
that he was going to disappear and wanted to save his money. Being
|
|||
|
|
a computer executive, Kramer would have known how easily credit
|
|||
|
|
cards and checking account transactions can be tracked and, if one
|
|||
|
|
wishes to go underground, hanging onto three dollars when one can
|
|||
|
|
write an IOU instead makes good sense.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What's interesting is that Kramer _didn't_ pick up his associate.
|
|||
|
|
Something must have happened to him at the airport while he was
|
|||
|
|
waiting. It seems that he went to the airport parking lot,
|
|||
|
|
receiving a parking stub, and started waiting in the arrival
|
|||
|
|
terminal for his associate to arrive. Sometime during his wait,
|
|||
|
|
something prompted him to simply walk back to his green van, leave
|
|||
|
|
an IOU for his 45 minutes of parking, then drive off into oblivion.
|
|||
|
|
As he was driving away, he made a series of strange telephone calls
|
|||
|
|
to friends and family expressing his love. It seems that the last
|
|||
|
|
call he made was to 911, "This is a Philip Taylor Kramer and I'm
|
|||
|
|
going to kill myself."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I have asked myself, if a man is going to kill himself, why would he
|
|||
|
|
leave an IOU for three dollars unless he seriously just didn't have
|
|||
|
|
it on him? A successful computer executive, I would think, would
|
|||
|
|
always have at least a small amount of cash. If Kramer was intent
|
|||
|
|
upon making himself disappear, planting the suggestion that he was
|
|||
|
|
going to kill himself might have been an attempt to make the
|
|||
|
|
police who would later investigate his disappearance suppose that he
|
|||
|
|
was successful. Kramer's wife also might not stand to get legal
|
|||
|
|
issues resolved until years after Kramer's disappearance made him
|
|||
|
|
legally dead so the claim of suicide might also have been out of a
|
|||
|
|
desire to help his wife. His van hasn't been found. If he did kill
|
|||
|
|
himself, his van might have been stolen and stripped down just hours
|
|||
|
|
or days after his suicide. At this point, all anyone seems to be
|
|||
|
|
doing is employing conjecture, myself included.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
What is in agreement is that Kramer's mental stability was slipping.
|
|||
|
|
Just days before he disappeared, he stated that the Earth was going
|
|||
|
|
to end due to a supernova; that his father, a Professor of
|
|||
|
|
engineering at Youngstown University in Ohio, was really a god; that
|
|||
|
|
Jennifer, his wife, was really Mother Earth. As they were looking
|
|||
|
|
for a new home several days before his disappearance, he told his
|
|||
|
|
wife that he was frightened that people were going to come for him.
|
|||
|
|
"Honey, we're going to have to live behind walls. Honey, people are
|
|||
|
|
going to want to get at me."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Perhaps Kramer actually believed that he had stumbled upon an
|
|||
|
|
astounding breakthrough. The paranoia expressed tends to make me
|
|||
|
|
think that perhaps Philip Kramer disappeared to try to protect his
|
|||
|
|
wife and family from what he believed were dangerous government
|
|||
|
|
agencies who would eventually come after him after news of his
|
|||
|
|
breakthrough became known to them. That leads me to think that, if
|
|||
|
|
he is still alive and simply in hiding, he will eventually resurface
|
|||
|
|
and perhaps try to either start a laboratory of his own to develope
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 11 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
his breakthrough else find a laboratory he feels he can trust and
|
|||
|
|
sign on with them.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For us skeptics, though, what might be more interesting was Kramer's
|
|||
|
|
growing involvement and belief in New Age mysticism. The Union
|
|||
|
|
Tribune reported that Kramer had read "The Celestine Prophecy" -- a
|
|||
|
|
best-selling book about a middle aged man who sets out to find the
|
|||
|
|
"nine insights" of life. Kramer asked his wife to only eat "colors
|
|||
|
|
of the spectrum," asking that she not wear black clothes or eat meat.
|
|||
|
|
This book also factors greatly in must-believers' conjectures among
|
|||
|
|
the computer networks. Perhaps, some suggest, the mathematical
|
|||
|
|
breakthrough that Kramer and his father developed caused Kramer
|
|||
|
|
(and the van he was driving) to "vibrate" out of visibility, just as
|
|||
|
|
happens in the "Celestine Prophecy." This inability to discern
|
|||
|
|
reality from fiction has manifested itself repeatedly since I started
|
|||
|
|
paying attention to this case. Stories from popular fiction -- like
|
|||
|
|
"The X-Files," are being used to "explain" Kramer's disappearance.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Kathy Kramer, Philip Kramer's sister, has been getting unsolicited
|
|||
|
|
letters from self-professed "psychics" pin-pointing her brother's
|
|||
|
|
location using map-dowsing -- the "psychic" lays out a map and
|
|||
|
|
suspends an object from a chain or string and, depending upon the
|
|||
|
|
movement of the object, one pretends to discern where the missing
|
|||
|
|
person or object is. One such "lead" which came through the mail was
|
|||
|
|
from Austria and it stated that her brother was the victim of an
|
|||
|
|
accident yet was alive and being worshipped as a deity among the
|
|||
|
|
Pechanga Indians on a reservation outside of Los Angeles. Kathy
|
|||
|
|
Kramer went to talk with the tribe's council yet they knew nothing
|
|||
|
|
about her missing brother.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This brings us back to Representative James A. Traficant Jr. He
|
|||
|
|
has twice asked for a federal investigation, citing Kramer's
|
|||
|
|
reported mathematical breakthrough and his work with the MX missile
|
|||
|
|
as cause for national security concerns. Traficant states in his
|
|||
|
|
request to the FBI that it's not unlikely that the research Kramer
|
|||
|
|
was working on was such that a foreign power might have "abducted,
|
|||
|
|
apprehended, compromised, or somehow brainwashed" Kramer. He even
|
|||
|
|
suggests that it's possible domestic agencies could use Kramer's
|
|||
|
|
"extraordinary knowledge for nefarious purposes." The FBI, for its
|
|||
|
|
part, at first rejected the suggestion for an inquiry yet has
|
|||
|
|
reversed itself, stating "It's a known fact there are rouge nations
|
|||
|
|
like Iran working on nuclear weapons who could use someone with
|
|||
|
|
Taylor Kramer's knowledge to make long-range missiles. Just because
|
|||
|
|
it's a remote possibility doesn't mean you shouldn't investigate it."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because of Traficant's request, some believers in either the alien
|
|||
|
|
abduction theory or the foreign/domestic government kidnapping theory
|
|||
|
|
have suggested that Traficant will be the next to disappear if he
|
|||
|
|
doesn't stop asking questions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The "fact" that Kramer has finally created a "Star Trek transporter"
|
|||
|
|
doesn't seem to be worthy of debate by some of the believers I've
|
|||
|
|
talked with, interestingly enough. To "prove" the "undeniable fact"
|
|||
|
|
that Kramer successfully created a matter transmitter, I've been told
|
|||
|
|
that the electrostatic photocopier is a "case in point." When I
|
|||
|
|
express my ignorance at how this proves Kramer developed a matter
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 12 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
transporting technology, I'm usually ignored or told to "stop acting
|
|||
|
|
stupid." Doubtless there are connections between these two amazingly
|
|||
|
|
useful technologies, yet I can't help but question how the obvious
|
|||
|
|
existence of photocopiers proves the existence of matter
|
|||
|
|
transmitters. Perhaps the existence of one amazing machine is
|
|||
|
|
"proof" that any amazing machine one might dream up is possible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So what about faster-than-light communications? Dr. Milton A.
