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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No.37 (11-Sep-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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| | | \ \\ | Editors: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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| |__U__| / \// | Sylvia M. 1:221/194 |
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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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| submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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| Sylvia max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca |
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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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Table of Contents
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1. Editorial..................................................... 1
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2. Articles...................................................... 2
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Win95....................................................... 3
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GUY KAWASAKI'S TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY WINDOWS 95............. 3
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MULTIMEDIA STYLES........................................... 4
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Backbone Echo Changes [Jul-Aug]............................. 4
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99 Best Hangouts Online..................................... 5
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Howdy... Here's my article.................................. 9
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Carbon copies sent to: Will Wright (1:2805/0), Tim Pearson ( 10
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
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Editorial
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 2 11 Sep 1995
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Hello World!
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i am fond of the sound of the modem picking up a connection. it
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is a very nice sound, it makes me happy. i like it.
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i also am fond of a blue folder which some generous person
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donated to the Rockway Mennonite Thrift Store, where i bought it for
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fifty cents. It is worth more than money.
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The title on the cover is "Using the Newspaper in the Classroom;
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a Manual of Suggestions for Secondary Schools", prepared by the
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Educational Activities Department of The Globe and Mail. There is a
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name penned in red ink on its upper right hand corner which is:
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P.ENNS. Serendipitous, eh? I wish to share with as many as
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possible the words from a loose page found inside this precious blue
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folder:
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Freedom of the Press
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Freedom of the press is not a special
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privilege of newspapers but derives
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from the fundamental right of
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every person to have full and free
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access to the facts in all matters that
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directly or indirectly concern him,
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and from his equal right to express
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and publish his opinions thereon
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and to hear and read the opinions
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of others.
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In protection of these fundamental
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human rights it is essential that
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the press should be free to gather
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news without obstruction or
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interference and free to publish the
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news and to comment thereon.
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CANADIAN DAILY NEWSPAPER PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION
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Having quoted the above, i will stop worrying about whether or
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not i should publish yet another article, and as usual include
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everything that has been submitted.
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Thankyou for your contributions of expression, response, and
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provocation,
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sylvia
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Articles
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 3 11 Sep 1995
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From: Kevin Mccauley (1:249/157)
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Win95
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Here is just a little blurb about what I think about Win95 ....
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Win95
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I'm sure you've all heard of Win95 by now. If not you either
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live in a cave somewhere or have no brain activity. I've never
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seen so much hype over a computer program (Other than Doom). The
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one big advantage Win95 has is it's supporting software
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collection. OS/2 Warp was tested to be better at multi-tasking
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and has better internet utilities. Everyone is raving over the
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new mac-like interface. This comes as no big deal to me, there
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has been OS/2 Warp and a little known OS called GeoWorks around
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for a while and both are very user friendly. GeoWorks will no
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longer be creating Software for Desktops unfortunalty. It has
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all those file folders and stuff. The Point I'm trying to make
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is that Win95 dosen't really deserve all the hype it's getting.
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Sure it's a big step for Microsoft but the same sort of system
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has been avaiable for a couple of years now.
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Kevin McCauley
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BY: The Deranged Alchemist #1 @6855
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GUY KAWASAKI'S TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY WINDOWS 95
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Below are the "Top 10 Reasons To Buy Windows 95" as delivered by Guy
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Kawasaki during David Nagel's keynote address at Macworld Boston.
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~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
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10) Do you know how much it costs to furnish a 35,000 square foot
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house in Seattle?
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9) You always wanted Microsoft to maintain a database of your hard
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drive.
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8) The access number for AOL is always busy, so you'd rather join
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Microsoft Network.
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7) Fewer Mac sales will mean you can get the 8100 you ordered 7 months
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ago.
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6) You finally have an excuse to upgrade your system.
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5) You want to plug and plug and plug. (You don't mind waiting for the
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play?)
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4) Your mom is a Mercedes dealer in Seattle.
