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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:38 Page 1
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Volume 2, Number 24 29 July 1985
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Publisher: Fido 107/7
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Chief Procrastinator: Thom Henderson
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Fidonews is published weekly by SEAboard, Fido 107/7. You
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are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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Fidonews. Article submission standards are contained in the
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file FIDONEWS.DOC, available from Fido 107/7.
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Disclaimer or don't-blame-us:
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them;
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everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Fido in the News
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We seem to be getting alot of press these days, mostly bad.
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The latest story I've heard is about a bunch of kids in New
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Jersey who hacked away at a Pentagon computer. They don't
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seem to have caused any harm, just made general nuisances of
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themselves, but the media had a field day.
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I saw a news broadcast on one of the New York stations where
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they interviewed a Pentagon official about it. He firmly
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stated that there is no way any hacker can do any real harm
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(the reporter was concerned about kids getting control of
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satellites). Having studied Naval Intelligence, I know he's
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right. Government systems holding confidential data DO NOT
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have phone lines! This is nothing new; confidential
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information is never transmitted by phone.
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Once the reporter established that these kids were basically
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harmless, she went on to cover some "background" about home
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computers, modems, phone lines, and so forth. This mainly
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consisted of a short piece on remote bulletin board systems.
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:40 Page 2
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In fact, they actually demonstrated a person logging onto a
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bulletin board. And, here's the cute part, the Fido doggie
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was plain as day. Now, maybe I'm biased, but it strikes me
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that Fidonet is the cleanest collection of boards in the
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country.
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She wrapped up her whole piece by stating that while she
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didn't see anything illegal or immoral on the system she was
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looking at, that didn't mean it wasn't there, since there
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are different levels of access and not everyone sees
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everything.
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Nice, eh? She didn't say anything that wasn't true, but the
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way she said it implies secret cabals of subversive
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criminals, conspiring to overthrow The American Way Of Life.
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Face it, kiddos. The powers that be don't like us. Here we
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are, with unprecidented powers of communication, and nobody
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really knows what we can or will do with it. We have
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nothing less than our own private electronic mail system. I
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can sit here in my own little room and contact thousands of
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(more or less) like-minded people all over the country. You
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may not beleive it, but this translates into tremendous
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political power.
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It reminds me of something I was once told about military
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tactics. It matters not what they are doing, nor what we
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think they will do, but only what they CAN do if they want
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to. We are seem as being able to do a great deal, possibly
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much more than we are actually able to do. And we don't fit
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any of the established categories. Just look at where we
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are:
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o A guy sits in his room and types a message. It isn't
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printed in a newspaper or published in a magazine, but
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the next day hundreds of people read it. Within a few
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weeks thousands of people all over the country have read
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it. All of the normal channels of news distribution
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have been totally bypassed, for a cost counted in
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pennies.
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o A guy writes a program, and gives it away. Friends pass
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it on to their friends, and soon it's in use all over
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the country. People mail in voluntary donations. The
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guy isn't a non-profit organization, or a major
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corporation, or even a reasonably normal small company,
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yet he's making money without contracts, without
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dealers, without even charging anyone for anything.
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o A guy goes into business as a consultant. His startup
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costs are minimal; less than the cost of a used car. He
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has no office, no employees, no inventory, and no
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overhead, but he makes good money.
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Now I ask you, how possible was any of this ten years ago?
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We simply don't fit any of the established categories. This
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is a new industry, and it's working in totally different
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:42 Page 3
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ways from anything that's ever come before.
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Which is not to say that nothing new has ever happened; it
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has many times. But the normal reaction to new things is to
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try and shove them into old boxes, or to get rid of them if
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they won't fit.
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The independant consultant is being shoved into the old
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boxes. A bill has been introduced in California that would
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make an independant consultant legally an employee of his
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client. Federal legislation has been proposed to make a
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consultant's office in the home illegal, and to force
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consultants to hire only union employees. Tax rulings that
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are unfavorable to the independant abound, as many of you
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well know.
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Bulletin boards won't fit into any established category,
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though some people are trying. Classing a bulletin board as
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a "common carrier" is an attempt to define us in previously
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understood terms. Other attempts are a good deal more
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harmfull, as they sound like an attempt to classify a sysop
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as an accessory before the fact, and bulletin boards as
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conspiracies to commit felonies.
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We need to act NOW, before it's too late! We need to write
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our senators and representatives and tell them how we feel.
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We need to set up our own political action group to
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represent our interests. We need to make our voices heard.
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You should also write to your local newspapers, television
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stations, and radio stations telling them that you are
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willing to provide background on any computer related
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stories they get.
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To ban bulletin boards because a few of them are used for
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hacking is on par with shutting down the phone company
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because criminals use phones.