|
|||
|
|
Rothman, former professor of physics at Trenton State College and
|
|||
|
|
former research physicist at the Princeton Plasma Physics
|
|||
|
|
Laboratory, covers the reasons why physicists don't expect to find
|
|||
|
|
undiscovered forces allowing anti-gravity devices, faster-than-light
|
|||
|
|
transportation and communication devices, and ESP, in his book
|
|||
|
|
"The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and Understanding the
|
|||
|
|
Reality of Science." Dr. Rothman states that for such things to be
|
|||
|
|
possible, a new particle responsible for carrying a new force would
|
|||
|
|
have to be discovered yet were such a particle to actually exist, it
|
|||
|
|
would have been inferred by experimentation long before now.
|
|||
|
|
Dr. Rothman states, "The conclusion to which we are forced --
|
|||
|
|
unsatisfactory as it might be to many -- is that we cannot depend
|
|||
|
|
upon the discovery of new and radically different kinds of forces in
|
|||
|
|
the future to help us go faster than light, to hold vehicles
|
|||
|
|
suspended in midair, to make objects move by directing thoughts at
|
|||
|
|
them, or to transmit messages telepathically. We must make do with
|
|||
|
|
the forces that exist." [Reference 3]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Dr. Rothman also covers must-believer's arguments to the contrary
|
|||
|
|
when it is suggested that science has been wrong before and thus the
|
|||
|
|
possibility of faster-than-light star travel or communication is
|
|||
|
|
still possible. (What New Agers disdainfully call "the conventional
|
|||
|
|
wisdom.") "What makes this argument invalid is the fact that
|
|||
|
|
it is based upon a myth. The idea that all theories are temporary is
|
|||
|
|
simply not true, even though it is believed by a great many people.
|
|||
|
|
The reason is, as we have shown, that we do know some things for a
|
|||
|
|
certainty."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Several things are certain in Philip Kramer's case. Kramer obviously
|
|||
|
|
believed that his mathematical breakthrough was going to put his life
|
|||
|
|
and the lives of his family in danger. It's also certain that if
|
|||
|
|
Kramer ever surfaces, either dead or alive, the conspiracy theories
|
|||
|
|
and conjecture as to the "true story" will continue for a long, long
|
|||
|
|
time.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Reference 1]
|
|||
|
|
San Diego Union Tribune, May 5, 1996, page A-23
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Reference 2]
|
|||
|
|
Jeffries, A. D., et al., "Gravitational Wave
|
|||
|
|
Observatories," Scientific American, June 1987
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Trimble, Virginia, "Gravity Waves: A Progress
|
|||
|
|
Report," Sky & Telescope, October 1987.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[Reference 3]
|
|||
|
|
"The Science Gap: Dispelling the Myths and
|
|||
|
|
Understanding the Reality of Science," Dr. Milton
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 13 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A. Rothman, page 117.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fredric L. Rice, Sr. Software Engineer
|
|||
|
|
frice@stbbs.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Skeptics Socity
|
|||
|
|
Post Office Box 338
|
|||
|
|
Altadena, California.
|
|||
|
|
91001
|
|||
|
|
Voice: (818)794-3119
|
|||
|
|
Fax: (818)794-1301
|
|||
|
|
email: skepticmag@aol.com
|
|||
|
|
web: http://www.skeptic.com/
|
|||
|
|
ftp: ftp://ftp.skeptic.com/pub/skeptic
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
By Louie Gonsalves 1:2808/16
|
|||
|
|
louie.gonsalves@phosphor.datasync.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Introducing the ANIMANIACS echo!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ANIMANIACS is an echo dedicated to the discussion of the Warner
|
|||
|
|
Brothers and their sister, Dot... and any other characters in the
|
|||
|
|
show, such as Pinky and The Brain, Buttons and Mindy, Chicken Boo,
|
|||
|
|
and any others.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since this is a brand-new echo, distribution is from my system at
|
|||
|
|
this time. Bundles will be placed on hold for you, pending your
|
|||
|
|
poll.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To get the ANIMANIACS echo, please Crash-Netmail or Internet Email
|
|||
|
|
the following info to me at: (Or, get yor REC or whoever you feed
|
|||
|
|
from to grab it).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Louie Gonsalves 1:2808/16
|
|||
|
|
louie.gonsalves@phosphor.datasync.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
+-----------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| Sysop Name: |
|
|||
|
|
| Fido Node#: |
|
|||
|
|
| Email address (if applicable): |
|
|||
|
|
| Session level password: |
|
|||
|
|
| Areafix password: |
|
|||
|
|
+-----------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
PLEASE, don't send the above info by any other means than crash
|
|||
|
|
netmail or email.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It is my intention to backbone the echo, so I'll need all the help
|
|||
|
|
I can get for it. =_) Message will be sent to the ECHOLIST robot
|
|||
|
|
soon. The following are the rules of the echo:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 14 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
|
|||
|
|
The Rules for the ANIMANIACS Echo:
|
|||
|
|
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1. No flames. Flames will NOT be tolerated. This is an echo for
|
|||
|
|
fostering growth, not festering growths. All disputes are to be
|
|||
|
|
settled outside the echo, via netmail, email or pistols at dawn.
|
|||
|
|
Personal attacks, i.e.: namecalling, etc, are considered flames,
|
|||
|
|
and will be dealt as such.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Flames WILL result in feedcuts.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2. Language. The official language of ANIMANIACS is English.
|
|||
|
|
Please do not post in other languages.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since this is an echo that will no doubt be read by children,
|
|||
|
|
please refrain from using "colorful metaphors." I.E.: NO
|
|||
|
|
CUSSING!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
3. Real names ONLY. No handles, please. The only handle allowed is
|
|||
|
|
Moderator, and the only person permitted to use it is the
|
|||
|
|
moderator listed in the ELIST.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
4. Hi ASCII. Hi-ascii characters are permitted. ANSI codes, are
|
|||
|
|
NOT. Signature lines may not exceed 2 lines. Taglines are OK,
|
|||
|
|
provided they don't exceed 1 line.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5. Gating. This echo may be gated to other networks, ONLY if
|
|||
|
|
expressly authorized by the moderator, via netmail or email.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
8. Any infraction of the items above may result in expulsion from the
|
|||
|
|
echo. I warn via netmail. If you wish to contest a moderator's
|
|||
|
|
desicion, please do so via netmail or email... not in the echo.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
That's the rules, folks. Now let's get this sucker 'boned and on the
|
|||
|
|
bird. Faboo!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Louie Gonsalves (aka Wakko Warner)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Moderator, ANIMANIACS
|
|||
|
|
Fido 1:2808/16
|
|||
|
|
STN 111:5701/0
|
|||
|
|
louie.gonsalves@phosphor.datasync.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Points thinking about FidoNet
|
|||
|
|
by Frederik Retsema, [2:280/901.35]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Assume, you are new to FidoNet. You don't know anything particular
|
|||
|
|
about it, only that a friend of yours is (he calls it) point, and
|
|||
|
|
that he likes that. He shows you the way he gets his mail and what
|
|||
|
|
he and other people write.
