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Volume 6, Number 21 22 May 1989
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Dale Lovell
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Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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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. 1:1/1 is a Continuous Mail system, available for
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network mail 24 hours a day.
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Copyright 1989 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. IFNA may also be contacted
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at PO Box 41143, St. Louis, MO 63141.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, 164 Shipley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107 and
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are used with permission.
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We don't necessarily agree with the contents of every article
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published here. Most of these materials are unsolicited. No
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article will be rejected which is properly attributed and legally
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acceptable. We will publish every responsible submission
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received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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FidoNet Hits a New Low ................................... 1
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GOOD DEALS FOR SYSOPS: Minitel offers free software! ..... 4
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Reflections on Policy 4 .................................. 6
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Making a Point ........................................... 11
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What IFNA Means to Me! ................................... 13
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Sysops take on a worthy cause: Youth At Risk Program ..... 15
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 19
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The Veterinarian's Corner: Cosmetics Industry Testing .... 19
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 21
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 21
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And more!
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 1 22 May 1989
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ARTICLES
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FidoNet Hits a New Low
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by Phil Buonomo, 1:107/583, 7:520/583, 9:807/1
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Well, it just goes to show you what can happen when you don't
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take the time to read FidoNews. Miss a couple of issues, and
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BLAMMO! It's like missing an episode of "Dallas". In other
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words, you miss "who shot whom". In this case, however, its the
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basic purpose of FidoNews that gets shot.
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Recently, a number of *C's have apparently expressed displeasure
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to Vince about several columns that have appeared in FidoNews
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that THEY seem to think are not "FidoNet related". They would
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have such columns (as defined by them) removed from publication
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so they don't have to foot the bill for distributing it.
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I'm not going to spout any First Amendment stuff here, after all,
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this is FidoNet, not the government. Nobody ever mistook FidoNet
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for a democracy, after all.
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But it has always been the basic right of nodes in FidoNet that
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they could submit virtually ANYTHING and have it printed in
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FidoNews, and get their message out. Now, some bright person
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recently asked if the readers thought they should allow KKK
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announcements in FidoNews. Well, I'll tell you... I don't think
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so, but then again, who am I to say? I'm not God. I'm not the
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government, and I'm not the Editor (of FidoNews, anyway), and
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until *I* sit in THAT particular hot seat, I can't give you a
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definitive answer. I can tell you this, however: THE ANIMED
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SERIES IS NOT A KKK COLUMN AND ANY COMPARISON OF THE TWO IS
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RIDICULOUS.
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I have found that column to be both interesting and informative,
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particularly since when I first started reading it, I figured
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that I'd get about three sentences into it and hit PgDn. The
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first column, however, was about how you can kill a dog by
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feeding it a comparitively small amount of chocolate. This, I
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never knew, and it being printed on Easter week impressed me even
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more with its timeliness. Since then, the column, most
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intelligently written, has further impressed me with articles on
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the abuses of animals in laboratories, the dangers of summertime
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anti-freeze to dogs and cats, and yes, even how to keep your dog
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and cat from getting fleas. Another contributor to this
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'magazine' sneered at the column, stating that if he wanted to
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learn about fleas, he'd pick up the conference. Well, *I* found
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it interesting, and enjoyed reading it. I guess that means I'm
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not as important as an *C? I guess it means that you aren't,
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either, since he feels he shouldn't have to pay for sending the
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file to you.
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As I said before, for something I didn't think I'd be interested
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in, I've been rather fascinated by the column.
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 2 22 May 1989
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But let's look at it another way. The *C's who've expressed
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displeasure at the column jump up and down about it not being
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'FidoNet related'. My response is, "So what?". Did THEY found
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FidoNews? Are THEY the editors, or is Vince? They seem to feel
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they have the right to limit the topics printed about because
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they foot the bill for the distribution of FidoNews. My response
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is, "You wanted to be an *C, right? Distributing FidoNews is
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part of the job. You don't like it? Don't be an *C."
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I fail to see why these people, who've contributed very little in
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terms of the content of the magazine, feel they have the right to
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determine its content. Don't get me wrong, we owe EACH and every
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*C thanks for its distribution, but that distribution STILL comes
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with the job. I don't like the fact that I have to be on call
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for the Data Center I work at 24 hours a day, but it comes with
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the job, and I can't change it just because its inconvenient for
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me. For the *C's to attempt to change the policy of FidoNews
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just because THEY aren't interested in reading about Animal
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Medicine is wrong, immoral, and a slap at each and every node in
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FidoNet.
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The funny thing is that the ANIMED column has averaged less than
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a page, sometimes a page and a half. The interesting point that
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everyone seems to have glossed over is that, in the interests of
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shortening FidoNews by attempting to change its editorial policy,
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these *C's have generated more lines of commentary on their
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actions than ALL THE ANIMED COLUMNS PUT TOGETHER.
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Seems kinda self-defeating to me!
