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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 13 (30 March 1992)
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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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|__U__| / \// | Editors:
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_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
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(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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amateur network. Copyright 1992, 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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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: Excuses, and me, me, me ............................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 3
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More Thoughts on Aliases ...................................... 3
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A Point of View ............................................... 4
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EFF Announces Pioneer Award Winners ........................... 7
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Adventures in BBSing: OS/2 Conversion ......................... 8
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So this is goodbye ............................................ 11
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International FTN Registry .................................... 12
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The PDN changes hands ......................................... 14
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CAPNet -- The Civil Air Patrol Network ........................ 15
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GUITAR Echo Conference ........................................ 16
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3. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 18
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Software List ................................................. 18
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4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 24
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 1 30 Mar 1992
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Excuses, and me, me, me.
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by Tom Jennings (1:1/1)
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-- Sheesh. I have a really good excuse. I'm working a (contract) job
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that works me AM to PM every day. Building radio station studios. On
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Friday we worked from 1030AM til 2AM. Station went on the air in the
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new location 1:05AM Friday night with the briefest >CLICK< as the
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audio was flipped from dedicated telco to microwave at the new site.
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It's now Sunday, 0230AM. I've been at this miserable TV set thing
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reading blurry files.
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-- I only outed Wynn Wagner III because he threatened to out me if I
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didn't. OK, that's fine. However I called him Wymm or something, and
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forgot to tell you he's the original author of OPUS. (Some sort of BBS
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program, I'm told. Ever heard of it? :-) (Same excuse as this week.)
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(BTW, OPUS has generated over $50,000 in donations to Shanti, the AIDS
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caregiving organization here in San Francisco. Not too shabby...)
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-- My aforementioned little excursion last editorial has generated
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some fun messages. Since it's off in a tangential direction, you'll
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have to filerequest "GAYNOISE" from 1:1/1 (or manual download from my
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BBS, +1-415-863-2739/HST).
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-- I seem to have won a terribly flattering award. I feel funny
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writing about my own award (seems a bit self-serving, no?!) but no one
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else has! I've included the EFF's announcement in this issue. It
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includes all the details. Suffice to say it's because of this
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troublemaking network of ours.
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I really, truly am moved by getting this award. Really. How can I
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explain from here? See, most of my electronic communications is quite
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well removed from my daily life. I have some rather specific views on
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communications, not surprisingly I suppose, and this electronic stuff
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is of below-par human-type bandwidth. Not even as good as a telephone
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in ways that matter. Yet I see it as important. Worth an essay or two
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by itself. Partly, it's simply out of the question for most people,
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including the ones I want to talk with, to spend $1000 on any one
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thing. Besides the cultural aspect to access to technology. Etc.
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So I don't see a lot of what goes on (probably just as well). I don't
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have a regular job, never mind a Silicon Valley type job, nor do I
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want one. I have serious issues around even what's considered normal.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 2 30 Mar 1992
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So not only do I get caught off guard, my personal life/context
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doesn't translate to a line of ASCII encoded text. I *can* explain it
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(though I usually don't need to) to the people I live with, so I know
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I'm not crazy (the non-functional kind anyways).
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So when talking to John Barlow about the award itself (a beautiful
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octagonal lucite tower with black base and small plaque), he said,
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half jokingly, it was thought I wouldn't like it or something, since
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when I received the plaque at FIDOCON'91 I was kinda grimacing or
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something.
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Just in case I really did give that impression -- my most sincere
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apologies to my hosts, both FIDOCON'91 and CFPC! Most likely my
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nervousness with the whole public event thing leaked out. Oh well.
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Maybe later, when this job is over, I'll write about the Computers,
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Freedom and Privacy Conference (which is where the awards were
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presented). The next CFPC will be in San Francisco. I believe I've
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volunteered to be on the Steering Committee or something. Hmm.
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Anyways, it will probably be as great as this last one. Mark your
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calendar for March 93...
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-- Could the person who sent FIDOCONX.ART please try again. The file
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you sent me was some odd word-processor format, WORD or MULTIMATE or
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something. Plain ASCII only please...
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 3 30 Mar 1992
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ARTICLES
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When is a Alias Not an Alias? Can YOU Tell?
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by Donna.
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1:114/113.11
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With the alias feeding frenzy that's happening around FidoNet and the
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Snooze lately, I'm finally fired up enough to say something about the
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subject myself!
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Some very good points have already been made by the previous authors
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of Snooze articles on the topic of handles (Mahatma Kane Jeeves and
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David Lescohier on general privacy, Brad Meyers on recovery-type
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privacy, Donald Tees on female privacy). In that latter article,
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Donald Tees entered a sentence which I'd like to expand on here: "Why
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on earth does the die-hard anti-alias person assume that John Smith is
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not really Janet Smith."
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I've been "with" FidoNet since the days when Fido was the only BBS
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package around for connection to the net, since the days when most BBS
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software required two names of its users. The software is more
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flexible now, though, so I can just be me, and I've been more active
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in the past few years. Only in the middle of this alias paranoia,
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that's getting harder and harder to do.
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I've already voluntarily chosen to leave a local echo when the
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moderator requested me to just make up a last name to appease the
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locals who used ridiculing my name as a way to avoid debate. There's
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the possibility that I might soon be asked to leave a backbone echo
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because the moderators' rules insist on more names than I have.
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Yet for all the people who are willing to lump me in with the group of
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Evil Alias/Handle Users, NOT ONCE has anyone ever deigned to merely
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ASK if I am using an alias! It is generally assumed that, since I do
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not conform to the conventional naming standard, I must be using an
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alias.
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It's the lack of "benefit of the doubt" which suggests to me that
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what's happening to people with "aliases" is simply the FidoNet
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version of McCarthy's days of communist hunting. It seems that,
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increasingly, the FidoNet community is less willing to judge a user on
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what the user says and more willing to judge the user by the user's
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name. In recent months I've seen Native Americans (Indians) harassed
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simply because their names don't conform to Columbus's White America's
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naming convention. About a year ago, my husband was descended upon by
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nearly an entire echo simply because his name was similar enough to
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the names thought to be used by a certain "undesireable"; our REC was
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ordered to cut our links to the echo, and the
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then-soon-to-be-moderator threatened the FCC on us, all for the
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(wrong) assumption made over a name!