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 15 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You like it, you become a point yourself and get interested in the
|
|||
|
|
way BBS-es (woeps... corrected... nodes) exchange mail. You listen
|
|||
|
|
to what the nodes tell, trying to understand why the situation in
|
|||
|
|
your part of FidoNet, Holland (woeps... corrected... region 28) is
|
|||
|
|
the way it is.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
And then... Something happens. You think you have a solution to the
|
|||
|
|
problems. A way to solve some unwanted situation. You put this very
|
|||
|
|
logical and simple plan into an echomailarea and... stand corrected
|
|||
|
|
because the situation was a little more difficult than you thought.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This happened about four or five times to me. I still like it to
|
|||
|
|
think with people about the best way to solve problems in region
|
|||
|
|
28. I still like to think about advantages and disadvantages of
|
|||
|
|
some solutions to this situation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There is a problem, though.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
It appears to me that many discussions about FidoNet are in the
|
|||
|
|
sysop-only-areas. Areas that are not readable (not to be spoken
|
|||
|
|
about writable) for points. And that's a pitty, because most
|
|||
|
|
writers in the general available areas about FidoNet _can_ read
|
|||
|
|
these areas. And know more about the situation than I do. Which is
|
|||
|
|
a drawback when wanting to make usable suggestions for the given
|
|||
|
|
situation.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Examples of wanted information that was/is not available for
|
|||
|
|
points are for example: the names of the candidates of NEC-elections
|
|||
|
|
in my net and the way these persons act upon eachother, information
|
|||
|
|
from the RC/REC about the situation in my region, pro's and con's of
|
|||
|
|
the ENC-flag in zone 2, decisions and other information of the
|
|||
|
|
echomaildistributors, etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A solution to this problem would be to make sysop-areas read-only
|
|||
|
|
for points. In this way points would at least be able to read what
|
|||
|
|
the real problems of the current situation are. In this way the
|
|||
|
|
points can think about _real_ solutions to these problems which
|
|||
|
|
makes them more valuable to FidoNet. Why should a point not be able
|
|||
|
|
to find good solutions to the given FidoNet-problems ?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Let's be honoust: if the information in these net- and region-
|
|||
|
|
sysop-areas were _that_ secret that points shouldn't know about
|
|||
|
|
them, you wouldn't tell the other x-hundred nodes who can read in it
|
|||
|
|
too. There's no reason to beleave that nodes are better persons than
|
|||
|
|
points or users are. And so there's no reason to beleave that
|
|||
|
|
points will mess up the situation more than some nodes do now
|
|||
|
|
already ;-).
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The last time I tried to gain access to a more or less node-only area
|
|||
|
|
was this winter. This discussion lasted 6 months, but some nodes just
|
|||
|
|
wanted to keep their privileges. Some of them just didn't see that
|
|||
|
|
points (and users) _are_ part of FidoNet and that the policy is just
|
|||
|
|
a little outdated on this point.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Because, let's face it, FidoNet is _not_ defined by the nodelist, but
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet consists of private- and public mailservices to nodes, points
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 16 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
and users. And why would people that are part of these mail-services
|
|||
|
|
not be a part of FidoNet ?!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some people just don't seem to see that the role of a node to a point
|
|||
|
|
is not really different to the role of a hub to a node or a host to
|
|||
|
|
a hub. For netmail only ZMH and the missing possibility of unrouted
|
|||
|
|
netmailrouting to the point or user are different, but that is
|
|||
|
|
something the point him/herself is choosing for. That's none of the
|
|||
|
|
business of the sender of whatever kind of message. For the way
|
|||
|
|
echomail of points and users are treated there are no differences at
|
|||
|
|
all.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, I'll be corrected here. Because of some out-dated policy,
|
|||
|
|
because nodes want to keep their privileges, because some nodes do
|
|||
|
|
not trust points and/or users and think the only thing points and
|
|||
|
|
users want is free and fast net- and echomail on their costs, because
|
|||
|
|
they think it _does_ make a difference whether or not one can send
|
|||
|
|
mail without any system between sender and receiver or because they
|
|||
|
|
see some points with real big mouthes comming up and they try to do
|
|||
|
|
anything to annoy them, hoping them to leave FidoNet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After 6 months of discussing this subject I'll stop here and now.
|
|||
|
|
That is, as a point. I'm a node since last Friday. That seems for now
|
|||
|
|
the only possible way to gain access to the same information about
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet that FidoNet nodes have.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sad, but true...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Frederik Retsema
|
|||
|
|
2:280/905
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 17 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
FIDONET HISTORY
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet History 30 Jul 93 [Part 3 of 3]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Date: 09 Aug 93 20:29:00
|
|||
|
|
From: Bart Mullins
|
|||
|
|
To: All
|
|||
|
|
Subj: FidoNet History
|
|||
|
|
______________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hello All!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A few days ago, some folks asked questions about the history of
|
|||
|
|
fidonet. Well John Madill is working with Infinite Technologies and I
|
|||
|
|
got the story straight from him. I re-post it here with his
|
|||
|
|
permission.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Date and Time: 07-30-1993 at 15:43:02
|
|||
|
|
Originated By: Scott Paterson (rsvp @ novell)
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Hey, John Madill was famous in San Jose about two weeks ago. He made
|
|||
|
|
the front page of our Computing section in the San Jose Mercury News
|
|||
|
|
(it's nice to have a newspaper that has a whole section each week
|
|||
|
|
dedicated to Computing). Anyway, it spoke of the inception of FidoNet
|
|||
|
|
but didn't give any specific information on where you could find out
|
|||
|
|
more. How about it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-Scott
|
|||
|
|
====================
|
|||
|
|
R. Scott V. Paterson
|
|||
|
|
Novell Messaging
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Date: 7/30/93 Time: 11:21 PM
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
To: Mullins,Bart (Bart Mullins @ MWRS.12MWRSS)
|
|||
|
|
From: John Madill (John @ Infinite)
|
|||
|
|
Subject: FidoNet History
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Message:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Originated By: John Madill (JOHN @ INFINITE)
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
Well, Scott, thanks for that nice intro! <g> If it's the same article
|
|||
|
|
that appeared here (by Steve Snow, Knight Ridder), I could comment
|
|||
|
|
that I only had 1 small mention, and it basically stated that I was a
|
|||
|
|
"co-worker", but thanks for using up my 15 minutes of fame! <g>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Back in the early 80's, I was working at a ComputerLand in Baltimore
|
|||
|
|
(not Boston ... Tom Jennings was living in San Francisco, but he was
|
|||
|
|
working for Phoenix Technologies in Boston.) For those of you that
|
|||
|
|
care to remember, way back then there was a product that was
|
|||
|
|
introduced called the IBM PC ... which everyone wanted, but was in
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 18 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
short supply. As an alternative, we were trying very hard to sell DEC
|
|||
|
|
Rainbows, which weren't exactly IBM compatible.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Since I had purchased a Rainbow myself (really *smart* move ... NOT),
|
|||
|
|
and had an interest in BBSes and telecommunications, I started
|
|||
|
|
searching for a BBS and Telecomm software for the DEC. After visiting
|
|||
|
|
*many* BBSes and asking for help, I was beginning to fear that I'd
|
|||
|
|
have to write the stuff myself. Fortunately, someone recommended that
|
|||
|
|
I call a board in SF called "Fido's BBS".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Trivia: The name Fido came from the mishmash of 68000 hardware that
|
|||
|
|
Tom was using to run the BBS on ... a real mongrel. How many 68000
|
|||
|
|
systems did you ever hear of that had DOS as the operating system?
