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Volume 4, Number 40 2 November 1987
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Editor in Chief: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Contributing Editors: Dave Lovell, Al Arango
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FidoNews is published weekly by the International FidoNet
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Association as its official newsletter. You are encouraged to
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submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission
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standards are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from
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node 1:1/1.
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Copyright 1987 by the International FidoNet Association. All
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rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for
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noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances,
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please contact IFNA at (314) 576-4067.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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FidoNews is Back on the Air! ............................. 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
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Fee-Paid Systems Revisited ............................... 3
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Open Letter about National Family Forum .................. 6
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Shrinking the Node List .................................. 7
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U.S. Robotics, Hayes to Share High-Speed Modem Technolo .. 8
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 9
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Origin: Angevin Empire ................................... 9
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 11
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 11
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 11
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 1 2 Nov 1987
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EDITORIAL
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FidoNews is Back on the Air!
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Sorry for the recent interruption, gang. Our glorious 90 meg
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drive (I've since discovered that we're pikers in the disk space
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game -- one sysop I know told me he has a 120 meg drive!) rolled
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over and died, making horrible noises along the way and taking
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all our .BAT files with it. We got it replaced quickly, but the
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new drive kept finding new bad sectors, on the order of a dozen
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or so a day. Then I had to leave for two weeks, and didn't have
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time to fix it before going.
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But now I'm back, and another new drive was waiting for me. It's
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now installed and tested, and is looking solid. If I reconstruc-
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ted all the files properly, you might even get this issue on time
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(crossed fingers).
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While the new drive is smaller than the old (77 meg versus 90
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meg), it is also a half-height where the old drive was a full-
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height, so we can add another 77 meg any time we need it. With
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that much storage, I think we'll be able to keep a full set of
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FidoNews back issues online for quite awhile to come.
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In other news, we've added two sections to FidoNews -- Minutes
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and Committee Reports. These come after the notices, and it is
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our intention that IFNA business articles will go in those
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sections so that readers uninterested in what IFNA is doing can
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stop reading once they reach the notices and thus not be
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bothered.
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Now the bad news. Dave Dodell asked me to write an article
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explaining zones, particularly how to use the zone gates and how
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all the pieces fit together. So I spent a couple of days writing
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it all down. You guessed it -- it was lost in the disk crash. I
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really hate rewriting stuff, and I'm still trying to catch up
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from my two week absence, so. . . The only REALLY important
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thing in the article dealt with XlatList modes of operation. We
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goofed up in the XlatList docs for the latest version and never
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described the changes. The latest XlatList can generate output
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in any of three "modes", as follows:
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1) SEAdog mode This produces a NODELIST.BBS for your own zone
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only, with hubs left in.
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2) FIDO mode This produces a NODELIST.BBS for Fido v12,
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which gives all zones and retaines the ZONE
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prefixes.
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3) OPUS mode This produces a NODELIST.BBS for your own zone
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only, with hubs not in your own net removed,
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and with the node list comment flags retained.
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Some folks running Opus or Fido 11w got the latest XlatList and
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 2 2 Nov 1987
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started running it in FIDO mode (which used to be correct), and
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got a NODELIST.BBS that their software could not handle. They
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should now use OPUS mode.
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I'll try to find time to rewrite that article one of these days.
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There are some other projects underway that should make for
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interesting reading. Al Arango is now in the process of
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interviewing the IFNA Board of Directors, and will be publishing
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a series of articles introducing you to them. We're also working
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with Don Daniels on getting timely status reports from the
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plethora of committees for this and that. And of course, we're
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always ready, willing, and eager to hear from you. We're back up
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and rolling, so keep those articles coming! Remember, FidoNews
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is YOUR newsletter!
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 3 2 Nov 1987
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ARTICLES
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Andre Franklin, 381/20
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Fee-Paid Systems Revisited
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Another look an an old gripe
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I would like to respond to Bill Paul's article in the Sept 28,
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1987 issue of the Fido News, dealing with Fee Paid systems.
