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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 30 26 July 1999
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 2
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FidoNet Via Internet Hubs ................................ 2
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 4
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Future History ........................................... 4
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4. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 5
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5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 7
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FIDONEWS 16-30 Page 1 26 Jul 1999
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Greetings,
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I'm supprised at the response received to the Editorial of last
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week's issue. Thank YOU all who responded!
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It shows, there are many more readers than what some make out to
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believe there to be. Admitted, not everybody or reader replied to
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the request, but that is, as one responder noted, FidoNet Sysop's.
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However, I'm sure that given time, a few more responses will arrive.
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What is happening? No word from the new Z1C or is there no ZC for
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Zone 1? Even the IC makes no comment.
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There is so much talk about what is going to be done, but nothing,
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zilch is done about nothing. What does this mean to the average
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SysOp? Do what you think is best for you and your users, if you
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have any left on your BBS. It's a sad state of affairs, believe
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me. Sad, in that people WANT to communicate, but the *C's are
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taking the attitude, that if it ain't broke, why fix it.
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Give it some thought and I'll be happy to hear from you all!
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Happy reading,
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COLUMNS
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
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Zone 1 |
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10/3 | Brenda Donovabn | FTP,UUE,BinkP | T1? | $??/$10
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12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
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13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
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103/301 | Joe Jared | BinkP | aDSL | n/c
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105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
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106/1 | Matt Bedynek | BinkP, FTP | 128k | n/c
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106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | 64k | $5/mo.
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107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
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270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
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271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
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275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 28.8 | $10/yr
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280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
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342/3 | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
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345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
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346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
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396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
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396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
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2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
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2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
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2424/101 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| ???| n/c
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2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
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2613/404 | David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+ | n/c
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2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | $15yr.
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3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | ???| n/c
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3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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23/999 | Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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221/360 | Tommi Koivula | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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252/300 | Sean Rima | BinkP, UUE, FTP| 128k | n/c
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254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
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284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
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292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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335/535 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
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335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
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469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
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480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
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2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
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2446/301 | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
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2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
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5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
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640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
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774/605 | Barry Blackford | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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Zone 4
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905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
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902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
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* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
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* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
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* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
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Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
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Joe Jared, 1:103/301, joejared@fidonews.webworldinc.com, and
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complaints to jarhead@fidonews.webworldinc.com.
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Future History
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10 Sep 1999
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10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
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26 Oct 1999
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Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.
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31 Dec 1999
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Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
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1 Jan 2000
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The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
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1 Jun 2000
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EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
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15 Sep 2000
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Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
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21 Sep 2000
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10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)
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1 Jan 2001
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This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
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-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
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Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
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FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
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FidoNet:
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Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
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FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
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WWW sources http://travel.to/fidonet/
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FTSC page http://www.ftsc.org/
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Echomail [pending]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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List servers:
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http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
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Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
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Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
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Region 14:
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Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
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Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
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Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
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Region 19: http://members.home.net/hbh3/r19
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Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido (English/German)
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Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/
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Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
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REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
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Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
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Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
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Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)
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Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
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REC34: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
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Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
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Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
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Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
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Region 42: http://www.fido.cz
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Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
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Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
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Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
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Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4:
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
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and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
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no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
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that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
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should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
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to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
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Editor: Henk Wolsink
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Editors Emeriti: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
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Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg
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"FidoNews Editor"
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BBS +27-41-581-5913, 2400/9600/V34
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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Copyright (C) 1999 Henk Wolsink. All rights reserved. Duplication
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
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file-request, or from various sites in FidoNet and the Internet.
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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
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ftpmail@fidonews.org
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with a Subject line of: help
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instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will
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www.fidonews.org.
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
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http://www.fidonews.org
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and in the FIDONEWS echo.
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FIDONEWS 16-30 Page 9 26 Jul 1999
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STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
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Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
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ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
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Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
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for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
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The current week's FidoNews are now also available almost immediately
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after publication on the FidoNews Editor homepage on the World Wide
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Web at:
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html
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There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
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to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an
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email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
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SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
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from 5:5/23 [5:7104/2] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators
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should have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141,
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"Disagreement is actually necessary,
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or something to amuse ourselves
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and create the requisite chaos."
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