|
|||
|
|
Since Tom did implementations of DOS for Phoenix, he wrote a version
|
|||
|
|
for that system.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyways ... I called Tom, we talked, and I found out that he actually
|
|||
|
|
did the original BIOS and DOS for the DEC Rainbow, and converted his
|
|||
|
|
comm programs (TelLink & MiniTel) to run on the DEC so he could port
|
|||
|
|
stuff over to the Rainbow.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now, I had a comm program. One of the things that we decided to do
|
|||
|
|
was to convert Fido's BBS to run on the DEC. Only one small problem:
|
|||
|
|
I had the DEC, and Tom didn't. We were stuck ... had to work
|
|||
|
|
together.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
As a result of this, we ended up working together to enhance Fido, and
|
|||
|
|
spent a lot of time "Yelling at the Sysop" ... chatting thru the
|
|||
|
|
keyboards back and forth. (This is NOT a recommended means of
|
|||
|
|
communicating via long distance, especially when we could have hung
|
|||
|
|
up, and called via voice.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
After many gigantic telephone bills, we pretty much agreed that there
|
|||
|
|
*might* be a better way. The problem was that I'd call his BBS to
|
|||
|
|
leave a message, and he'd see me there, so we'd chat ... or vice-
|
|||
|
|
versa. Since the key was to deposit e-mail at another BBS, the
|
|||
|
|
solution seemed obvious. Make Fido call the other Fido ... deliver
|
|||
|
|
mail, and hang up.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There were only 2 Fidos at that time, Tom's and Mine, so although we
|
|||
|
|
figured we add in a couple of more, we didn't think we'd need much
|
|||
|
|
sophistication for addressing ... just add in a "FidoNet" message
|
|||
|
|
area, secure it, and assign node numbers. Ask the user for the Node
|
|||
|
|
number, let the FidoNet module look up the phone number, and call off
|
|||
|
|
peak to save $.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, word got around pretty fast, and nodes started springing up all
|
|||
|
|
over. That's when we got interested in the routing ... allowing the
|
|||
|
|
creation of centralized hubs, and piggy backing mail to nodes within a
|
|||
|
|
local call to a single node thru that node. We actually started
|
|||
|
|
dreaming one day of linking coast to coast only thru local phone
|
|||
|
|
calls! (I wonder if you can do that today?)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Tom took on the responsibility of dishing out the node numbers - this
|
|||
|
|
was the only way we could eliminate duplicates - an since we only
|
|||
|
|
allocated 3 positions for node numbers (nnn), soon we had a *big*
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 19 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
problem. We had close to 1000 nodes and growing. Now what? We took
|
|||
|
|
the opportunity to alter the Nodelist format so that we had regions
|
|||
|
|
and nodes within regions ... (region-node), divided the USA into
|
|||
|
|
regions, and appointed Sysops as "region leaders" who could give out
|
|||
|
|
node numbers and maintain the nodelist for that region. These lists
|
|||
|
|
were then distributed, and merged together at each site by add-in
|
|||
|
|
nodelist generators.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Another stage in development was when we went international. We
|
|||
|
|
decided to add in Zones (Zone-Region-Node) *before* we ran out of
|
|||
|
|
Regions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This was pretty cool ... for a while ... and then IFNA got formed.
|
|||
|
|
The International FidoNet Association ... oh boy! Enter politics.
|
|||
|
|
For those of you that have never been there, you really don't know
|
|||
|
|
what missed.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Mandates that the entire structure, protocol, and operation be
|
|||
|
|
documented ... and distributed ... all from people that had nothing to
|
|||
|
|
do with the design, creation or maintenance of the FidoNet software.
|
|||
|
|
Another demand by IFNA was that no changes could be made to the
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet system without approval by the Technical committee. A lot of
|
|||
|
|
really neat things came out of the members (not committees) ... like
|
|||
|
|
Echos, which are similar to Discussion lists (library@infinite and
|
|||
|
|
library@novell) and listservers on the internet. We also saw the
|
|||
|
|
creation of the internet gateway to FidoNet.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
People got upset ... alternate nets got created (AlterNet, etc.), and
|
|||
|
|
people left. What started as a grass-roots communications network
|
|||
|
|
grew rapidly out of control due to internal political struggles.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I got disillusioned, and resigned from zone 1, region 2, node number
|
|||
|
|
2.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(I still love e-mail, though! <g>)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
P.S. Anyone out there know where Tom Jennings is? Perhaps we need to
|
|||
|
|
get his expertise involved with MHS!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well that's it folks. Hope it answers some questions.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Cheers,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Bart
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* Origin: The Unofficial BBS (1:387/615)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[end of Part 3 of 3]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 20 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[This was the VERY FIRST FidoNews issue. It is published here
|
|||
|
|
as part of our continuing History of FidoNet information. The
|
|||
|
|
spelling errors of the original have been corrected. The
|
|||
|
|
content is unchanged. Ed.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Volume 1, Number 1 1 Dec 84
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
| _ |
|
|||
|
|
| / \ |
|
|||
|
|
| - FidoNews - /|oo \ |
|
|||
|
|
| (_| /_) |
|
|||
|
|
| Fido and FidoNet _`@/_ \ _ |
|
|||
|
|
| Users Group | | \ \\ |
|
|||
|
|
| Newsletter | (*) | \ )) |
|
|||
|
|
| ______ |__U__| / \// |
|
|||
|
|
| / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / |
|
|||
|
|
| (________) (_/(_|(____/ |
|
|||
|
|
| (jm) |
|
|||
|
|
+----------------------------------------------------------+
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Editor: Tom Jennings
|
|||
|
|
Publisher: Fido #1
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
HOT NEWS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE FIRST FIDONET NEWSLETTER
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Well, it finally got done ... FidoNews, the FidoNet Users
|
|||
|
|
Group newsletter is real. It will be published once a week, possibly
|
|||
|
|
once every two weeks if it gets busy.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
There will be at least three regular "features": the node
|
|||
|
|
list, Fido list, and the route list. Hopefully there will be more
|
|||
|
|
interesting things later. Now you have a reason to get FidoNews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I, Tom Jennings, am apparently the editor. I do NOT wish to
|
|||
|
|
be editor; the last thing I need is something else to do. See the
|
|||
|
|
HELP WANTED section. (Not kidding)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
We (ahem) are also looking for a publisher; I will do that
|
|||
|
|
for a while at least. A freebie outgoing host would be nice. Not a
|
|||
|
|
short term problem, though, like finding an Editor in Chief is.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
*All* articles, etc are user submitted; anything and
|
|||
|
|
everything, as per usual Fidonet protocols (Which isn't saying much
|
|||
|
|
..) Ideas, problems, questions, tips, programs, hardware, etc etc
|
|||
|
|
are all welcome. See the ARTICLE article. (sic)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Distribution is still up in the air; it will be mailed to at
|
|||
|
|
least six hosts across the country. For now, it is available on #1
|
|||
|
|
and #51. Possibly elsewhere in this thing you'll find an article on
|
|||
|
|
distribution.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE FIDONET USERS GROUP
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 21 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Oh yeah, I did mention that ... I hereby declare all Fido
|
|||
|
|
users and sysops members of the FidoNet Users Group. Sounds pretty
|
|||
|
|
stupid, huh? Well ... If there are 100 Fido systems around the
|
|||
|
|
country, and each has at least 100 users, that's 10,000 people. Any
|
|||
|
|
group that large has advantages, if nothing other than letters to
|
|||
|
|
the editor of your favorite magazine. This is just a brainstorm at
|
|||
|
|
this point, but is something to keep in mind.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To make this fake club at least appear real, I am trying to
|
|||
|
|
decide whether or not to have bumper stickers made. This will be 3
|
|||
|
|
3/4" X 8 1/2" white vinyl, with black artwork, will have the
|
|||
|
|
requisite doggie, the words "FidoNet Bulletin Board Network" and
|
|||
|
|
"Fido Node #" on it, and a place for a phone number, and blank
|
|||
|
|
space. These will cost $165.00 for 500 stickers, or about $230.00
|
|||
|
|
for 1000. I'll pay part of it ($40.00?) but no more; if I get
|
|||
|
|
promises to buy say $125.00's worth, I'll have them made, and sell
|
|||
|
|
them at cost. (They cost about 34 cents each; plus 20 cents
|
|||
|
|
postage, plus envelopes, etc, call it a buck a piece.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The real reason for this is so I can have one, but I don't
|
|||
|
|
want to spend $165 for it!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
EDITOR'S SOAP BOX
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ARTICLE SUBMISSION
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The format of this thing is totally ad hoc; please make
|
|||
|
|
recommendations as to formats, sections needed, liked, or hated,
|
|||
|
|
columns you'd like to see, or see removed, anything at all. If you
|
|||
|
|
want to submit something regularly, we can start a column for you.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
You are ENCOURAGED to send things in for the newsletter.
