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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 35 1 September 1997
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | 1-904-409-7040 [1:1/23] |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:18/14 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net |
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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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HOW MUCH IS THAT AREA CODE CHANGE IN THE WINDOW?
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Got a new Area Code? ..................................... 1
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2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2
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Internet email response to 1431 .......................... 2
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3. ARTICLES ................................................. 4
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About files lists: tracking program? ..................... 4
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4. TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET .................................. 5
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BBSes are NOT DEAD! ...................................... 5
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5. NET HUMOR ................................................ 8
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You have reached the help desk? .......................... 8
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6. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 13
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Use the Force? ........................................... 13
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7. NOTICES .................................................. 14
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Future History ........................................... 14
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New addresses for Lockwood III ........................... 14
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8. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 16
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Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 16
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9. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 20
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FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 20
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10. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 21
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11. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 23
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 1 1 Sep 1997
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EDITORIAL
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Seems like every week my mailer queue complains about not having any
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accounting information for a given phone number in the Nodelist. The
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phone companies are going nuts trying to keep up with all the new
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phones and phone number usage like computers, cellphones, faxes, etc.,
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that the telecommunications revolution is creating. Florida has split
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3 Area Codes this year and more are on the horizon.
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The Coordinators are going to be the first to notice a new Area Code
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in their area so I'd like to request they [as a group or individually]
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report these changes and additions to all of us via FidoNews as a .NOT
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[Notice] or .LET [Letter to the Editor]. C'mon NCs, RCs, ZCs, how
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about passing that new info along to the rest of us the easy way?
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And speaking of such prefix numbers, how is the revolution affecting
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number distribution in the other Zones? Are new Country Codes coming
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out as the result of the equipment explosion or has it yet to get to
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that point elsewhere?
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Other than that, it's a typical Issue of typical size. [grin]
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C.B.
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 2 1 Sep 1997
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
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By Christopher Baker on Fri Aug 29 04:23:25 1997
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From: Wouter van Marle @ 2:283/317
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To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
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Date: 27 Aug 97 19:10:44
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Subj: Article in FidoNews 14-31
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Hallo Pete & Christopher!
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A reaction to an article in FidoNews 14-31 : "Fido needs piece of
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software".
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This article discusses the need of providing INternet e-mail via
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Netmail using the normal BBS structure. No gateways, but the BBS
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directly calling the Internet. And making it completely transparent to
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the users.
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This is exactly what I do for over a year and a half by now, and soon
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after I started my BBS and mailsystem. I have a UUCP account by an
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ISP, so I can poll for my Internet e-mail and news, just like I call
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for my Fidonet netmail and echomail. Off course I need other software
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to do this, and a kind of gateway (the well-known GIGO program) to
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convert Internet style mail to Fidostyle.
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My points can get a real e-mail address (<username>@medusa.xs4all.nl),
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if they like. Mail sent to that address is received by them as
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netmail. They can send their e-mail to anyone on the internet using
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normal Fidostyle netmail, just use the e-mail address as to-name and a
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special point-address on my system. My editor (GoldED) even
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automatically adds the correct Fido address if it finds a e-mail
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address in the to-field of the header!
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BBS users currently can't do e-mail on my system, but if I want I
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think I can configure that quite easily. It's not required, in Z2 the
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point-system is the most common way of mailing for users.
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All the "extra" software I needed to do this was the Internet polling
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stuff, the gateway, and some lines in my batch-files. For a sysop easy
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to do, and the used software is freeware and good developed. So I
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really don't understand the idea of extra software that should be
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necessary to do this...
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In Z2, R28 all major BBSes provide e-mail and news to their Fido
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points. And many, many of the smaller BBSes (like mine) do the same.
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It's easy to setup after you configured a Fidonet system, and I like
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this way of reading/writing my e-mail better than using a second
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Internet-only editor.
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I call twice a day, sometimes more (manual). For most points this is
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fast enough, because they call only once a day or less. Off course,
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calling every hour or after someone dropping mail is also possible.
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 3 1 Sep 1997
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It's all very easy to configure.
