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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 8 No. 46 (18 November 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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Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00US
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Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free!
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For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file.
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
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Editorial: Slog ............................................... 1
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2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
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Software Versions Update ...................................... 2
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A View from the Outside ....................................... 2
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Assorted Non-Backbone Echoes .................................. 4
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Announcing SEAmail version 1.01 ............................... 5
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Voice Mail For Fidonet Sysops ................................. 6
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The Brigadoon Village Network ................................. 7
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3. RANTS AND FLAMES .............................................. 8
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4. CLASSIFIEDS ................................................... 9
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5. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 10
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Latest Greatest Software Versions ............................. 10
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 1 18 Nov 1991
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Slog
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by Tom Jennings (1:1/1)
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This week, just tidbits. No flaming controversies (no I'm not
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complaining).
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-- ARTSPEC.DOC; I *lost* my copy of ARTSPEC.DOC! This absurd occurrence
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happened by having a number of "special" files slip through the cracks
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of my otherwise-robust backup scheme; I installed a new hard disk a week
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or two ago, and it simply didn't get copied. I have to rummage around in
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the net for another copy... sorry to all you filerequestors wasting
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nickels (quarters -- its 1991) on my system.
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-- THE INTERRUPT STACK; you may have noticed I dropped it. Two problems.
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One, bum information. OK, OK, area code 702 is already allocated, I find
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out. Two, I get requests for all sorts of silly insertions, like pet
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canarie's birthdays and such. Sorry! Maybe later I'll do something about
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it ("Don't do today what you can put off til tomorrow.")
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-- PROGRAM VERSIONS LIST; some of our sharper readers have noticed that
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BinkleyTerm, Fido/FidoNet, and other once-popular programs are no longer
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supported, and have entirely disappeared from use in the net. Or so you
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might think from reading the versions list. There has been a problem
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with the list-compiler, David French, getting mail within his net. He's
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since changed net numbers, and is now 1:103/250. I promise it will be
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fixed by next week. (For those of you taking this literally (my
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apologies to English-not-as-a-first-language readers, really)
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BinkleyTerm, Fido/FidoNet, and other programs missing from the list are
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still supported, and merely missing from the list.)
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-- FIDONET NET NEWS; an excellent idea for a regular FidoNews department
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that unfortunately hasn't happened. I can't recall who suggested it (a
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short article appeared along with it's first appearence. The idea was,
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items of "hard interest" to FidoNet sysops etc -- policy changes (sic),
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technical issues, etc, would appear there, so that people utterly
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offended by the rest of FidoSnooze could simply check the T of C, and
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see if there's anything of interest. Unfortunately, there's only been
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two entries in it that I can recall. As much as I like the concept, I
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will drop this "feature" unless someone starts send stuff to put in it.
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Well I guess that's all for this week. Ta.
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 2 18 Nov 1991
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ARTICLES
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Software Versions Update
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By David French, 1:103/250
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To inform you all of a very important change, this is why I have
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written.
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The Telegraph Station BBS, Home of the Comprehensive Version
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List, has changed it's FidoNet Node Number.
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The Old Number was 1:103/950
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The New Number is 1:103/250
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Please note that all update and addition requests for the version
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list must now be directed to 1:103/250, as 1:103/950 will be dropped
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from the nodelist, possibly by Friday(11/22).
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Please make a note of this!!!!!!!
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Thanks...
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David French, SysOp, 1:103/250
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A View from the Outside
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by Jonathan Guy, 1:116/33, 1:116/31
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A brief word of introduction: I have been modeming for 2 years, was a
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sysop about a quarter of that. (I'm not anymore) I read FidoNews on a
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fairly regular basis, and consider myself pretty conversant with the net
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and its "politics." This is about the third time I've actually sat down
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to write an article for FidoNews, and if you are reading this, I guess I
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finished it. The one thing I want to make clear in this article is
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basically that this net and its policies are ridiculous. This is not a
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flame and I hope no one will take it as such. Any group that can take a
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simple, reasonably enjoyable hobby and turn it into an accurate mirror
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of society to the point that it has it's own "power politics" has to be
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taking the whole business too far. In the time I've been involved in the
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net and modeming in general I've seen people threatened with expulsion
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for not taking their system down during ZMH, I've seen power hungry (as
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if there was any real power in the net at all) *Cs, and I've even seen
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(and even made a couple of times) complicated legal arguments on whether
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or not FidoNet policy allows handles, something that's been around much
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longer than the net. The basic problem with the system is the fact that
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you people have seemingly decided that in order to run this thing you
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have to have a system of rules that rivals that of most governments. So,
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having said all this, I have a few constructive comments to make.
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 3 18 Nov 1991
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First, and this will make quite a few people mad, eliminate Policy 4.
