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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.10 No.24 (14-Jun-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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| (_/(_|(____/ | |
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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, v2.777................................. 2
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WAY TO GO, JOAO !!!......................................... 3
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No Privacy Or Safety For Sysops............................. 4
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Start Writing!.............................................. 7
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Announcing yet two more echos............................... 8
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Dear Editors,............................................... 9
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 9
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Editorial
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 2 14 Jun 1993
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We're running a bit late today, having just visited my
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grandmother who is in hospital until her leg heals. She's 88,
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sharp as a tack, and in love with living. But the confinement
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and sameness of institutional propriety are getting her down.
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Tomorrow we will escape with her in a wheelchair, for a while.
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Maybe we could get her a modem, so she would not be so limited
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by her body. It seems like FidoNet could be very useful for
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"shut-ins".
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We received a letter suggesting that some people might like
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to submit articles by net mail, rather than directly calling.
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Actually, we have already received submissions through net mail,
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and have published them. We do not mind getting net mail
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submissions, but it would be helpful if writers would include
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----cut---- lines atop articles, to clarify exactly which part of
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their messages' body is intended for publication. Perhaps
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we will get more articles from very-long-distance nodes this way
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<chuckle/snarl>?
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If Emma had a BBS and lived to be eighty-eight ...
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Articles
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The Cynic's Sandbox, v2.777
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R. Cynic
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Dark Glasses, Dumb Ideas: The "cyberpunk" movement.
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Ahh, that blissful moment when a subculture becomes a media
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darling. That moment when, amazingly, people you never even
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knew liked computers decide that they're cyberpunks.
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Billy Idol, for example. Last I heard, he was wailing about
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white weddings. Now, he's releasing an album to celebrate his
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cyberpunkishness. Due the middle of June. Comes with a floppy
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disk. Should be on K-mart's top ten music list for a few weeks
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at 14 bucks.
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Then, there's the Legion Of Doom. No, not the old hacker group
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that disbanded around the time of Operation Sundevil. The new
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group of wanna-bes that has decided to carry on under that, ah,
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proud name. They're cyberpunks, too. At least THEY say so.
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Time Magazine is making a few extra bucks off the cyberpunk
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"movement", too. Computer covers and fancy new-age stuff all
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over da place.
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What's dis gotta do with Fight-O-Net?
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Simple! Da "cyberpunk movement" is obviously the latest way to
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make moola, and Fight-O-Netters ALWAYS need more dough.
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Just think about it... Cyberpunk T-shirts, cyberpunk "True-
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Crime" books, cyberpunk baseball caps and beer mugs, cyberpunk
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underwear, "I crashed a small tax-accouting firm's database, and
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 3 14 Jun 1993
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all I got was this lousy T-shirt" novelty items... The list
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goes on and on. If you play this right, you might even manage
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cyberpunk ACTION FIGURES (inaction figures?) to go onto the
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racks right next to the new Jurassic Park toys.
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Speaking of Jurassic Park, I'd almost say that the little girl
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is a cyberpunk in training. Almost - she's a bit more mature
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than most, unfortunately.
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Ahh, the sounds of thousands of 14-year old 'cyberpunks'
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screaming at me. Gotta love it.
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Next week:
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"Why Zone One sucks - Letters from Europe"
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by Dieter Visser
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2:512/54.9
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WAY TO GO, JOAO !!!
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For some time now I have been trying to explain to some American
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friends what I think is going on in former Jugoslavia. Reading the
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article by Joao Ledo in Fidonews # 10 I think I got it: Portugal
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is interesting, not all of Portugal of course, just the bit
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around Joao. The rest of the world is pretty boring, to put it
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mildly, especially ...... (fill in your favourite).
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I think Joao lives in a pretty far off corner of his little
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country. Otherwise he could have noticed that most parts of
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Portugal are quite modern and the people there live in almost
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the same universe as the rest of what we call western
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civilisation.
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I think it is a frightening thing you can see anywhere. Here in
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Holland, which is about the same size as Portugal, we have about
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a zillion different net-works. Every crackpot who doesn't like
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the shoes of his NC starts his own net. There is a constant
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quarrel about sharing cost of E-mail, about exchanging areas,
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about anything you can imagine.