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At my system all Fido stuff is free, for Internet stuff I ask a small
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charge. It still is much more expensive than Fidonet, and I don't
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have much money. But there are BBSes that provide e-mail for free.
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_ ___
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"--~ ~-. Groetjes,
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__\. \
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~: Y \ /
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| | q pj \/\/ outer. /* Vaak live in Down Under
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*\
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\ j -. ./ _
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\_/ \| (___/() Speeding up to Warpspeed with OS/2 Warp!
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/~-.______./
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__Y PGP: Netmail naar PGPServer (2:283/317)
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... y
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"Meneer Aart: Kom je net terug van een pyama feestje?
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-30-
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 4 1 Sep 1997
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ARTICLES
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Files-lists and how to read them
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by Eneko Lacunza (2:344/20.13, 2:344/19.11, enlar@iname.com)
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I've always felt that reading and looking through BBS' files-lists is
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quite boring and time loosing: I have to browse over all the list
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(which can be >1Mb!) to figure out what files and programs are
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on-line. Of course, there are some shortcuts: search for strings,
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look at the index, ... but they aren't comfortable if you want to see
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what's on your favorite BBS.
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Finally, some months ago, I decided that it was time to do something.
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So I have written a program that allows the user to browse over the
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areas list, select one and then look at its contents, go back to the
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areas list and select another and so on. It also has an autoFREQ
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feature similar to those found on message editors such GoldEd.
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The questions are: Do you guys think it is useful? Are you interested
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in such a program? Is out there any program that does it?
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The matter is that right now the program speaks Spanish, so I'd like
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to know people's opinion before I take the work to translate it.
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Any comment would be appreciated!
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Eneko.
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Fidonet 2:344/19.11 | 2:344/20.13
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e-mail enlar@iname.com
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http www.arrakis.es/~enlar
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 5 1 Sep 1997
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TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET
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--- Following message extracted from 374SYSOP @ 1:18/14 ---
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By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:05 1997
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From: Walt Young
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To: All
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Date: 28 Aug 97 04:25:08
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Subj: FINALLY!!!
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I am finally back on the Pentium running "full bore". I was lucky I
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still had the old 486 (8 ram, 340 HD), to at least keep the mail and
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messages flowing during this time. So no loss of mail or files
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anyway. Boy that used to be my "top of the line" system. Now it is
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slower than molasses compared to the big one. But then I guess it
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didn't bother my Commodore people too much since they have 2 mhz
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machines and 1200/2400 baud modems. (G)
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Can't believe the problems I've run into in the past 4 weeks. What
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started out to be a "simple" HD and Modem upgrade turned into the
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biggest pile of crap. The first thing that happened is I lost the
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Motherboard and a power supply. Since I had blown all my savings on
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the HD and Modem, I had nothing to buy replacement parts with. Flat
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broke.
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Well someone squealed on me, and mentioned it on the BBS. Next thing
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I know, I have donations coming in like crazy. I received donations
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from a Computer Club and a number of individuals, two of whom donated
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$100 each, and a bunch of smaller ones....which all added up to approx
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$550. Needless to say I was back in business!!!
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WHO SAID BBS'S ARE DEAD AND NOT APPRECIATED??? NOT THIS ONE!!!!
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I have maintained for a long time, that the problem with most people
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in 'puters these days is that they have progressed so far and have
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totally forgotten the "little people", the ones just starting out, the
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ones with small machines, like 286s, XTs, Commodore, CoCo, and don't
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take the time to help them learn so they can progress too. Well I
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never forgot what it was like to be a "newbee" and stumbling all over
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some sysops BBS, trying to figure out what to do while being totally
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intimidated by the whirring screens and myriad of confusing commands,
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don't know how to post a message (although we browbeat people to
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post), don't know how to download even a simple file. I felt if you
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"take care of your Customers" then at some point your Customers "will
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take care of you"!
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Well, with the exception of 2 people...all those that donated all have
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small machines of one type or another, and all were older than the
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"Yuppy Generation". All those with higher powered fancy machines,
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totally ignored the situation....not even a "gosh I'm sorry to hear
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that"...not a dime. I think I've learned something in all this....I
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was right!!!
