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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:34 Page 1
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Volume 2, Number 35 14 October 1985
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Publisher: Fido 1/1
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Editor: Thom Henderson
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Review Editor: Andy Foray
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Fido Utility Review Editor: Ben Baker
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Regional Bureau Chiefs: Hosts and coordinators everywhere
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Fidonews is published weekly by SEAboard, Fido 1/1. You are
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encouraged to submit articles for publication in Fidonews.
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Article submission standards are contained in the file
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FIDONEWS.DOC, available on request from Fido 1/1.
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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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ARC? What's an ARC?
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I don't know if you know it or not, but we're the guys who
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wrote ARC. I don't mention this to brag or anything. It's
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just that I've made a few interesting observations that I'd
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like to share with you.
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[The real truth is that I'm stuck for a topic this week.]
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I've been told that everybody who's anybody has ARC by now.
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I hope so, since Ben Baker is using it to compress the node
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list. Mostly I get told this by people who want me to use
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ARC to compress the newsletter.
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For some strange reason this bothers me. It was written
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first and foremost as an archive utility, with compression
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being added later. I guess I just have a problem with the
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idea of a one-file archive. At least one person told me
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that he used ARC on every single file on his board. I don't
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:37 Page 2
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think I could do that. Among other things, I'd be afraid
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that my users would think I was getting pushy or something.
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I don't think I'd use it on the newsletter anyway. Partly
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because I don't want to seem pushy, but that's not the only
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reason. While every Fido sysop might have ARC by now, I
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don't know if every Fido user has it. Supposedly this thing
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is for users as well. I suppose Fidonews is really mainly
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for users, since they certainly outnumber the sysops. I'd
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like to think that they have a good chance of being able to
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read it.
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It's done us some good in a couple of ways, though. We've
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gotten some good advertising out of it. I had occasion to
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call a bureau chief for one of the computer trade magazines
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not long ago. He paused for a few seconds after I announced
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myself, and said, "You guys wrote ARC, didn't you?" One or
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two of those can make you feel pretty good. But most of our
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clients (current and potential) don't seem to use bulletin
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boards much, so it doesn't cut much ice with them.
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In truth, we've gotten much more out of it than I ever
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expected. We've gotten alot of free advertising, which
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might not always help, but certainly doesn't hurt. And much
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to my surprise, we've even gotten some donations.
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I'm afraid I'm a bit cynical about human nature. We
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released it because we didn't really think it would sell
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well enough (if it cost money) to pay back the costs of
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marketing it. We made it "freeware" because that doesn't
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cost any extra. I personally never thought we'd see a dime
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from it. When the first check came in, we were astounded.
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We were torn between cashing it, and framing it. (We
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compromised; we cashed it and framed a Xerox copy of it.)
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So far we're up to about $300, and even have a couple of
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letters asking about site licensing.
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So maybe it will take off yet. Maybe in a few months checks
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will be pouring in, and we'll be making decent money on the
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thing. Maybe NASA will invite me to go on a shuttle flight.
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Maybe my partner will be elected President in a write-in
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campaign. Somehow I doubt it.
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But I hope I'm wrong. I hope it does work. Not so much for
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the money (well, the money would be nice too), but because
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I'd like to think that freeware is a viable concept. I'd
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like to think that a guy with a good idea can succeed on a
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shoestring. I have very little faith in human nature, but
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I'd really like to be wrong.
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:39 Page 3
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NEWS
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Ken Shackelford
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ATL/FIDO1 - Woodstock/Atlanta
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Node 133/1
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(404) 928-1876
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"Fido BBS Christmas Wish List (Early)"
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Here it is, the first of October, and the leaves have
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just begun their yearly metamorphosis to the colors of Fall.
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At least, that is how it is down here in the South. Why,
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you may ask, am I submitting my Christmas wish list now?