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I run Plato's Retreat in El Paso, Texas, and I consider it to be
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a free system. I allow almost all callers access, I do not
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require a fee, but I do strongly request (NOT require) donations
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to help me pay for the expenses related to this bbs.
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I would like to take very strong exception to a part of Mr.
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Paul's article, and that is where he equates asking for donations
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with "fee paid boards," or boards that are in the business to
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make money. I can also understand sysops who require people to
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pay a fee to access their boards, or at least to pay a fee to
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access a part of their boards, when they do it to help offset the
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expenses of running the board.
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I have been a sysop of various boards using various software
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programs for about 6 years now. I have been through BBS PC,
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PCBoard, RBBS, and now Opus. Across the board (no pun intended) I
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have had very high numbers of callers from across the United
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States, Canada, and Europe, and I attribute this fact to my
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ability to run a good board as well as to the amount of time I
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invest in it. The former is a talent and cannot be measured,
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while the latter translates to about 3 hours every day, plus
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another 2 to 3 hours each on Saturdays and Sundays. I do not
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think that in this I am different from thousands of other sysops
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worldwide.
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In terms of equipment, I have an XT (soon to be upgraded to a
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386) with a 40 Megabyte Hard Drive, a 1200 baud modem (soon 2400,
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as soon as I can get the initialization strings to work), and a
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300 cps printer, all dedicated to the board, ie not used for any
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other applications. My monthly telephone bill JUST for the line
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used for the board exceeds $250. Although this is by no means a
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lot of equipment or especially expensive, in comparison with some
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of the sysops I know, I am mentioning it to illustrate that
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sysops go to quite considerable expenses for their hobby.
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I understand that Mr. Paul has done the same, and I am happy for
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him that he can afford to run it all out of his own pocket. I
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understand that there are some very wealthy people who invest
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substantial amounts of money to see that Fido is a truly
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international efford. The vast bulk of sysops, I venture to say
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however, are not independently wealthy and cannot afford to pay
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from $250 to over $1000 a month in some cases month after month
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after month.
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 4 2 Nov 1987
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I realize that this is a hobby. I do not believe that there are a
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lot of sysops who are in this for the money. But callers also get
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something out of it. They too participate in the message bases,
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they too laugh and argue and pound the keyboard in frustration.
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This is not a one way street for anyone, sysop or caller.
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Contrary to popular opinion, very few sysops are in this to get
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easy copies of pirated software, and public domain software can
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be obtained by anyone, even without going to the trouble of
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dedicating $2,000 to $10,000 worth of hardware and software to
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the task 24 hrs a day.
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If we agree that this is indeed a two way street, the callers
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should become aware that it is at least their moral obligation to
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share in the expenses, and not only to reap the benefits paid for
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out of the sysop's personal funds.
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There is one more aspect to this which ought to be addressed. In
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6 years of sysopping, there is little that frustrates me more -
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and I venture to say that most sysops feel this way - than to
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have a caller call for the first time, and the second, and the
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third, and so on, just to download, and download, and download.
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He doesn't leave a message, doesn't introduce himself, and when
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he is confronted by a sysop who asks him "Hi, how would you like
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to upload some of YOUR things to us?" he displays a self
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righteous demeanor and acts as though it is his god-given
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birthright to rape and pillage every bbs that his modem can reach
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- even with stolen MCI codes, if he can get them, but that is
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another story - without any obligation, duty, or debt to the
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sysop or to the other callers. This is a behavior pattern shared
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by the same people who oppose contributing reasonable amounts of
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money to help with the expenses of something that is their hobby
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as much as the sysop's. Not surprising is the fact that those who
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donate money also seem to be those who upload consistently, while
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those who don't donate anything also don't tend to upload, unless
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they are forced to do so with ratios and other unfriendly
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tactics.