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One more point. FidoNews has been relatively self-running for
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years. The type of editorial policy the *C's wish would defeat
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this, by effectively making Vince approve each and every article,
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column, and ad that goes into it. It seems to me that if the
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*C's want to enfo*Ce such a policy on Vince that THEY be the ones
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to edit the magazine. Then we shall see who's willing to 'play
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God' and say which article is "FidoNet related", and which isn't.
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I guess the thing that I'm most disappointed about is, with all
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the problems FidoNet faces today, you'd think the *C's had more
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to worry about than a column in FidoNews. I guess that's just
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the way FidoNet's been run for the past couple of years. In the
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service, we called it "chickenm$wx%". That means that the people
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in authority worry about the little problems and let the big,
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important ones slide.
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The motto of the Alliance newsletter, AlterNews, is "All the news
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that fits, we print!" That's the way its been for FidoNews for
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years, and it should not be changed for something so trivially
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small. Would you have people saying that AlterNet is more open
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than FidoNet?
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Finally, let me just remind those who would change it that
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FidoNews is STILL an IFNA publication. And the last thing I
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heard, the IFNA BOD determines FidoNews policy, not the *C's. I
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for one, don't want to see that, or the FidoNews policy changed.
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 3 22 May 1989
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 4 22 May 1989
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WHAT IS MINITEL?
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In France, over 4 million people use Minitel terminals to
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search through the National Electronic Telephone Directory and
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access a wide range of information services.
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These services range from financial and business
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transactions to communications services such as electronic
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chatlines.
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The success of these services with consumers in France
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remains unparalleled in the world up to now.
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HOW DOES MINITEL WORK IN FRANCE?
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French consumers have easy access to all these services with
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their dedicated terminals and their connect charges are placed
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directly on their phone bill. They do not need different
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accounts with each information provider like subscribers to
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American information networks must have.
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WHAT DOES MINITELNET HAVE TO OFFER ME?
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Access to these same French services is available to users
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outside France thanks to Minitelnet which now provides the
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gateway to more than 10,000 French information services.
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* During 1989 and 1990, Minitelnet will also give you
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access to other European countries, including Belgium,
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Italy, Spain, Germany and Finland.
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* By the Summer of 1989 you will be able to dial up
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Minitel from nodes around the world.
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Minitelnet connects you to French information services from
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your home or your office through a simple dial-up procedure.
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WHAT EQUIPMENT DO I NEED TO HAVE TO ACCESS MINITEL?
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* An IBM compatible, Macintosh, Apple II
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or Commodore 64/128 computer
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* A modem
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* Minitel Software for your computer.
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WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF USING MINITELNET?
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Minitelnet offers an array of user friendly services from
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banking to home-shopping, from instant ticket reservations to
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instant travel arrangements.
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Here are just a few of the many advantages of Minitelnet:
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* access electronic services in France for
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the price of a local phone call
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* non-stop service; available all day, any day
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 5 22 May 1989
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* simple to use
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* inexpensive - you pay as you use the service -
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starting as low as 17 cents a minute
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* access to 1000's of French services not available
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through other gateways
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* you don't need to upgrade your computer!
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HOW DO I GET STARTED?
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You need a copy of the Minitel software and a
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directory to the services online. THESE ARE AVAILABLE FREE!
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HOW DO I GET MY FREE COPY OF THE MINITEL SOFTWARE
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AND DIRECTORY?
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Here's what to do:
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* Dial 800 999 6163
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from Canada or the continental U.S. with
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your modem set at 1200 baud, 8/N/1
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* At the login prompt type: MINITEL107
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* Supply all information requested of you so that
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Minitelnet can send you the software and directory.
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 6 22 May 1989
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Jesse David Hollington
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1:225/1
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What's wrong with Policy 4?
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After perusing Policy 4, and discussing it with several people,
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I have become convinced that it is not necessarily the great
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long overdue revision of policy that it seems to be.
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To get something straight, actually, at first I was kind of
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undecided as to what to vote on this document. However, now
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that I've really sat down and *looked* at it and thought about
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it, some very serious problems with it suddenly occur to me.
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Let me paint a little picture...
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We have, at the top of the whole mess, The International
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Coordinator. Who decides who the International Coordinator
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should be? Not the majority of FidoNet, which is the way
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things really should be, but a very small group of people.
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The Zone Coordinators.
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However, at the Zone Coordinator level, the problems begin to
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occur. Who decides who the Zone Coordinator should be? Again,
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not the Sysops, not the vast majority of Coordinator positions,
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but the Region Coordinators. Again, a very small group of
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people.
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But now, here's the catch, who decides who the Region
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Coordinators should be? None other than the Zone Coordinator.
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Where do the Network Coordinators come from? Simple, they're
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appointed by the Regional Coordinators.
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Do the Sysops in FidoNet actually have any say in what is going
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on? Not really.
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Now, very simply, what's wrong with this picture?
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What this creates is a system by which only the senior officers
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are voted in. Who votes in the senior officers, but the people
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they have appointed, either directly or indirectly. What this
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does very simply is to ensure that all the top brass in FidoNet
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have their positions virtually as long as they want them for.
