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F I D O N E W S -- Vol.13 No. 4 (22-Jan-1996)
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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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| _`@/_ \ _ | |
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| | | \ \\ | Editors: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 |
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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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| |
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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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| 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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ANIMAL_RIGHTS RULES & GENERAL GUIDELINES (Rev. 11-26-95).... 2
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BONERYAN.ART................................................ 2
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** The Free Ride is Over! ***............................... 3
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I Am A Blind User Of Fidonet................................ 5
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FileFind Blues :-(.......................................... 7
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Just Want Something New..................................... 7
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Phil Zimmermann Cleared!.................................... 8
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Getting a life!............................................. 11
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3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
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Editorial
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 2 22 Jan 1996
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I am embarassed. I found three articles in a file area of the
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BBS that are *months* old. Please, if you are going to log in
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and upload articles to a file area, leave me a note telling me.
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I check the inbound every day, but I do not go through every
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file area.
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I see that Phil Zimmerman was aquitted of all charges last
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week. As well, our internat gate has closed. Good and bad news.
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Articles
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ANIMAL_RIGHTS RULES & GENERAL GUIDELINES (Rev. 11-26-95)
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PURPOSE: The purpose of the ANIMAL_RIGHTS conference is to educate
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and be a forum for the exchange of ALL viewpoints and opinions
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on the issue of animal rights. All sides of this emotional
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issue will in all probability be represented. Therefore,
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all users, whether pro or con on the animal rights issue
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should feel free to express their opinions. They should
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also expect to be challenged in their beliefs by those in
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the oppositon, perhaps quite strongly.
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After having been removed upon moderator request from the backbone,
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the ANIMAL_RIGHTS conference has been successfully put back into
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backbone distribution. At this point I would like to invite anyone who is
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interested in discussion of this emotional topic to join us once again in
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the echo. I would like to also invite those who have participated in the
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past to re-join the echo. Those interested who have participated up until
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the cutting from the backbone should check through their hubs to make sure
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the echo is still connected fully to backbone level.
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All who are interested in discussing this topic are welcome. It is my hope
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we see a resumption of the kind of spirited discussion we have had in the
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past.
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Dale Anderson
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ANIMAL_RIGHTS Moderator
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BONERYAN.ART
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by: Gord Hannah 1:3405/107 Marsh BBS
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Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Lists
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Our grandson, Ryan, who just turned 16 months old a few days
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ago has been diagnosed with leukemia, AML the real bad one.
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To date he has had 25 blood transfusions, 4 sessions of chemo,
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5 spinal taps, 4 bone marrow aspirations,and had a bone marrow
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transplant in October.
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He at best has a between 30% and 40% chance of survival, 60%
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and 70% chance of not seeing his 2nd birthday. With a bone
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 3 22 Jan 1996
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marrow transplant his chances increase about 10%, however
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there is a 15% loss in the transplant, procedure.
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He is at present an Out Patient at Alberta Children's Hospital
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in Calgary, Alberta.
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Now here's where the Fidonetters can help would you send out a
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message asking people that are eligible to donate blood, and
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between the ages of 17 and 50 to please become bone marrow
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donors. At present there are approximately 27 million people
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in Canada and only 110,000 people registered on the Unrelated
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Donors list, I am sure some of you are organ donors, Why wait
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until you are dead? To donate bone marrow you can stay alive
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and donate more than once if you match more than one person.
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Ryan's odds under normal circumstances would stand a chance in
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450 to a chance in 750,000 of finding a donor. He has been
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lucky so far there is a donor, his father. The donor may not
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come through, for medical or other reasons.
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There are at present 300 Children on the waiting list in the
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Province of Alberta, only 1 if he/she is lucky will find a
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donor the rest will in all likelihood die. There is great
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shortage of bone marrow donors around the world as well as in
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Canada.
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Also please remember that each time you go to the Golden
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Arches that a small portion of the money you spend goes to
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Ronald MacDonald House, an excellent place for the parents and
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grand parents to stay while their little one is in the
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hospital.
