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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 8 No. 22 (3 June 1991)
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The newsletter of the |
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FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
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/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
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/|oo \ | (415)-863-2739
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(_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1
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_`@/_ \ _ | Internet:
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| | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
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| (*) | \ )) |
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|__U__| / \// | Editors:
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_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
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(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
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(jm) |
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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amateur network. Copyright 1991, Fido Software. All rights reserved.
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Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
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only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews.
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(Refer to the end of this file for masthead and contact information.)
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
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Times they are achangin' ...................................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 4
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Zone-4 Election Results ....................................... 4
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New FidoNews article submission guidelines .................... 5
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WorldPol 2: Why??? ............................................ 10
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3. CLASSIFIEDS ................................................... 12
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4. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 14
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Latest Software Versions ...................................... 14
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5. NOTICES ....................................................... 19
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The Interrupt Stack ........................................... 19
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 1 3 Jun 1991
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EDITORIAL
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Times they are achangin'
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by Tom Jennings, Editor (1:1/1)
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As you may have noticed, Vince Perriello has stepped down from
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editorship of FidoNews. Tim Pozar & I have taken over as editors on
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pretty short notice. We are about to make some substantial changes we
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feel have been necessary for a long time. Some have already been
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implemented.
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The editorial policy was and still is "we publish anything". But what
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that meant was, on any subject. This is an unusual editorial policy,
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but one that I felt was important to the net back in 84 when this all
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started, and I think it is still important.
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In the intervening years, there were two major directions it could
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have gone; the "well we can't have *THAT* in there ..." "and *THAT*
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wasn't what was meant by..." which is the usual route. Then there's
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the way it *did* go -- the harder route of an open policy. It is to
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the great credit of all of the editors that they decided what they
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did.
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The phrase for the problem (which I just discovered a while back) is
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the "slippery slope". Once you start down it, there is no way to turn
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back and no way to tell when to stop.
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To make it crystal clear -- the "rule" that would keep out
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"controversial" christian articles would be the same "rule" that
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would prevent homo-anarchist articles (for instance :-) -- and
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eventually anything else not lowest-common-denominator.
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FidoNews is *not* an L.C.D. trade rag. It has no pretense towards an
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Industry newsletter. It is by and for FidoNet sysops, users and other
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people we consider "members", and I can tell you plain that FidoNet
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is not a monolith, the diversity is incredible and only our institu-
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tional policies prevents this from being clearer.
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FidoNews, like FidoNet, was an experiment, and I believe we can all be
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proud of it's success -- for all the flaming, ill will and trouble we
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go through, we have one of the most reliable, resilient and *fiercely
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independent* organizations on the planet. I wouldn't have it any other
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way! It is not supposed to be easy -- convenience is not a good goal.
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So the policy remains in effect with one change -- there is a minimal
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writing standard, for clarity, not content -- that articles must meet,
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to ensure that they are intelligible to someone other than its author.
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The article-submission guidelines file, ARTSPEC.DOC, has been revamped,
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and is included in this issue of FidoNews as an article. The various
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"departments" of FidoNews will also be changed. "Column" type articles
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are no more; you must submit each one separately. Notices, sale items
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and want-ads will be converted into a more general "classifieds"
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section in the near future.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 2 3 Jun 1991
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The format for FidoNews will change further. The current format is one
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of those things I did in 1984 that is today very puzzling -- an
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electronic newsletter designed to be copied to a printing device! It
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is nearly impossible to read online. It is wasteful of space, on both
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disk and printer. The left margin alone (now gone) accounted for 10%
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of its size. The tentative goal is to keep FidoNews under 100K bytes
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in size.
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We will be actively soliciting articles from people with interesting
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perspectives in FidoNet and the world beyond on issues and problems
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that face us as a network in the real world. Though we are
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accommodating access to/from other networks such as the Internet and
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uucp, FidoNews will remain 100% a FidoNet newsletter.
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Some time later this year, the format of FidoNews will be plain text
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without pagebreaks, long dash lines and formfeed characters. End-of-
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section markers will be ASCII characters. It will then be readable
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online. All computer systems today have a way to "pretty print" ASCII
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text files, so that is no longer a valid reason.
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Sorry for the terse editorial, we're under a severe time limit to
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learn the software, file conventions and to get an issue out on time.