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:44 Page 4
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NEWS
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BBSLAW01.MSG From Chip Berlet, Public Eye Magazine.
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HELP FIGHT BAD BBS LAWS - 01
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION RESTRICTING BBS OPERATION DUE SOON!
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POST THIS MESSAGE ON EVERY BBS IN AMERICA!
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A new federal law that would outlaw some BBS systems
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and severely restrict all others could be passed by Congress
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in 1985. A mobilization of SYSOPS and BBS users is urgently
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needed to ensure we have a chance to speak out on the new
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law.
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Watch BBS's for messages with "BBSLAWXX.MSG" headers or
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"HELP FIGHT BAD BBS LAWS - XX" titles. An ad-hoc group will
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be posting these messages on BBS's and the commercial
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systems.
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LAWMUG SYSOP Paul Bernstein and I have learned the law
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could be introduced as soon as MID JULY! Although aspects
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of the new law have been discussed for months by "experts"
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in Washington, NOT ONE SYSOP WAS CONSULTED until a June 20
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conference in Chicago which Paul and I attended.
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Vague language in another telecommunications law
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already introduced in Congress might also restrict BBS
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activities.
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We urged the Congressional aide involved in that legislation
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to exempt BBS systems until we could let SYSOPS and lawyers
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study the language more carefully. We must also monitor
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this law.
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The law restricting BBS operations was prompted by
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panic over the possibility that children (minors) might read
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pornographic material, and by the wave of publicity
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regarding the malicious hackers and illegal credit card and
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phone information posted on BBS's by electronic graffiti
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vandals.
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Among the ideas SERIOUSLY DISCUSSED for the new federal
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law restricting BBS's are provisions which would require:
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* Registration of all BBS's as a public utility.
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* BBS users to log in with, and post their legal names.
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* SYSOPS to keep a log of all names of users.
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* SYSOPS to keep a log of all messages & access times.
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:46 Page 5
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* Criminal penalties for SYSOPS whose BBS's have
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illegal messages posted on them - even if the SYSOP
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was not aware of the message and had not been
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informed the message was there nor given a chance to
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remove it!
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While the law is currently only being discussed, there
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is much pressure to restrict and regulate BBS's. A good BBS
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law could protect BBS's and SYSOPS. A bad law could destroy
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BBS's in their infancy as a telecommunications phenomena.
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BBS's put the individual back into mass society in the
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age of telecommunications. BBS's encourage information
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sharing and remove barriers to discussion posed by social
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status, wealth, class, race, sex, physical size, and many
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physical handicaps. BBS's encourage the democratic process
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and are a powerful new communications system which deserves
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Constitutional protection and First Amendment Rights.
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NO LEGISLATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION! There will be
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differing views of wording, law, and tactics; all should be
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given a chance to be heard. Congress should delay passage
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of any BBS legislation until BBS users and SYSOPS have a
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chance to discuss the legal issues and make their opinions
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known in a series of Congressional hearings. Our discussion
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must start immediately and we must organize to block bad BBS
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legislation until our voices are heard.
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We share the responsibility. Time is short. Spread
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the word. It is the electronic age. We are all Paul
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Revere....
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:47 Page 6
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THE FOLLOWING IS A SAMPLE LETTER THAT IS TO BE COPIED AND
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ADDRESSED TO YOUR TWO SENATORS AND CONGRESSMAN. IF YOU HAVE
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ANY INTEREST IN PRESERVING YOUR FREEDOM OF SPEECH, I STRONGLY
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RECOMMEND YOU SIGN AND MAIL OUT COPIES OF THIS LETTER.
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SPREAD IT AROUND TO ALL THE BBSES YOU CALL - ONLY A FLOOD
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OF LETTERS TO CAPITOL HILL WILL PROTECT US FROM REACTIONARY
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LAWS!
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Joseph P. Salemi
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United States _________________
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Washington, DC
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As a user of a personal computer for telecommunications,
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and as a member of the new "electronic community," I wish to
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strongly protest the current proposals for laws regulating
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electronic Bulletin Board Systems.
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Recent negative publicity about a few such systems being
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used to spread illegal long-distance access codes and stolen
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credit card numbers has cast public doubt on our hobby. It is
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time that the record is set straight.
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Electronic BBSes are the freest form of interpersonal
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communications ever created. The people who use them do so as
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a way of sharing their thoughts, ideas, and information on the
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rapidly changing computer technology. Also shared are
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thoughts and ideas about the world in general; many systems
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have ongoing debates about National and world issues. Not
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since the days of the American Revolution, when thoughts and
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ideas were first spread around through pamphlets and flyers,
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has such a system of rapid communication been developed.
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The vast majority of BBSes and their users are honest
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people, who use this new technology in their work and as a
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hobby. We should not be punished for the illegal actions the
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few misguided people about whom there has been so much
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publicity.