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I am sure that the FidoNetters will show their typical Big
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Heart. Thanks in advance.
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Gord Hannah 1:3405/107 Marsh BBS
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** The Free Ride is Over! ***
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=====================
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Effective March 1, 1996, the Internet Gateway at 1:1/31 will
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be *shutting down*. At that point, there will be NO MORE "default"
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gateway for E-Mail coming INbound from the Internet for Zone-1.
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The reasons for this termination of service are numerous ...
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o Most recently, an excommunicated SysOp has gone on a rampage of
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forging subscription messages to subscribe numerous FidoNet addresses
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to numerous unwanted Internet mailing-lists in a deliberate attempt
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to "break" the FidoNet routing structure and the gateway structure.
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Many of the other gateways have already shut down operations.
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o Many of the *C routing systems have taken it upon themselves to
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either "bounce" (many doing it improperly addressed) or to
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 4 22 Jan 1996
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deliberately "bit-bucket" NetMail coming from the gateway.
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I can no longer deal with the voluminous NetMail being received
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from End-Nodes querying what has happened to their inbound E-Mail
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coming thru the gateway.
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o The gateways systems and the "f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org" address
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syntax was designed for "casual mail", not for subscribing to
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massive mailing-lists and such. Many people have found ways to
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deliberately by-pass the controls at the gateways and subscribe
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to mailing-lists, forcing the inbound traffic to route in thru
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the gateways and clogging up the FidoNet routing structures.
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These days, it is fairly easy and inexpensive to get an account
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with any of the many Internet Service Providers thoughout the
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country. Those that really need to subscribe to mailing-lists
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should go that route.
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o The original intent of setting up the .fidonet.org domain was to
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have gateways situated geographically close to the Nodes they
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serve so that the load would be distributed and routing problems
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on the FidoNet side would be reduced.
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As of this writing, there are only 34 Nets out of the 431 Nets
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in Zone-1 which have their INbound E-Mail coming in via gateways
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other than the "default" gateway. The existing gateway operators
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and gateway software authors have always been willing to help
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a new gateway with their setup. The *Cs at the Net level just
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haven't done their part to strive for getting local gateways in
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place in their Nets. It just doesn't seem fair to me to keep
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relying on ONE gateway and the Backbone routing structure to handle
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over 90% of the Zone's traffic, does it?
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o People have been writing software which does NOT conform to
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proper addressing specs which have severly impacted operations
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of the gateway without even consulting me or even letting me
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know that their programs exist.
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o I find that I no longer have the time nor inclination to keep
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supporting a gateway where folks continue to break the rules
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of its use and bypass the controls.
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FidoNet in general has taken this service for granted for far too
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long. People seem to feel that Free use of Internet E-Mail is
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something they get automatically when they are granted a Node Number
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in FidoNet.
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o The I.E.E.E., the organization who has been providing the resources
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and bandwidth for the flow of all this traffic can no longer
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support the endeavor.
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Some services *will* CONTINUE to be provided ...
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o The Domain-Name-Service, which tells the Internet world where to
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send traffic for destinations within the .fidonet.org domain
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(and which defines which addresses are 'valid') will continue
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to be operated. However, the "default MX-record" which sent
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all undefined traffic for those Nets which did not otherwise have
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another gateway declared, will be DELETED!
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 5 22 Jan 1996
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o We will continue to operate the DNS until such time as the InterNIC
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removes the .fidonet.org domain.
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Since the InterNIC will expect and annual service fee of $50.00 for
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the domain in March, it is possible that the .fidonet.org domain
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may dissappear. I do not plan on paying this fee out of my own
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pocket.
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o We will continue to operate the gateway at 1:13/10 (our other
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gateway address) on a REGISTERED-ONLY basis. This means that
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there will be a process whereby INDIVIDUAL Zone-1 Nodes will be
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able to Register to use the gateway and have an Internet address
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assigned. Incoming E-Mail for all REGISTERED systems will be
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packed on HOLD and must be picked up by direct Poll.