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 4 11 Sep 1995
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3) Internet is too full of information, so you'd like Bill Gates to
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decide what you should see.
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2) You think the Justice Department should be fighting monopolies not
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crime.
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1) Bob '95
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<< ==============OK Enough for now================================>>>
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--ShadowSpawn
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Regards,
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Perry
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FROM: Dennis W. Webb
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MULTIMEDIA STYLES
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In new book "I Sing The Body Electronic: A Year With Microsoft on the
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Multimedia Frontier," a senior Microsoft manager explains multimedia
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"designers" (writers, artists, etc.) and "developers" (programmers):
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"Designers are invariably female, are talkative, live in lofts, have
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vegetarian diets and wear found objects in their ears. Developers
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are invariably male, eat fast food and don't talk except to say,
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'Not true.'"
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(Viking Publ. Co., 1995)
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Backbone Echo Changes [Jul-Aug]
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by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/6
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lisa@m2xenix.psg.com
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Summary of backbone & quasi-backbone echo changes during Jul & Aug.
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Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.
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diff (fidonet.na + fidonet.no) 02-Jul-95 ditto 03-Sep-95 [edited]
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Added to the backbone
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> ARCSOFT "ArcticSoft Development" Support
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> ASTRONET Astronomy Echo
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> CHIPSMAG Chips 'n' Bits Magazine Echo
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> COLLEGE_SINGLES College Singles -- COLLEGE companion echo.
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> DISK_CACHE Disk Cache Technical Conference
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> FENCE_POST Cuz & Discuss debates with BoneHeads
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> FITNESS Health & Fitness Discussion
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> GO_PROD_SUP Green/Ortiz Product Support Echo
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> KLINGON_RPG Klingon Role-Playing Game Echo
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> LATEST_VERSIONS Latest Versions in Fidonet
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> LAW_&_FREEDOM Discussions on Law & Freedom
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> MACDTP Mac-oriented discussion of Prepress and DTP
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 5 11 Sep 1995
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> MCMAIL McMail Support
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> META_UFO Metaphysics, UFOs and correlation discussion.
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> MEXICAN_LINK Mexico's International Link
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> MODEMS Discussion of modems of all types.
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> NEW_WAVE_MUSIC New Wave Music
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> OLD_ENGINE Old Engine lovers' discussion conference on Fido
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> RADIO_HOBBY-ALL Hobby Radio: Low Power FM, CB, Scanners, Shortwave
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> SIP_ALANON ALANON RECOVERY
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> STEP_PARENT Discuss issues relating to step parenting.
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> SYSOPS FidoNet Sysops Policy and Tech Development
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> TREK_FOR_SALE Buying & Selling Star Trek Collectables!
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NOTE: ASTRONET is a new echo for ASTRONOMY participants who got
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an unwanted moderator when the EchoList entry expired and
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the original echotag was ELISTed by Chris Freeze.
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NOTE: GO_PROD_SUP was earlier dropped from the backbone for low
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traffic, actually due to a topology snafu.
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Removed from the backbone or quasi-backbone
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-------------------------------------------
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< AMIGA_PDREVIEW (not in EchoList since 3/1/95)
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< CANADA (not in EchoList since 6/1/95)
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< LV_GAMBLER (not in EchoList since 3/1/95)
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< REMOVE_BOB_SATTI *C's are not elected for life
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< REMOVE_GEORGE_PEACE *C's are not elected for life
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< REVIEWS (not in EchoList since 5/1/95)
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< ROBOTIX Robotics and robot builders conference
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< TCXL (not in EchoList since 3/1/95)
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< WARNINGS Warnings of Public Interest
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o There are 729 echos in fidonet.na [03-Sep-95] (down 53)
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o There are 85 echos in fidonet.no [03-Sep-95] (up 67)
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o for a total of 814 backbone & quasi-backbone echos (up 14)
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From: RanD (1:141/1030)
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99 Best Hangouts Online
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Ice hockey, stamp collecting, pig breeding, kinky sex--whatever your
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interest, you can indulge it online. Come explore the most
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intriguing, edifying, and fun places in cyberspace.