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 4 30 Mar 1992
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No doubt some readers are thinking of a moderator's right to limit the
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names of the users participating in that moderator's echo. I agree
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with this right, BTW, even though "vote with your feet" is more of a
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joke than an option when the backbone's a virtual monopoly. I just
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wonder if some people ever sit back and think about how silly such
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presumptions over names really are. As Donald Tees said, "Why on
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earth does the die-hard anti-alias person assume that John Smith is
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not really Janet Smith." Why, indeed? I could, I suppose, call
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myself "Donna Smith" and get by these name restrictions, but I'm not
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sure I care to be dishonest like that. At best, I find it highly
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ironic that a system which is designed to *keep* people honest is
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insisting that I lie in order to be a member of the system!
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My experience as being a point
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by Charles Buchanan 1:3812/10.6
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I've seen a few things in messages back and forth about the Fidonet
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nodelist, the size of it, who should be in it, etc. I've also seen a
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few comments about who should be able to FREQ from systems and who
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should not be able to FREQ from systems. So since I'm a point, I
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would like to tell you a few things from my 'point of view'.
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Being a point for me seems to have just about all of the advantages
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of being a sysop without all of the headaches associated with it. My
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setup is Frontdoor 2.02, Fastecho 1.00, and Golded 2.31. Now with
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this setup, I've been asked by a few people "Why do you have all of
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that if you are just a point ?". Well actually I guess all I 'need'
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is Frontdoor. With Frontdoor I can call my bossnode, get my mail,
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read it, reply to it, and send it back. But I still need a mail
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tosser. The FM message reader in Frontdoor is good but sometimes I
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need a little more flexability on the flags and Golded gives me these
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extra features.
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I used to call in to my local BBS as a regular user with Qmodem,
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download a mailbag in the XRS door, read/reply offline, and then
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upload it back to BBS in the XRS door. After a while, the sysop gave
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me my own point address and suggested that I use Frontdoor, Binkley,
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or someting else as a mailer. So I setup Frontdoor since everybody in
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my area uses it except for one BBS. So I got plenty of help setting
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it up. But after I got it setup, I then found out that I needed a
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mail tosser. Since again most of the sysops in my area were using
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Imail, that is what I setup. Then I started looking around at
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readers. I liked the way that XRS showed me all of my mail first
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before it went to other mail. I used XRS and XCS and FDRC for awhile
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but it was still a bit of a headache going through all the
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conversions and all the different programs I needed. So I looked at
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Golded as my reader and I liked it very much.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 5 30 Mar 1992
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But back to why I like being setup as a point. As a point, I can send
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and write netmail to people all over the world and it just tags along
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with the echomail. Most of the time my messages are quite small and I
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don't use netmail all of the time. My boss node was extremely
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supportive in this aspect.
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My boss node also passes echos through to me that he doesn't carry on
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his BBS. I only get a few that he doesn't carry and they are mainly
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of interest to me rather than the general public. One of them that I
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get is called POINTS. This is an echo where people who are setup as
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points like myself can discuss setups, problems, programs, and other
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things associated with being a point. If I called into the BBS as a
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regular user, I would not see this echo (or need it) since I would
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not be a point. So my boss node set it up for me to get this echo and
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I'm very appreciative of this.
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Now another area of concern is the ability to get files which I can't
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find locally. As a BBS user, you really don't have too many choices.
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If your local BBS doesn't have the file, you really have about 4
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choices :
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1) Ask in one of the echos if someone knows where it is.
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2) Call the BBS that has it and download it.
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3) Ask your sysop to get it for you.
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4) Do without the file.
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With Frontdoor setup, I'm able to do a FREQ from another system and
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not bother my local sysop by begging him to get it. Some systems
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don't allow FREQ from someone who is not in the nodelist. So then I
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need to ask my local sysop to get the file. I'm still not real sure
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about why a system won't allow a FREQ from someone who is not in the
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nodelist. I understand that some sysops feel that FREQ should be only
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from one sysop to another and not be used by the general public. From
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my 'point of view', a FREQ saves time, money, and diskspace for all
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concerned. Now suppose I find a file that I want but the system won't
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let me FREQ from him. Then I have to call with my comm program, go
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through the log-on, register as a new user, and hope I still have
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enough time to get the file. Also, I might have to wait for a call back
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verifier which is more time wasted. Now I've been on his BBS for
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around 5 minutes already and haven't accomplished anything. I've also
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been calling long distance so there is a bit of money involved. If he
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calls back, then I have to make sure I'm waiting for the call which
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might not come until the wee hours of the morning since it is long
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distance.
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But now I'm registered on his BBS. I probably will not call
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it again and he has me listed as a user. This now wastes his
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diskspace with all of my background info. If I was able to do the
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FREQ to start with, I would have tied up his BBS for just the time it
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takes to get the file and then I would be off. He also would not have
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me listed as a user and would not need to use a call back verifier.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 6 30 Mar 1992
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Now if systems want to allow people who are only in the nodelist to
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be able to FREQ, then it is asking that the nodelist will contain
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alot more nodes in it just so people will have the ability to FREQ. I
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see this as very impractical. This is just asking for the nodelist to
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grow to an even greater proportion which is really not needed. I
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don't need to be listed in the nodelist as I do not operate a BBS and
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nobody needs to call me.
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The sysops in my area are extremely helpful and I understand that
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this an exception rather than the rule.
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Mike Ernst at 1:3812/215 set me as a point off of his system to begin
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with and I thank him very much for all of the help he has given me.
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He introduced me to the world of echomail and BBSing in general. He
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has given me the latitude to send and receive netmail and echos
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through his system. His BBS is geared towards mail so he showed me
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all about how to use the message readers and such. I switched from
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1:3812/215 to 1:3812/10 to relieve some of the burdon from Mike
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Ernst. He never asked me to switch and told me that I was welcome to
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point off of him. Mike is the feed to our area as well as to other
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areas. He has quite a bit of traffic going in and out of his system.
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So since I'm 2400, I switched over to another boss node so I would
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not tie up his system when I really did not need to.