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Why not wait until a more appropriate season? Why not wait
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until there is a chill in the air and all of the leaves are
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on the ground, if indeed not snow? Well, like everything
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else in this world, a "wish list" needs time to develop and
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grow. As Fido Sysops, we already run perhaps the finest BBS
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software in the land. But could it be improved? And
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indeed, SHOULD it be improved? The answer is a resounding
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YES! A program that is not improved is yesterday's news and
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tomorrow's relic. Fido has been constantly improved as we
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have all seen. It is up now to version 11 now, and there
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have been quite a few improvements over the old version 10.
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But is this the best we can do? I think not! The list that
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I am submitting below contains some things that I, as well
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as many Fido users, would like to see become a part of Fido.
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Kind of an "early" Christmas list of sorts. I'll bet some
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of the things on MY list are on YOUR list, too! Let's take
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a moment to compare our notes and see what we have. Tom, if
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you're listening, you could be our big old Santa Clause and
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make our Christmas dreams come true!!
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"THE LIST"
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1. Give the user a choice of what kind of screens he'd
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like to see by adding code to support ANSI graphics.
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Just as RBBS-PC (grrrr...) gives the user a choice of
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screens, so should Fido! It would be easy! If the
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user says he wants ANSI graphics, then access a file
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called WELCOME1.ANS, otherwise, access WELCOME1.BBS as
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usual. Same for all the other panels on the system.
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By setting a binary flag at logon in reply to a
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question, the user could be presented a consistent set
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of graphics or non-graphics screens!
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2. Give the sysop the ability to have the CHAT bell also
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ring the printer bell. The chat bell by itself is hard
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to hear unless you happen to be very near the computer.
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I have myself missed many a chat because I could not
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hear the bell. If you sound the printer horn at the
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same time, then it would be a little easier to hear,
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:41 Page 4
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and I wouldn't miss near as many users requesting to
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chat with me! Many times a user will give up using the
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system in frustration because he cannot get the help he
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needs when he needs it the most!
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3. The ability to configure our systems to support
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specific baud rates. For example, Fido will now
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support 300, 1200, and 2400 baud (and maybe others that
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I am unaware of). Some sysops prefer to limit their
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systems to only 1200 baud access, or 1200 and 2400 baud
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access. This is particularly true within companies.
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Perhaps Tom could assign a set of switches. For
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example one switch would enable 300 baud, another 1200
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baud, and yet another 2400 baud. Then, a Sysop could
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decide which baud rates HE wanted to support!
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4. Automatic baud rate sensing is needed. Instead of
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having to whack the carriage return or the space bar
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(depending on the modem you have), why not take a
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lesson from the RBBS-PC folks and automatically
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determine how the user is connected? Shouldn't be that
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difficult. The method is already available by simply
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studying the latest RBBS source code. Then we would
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not have to have the new user sit there, connected, and
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not know what he is expected to do. I personally have
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seen MANY a new BBS user sit there connected to my
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system, unsure of what he is supposed to do, only to
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get frustrated and drop carrier without ever seeing a
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thing of my BBS!
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5. This wish concerns the Fido Newsletter. I would like
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to see a Table of Contents, listed on the front page!!
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It would be NICE to be able to find the issue that I
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was interested in WITHOUT having to thumb through every
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single back-issue looking for that ONE article of
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interest. By creating a TOC on the front page, all I
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or anyone else would have to do is just browse the
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front page! The ARPANET newsletters are done this way,
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so I think perhaps we should take a lesson and do the
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Fido Newsletters in a similar manner!
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6. I would like to see a better security system for Fido.
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I can already hear someone out there moaning, but think
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about it a moment. Users tend to use the same password
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on every system they log onto. If some turkey finds
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out what your password is on one system, then he has
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access to every other BBS that you visit as well!