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Don't replace it with some quasi-legalistic WorldPol, you have that, or
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at least the beginnings of it, already. Just get rid of it. I am aware
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that this will cause problems. I am aware that this will create some
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unfair situations in places. Usenet has been living with this since
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before FidoNet was even thought of. The problem with creating something
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like the current Policy is that it forms a group that has, or at least
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is perceived to have, power over the rest of the group. The *Cs are, for
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the most part, a group of people that revel in having some kind of power
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over their peers. That is why they are *Cs. Eliminate Policy 4 and you
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eliminate the ruling class. If you have no policy and no Coordinator
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structure all you need is routing hubs. Wait!! Isn't that what the
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coordinator structure is supposed to be doing in the first place?
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Second, switch the focus of FidoNet from netmail to echomail. This is
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so obvious that I really don't know why no one's done it yet. I have
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never known some poor sysop to say "Hey, why don't I join FidoNet so I
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can send private messages to other sysops?" The only reason FidoNet has
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grown to it's current size is because of echomail, and yet the
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conferences still enjoy second-class status. Read Policy 4 very
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carefully. Did you ever notice that you can't exchange echomail during
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ZMH? Why not? How many people truly need an hour to exchange private
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messages? It would seem that the time would be much better spent
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transferring the stuff that the users (remember them?) actually read.
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Third, finally, and most important, stop taking yourselves so
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seriously!! I can't think of a single person whose livelihood depends on
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whether the netmail gets through, yet FidoNet has created an entire
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miniature society that judges a person's worth by how quickly they get
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the mail. (Think about it: who gets the mail first, you or your NC?)
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FidoNet is good. FidoNet is a decent hobby. FidoNet is a HOBBY. FidoNet
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is not, and should not be, the focus of someone's entire existence. In
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case someone's forgotten, the basic purpose of computer networks is to
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facilitate the quick spread of information. Don't you think that perhaps
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imposing a power structure and time restrictions on this spread reduces
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its speed? I'd imagine that 99% of all FidoNet sysops would be perfectly
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willing to dispense with all the extra baggage the head honchos of the
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net have added to this process if they could still get the echos.
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Unfortunately, if anyone passes a Fido echo to someone outside of the
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net they are themselves kicked out, forcing them to either try to rejoin
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or find someone else willing to give the "black market" echos. Black
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Market?? Aren't these supposed to be free? Isn't this an amateur
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network? This is just one example of the kind of thing FidoNet has done.
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If you restrict who reads the information you also restrict the feedback
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you can get on it. Which is more important, power or knowledge? Someone
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needs to rethink their priorities.
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Well, it's felt good to be on the soapbox for a bit. I hope something
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will come of this article, but I rather doubt it. I imagine those
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FidoNet sysops who actually bother to read this publication will simply
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say, "Oh, another nut who thinks he can make things better." Let me let
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those people in on a little secret: I CAN'T make things better. They
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can. Maybe the powers that ain't (the so-called "grunt sysops" of
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FidoNet) can find some sense buried within them. Stop complaining and do
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something. Try to remember why you joined this net. Were you looking for
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anything like what exists now? Were the people who started it looking
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 4 18 Nov 1991
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for this? If you are a mamber of the coordinator structure you may have
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been offended by this article. That's fine. Respond. Do it in a
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reasonable way, and don't flame me or someone who agrees with me. Most
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of all, think about it. Are you acting like the president of a bananna
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republic? If you are, should you be? Lest we forget, this is supposed to
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be fun.
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by Dave Aronson (Sysop, TIDMADT: 1:109/120; 18:712/200; 93:9310/0)
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Assorted Non-Backbone Echoes:
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Medieval group, Contracts, Frugality, etc.
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This article is basically an advertisement for several echoes that are not
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available on the backbone, that you might be interested in.
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First is the Medieval set, about the hobby of medieval re-creation. It
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includes Medieval, Bardic, Heralds, and rec.org.sca, plus a few regional
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("kingdom" and "barony" level) echoes. These will almost certainly NOT be
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going backbone, ever. The differences between them are that:
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- Medieval includes lots of chatter, etc. on all topics remotely related
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to medievalism. It caters to ALL such groups and individuals, including
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the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA), Medieval Studies and
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Re-creation (MSR, aka Kingdom of Acre), Markland Medieval Mercenary
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Militia, Dark Horde (both "New" and "Classic"), Dagorhir, Darkon, and so
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on, though the SCA is the largest influence. It allows (as the others do
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not) use of handles other than your regular login name; in fact, this is
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encouraged if your login name is not medieval-sounding. It is hubbed and
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moderated by myself, who started it in 1988 with Andrew Adler. The
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traffic averages 15 to 20 msgs/day, which includes traffic from GT-Net and
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WWIVnet. The latest list can be requested here as MED_LST.ARC.