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My new boss node is Bob Henderson at 1:3812/10. Bob has two lines --
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USR DS 14.4k and a ZOOM 2400 line. So he and Mike can transmit mail
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back and forth at 14.4k and then I can get my mail at 2400 from him.
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Bob is extremely helpful in finding files and helping me setup
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everything. He gives me the same latitude that Mike did and I'm very
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thankful for that. If I can't get something to work or if I want to
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try something new, Bob helps me out.
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James Kennemer at 1:3812/20 I owe a special thanks. My monitor went
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out on me but the company said that they would fix it for free if I
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sent it to them. It would take at least 1 week to get to them, 1 week
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back to me, and then possibly two weeks to repair it. James loaned me
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another monitor he had for the entire month that mine was gone. I had
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only chatted with him on his BBS prior to this. I thought that this
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was absolutely extraordinary. James also goes into some message areas
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and manually fixes the origin address for one of his users pointing
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off of him. His point has a problem with the software he uses at
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getting the correct address in some echos. So James makes sure that
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it shows the correct address before it leaves his system rather than
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telling the point not to write in that echo.
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I've pointed off of all of the above systems in the past and all of
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the sysops were extremely helpful so I wanted to share with you my
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experiences of being a point and what it means to me.
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So there is my 'point of view' from Charles Buchanan at 1:3812/10.6
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 7 30 Mar 1992
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ENGELBART, KAHN, WARREN, JENNINGS AND SMERECZYNSKI
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NAMED AS FIRST WINNERS OF THE ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION'S PIONEER
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AWARDS
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Cambridge, March 16,1992
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today announced the five
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winners of the first annual EFF Pioneer Awards for substantial
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contributions to the field of computer based communications. The
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winners are: Douglas C. Engelbart of Fremont, California; Robert Kahn
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of Reston, Virginia; Jim Warren of Woodside, California; Tom Jennings
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of San Francisco, California; and Andrzej Smereczynski of Warsaw,
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Poland.
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The winners will be presented with their awards at a ceremony open to
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the public this Thursday, March 19, at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in
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Washington, DC, beginning at 5:15 PM. Most winners are expected to be
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present to accept the awards in person. The ceremony is part of this
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week's Second Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy that is
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taking place at L'Enfant Plaza Hotel in D.C.
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Mitchell Kapor, President of the EFF, said today that: "We've created
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the Pioneer Awards in order to recognize and honor individuals who
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have made ground-breaking contributions to the technology and culture
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of digital networks and communities."
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Nominations for the Pioneer Awards were carried out over national and
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international computer-communication systems from November, 1991 to
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February 1992. Several hundred nominations were received by the
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Electronic Frontier Foundation, and the final winners were selected by
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a panel of six judges.
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The criteria for the Pioneer Awards was that the person or
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organization nominated had to have made a substantial contribution to
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the health, growth, accessibility, or freedom of computer-based
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communications.
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The Pioneer Winners
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Douglas Engelbart is one of the original moving forces in the personal
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computer revolution who is responsible for many ubiquitous features of
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today's computers such as the mouse, the technique of windowing,
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display editing, hypermedia, groupware and many other inventions and
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innovations. He holds more than 20 patents and is widely-recognized in
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his field as one of our era's true visionaries.
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Robert Kahn was an early advocate and prime mover in the creation of
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ARPANET which was the precursor of today's Internet. Since the late
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60's and early 70's Mr. Kahn has constantly promoted and tirelessly
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pursued innovation and heightened connectivity in the world's computer
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networks.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 8 30 Mar 1992
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Tom Jennings started the Fidonet international network. Today it is a
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linked network of amateur electronic bulletin board systems (BBSs)
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with more than 10,000 nodes worldwide and it is still growing. He
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contributed to the technical backbone of this system by writing the
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FIDO BBS program as well as to the culture of the net by pushing for
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development and expansion since the early days of BBSing. He is
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currently editor of FidoNews, the network's electronic newsletter.
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Jim Warren has been active in electronic networking for many years.
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Most recently he has organized the First Computers, Freedom and
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Privacy Conference, set-up the first online public dialogue link with
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the California legislature, and has been instrumental is assuring that
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rights common to older mediums and technologies are extended to
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computer networking.
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Andrzej Smereczynski is the Administrator of the PLEARN node of the
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Internet and responsible for the extension of the Internet into Poland
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and other east European countries. He is the person directly
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responsible for setting up the first connection to the West in post-
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Communist Middle Europe. A network "guru", Mr. Smereczynski has
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worked selflessly and tirelessly to extend the technology of
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networking as well as its implicit freedoms to Poland and neighboring
|
||
countries.
|
||
|
||
This year's judges for the Pioneer Awards were: Dave Farber of the
|
||
University of Pennsylvania Computer Science Department; Howard
|
||
Rheingold, editor of The Whole Earth Review; Vint Cerf, head of CNRI;
|
||
Professor Dorothy Denning Chair of George Washington University's
|
||
Computer Science Department; Esther Dyson, editor of Release 1.0,
|
||
Steve Cisler of Apple Computer, and John Gilmore of Cygnus Support.
|
||
|
||
For more information contact:
|
||
Gerard Van der Leun
|
||
Director of Communications
|
||
Electronic Frontier Foundation
|
||
155 Second Street Cambridge, MA 02141
|
||
(617) 864-0665 Internet: van@eff.org
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
Adventures in BBSing: OS/2 Conversion
|
||
By Randy Edwards, Sysop, 1:128/105.0
|
||
|
||
|
||
Well, I've had an interesting time the last month or so. For years
|
||
I've run my BBS on an old 8mhz XT clone. Worked fine, too. I had
|
||
that ol' XT rigged up for just about every speed addition you could
|
||
think of -- 1 meg RAM cache, V20, fast hard drives, etc., etc. Like
|
||
I said, it worked fine and still pushed my HST to speeds over 170%.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 9 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
Finally though, I found too many users were complaining about the
|
||
obscene amounts of time it took for the ol' XT to pack up their
|
||
offline mail. I knew it was slow, as I knew how much faster my
|
||
personal machine was at making archives, but I figured they could live
|
||
with it. Nope, no way. After watching one long distance caller
|
||
twiddle his thumbs while the XT packed his mail, I decided it was time
|
||
to upgrade.