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By next week things will be under more control, and we can get down to
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the business at hand -- communicating, instead of talking about the
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communications device!
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I guess you noticed that there are new names for the "Editors" on the
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Masthead. One you may recognize as the "papa" of this mess, Tom
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Jennings. Well, I'm the other name. My name may be associated with
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another mess, the linking of FidoNet to a network called UUCP and a
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conferencing system called USENET. (*)
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Which brings up the point of this essay. FidoNet users and sysops, for
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the most part, are not aware that there are other networks out there.
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We tend to be a bit ethnocentric in our views of the networking world.
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With the advent of gateways into other networks from RBBS-NET to non-
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fidonet based technologies like UUCP, USENET, and the Internet, we
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need to be more aware of other customs and technologies. (For example,
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not everyone can display the IBM-PC character set, or perhaps we
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should look at the method of our network addressing so it is easier to
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send and receive mail from these other networks. We'll look at these
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things in later issues.)
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To this end, we hope to include more articles that are not only
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related to FidoNet, but to networking and communications as a whole.
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This is not to say that FidoNews will loose it's FidoNet flavor, we
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just want to give the readership an idea on what else is out there,
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and include what Sysops and Users may have some interest in.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 3 3 Jun 1991
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For instance, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Inc.(EFF) is working
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to educate folks (lawyers, law enforcement, policy makers, sysops,
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hackers, and crackers) about the hysteria and misinformation that our
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government and law enforcement agencies seem to be going through and
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trying to spread about electronic communications. Our basic civil
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rights are being affected due to the ignorance of these agencies. The
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EFF is also supporting many of those affected by paying or helping
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with legal costs.
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On other subjects, how many know of the resources that are available
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via the Internet? There are a number of "News" services that can add
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value to your BBS. There are archives that will easily shadow the
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biggest FidoNet archive sites.
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We just can't hide our head in the sand with all of the potential that
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FidoNet can be, and the threats to FidoNet from the ill informed.
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Tim Pozar
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Fido: 1:125/555
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Internet: pozar@lns.com
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---
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* I'm not the only one to blame here. John Galvin, Garry Paxinos and I
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co-wrote the code, and a host of others like David Dodell and Randy
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Bush tested it.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 4 3 Jun 1991
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ARTICLES
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Buenos Aires, June 1 1991
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ZONE-4 ELECTION RESULTS
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Hi once again. This week, you will not hear me complain about
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anything. To the contrary, a few nice things have happened this
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week and among them there are two I would like to highlight.
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1. The return to the limelight of the founder of FidoNet, Tom
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Jennings. I, as well as all the sysops in my zone I was in touch
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with since the news arrived here, are very happy about it. I
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thank Vince Perriello for his work on FidoNews and for his
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continuous support and respect of freedom of expression.
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2. My resignation as Zone-4 Coordinator is effective with the
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upcoming NODEDIFF and the new ZC has been named today. Here is
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all the information on the election that ended yesterday:
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The Zone-4 democratic election of the new Zone Coordinator has
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ended yesterday. The three candidates to the position were
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Alejandro Hopkins from Temperley (Province of Buenos Aires,
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Argentina), Clovis Lacerda from Recife (State of Pernambuco,
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Brazil), and Gustavo Zacarias from Palermo (Federal Capital,
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Argentina).
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The election was done on a one-sysop-one-vote basis, having ALL
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of the sysops in the Zone the right to vote. The most encouraging
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ingredient of the election that has very much impressed me was
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the formidable level of participation: slightly over 80 percent
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of the Zone's sysops exercised with commendable responsibility
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their RIGHT to vote.
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The complete vote-by-vote results were published on the
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LATIN.SYSOP echomail conference. Here are the totals:
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Alejandro Hopkins received 1.59 percent of the votes
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Clovis Lacerda received 39.68 percent of the votes
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Gustavo Zacarias received 58.73 percent of the votes
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Therefore and according to the sysops' wishes, I proclaim Gustavo
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Zacarias the new Zone Coordinator for FidoNet in Latin America
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effective with the upcoming nodelist update. My thanks to all of
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the candidates and best wishes to the new ZC.