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NOTHING will be routed via the Backbone (except Bounces back
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to UNregistered Nodes).
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(Please see instructions below for Registering to use 1:13/10)
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How to Register to use the Gateway at 1:13/10
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---------------------------------------------
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To register your system to use the gateway services at 1:13/10,
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simply send a File-Request for REGISTER to 1:13/10.
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This will pass your Primary address into a function process that will
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dynamically re-configure the related configuration files and routing
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during the next hourly update process. After that, you should be able
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to use the gateway and any E-Mail coming INbound from the Internet will
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be packed on *HOLD* at 1:13/10 for your system to pickup.
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Note that your system is assigned a special address, which is NOT
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in the old 'f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org' syntax. Do NOT advertise
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that address as it will NOT be valid.
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Point systems may NOT register and may NOT use this gateway.
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Burt Juda
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Postmaster/Hostmaster
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(Feel free to distribute this as widely as possible)
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I Am A Blind User Of Fidonet
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Rick Hayner
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4410-a Lilac Lane Apt. 144
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Kalamazoo, MI 49006-5771
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phone: (616) 372-1847
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Fidonet address: 1:2201/67
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I am writing this article to explain how I, a totally blind user
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of Fidonet use my computer and access bulletin board systems.
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I am using an IBM compatable computer with speech output. This
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speech output consists of two parts, a speech synthesizer, and a
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 6 22 Jan 1996
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screen reader, or screen review software. The synthesizer is an
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Accent-pc internal card. It has a twenty thousand word
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pronunciation dictionary programmed into eprom on the card. The
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card also has it's own built-in clock, so it doesn't care what
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speed the CPU is running at. The accent can speak at speech
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rates of from sixty words per minute to over eight hundred fifty
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words per minute.
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The screen review program is a TSR, Terminate and stay resident
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program that controls what is spoken by the synthesizer. The
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screen review program I use is called Flipper. Flipper causes
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the synthesizer to automatically speak text that is written
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using the bios routines. However, if the software that I am
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using writes directly to the screen, there are keystrokes that
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allow me to do everything from reading the entire screen, to
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speaking lines and words surrounding the cursor at the time. I
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can also have the word before, under, and after the cursor
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spoken or spelled letter by letter.
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The accent line of speech synthesizers is produced by Aicom
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Corperation, and Flipper is written by Omnichron of Berkley,
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California.
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My communications software is called {Commo}. The braces are
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part of the name of the software. {Commo} is written by Fred P.
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Brucker of Columbus, Ohio. Fred has designed {Commo} with the
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speech user in mind.
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My modem is an US Robotics Sportster 14400 external modem.
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I use the Bluewave off-line mail reader written by Cutting Edge
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Computing. George Hachew has put a lot of work into Bluewave to
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make it work well with speech.
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The bulletin board system where i receive my Fidonet mail is The
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Shadow Castle here in the Kalamazoo area. The sysop, Jeff
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Harvey has been very helpful to me since I moved here over 10
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months ago.
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Finally I want to thank the entire Fidonet community for their
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effort in keeping this wonderful network going. I have made
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many close friendships via Fidonet echos. I hope to continue to
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be a Fidonet user for many years to come.
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If anyone has any questions, I will be very pleased to answer
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them. I am on several Fidonet echos. Some of them are
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BlinkTalk, BlindTalk, NfbTalk, and the {commo} support echo. I
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look forward to hearing from anyone who may be interested in
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speech technology or any other method used by the blind to
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access computers.
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 7 22 Jan 1996
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FileFind Blues :-(
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Mike Wynne (2:250/223.12)
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FileFind Blues :-(
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There I am in *desperate* need of some elusive shareware utility when I
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suddenly remember the "FileFind" echo. I quickly write my request and
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pack my mail off to my bossnode.
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A few days later, automated replies start to roll in. I end up with
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six or seven possiblities and excitedly generate FREQs to get them onto
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my hard-disk.
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Out of the six or so systems, I get four automated messages to the
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effect that these systems do *not* allow FREQs from unlisted nodes.