|
||
|
||
Fine, upgrade. But upgrade to what? The machine I had in mind was
|
||
plain enough -- I figured I'd step into the 90s and put a 386/33
|
||
online. That'd be more than enough power to pack archives up quickly.
|
||
The thing I was puzzled about was what software to run. No, not BBS
|
||
or mailer software, but something to multi-task so I could use the
|
||
computer too. Having used DESQview for years, I seriously considered
|
||
that. I figured with DV I could perhaps run more than one line, and
|
||
still do maintenance on the side. But like I said, I've used DV for
|
||
years and have seen more than my fair share of QEMM errors, DV lockups
|
||
and hangs, etc., etc. Yeah, I could use DV, but I still thought I
|
||
could do better.
|
||
|
||
I then went through the sequence of examining other multi-taskers.
|
||
PC-MOS and the usual group, with the exception of Microsoft Windows
|
||
(I don't want to grow old waiting for a file transfer to finish with
|
||
Windows :-), were all considered. Still, I didn't find any that
|
||
thrilled me.
|
||
|
||
While talking with a friend he mentioned OS/2. Gee, never really
|
||
considered that one. The last I heard about OS/2 was that it was
|
||
expensive and not that well supported. Since my friend was running
|
||
multiple HST/DS lines and was quite happy with it, I decided to
|
||
investigate it further. Surprise! I found quite a few people running
|
||
OS/2 for BBSing and all very happy with it.
|
||
|
||
In fact, I learned quite a lot about OS/2, and more about IBM than I
|
||
really cared to. I found IBM has somewhat developed a new attitude
|
||
towards its non-corporate customers. Toll-free 800-lines aimed mainly
|
||
at end-users, BBS support -- gee, this doesn't sound like the giant
|
||
computer monopoly we all love to hate. But what really got me was
|
||
OS/2 itself. A $99 deal selling OS/2 1.3 with a free upgrade to the
|
||
far-superior 32-bit OS/2 2.0. Hmm, not a bad price for a full
|
||
multi-tasking operating system. Of course the upgrade policy was
|
||
something I only dreamed of having with my Borland compilers!
|
||
|
||
So I get OS/2. Fine, now to install it. The installation was pretty
|
||
smooth and I decided to format my drives with HPFS -- OS/2's High
|
||
Performance File System. HPFS allows you to do things like have long
|
||
(<255 chars) filenames, and it's much, much faster than a normal "FAT"
|
||
file system. In fact, the disk speed was so much better than DOS'
|
||
that it was downright shocking! Impressive, to say the least.
|
||
|
||
The conversion of the BBS and mailer was somewhat easy. I had used
|
||
BinkleyTerm and the Maximus BBS under DOS, so all I had to do was to
|
||
get their equivalent OS/2 versions. Fine. Setting up the COM ports
|
||
for high speed use was a bit more difficult. Fortunately, a friend
|
||
Chris Regan let me have a copy of his OS/2 setup and that went
|
||
smoothly. Though the COM port handling of OS/2 is much, much improved
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 10 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
over DOS', we're still forced to use third-party device drivers for
|
||
rock-solid high-speed communications. But hey, these companies will
|
||
get high-speed comm right ONE of these years (sure! :-).
|
||
|
||
So with my mailer and BBS installed, I went about converting my batch
|
||
files over to OS/2. Simple enough, as most batch files can be
|
||
converted by simply renaming *.BAT to *.CMD. Then I discovered the
|
||
REXX procedure (batch) language. Backup and regroup -- rewrite all of
|
||
the batch files into REXX. For those of you using third-party kludges
|
||
to get more power out of DOS' batch file language, or those that use
|
||
4DOS' improved batch language, you'll simply love REXX. True
|
||
variables, subroutine calls, numeric operations, IF THEN ELSE loops,
|
||
DO WHILE, DO FOREVER loops, and much, much, much more. It's a real
|
||
language, and its power exceeds DOS' batch files by so much it's
|
||
unfair to compare them. Great, after a few hours I rewrote the
|
||
system's batch files into REXX.
|
||
|
||
And so now, I'm running fully in OS/2. The system still amazes me.
|
||
No jerky screen-scrolling like under DESQview. With 4 or 5 other OS/2
|
||
windows open and running various programs BinkleyTerm still pushes the
|
||
HST to over 170% -- the multi-tasking is truly the best I've seen.
|
||
When incoming mail hits the system BinkleyTerm goes down for about 3
|
||
seconds and pops right back up -- all the mail processing is done by
|
||
a REXX queue in the background in another session. Things like
|
||
convincing SHARE.EXE to work right, worrying about how much free RAM I
|
||
have, and all the other problems of DOS-based products we're used to,
|
||
are all a thing of the past.
|
||
|
||
In short, I'm very impressed with OS/2 and can't for the life of me
|
||
figure out why we haven't heard more about it. It seems like it's the
|
||
*ideal* operating system for running a BBS with. What's even better
|
||
is that OS/2 2.0 is due to be released at the end of this month or
|
||
early April. OS/2 2.0 is radically improved. OS/2 version 1.3 has a
|
||
limited amount of DOS support -- you can run only 1 DOS program in the
|
||
foreground. With OS/2 2.0 you can run as many DOS or Windows 3.0
|
||
programs as you'd like (within reason; <255) -- and run them in the
|
||
foreground or background. I expect to see a big future for OS/2 2.0.
|
||
|
||
Of course, running OS/2 does have some quirks. Not really quirks in
|
||
the operating system -- it's rock solid and crashes and hang-ups are
|
||
a thing of the past. What I mean is, OS/2 needs more utility
|
||
programs of various types -- both "normal" utilities and FidoNet
|
||
utilities. While there are programs to do most everything you want
|
||
to do, it's not the wide variety you get with DOS. With DOS utils,
|
||
you can pick and choose from dozens. With OS/2, you're often
|
||
looking at a choice between only 2 or 3.
|
||
|
||
Hopefully though, OS/2 2.0 will add many new programs to OS/2 -- more
|
||
programs than the DOS, Windows 3.0 and existing OS/2 programs that it
|
||
can already run. With cheap compilers being available or in the
|
||
works for OS/2, and given the tremendous untapped potential of the
|
||
32-bit OS/2 2.0, I'm sure we'll be hearing more from it.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 11 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
Well, I've babbled on long enough. Time to close this file up and
|
||
send it off as I've got a game of NetHack waiting for me in another
|
||
task of OS/2.