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Back to the 'puter, mostly it was hardware not wanting to play
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 6 1 Sep 1997
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together, then software didn't want to play with hardware, then
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hardware would retaliate against the Software, then some bat files
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played their 'game'...and on and on and on.
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The biggest problem was when people would download QWK packets via
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SFQuick program (SFQ), they would pack, and DSZ would download the
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packet, but when DSZ was to exit and go back to SFQ, it would lock the
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system and give me an error screen, telling me that DSZ is being used
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by another Application. Well hell, there was NO other application
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running. I deleted them all just to be sure. There were some
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installs in the past where i did not have that problem, yet if I
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install direct from the Installation program of OS2...It would cause
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SFQ/DSZ to do the lockup.
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I bet I installed, uninstalled, destalled, astalled, etc., a dozen
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times trying to find it. I was bound and determined. Well I still
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don't know what "causes" the problem, but I found a "CURE" for it
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anyway. One lousy line in the Config Sys "AUTOFAIL=YES". Not sure
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how it got into some configs in the past and not in others, but as
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long as that line is there SFQ/DSZ work perfectly fine. Took me 2
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weeks to find it.
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The other major problem was my Mouse and my Sound Card both wanted to
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"own" Irq 5. The mouse was a serial, so had to use extra serial card,
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and put mouse on com3, irq5 since both modems had 3 and 4. Well
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neither the soundcard nor mouse would budge, even trying to "fool"
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them with config sys entries. So finally went down and bought a PS/2
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bus mouse and that solved that problem. Now they are both "happy".
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Then Tues morn I wake up with the flu or some terrible man-eating
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disease, and was miserable for 2 days. Trying to install stuff for
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final run thru, since i finally got all the 'bugs' worked out. But
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just does not work when you feel like you are a limp dishrag. So quit
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for the night. This morn I started in again and it all came together,
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got everything installed by 3 pm, and machine purred like a kitten.
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So decided not to wait a min longer. Shut down the 486, put the two
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HDs in the Pentium and then copied the BBS over to the Pentium Drives.
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Took about 45 mins, and we were up and running.
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So far...so good!! I hope it's another lifetime before I have to go
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through this again!!!.
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But now we are up with the "big boys and girls" (or catching up,
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anyway). We still have Pentium 75, but added up to 64 ram, have a 4
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gig and the old 850 for close to 5 gigs total space. Now have a 33.6
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on the Mail Node, and moved the Supra 28.8 to the BBS replacing the
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14.4, which is now in the backup 486. After all the above problems
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figured I earned some "luxuries" so bought a new video and sound card.
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Great...video card has all kinds of stuff my monitor (el cheapo bottom
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of line) won't see. Well one of these days I hope to get a 17" or 20"
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monitor so I can better read what's on the screen. Or maybe Santa
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will bring me one!! (hee hee).
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Now I need to work on the File Areas and Conf Areas, both in bad need
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of revamping. Now that I have the space, I hope to get a better
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selection of files from the Filebone, at least in some selected areas.
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 7 1 Sep 1997
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Well now that I've done my "bragging" and got it out of my system
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(although I think the donation part was justified, the rest...blah),
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it's back to the "hole" and "normal (whatever that is) operation".
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I've scanned the echo, albeit quickly, but think I have the
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"Headlines"...Larry resigns due to work commitments, Tim is now NEC,
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Genie is Temp NC pending Election in which so far she's the only one
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in nomination. Whoo Whooo Whooooo I hear the train a-comin, comin
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round the bend....hee hee. An Echo list was past out to be reviewed
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and revised. Think that is most of it. Now I'll try to get to the
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details in next day or two to get caught up.
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Now I hope that I can be a better "asset" to the Net as a whole, as
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well as to my Super Customers!