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This is not designed to put down anybody, or point the finger
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at anyone. There are, however, some interesting things about
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human nature that don't make this a good system. For one thing,
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a Zone Coordinator, whether consciously or not, is going to
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appoint Region Coordinators under him that will support his
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position. This is simply human nature. I'm not saying that I
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wouldn't do the exact same thing if I were in such a position.
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Nobody's perfect.
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 7 22 May 1989
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So who gets the best side of this deal?
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Certainly not the Sysops, they have virtually no say in what
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goes on. Even the Network Coordinators have very little say in
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what happens in FidoNet. The power of a Network Coordinator is
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limited to Policy revisions, and ZC impeachments. Even these
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powers were intially a farce because of the idea of the dual
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majority. That at least was progress. The dual-majority
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getting scrapped was a step in the right direction.
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How about the International Coordinator? Certainly the IC is
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in a nice position, however, his say in what happens has been
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significantly reduced. I'm not necessarily saying that it
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shouldn't be reduced. However, the IC is voted in by the ZCs,
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and therefore, indirectly, by the RCs. It is all well and good
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that the International Coordinator *should* be elected (how else
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would we decide?), but I think that there is very little sense
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in having only the upper echelons vote.
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Now, what about the Zone Coordinators? Certainly they have a
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good side of the deal. But the decisions of a ZC can still be
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reversed by a majority of the RCs voting against it. The ZC is
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elected by the RCs as well. The Zone Coordinator can, however,
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place the right people as Regional Coordinators under him. Yet
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wouldn't a decision to have an RC replaced still be subject to
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reversal by the other RCs? If this was the case, then all the
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RCs would have to do would be to stick together, and they would
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essentially control FidoNet.
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The bottom line is that the Regional Coordinators are probably
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getting by far the best end of the deal. The can control the
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Zone Coordinator, and they don't have to answer to the Network
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Coordinators under them. Has it yet occurred to anybody out
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there exactly why the Regional Coordinators aren't votable
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positions? The whole idea of voting for the position above
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stops at the RC level. The whole idea of decision reversal
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stops at the RC level. The Network Coordinators end up having
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very little say in the matter.
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Now, let us consider exactly who it is that makes FidoNet work.
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The answer is simple. At the very bottom are the Sysops. The
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nodes. Without Sysops at the bottom of the whole chain, all the
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admin positions in the world would be pointless. The Sysops who
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are a part of FidoNet, and who are the vast majority of FidoNet,
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however, have very little say in what goes on. Does this imply
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that it is believed that an average Sysop is not intelligent or
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responsible enough to make decisions on how FidoNet should be
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run?
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However, the next level up on the ladder are the Network
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Coordinators. It's the NCs who really make FidoNet work. This
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is in a different way. The NCs coordinate mail movement in and
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out of their areas of responsibility. They maintain the
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nodelist fragments, they distribute nodediffs and FidoNews.
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Most importantly, however, they encourage the formation of new
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 8 22 May 1989
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FidoNet nodes in their areas. I would venture to say that a
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very sizeable portion of the Sysops who have joined FidoNet
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have done so because there was somewhere nearby where they could
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get FidoNet software, documents, nodelists, help, and a node
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number. The Regional Coordinators certainly could not do this.
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Not that I'm knocking the Regional Coordinators, it's just that
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a Region is by far too large to effectively manage without
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smaller subdivisions. Someone who lives in an area, say, 500
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miles away from a Regional Coordinator, would have loads of fun
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trying to get a network number, nodediffs, FidoNews, help,
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advice and software, if it weren't for the Network Coordinators
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who do all this. You could almost say that the NCs are the
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unsung heroes of FidoNet.
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Now, let's get something straight. I'm a Network Coordinator.
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When I got this position, I didn't know what I was getting
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myself into. I've put a lot of work into FidoNet, and spent a
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great deal of time encouraging local sysops to connect as
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FidoNet nodes. I have spent many long hours connecting Sysops
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to mailers, debugging systems, solving problems, etc. I have
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spent almost as long trying to keep my computer from going crazy
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on me. At least twice a week my hard disk threatens to fill up.
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I'm not knocking the Regional Coordinators, Zone Coordinators,
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or other administrative positions at all. They certainly do a
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lot of work, and we'd be equally lost without most of them.
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I'm simply trying to point out that we have other administrative
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positions in FidoNet as well. The whole administrative realm of
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FidoNet does not, contrary to popular belief, end with the RCs.
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Yet Policy 4 tends to imply that it does.
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This document is not meant as a put-down. I'm not trying to
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convince anybody of anything. I'm simply attempting to provoke
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some thought out there. I myself was of the attitude, "Well,
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a Policy revision is long overdue. Let's all vote yes, approve
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it, and get it out of our hair." When I really started to think
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about it, however, I started to seriously ask myself if I really
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agreed with what was in it, and if I really agreed that that was
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the way FidoNet should be run. I decided to write this article
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when I came up with the answer, and saw what problems there
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really are in Policy 4.