|
|||
|
|
ANYTHING is fit for the newsletter, such as a description of your
|
|||
|
|
board, problems found, questions, jokes, fixes, horror stories about
|
|||
|
|
wrong FidoNet numbers, things for sale, etc etc etc.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
An article should have your name, node number (if
|
|||
|
|
applicable), followed by the text. Text can be any ASCII derivative;
|
|||
|
|
WordStar, soft paragraphs, 8th bit set, etc are all OK.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Articles can be uploaded at either Fido #1 or #51, into the
|
|||
|
|
NEWS File Area, or by sending it by FidoNet. There is a convention
|
|||
|
|
for naming the files, so that the newsletter can be published
|
|||
|
|
automatically.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
ARTICLE FILENAMES
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
file.ART For article type things
|
|||
|
|
file.SAL Things for sale
|
|||
|
|
file.NOT Notices
|
|||
|
|
file.MSC Miscellaneous things
|
|||
|
|
file.EDT an Editorial
|
|||
|
|
file.NEW News items
|
|||
|
|
file.WNT Wanted items
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 22 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Make sure the name is unique, especially if you send it by
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet, so you don't overwrite another article.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEWS
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
HOW THIS IS PUBLISHED
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is a totally electronic newsletter; articles are
|
|||
|
|
written of course by users and sysops, but all other parts and
|
|||
|
|
procedures are machine generated.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
For each newsletter, the Editor (that's me folks) does the
|
|||
|
|
date and volume of the title page (tough job), and whatever
|
|||
|
|
editorial there may be.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Articles are checked out for being readable (ie. more or
|
|||
|
|
less English language), and bum copies (bad uploads, etc) are
|
|||
|
|
deleted.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The lists generated by FidoNet Admin (St. Louis) such as the
|
|||
|
|
node list, Fido list, and the route list, come in via FidoNet during
|
|||
|
|
the week.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
On the day the newsletter is to be published, Fido #1 runs
|
|||
|
|
the text formatter (as a schedule) to produce the newsletter, using
|
|||
|
|
all the articles, the node and Fido lists. The completed newsletter
|
|||
|
|
is then copied into the NEWS file area. All of the article
|
|||
|
|
submissions are saved as last week's news, and deleted to make room
|
|||
|
|
for next weeks.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Some canned messages are copied into Fido 1's mail area,
|
|||
|
|
which file attaches the newsletter to the distribution points. This
|
|||
|
|
completes the FidoNews Newsletter publication. FIDO SECURITY -Tom
|
|||
|
|
Jennings
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Fido is pretty secure, but there have been a few instances
|
|||
|
|
where callers gave themselves SYSOP privileges, and ran amok ...
|
|||
|
|
the cure is quite simple.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NEVER NEVER NEVER have your "main" Fido directory available
|
|||
|
|
as a download or upload area. Always make sure there is no path that
|
|||
|
|
can reach your .BBS files. It is OK to have it as a SYSOP only area,
|
|||
|
|
never let it be accessed by NORMAL users.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If it is available, all someone has to do is get a copy of
|
|||
|
|
SYSOP.EXE, run it, and make a USER.BBS with them as SYSOP privilege.
|
|||
|
|
After uploading this file, they call back in, with the new name, and
|
|||
|
|
bingo! they are in control.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A nastier version of this is to download your current user
|
|||
|
|
list, use SYSOP.EXE to upgrade them (or two, or three ... in case
|
|||
|
|
you find one of them) the upload it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If this happens to you, delete USER.BBS *immediately*. Fix
|
|||
|
|
it so that the Fido area is not available to users, and then you
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 23 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
will be safe.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Better do it quick, now that it's all documented here.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
NOTICES
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FOR SALE
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
WANTED
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
THE ROUTE LIST
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This is the latest route list (ROUTE.BBS). Please put this
|
|||
|
|
into ROUTE.BBS if you are not part of a local Fidonet Host system.
|
|||
|
|
If you are (or think you are) contact the host nearest you. One way
|
|||
|
|
to tell is to poke through FIDOLIST, and see if a local system found
|
|||
|
|
there is also in the list below.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 1
|
|||
|
|
1,99
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 27
|
|||
|
|
14,21,27,44,45,73,202,310,315,318
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 51
|
|||
|
|
4,10,16,17,22,51,65
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 56
|
|||
|
|
56,77
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 59
|
|||
|
|
59,309
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 61
|
|||
|
|
61,302
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 69
|
|||
|
|
63,69
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 85
|
|||
|
|
85,306,308,312,326
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 79
|
|||
|
|
79,204,205,317
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 207
|
|||
|
|
42,203,207,320
|
|||
|
|
Route-To 327
|
|||
|
|
327,328
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[How many of you still around remember what this Route-to file
|
|||
|
|
was for? [grin] Ed.]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 24 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
WE GET EMAIL
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:374/14 ---
|
|||
|
|
By Christopher Baker on Sat Aug 03 12:03:44 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From: Kerry Grissett @ 1:3607/4
|
|||
|
|
To: Christopher Baker @ 1:374/14
|
|||
|
|
Date: 03 Aug 96 01:47:15
|
|||
|
|
Subj: FIDONEWS echo
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Hey Chris,
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
First let me thank you for taking over the editing of FIDONEWS! Your
|
|||
|
|
efforts and changes to our "rag" have made it, once again, something
|
|||
|
|
worth reading and with the "History" section, something worth saving!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Now, to the point(s) of my message...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Is the FIDONEWS echo going to be carried on Planet Connect? If so,
|
|||
|
|
when?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Also, this may be more than you want to do, but I thought it might be
|
|||
|
|
of use...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The version of FIDONEWS is published with the "next page" printer
|
|||
|
|
control codes in place. I would love to automate a process where the
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS is incorporated as a bulletin on my system, processing
|
|||
|
|
updates as they come in. The control code causes a problem, though.