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And then Mr. Paul reinforces this behavior pattern with his
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statement "The callers ... don't owe me anything; in fact I owe
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THEM more than I could ever begin to express." It is sysops like
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Mr. Paul who, to a substantial part, cause sponges, and leeches,
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and whatever else we want to call them. I used to have a
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questionnaire in which I asked "How do you feel about paying a
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small amount of money to help with the expenses of this bbs?" and
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I still recall vividly MANY answers that said something like "Why
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should I pay anything? There are many bbs out there that are
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free, and as long as they are there, I will not pay." In effect
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they are telling me: "I will use you for everything I can get out
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of you. When you get tired of it, or can't afford it anymore,
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then I will use someone else. And I will keep using them until
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there is nobody left to use." And then Mr. Paul asks me, and
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other readers of his article, the question: "I'd be interested in
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knowing ... what you offer users that is unavailable elsewhere
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for free." An education in manners, Mr. Paul, that is what I
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would like to offer them.
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 5 2 Nov 1987
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Mr. Paul feels that charging a fee obligates him to the callers.
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Does it really? There is a school of thought that goes something
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like this: If a caller spends a substantial amount of time and
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effort in participating in a conference, especially if he calls
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long distance, then it is the host's obligation to ensure that
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the conference is not abruptly stopped because of the negligence
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of the host. Thus, the host takes a certain responsibility to
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back up his system and to try to reactivate the board in case of
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a crash within a reasonable time period. I do not argue with
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this, and in over 6 years my board has not had any unscheduled
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and unannounced downtimes that lasted longer than 24 hrs. But how
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does it change this obligation if the hosts says "Hey guys, this
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is costing me a lot of money. How about if you chip in to help me
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pay the bills?" This is no more a "profit" than if I offer to
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give someone a ride to a city 100 miles away, to which I am going
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anyway, if I ask the rider to help me pay for the gas.
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And to clear up a misunderstanding: The IRS is not interested in
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your income, it's interested in your profits!
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I hope I make my point clear. I too welcome comments, which you
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may send to 381/20 (directly, or if you have problems sending it,
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route it through 381/1). You may also call directly to
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(915) 545-2752 or mail any replies, comments, questions, or
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whatever by US Mail to Plato's Retreat BBS, 6112 N. Mesa,
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Suite 103, El Paso, TX 79912.
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 6 2 Nov 1987
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Anton Johnson
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National Family Forum 161/56
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Open Letter about National Family Forum
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Dear Sysops and Bulletin Board Friends,
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Several days ago I was slandered through the entry of
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messages into Fido mail that were considered to be of a an
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unethecial and offensive nature. There were a individuals that
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were very supportive to me during this attack. I wish to thank
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you for your support! It greatly encouraged me.
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For those of you that do not know me I wish to provide
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you with a short background on myself and my BBS I have been a
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System Operator (Sysop) for over 6 1/2 years. It has been my
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policy that message or file content that may be considered to be
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offensive to users is not permitted on my system. I run a semi
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open system. New users are granted full access to the system
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witin 24 hours after their first phone call. New users are not
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required to register unless they want to. In addition new users
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are not required to pay any fees to access the NFF.
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The NFF operates using The Bread Board System BBS
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software. To share in Fidonet I use Seadog. There is an open
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reward that is offered on my system. If anyone can crash my
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system, tell me how they did it and it is not caused by an error
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on my part in the way I configure my system I pay out $100
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dollars. During the period of time that I have operated TBBS no
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one has yet to collect that reward. No one has ever crashed my
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system and they have not obtained entry to the system using my
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Sysop userlog entry. Many have tried without success.
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The National Family Forum is a family oriented system. It
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also is a Christian BBS. I can assure everyone that the offensive
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messages that carried the name of my system and my name did not
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originate on the National Family Forum. It is my personal policy
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that when offensive messages appear on my system from my users
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that I remove them as soon as they are seen. It is also my policy
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that if individuals that use Fido Net enter offensive messages
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into the system that I kill all messages from them in the future.