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I begin to weep uncontrollably over my Space-bar.
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Please, please, *please* listen to me, all you fine generous Sysops.
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If you are going to participate in a FileFind echo, then please allow
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FREQs for these files from *anybody* (and save all us Points a lot of
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fruitless ,and often long-distance, calls .......
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OR please state clearly in your FileFind replies that you do not allow
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such calls. Thankyou. A Sore Point
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Just Want Something New
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by Colin Zimmer, 1:140/62
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About a year ago I was looking through the Blue Wave support echo. I
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read some messages from different people asking when the next version
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of Blue Wave was coming out. I ask these people what was wrong with
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the version that they have now and they would tell me one of two
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things "Nothing" or "I want something new" and sometimes both. And
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of course when v2.20 came out people talked about how bad it was.
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(This was before they knew about the bugs that v2.20 had) Again I
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asked what was wrong with it and they said "Nothing really..." or
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"It's not enough". I would ask what was not enough and the ones that
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would reply would only say "I'm not the programmer, they are, they
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should know what to add."
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And the other day I was on the Internet and was talking about Hexen.
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One of the people I was talking to could not wait for the next update
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for Hexen to come out. He told me of how he went on to the GT
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interactive site ever day to see if it was out yet. I ask him what
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was wrong with the version he had and he told me "Nothing, it's a
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great game". I went on to ask if there was nothing wrong with it,
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why he wanted the update, and what did he think it would do? He
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replayed "I don't know, I just want the newest version".
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 8 22 Jan 1996
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I also saw this in myself. I had Doom v1.666 and I played it off and
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on for two month until I finish it a couple times. Then for about
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three months after that I really didn't play it that much. But then
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one day I heard about the v1.9 patch. So I spent half the night
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looking for it and when I got it I played Doom all day and night for
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a week. I really didn't see any difference in it but for some reason
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because it said 1.9 on the start up I just had to play it.
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I think it's time for people to stand back and see if what they want
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is a better product or just the newest. And if all they want is the
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newest, programmers just might start leaving things out so they can
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slowly add them in later with never ending patches to try and keep
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people using there programs. It would be like making a car and
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selling it with two spark plugs and sending the other six out later
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at two at a time. Just something to think about.
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Phil Zimmermann Cleared!
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* Copy of message posted via CYPHERPUNKS
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* Date: 12 Jan 96 22:37:22
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* From: dubois@dubois.com @ 1:102/903.100
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* To: All
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From: "Philip L. Dubois" <dubois@dubois.com>
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Subject: News Release
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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Yesterday morning, I received word from Assistant U.S. Attorney William
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Keane in San Jose, California, that the government's three-year
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investigation of Philip Zimmermann is over. Here is the text of Mr.
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Keane's letter to me:
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"The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has
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decided that your client, Philip Zimmermann, will not be prosecuted in
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connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption
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program Pretty Good Privacy. The investigation is closed."
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The U.S. Attorney also released this to the press:
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"Michael J. Yamaguchi, United States Attorney for the Northern District
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of California, announced today that his office has declined prosecution
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of any individuals in connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991
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of the encryption program known as "Pretty Good Privacy." The
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investigation has been closed. No further comment will be made by the
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U.S. Attorney's Office on the reasons for declination.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney William P. Keane of the U.S. Attorney's Office in
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San Jose at (408) 535-5053 oversaw the government's investigation of the
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case."
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On receiving this news, Mr. Zimmermann posted this to the Cypherpunks
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list:
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 9 22 Jan 1996
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- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
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My lead defense lawyer, Phil Dubois, received a fax this morning from
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the Assistant US Attorney in Northern District of California, William
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Keane. The letter informed us that I "will not be prosecuted in
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connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption
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program Pretty Good Privacy. The investigation is closed."
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This brings to a close a criminal investigation that has spanned the
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last three years. I'd like to thank all the people who helped us in
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this case, especially all the donors to my legal defense fund.