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Consider how little has *really* changed in Policy 4. There
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are definitely some very good clarifications, and minor
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technical modifications. However, the only thing that strikes
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me as a major change is the political structure. Details of
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which I have gone into already.
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Now, who wrote Policy 4? The Administration. Particularly,
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mostly the Regional Coordinators. I am not saying that if I
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were in such a position that I'd do anything different than
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what they did, and that was to extend their power. Again,
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human nature. Now, naturally, the policy documents have to be
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written by somebody. Administration is a logical choice. It
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would, however, be much more logical to appoint a committee out
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of various positions, from the Sysop level up. Maybe a few
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FidoNews 6-21 Page 9 22 May 1989
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Sysops, a few NCs, a few RCs, the ZCs, and the IC. That would
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definitely be the most democratic way to get things accomplished
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In closing, my advice for how any form of voting structure
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should work is that it should apply to virtually everybody, or
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virtually nobody. There are always exceptions at the top and
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bottom in either of these cases. Basically, if the upward
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structure is to be used, it should travel right down to the
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Sysop level. In other words, the Sysops vote for their NC (or
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at least have some portion of relevant say in who he is), the
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NCs vote for their RC, the RCs for their ZC, and so on. The
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more logical method, however, would be to simply have everybody
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in FidoNet vote for the IC, or everybody in a zone vote for
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their ZC, and then they can take care of appointing the levels
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below them, indirectly. Basically, in other words, the same
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way it worked before Policy 4, except that everybody who has
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a Node address should be eligible to vote.
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This would be democracy. The system as it is now is *not*
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democratic. It is more or less, an aristocracy bordering on a
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dictatorship. Admittedly, this is strong language, but it
|
||
becomes clear that the administration is power mongering with
|
||
this revision of Policy. Again, I'm not blaming anybody in
|
||
specific, save for that old entity known as human nature.
|
||
I must admit that if I were a part of the high-level admin in
|
||
FidoNet, I might agree with Policy 4 wholeheartedly. The fact
|
||
is that I'm not, I'm just a Network Coordinator of an obscure
|
||
little network that sees the potential problems that could
|
||
develop if the policies of FidoNet follow this pattern.
|
||
|
||
Adolf Hitler was a prime example of somebody who wrote himself
|
||
into power. He began as Chancellor of Germany, and was the
|
||
greatest thing that ever happened to Germany for a while, but he
|
||
eventually, through various forms of legislation, put himself in
|
||
such a position that he was Chancellor for life. It is not an
|
||
entirely adequate comparison, but does give us an example of
|
||
what can happen when one person or specific group of people are
|
||
put in charge of creating policies. History shows it doesn't
|
||
work. Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it,
|
||
and I think that it's possible to say that this is where we are
|
||
now heading in FidoNet.
|
||
|
||
We need democracy in this structure. Not anti-democracy posing
|
||
as democracy, which is the vein that Policy 4 is written in.
|
||
And if counting 5700 votes is a problem, I have a number of
|
||
suggestions as to how that could be handled.
|
||
|
||
I certainly hope I haven't offended anyone in the writing of
|
||
this. I have just stated a number of things that I felt needed
|
||
to be said. Policy 4 is a great document in many ways, and has
|
||
a number of promising aspects. I disagree with the political
|
||
structure it outlines, however, because it is simply not
|
||
acceptable in a democratic system.
|
||
|
||
The problem is that too many people out there don't want to
|
||
get involved in the politics in FidoNet, and I can't say that I
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 10 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
blame them. However, sitting back and pretending that
|
||
everything is okay when it isn't is not going to make the
|
||
problems go away. It's going to do nothing but compound them.
|
||
I would implore the Sysops, and especially the Network
|
||
Coordinators out there to get involved and pay attention to
|
||
what is happening around them. And please don't fall into the
|
||
trap that I nearly fell into and get the attitude of, "let's
|
||
just vote yes on it and get it over with." That is a very
|
||
dangerous attitude to have. Think about what you're voting
|
||
on. Ask yourself if you really want FidoNet to be run how
|
||
Policy 4 implies it will be run. Base your vote upon your
|
||
answer to that question.
|
||
|
||
End of Political Discourse.
|
||
|
||
Again, I honestly hope I haven't offended anyone through this.
|
||
It was not meant as a put-down of any person or category of
|
||
people. It is very simply some constructive criticism on what
|
||
I think is wrong with things as they now stand.
|
||
|
||
(And to think that I missed the final episode of "Family
|
||
Ties" to sit here and write this <grin> ).
