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Volume 8, Number 3 21 January 1991
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1991, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the Members of the
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FidoNet (r) International Amateur Electronic Mail System. It is
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a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors
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or authorized agents of the authors. The contribution of articles
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to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors.
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You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. 1:1/1 is a Continuous
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Mail system, available for network mail 24 hours a day.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are
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used with permission.
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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and are not necessarily those of the Editor or of Fido Software.
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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So, how about them Giants? ............................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
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War in the Gulf .......................................... 3
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Just a quickie ........................................... 5
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 7
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 7
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 12
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 12
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 1 21 Jan 1991
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EDITORIAL
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For those of you who objected to last week's editorial: you
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are a minority (or at least you're a minority of those messages
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I received). But your point is well taken. I'll try to keep
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these outbursts to a minimum.
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It's sort of funny, though. There are really no particular
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restrictions on subject matter in FidoNews articles. The
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objections I heard seemed to suggest that the Editor has to
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apply restrictions to his(her) own contributions that nobody
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else need be concerned with.
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Balderdash.
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Let me tell you what I did today. I watched two football games on
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my projection TV system, fully enjoying the effects of Dolby
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Surround in each case. I played about 10 games of pinball down in
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the basement. I took the family out to dinner. I moved a bunch of
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files from a scragged Rainbow to one of my clones over a serial
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line. I watched coverage of you-know-what on CNN.
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What does all that have to do with FidoNet? Nothing and
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everything.
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You see, there was really no particular relationship between what
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I did and the technical aspects of operating a FidoNet node. So
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it is logical to assume that there was no relationship between
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today's activities and FidoNet.
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However, in the new social manifestation of FidoNet, the person
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who sits behind the keyboard is an integral part of the network.
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The contribution made to the network by this person is a function
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of everything that person experiences and performs. This leads to
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a logical conclusion that there is a relationship between my trip
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to Chili's with the kids and FidoNet.
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Last week, this tension in the Persian Gulf was occupying my
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mind. I was pissed off that things had reached the stage where
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war was inevitable. I needed to get it off my chest. I did so.
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An amazing number of people shared my feelings and many of them
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indicated that my core dump had been helpful to their own thought
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process.
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When I was finished, I felt better. So did others. I made a
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positive contribution. That makes me feel even more better.
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Perhaps a few of you media critics could try writing the perfect
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article. It would sure be a gas to see someone in FidoNet win a
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Pulitzer Prize. It should be easy. Your only real competition
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would be some war correspondent, and who cares about wars anyway?
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 2 21 Jan 1991
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 3 21 Jan 1991
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ARTICLES
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Dirk Pitt
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FidoNet 1:120/224
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Your Leader or Your Oil
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Wedneday, Jan. 16, 1991. I had just finished the readings for a
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Political Science course on International Relations. Scanning
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through the channels on the vcr I hit CFPL and see they are
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transmitting the live feed from CNN about something from Iraq.
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Wait a minute, it's 7:37pm. Why is CFPL running a feed from CNN
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in prime time? Better switch over to CNN and see what's
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happening. In a lightning swift move, US President George Bush
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has launched an allied air strike on Iraq, and CNN, the little
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network that grew, is the only US or Canadian network that is
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transmitting live. For the next three and a half hours I sit
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and watch what seems to be a very one sided battle. As I go
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to sleep, wondering what is going to happen while I sleep, I
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can't help but think that I should have filled up my car's gas
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tank as the price of oil is likely to go through the roof when
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the stock exchanges open.
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Thursday, Jan. 17, 1991. The hike in the price of oil that all
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the bankers and analists have been forcasting should war erupt
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never happens, but the price of Light-Sweet Crude (the U.S.
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Benchmark crude) has hit a low that only existed before Iraq's
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leader Saddam Hussain moved to illegally annex neighboring
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Kuwait. And the NYSE rises over 100 points. What's going on
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here? From what I can piece together, it looks like Iraq,
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Kuwait, and/or Saudi Arabia will now have a permanent U.S.
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millitary presence, be it in the form of bases to "protect" the
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oil wells in Saudi Arabia or Kuwait, or a multi-national
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occupation force will move into Iraq, dividing it into zones
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similiar to what happened to Berlin after WWII.