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And the worst thing: it is not an exclusive European problem. We
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have a world-wide thing here. All these policy-proposals with a
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million new rules just make the big movement that FIDO is, fall
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apart. The only rules we really need are rules about the
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technical whats-ye-call-its of E-mail, anything else is
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extremely annoying behaviour in my opinion.
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I agree with Joao that I would like to read some more European
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stories in what is also "our" snooze. Which of course is not the
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editors' problem but ours. We Europeans should do something about
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it. Joao somehow started something, this is my answer, who's
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 4 14 Jun 1993
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next?
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No Privacy Or Safety For Sysops
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Joe Sysop @ 1:something/something
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I received the call at my second job..."This is Detective X of the
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Sheriff's Office...we need you to come home. We're serving you with
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a search warrant."
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I had been arrested several days earlier, as a piece of computer
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equipment that I had thought salvage was found to be stolen. With
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the property now retrieved, I thought that was the end of it, I would
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go to court, and once I told my side of it, it would all be over.
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Not so...despite the thoughts of how easy it would be, I soon found
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out some harsh details, and in writing this, warn you, sysops and
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users alike, that more may happen than you think. The criminal
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element of this matter is not the important part; it is what has
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happened after that which is of concern to all.
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I came home to discover several police vehicles, marked and unmarked,
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in front of my home, and every piece of electronic equipment I had,
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computer and not, strewn across the house. I was taken into my own
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room to identify my own computer, and found a police officer, not a
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sheriff, downloading my hard drive into a Bernoulli box. I was
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interrogated more about the initial arrest, and responded...but then,
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the questions took another turn.
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"Who is your overseas connection?" "Who is it in Washington State
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that is your contact?" "We found a 'hacking' program on your hard
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drive...want to tell us about it?" "What do you charge people to use
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your system?" "What kind of pornography do you have for download?
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"Do you make it available for children?" "Do you have any porno of
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kids?"
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I've run a BBS for two years, and other than the typical shareware
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violation which comes about from not having the money immediately,
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there was nothing illegal being run on my system. If anything
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questionable was done, it was on one of the two other non-BBS
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systems...but illegal activity on-line is not something I engage in.
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While I was being questioned, I saw all my computer systems being
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carried out the door, including the BBS. I was now under
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investigation, I was told, but no one would tell me what my BBS had
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to do with that investigation.
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Later, a friend called to let me know that his phone records had been
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pulled up for the last six months...he had been notified by a law
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enforcement source of someone investigating him. The connection
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between us was that of a daily poll to his BBS...and, having once
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worked extensively with phone systems, I notice some tell-tale noises
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on my voice-line.
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 5 14 Jun 1993
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To date, I am only charged with the initial crime...nothing has come
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out of the confiscation of my BBS, or the software on board. Yet
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still, my BBS is in police custody, for a matter being investigated
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by the Sheriff's Office. Unlike some places, the Police and Sheriff's
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here are not a joint police force...so what crime is the Police
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investigating me for? In the court records, where the investigation
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report is in public view, no mention is made of the police officer
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assisting the Sheriff.
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Am I a victim of Operation Sundevil? Is it an overactive and overly
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zealous local cop, thinking he can make it big by 'breaking' this
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bizarre 'international modem conspiracy' that's been concocted? And
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now...?
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The search warrant itself is interesting; fourteen specific items are
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being sought, none of which were located at home or in storage---yet
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there are eight 'general' listings which served to give enough
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latitude for everything else.
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"Any and all telephones with memory devices or speed dialers..."
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"Computers, CPUs, etc, together with peripheral equipment, such as
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keyboards..."
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"Any and all computer or data processing software..."
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"Records or documents in any format relating to theft of telephone or
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communications services, or unauthorized access to computer,
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electronic or voice mail systems..."
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"Any computer or data processing literature..."
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"Proof of occupancy..."
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"Any confirmation or purchase order numbers reflecting use of credit
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cards or credit services..."
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"Neutralize and seize any degaussing equipment..."
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Suffice to say, this is a massive fishing expedition. There has been
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some bad blood between the particular police officer and myself;
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indeed, most of the network locally, when he refused to investigate a
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hacker locally, and said that our evidence was insufficient...even
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after he had spoken to the hacker and was _told_ an admission of
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guilt by the person!
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The word is out locally, however, it needs to go out everywhere...
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Judges and magistrates who issue search warrants are gullible for the
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type of technobabble that anyone can spring on them. Warrants are
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issued because the judges do not know any better, and because the
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officer can buffalo the judge into including things not even
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marginally related.
