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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.10 No.16 (19-Apr-1993)
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| A newsletter of the | |
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| FidoNet BBS community | Published by: |
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| / \ | "FidoNews" BBS |
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| /|oo \ | +1-519-570-4176 1:1/23 |
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| _`@/_ \ _ | Editors: |
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| | | \ \\ | Sylvia Maxwell 1:221/194 |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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| |__U__| / \// | Tim Pozar 1:125/555 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: editors 1:1/23 |
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| Internet addresses: |
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| Sylvia -- max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Donald -- donald@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Tim -- pozar@kumr.lns.com |
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| Both Don & Sylvia (submission address) |
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| editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies and other boring but important details, |
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| please 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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2. Articles...................................................... 2
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The Cynic's Sandbox, v2.2.0.7.0.999a.6...................... 2
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New Echo!................................................... 3
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The SAHARA echo is available!............................... 3
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RBBS-PC Development Heats Up................................ 4
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 5
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Editorial
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 2 19 Apr 1993
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Here's a relatively short issue.
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We received a "name withheld by request" article about the
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convention in Luxembourg noted in last week's FidoNews, the one
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for which participants were to pay by direct deposit to a
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personal bank account in Luxembourg, but we didn't run it
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because it slung mud at people. Maybe they deserved it, maybe
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not, but challenging ideas or proposals anonymously seems
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benign, while sticking it to an actual person anonymously
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doesn't seem fair. So it is in holding until we hear back from
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the author.
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This might be an appropriate time to haul out the old axiom,
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"don't believe everything you read". Articles in the Snooze are
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representative of FidoNet in as many of its manifestations as
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possible. There's a couple of new echo announcements, one of
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which fosters a conservative point of view as presented in a
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recent Playboy Mag :*P.
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My best half has stepped out for a moment to buy food for
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Binkley & Squish. In my best half's absence i'll speak for both
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of us and wish everybody peace and sprouting flowers.
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Articles
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The Cynic's Sandbox, v2.2.0.7.0.999a.6
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R. Cynic
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* 'The sun never rises on the GRIME network' *
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Announcing GRIME, the first telecommunications network run for
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and by sanitation workers everywhere. GRIME arose from a local
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discussion of how to best clang garbage cans together at 3AM,
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and soon became a thriving local network. Since then, it has
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become a global village of trash. Imagine, if you will, dump-
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truck drivers in Queens corresponding with sanitation engineers
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from Tokyo, Japan, and you'll have seen just a fragment of what
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GRIME is all about.
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Topics range from light dusting to college-dormitory cleaning
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(Universally considered the worst job of all) to the fine art
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of garbage arranging. (Like flowers, only a different KIND of
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 3 19 Apr 1993
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smelly.)
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Join Today! You won't be sorry!
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EMPTYTRASHCAN Echo Conference
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*The best Garbage in Fight-O-Net*
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New Echo!
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From: Chris Sloyan (1:107/925)
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Greetings All,
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There is a new Echo being started in my area which is called
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MARTIAL_ARTS. I have noticed over the last few months, that many
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other networks have very busy conferences on this topic, but
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none in FIDO. I feel that the interest in this field is huge in
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the FIDO community as I have come in contact with several others
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of the same interest. If you are interested in carrying this
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Echo, please netmail me at 1:107/925 and I will set you up for
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it. Needless to say, our intention is to gain backbone access in
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the near future!
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Christopher F. Sloyan
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The SAHARA echo is available!
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Patrick Martin
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FidoNet 1:102/825
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Announcing the SAHARA echo...
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"Dedicated to Fighting Eco-Freaks
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and Keeping Public Land Free!"
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So, you say you're an "Off-Roader" but you've almost nowhere left
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to ride... Or, you USED to work in the timber industry til the
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company you worked was regulated out of business...
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 4 19 Apr 1993
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Are you tired of this sort of garbage? Business and Recreation
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being shut down by those claiming to be environmentalists and/or
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politicians? Have you been just ROFL'ing to death watching the
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ultra-liberals at the helm of this fine nation? Folks, we're being
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REGULATED to death!
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If you're looking for an echo to discuss political issues from a
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conservative viewpoint (quite rare in Fidoland these days) come and
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pick up the SAHARA echo from any one of the nodes listed below...
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We're the guys you saw on 60 Minutes not long ago, the guys you
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read about in the latest Playboy magazine! With classic wit and
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prose from Rick Sieman (the Howard Sterns of the Wise Use
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Movement), and others. This is your chance to get active and make
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a difference, consider this an invitation to join us...