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It was for me a superb experience to pilot the Latin American
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zone during its first stage since foundation, and I would like to
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thank all of my zone's sysops for their continued support during
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the whole term.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 5 3 Jun 1991
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I hope that the upcoming years as a "grunt" sysop will be even
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more fun than the challenging stage now ending, and I will
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continue contributing to the goal of bringing the whole of Latin
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America online in FidoNet.
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Pablo Kleinman
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Retiring Zone-4 Coordinator
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New FidoNews article submission guidelines
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[The following are the new guidelines for writing articles for
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FidoNews. I believe this still meets the original intent
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of "we publish everything". It is however substantially shorter
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and covers more basic ground, and I think reflects the FidoNet
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network of 1991.
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It is a tribute to the original author that the overall document
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remains more or less intact, and most specifics are unchanged.
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Wording was changed for clarity and terseness, and the format
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changed to pure ASCII without printer-page formatting to
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accommodate the environment of today -- when it was originally
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written the network was nearly 100% IBM clones.
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-- Tom Jennings ]
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FidoNews Article Submission Guidelines
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FidoNet address 1:1/1
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Updated 29 May 1991 by Tom Jennings
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Based on the original work by Thom Henderson
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"Fido" and "FidoNet" are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings,
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Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and are used with
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permission.
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--------
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SYNOPSIS:
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FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network, its
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sysops and users. It is passed to its readers electronically via
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the FidoNet and other computer networks and to non-network
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readers as well.
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This document intends to tell you how to write and submit
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articles for publication in FidoNews. Much of it describes the
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technical specifications which an article must meet in order to
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be included in the newsletter, as well as broad (very) guidelines
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on content. (Of course you realize articles can be submitted only
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electronically.) Please read it carefully. The article you save
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might be your own.
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 6 3 Jun 1991
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INTRODUCTION:
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FidoNews was originally founded in early 1984 to include all
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parts of the lives of its member sysops and users, which of
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course means not just technical matters. We do not have fixed
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goals of maximum distribution or maximum readership (ie. lowest
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common denominator) but only to meet the needs of our individual
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network members. The success of this venture has always been
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contentious at best (ahem).
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In any case the grand experiment continues. Seven years later (at
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this writing) and nearly six doublings in size of the network,
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the editorial policy, or lack of one, of FidoNews has shown to
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best fit our ever-changing and unpredictable needs.
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SUBJECT MATTER:
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Articles on any subject of interest to FidoNet members and users
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are welcome and encouraged, not necessarily of a technical
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nature, though priority may be, but not necessarily, given to
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articles of importance to the FidoNet, its technology and its
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uses; other networks such as uucp and the Internet; social
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aspects of communications; ethical issues; other related matters.
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ARTICLE LENGTH:
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Try to keep articles short. The longer it is, the less likely
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people are to read it. Consider splitting long articles (more
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than five pages) into smaller articles to be run serially.
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Exceptions will be made at the whim of the editors.
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For practical reasons, we will attempt to keep FidoNews to a
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"reasonable size", which is of course a highly subjective and
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variable thing. As of May 1991, the goal is under 100,000 bytes.
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Decisions regarding content may be made based upon this, though
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in general it shouldn't be an issue.
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WRITING GUIDELINES:
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We are not all professional writers, nor is that even a goal for
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the FidoNews -- we want real communication to and from real
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people; even at the expense of so-called "good writing", which is
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frequently a tool to exclude. There are a few minimum
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requirements though for any successful writing, even for the
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lowly FidoNews:
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 7 3 Jun 1991
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* The subject discussed must clear to people other than the
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author! Don't assume that people will pickup the context from
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your writing. Tell them explicitly.
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* Why are you writing this? It may seem obvious -- "Review of the
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new Acme 75-baud Modem" -- but it's not. Are you the
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manufacturer? An irate customer? Let us know your point of
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view.
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* Who are you? A good question! Anonymity is acceptable, though
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most people want to take credit for their work. Include full
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contact information including electronic mail addresses.
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* Articles will appear when space becomes available, not
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necessarily the "next" issue. If your article is of a time-
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critical nature, please say so when you submit it; the editor
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still has final say.
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* The editor reserves the right to request changes from an author
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to meet these "standards", which you have to admit are pretty
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loose. It is not the intent for this to be a mechanism to
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refuse articles the editor does not like, but simply to keep
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the contents intelligible.