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
By Erik VanRiper
|
||
1:107/230
|
||
|
||
Well everyone, it has been fun. I just wanted to put down in
|
||
words a few parting thoughts to a few people who have influenced my
|
||
life in FidoNet (Yes, it may be a hobby to some, but to me it has been
|
||
a great trip). So, to get on with it:
|
||
|
||
To Rory Starkweather (1:3614/103): Way back when in Japan, we decided
|
||
to buy computers. See what you got me into? <grin> Remember when we
|
||
first got Binkley to work? We didn't have to hike back and forth with
|
||
disks anymore. Enjoy, and don't let the U.S.M.C. get you in trouble.
|
||
<grin>
|
||
|
||
To Eric Lotgerink (2:283/1): My overseas friend. Thank you for
|
||
supporting the efforts of the PDN in Zone 2 for all these years, it is
|
||
certainly appreciated by hundreds of sysops, and thousands of users.
|
||
|
||
To Jerry Seward (1:260/222): Enjoy the snow, we hardly got any down
|
||
here this year. See you on the Internet!
|
||
|
||
To PhilJohn (1:260/0/1): I still cannot believe that you renamed your
|
||
BBS to "sluts and nuts". You two are the most unreal people I have
|
||
ever met! Don't change. :-)
|
||
|
||
To the File_Movers crew: You guys (and gals too!) are fantastic. You
|
||
took any idea of mine and made it work. Hang in there, it will get
|
||
better once the political types get off their soapbox. <grin>
|
||
|
||
To the SERVICES crew: Get it together. Your already a month late
|
||
with the newsletter. 2.5 years, and only 2 newsletters? Come on...
|
||
|
||
To J.S. and D.J. : Keep that mail moving, no matter what they say,
|
||
what you two do is probably the most under appreciated thing in
|
||
FidoNet. I know I have not thanked you enough.
|
||
|
||
To George Peace: You have been there to help when I needed it, and I
|
||
certainly appreciate it. Your system has been through some tough
|
||
times (both your computer and your nervous system <grin>). Hang in
|
||
there, it'll only get worse as FidoNet grows. :-)
|
||
|
||
To Bill Andrus (1:13/0): Take care of these guys out here on Long
|
||
Island. They need the help, and cannot do it without your help. Also
|
||
do R13 a favor and stick with decisions that you have made in the past
|
||
that set precedence, and not do things on a whim. It will do you some
|
||
good in the long run.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 12 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
To John Schrieber (1:274/13): You get that thing working yet? :-)
|
||
|
||
To FidoNet:
|
||
|
||
FidoNet is growing fast. It is great to encourage growth, but
|
||
changes need to be made sometime, or it will collapse under its own
|
||
weight. I cannot think of a single person in FidoNet who I did not
|
||
get along with, which means there must be thousands of decent people
|
||
out there. Keep up the good work, and above all, remember it is only
|
||
a hobby.
|
||
|
||
Enjoy.
|
||
|
||
/* Erik */
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Jamie Penner
|
||
1:153/1025@fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
|
||
Announcing the International FTN Registry
|
||
|
||
|
||
There's no doubt in my mind that someone is probably already
|
||
keeping track of which zone numbers go where - as a matter of
|
||
fact, I'd be surprised if there weren't 100 people doing this and
|
||
they're probably doing a might fine job of it too!
|
||
|
||
The job, however, doesn't stop there. It is abundantly clear
|
||
that the so-called "OtherNets" are DEFINTELY here to stay.
|
||
There is some good quality to these networks and there are a good
|
||
number of them that just simply supplement FidoNet and enhance
|
||
the world of amateur communications as we know it.
|
||
|
||
This causes a few problems. First, I'll outline the problems as
|
||
they appear and then try and help with a solution...
|
||
|
||
Problem #1: Lack of Communication
|
||
With no proper method of gating and people collecting
|
||
aka's left, right and center, it can get a little hairy.
|
||
In addition, the way that FTN specs are designed, there
|
||
is little and no chance of a message seemingly finding
|
||
its way to where you want it to go unless you already
|
||
have the nodelist for the network you want the mail to
|
||
get to.
|
||
|
||
Problem #2: Refuge from Excommunication
|
||
Too many networks very simply have no idea that a
|
||
potential member has been excommunicated from a network
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 13 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
for whatever reason. It is this very point that can
|
||
give a network a bad reputation. Let's face it, FidoNet
|
||
is a REALLY BIG network and it is toooooo easy for
|
||
someone to get the boot and move in somewhere else and
|
||
still get access to gated mail. All that does is stir
|
||
up to ol pot even more.
|
||
|
||
Problem #3: Misunderstandings
|
||
More than a few times, I have found myself looking up the
|
||
barrel of a vigilante FidoNet purist explaining my reason
|
||
for this "OtherNet"'s existance. Well, quite frankly,
|
||
OtherNet's can provide a valuable service to this
|
||
community and give people a fresh breath. But, how do
|
||
we find out about these other networks?
|
||
|
||
The answer is the International FTN Registry. The registry is
|
||
not associated with FidoNet in any way. It is simply a place to
|
||
register your network. It will consist of a body of people who
|
||
are responsible for their networks working towards a common goal
|
||
of internetwork communication with the least amount of barriers
|
||
and problems.
|
||
|
||
The membership will be open to ICs, ZCs, and RCs of the FTN
|
||
registered networks. The membership, in a number cases, may opt
|
||
to carry a TICK echo which will be available for network
|
||
policies, nodelists and other pertinent information for the
|
||
registry. It will also formulate general guidelines for
|
||
internetwork gateways and provide a common forum for internetwork
|
||
concerns and problems.