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- rec.org.sca is much more scholarly and focused (irrelevant chatter is
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frowned upon). It is a newsgroup imported from Usenet. (Create dupe
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loops at your own peril!) As the name implies, it focuses on the Society
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for Creative Anachronism. It is moderated by someone in Usenet (details
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available on request). Traffic averages about 200-300 messages a week...
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but usually dumped all at once, due to a sporadic gateway.
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- Bardic is even more focused. It is a mailing list imported from
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Internet, about the "bardic arts", including composing and performing
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songs, stories, poems, and so forth. It is moderated by someone in
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Usenet. Traffic is nearly dead, perhaps one or two messages per week.
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- Heralds is also tightly focused. It is a fusion of a mailing list
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imported from Internet, and an echo that existed by itself before the
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fusion. It is about Heraldry, the study of "coats of arms" and such
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things, mainly as practiced in the SCA, but sometimes also in reality as
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well. (SCA heraldry is patterned mainly after 14th Century English
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heraldry, and heraldic practices from other times and places may vary
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widely.) It is moderated by someone in Usenet and Joe Bethancourt of
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114/29 (who started the echo about a year ago). Traffic averages about 4
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messages per day.
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 5 18 Nov 1991
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Since you must be "emailable" from Internet to participate in Internet
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mailing lists and newsgroups, only node numbers from networks that have
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arranged gating or forwarding of Internet mail may appear in these last
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three. As far as I know, that means only Fidonet (at least as far as
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Fidonet-style networks go).
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Next is the Contracts echo. This is intended to be for consultants and
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contractors, what Jobs-Now is for those looking for "regular" jobs. The
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SOLE acceptable postings are announcements of consulting or contracting
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openings, and announcements about the echo from the moderator (me). We
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currently have several nodes in the Washington DC area, one in Portland OR
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(105/54, Jobs BBS), one in Houston TX (106/1999, Radio Free Houston), and
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one in Harrisburg PA (270/711, M.A.R.C. Information System). It has
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information on contracts all over the world, mostly imported from the
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Usenet newsgroup misc.jobs.contract. If there is enough interest and
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traffic to justify it (currently averaging one to two messages per day),
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this one might go backbone.
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And finally, the Frugality echo. The name pretty much says it all. For
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those of you without a dictionary, that's "how to be cheap" but put more
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politely. It is moderated by its originator, Dot Hage (whom some of you
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may remember as Dot Falcon, of NERFFREE fame) at 109/530. Outside the
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Washington DC area (net 109), where it is distributed via the local
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backbone, the only other point I know of is in Hurricane WV. If there is
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enough interest and traffic (currently two to three messages per day),
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this one too might go backbone.
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Other interesting non-backbone echoes include Intertel (about that club),
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Ilians (a term designating members of Intertel; all may read, but only
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members may write in or carry the echo), and Mensans_Only (Mensans is a
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term meaning members of Mensa; the restrictions are analogous to those on
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Ilians), but my connection with those is slimmer and they are growing
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well, so I will leave their hyping to their moderators....
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I carry all of the above, and will hold them for anybody to pick up - I am
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HST and v.32 capable, and PC-Pursuitable.
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* Via Fido 1:109/144 12 Nov 91 02:07:53 (v12u)
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Thom Henderson
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System Enhancement Associates, Inc.
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Data: (201) 473-1991
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Voice: (201) 473-5153
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FAX: (201) 614-9605
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Announcing SEAmail version 1.01
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System Enhancement Associates, Inc. is pround to announce the
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availability of SEAmail version 1.01, the next generation of PC-based
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electronic mail. SEAmail is the end result of a two year development
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effort involving tens of thousands of manhours of design, development,
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and testing, delivering to you a superior product with features and
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performance unmatched by any other software. Where authors of other
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 6 18 Nov 1991
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products have declaired things to be impossible, SEA has achieved them
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anyway.
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Here are just a few of the advanced features provided by SEAmail:
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* Domain addressing with direct access to multiple domains. No more
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fussing with trying to paste together multiple node lists. Use
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them all directly and call anyone you want!
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* Automatic aliasing on messages and packets. Never again hear
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people complain about you using the wrong address on a message or
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on a call. SEAmail handles your addresses for you and
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automatically uses the right one.
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* Multiple session types (including Wazoo and FAX) under your direct
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control. Add new capability to your system!
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* On-the-fly incremental packing and integrated GroupMail
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processing. In-transit mail you receive can be repacked for
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delivery or pickup immediately.
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* Automatic grouping of multiple addresses. If you have messages
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for five different addresses that are all really the same person,
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they all go in one packet. If you've been told that can't be done
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without a special type of session, don't you believe it! SEAmail
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can do it in ANY type of session.
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* Enhanced security. Other software gives you "curmudgeon mode".
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SEAmail just starts there. With SEAmail you can require session
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passwords on all calls or just a few, you can use message
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encryption passwords to ensure the privacy of routed messages, and
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you can use Caller*ID to further enhance system security.