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* If we have a backlog of articles, we may get fussier about
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things. Historically this has not been a serious problem.
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SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
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If all that hasn't scared you away, the next step is to create a
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text file which contains the text of your article. The resulting
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file should be sent or uploaded to "FidoNews", FidoNet address
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1:1/1. The "physical" location (and phone number) of FidoNews
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varies, and hence must be found elsewhere, such as within a
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recent copy of FidoNews itself.
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Filenames must follow the MSDOS standard:
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FILENAME.TYP
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an 1 to 8 character file name (A - Z, 0 - 9)
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a period,
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a 0 to 3 character file type (A - Z, 0 - 9)
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File types are used to distinguish types of submissions, as
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follows:
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 8 3 Jun 1991
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.ART An article, commentary, open letter, or general news
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item.
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.AD "For Sale", "Wanted" or other advertisement.
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.NOT A notice for the back of the issue.
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If your file doesn't have one of the above extensions, then it
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will lay around taking up disk space until someone takes a look
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at it and realizes what it is. Maybe.
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The name of the file is up to you, though you should use a name
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which is not likely to be "stepped on" by someone else -- the
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system will not guarantee file names are unique. For example,
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FNEWS.ART is probably not a good name for an article.
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CHARACTER SETS:
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The character by character contents of the file itself must meet
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the following standards or it cannot be published in FidoNews.
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The FidoNews staff will not be responsible for making file
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contents conform to these standards.
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* FLUSH LEFT MARGIN: Please do not put a "left margin" on your
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articles. Have the text start at the very first column.
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* RIGHT MARGIN AT COLUMN 72 OR LESS: Less is tolerable, more is
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definitely not.
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* RAGGED-RIGHT TEXT: Word-Star style "justification" (inserting
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spaces into sentences so that a paragraph is perfectly rec-
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tangular) is extremely hard to read, and consumes needless space.
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Please don't use it!
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* NO FUNNY CHARACTERS: This includes formfeeds, returns without
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linefeeds, linefeeds without returns, tabs and other oddities.
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The only control codes (character codes 0 through 31 decimal)
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allowed are carriage return (CR) and linefeed (LF). The only
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exception is: Control-Z "end of file" terminator characters are
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tolerated. Not required.
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* NO GRAPHICS CHARACTERS: Believe it or not, not everyone in the
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world has an IBM PC. Please restrict yourself to printable
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ASCII characters in the range 20 hex to 7E hex (space to
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tilde).
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* LINES TERMINATED: Each line in the article should be terminated
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with a 'newline' -- either the MSDOS standard (CR/LF) or the
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unix standard (LF only).
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SUBMISSION FORMAT:
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Below is a sample article properly formatted. Features of it are
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discussed further below.
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* A Sample Article
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by Joe Schmoe
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This Is My Title
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And here is my article. Note that it is flush left (zero indent).
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Also note that the right margin is at column seventy so that it
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won't overflow "most" text windows. Each line has a newline. Note
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the *'ed first line. My article will be listed in the table of
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contents.
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Figure 1. Table 1.
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+-------+ ========
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| A Box | Alfa
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+-------+ Bravo
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Note that we am not using any funny-o characters. This ensures
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that the final article will look the same to every user, no
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matter what sort of hardware he has.
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This is the last sentence of our article.
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The first line of text is the Table of Contents line. It must
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begin with an asterisk * as shown above. If you do not, the
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article will not be listed in the table of contents.
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* Everything that follows the *'ed line will appear in the body
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of the newsletter.
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* Next should be the title or name of your article, your name,
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WorldPol 2: Why???
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Everyone knows that WorldPol was defeated: soundly. Me, I am glad
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because I voted against it. I voted such because it places undue
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"STUDY" WP as some of you have, but I did read enough to know that I
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didn't like it. I stopped reading in the section about how a Net is
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1) Policy 4 is adequate and right in its definition of how a Net is
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formed: geographical. The whole section is geared totally around the
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sysop and against the NC. The sysop can be part of any net he desires,
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but the NC MUST take all comers within 10 days. I can hardly find
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anything more political than that. If the sysop doesn't like the NC, he
|
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goes elsewhere, to spite the NC. You also promote "My net is better
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than your net" with defections, people trying to "win" other nodes.