|
|||
|
|
I see 2 solutions, having a program to strip the code before posting
|
|||
|
|
it as a bulletin or dual versions of FIDONEWS.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
If you know how I could *easily* strip the page codes in a batch file
|
|||
|
|
automatically, then I'll try that. <g>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks again and keep up the excellent work!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Kerry Grissett
|
|||
|
|
NC3607
|
|||
|
|
ksgrisse@hiwaay.net
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
P.S.
|
|||
|
|
You may post this in FIDONEWS if you see fit.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Area: Sent_Netmail
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Date : Jul 13 '96, 08:52
|
|||
|
|
From : Cindy Ingersoll 1:2623/71.0
|
|||
|
|
To : Christopher Baker
|
|||
|
|
Subj : Fidonews: R13 Sinking...
|
|||
|
|
_____________________________________________________________________
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Where are all the *Cs? Philip Dampiere (R13C) seems to have
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 25 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
disappeared. It's time for replacements. Bob Satti doesn't seem
|
|||
|
|
inclined to do anything about the situation either, so how do we go
|
|||
|
|
about replacing him?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
In the meantime, I'm a node without a net. The fellow who 'took over'
|
|||
|
|
as our N2623C insists on removing my node, just 'cos he don't like
|
|||
|
|
me'. That's pretty much the expected in this region. I've been trying
|
|||
|
|
to resolve the situation, but the NC refuses to discuss the issue, no
|
|||
|
|
replies from the RC. I've been given a temporary node # in another
|
|||
|
|
net, until such time as R13
|
|||
|
|
and South Jersey's net 2623 have *Cs that follow fidonet policy & do
|
|||
|
|
not delete nodes on their whim.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-1:2623/71
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
CiAo
|
|||
|
|
---
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 26 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
NET HUMOR
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From: top5@walrus.com
|
|||
|
|
Comments: Authenticated sender is <top5@walrus.com>
|
|||
|
|
To: topfive@news.zdnet.com
|
|||
|
|
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 01:10:18 +45
|
|||
|
|
Subject: TopFive -- 7/24/96 -- Reasons Dogs Don't Use Computers
|
|||
|
|
Reply-To: Top5@walrus.com
|
|||
|
|
Sender: owner-topfive@news.zdnet.com
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
_____________________________________
|
|||
|
|
_________| |________
|
|||
|
|
\ | The Top Five List | /
|
|||
|
|
\ | www.topfive.com | /
|
|||
|
|
\ | | /
|
|||
|
|
\ | Sponsored by Windows Sources | /
|
|||
|
|
> | www.wsources.com | <
|
|||
|
|
/ | | \
|
|||
|
|
/ | July 24, 1996 | \
|
|||
|
|
/ |_____________________________________| \
|
|||
|
|
/___________) (__________\
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[ This list copyright 1996 by Chris White and Ziff-Davis ]
|
|||
|
|
[ *To forward or repost, you must include this section.* ]
|
|||
|
|
[ The Top Five List top5@walrus.com www.topfive.com ]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
The Top 5 Reasons Dogs Don't Use Computers
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
20> Can't stick their heads out of Windows '95.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
19> Fetch command not available on all platforms.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
18> Hard to read the monitor with your head cocked to one side.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
17> Too difficult to "mark" every website they visit.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
16> Can't help attacking the screen when they hear "You've
|
|||
|
|
Got Mail."
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
15> Fire hydrant icon simply frustrating.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
14> Involuntary tail wagging is dead giveaway they're browsing
|
|||
|
|
www.pethouse.com instead of working.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
13> Keep bruising noses trying to catch that MPEG frisbee.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
12> Not at all fooled by Chuckwagon Screen Saver.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
11> Still trying to come up with an "emoticon" that signifies
|
|||
|
|
tail-wagging.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 27 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
10> Oh, but they WILL... with the introduction of the
|
|||
|
|
Microsoft Opposable Thumb.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
9> Three words: Carpal Paw Syndrome
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
8> 'Cause dogs ain't GEEKS! Now, cats, on the other hand...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
7> Barking in next cube keeps activating YOUR voice
|
|||
|
|
recognition software.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6> SmellU-SmellMe still in beta test.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5> SIT and STAY were hard enough, GREP and AWK are out
|
|||
|
|
of the question!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
4> Saliva-coated mouse gets mighty difficult to manuever.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
3> Annoyed by lack of newsgroup, alt.pictures.master's.leg.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
2> Butt-sniffing more direct and less deceiving than
|
|||
|
|
online chat rooms.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
and the Number 1 Reason Dogs Don't Use Computers...
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1> TrO{gO DsA[M,bN HyAqR4tDc TgrOo TgYPmE WeIjTyH P;AzWqS,. *
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Today's Top Five List contributors are:
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
John Hering, Alexandria, VA -- 1 (5th #1) (Hall of Famer)
|
|||
|
|
Sterling Smith, Houston, TX -- 1 (3rd #1)
|
|||
|
|
Bruce Ansley, Baltimore, MD -- 2, 14 (Hall of Famer)
|
|||
|
|
Lloyd Jacobson, Washington, DC -- 3, 11
|
|||
|
|
Rob Winchell, Arlington, MA -- 4, 12
|
|||
|
|
Lisa Stepaniak, Dearborn, MI -- 5, 20 (Rookies!)
|
|||
|
|
Lee Oeth, San Diego, CA -- 6, 20
|
|||
|
|
Matt Diamond, Holland, PA -- 6, 17
|
|||
|
|
Doug Johnson, Santa Cruz, CA -- 7, 9
|
|||
|
|
Marc Cukier, Toronto, Canada -- 8
|
|||
|
|
Vickie Neilson, Carlsbad, CA -- 9
|
|||
|
|
Boyd Johnson, San Diego, CA -- 9
|
|||
|
|
Kermit Woodall, Richmond, VA -- 9
|
|||
|
|
David Hyatt, New York, NY -- 10
|
|||
|
|
Jim Louderback, New York, NY -- 11 (Hall of Famer)
|
|||
|
|
Paul Lara, Temple, TX -- 13
|
|||
|
|
Tony Hill, Minneapolis, MN -- 15 (Hall of Famer)
|
|||
|
|
Jennifer Hart, Arlington, VA -- 16
|
|||
|
|
Steve Hurd, San Ramon, CA -- 17
|
|||
|
|
Ed Brooksbank, Sacramento, CA -- 17
|
|||
|
|
Randy Wohl, Ma'ale Adumim, Israel -- 17, 18
|
|||
|
|
Chris McKenna, Malibu, CA -- 17
|
|||
|
|
Greg Pettit, Houston, TX -- 17, 20
|
|||
|
|
Dennis Koho, Keizer, OR -- 19
|
|||
|
|
Chris White, New York, NY -- List owner/editor
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 28 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Selected from 140 submissions by 47 contributors.
|
|||
|
|
================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
*** Windows Sources Spotlight ***
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
> Hot Spots for NT 4.0 at <
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
www.zdnet.com/wsources/content/current/exchange.html
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
================================================================
|
|||
|
|
Top Five List Helpful Hints
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
To subscribe: Send a message to "Majordomo@news.zdnet.com"
|
|||
|
|
with "subscribe topfive" in the body of the message.