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 11 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
Making A Point
|
||
jim nutt
|
||
'the computer handyman'
|
||
1:114/30
|
||
|
||
Setting up a point is actually a lot easier than you might
|
||
think. It requires some time, patience and a fair deal of
|
||
hard disk space, but in general, not much hair.
|
||
|
||
The first step in setting up a point is finding a fidonet
|
||
sysop who is willing to act as a 'boss' node for you. The
|
||
boss node is essentially your link to the rest of fidonet.
|
||
In a basic point, all your mail flows through the boss and
|
||
you call only the boss. It is generally a good idea to make
|
||
sure that the boss node is a local call and that they are
|
||
someone you can work with.
|
||
|
||
The next step is to collect the software you need. I
|
||
personally recommend the following for a basic point:
|
||
|
||
BinkleyTerm version 2.20
|
||
ConfMail version 3.31
|
||
oMMM version 1.40
|
||
msged version 1.99
|
||
Arca/Arce any version
|
||
|
||
I recommend using confmail version 3.31 instead of version 4
|
||
because 3.31 can also do all your message maintenance for
|
||
you, while those functions have been eliminated from version
|
||
4. The easiest way to set all this stuff up is to create a
|
||
subdirectory on your hard disk called "POINT" and dump
|
||
everything into it. You'll need to create a few
|
||
subdirectories under point as well:
|
||
|
||
\point\inbound where inbound mail goes
|
||
\point\outbound where mail is held to be sent
|
||
\point\mail where the messages are stored
|
||
|
||
And of course, if you want echomail, you need to create a
|
||
subdirectory for each echomail area you want to pick up.
|
||
|
||
Now you need to get on the phone and talk to the sysop of
|
||
your boss node. You need to find out what your 'private'
|
||
network address is and you have to decide what password you
|
||
want to use on your sessions with the boss node. The
|
||
private network address is the address your boss uses in
|
||
talking with you, it is never seen by the rest of the
|
||
network. Once you have that information you can begin
|
||
editing the configuration files for your point. There are a
|
||
total of seven of them and unfortunately, a great deal of
|
||
the information is duplicated in them. The programs use the
|
||
following configuration files:
|
||
|
||
|
||
BinkleyTerm Binkley.Cfg
|
||
ConfMail Areas.Bbs, Mail.Sys
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 12 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
msged Binkley.Cfg
|
||
oMMM oMMM.ctl, oMMM.cfg, Binkley.Prm
|
||
|
||
Of all of these, Binkley.Cfg is the most important as
|
||
Mail.Sys and Binkley.Prm are created from it (using the
|
||
btctl.exe utility) and BinkleyTerm and msged use it
|
||
directly. Fortunately, it's also the best documented. The
|
||
easiest way to set it up is to take the sample Binkley.Cfg
|
||
and change it to fit your system. The BinkleyTerm
|
||
documention covers this in fair detail. Once you have that
|
||
file set up, you run btctl to create mail.sys and
|
||
binkley.prm. You now have installed BinkleyTerm and msged.
|
||
The next thing to do is to create and oMMM.ctl file
|
||
containing a single line:
|
||
|
||
ArcCm bnet/bnode All
|
||
|
||
Where bnet/bnode is your boss nodes address. Then change
|
||
the values in the sample ommm.cfg to point to your
|
||
subdirectories and you're all set for netmail. The final
|
||
configuration file, Areas.Bbs, is a bit more complicated.
|
||
It tells confmail where each of your echomail areas are. If
|
||
you aren't doing any echomail, then Areas.Bbs can be as
|
||
simple as:
|
||
|
||
'the computer handyman' (home of msged) ! jim nutt
|
||
|
||
Of course, you'll want to change that to reflect your name
|
||
and system. If you are running echomail, you'll need a line
|
||
for each echo area in the form:
|
||
|
||
subdirectory echotag bossnet/node
|
||
|
||
Subdirectory is where the echo message will be put, echotag
|
||
is the official name of the area and bossnet/node tells
|
||
confmail that you want this echo sent to your boss node.
|
||
|
||
If you've gotten this far the rest is easy! All that is
|
||
left is to write a simple batch file to control packing and
|
||
unpacking mail, your boss probably has one he can give you
|
||
or can help you with one of your own. Other than that,
|
||
you're pretty much ready to go. I can't stress enough
|
||
though.... READ THE DOCUMENTATION for your software, it
|
||
wasn't written just to waste space on the disk! It will
|
||
help you get through the tight spots and figure out some of
|
||
the wierdness that can happen.
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 13 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
Tom Hendricks, Sysop of Avi-Technic BBS, 1:261/662,
|
||
(301) 252-0717
|
||
|
||
What IFNA Means to Me:
|
||
|
||
I am writing this article after reflection on the many
|
||
changes and troubles that the International FidoNet Association
|
||
has endured over the last few years.
|
||
|
||
IFNA, the organization, has survived a turbulent period, and
|
||
its continued existance is still far from a certainty. It was
|
||
formed originally to help offset some of the costs of running the
|
||
FidoNet, and of helping the people who do so. Upon its creation
|
||
it was beset with confusion and mixed ideals, effectively
|
||
hamstringing its operation at every turn. Detractors took refuge
|
||
in "Alternative" networks and took potshots whenever possible.