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Policy 4 DOES work. By making a geographical boundary mandatory you
|
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remove all politics and that's the why it should be. I can't imagine
|
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why anyone would want more.
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2) Why should sysops have the right to vote on an NC? I am a Net
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Coordinator. Why? Because I'm stable. Not because I made friends,
|
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promises, or comments about the previous NC, but because I will be here
|
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next week and next year. I am fair and I am apolitical. I removed my
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NEC (a close friend) and his node when he refused to abide by Echopol
|
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and restored his node when he agreed...he is still my NEC. A local
|
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sysop that I am at total odds with is contemplating joining our
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community. While we rarely see eye-to-eye, I eagerly await his node
|
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request and will treat him with courtesy and respect. THAT is why I am
|
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the Net Coordinator. The policies of WP would have some NC's attempting
|
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to deny nodes to those who might vote him out, or may try to
|
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excommunicate a sysop who is rousing the rabble. No, elections aren't
|
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the way.
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For that matter, WorldPol isn't the way. The people have spoken. LET
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IT DIE! I will NEVER *EVER* vote for WorldPol in its current form or
|
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any other form that neuters the NC. How many times must we be subjected
|
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to a small group that will never give up on the same old work? Give me
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Liberty, give me Death, but don't EVER give me WorldPol!
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ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!
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"I don't want to hear about it anymore..."
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Damn Yankees
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Chris Estep
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NC, 1:2204
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I'm happy to "announce" that through the efforts of a few
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persistant and vociferous sysops, we've managed to convince
|
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the makers of a new Peer-to-Peer network OS to offer a special
|
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price on a 2-user version for BBS sysops. I have been using the
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WEB Network for over 6 months to run a 2-node system, and it
|
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is the easiest and most reliable small network I have seen.
|
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(this from someone who supports Novell for a large company)
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The following is the text of their "press release" describing
|
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the sysop deal, and details on getting the full info file.
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If you'ld like more info, or an online look-see at a working
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system, feel free to contact me on Wolf's Moon BBS and I will
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|
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see the whole thing in action. I have also negotiated some good
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deals on ARCNET network cards to use with the WEB system, which
|
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will get you up and running for under $250 total; and the
|
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results a quite well worth it.
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===============================================
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NETWORK YOUR BBS FOR $99
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WEBCORP, the leader in peer-to-peer networking, announces the
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|
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|
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The WEB Network Operating System makes it possible to:
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|
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To participate in WEBCORP's SYSOP Network Promotion and qualify
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FidoNews 8-22 Page 13 3 Jun 1991
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download "WEBSYSOP.EXE" from:
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Download or FreQ "WEBSYSOP.EXE"
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Wolf's Moon BBS: 207-772-9093 (300-2400 baud)
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207-773-5791 (2400-19.2 HST)
|
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Fidonet Node 1:326/211
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Or you can contact WEBCORP, 3000 Bridgeway, Sausalito, CA 94965
|
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(Phone) 415/331-1449, Attention: SYSOP Coordinator
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ACT NOW!, This program is valid through 8/15/91
|
||
|
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============================================
|
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|
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IF you're interested in seeing the features without the
|
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online time, download or FreQ "WEBDEMO.EXE" for a good
|
||
informative screenshow demo, or leave netmail for
|
||
Michael Martell on Wolf's Moon - 1:326/211
|
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The Interrupt Stack
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15 Aug 1991
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8 Sep 1991
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7 Oct 1991
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties will begin
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using area code 510. This includes Oakland, Concord, Berkeley and
|
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Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo, Marin, parts of Santa Clara County,
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and the San Francisco Bay Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Nov 1991
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Area code 301 will split. Area code 410 will consist of the
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northeastern part of Maryland, as well as the eastern shore. This will
|
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include Baltimore and the surrounding area. Area 301 will include
|
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southern and western parts of the state, including the areas around
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Washington DC. Area 410 phones will answer to calls to area 301 until
|
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November, 1992.
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1 Feb 1992
|
||
Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and eastern
|
||
portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area code 310. This
|
||
includes Los Angeles International Airport, West Los Angeles, San
|
||
Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding communities
|
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(such as Hollywood and 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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