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Other than stating policy (that no one reads), there is
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no good way to make sure that passwords are revalidated
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from time to time. My suggestion would be to put a
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flag in the user file for each user, and after say, 60
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days, warn him at his next logon that he has to change
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his password THAT session, or be locked out of the
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system (or be converted to TWIT access, or something
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along those lines). This would force users to at least
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periodically change their passwords in an effort keep
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"BBS crashers" at bay. By not allowing a user to
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:43 Page 5
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change his password to his "current" password, he would
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be forced to use something different that a crasher
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would have a hard time keeping up with. Many
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commercial systems (VM, MVS, etc) have this kind of
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security, and it seems to WORK! There are other checks
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of the new password that could be made (not his first
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or last names, city or state, etc), but this basic
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method would do much to keep our systems secure! I
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realize that we are NOT talking about main-frames here
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... these are Personal Computers. But just take a look
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at most of the BBS's in this country today and compare
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them to, say, 2 years ago. They are now BRISTLING with
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security (or attempted security) because of what
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"crashers" have been up to!
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7. Have Fido check for mail ONCE for ALL AREAS when the
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user first log on, rather than when he tries to go into
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a new message area. Many users have told me this is
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irritating. They had rather be asked ONCE, and TOLD
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ONCE, rather than have to keep on answering questions.
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Even if this creates a short delay while all the
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message bases are checked, most folks agree that this
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would be more desirable than constantly being quizzed
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about whether or not to check mail.
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8. A better SYSOP_xxx.EXE program, that when run remotely,
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would give a DECENT display. The current version
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writes all over the screen when the SysOp is in REMOTE
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mode, and is very difficult to use!
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9. This one might be considered part of number 8 above.
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Might it be desirable to have a tidier way to access
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the user file while ONLINE (a SysOp command)? There
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are times when it sure would be NICE to NOT have to
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drop down into DOS and that you COULD maintain the user
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file while logged on normally!
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Well, those are my wishes for now. I will probably have a
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few others before Christmas, and if I do I will publish them
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here. I would like to see what kind of wishes the rest of
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you out there have regarding Fido. As I said, Fido is
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probably the finest BBS software that a Sysop could run.
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Tom Jennings has MUCH to be proud of as Fido's creator. He
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is a prime example that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
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He does in every release! Maybe he'll be able to teach Fido
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some of the "tricks" that comprise my wish list, and perhaps
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he'll include some of YOUR favorite wishes!
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:45 Page 6
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* 102/519 *
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* NODE NAME Contest Update SYSOP *
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* Darlene Faccone *
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Thanks to all of you who submitted NODE NAME suggestions to
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my NAME_MY_NODE contest. As of the 9/30/85 deadline, 23
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names had been submitted.
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I have determined five finalists from the list and NOW, it's
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your turn....
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The author of the winning name will be sent a surprise. You
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have two weeks to VOTE. The winning name will be announced
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in the October 21 FidoNews. Stay tuned!!
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NAME_MY_NODE finalists:
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CATS_MEOW TOP_CAT
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FIRST_LADY LADIES_ROOM
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WOMANS_TALK
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:46 Page 7
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I'M TIRED
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Yes, I'm tired. For several years I've been blaming it on
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middle-age, iron-poor blood, lack of vitamins, air
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pollution, water pollution, saccharin, obesity, dieting,
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under-arm odor, yellow wax build-up, and a dozen other
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maladies that make you wonder if life is really worth
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living. But now I find out, tain't that. I'm tired because
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I'm overworked. The population of this country is 200
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million. Eighty-four million are retired. That leaves 116
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million to do the work. There are 75 million in school,
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which leaves 41 million to do the work. Of this total,
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there are 22 million employed by the government. That
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leaves 19 million to do the work. Four million are in the
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Armed Forces, which leaves 15 million to do the work. Take
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from that total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and
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City Government and that leaves 200,000 to do the work.
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There are 188,000 in hospitals, so that leaves 12,000 to do
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the work. Now there are 11,998 people in prisons. That
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leaves just two people to do the work. You and me. And
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you're sitting there reading this. No wonder I'm tired.
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Submitted by Rob Rothberg, Sysop of Digital Bitch.