|
||
|
||
Overall, the goal is to open the information for sysops in
|
||
general and provide some sort of common medium for all networks
|
||
to express concerns without the concerns of this network being
|
||
better than that network. Every network serves its purpose and
|
||
every sysop has the right to choose his or her affiliations.
|
||
|
||
If you are interested in participating in the registry, simply
|
||
send me a text file or netmail message laid out in the following
|
||
format:
|
||
|
||
# network name
|
||
Z: Zone
|
||
C: Contact name
|
||
V: Voice phone number (held in confidence)
|
||
B: System phone number
|
||
P: Policy file name (policy manual must be attached)
|
||
N: Nodelist name (current nodelist must be attached)
|
||
D: Domain signature *
|
||
G: Gateway
|
||
G: Gateway (add G: lines as needed)
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 14 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
* - some networks may opt to use the yet to be published spec for
|
||
the BTM-001 domain signature spec. This is a multi-field
|
||
signature. Contact me for more details.
|
||
|
||
|
||
here's a completed example:
|
||
|
||
# ISIG
|
||
Z: 40
|
||
C: Jamie Penner
|
||
V: 604-555-1212
|
||
B: 604-873-6625
|
||
P: ISIGPL1B.ZIP
|
||
N: ISIGNODE.*
|
||
D: isig.wescan
|
||
G: 1:153/1025@fidonet
|
||
G: 25:4604/197@signet
|
||
---
|
||
|
||
|
||
You will then be notified of any discrepancies, duplications, or
|
||
acceptance into the registry. This information, your current
|
||
nodelist and current policy must be sent for acceptance.
|
||
|
||
This is a new project and will only work if there is
|
||
participation. It is generally hoped that this will become the
|
||
foundation for a non-partisan international organization for
|
||
amateur computer communcations. Let's make it work!
|
||
|
||
I can be reached at:
|
||
|
||
Jamie Penner
|
||
|
||
40:40/0@isig.wescan
|
||
1:153/1025@fidonet.org
|
||
25:4604/197@signet
|
||
8:7501/103@familynet
|
||
|
||
604-873-6625 14.4HST 24hours
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
By Erik VanRiper
|
||
1:107/230
|
||
|
||
The Programmers Distribution Network has changed hands. Janis
|
||
Kracht (1:272/38) is the new head of the PDN, effective the first week
|
||
in April 1992.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 15 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
I want to thank Janis for taking on this task, and I am sure
|
||
she will do a wonderful job.
|
||
|
||
I also want to thank all of you PDN'ers out there that have
|
||
contributed to the PDN over the years, and made it the kind of success
|
||
it is today.
|
||
|
||
Thanx! :-)
|
||
|
||
/* Erik */
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
by David Boehm, CAPNet News Editor
|
||
1:103/234@fidonet.org
|
||
55:55/250@capnet
|
||
|
||
I would like to take this oppurtunity to announce the Civil Air Patrol
|
||
network, or CAPNet as we call it.
|
||
|
||
CAPNet was started about 1 year ago to bring together the people of
|
||
Civil Air Patrol who used the computer as a means of communication.
|
||
We have found that many people in CAP have hobbies with computers and
|
||
modems.
|
||
|
||
Currently, CAPNet is trying to recruit enough nodes to complete a
|
||
national hub network.
|
||
|
||
Here's a diagram of the planned organization for CAPNet:
|
||
|
||
=======================================================================
|
||
N_East Mddl_East Grt_Lakes S_East N_Central S_West Rcky_Mtn Pacific
|
||
Region Region Region Region Region Region Region Region
|
||
5001 5002 5003 5004 5005 5006 5007 5008
|
||
========================================================================
|
||
100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800
|
||
110 210 310 410 510 610 710 810
|
||
120 220 320 420 520 620 720 820
|
||
130 230 330 430 530 630 730 830
|
||
140 240 340 440 540 640 740 840
|
||
150 250 350 450 550 650 850
|
||
160 260 560
|
||
170
|
||
180
|
||
|
||
CAP itself is divided into 8 regions and into 50 "wings". So, we
|
||
divided CAPNet into 8 regions and 50 nets. (8 RC's and 50 NC's) One
|
||
RC for each region of CAP, and one NC for each wing. On the chart
|
||
above, each number below the region represents one wing or net.
|
||
CAPNet is a FidoNet Technology Network (FTN) using Zone 55.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 16 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
Currently, CAPNet is running about 5 active echos including the
|
||
popular CAP_NAT echo on the FidoNet backbone. We are even forming
|
||
our own file echos for aviation related files and our own newsletter!
|
||
|
||
We are looking for some nodes that can fill some badly needed RC and
|
||
NC positions. Civil Air Patrol is sometimes regarded as America's
|
||
best kept secret. Let's hope that CAPNet doesn't turn out the same!
|
||
|
||
Files to FREQ:
|
||
|
||
CAPINFO.ZIP -- Current CAPNet Policy, application, and general
|
||
info.
|
||
CAPLIST.A?? -- Current CAPNet nodelist.
|
||
CAPNEWS.??? -- Current CAPNet newsletter.
|
||
|
||
Where to FREQ:
|
||
|
||
Matt Valleau, Zone 55 Coordinator
|
||
FidoNet 1:141/101
|
||
CAPNet 55:55/0
|
||
Orland Carter, Zone 55 Echo Coordinator
|
||
FidoNet 1:135/72
|
||
CAPNet 55:55/2
|
||
David Boehm, CAPNet News Editor
|
||
FidoNet 1:103/234
|
||
CAPNet 55:55/250
|
||
Bill Turner, CAPNet SDS Coordinator
|
||
FidoNet 1:10/302
|
||
CAPNet 55:55/100
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
GUITAR conference being formed
|
||
by Tom Rieger
|
||
1:260/242
|
||
|
||
GUITAR is a FidoNet echomail conference for people who build,
|
||
repair or play guitars. Distribution is private until enough
|
||
systems link in to warrant seeking a more official distribution
|
||
scheme. Contact Tom Rieger @ 1:260/242 for link-up info.