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* Multiple line and multiple modem support. Maximize your system
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availability and throughput by taking and placing calls on many
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phone lines at once!
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All this and more can be yours! We have redesigned network mail from
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the ground up to give you an electronic mail system with powers and
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abilities far beyond those of other systems. Don't believe people who
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tell you it can't be done -- watch SEAmail do it!
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Get SEAmail and see just how powerful a mail system can be!
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Voice mailboxes will soon be available for rent by Fidonet Sysops
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in the New York metropolitan area according to the Sysop of
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1:278/729.
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 7 18 Nov 1991
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The voice mail system allows each mailbox owner to remotely retrieve
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mail, change greetings, receive/forward faxes, forward messages,
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and greet callers in the owner's voice. In addition, outbound
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messages can also be initiated by the system.
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If you are a Fidonet Sysop in the New York area and wish to
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receive more information, contact the Sysop at 1;278/729 via email.
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Brigadoon Village Network
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This world's chill and damp and drear. Our plight
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Like Sisyphus to push uphill all day
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And stop to see it roll down and away.
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Each with our little secrets this cold night
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We weary, turn, then see a welcome sight:
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Of warmth and friendship - shelter for each stray -
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An open door and a safe place to stay.
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(Where Holly serves up drinks for free each night.)
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Come in and meet the crew - there's Max who's Mad,
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There's Rebel, Cherry, Woody, and Nitehawk,
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A Tiger (Black), two wolves called Z and Vlad,
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And many many others come to talk.
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To talk and share and laugh a little while,
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And chance a glance at J'mes to see him smile.
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For info on Brigadoon.
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FREQ: BRIGADOON
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Modem supported: USR HST DS
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V32bis V42bis
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From: 1:325/101.0 @FidoNet
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If you would like to try it first, then FREQ the magic name
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TRYBRIG which will get you NODELIST.TXT. (You don't need to
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FREQ this if you FREQ BRIGADOON)
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as always you can always call: 1-802-453-3316
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FidoNews 8-46 Page 8 18 Nov 1991
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RANTS AND FLAMES
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_(*#$_(*@#(* (*^$+)#(%&+| #$)%(&*#_$ @_#( @$
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^@#+)(#&%$*+)$%&*+$*%&#@(@#_|)*%|)#%&)#*%&+(@#&*_+(@#*^&@###
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*&#_($*&#$_(*#&$_(#*$&$ _(#$*#$+)#($&*+#)$ &#+$*&#
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()*&#$_(&^#$_(#*$_#($^&#_$(^&#_$(&^#$_(&#^ damn right _(#^&$_(#^&
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$*&#$_+(* #)$&(%($%+)($%*+$)%($* it's ugly _#&%^# &
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Kitten 1.01 BinkleyTerm 2.50* ARC 7.12
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SimplexBBS 1.04.02+ SEAmail 1.01@ EZPoint 2.1@
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FGroup 1.00@
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GROUP 2.23@
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LH2 2.11*
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MSG 4.2*
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MsgEd 2.06c*
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oMMM 1.52
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Omail 3.1
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Parselst 1.33*
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PolyXOS2 2.1a
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QSort 2.1
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Xenix/Unix 386
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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|Contact: Jon Hogan-uran 3:711/909, |
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|Willy Paine 1:343/15 or Eddy van Loo|
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Apple II
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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DDBBS + 8.0* Fruity Dog 2.0 deARC2e 2.1
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GBBS Pro 2.1 ProSel 8.70*
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ShrinkIt 3.30*
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Apple CP/M
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Macintosh
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Point System
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Software
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MacWoof 1.1
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Amiga
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DLG Pro. 0.96b TrapDoor 1.80 Areafix 1.48
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Falcon CBCS 1.00 AReceipt 1.5
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Paragon 2.082+ ChameleonEdit 0.11*
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Utilities GCChost 3.6b@
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Name Version MessageFilter 1.52
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NodeList Utilities -------------------- Message View 1.12@
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|Contact: Maximilian Hantsch 2:310/6|
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Atari ST/TT
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.5.1* Burep 1.1@
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QuickBBS/ST 1.04 Echoscan 1.10
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LHARC 2.01e
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UnJARST 2.00
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WhatArc 2.02
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Archimedes
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Tandy Color Computer 3 (OS-9 Level II)
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BBS Software Compression Utility Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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RiBBS 2.02 OS9ARC (Arc) 1.0 Ascan 1.2
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OS9ARC (Dearc) 1.0 AutoFRL 2.0
|
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DEARC CKARC 1.1
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UNZIP 3.10 EchoCheck 1.01
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FReq 2.5a
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LookNode 2.00
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ParseLST
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RList 1.03
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RTick 2.00
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Note: It is not our intent to list all utilities here, only those
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