|
||
IFNA, in an attempt to counteract these detractors became a
|
||
responsive organization, declaring itself separate and apart from
|
||
the day-to-day FidoNet operations, and became centered on special
|
||
interests. Finally, these seem to be dissolving, leaving only
|
||
the shell remaining.
|
||
|
||
Did you know that the International FidoNet association
|
||
appoints the International Coordinator? It does. However
|
||
complaints aimed at the IFNA Board of Directors caused them to
|
||
divorce themselves somewhat from actual FidoNet Operations. Did
|
||
you know the IFNA Board of Directors appoints the chairman of the
|
||
FidoNet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC)? Did you know this
|
||
committee has several sub-committees, including high-speed
|
||
modems, software certification and others? Did you know that the
|
||
IFNA Board of Directors has listened to comments from anyone (not
|
||
just FidoNet members) about anything related to the FidoNet? Did
|
||
you know that the IFNA Board of Directors appoints the Membership
|
||
Services Committee Chairman, and that the Membership Services has
|
||
a sub-committee which selects the site of FidoCons from year to
|
||
year? (This year's winner was San Jose, California). Did you
|
||
know these conventions are partially funded in startup, or seed
|
||
money from the IFNA treasury? Did you know there was a IFNA
|
||
Publications committee which oversees the publishing of the
|
||
Weekly FidoNews?
|
||
|
||
With all this is mind, what does IFNA mean to you, the
|
||
"Average" FidoNet sysop? I'm not too sure many of us know IFNA
|
||
exists. Too often we take for granted something without
|
||
understanding the need for it, and the necessary investment of
|
||
our time and energies to keep it there for us. Honestly, the
|
||
most any of us have heard about IFNA, was what a lot of
|
||
hot-headed detractors have been saying about it. All we remember
|
||
is that this problem or that problem exists, while very few
|
||
people realize there are a lot of positives involved as well.
|
||
|
||
Did you know for instance that the International FidoNet
|
||
Association was the holder of the copyright on the term 'FidoNet'
|
||
as assigned from Tom Jennings, the creator of the net? Did you
|
||
know IFNA was a non-profit corporation? Donations of money,
|
||
equipment or time can be accepted and put to good use.
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 14 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
Did you know that IFNA is your best bet in terms of a single
|
||
body representing all of us? Even though the paid membership of
|
||
IFNA is small in comparison to the number of systems contained in
|
||
the nodelist, IFNA is the only organization which effectively is
|
||
available to be a 'WatchDog' on our hobby for us. Do you
|
||
remember the scares of Texas, where Bulletin Board Systems were
|
||
deemed businesses and had to pay business telephone rates? How
|
||
about the instance in D.C. where all the bulletin boards were
|
||
called part of pipe-bomb making network? Or else, what about the
|
||
child-pornography and pediphile networks? Although we are large
|
||
in numbers, there is no effective organization available
|
||
presently to counter this flood of misrepresentation about our
|
||
hobby. IFNA, is our only option now, and they do their best by
|
||
explaining the good things, how electronic communications helps
|
||
enrich the environment, not detract from it.
|
||
|
||
|
||
I started writing this article in response to several
|
||
comments like "IFNA may not exist much longer", or listening to
|
||
the constant chatter of something someone somewhere doesn't like
|
||
today. Tomorrow will see new people complaining about other
|
||
things, other people, other situations. Bottom line is: Who,
|
||
What, and How will they complain about IFNA when it isn't there
|
||
anymore? Will it take losing something valuable (but still in
|
||
its infancy) to realize that they need to save it, to nurture it,
|
||
and to force it to grow?
|
||
|
||
This brings me to my question, "What does IFNA mean to me?"
|
||
Well, let me tell you, or did I do just that?
|
||
|
||
-Tom Hendricks-
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 15 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
Sysops participate in the Youth At Risk Program
|
||
|
||
by The Captain of the King's Navee, 7:520/583, 1:520/583, 9:807/1
|
||
and the Newark Youth At Risk Program
|
||
|
||
One of the reasons I joined the Alliance was to work with others
|
||
in doing some good for people. Being a charitable organization,
|
||
one of the goals of the Alliance is to help others. I've watched
|
||
as our organization has grown over the past year or so, and
|
||
waited eagerly for the opportunity to take part in some of these
|
||
proposed activities. As you can imagine, much of the Alliance's
|
||
energy has been spent just getting started and growing over the
|
||
past months, but we are now organized to the point where our
|
||
members can start to do some of the good work that our Code of
|
||
Chivalry mentions.
|
||
|
||
Several members of AlterNet 520 have recently gotten involved in
|
||
a worthy program called "Youth at Risk". His Majesty the
|
||
Archduke, Karl the First, has been involved for over a year with
|
||
this program, and introduced it to our network. As you will see,
|
||
however, this program is taking place on a NATIONAL level, giving
|
||
ALL Alliance members an opportunity to participate.