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Apparently, the money was well-spent. And I'd like to thank my very
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capable defense team: Phil Dubois, Ken Bass, Eben Moglen, Curt Karnow,
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Tom Nolan, and Bob Corn-Revere. Most of the time they spent on the case
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was pro-bono. I'd also like to thank Joe Burton, counsel for the co-
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defendant.
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There are many others I can thank, but I don't have the presence of mind
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to list them all here at this moment. The medium of email cannot express
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how I feel about this turn of events.
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-Philip Zimmermann
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11 Jan 96
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I'd like to add a few words to those of my client.
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First, I thank Mr. Keane for his professionalism in notifying us of the
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government's decision. It has become common practice for federal
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prosecutors to refuse to tell targets of investigations that the
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government has decided not to prosecute. I appreciate Mr. Keane's
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courtesy.
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Let me add my thanks to the other members of the defense team-- Ken Bass
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in Washington D.C. (kbass@venable.com), Curt Karnow in San Francisco
|
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(karnow@cup.portal.com), Eben Moglen in New York (em21@columbia.edu), and
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Tom Nolan in Palo Alto (74242.2723@compuserve.com). Bob Corn-Revere in
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D.C. (rcr@dc1.hhlaw.com) was a great help on First Amendment issues.
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These lawyers are heroes. They donated hundreds of hours of time to this
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cause. Each is outstanding in his field and made a contribution that
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nobody else could have made. It has been an honor and a privilege to
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work with these gentlemen.
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|
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Mr. Zimmermann mentioned a lawyer named Joe Burton (joebur@aol.com) of
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San Francisco. Mr. Burton deserves special mention. He represented
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FidoNews 13-04 Page: 10 22 Jan 1996
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another person who was under investigation. To have made this other
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person publicly known would have been an invasion of privacy, so we
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didn't. We still won't, but we can finally acknowledge Mr. Burton's
|
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enormous contribution. Whether we were getting paid or not, the rest of
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us at least received some public attention for representing Phil
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Zimmermann. Mr. Burton labored quietly on behalf of his client. He took
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the case pro bono and did an extraordinary job. He is a lawyer who
|
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exemplifies the finest traditions of the Bar and the highest standard of
|
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integrity. I am proud to know Joe Burton.
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|
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The warriors at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)-- Marc
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||
Rotenberg, David Sobel, and David Banisar-- and at the Electronic
|
||
Frontier Foundation (EFF), Computer Professionals for Social
|
||
Responsibility (CPSR), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
|
||
provided financial, legal, and moral support and kept the public
|
||
informed. They continue to do so, and we all owe them thanks for it.
|
||
|
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Those members of the press who recognized the importance of this story
|
||
and told the world about it should be commended. Undeterred by the
|
||
absence of sex and violence, these reporters discussed the real issues
|
||
and in so doing served the public well.
|
||
|
||
Many other people, lawyers and humans alike, made invaluable
|
||
contributions. My assistants Alicia Alpenfels, Suzanne Turnbull Paulman,
|
||
and Denise Douglas and my investigator Eli Nixon kept us organized. Rich
|
||
Mintz, Tom Feegel, and Nathaniel Borenstein of First Virtual put up a Web
|
||
site and aggressively supported the Zimmermann Legal Defense Fund.
|
||
Another site was built by Michael Sattler of San Francisco, and he and
|
||
Dave Del Torto (also of S.F.) let me stay in their homes. Thanks also to
|
||
MIT and The MIT Press: Hal Abelson, Jeff Schiller, Brian LaMacchia,
|
||
Derek Atkins, Jim Bruce, David Litster, Bob Prior, and Terry Ehling. And
|
||
there were many others.
|
||
|
||
Finally, I offer my thanks to everyone who contributed to the Zimmermann
|
||
Legal Defense Fund. People all over the world gave their hard-earned
|
||
money to support not only Phil Zimmermann's defense but also the cause of
|
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privacy. It is impossible to be too pessimistic about our future when
|
||
there are so many of you.