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In the 1950s, we hung out at the soda shop, browsing through the
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comics and buying root-beer floats from Pop Jenkins. By the late
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1960s, my friends hung out behind the Kates' stable, dropping LSD.
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The heavy-metal hangout of the 1970s was the 7-Eleven. The '80s had
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no hangouts (part of the problem with that decade, I guess). Now
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we're here in the Information Superhighway '90s, and, not
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surprisingly, the best place to hang is online. And why not? It
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has all the elements of the perfect hangout. It's trendy, you meet
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people there, our parents seem intimidated by it, and there is
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 6 11 Sep 1995
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always something to discover. But online sites are different from
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the hangouts of previous decades. They represent a revolution in
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communication and information sharing. They have managed to become
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cool and useful places for almost anyone, without acquiring the
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usual stigma associated with, for example, taking the useful (but
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very uncool) family station wagon to pick up your date on Saturday
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night.
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Hanging out online has never been easier. In addition to the
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commercial services--CompuServe, America Online (AOL), Prodigy, and
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GEnie--and their databases, message boards, and special-interest
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groups, you'll find plenty of ways to access the Internet, that
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worldwide network of mailing lists, databases, and discussion groups
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that used to be available only to academics and government workers.
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Both CompuServe and AOL let you easily subscribe to Internet
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newsgroups. Other services, such as the WELL and Delphi, offer
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Internet access as part of their subscription packages.
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But if you want to have fun online, you have to spend some time
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looking around. That's the only way you'll find the goodies--whether
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you want sound and movie clips, controversial conversation, free
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software, or X-rated novels. And that means you'll have to become a
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net cruiser.
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Net cruising comes pretty easily to most people. To get you started,
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here are some of our favorite hangouts in cyberspace. We've covered
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everything from computers to crocheting, so you're bound to find
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something you enjoy. Once you get into the spirit of exploration, it
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won't take long before you find your own favorite places--where you
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feel most comfortable and can get to know the regulars.
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--Seth Godin
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Seth Godin is the author of The Internet White Pages and E-mail
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Addresses of the Rich and Famous.
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How Do I Get There?
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You'll find a lot of, the hangouts we recommend on the commercial
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online services America Online, CompuServe, GEnie, and Prodigy.
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These services aren't free--you'll pay around $10 and up a month to
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subscribe--but you'll get easy access to files, bulletin boards, and
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members who share your interests. To subscribe to any of the
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services, call the numbers listed below to get copies of the
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software and a password, or you can buy a new user's kit at your
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local computer store. Membership is also available online; using a
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standard terminal-emulation program (such as Windows' Terminal or
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ZTerm for Macs) you can access CompuServe and GEnie, as well as
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Delphi and the WELL. Call the service to get a local access number,
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use your modem to dial in, and follow the onscreen directions for
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logging on.
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America Online: (800) 827-6364 or (703) 448-8700.
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CompuServe: (800) 848-8990 or (614) 457-8600.
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 7 11 Sep 1995
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Delphi: (800) 695-4005 or (617) 491-3393.
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GEnie: (800) 638-9636 or (301) 340-4000 (ask for GEnie).
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Prodigy: (800) 776-3449.
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The WELL: (415) 332-4335.
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Each service uses a different term for navigating its various areas:
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AOL's is keyword; Prodigy's, Jump; and CompuServe's, Go. We use
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these terms throughout.
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What's a Newsgroup?
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Newsgroups are Internet discussion groups that cover thousands of
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topics from the prosaic to the weird. The easiest way to access them
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is through AOL or CompuServe; on AOL, use the keyword newsgroups,
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and on CompuServe, type go internet.
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Other services, such as Delphi and the WELL, also let you access
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newsgroups, but you have to use special newsreader software to read
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the messages. Follow each service's directions for downloading and
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using newsreaders.
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What's FTP?