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If I feel it is warranted I will send Net-Mail to that person on
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the node the message originated on. I no longer "flame"
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individuals in echo mail. Most individuals do not want to read
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such private messages and it does nothing to directly improve
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message content in Echo Mail.
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Sincerely Yours,
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Anton Johnson
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National Family Forum Sysop
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 7 2 Nov 1987
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Eric Ewanco, 1:130/3
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Shrinking the Node List
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In October 5th's issue of FidoNews, there was a column by
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Aaron Priven about shrinking the nodelist, and although I highly
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respect his purpose, I must comment on his proposed methods.
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First of all, removing the name of the board is totally
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ridiculous. When I read a message, I like to know what board it's
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from. I do not work by numbers, I work by names! I cannot
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immediately recognize that 125/111 is Fido Software, or that
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109/639 is Renex BBS. In addition, when it's calling, I'd like to
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know then and there if I entered the right number.
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As for the Sysop name, and for SEAdog's USERLIST feature, I
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use it all the time and it is the primary feature of SEAdog that
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I miss in Opus. It is SO annoying to have to remember someone's
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node number; or, if I don't know them, I just like to say, "I
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want to send a letter to Bob Hartman, wherever he is." SEAdog can
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oblige. I don't want to have to look it up. In fact, I _couldn't_
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if we removed the names.
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As for the flags, I would like to know who has SEAdog or
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equivalent, although it's not that important. But, some boards
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are "Mail Only" (mine, except for a very few people) and don't
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want people picking their name off the nodelist without knowing
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that I won't be accepting human callers. We can shorten them to
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one character, tho.
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The least useful field is the city/state, but I still think
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it should be kept. I agree with shortening the baud rate to about
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one character (1[200], 2[400], 3[00], 4[800], 9[600]) and I also
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believe that hex numbers would be faster to convert and would
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take up less space.
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We could shorten !_Unpublished to just !, and for gosh sake,
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WHY is the nodelist distributed with 1- added to the number? We
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could save 4k right there!
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End of line characters: CR/LF is convenient for C, but ...
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if we made it LF it could be handled WITHOUT text mode conversion
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and would be faster to operate on. For those who need to edit by
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hand, we COULD conceivable make a utility for conversion. This
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would only save about 2k, though. Or is that significant?
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Some fields could be made fixed, and we can eliminate some of
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the commas. Or, we could write some fields in BINARY format
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(node/net) or packed decimal (phone). But then writing or
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maintaining a private nodelist would be difficult.
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Thus is my rebuttle. Comments should be directed to:
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Eric Ewanco, SEAdog/Opus 1:130/3.0
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 8 2 Nov 1987
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U.S. Robotics, Hayes to Share High-Speed Modem Technology
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Skokie,Ill.,October 21 -- Modem industry leaders Hayes
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Microcomputer Products,Inc., and U.S.Robotics, Inc., will share
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proprietary, high-speed modem technology under terms of a newly-
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signed cross-licensing agreement.
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The pact could lead both companies to manufacture signal-
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compatible modems operating at 9600 bps and higher speeds,
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potentially boosting a market that cautiously has awaited a
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standard technology for competing products.
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Despite the agreement, however, U.S. Robotics said that is has no
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immediate plans to manufacture modems employing Hayes'
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technology.
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U.S. Robotics, based here, has gained a license to manufacture
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modems using Hayes' proprietary error-control protocol and
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modulation technique currently implemented in Hayes' 9600- and
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2400-bps V-Series modems.
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Hayes, of Norcross, Ga., becomes a licensee of U.S. Robotics'
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proprietary high-speed modem tecnolgy used in its 9600-bps
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Courier HST modem.
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The agreement also includes cross-licensing of any new inventions
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by both companies during the next three years.