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Finally, almost 24 hours after the initial allied air attack on
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Iraq, some of the missles that escaped destruction have been
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fired at Israel. What launching missles at Israel will
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accomplish, has yet to be discovered. Israel did not take part
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in the initial attack, but has been singled out as the first
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nation to be attacked in retaliation. Given the current
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feelings between the Arabs and the Jews, Saddam may have just
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signed his own death warrant. Israel has repetedly demonstrated
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that it can and will defend itself.
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Now that conflict has begun, we can only hope that it will be
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over soon, and not plunge us into WWIII and/or a religious war
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composed of people of the Arabic faith vs. most other faiths.
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 4 21 Jan 1991
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 5 21 Jan 1991
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Garth Kidd
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3:680/828
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profuse apologies
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=================
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Apologies if the formatting on this one is bad, but I'm doing it
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by hand in FroDo. I may even take the time to do it properly
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later, but since it's just a short one...
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on with the story...
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====================
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... in any case, on with the story. As far as non-geographical
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nets are concerned: they're really not needed. There is NOTHING
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in POLICY4 that says you can't get your echomail from whoever
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you want. So, you can get your feed from the net next door if
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you like, and all you have to do is poll your real host every
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now and again to pick up your routed netmail.
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Seeing as the main reason people want to switch nets is to do
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with echomail distribution in some way or another, that little
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realisation should fix quite a few problems.
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Why am I bringing this up? Well, as it was pointed out to me:
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> Giving people a choice of which net they can belong to
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> makes it a social choice, and once a group gets together
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> they can just as easily 'socially choose' to not have you
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> in their net.
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Now, there could be ways in which you could restrict this kind
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of thing happening under a new POLICY (like WORLDPOL), but it
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seems to me that it'd be mightily unwieldy. By the way, the
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worry about this kind of thing happening isn't just opinion --
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it's happening, live. Here's a simplified version of what's
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happening in one area of FidoNet. It's not arranged on the
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ol' geographical boundary system, and...
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> What would you say if, in your area of FidoNet, you had
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> two choices:
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> 1) Run a specific type of machine, 24-hours-a-day only, and
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> pay membership fees to a non-FidoNet-related club and honour
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> that club's rules/decisions about how you run your board.
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> 2) Run in an alternative independent network where you are
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> forced to pay _heavy_ contributions to the net's echomail
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> bill whether you take any or not, and operate under a local
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> policy (which you must sign) which forbids you complaining
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> outside the net without first going before the net's
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 6 21 Jan 1991
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> "committee". (Among many other restrictions . . .)
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Now, I don't know about you, but that sounds pretty worrying to
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me, especially as I really can see that kind of thing happening
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in many areas of Australia, said areas already having shown
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some pretty spectacular displays of applied politics and in-
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fighting.
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The POLICY4 we're all so "fond" of is quite explicit about what
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you have to do to join FidoNet. It's nice to know that if I move
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house, I'm not going to get locked out of the local network
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because of a personality conflict with my new area's host.
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As before, I'm just throwing stuff around to stir debate. Whilst
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WORLDPOL may be better than POLICY4 in a lot of respects, it's
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not perfect yet, and I'd hate to make a hasty decision on the
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matter.
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gk
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post script
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===========
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PS. I love mail. If \ANYONE\ has any comments to make, send 'em
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in to me! International crashmail is not required -- nor would
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it work (me being a -pvt- node and all). The zonegate, on the
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other hand, seems to be functioning perfectly. Once it hits
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there, the beautifully efficient netmail routing we have here
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in ZONE 3 will get your message to me with loving care.
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Now, the amusing bit -- I leave for the big end of RG50 in a few
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days, and will be there for a couple of weeks. Don't expect any
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huge numbers of replies until then. Sorry.