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FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is a tool that lets you use the
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Internet to download files from remote computers (FTP sites). There
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are hundreds of FTP sites scattered around for general access. To
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find out what files reside at the various sites, you can use a
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search tool called Archie, which regularly scans and records the
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contents of FTP sites. To access Archie, send an e-mail message to
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archie@archie.mcgill.ca with a request in the header's subject line.
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What's WWW?
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A new way to access the Internet is via the World Wide Web, which
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links documents and files on similar subjects located at different
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sites. The program Mosaic is an increasingly popular means of
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getting to the WWW; CompuServe's Internet forum (go internet) offers
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information on Mosaic, as do several books about the Internet.
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What's a BBS?
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Bulletin board systems, or BBSes, are small, specialized online
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services, and there are thousands to choose from. Many hardware and
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software companies run BBSes to answer tech-support questions. User
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groups run BBSes so members can swap shareware and ideas. And
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interest groups set up BBSes just to discuss issues. To access a
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bulletin board system, use terminal emulation software; you'll
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receive log-on instructions onscreen. To find BBSes, contact your
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local user group, check the back pages of computer publications, or
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check out Boardwatch Magazine [(303) 973-6038]. If you have access
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to the Internet, check out the newsgroup alt.bbs.ads, which features
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 8 11 Sep 1995
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advertisements for a selection of diverse BBSes.
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That's Entertainment
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A little net surfing is the perfect prelude to an evening of channel
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surfing-- or a visit to the video store. Seth Godin shares his
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favorite places to meet the stars online and points you to the
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better fan hangouts.
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Best places to dish: If you want showbiz gossip, and I mean dirt,
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there's only one place go: the Internet newsgroup alt.showbiz.gossip.
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It leaves the National Enquirer in the dust. Alt.supermodels is
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pretty good, too, especially if you're a fan of Fox TV's Models, Inc.
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Best place to pick a video: The Internet Movie Database (World Wide
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Web at http://www.msstate.edu/movies/) is an online database for
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the readers of the Internet newsgroup rec.arts.movies. It's filled
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with all the information you'd ever want--and a whole lot you'd
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never want--to know about motion pictures. You can search for
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credits from individual films and find all the films with a
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particular actor or even a character.
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Best place for armchair Siskels and Eberts: CompuServe's
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ShowBiz-Media forum (go showbiz) can be a cramped hangout, but its
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discussions of movies, films, and showbiz are fascinating and
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educating. Even Roger Ebert hangs out here.
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Best place to meet the stars: Does Mick Jagger really cruise the
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net? One way to find out is to post a message to him the next time
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he's the featured star in Prodigy's Ask the Stars bulletin board
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(Jump:guest). At the end of the week, selected questions are
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answered by the star and posted to the bulletin board for all to
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read. Check with Prodigy to find out which stars are featured when.
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Best place for showbiz info: CompuServe's Hollywood Hotline (go
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hollywood) is an online guide to movies, television programs, and
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music recordings. You can get reviews of all the popular TV shows
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here, and there's a trivia quiz to keep you guessing.
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Best place to meet a TV producer: The creator of Warner Brothers'
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sci-fi TV series Babylon 5, Michael Straczynski, hangs out in
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GEnie's Science Fiction Roundtable (SFRT2). You can also find him on
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the Internet in the Babylon 5 newsgroup rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.
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It's tantalizing to have the producer available to answer questions
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and dangle hints about upcoming episodes.
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Best place for bizarre movie tales: Legends, rumors, and true tales
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of the bizarre can be verified or debunked by a wide variety of
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folks who have posted information on the Internet's Movie Legends
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Database. You'll find plenty of strange facts about popular movies
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from The Wizard of Oz to The Little Mermaid. To get to the complete
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collection, use FTP to reach cathouse.org (/pub/cathouse/urban.
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legends/movies).