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Walt
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Origin: Space Coast REACT, Melbourne FL <407> 255-9069 (1:374/710)
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 8 1 Sep 1997
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NET HUMOR
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From: "Mike Riddle" <mriddle@novia.net>
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To: "Baker, Christopher" <cbaker84@digital.net (Christopher Baker)
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Date: Tue, 26 Aug 97 15:10:10 -0600
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Reply-To: "Mike Riddle" <mriddle@oasis.novia.net>
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Subject: Fwd: Help desk
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==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
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Return-Path: geeks-owner@brickbat12.mindspring.com
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Tue, 26 Aug 1997 13:24:41 -0500 (CDT)
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Received: (from majordom@localhost) by brickbat12.mindspring.com To:
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geeks@shorty.com
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From: cynic <cynic@capone.org>
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Subject: Help desk
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Sender: owner-geeks@brickbat12.mindspring.com
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Reply-To: geeks@shorty.com
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The Proper Way to Run a Help Desk - A Helpdesk Log
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* Monday
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8:05 am User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use
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password retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they
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thank me and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?
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8:12 am Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports
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database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well it works for
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me" Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker from the
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UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it again. One
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more happy customer.
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8:14 am User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error
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accessing Drive 0. "Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them
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to microsupport.
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11:00 am Relatively quiet for last few hours Decided to plug support
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phone back in so I can call my girlfriend. Says parents are coming
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into town this weekend. Put her on hold and transferred her to
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janitorial closet down in basement. What is she thinking? The "Myst"
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and "Doom" nationals are this weekend!
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11:34 am Another user calls (do they ever learn?) Says they want ACL
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changed on HR performance review database so nobody but HR can access
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database. Tell them no problem. Hang up. Change ACL. Add @MailSend so
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performance reviews are sent to */US.
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12:00 pm Lunch
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3:30 pm Return from lunch.
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3:55 pm Wake up from nap. Bad dream makes me cranky. Bounce servers
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for no reason. Return to napping.
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FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 9 1 Sep 1997
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4:23 pm Yet another user calls. Wants to know how to change fonts on
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form. Ask what chip set they're using. Tell them to call back when
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they find out.
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4:55 pm Decide to run "Create Save/Replication Conflicts" macro so
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next shift has something to do.
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* Tuesday
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8:30 am Finish reading support log from last night. Sounded busy.
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Terrible time with Save/Replication conflicts.
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9:00 am Support manager arrives. Wants to discuss my attitude. Click
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on PhoneNotes SmartIcon. "Love to, but kinda busy. Put something in
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the calendar database!" I yell as I grab for the support lines, which
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have (mysteriously) lit up. Walks away grumbling.
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9:35 pm Team leader from R&D needs ID for new employee. Tell them
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they need form J-19R=9C9\\DARR\K1. Says they never heard of such a
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form. Tell them it's in the SPECIAL FORMS database. Say they never
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heard of such a database. Transfer them to janitorial closet in
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basement.
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10:00 am Perky sounding intern from R&D calls and says she needs new
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ID. Tell her I need employee number, department name, manager name,
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and marital status. Run @DbLookup against state parole board database,
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Centers for Disease Controldatabase, and my Oprah Winfrey database. No
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hits. Tell her ID will be ready tonight. Drawing from the lessons
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learned in last week's "Reengineering for Customer Partnership," I
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offer to personally deliver ID to her apartment.
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10:07 am Janitor stops by to say he keeps getting strange calls in
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basement Offer to train him on Notes. Begin now. Let him watch console
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while I grab a smoke.
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1:00 pm Return from smoking break. Janitor says phones kept ringing,
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so he transferred them to cafeteria lady. I like this guy.
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1:05 pm Big commotion! Support manager falls in hole left where I
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pulled floor tiles outside his office door. Stress to him importance
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of not running in computer room, even if I do yell "Omigod --Fire!"