|
|||
|
|
To unsubscribe: Send a message to "Majordomo@news.zdnet.com"
|
|||
|
|
with "unsubscribe topfive" in the body of the message.
|
|||
|
|
For further info (including how to become a contributor):
|
|||
|
|
Send an e-mail message to "top5@walrus.com" with the word
|
|||
|
|
"INFO" in the *subject* line of the message.
|
|||
|
|
================================================================
|
|||
|
|
Maybe It Just Might Be True!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Elvis is still alive, and is living in Vegas
|
|||
|
|
disguised as an Elvis impersonator.
|
|||
|
|
(Thanks to Agnes Tomorrow)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(Send items to top5@walrus.com with "MAYBE" in the subject.)
|
|||
|
|
================================================================
|
|||
|
|
** The Top Five List http://www.topfive.com **
|
|||
|
|
** Sponsored by Windows Sources http://www.wsources.com **
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
* 1> Too Damn Hard To Type With Paws.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 29 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
COMIX IN ASCII
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
--- Following message extracted from Z1_BACKBONE @ 1:374/14 ---
|
|||
|
|
By Christopher Baker on Mon Jul 31 22:38:59 1995
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
From: George Vandervort
|
|||
|
|
To: Scott R. Godin
|
|||
|
|
Date: 30 Jul 95 10:17:02
|
|||
|
|
Subj: Map This!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's a start, your welcome to use this Map as a sample to complete
|
|||
|
|
your on Fido USA Map? <grin>
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=== Cut ===
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Here's a Birds EYE view..
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Central Texas Sysop Association (Fido 1:382/89) ..
|
|||
|
|
........................................ : :
|
|||
|
|
: SEA :: : BIS : | ' ., ,. : PWM
|
|||
|
|
: .......: : MSO BIL:........: |.''.. '..'. .--. .''
|
|||
|
|
: PDX .' :........: : MSP ':.' :. .. SYR: BOS
|
|||
|
|
: : BOI : : PIR :...... MKE : :......:...:
|
|||
|
|
:.......:......: :'''''''': DSM :---::...-'''': PIT JFK
|
|||
|
|
: : : :.... CYS. :.....' : : DAY:......:.:
|
|||
|
|
: : RNO : SLC: :'''''''' MCI : : :....' .' :
|
|||
|
|
: SFO' : : DEN ICT : STL :.' :..' RIC:
|
|||
|
|
: '. :.....:......:.........:......:'- BNA-'-.'''''''':
|
|||
|
|
:. ': : :''': OKC: :........:-----. CHS
|
|||
|
|
' LAX: PHX: ABQ: '--....:. LIT : : ATL. .'
|
|||
|
|
'':. : : DFW :---: JAN: MGM ' SAV
|
|||
|
|
'''--.::':''' '. '.. : ..:.....:
|
|||
|
|
: .. AUS ..:... MSY'''''''-. :
|
|||
|
|
'' : SAT .' ''' : :
|
|||
|
|
'. / '. MIA
|
|||
|
|
. BRO '.'
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=== Cut ===
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Regards,
|
|||
|
|
George Vandervort
|
|||
|
|
InterNet: gvandervort@infomail.com (No FTP)
|
|||
|
|
Origin: Lounge Lizard's Retreat <tm> (1:382/8)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 30 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sorcery v0.72 Wide Beta RELEASED!
|
|||
|
|
by Chris Reiter, [1:280/205/Hark@Clubmet.Metrobbs.Com]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SORCERY v.72a - Imagine yourself a wise sorcerer, with many spells
|
|||
|
|
at your fingertips. What would you do? Be nice? Nah. You'd kill off
|
|||
|
|
everyone in your path. Now more bug fixes and additions than ever!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sorcery is now in Wide Beta, and can be FREQ'd from 1:280/205, with
|
|||
|
|
the most current version under the magic name: SORCERY. It can also
|
|||
|
|
be downloaded from The Dead Zone BBS (913)362-9922. Logon as GUEST
|
|||
|
|
with the password GUEST. Select "D" from the Main Menu. That will
|
|||
|
|
download the most current version of Sorcery also.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Any questions can be directed to Chris Reiter, 1:280/205, or
|
|||
|
|
Hark@Clubmet.Metrobbs.Com.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 31 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
QUESTION OF THE WEEK
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Back in the dim time when I was NC135 in Miami_FL, we used to have an
|
|||
|
|
annual picnic for all the Sysops and Users. We had a barbecue and
|
|||
|
|
games related to computing like floppy disk throwing. One year, we
|
|||
|
|
even had a hard disk toss. [grin]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
So, the Question of the Week is:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Do you have local FidoNet parties and what do you do there?
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Send your answers in as .ART submissions or Netmail or email to the
|
|||
|
|
addresses listed in the FidoNews Information section.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Thanks.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 32 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
NOTICES
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Future History
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
15 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
Liberation Day, South Korea
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
12 Oct 1996
|
|||
|
|
General Elections, New Zealand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
29 Oct 1996
|
|||
|
|
Republic Day, Turkey.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5 Nov 1996
|
|||
|
|
Election day, U.S.A.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
5 Nov 1996
|
|||
|
|
Guy Fawkes Day, England.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1 Dec 1996
|
|||
|
|
Twelfth Anniversary of FidoNews Volume 1, Issue 1.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
12 Dec 1996
|
|||
|
|
Constitution Day, Russia
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
26 Jan 1997
|
|||
|
|
Australia Day, Australia.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6 Feb 1997
|
|||
|
|
Waitangi Day, New Zealand.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
16 Feb 1997
|
|||
|
|
Eleventh Anniversary of invention of Echomail by Jeff Rush.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
11 Jun 1997
|
|||
|
|
Independence Day, Russia
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
26 Jul 1997
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews Editor turns 48.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
6 Dec 1997
|
|||
|
|
Gallileo takes close-ups of Europa to resolution
|
|||
|
|
of 11 meters at the north pole.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
1 Dec 1998
|
|||
|
|
Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
|
|||
|
|
Tom Jennings.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
|
|||
|
|
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 33 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Latest Greatest Software Versions
|
|||
|
|
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This column will once again become a regular feature of Fidonews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Upon suggestion from ARTSPEC.DOC, I'll write a smidge about myself:
|
|||
|
|
Hi. I'm Peter Popovich. I first read Fidonews around 1986. I actually
|
|||
|
|
used to print the darn thing out and read it thoroughly even though I
|
|||
|
|
wasn't running a Fido-compatible BBS at the time. I've only been a
|
|||
|
|
node for two years, but I do remember the "good old days".