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Best places after midnight: Discussion of the world of late-night
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 9 11 Sep 1995
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talk-show hosts is all over the net, especially in the newsgroups
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alt.fan.letterman, alt.fan.jay-leno, alt.fan.conan-obrien, and the
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catchall alt.tv.talkshows.late. One of the best sources for
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information and opinion about late night is in the electronic
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newsletter Late Show News. This weekly guide lets you in on what's
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happening in late-night TV and in the TV industry at large. (To
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subscribe, send the message subscribe late-show-news to
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listserv@mcs.net.)
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Sports Crazy!
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Mild-mannered writer David Noack's passion is sports--watching them,
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discussing them, memorizing statistics, and reliving great plays.
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Luckily for him, the online world is ready to feed his need to talk
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about the Red Sox, download stats, or occasionally manage his own
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ball club. So much for the neighborhood bar.
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Best place for instant scores: Prodigy teamed up this year with the
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nationwide sports cable channel ESPN to provide ESPNet (Jump: espn),
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a nonstop virtual sports community.
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Best place for Joe Montana fans: Prodigy's National Football League
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Online Fan Club (Jump: nfl) is an interactive area that puts
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gridiron enthusiasts in touch with NFL players, breaking football
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stories, and exclusive information on the game.
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--cont'd next week!
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From: Ryan Watson (1:2440/2)
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Howdy... Here's my article...
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I've not been quite an avid reader of the news, but of the ones that
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I've seen lately, there aren't many articles. Is this because noone
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seems to care? I'm not sure, but I do know that this is our
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crowning newsletter, for all the sysops in FidoNet.
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I recently went back to college, after an extended hiatus. I'm
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a Lab Assistant for the computer labs at Akron University (Wayne
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College). I decided to FTP to FidoNet.org, and found some of the
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history of Fidonet there for the public, an interesting start to say
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the least. There were also old FidoNet newsletters available there,
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it's too bad that we don't or can't communicate like those who used
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to. It would greatly benefit all of the FidoNet community to
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express our opinions and take our discussions not only to the
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echoes, but also to the newsletter.
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In conclusion, let's hear it. I can think of nothing that would
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benefit us better than to be more informed, and also more involved.
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I know that things have been sort of jumbled lately, but let's get
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back to the business of keeping an intelligent and interesting, and
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diverse community of people.
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R. Matthew Watson (BVFD Unit #1821)
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 10 11 Sep 1995
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Dallas Hinton Falsifies Evidence In Policy Complaint
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By Alan Boritz - 1:2605/102@fidonet.org
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A FidoNet RC falsify evidence against one of his fellow sysops?
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Strange, but apparently true. It seems that Dallas Hinton, a former
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Canadian high school music teacher, currently the region 17
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coordinator, and a sysop of three systems in the same network as Bob
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Satti (net 153), was so eager to file a policy complaint against one
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sysop that he skipped the most basic step in any Policy4 complaint
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action (communication with the "problem" sysop).
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Mr. Hinton's "complaint" began with a netmail message. This one,
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in fact. Note the date and time when written:
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(85) Thu 3 Aug 95 20:47 Cost: 0
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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By: Dallas Hinton, BandMaster (1:153/715)
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To: Brent Hamm
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Re: Policy Complaint
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St: Pvt Crash Kill
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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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@MSGID: 1:153/715.0 0219075d
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@CHRS: IBMPC 2
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Original message addressed to: Brent Hamm (1:2805/1).
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Carbon copies sent to: Will Wright (1:2805/0), Tim Pearson (1:14/0),
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Bob Satti (1:1/0).
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Brent!
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In a recent message in the WARNINGS echo, you signed yourself as:
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_ _ _ O / _ _ C_U_T_ H_E_R_E_ _ _ _
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O \
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The Terminator, 1:289/22
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FidoNet International Coordinator
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--- FMail/386 1.0g
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* Origin: The EchoMail Liberation Army (1:2805/1)
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[...]
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PATH: 2805/1 2 3615/50 396/1 270/101 153/920 716
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_ _ _ O / _ _ C_U_T_ H_E_R_E_ _ _ _
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O \
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If you post another message with a fake signature, you will be the
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subject of a policy complaint. Impersonation of a *C is not acceptable
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behaviour in FidoNet.