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"This agreement also gives us more technological flexibility in
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responding to potential demand for certain features and
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capabilities," said U.S. Robotics President Casey Cowell.
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"Any future enhancements to the Courier HST that derive from this
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agreement will be appropriate to meeting market demand and
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anticipating long-term market development," Cowell continued. "We
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intend in any future versions of the Courier HST to maintain
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operational compatibility with all previously sold HST modems."
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Both companies declined to declined to reveal terms of the cross-
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licensing agreement.
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For Immediate Release
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Contact: Mark Smith
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312-982-5001
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US Robotics, Inc.
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8100 North McCormick Blvd.
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Skokie,IL 60076
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***Original Press Release sent to IFNA FidoNews Editor***
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 9 2 Nov 1987
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COLUMNS
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O r i g i n : A n g e v i n E m p i r e
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Issue #5: Public Domain for More than Software
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Aaron Priven (1:125/1154)
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Deadlines? We don't have no deadlines. We don't need no
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deadlines! We don't need no stinking deadlines!
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Lately there has been a move toward placing Matrix software
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into free distribution, with source code distributed too. I'm
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not going to get into this subject very far, but I really am
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glad to see it happen. I love the idea of the Matrix as a free
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source of information. The idea of all of us helping the common
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good, more for everybody, is perhaps one of the best things that
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could have happened in the Age of Information that John Naisbitt
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and other futurists are always talking about. I don't know if we
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can make a real difference in the rest of the world, but I hope
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that our concepts of free distribution extend themselves to
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others -- not just that others may join the net and take part in
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it, but that people may discover that free distribution is good
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for *all* media -- not just computery ones.
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Now I'm not suggesting that everybody de-copyright their
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books and music and let everybody have it for free -- just as I
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wouldn't suggest that everyone de-copyright their software and
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put it on BBS's. What I am saying is that there is a lot of
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information out there that has always been absolutely free --
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but inaccessible.
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Take an example close to my heart (or my stomach). In 1977 a
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friend of mine who happens to be my mother compiled a cookbook
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called "Family Cooking" -- she took recipes from all her aunts,
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cousins, sisters-in-law, and other relatives, and put it all in
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a 150-page book which she basically made herself. She typed it
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out on an IBM Executive typewriter, and printed it a local copy
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shop. It turned out really nice, but she made no more than
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twenty copies -- all of which went to our relatives.
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Why didn't we give it away to other people? How could we? We
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would have had to buy the paper, which would have cost money,
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and if we'd tried to sell it we would have had to make a very
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risky investment, which we simply were not prepared to make.
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(And realistically, there are so many cookbooks out that "just
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another homestyle cookbook" would have had no chance at a
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publisher.) So fifteen copies are in the hands of our relatives,
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and we have five copies left, and the rest of the people in the
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world are stuck.
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So this year we're thinking about updating it. We'd take
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advantage of newer technology, and desktop-publish it in high
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FidoNews 4-40 Page 10 2 Nov 1987
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style. We would also release the text of it into free
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distribution. We can now do this -- all we have to do is take
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the text, convert it to ASCII (which it will be in anyway), ARC
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it and file-attach it to various BBS's. That's all it takes now
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to give something away free. Big difference from 1977.
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The point of this column is to get the rest of you thinking
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about things like that. Maybe you're a leech type who would like
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to contribute, but can't because you can't write a line of code.
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You don't have to! If you can write a story, or a poem, or
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relate an anecdote, or anything along that line, then you are
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perfectly well off; a good story is at least as good as the
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latest user-supported arcade game.
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
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14 Nov 1987
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The First New England Sysop Conference, to be held at the
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Lederle Graduate Research Center, 16 Floor University of
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Massachusetts, Amherst. Contact Mort Sternheim at 1:321/109
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for details.
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7 Dec 1987
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Start of the Digital Equipment Users Society meeting in
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Anaheim, CA. Contact Mark Buda at 1:132/777 for details.
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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