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The entirety and enormity of the Steve Jackson Games raid hit home
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to me...
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NO ONE IS SAFE. Even if you are completely and totally innocent,
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even if you have never even had so much as a parking ticket, your
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entire computer system can be confiscated as 'evidence' SIMPLY
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BECAUSE YOU HAVE ONE.
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 6 14 Jun 1993
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On the side, I've begun investigating...interestingly, when a
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computer has been located at the site of an arrest, the local
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authorities seem to confiscate them as evidence. It is of no concern
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that the crime is outstanding traffic tickets or Murder One...the
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fact that a suspect has a computer gives the police the opportunity
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to search it for 'evidence' of more crimes.
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If you have a computer, the assumption is that it is used for some
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form of criminal activity. That's it...that's the story. Your
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system will be downloaded and searched by the police. Your private
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mail will be read; your programs will be searched; any writing you
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do will be held against you.
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In my own case, my brother sent me the formula for black powder
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(gunpowder) through the Internet several years ago, and it sits in
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archived old mail on my drive...I'm waiting to see what I get charged
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with now...
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What can be done? I'm posting this to the community at large...first
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to see that everyone protects themselves; second to see if anyone can
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assist. I have been in contact with the Electronic Frontier
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Foundation, and my criminal attorney is to be in touch with them.
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No, by assistance, I mean to ask for advice to others as well...to
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protect the privacy of electronic mail, to frustrate attempts to
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breach that privacy, and get rid of the secret-police tactics of the
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'fishing expedition' method of police investigations.
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The future is now, people...even the innocent are no longer safe from
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the police. The next step is to assume that if a modem tone is heard
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on the phone that is an indication of illegal activity...and into
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your home they will go.
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In the meantime, I sit at home, waiting under house arrest...no one
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calls because the phone is tapped, and messages go out from this
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cobbled-together backup computer only in compressed bundles to
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frustrate them even more. The case drags on through the courts, and
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as much as a year will go by before I can get my computer systems
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back from the 'evidence' locker...'evidence' which has _nothing_ to
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do with the actual charges against me.
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And, at anytime, I could be you. Think about it.
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 7 14 Jun 1993
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Start Writing!
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A Rebuttal to Joao Ledo
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by Richard Bash - Combat Arms BBS SysOp (1:105/68)
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Regarding the article (FidoNews? What's it?) in the 31 May
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1993 issue of FidoNews, Joao Ledo (2:361/10) wrote complaining
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about the dearth of articles from nodes outside the United
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States:
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JL> We have our own problems, not yours. Why are we forced to
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JL> read all this junk? I will never read it again! At least
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JL> untill you publish articles on Fidonet, not on America.
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JL> Please put this into your heads: Fidonet is all around the
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JL> world, not only in America.
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I think Mr. Ledo is completely overlooking something here.
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His article w=a=s published. Why are other articles from outside
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the United States not published? Because people do n=o=t write
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them. Consequently, there is no discrimination against non-United
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States nodes submitting articles. The answer, instead of berating
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the United States, seems to lie in one of two choices:
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1. Start a non-United States version of FidoNews. Personally I
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think this is the best solution and rather long overdue.
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Then people who are frustrated, such as Mr. Ledo, will not
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have to read articles relating to the United States
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2. Get Mr. Ledo's non-United States colleagues who are Fido
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nodes to start writing and submitting articles.
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This is a non-problem, in my view. There are few non-United
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States articles published simply because there are few non-United
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States nodes writing articles. The attack on the United States is
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(a) tiresome and (b) totally incorrect. The editor of FidoNews
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(which Mr. Ledo should know if he has been reading as much as he
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claimed) is no longer a United States node but Canadian! If there
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is a problem, then it is that the international language of
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FidoNet is English. There must be some semblance of standards and
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during this period of history, English is t=h=e standard in
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FidoNet, international aviation communications, most scientific
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publications, etc. It is merely a way to communicate with the
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largest possible audience.