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
About two weeks ago, I opened my big mouth and agreed that reviving
|
|||
|
|
this column would be a good idea. The result: I got "volunteered" to
|
|||
|
|
write it. Critics beware: Our esteemed editor has a talent for
|
|||
|
|
turning suggestions for improvement into offers to write columns. ;-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
When I accepted the inevitable, Chris forwarded me a copy of the most
|
|||
|
|
recent versions list -- 4 1/2 years old! Rather than tracking down
|
|||
|
|
authors for each of the hundreds of programs below, I figured I'd run
|
|||
|
|
the last list verbatim and use it as a starting point. Hopefully the
|
|||
|
|
rather limited readership will start making noises to authors and the
|
|||
|
|
authors will write in with updates. The added benefit is that it will
|
|||
|
|
help encourage active reading of the good ol' Snooze. ;-)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
I expect the format to change slightly in the coming weeks. For those
|
|||
|
|
packages I hear from authors for, I'm considering adding one Fidonet
|
|||
|
|
address for contact and one magic name for FREQ at that site --
|
|||
|
|
hopefully I can keep it down to one line per program:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Program Name Version S? Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
|||
|
|
----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
NNNNNNNNNNNNNN VVVVVVV X FFFFFFFFLLLLLLLL X:XXXX/XXXX MMMMMMMM
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(S: Shareware, freeware, crippleware, etc. -- I'm still thinking
|
|||
|
|
about how best to classify this. I may modify the flags used in the
|
|||
|
|
old format as well.)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
One additional note: Articles submitted directly to the Fidonews
|
|||
|
|
Editor don't get forwarded to me; I don't see them until they're
|
|||
|
|
published. If you want your entry changed in a timely fashion, you
|
|||
|
|
are encouraged to send me notice of an update directly. I'll be happy
|
|||
|
|
to put blurbs about new versions in a leading section (no vaporware,
|
|||
|
|
please). As always, authors are encouraged to submit articles as
|
|||
|
|
well.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Constructive criticism on format and procedure is welcome.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Updates and suggestions should be sent to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=- Snip -=-
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 34 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Latest Update: 01/27/92
|
|||
|
|
---------------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 35 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
--------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
QNX
|
|||
|
|
---
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 36 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- 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
|
|||
|
|
--------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
Daisy 2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Filer 2-D
|
|||
|
|
MsgUtil 2.5
|
|||
|
|
Nodecomp 0.37
|
|||
|
|
PackUser 4
|
|||
|
|
UNARC.Com 1.20
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Macintosh
|
|||
|
|
---------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 37 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
TSort 1.0
|
|||
|
|
UNZIP 1.02c
|
|||
|
|
Zenith 1.5
|
|||
|
|
Zip Extract 0.10
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Amiga
|
|||
|
|
-----
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
-----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 38 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Archimedes
|
|||
|
|
----------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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)
|
|||
|
|
--------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
BBS Software Compression Utility Other Utilities
|
|||
|
|
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
|||
|
|
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
|||
|
|
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
|
|||
|
|
RList 1.03
|
|||
|
|
RTick 2.00
|
|||
|
|
UnBundle 1.4
|
|||
|
|
UnSeen 1.1
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
|
|||
|
|
Key: + - Netmail Capable (Doesn't Require Additional Mailer Software)
|
|||
|
|
* - Recently Updated Version
|
|||
|
|
@ - New Addition
|
|||
|
|
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
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.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 39 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-=- Snip -=-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Updates and suggestions should be sent to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 40 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
[this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or
|
|||
|
|
it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
|
|||
|
|
Version: 2.6.2
|
|||
|
|
Comment: Clear-signing is Electronic Digital Authenticity!
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Pending a formal decision about including 'encrypted' material inside
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews from the Zone Coordinator Council, the guts of the FidoNews
|
|||
|
|
public-key have been removed from this listing.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:374/14] or download it from the
|
|||
|
|
Rights On! BBS at 1-407-383-1372 anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone
|
|||
|
|
1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32B.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
This section will contain only this disclaimer and instructions until
|
|||
|
|
a ZCC decision is forwarded to the Editor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Sorry for any inconvenience.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 41 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS INFORMATION
|
|||
|
|
=================================================================
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Editor: Christopher Baker
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
|
|||
|
|
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar,
|
|||
|
|
Tom Jennings, Sylvia Maxwell,
|
|||
|
|
Donald Tees
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"FidoNews Editor"
|
|||
|
|
FidoNet 1:1/23
|
|||
|
|
BBS 1-407-383-1372, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
more addresses:
|
|||
|
|
Christopher Baker -- 1:374/14, cbaker84@digital.net
|
|||
|
|
cbak.rights@opus.global.org
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
(Postal Service mailing address)
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews Editor
|
|||
|
|
P.O. Box 5921
|
|||
|
|
Titusville, FL 32783-5921
|
|||
|
|
U.S.A.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
voice: 1-407-264-2994 [1400-2100 ET only, please]
|
|||
|
|
[1800-0100 UTC/GMT]
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
|
|||
|
|
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
|||
|
|
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
|
|||
|
|
authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
|
|||
|
|
does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
|
|||
|
|
these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
|
|||
|
|
Copyright 1996 Christopher Baker. All rights reserved. Duplication
|
|||
|
|
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
|
|||
|
|
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
|
|||
|
|
the Editor.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
|
|||
|
|
form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
|
|||
|
|
file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
|
|||
|
|
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
|
|||
|
|
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
|
|||
|
|
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSDnn.LZH] for a
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 42 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
|
|||
|
|
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
|
|||
|
|
current year [6], i.e., FNWSMAY6.ZIP for all the Issues from May 96.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
|
|||
|
|
1 - 12 for 1984 - 1995, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
|
|||
|
|
size from 48K to 1.2M.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
|
|||
|
|
ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from ftp.sstar.com
|
|||
|
|
in the FIDONET\FNEWS directory:
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSTOC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, all issues (1984 - 1995)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS1.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 1, all issues (1984)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS2.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 2, all issues (1985)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS3.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 3, all issues (1986)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS4.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 4, all issues (1987)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS5.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 5, all issues (1988)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS6.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 6, all issues (1989)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS7.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 7, all issues (1990)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS8.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 8, all issues (1991)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWS9.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 9, all issues (1992)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSA.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 10, all issues (1993)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSB.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 11, all issues (1994)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSC.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 12, all issues (1995)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSD01.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 13, Nr. 01 (January 1, 1996)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSD02.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 13, Nr. 02 (January 8, 1996)
|
|||
|
|
(etc)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSD31.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 13, Nr. 31 (July 29, 1996)
|
|||
|
|
FNEWSD32.ZIP FidoNews, Vol. 13, Nr. 32 (August 5, 1996)
|
|||
|
|
(etc)
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
|
|||
|
|
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 11 Megs.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
|
|||
|
|
1:1/23 [1:374/14] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
|
|||
|
|
Rights On! BBS at 1-407-383-1372 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18. It
|
|||
|
|
is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the
|
|||
|
|
Zone 1 Echomail Backbone.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
*=*=*=*=*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
Anyone interested in getting a copy of the INTERNET GATEWAY FAQ may
|
|||
|
|
file-request GISFAQ.ZIP from 1:133/411.0, or send an internet message
|
|||
|
|
to fidofaq@gisatl.fidonet.org. No message or text or subject is
|
|||
|
|
necessary. The address is a keyword that will trigger the automated
|
|||
|
|
response. People wishing to send inquiries directly to David Deitch
|
|||
|
|
FIDONEWS 13-32 Page 43 5 Aug 1996
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
should now mail to fidonet@gisatl.fidonet.org rather than the
|
|||
|
|
previously listed address.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
*=*=*=*=*
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
|
|||
|
|
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
|
|||
|
|
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
|
|||
|
|
from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators also have
|
|||
|
|
copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
|
|||
|
|
trademarks of Tom Jennings, and are used with permission.
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
"Disagreement is actually necessary,
|
|||
|
|
or we'd all have to get in fights
|
|||
|
|
or something to amuse ourselves
|
|||
|
|
and create the requisite chaos."
|
|||
|
|
-Tom Jennings
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-30-
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
|||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
|