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I therefore recommend that before any laws restricting
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the use of BBSes are passed, input is received from the
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operators and users of these systems. Representation of our
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interests in promoting the freedom of speech we exercise on
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the BBSes is the answer to reactionary laws. I urge you to
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support our position in this matter.
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Sincerely,
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:49 Page 8
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FIDO Re-Write
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This is a response to Jim Lynn and Paul Kelly who
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wrote an article for the last issue of FIDONEWS about the
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re-write of FIDO. I guess that I have a basic problem with
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the article in that as far as I know, there is no FIDO
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"re-write committee". From all of the information that I
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have been able to gather, there are simply a number of
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individuals who have taken it upon themselves to try and
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re-write FIDO. I don't know of any group that has as yet
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successfully emulated the entire range of FIDO operations.
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I myself have started a re-write project of my own, and so
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far I have about 90% of the message section written and
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working from the console keyboard. Any sysops interested
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in beta testing this software should call my board at
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(603) 888-8179 and dowload the file 'ROVER.ARC' which is
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the executable program, and some short documentation.
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As far as the ideas presented in the article go, I
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liked them a lot. The idea of overlays for FIDO is
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something that I simply never thought of, but now that I
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have thought about it, the question of how to implement it
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arises. This area would have to be more thoroughly
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explored to see if it is feasible. I could see FIDO being
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distributed as 2 .OBJ modules, one that would be the inner
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guts of FIDO, and 1 that would be a standard do-nothing
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overlay which could be tailored by each individual sysop
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that had the programming tools necessary to do such a job.
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I would welcome any input from groups that are
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also working on a FIDO re-write. Perhaps a lot of work
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could be saved by pooling our resources.
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Bob Hartman
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Sysop Fido 101/101 - The UN*X Gateway
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or if your nodelist is old
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Sysop Fido 101/10101 - SPARK SOFTWARE
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:51 Page 9
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Jami Morgan
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15/1001
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E.R.A. on Fido & FidoNet
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OK....first of all, all you male sysops DON'T FREAK
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OUT!! I am not a radical feminist....just another Fido
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Sysop who happened to notice there aren't many female
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sysops (in fact, glancing at the latest nodelist...I may
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be it!!) I haven't seen any bias in Fido regarding
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gender, so Congratulations!! But, with so many women in
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the computer field, it does seem odd to me that there
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aren't more female sysops. If I'm overlooking anyone...
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please contact me at 15/1001. Thanks!!
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Now, my REAL beef-- It seems that lately Fido News has
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been over run with articles about pirating. A topic
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that is more upsetting to me is "Crackers" and board
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crashers. In both Albuquerque, NM & Denver, CO, there
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seems to be a recent serious rash of this activity. So
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bad that we have possibly lost a few good sysops. Node
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104/341 (DASUG) and a great sysop is down due to Trojan
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Horse type programs on his board, and he may not come
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back. Other non-fido boards in Albuquerque have been
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victimized and may not try putting their boards back up.
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Can't we as Legimate Sysops band together and do
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something about this plague? We can certainly "turn in"
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pirate boards. I don't like playing the role of
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"squealer"....BUT, laws are forthcoming on bulletin
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boards and electronic communications, and we need to
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stand up for the legitimate uses and make sure lawmakers
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recognize the difference between "Crackers" & pirates,
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and lawful uses of telecommunication.
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I would like to know if there is an organization that
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can lobby on behalf of this issue? This is serious,
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because if we don't stand up for ourselves, no one else
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will!! Any information on this issue would be greatly
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appreciated at 15/1001. Thank you for the time and
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space for this type of forum!!
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A Most Concerned Sysop,
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Sanyo BUGS BBS -- Albuquerque, NM
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Mt. Region 15, Node # 1001
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Mt. Region 15, Node # 1001
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:52 Page 10
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There is a wonderful, new world out there for
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communication by PC. It revolves around references to man's
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best friend -- Fido! Like its namesake, Fido can be a
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worker, a thing of wonder, a fun pastime and a pain in the
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neck. Those of you who aren't involved have no idea and to
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you this article is addressed. The rest of you are saying
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"amen!"
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I never had a pup of my own before Fido. I couldn't
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really compare electronic Fido with the flesh and blood kind
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until I got both about the same time. PC Fido is much
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neater in many senses of the word. Nice people were
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responsible for both my dogs moving in. My mother-in-law
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decided my son needed a pup and Bob Klahn decided my office
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needed one. Both folk are tenacious. I have one dog at
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home that barks when I call sometimes and a dog at the
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office that usually will bark at those of you who own
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modems.