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Any node recognizes that the United States is not the
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entirety of FidoNet. According to NODELIST.155, the following is
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true (provided by NLSTAT.EXE):
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Statistics for: NODELIST.155
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Sun Jun 06 09:23:23 1993
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Total nodes listed: 24677
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Total size in bytes: 2019570
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 8 14 Jun 1993
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- Zone Node Usage Summary -
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1: 14333 (58.08 %) 2: 7674 (31.10 %) 3: 1067 ( 4.32 %)
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4: 394 ( 1.60 %) 5: 127 ( 0.51 %) 6: 1082 ( 4.38 %)
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Thus there are 10,344 nodes (7674+1067+394+127+1082=10344)
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outside Zone 1 (and remember that Zone 1 includes Canada). The
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solution is, accordingly, to get these 10,3344 nodes to submit
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articles. Such articles are ideally technical in nature.
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I submit that people (being "people") are simply lazy. They
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do not submit articles. There are few of the 14,333 Zone 1 nodes
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who submit articles. When was the last time you e=v=e=r saw an
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article from an Austrian node (Zone 2)? From a node in Singapore
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(Zone 6), From a node in Zambia (Zone 5)? From a node in Panama
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(Zone 4)? From a node in New Zealand (Zone 3)? Never (or
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definitely not in recent memory)! So, Mr. Ledo is incorrect in
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his complaint. There is no known effort to restrict the
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publication of articles from such nodes. They simply do not
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submit articles for publication!
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I have long thought that the interests of those outside the
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United States would be best served if they would band together
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and issue their own FidoNews for their particular Zone. That
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would enable, for example, European nodes to discuss problems of
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common interest to them. No, Mr. Ledo, the problem here is not
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the United States. The problem is simply p=e=o=p=l=e and getting
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"people" (in the United States and elsewhere) to submit articles.
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I would recommend that Mr. Ledo and others who share his
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feeling change things. Let them start sending notices to the NC's
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of Zone 2 (and other zones) and tell them to get people to start
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submitting technical articles of interest to a=l=l FidoNet
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members. Consider starting a Zone 2, Zone 3, or Zone "x"
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FidoNews. Otherwise, Mr. Ledo's complaints have no merit, are
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provincial and serve no practical purpose. Mr. Ledo has my
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sympathy but that is all. The United States is not the problem
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here. The problem is getting nodes from other zones to start
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writing. For that, the United States cannot and should not be the
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solution. The solution is up to Mr. Ledo and his non-United
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States colleagues. They should not complain. Instead, they would
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be well advised to start writing articles and submit them. Their
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articles w=i=l=l be published.
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Sincerely yours,
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Richard Bash, BS, MPA
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SysOp - Combat Arms BBS
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Portland, Oregon [USA]
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1:105/68
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Announcing yet two more echos
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 9 14 Jun 1993
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By: Coridon Henshaw of 1:250/820
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I am pleased to announce the existance of yet two more echos,
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GRAPHICS_PROG and SOUNDCARD_PROG. These echos are for decimenating
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information on programming two of the least understood types of devices
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that quite a few people have attached to their PCs, graphics cards and
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soundcards.
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I decided to attempt to create these echos for two reasons:
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1: Programming information for these devices doesn't get around that
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well....
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2: What information that DOES get around stays inside language-specific
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programming echos.
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Both of these echos are for concepts and examples only, in any
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programming language. I may ask people to use some kind of
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esudeo-code at some point for ease of understanding, but right now,
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that is not requried.
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Companion FILE ECHOs are avalible for the transmition of large amounts
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of source code.
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Anyone interested in linking into this conference should contact me
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via routed or direct (DURING Z1MH) netmail.
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Area Netmail, Msg#58, Jun-02-93 17:17:36
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From: Juan Farre (2:343/105.29)
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To: Donald Tees (1:221/192)
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Subject: LETTER TO THE EDITORS
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Dear Editors,
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I've been reading the last issue of *FidoNews* and my surprise is that you
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are demanding articles from the members of *FidoNet*: points, nodes, etc.
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and, at the same time, you make your comments on what the people of *FidoNet*
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say. I think that a section in FidoNews devoted to *Letters to the Editors*
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should be the natural way to publish all those ideas, comments and flashes
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about any question referred to the Net, its members, or to *FidoNews*, that
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are not suitable for an article.
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This could be the first letter to be published, if you agree.
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Regards!
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Juan Farre
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Fidonews Information
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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 10 14 Jun 1993
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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
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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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Kitchener, Ontario
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Canada
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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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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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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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FidoNews 10-24 Page: 11 14 Jun 1993
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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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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, and 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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