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:47 Page 8
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I've always wanted to be a Sysop, and
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when I found out that Elite Software
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needed someone to run there Fido
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(117/1262) I jumped at the opportunity
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to do it! Well I just Might have jumped
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in over my head. I knew it took alot of
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time and effort but not as much as I'm
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putting in. What really makes this
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board a hassle though is the fact that
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it is NOT AT MY HOUSE! other words all
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the work I do on it is by over the phone
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lines and the one day aweek I go in to
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work on it. One of the most common
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questions I get from one user is "how do
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I down load to a c-64?" What I usually
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tell him is that he has to use ascii
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(depending upon what comm program he
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uses of course), then this user comes
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along and uses xmodem to down load a
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file he can't even use if he has a c-64.
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Of course I've had my share of obscene
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messages with a few adressed to me (of
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course). I have reason to believe they
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where left by the ex-sysop who didn't
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know how to run the system and was
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fired, but I have nothing to go with so
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I can't prove it.(sigh) Anyway I've had
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alot of fun running there Fido Call it
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up we've go a 10 meg with alot of util
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programs!
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Mike Ringer
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Fido 1262 Net 117
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(409)-846-4367
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:49 Page 9
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I have to take exception to the comments about setting our
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Fido clocks back to Standard time at the end of the month
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and then not changing them to Daylight time again.
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An accurate date/time stamp is quite an important audit
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trail in keeping track of files. True the user cannot easily
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access the system time, but the sysop sure needs to know
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when things are created. (We are hoping to install a
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concurrent DOS product so as to be able to get double duty
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out of our system, and this would make the date/time even
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more meaningful.
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Rather than have the wrong time for SIX months out of the
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year, why not have the wrong time for one DAY. The FIDO's
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could change their clocks on FRIDAY, before the Saturday AM
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mail schedule, thus accomodating the corporate users
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mentioned in the editorial, and keeping the clocks accurate
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for the rest of the time.
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I would request that the powers that be in St. Louis
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consider such a plan. They would have to decide whether the
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confusion of changing early would be less than the confusion
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of having nodes miss mail time on SUNDAY AM, due to not
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having changed the clocks....
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A long time ago... on a node far, far away (from PDPvax)
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Still More Adventures of Luke Vaxhacker Episode n+3
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When we last left Luke, the Milliamp Falcon was being
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pulled down to the open collector of the Imperial Arem Star
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Workstation. Dec Vadic surveys the relic as Imperial
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Flunkies search for passengers...
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"LS scan shows no one aboard, sir," was the report.
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Vadic was unconvinced.
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"Send a fully equipped Ncheck squad on board," he said.
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"I want every inode checked out." He turned around
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(secondary channel) and stalked off.
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On board the Milliamp Falcon, .Luke was puzzled. "They
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just walked in, looked around and walked off," he said. "Why
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didn't they see us?"
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.Con smiled. "An old munchkin trick", he explained. "See
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that period in front of your name?"
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.Luke spun around, just in time to see the decimal point.
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"Where'd that come from?" he asked.
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"Spare decimal points lying around from the last time I
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fixed the floating point accelerator," said .Con. "Handy for
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smuggling blocks across file system boundarys, but I never
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thought I'd have to use them on myself. They aren't going
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to be fooled for long, though. We'd better figure a way outa
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here."
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At this point (.) the dialogue tends to wedge. Being the
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editor and in total control of the situation, I think it
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would be best if we just sort of gronk the next few
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paragraphs. For those who care, our heroes find themselves
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in a terminal room of the Workstation, having thrashed
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:51 Page 11
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several Flunkies to get there. For the rest of you, just
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keep banging the rocks together, Guys. --Ed.
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"Hold on," said Con. "It says we have 'new mail'. Is
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that an error?"
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"%SYS-W-NORMAL, Normal, successful completion," said
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PDP-1. "Doesn't look like it. I've found the inode for the
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Milliamp Falcon. It's locked in kernal data space. I'll
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have to slip in and patch the reference count, alone..." He
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disappeared through a nearby entry point.