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Dallas Hinton
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RC 17
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@Via 1:153/715 @19950804.054749 TNT 0.99B0204+
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--
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 11 11 Sep 1995
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24 hours later, Dallas Hinton posted a public message in the MODERATOR
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conference announcing that he had ALREADY filed a PC against Mr. Hamm:
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Date: Fri Aug 04 1995 20:55:54
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^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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From: Dallas Hinton
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To: Charles Ring
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Subj: Hijacking Threat
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MODERATOR -------------------------------
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Hi Charles -- recently you wrote in a message to All:
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CR> "The Terminator" has already started disrupting the WARNINGS
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CR> echo and has convinced some users that he's its moderator.
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CR> It's not the first time that this vandal/bully has caused
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CR> havoc. Why is everyone afraid of him?
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I would suggest that a flood of netmail to his Net Coordinator would
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impress the NC to hint gently at him regarding the likelihood of his
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node number lasting.
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FYI, I have filed a policy complaint (section 1.3.5, paragraph 2,
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sentence 5) with his NC (Will Wright) over Mr. Hamm signing himself as
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"FidoNet International Coordinator". I promptly received netmail from
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a mental midget in a different net signing himself "Satanus Maximus"
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and claiming to be "Regional Coordinator of Region 17". Since I
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haven't been told by the ZC that I've been replaced, I'll be filing a
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PC against him, too. <sigh>.
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That's more PCs in a week than I've filed my previous 8 years in
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FidoNet.
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Cheers ... Dallas
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Moderator, SURVIVOR and RGN17 echoes
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RC 17
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-!- timEd 1.10.g1+
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! Origin: The BandMaster, Vancouver BC, CANADA [604-266-7754]
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(1:153/715)
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--
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Let's recap the dates of those messages:
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Thursday, 8/3/95 @ 20:47 - Hinton SENDS his 9.1 message.
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Friday, 8/4/95 @ 20:55 - Hinton claims he's ALREADY filed a PC with
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N2805C.
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Mr. Hinton, supposedly an experienced RC and competent sysop, had
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reason to know that a netmail response may not be immediately
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forthcoming, since he had no way of knowing when Mr. Hamm would first
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read his netmail message, and especially since Mr. Hinton has admitted
|
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to having "problems" with netmail. And as an experienced sysop,
|
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familiar with echomail topology and message propagation, Mr. Hinton
|
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knows full well that echomail messages can take several days to travel
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FidoNews 12-37 Page: 12 11 Sep 1995
|
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|
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through wide-area routing between Mr. Hamm's and his locations.
|
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|
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Although Mr. Hinton now claims to have "communicated" with the subject
|
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of his PC, Mr. Hinton's own messages, presented to Will Wright (N2805C)
|
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and posted publicly, show that he had NO intention of waiting for Mr.
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Hamm's response to his 9.1 (required communication) message before
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filing his PC, since he acted LONG before he could have reasonably
|
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received either a response, or to see the results of his "request" in
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the echomail conferences Mr. Hinton was reading that resulted in this
|
||
conflict.
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A ridiculous PC based on a ridiculous "complaint," with no relation to
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Policy4. Hinton's complaint has already been struck down at the NC and
|
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RC levels, though Hinton secretly filed his complaint with R14C (so
|
||
that the sysop against whom the complaint was filed would not have the
|
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opportunity to respond to his appeal). Will Hinton appeal secretly
|
||
(again) to Z1C, and will Bob Satti (Z1C) mysteriously "recover" long
|
||
enough to issue a decision on his friend's appeal? Will Hinton abuse
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more sysops though the Policy4 complaint/appeal process before Satti
|
||
resumes his duties as Z1C? Stay tuned here to find out.
|
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|
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Dallas Hinton has refused to comment on these issues, but you can reach
|
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him at 1:153/715@fidonet.org or dhinton@portal.ca.
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