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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No.12 (20-Mar-1995)
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| A newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" BBS |
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| _ | +1-519-570-4176 |
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| /|oo \ | Sheep affairs desk: |
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| (_| /_) | Doc Logger 1:163/110 |
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| _`@/_ \ _ | Rev. Richard Visage 1:163/409 |
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| | | \ \\ | |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Editors: |
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| |__U__| / \// | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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| _//|| _\ / | Sylvia Maxwell 1:221/194 |
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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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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Max -- max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Tim Pozar -- pozar@kumr.lns.com |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of fidonews or the internet gateway faq |
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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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Echomail to SYSOP........................................... 2
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WEIRDNEWS Conference Available.............................. 3
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PRO_LIFE conference......................................... 3
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 4
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Editorial
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FidoNews 12-12 Page: 2 20 Mar 1995
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A short issue today with only three articles.
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Our election in Region 12 is over, and a new RC has been
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elected for another year. Now that the euphoria of finding
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someone new is done with, I suppose it is time to get down to
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flaming him several times per week. Such a chore ...
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Here is the snooze.
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Articles
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Echomail to SYSOP
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By Ed Gavin
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1:267/161
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I've been reading the FN_SYSOP & SYSOP areas lately without it
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being flagged to my attention on a daily basis like some others
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out there in Echoland. Never to be outdone by other nets, the
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Fido Sysops have created yet another means of irritating
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ourselves. The not-so-origional originator of our latest screen
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sport of under skin crawling, Alan Boritz took the opportunity
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to let a portion of Fido-world know that their BBS software
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wasn't working as he intended.
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Since messaging to SYSOP is not an entirely new phenom in
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Echoland it is hard to blame/credit Alan for the sole creation
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of the sport. But like Ruth to baseball Boritz has raised the
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level of the sport out of the cornfields and into our very
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lives. Unfortunately 1995 doesn't look promising for either.
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Our very own Sultan of Swat deserves recognition for his record
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before it just becomes another passing fad or just another
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sinking feeling in the annals of net history. In order to
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enshrine our heros we must recognize their contributions and
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what better way than to name the sport after them. The
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originators of junk mail never got the recognition they
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deserved, the first spammers are long forgotten, let us never
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forget Alan's first posts to SYSOP.
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By consensus we may decide an appropriate name we can recognize
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the talents of our very own! I'd propose we all remember Alan
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with a catchy nickname for his sport, something like, "Boritzing
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the Sysop" or "Boritzing- Behavior" before the tradition fades
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away with the "Boritz Bug-Fix"!
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Boritzing my way through the inbound.
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Ed
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FidoNews 12-12 Page: 3 20 Mar 1995
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WEIRDNEWS Conference Available
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by David Brien
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Sysop, 1:107/725
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The WEIRDNEWS Conference contains strange but true facts, like:
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Mankind makes up 0.00000000000000000000013 percent of all
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the earth's living things.
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and news items, such as:
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In Kalama, Washington, 83 year old E.C. Boone hit a dog with his
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pickup truck. He stopped, and his 86 year old wife, May Belle, got
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out to see how badly the animal was hurt. According to Police Chief
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Ron Pease, the husband "Looked out the mirror and thought she was
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motioning for him to back up and started to back up. In the meantime,
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she walked behind the truck and he backed over her. She started to
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hollar and scream, then he put the truck in forward and drove over
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her again."
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culled from magazines and newswires around the globe by an occasional
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author of such collections, Jon Standish. Jon is currently posting
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about 20 message a week, each about 2K. This is not a read-only
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conference, but it reads like one. Of course, everyone is encouraged
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to post responses and new items.
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If you think your callers would enjoy reading WEIRDNEWS, why not pick
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it up? The conference is available to all by sending a netmail to
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SYSOP@1:107/725.
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PRO_LIFE conference
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From: Jon Guidry (1:3803/11.1701)
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Hello to all your sysops (and users) out there. :) There's
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always room in FIDOnet for another conference, so I'm launching
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a PRO_LIFE conference.
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I know some of you might REALLY want this conference, and some
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may "blast" me, as the PRO_LIFE issue is a very touchy subject.
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As moderator of R_CATHOLIC, I see to it that peaceful discussion
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that actually yields some- thing takes place. I don't allow
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uncontrolled arguing and "bashing" inside R_CATHOLIC, and won't
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allow it in PRO_LIFE.
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PRO_LIFE is a conference that anybody concerned about the
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Pro-Life move- ment can join. Whether you are Roman Catholic,
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Methodist, etc, if you support the cause of life, you are more
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than welcome to join this conference.
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FidoNews 12-12 Page: 4 20 Mar 1995
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Alex Mottram @ 1:3803/16 may be contacted for feeds. If he
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doesn't respond right away, feel free to mail him more than
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once, as he is very busy.
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R_CATHOLIC and PRO_LIFE are also linked to the Catholic
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Information Network, which is hosted by Mike Molleurus at
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1:202/1613.
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Again, thanks for your support. When I put R_CATHOLIC in the
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E-list, and sent in the submission to FIDOSTAT.NA, I really got
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support from the REC's.
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Thanks!
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Jon (1:3803/11.1701)
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Fidonews Information
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Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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Sylvia -- 1:221/194, max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca
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FidoNews 12-12 Page: 5 20 Mar 1995
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