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
TAGLINES Update
|
||
March 28, 1992
|
||
|
||
It's Official! Taglines is now a FidoNet BackBone echo!
|
||
|
||
If you want to join the fun, just ask your regular feed to add it for
|
||
you. It may take a couple of days to a week or so to put links in
|
||
place but patience and persistence will pay off.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 17 30 Mar 1992
|
||
|
||
|
||
Special thanks go to George Hatchew, Amnon Nissan, Martin Belcke and to
|
||
Christopher Baker, Michele Hamilton-Stewart and all participants in the
|
||
echo.
|
||
|
||
Thank you everyone.
|
||
|
||
Ronnie Toth
|
||
Moderator: Taglines
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 18 30 Mar 1992
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Latest Greatest SoftWare Versions
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Latest Update: 01/27/92
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MS-DOS Systems
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BBS Software NodeList Utilities Compression
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Name Version Name Version Utilities
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ADTBBS 1.50@ EditNL 4.00 --------------------
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Aurora 1.32b FDND 1.10 ARC 7.12
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DMG 2.93 MakeNL 2.31 ARJ 2.20
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DreamBBS 1.05 Parselst 1.33 LHA 2.13
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Fido/FidoNet 12.21 Prune 1.40 PAK 2.51
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Genesis Deluxe 3.2 SysNL 3.14 PKPak 3.61
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GSBBS 3.02 XlatList 2.90 PKZip 1.10
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Kitten 1.01 XlaxNode/Diff 2.53
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Lynx 1.30
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Maximus-CBCS 2.00
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Merlin 1.39n Other Utilities(A-M) Other Utilities(N-Z)
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Opus 1.73a* Name Version Name Version
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Oracomm 5.M.6P@ -------------------- --------------------
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Oracomm Plus 6.E@ 2DAPoint 1.50* Netsex 2.00b
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PCBoard 14.5a 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 OFFLINE 1.35
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Phoenix 1.07* ARCAsim 2.31 Oliver 1.0a
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ProBoard 1.20* ARCmail 3.00* OSIRIS CBIS 3.02
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QuickBBS 2.75 Areafix 1.20 PKInsert 7.10
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RBBS 17.3b ConfMail 4.00 PolyXarc 2.1a
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RemoteAccess 1.11* Crossnet 1.5 QM 1.00a
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SimplexBBS 1.05 DOMAIN 1.42 QSort 4.04
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SLBBS 2.15C* DEMM 1.06 RAD Plus 2.11
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Socrates 1.11 DGMM 1.06 Raid 1.00
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SuperBBS 1.12* DOMAIN 1.42 RBBSMail 18.0
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SuperComm 0.99 EEngine 0.32 ScanToss 1.28
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TAG 2.5g EMM 2.11* ScMail 1.00
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TBBS 2.1 EZPoint 2.1 ScEdit 1.12
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TComm/TCommNet 3.4 FGroup 1.00 Sirius 1.0x
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Telegard 2.7* FidoPCB 1.0s@ SLMail 2.15C
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TPBoard 6.1 FNPGate 2.70 SquishMail 1.00
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TriTel 2.0* GateWorks 3.06e StarLink 1.01
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WildCat! 3.02* GMail 2.05 TagMail 2.41
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WWIV 4.20 GMD 3.10 TCOMMail 2.2
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XBBS 1.77 GMM 1.21 Telemail 1.5*
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GoldEd 2.31p TGroup 1.13
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GROUP 2.23 TIRES 3.11
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Network Mailers GUS 1.40 TMail 1.21
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Name Version Harvey's Robot 4.10 TosScan 1.00
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-------------------- HeadEdit 1.18 UFGATE 1.03
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BinkleyTerm 2.50 HLIST 1.09 VPurge 4.09e
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D'Bridge 1.30 IMAIL 1.20 WEdit 2.0@
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Dreamer 1.06 InterPCB 1.31 WildMail 2.00
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 19 30 Mar 1992
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Dutchie 2.90c ISIS 5.12@ WMail 2.2
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FrontDoor 2.02 Lola 1.01d WNode 2.1
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InterMail 2.01 Mosaic 1.00b XRS 4.99
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Milqtoast 1.00 MailBase 4.11a@ XST 2.3e
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PreNM 1.48 MSG 4.5* YUPPIE! 2.00
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SEAdog 4.60 MSGED 2.06 ZmailH 1.25
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SEAmail 1.01 MsgLnk 1.0c ZSX 2.40
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TIMS 1.0(mod8) MsgMstr 2.03a
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MsgNum 4.16d
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MSGTOSS 1.3
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OS/2 Systems
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BBS Software Other Utilities(A-M Other Utilities(N-Z)
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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Kitten 1.01 ARC 7.12 oMMM 1.52
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Maximus-CBCS 2.00 ARC2 6.01 Omail 3.1
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SimplexBBS 1.04.02+ ConfMail 4.00 Parselst 1.33
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EchoStat 6.0 PKZip 1.02
|
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EZPoint 2.1 PMSnoop 1.30
|
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Network Mailers FGroup 1.00 PolyXOS2 2.1a
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Name Version GROUP 2.23 QSort 2.1
|
||
-------------------- LH2 2.11 Raid 1.0
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BinkleyTerm 2.50 MSG 4.2 Remapper 1.2
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BinkleyTerm(S) 2.50 MsgEd 2.06c SquishMail 1.00
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BinkleyTerm/2-MT MsgLink 1.0c Tick 2.0
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1.40.02 MsgNum 4.16d VPurge 4.09e
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SEAmail 1.01
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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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-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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ARC 5.21
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C-LHARC 1.00
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MsgEd 2.06
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|Contact: Willy Paine 1:343/15,| MSGLINK 1.01