|
||
|
||
The Youth At Risk Program was designed as a community
|
||
intervention into the problem of juvenile delinquency. It was
|
||
begun in Oakland, California in 1982 in response to the demands
|
||
of an anguished community frustrated by its inablility to deal
|
||
with this problem. Since that time Youth At Risk Programs have
|
||
been conducted in cities across the U.S. with over 25 cities
|
||
currently participating. Youth At Risk offers a real prospect of
|
||
making a substantial impact on the problem of juvenile
|
||
delinquency in this country. Members of Net 520 are currently
|
||
dealing with the program based in the city of Newark, N.J.
|
||
|
||
The Breakthrough Foundation of San Francisco is the source of the
|
||
Youth At Risk Program. Breakthrough provides the professional
|
||
staff necessary to stage a program in each city and, over a 2
|
||
year period, trains about 350 volunteers in the skills required
|
||
to insure its success. In addition, the Breakthrough staff
|
||
actually conducts much of the hands-on work with the youths.
|
||
|
||
Each community's Youth At Risk Program is incorporated separately
|
||
from the Break through Foundation, allowing it to receive tax
|
||
deductible contributions directly. Each Youth At Risk Program
|
||
must raise the funds to pay Breakthrough for its services.
|
||
|
||
HOW THE PROGRAM WORKS
|
||
---------------------
|
||
|
||
There are approximately 85 youths in each Youth At Risk Program.
|
||
They are selected through a process of consultation with school
|
||
officials, probation officers, social workers and other community
|
||
professionals. No youth is forced to do the program. The one
|
||
overriding requirement for participation is the willingness to
|
||
have one's life turned around, to be open to new ideas and
|
||
alternatives. Each youth is made fully aware that this program
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 16 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
is tough and demanding and will require commitment and integrity
|
||
on his or her part. Few appreciate the full meaning of those
|
||
words until they begin the program.
|
||
|
||
THE 10 DAY COURSE
|
||
-----------------
|
||
|
||
The 10 Day Course is an intensive, rigorous experience for 85
|
||
youths at risk and 20 adult professionals in the youth services
|
||
field. The adult professionals actually participate in the couse
|
||
with the youths, creating a common experience that leads to
|
||
broadened communication and understanding. The 10 Day Course
|
||
takes place in a rural setting within a few hours driving
|
||
distance of the youths' community. During the Course
|
||
participants break throught the limitations they have imposed on
|
||
themselves and the judgements and attitudes they have formed
|
||
about each other. At the end of the 10 days both the youths and
|
||
the adult professionals, who work with the youths back in the
|
||
community, are fully aware of possibilities for their lives that
|
||
they had not previously seen.
|
||
|
||
THE FOLLOW THROUGH PROGRAM
|
||
--------------------------
|
||
|
||
Back at home the environment has not improved. Therefore, Follow
|
||
Through activities are specifically designed not only to
|
||
accelerate the breakthroughs achieved during the 10 Day Couse but
|
||
to do so in ways that are relevant to the reality of day-to day
|
||
life and to the issues the young people confront.
|
||
|
||
The Breakthrough Foundation, in partnership with local social
|
||
service agencies and supported by volunteers, manages the year-
|
||
long Follow Through Program. During the Follow Through each
|
||
participant, supported by an adult volunteer "committed
|
||
partner", works on personal and community service projects.
|
||
Special attention is paid to performance in school or on the job,
|
||
to family relationships, and to relationships with the juvenile
|
||
justice authorities. The youths attend monthly day-long group
|
||
meetings, led by Breakthrough staff, and are in communication
|
||
with their committed partners at least 3 times a week.
|
||
|
||
THE RESULTS
|
||
-----------
|
||
|
||
Who are these youth at risk? 61% of the applicants for the Youth
|
||
At Risk Program in cities across the U.S. reported that they had
|
||
been caught by the police committing a crime; 89% of these said
|
||
they would probably do it again; 33 had been shot, stabbed or
|
||
beaten people; almost all reported problems in school and at
|
||
home; 60% had used drugs.
|
||
|
||
Independent studies show that the Youth At Risk Program produces
|
||
dramatic results:
|
||
|
||
1. Truancy down 75%
|
||
2. Hours per week at work up 300%
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 17 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
3. Arrests down 50%
|
||
4. Substantial improvement in grades
|
||
5. Improved relations with parents and teachers
|
||
6. As reflected in standardized "locus of control" tests an
|
||
increased willingness to accept responsibility for their
|
||
own lives and a decreased tendency to blame others for
|
||
their problems.
|
||
7. Substantially reduced drug use.
|
||
|
||
To quote Connecticut Superior Court Judge Sidney Landau, "this is
|
||
the thing that really works. The results here are so good I
|
||
can't believe it. I've been in the criminal justice system for
|
||
30 years. I deal with an 85% recidivism rate in Bridgeport.
|
||
Here, it's more like 35%. People I tell this to in my business
|
||
say 'you're lying - it can't be true'. But it is."