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Restrictions: _NO_ Enviromental-Whackos, Commie-Libs, Femi-Nazis,
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Land-Nazis, New-World-Order-Pusher, or Slobbering
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Political Correctness Advocate, please, you've got
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your own echos.
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Moderator: Patrick Martin
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Echo Rules: F'req Sahara.rul from 1:102/825 all but ZMH
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...up to V32b [16.8Kbps ZyXEL]
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Elist Description:
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Sahara Club Discussion Area
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A conference for the discussion of environmental-radical tactics,
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land closures caused by them, businesses and recreation attacked
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by them, and what Sahara Club is doing to battle this onslaught!
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This echo is pro-business, pro-land-use, pro-gun rights, pro-OHV
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and very supportive of a badly maligned timber industry.
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SysOps Note: This echo is only to be opened for "registered" or
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"validated" BBS users.
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Volume: 10/day
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Seenby: 1:102/825 1314 103/157 116/37
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RBBS-PC Development Heats Up
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RBBS-PC Development Heats Up
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Eddie Rowe
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Fidonet#1:380/14
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"Most Bulletin Board Software is dedicated to making money for its
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authors. No matter how much the authors love the work, it endures
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only so long as the hope of income continues.
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 5 19 Apr 1993
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RBBS-PC is given away for free, and depends not on the flow of money,
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but on the continuing dedication and generosity of people who
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volunteer to help support and enhance it as a public service, and
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share their labor of love with others for the benefit of all.
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RBBS-PC is not only given away freely, but also with source code.
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Its authors and contributors neither ask for, nor receive any money
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for their work. RBBS-PC is "Userware", meaning that it is supported
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and enhanced by the community of people using it, who believe that
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what is shared becomes better than it was. It is hoped that RBBS-PC
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will be used as a catalyst for the free exchange of information, an
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educational example of communications programming, and an
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irrepressible political force that puts the power of information in
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the hands of the many."
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Source: RBBS-PC Documentation
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Over the years many have spent their time and money to participate
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in the RBBS-PC project. Efforts are underway to organize a rewrite
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of RBBS-PC, led by Doug Azzarito (Winter home of RBBS-PC). If you
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would like to share your ideas for enhancements, or help with the
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development of a sparkling new version of RBBS-PC join us in the
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RBBS-PC echo today. (Available on the Fidonet and RBBSNet Backbones)
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Fidonews Information
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
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Editors: Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees, Tim Pozar
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello,
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Tom Jennings
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IMPORTANT NOTE: The FidoNet address of the FidoNews BBS has been
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changed!!! Please make a note of this.
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"FidoNews" BBS
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FidoNet 1:1/23 <---- NEW ADDRESS!!!!
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BBS +1-519-570-4176, 300/1200/2400/14200/V.32bis/HST(DS)
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Internet addresses:
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Don & Sylvia (submission address)
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editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Sylvia -- max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Donald -- donald@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Tim -- pozar@kumr.lns.com
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(Postal Service mailing address) (have extreme patience)
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FidoNews
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172 Duke St. E.
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Kitchener, Ontario
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Canada
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 6 19 Apr 1993
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N2H 1A7
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Published weekly by and for the members of the FidoNet international
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amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual
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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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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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copyright 1993 Sylvia Maxwell. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or
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distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in
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other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or FidoNews
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(we're easy).
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OBTAINING COPIES: The-most-recent-issue-ONLY of FidoNews in electronic
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or
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Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained from Fido Software for $10.00US each
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PostPaid First Class within North America, or $13.00US elsewhere,
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mailed Air Mail. (US funds drawn upon a US bank only.)
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BACK ISSUES: Available from FidoNet nodes 1:102/138, 1:216/21,
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1:125/1212, (and probably others), via filerequest or download
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(consult a recent nodelist for phone numbers).
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A very nice index to the Tables of Contents to all FidoNews volumes
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can be filerequested from 1:396/1 or 1:216/21. The name(s) to request
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are FNEWSxTC.ZIP, where 'x' is the volume number; 1=1984, 2=1985...
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through 8=1991.
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.ieee.org, in
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directory ~ftp/pub/fidonet/fidonews. If you have questions regarding
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FidoNet, please direct them to deitch@gisatl.fidonet.org, not the
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FidoNews BBS. (Be kind and patient; David Deitch is generously
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volunteering to handle FidoNet/Internet questions.)
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SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
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from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". Please read it.
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"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
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trademarks of Tom Jennings, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and
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are used with permission.
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Asked what he thought of Western civilization,
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M.K. Gandhi said, "I think it would be an excellent idea".
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-- END
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FidoNews 10-16 Page: 7 19 Apr 1993
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