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Fido was created to help a couple programers keep
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abreast of their progress on a mutual project. Strange
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thing, though -- they were on opposite coasts. Tom
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Jennings, our doggy daddy, was in San Francisco and his
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counterpart was in Baltimore. Tom fathered Fido so they
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could compare source code, hence the FidoNet standard time
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of 1:00 A.M. Pacific time. From the two original NetMembers
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we have grown to more than 400 visible nodes. There are
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numerous Fido boards, or nodes, that aren't public and can't
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be enumerated. Safe to say, there are lots of Fidos out
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there on which you may use your typing talents.
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For a public domain program, Fido is well supported.
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The current version in distribution is 10K, --and there was
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a version 1. You will find fleas on Fido from time to time,
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but the flea powder troops are very active. Tom Jennings
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deserves a medal. This is a long way of saying R* is the
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most unreliable command in the lexicon. But, as it says on
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the Woodstock I album, "treat the imperfections as marks in
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fine leather -- proof of its authenticity.
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Anyone can be a Fido Sysop. You don't have to own a 3088
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with VMS. I started my board with a 300 baud Hayes and two
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floppies for storage. Bob Klahn came to my office one
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Saturday afternoon and installed it. You may wish to
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download the files to make it run from many of the Fido
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boards. If you plan to put it to business use, your
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software consultant probably can offer some advice or
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assistance making it fit your hardware configuration. Fido
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is a public domain program and nobody should collect money
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for it, save Tom Jennings. There are some applications out
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there that dogfight with Fido and good business practice
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says you should check with a consultant who knows those
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conficts. See me for their names. It will cost you hourly
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rates but it's good insurance. If you want to use it for
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personal stuff there are countless people who will help you
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join the throng. I love it. I have been known to spend
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voluntary hours playing with it. I have also saved DAYS of
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:55 Page 11
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work due to the information that I could receive and send
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through it. I have saved weeks of travel time. One sysop
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has it trigger a beeper. He gets out of more lengthy
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meetings that way. Another Fido wakes his master and
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mistress with Bach a la PC. When Jim Goldschneider set up
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his Fido, two guys I know made his board exit to DOS at
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midnight, play him and his wife some classical music, and
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return to Fido. I forget their names. Moral: be
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thoughtful of your choice of folk to whom you extend sysop
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privileges. And that brings up a thought. I have seen many
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try to crash my system. I have seen no one succeed. Nor
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has anybody else. You can get in. Only those you allow to
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do so can get in. Some sysops do not let anyone in until
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they are asked first. And they frequently say no. Some
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sysops keep their boards a secret. It's fun. It's safe and
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profitable. Only conversation, good books and sex rank
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higher.
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Van Olmstead 107/214
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(302)655-6342
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hours 8:00 PM to 8:00 A.M.
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:56 Page 12
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WANTED
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From: Dan Taylor
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Sysop of 102/411
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(213) 970-9238
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I am trying to find some back issues of FidoNews from 1984.
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I have Vol. 1 #'s 1 and 2, but am missing the rest for
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December. I've been looking around the local boards, but no
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luck. If anyone has them (after all this time), or knows of
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someone who does, please let me know. My intent is to keep
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an on-line archive of all Fido Newsletters.
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Thanks very much! Dan Taylor...
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:57 Page 13
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WANTED: Cbasic2 CP/M De-Compiler
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I am looking for a De-Compiler for
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CP/M Cbasic2. That is a program
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that takes a .INT file, and converts
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it back into some form of source code.
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If you have any information on one of
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these, please contact me.
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Randy Berndt
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Fido_Net: Net 106 / Node 356
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US Mail: AUA
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6900 Fannin, Suite 546
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Houston, TX 77030
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Phone: (713) 791-1470 (days)
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Thank you.
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FIDONEWS -- 29 Jul 85 00:00:57 Page 14
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NOTICES
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Correction to National USER LIST
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Bob Hartman
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SYSOP Fido 101/101
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the UN*X Gateway
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For those of you that have received the National FIDO user
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list, there is one small change that you should make. My
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old node number (it should have been changed the Friday
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before this is published) was 101/10101. Unfortunately,
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the SHIPUSER program created a file NNNNnnnn.USR where NNNN
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was my net number (0101), and nnnn was my node number, which
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came out as 1010 instead of 10101. Unlike the FIDO software
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itself, they did not use a hexadecimal representation for
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the net and node numbers, and any node number that was 5
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digits got truncated. Anyway, to get to the point, my new
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node number is 101/101 (to avoid such problems in the near
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future), and if you have the user list please change all
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occurences of 1010 to 101.
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The Interrupt Stack
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27 Nov 1985
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Halley's Comet passes closest to Earth before perihelion.
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24 Jan 1986
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Voyager 2 passes Uranus.
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9 Feb 1986
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Halley's Comet reaches perihelion.
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11 Apr 1986
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Halley's Comet reaches perigee.
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to Fido 107/7.
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