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Meanwhile, RS232 found a serial port and logged in. His
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bell started ringing loudly. "He keeps saying, 'She's on
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line, She's on line'," said 3CPU. "I believe he means
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Princess LPA0:. She's being held on one of the priviledged
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levels."
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Once again, things get sticky, and the dialogue suffers the
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most damage. After much handwaving and general flaming, they
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agree to rescue her. They headed for the detention level,
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posing as Flunkies (which is hard for most hackers) claiming
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that they had trapped the Bookie executing an illegal
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racket. They reached the block where the Princess was
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locked up and found only two guards in the header. --Ed.
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"Good day, eh?" said the first guard.
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"How's it goin', eh?" said the other. "Like, what's
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that, eh?"
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"Process transfer from block 1138, dev 10/9," said Con.
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"Take off, it is not," said the first guard. "Nobody
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told us about it, and we're not morons, eh?"
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At this point (.), the Bookie started raving wildly, Con
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shouted "Look out, he's loose!" and they all started
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blasting PROMs left and right. The guards started to catch
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on and were about to issue a general wakeup when the PROM
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blasters were turned on them.
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"Quickly, now," said Con. "What buffer is she in? It's
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not going to take long for these..."
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The intercom receiver interrupted him, so he took out
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it's firmware with a short blast.
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"...guys to figure out something is goin' on," he
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continued...
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TO BE INTERMINABLE...
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:53 Page 12
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FOR SALE
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Kevin R. Porter
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Sysop of WayStar Fido at (617)-481-7147 (DATA)
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FOR SALE: Digital Equipment DF03-AC dual speed (300 or 1200
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baud) autodialer MODEM, in excellent condition with all of
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the original DEC documentation. Software like Fido
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BBS/FidoNET, KERMIT, XMODEM, POLY-COM, and many others can
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use this modem. Asking $200.00 or best offer. Leave
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message to: KEVIN PORTER on WayStar Fido (FidoNET #16/0 or
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#101/14) or call (617)-480-6300 (VOICE-days) or at (617)-
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481-3306 (VOICE-evenings)
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FOR SALE: Infoton I-100 professional CRT TERMINAL with 25
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line by 80 column display, dual-intensity, reverse-video,
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direct screen access, speeds from 110 to 9,600 baud,
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EXCELLENT "Hall-effect" keyboard with full autorepeat on ALL
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keys, asking $250.00 or best offer. Leave message to:
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KEVIN PORTER on WayStar Fido (FidoNET #16/0 or #101/14) or
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call (617)-480-6300 (VOICE-days) or at (617)-481-3306
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(VOICE-evenings)
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:54 Page 13
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WANTED
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WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE
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(OK..Working anyway)
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I am in need of TRS-80 Model III or IV systems. Preferably
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with drives but not manditory. If you have one or two you'd
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like to part with I can use them. Please send FIDO MAIL to:
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EJ McKernan or SYSOP of node 14/386 or call (data) 316-343-8028
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or (voice) 316-342-6782 (after 6pm evenings central.)
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I really want these systems. Please contact me and let me
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know EXACTLY what you have (condition, model, RAM, ect...)
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and price you want for said machine(s).
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Thanks,
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ej mckernan sysop Bit Bucket/SanyoNet Headquarters
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FIDONEWS -- 14 Oct 85 03:02:55 Page 14
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NOTICES
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Interruptions to Service
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We here at the Fidonews office will be moving soon. (I sold
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my house and am moving into an apartment.) Among the
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expected problems is that it may take some time for us to
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get full phone service installed at our new location. We
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will strive mightily to prevent it, but we may be forced to
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skip an issue or two. We'll try to give you advance notice
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when the time comes.
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The Interrupt Stack
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27 Oct 1985
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2 AM - Change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard
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time. You should change your system clock before mail
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hour this date.
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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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19 May 1986
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Steve Lemke's next birthday.
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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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