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|or Eddy van Loo 2:285/406 | oMMM 1.42
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Omail 1.00
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ParseLst 1.32
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Unzip 3.10
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VPurge 4.08
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Zoo 2.01
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 20 30 Mar 1992
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QNX
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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QTach2 1.09 QMM 0.50s Kermit 2.03
|
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QCP 1.02
|
||
NodeList Utilities Archive Utilities QSave 3.6
|
||
Name Version Name Version QTTSysop 1.07.1
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- SeaLink 1.05
|
||
QNode 2.09 Arc 6.02 XModem 1.00
|
||
LH 1.00.2 YModem 1.01
|
||
Unzip 2.01 ZModem 0.02f
|
||
Zoo 2.01
|
||
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Apple II
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||
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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DDBBS + 8.0* Fruity Dog 2.0 deARC2e 2.1
|
||
GBBS Pro 2.1 ProSel 8.70*
|
||
ShrinkIt 3.30*
|
||
|Contact: Dennis McClain-Furmanski 1:275/42| ShrinkIt GS 1.04
|
||
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Apple CP/M
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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Daisy 2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Filer 2-D
|
||
MsgUtil 2.5
|
||
Nodecomp 0.37
|
||
PackUser 4
|
||
UNARC.Com 1.20
|
||
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Macintosh
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||
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
FBBS 0.91 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
|
||
Hermes 1.6.1 Tabby 2.2 AreaFix 1.6
|
||
Mansion 7.15 Compact Pro 1.30
|
||
Precision Sys. 0.95b EventMeister 1.0
|
||
Red Ryder Host 2.1 Export 3.21
|
||
Telefinder Host Import 3.2
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||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 21 30 Mar 1992
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2.12T10 LHARC 0.41
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||
MacArd 0.04
|
||
Mantissa 3.21
|
||
Point System Mehitable 2.0
|
||
Software OriginatorII 2.0
|
||
Name Version PreStamp 3.2
|
||
-------------------- StuffIt Classic 1.6
|
||
Copernicus 1.00 SunDial 3.2
|
||
CounterPoint 1.09 TExport 1.92
|
||
MacWoof 1.1 TimeStamp 1.6
|
||
TImport 1.92
|
||
Tset 1.3
|
||
TSort 1.0
|
||
UNZIP 1.02c
|
||
Zenith 1.5
|
||
Zip Extract 0.10
|
||
|
||
|
||
Amiga
|
||
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
4D-BBS 1.65 BinkleyTerm 1.00 Areafix 1.48
|
||
DLG Pro. 0.96b TrapDoor 1.80 AReceipt 1.5
|
||
Falcon CBCS 1.00 WelMat 0.44 ChameleonEdit 0.11
|
||
Starnet 1.0q@ ConfMail 1.12
|
||
TransAmiga 1.07 ElectricHerald 1.66
|
||
XenoLink 1.0 Compression FFRS 1.0@
|
||
Utilities FileMgr 2.08
|
||
Name Version Fozzle 1.0@
|
||
NodeList Utilities -------------------- Login 0.18
|
||
Name Version AmigArc 0.23 MessageFilter 1.52
|
||
-------------------- booz 1.01 Message View 1.12
|
||
ParseLst 1.66 LHARC 1.30 oMMM 1.50
|
||
Skyparse 2.30 LhA 1.10 PolyXAmy 2.02
|
||
TrapList 1.40 LZ 1.92 RMB 1.30
|
||
PkAX 1.00 Roof 46.15
|
||
UnZip 4.1 RoboWriter 1.02
|
||
Zippy (Unzip) 1.25 Rsh 4.07a
|
||
Zoo 2.01 Tick 0.75
|
||
TrapToss 1.20
|
||
|Contact: Maximilian Hantsch 2:310/6| Yuck! 2.02
|
||
|
||
Atari ST/TT
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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||
FIDOdoor/ST 2.5.1 BinkleyTerm 2.40n9 ApplyList 1.00@
|
||
FiFo 2.1v The Box 1.95* Burep 1.1
|
||
LED ST 1.00 ComScan 1.04
|
||
MSGED 1.99 ConfMail 4.10
|
||
QuickBBS/ST 1.06* NodeList Utilities Echoscan 1.10
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 22 30 Mar 1992
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||
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||
Name Version FDrenum 2.5.2
|
||
-------------------- FastPack 1.20
|
||
Compression ParseList 1.30 Import 1.14
|
||
Utilities EchoFix 1.20 oMMM 1.40
|
||
Name Version sTICK/Hatch 5.50 Pack 1.00
|
||
-------------------- Trenum 0.10
|
||
ARC 6.02
|
||
LHARC 2.01i
|
||
PackConvert
|
||
STZip 1.1*
|
||
UnJARST 2.00
|
||
WhatArc 2.02
|
||
|
||
|
||
Archimedes
|
||
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|
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BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
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||
ARCbbs 1.61 BinkleyTerm ARC 1.20
|
||
Odyssey 0.37 2.06f-wimp !AskFor 1.01
|
||
RiscBBS 0.9.85m BatchPacker 1.00
|
||
DeLZ 0.01
|
||
MailED 0.95
|
||
NetFile 1.00
|
||
ParseLst 1.30
|
||
Raul 1.01
|
||
!Spark 2.16
|
||
!SparkMail 2.08
|
||
!SparkPlug 2.14
|
||
UnArj 2.21
|
||
UnZip 3.00
|
||
Zip 1.00
|
||
|
||
|
||
Tandy Color Computer 3 (OS-9 Level II)
|
||
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||
|
||
BBS Software Compression Utility Other Utilities
|
||
Name Version Name Version Name Version
|
||
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
|
||
RiBBS 2.02+ Ar 1.3 Ascan 1.2
|
||
DeArc 5.12 AutoFRL 2.0
|
||
OS9Arc 1.0 Bundle 2.2
|
||
UnZip 3.10 CKARC 1.1
|
||
UnLZH 3.0 EchoCheck 1.01
|
||
FReq 2.5a
|
||
LookNode 2.00
|
||
ParseLST
|
||
PReq 2.2
|
||
FidoNews 9-13 Page 23 30 Mar 1992
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||
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||
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||
RList 1.03
|
||
RTick 2.00
|
||
UnBundle 1.4
|
||
UnSeen 1.1
|
||
|
||
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
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Key: + - Netmail Capable (Doesn't Require Additional Mailer Software)
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* - Recently Updated Version
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NOTE: 8 Mar 92
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FidoNews versions list update process is about to change, once again.
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It will be taken over by someone else. In the mean time hold onto
|
||
your hats (and programs).
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||
Watch for an announcement within a week or two.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 24 30 Mar 1992
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
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Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello
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Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
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FidoNews
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
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articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The
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contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the
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rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those
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of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews.
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FidoNews 9-13 Page 25 30 Mar 1992
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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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