|
||
|
||
Now, some words about the case and the future. Nobody should conclude
|
||
that it is now legal to export cryptographic software. It isn't. The
|
||
law may change, but for now, you'll probably be prosecuted if you break
|
||
it. People wonder why the government declined prosecution, especially
|
||
since the government isn't saying. One perfectly good reason might be
|
||
that Mr. Zimmermann did not break the law. (This is not always a
|
||
deterrent to indictment. Sometimes the government isn't sure whether
|
||
someone's conduct is illegal and so prosecutes that person to find out.)
|
||
Another might be that the government did not want to risk a judicial
|
||
finding that posting cryptographic software on a site in the U.S., even
|
||
if it's an Internet site, is not an "export". There was also the risk
|
||
that the export-control law would be declared unconstitutional. Perhaps
|
||
the government did not want to get into a public argument about some
|
||
important policy issues: should it be illegal to export cryptographic
|
||
software? Should U.S. citizens have access to technology that permits
|
||
private communication? And ultimately, do U.S. citizens have the right
|
||
FidoNews 13-04 Page: 11 22 Jan 1996
|
||
|
||
to communicate in absolute privacy?
|
||
|
||
There are forces at work that will, if unresisted, take from us our
|
||
liberties. There always will be. But at least in the United States, our
|
||
rights are not so much stolen from us as they are simply lost by us. The
|
||
price of freedom is not only vigilance but also participation. Those
|
||
folks I mention in this message have participated and no doubt will
|
||
continue. My thanks, and the thanks of Philip Zimmermann, to each of
|
||
you.
|
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Getting a life!
|
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By Mike Labellarte 1:2235/110
|
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"The Soul of Cyberspace"
|
||
|
||
In recent days I felt the need to review my BBS life style. (again!)
|
||
I guess we all do this once in a while. I was finding that my system
|
||
was overwhelmed with the ussual smattering of half open ZIP files.
|
||
Oh yeah! RAR (not another) or just your average "crap on the drive"
|
||
kinda stuff.
|
||
|
||
I had the illusion that this junk was important for one reason or
|
||
another. "To whom?" is the question. The effort I put forth for the
|
||
"Hobby" is way more than any would do for a good crusade.
|
||
|
||
(Gesh! where is this going?)
|
||
|
||
I care for my Very Disabled wife so the time spent BBSin' is with
|
||
purpose. A laptop and some voice activated software can be more of
|
||
a life than some of us would beleive.
|
||
A time killer! Should this matter?
|
||
|
||
I am tring to find a place, in Cyberspace. See, it is my only way to
|
||
have a life, the constant demand you know!
|
||
|
||
I have many a "Newbie" or "PRO" calling me for reviews or whatever
|
||
hand-holding maybe needed. Why? Because they know I'm here.
|
||
|
||
I honestly have had it with ALL the BS in BBSin', but inside I do
|
||
really like the chase it offers. An education that I missed,
|
||
comoradary that is much needed or a kin-ship with those who
|
||
travel at 28.8K or better.
|
||
|
||
(Stand By for Mental Wavering...)
|
||
FidoNews 13-04 Page: 12 22 Jan 1996
|
||
|
||
|
||
So I reach for that GOLD Plated connection at the end of my I/O and
|
||
find my life. My New life as... "The Soul of Cyberspace"
|
||
It is mine! All Mine! No one person place or thing with take it from
|
||
me. No Zeliot, Bigot or General Malcontent will really ever succeed.
|
||
|
||
Don't like what I say?
|
||
|
||
Change the conference, don't carry it or worse leave this place called
|
||
Cyberspace.
|
||
|
||
(Oh Gawd! I can't stop the spew...)
|
||
|
||
I'm tired of
|
||
the "W's", "S's", "B's and "G's"
|
||
telling me "How, Where and When" to sneeze.
|
||
So therfore I take to the Snooze
|
||
I have nothing more to loose. (sorry for the poetry)
|
||
|
||
Mike Labellarte, AKA "The Soul of Cyberspace"
|
||
Hey, There wasn't anything to read this week!
|
||
|
||
ASTA!
|
||
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