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 7 21 Jan 1991
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=================================================================
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LATEST VERSIONS
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=================================================================
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Latest Software Versions
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MS-DOS Systems
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Bulletin Board Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
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GSBBS 3.01 RBBS 17.3A TComm/TCommNet 3.4
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Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
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Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
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Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.55
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Opus 1.14+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
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PCBoard 14.5 XBBS 1.15
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Network Node List Other
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Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
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BinkleyTerm 2.40 EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
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Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
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FrontDoor 1.99c Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
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SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 DOMAIN 1.42
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TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 EMM 2.02
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XlaxNode 2.35 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18
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Gmail 2.05
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GROUP 2.16
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GUS 1.30
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HeadEdit 1.15
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InterPCB 1.31
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LHARC 1.13
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MSG 4.1
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MSGED 2.06
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MSGTOSS 1.3
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Oliver 1.0a
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
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QM 1.0
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QSORT 4.03
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Sirius 1.0x
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SLMAIL 1.36
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StarLink 1.01
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TagMail 2.41
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TCOMMail 2.2
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Telemail 1.27
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TMail 1.15
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TPBNetEd 3.2
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TosScan 1.00
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UFGATE 1.03
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XRS 4.00*
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XST 2.2
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ZmailH 1.14
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OS/2 Systems
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
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ConfMail 4.00
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EchoStat 6.0
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oMMM 1.52
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Omail 3.1
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MsgEd 2.06
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MsgLink 1.0C
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MsgNum 4.14
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LH2 0.50
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
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ARC2 6.00
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PolyXARC 2.00
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Qsort 2.1
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Raid 1.0
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Remapper 1.2
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Tick 2.0
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VPurge 2.07
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Xenix/Unix
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BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
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ARC 5.21
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ParseLst 1.30b
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ConfMail 3.31b
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Ommm 1.40b
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Msged 1.99b
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Zoo 2.01
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C-Lharc 1.00
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Omail 1.00b
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 9 21 Jan 1991
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Apple CP/M
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
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MsgUtil 2.5
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PackUser v4
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Filer v2-D
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UNARC.COM 1.20
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Macintosh
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---------
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
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Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
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WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.33
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Hermes 1.01 StuffIt Classic 1.6
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FBBS 0.91 Compactor 1.21
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TImport 1.92
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TExport 1.92
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Timestamp 1.6
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Tset 1.3
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Import 3.2
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Export 3.21
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Sundial 3.2
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PreStamp 3.2
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OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
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Mantissa 3.21
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Zenith 1.5
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Eventmeister 1.0
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TSort 1.0
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Mehitable 2.0
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UNZIP 1.02c
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Amiga
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Paragon 2.082+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
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TransAmiga 1.05 TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
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ConfMail 1.10
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ChameleonEdit 0.10
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ElectricHerald1.66
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Lharc 1.30
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MessageFilter 1.52
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oMMM 1.49b
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ParseLst 1.30
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PkAX 1.00
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
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PolyxAmy 2.02
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RMB 1.30
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RoboWriter 1.02
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Skyparse 2.30
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TrapList 1.12
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Yuck! 1.61
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Zippy (Unzip) 1.25
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Zoo 2.01
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Atari ST
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--------
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Bulletin Board Network Node List
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Software Version Mailer Version Utilities Version
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.11* BinkleyTerm 2.40jt ParseList 1.30
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 The BOX 1.20 Xlist 1.12
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Pandora BBS 2.41c EchoFix 1.20
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GS Point 0.61
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LED ST 1.00
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MSGED 1.96S
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Archiver Msg Format Other
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Utilities Version Converters Version Utilities Version
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LHARC 0.60 TB2BINK 1.00 ConfMail 4.03*
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ARC 6.02 BINK2TB 1.00 ComScan 1.02
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PKUNZIP 1.10 FiFo 2.12* Import 1.14
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OMMM 1.40
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Pack 1.00
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FastPack 1.20
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||
FDsysgen 2.16*
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FDrenum 2.10
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Trenum 0.10
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Archimedes
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 11 21 Jan 1991
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
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ARC 1.03
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!Spark 2.00d
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ParseLst 1.30
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BatchPacker 1.00
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+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 8-03 Page 12 21 Jan 1991
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NOTICES
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=================================================================
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The Interrupt Stack
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16 Feb 1991
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Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
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30 Mar 1991
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Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
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years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
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"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
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12 May 1991
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Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
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second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
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8 Sep 1991
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25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
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7 Oct 1991
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
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Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
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Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
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Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Feb 1992
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
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eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
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code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
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West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
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Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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1 Dec 1993
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Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
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5 Jun 1997
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David Dodell's 40th Birthday
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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