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1:15 pm Development Standards Committee calls and complains about
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umlauts in form names. Apologizing for the inconvenience, I tell them
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I will fix it. Hang up and run global search/replace using gaks.
|
||
|
||
1:20 pm Mary Hairnet from cafeteria calls. Says she keeps getting
|
||
calls for "Notice Loads" or "NoLoad Goats," she's not sure, couldn't
|
||
hear over industrial-grade blender. Tell her it was probably "Lettuce
|
||
Nodes." Maybe the food distributor with a new product? She thinks
|
||
about it and hangs up.
|
||
|
||
2:00 pm Legal secretary calls and says she lost password. Ask her to
|
||
check in her purse, floor of car, and on bathroom counter. Tell her it
|
||
probably fell out of back of machine. Suggest she put duct tape over
|
||
all the airvents she can find on the PC. Grudgingly offer to create
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 10 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
new ID for her while she does that.
|
||
|
||
2:49 pm Janitor comes back. Wants more lessons. I take off rest of
|
||
day.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Wednesday
|
||
|
||
8:30 am Irate user calls to say chipset has nothing to do with fonts
|
||
on form. Tell them Of course, they should have been checking "Bitset,"
|
||
not "chipset." Sheepish user apologizes and hangs up.
|
||
|
||
9:10 am Support manager, with foot in cast, returns to office.
|
||
Schedules 10:00 am meeting with me. User calls and wants to talk to
|
||
support manager about terrible help at support desk. Tell them manager
|
||
about to go into meeting. Sometimes life hands you material...
|
||
|
||
10:00 am Call Louie in janitorial services to cover for me. Go to
|
||
support manager's office. He says he can't dismiss me but can suggest
|
||
several lateral career moves. Most involve farm implements in third-
|
||
world countries with moderate to heavy political turmoil. By and by, I
|
||
ask if he's aware of new bug which takes full-text indexed random e-
|
||
mail databases and puts all references to furry handcuffs and Bambi
|
||
Boomer in Marketing on the corporate Web page. Meeting is adjourned as
|
||
he reaches for keyboard, Web browser, and Tums.
|
||
|
||
10:30 am Tell Louie he's doing great job. Offer to show him mainframe
|
||
corporate PBX system sometime.
|
||
|
||
11:00 am Lunch.
|
||
|
||
4:55 pm Return from lunch.
|
||
|
||
5:00 pm Shift change; Going home.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Thursday
|
||
|
||
8:00 am New guy ("Marvin") started today. "Nice plaids" I offer. Show
|
||
him server room, wiring closet, and technical library. Set him up with
|
||
IBM PC-XT. Tell him to quit whining, Notes runs the same in both
|
||
monochrome and color.
|
||
|
||
8:45 am New guy's PC finishes booting up. Tell him I'll create new ID
|
||
for him. Set minimum password length to 64. Go grab smoke.
|
||
|
||
9:30 am Introduce Louie the custodian to Marvin. "Nice plaids" Louie
|
||
comments Is this guy great or what?!
|
||
|
||
11:00 am Beat Louie in dominos game. Louie leaves. Fish spare dominos
|
||
out of sleeves ("Always have backups"). User calls, says Accounting
|
||
server is down. Untie Ethernet cable from radio antenna (better
|
||
reception) and plug back into hub. Tell user to try again. Another
|
||
happy customer!
|
||
|
||
11:55 am Brief Marvin on Corporate Policy 98.022.01: "Whereas all new
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 11 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
employee beginning on days ending in 'Y' shall enjoy all proper
|
||
aspects with said corporation, said employee is obligated to provide
|
||
sustenance and relief to senior technical analyst on shift." Marvin
|
||
doubts. I point to "Corporate Policy" database (a fine piece of work,
|
||
if I say so myself!) "Remember, that's DOUBLE pepperoni and NO
|
||
peppers!" I yell to Marvin as he steps over open floor tile to get to
|
||
exit door.
|
||
|
||
1:00 pm Oooooh! Pizza makes me so sleepy ...
|
||
|
||
4:30 pm Wake from refreshing nap. Catch Marvin scanning want ads.
|
||
|
||
5:00 pm Shift change. Flick HR's server off and on several times
|
||
(just testing the On/Off button...). See ya tomorrow.
|
||
|
||
|
||
* Friday
|
||
|
||
8:00 am Night shift still trying to replace power supply in HR
|
||
server. Told them it worked fine before I left.
|
||
|
||
9:00 am Marvin still not here. Decide I might start answering these
|
||
calls myself. Unforward phones from Mailroom.