|
||
|
||
THE COST
|
||
--------
|
||
|
||
It costs about $400,000 to fund EACH Youth At Risk Program. This
|
||
money goes for local operations (phone, stationary, electricity,
|
||
office rental, etc.), consultation services from the Breakthrough
|
||
Foundation (training volunteers in fundraising and program
|
||
organization), 10 Day site expenses, including compensation to
|
||
Breakthrough for the staff people who conduct the 10 Day Course,
|
||
and the year-long Follow Through Program. Donated goods and
|
||
services from local suppliers can substantially reduce this cost.
|
||
|
||
CONCLUSION
|
||
----------
|
||
|
||
The possibilities for Youth At Risk are exciting. Youth At Risk
|
||
Programs, done on an on-going basis, can have a considerable
|
||
impact on the quality of life, both for the participants and for
|
||
the community at large. These take support in monetary
|
||
donations, and in vounteer time to get these programs rolling.
|
||
I urge sysops everywhere to seek out the closest Youth At Risk
|
||
Program and contribute and volunteer, or if there isn't a program
|
||
locally, start one yourself!
|
||
|
||
Programs are underway in the following US cities: Albuquerque,
|
||
Atlanta, Boston, Bridgeport, Chicago, Chapel Hill, Dallas,
|
||
Denver, Detroit, Hartford, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Miami,
|
||
Minneapolis, Monterey, New Haven, New York, Newark, Philadelphia,
|
||
Phoenix, Portland, Rochester, San Jose, Seattle, San Antonio, San
|
||
Diego, Springfield (Mass), and Washington DC. For information, on
|
||
how to contact YAR in these cities, or start a program in your
|
||
own city, contact The Breakthrough Foundation at 1-800-669-0171.
|
||
|
||
Your local Youth At Risk organization will be happy to help you
|
||
to sponsor a youth in the program. On the average right now, it
|
||
takes about $3,000 per youth to put him (or her) through the
|
||
program. Multiply that by 85 youths, and you can see the type of
|
||
dollars this type of program needs to run. But I think you'll
|
||
agree that the results speak for themselves. It's worth it!
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 18 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
If you'd like to send a contribution, seek out your local YAR
|
||
program, or contributions can be sent to:
|
||
|
||
Newark Youth At Risk, Inc.
|
||
PO Box 32333
|
||
Newark, N.J. 07102
|
||
|
||
or call (201)687-0352
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
FidoNews 6-21 Page 19 22 May 1989
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
COLUMNS
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
The Veterinarian's Corner
|
||
Excerpts from the ANIMED GroupMail Conference
|
||
|
||
by Don Thomson, 1:102/1005
|
||
|
||
|
||
I think that it is time that pressure be brought to develop
|
||
alternative testing means for the cosmetic industry to screen
|
||
potential new products prior to marketing. As time as gone on,
|
||
medical science has been able to develop sensitive and relatively
|
||
sophisticated means for the detection of mutagenic potential of
|
||
compound in specialized bacterial cultures, rather than the
|
||
massive number of laboratory anmials once used for screening many
|
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food and pharmaceutical products for cancer causing potential
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(Ames Test). While this does not ELIMINATE the use of animals, it
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GREATLY reduces the number of animals utilized for the lower
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levels of the screening process.
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I believe that the use of some animals in medical research is a
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pragmatic necessity. I believe that we have the moral and ethical
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responsibility to use the fewest number of animals possible, in
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the most humane manner possible. We must continually search for
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alternative technologies and computer simlutations and
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extrapolations where appropriate.
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The realistic approach for today is somewhere in the middle of
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the discussion. Those crying for the immediate end to all use of
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animal models in research, ignore the fact that as of now in many
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cases there is no alternative means yet devised to obtain the
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needed information that ultimately is of a higher benefit to man.
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(Not sure that 'cosmetics' quite fits this bill....) Yet I have
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seen the definate move towards development of new technology,
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largely because of the mobilization of public opinion, first
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raised by those on these extreme views. The end result IS better.
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On the other hand, callous use of "such animals as rats, mice,
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and rabbits" [quote from cosmetic industry spokesperson] "is far
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less important than consumer safety issues," to me is a calloused
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view on the other side which demeans respect for 'non-human'
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animal life. I would rather hear the industry come to open
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examination of alternative means of irritant screening, rather
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than defensive posturing.
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I do not know of the specific types and choices we currently have
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in utilizing these alternative modalities, but I know that we are
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resourceful enough people that we can at least limit the extent
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of animal use, rather than continue to rely upon a crude biologic
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screen that has changed little over the last 45 years.
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Don Thomson, DVM
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1:102/1005
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9:871/16
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The Interrupt Stack
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5 Jun 1989
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David Dodell's 32nd Birthday
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2 Aug 1989
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Start of Galactic Hacker Party in Amsterdam, Holland. Contact
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Rop Gonggrijp at 2:280/1 for details.
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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24 Aug 1989
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FidoCon '89 starts at the Holiday Inn in San Jose,
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5 Oct 1989
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20th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
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11 Nov 1989
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A new area code forms in northern Illinois at 12:01 am.
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