|
||
|
||
9:02 am Yep. A user call. Users in Des Moines can't replicate. Me and
|
||
the Oiuji board determine it's sunspots. Tell them to call
|
||
Telecommunications.
|
||
|
||
9:30 am Good God, another user! They're like ants. Says he's in San
|
||
Diego and can't replicate with Des Moines. Tell him it's sunspots, but
|
||
with a two-hour difference. Suggest he reset the time on the server
|
||
back 2 hours.
|
||
|
||
10:17 am Pensacola calls. Says they can't route mail to San
|
||
Diego.Tell them to set server ahead three hours.
|
||
|
||
11:00 am E-mail from corporate says for everybody to quit resetting
|
||
the time on their servers. I change the date stamp and forward it to
|
||
Milwaukee.
|
||
|
||
11:20 am Finish @CoffeeMake macro. Put phone back on hook.
|
||
|
||
11:23 am Milwaukee calls, asks what day it is.
|
||
|
||
11:25 am Support manager stops by to say Marvin called in to quit.
|
||
"So hard to get good help..." I respond. Support manager says he has
|
||
appointment with orthopedic doctor this afternoon, and asks if I mind
|
||
sitting in on the weekly department head meeting for him. "No
|
||
problem!"
|
||
|
||
11:30 am Call Louie and tell him opportunity knocks and he's invited
|
||
to a meeting this afternoon. "Yeah, sure. You can bring your snuff" I
|
||
tell him.
|
||
|
||
12:00 am Lunch.
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 12 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
1:00 pm Start full backups on UNIX server. Route them to device NULL
|
||
to make them fast.
|
||
|
||
1:03 pm Full weekly backups done. Man, I love modern technology!
|
||
|
||
2:30 pm Look in support manager's contact management database.
|
||
Cancel.
|
||
|
||
2:35 pm Appointment for him. He really should be at home resting, you
|
||
know.
|
||
|
||
2:39 pm New user calls. Says want to learn how to create a connection
|
||
document. Tell them to run connection documentutility CTRL-ALT-DEL.
|
||
Says PC rebooted. Tell them to call microsupport.
|
||
|
||
2:50 pm Support manager calls to say mixup at doctor's office means
|
||
appointment cancelled. Says he's just going to go on home. Ask him if
|
||
he's seen corporate Web page lately.
|
||
|
||
3:00 pm Another (novice) user calls. Says periodic macro not working.
|
||
Suggest they place @DeleteDocument at end of formula. Promise to send
|
||
them document addendum which says so.
|
||
|
||
4:00 pm Finish changing foreground color in all documents to white.
|
||
Also set point size to "2" in help databases.
|
||
|
||
4:30 pm User calls to say they can't see anything in documents. Tell
|
||
them to go to view, do a "Edit -- Select All", hit delete key, and
|
||
then refresh. Promise to send them document addendum which says so.
|
||
|
||
4:45 pm Another user calls. Says they can't read help documents. Tell
|
||
them I'll fix it. Hang up. Change font to Wingdings.
|
||
|
||
4:58 pm Plug coffee maker into Ethernet hub to see what happens. Not
|
||
(too) much.
|
||
|
||
5:00 pm Night shift shows up. Tell that the hub is acting funny and
|
||
to have a good weekend.
|
||
|
||
___________________
|
||
cynic rides the short bus
|
||
|
||
cynic@capone.org
|
||
www.capone.org
|
||
|
||
===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 13 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
COMIX IN ASCII
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
--- Following message extracted from ASCII_ART @ 1:18/14 ---
|
||
By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:43 1997
|
||
|
||
From: Anders Lageras
|
||
To: All
|
||
Date: 29 Aug 97 17:11:02
|
||
Subj: Dart
|
||
|
||
[with apologies to Anders for the additional text]
|
||
|
||
|
||
_.-'~~~~~~`-._
|
||
/ || \
|
||
/ || \
|
||
| || |
|
||
| _______||_______ |
|
||
|/ ----- \/ ----- \|
|
||
/ ( ) ( ) \ "Come to the Dark Side of
|
||
/ \ ----- () ----- / \ FidoNet, Luke." "Echomail
|
||
/ \ /||\ / \ is the reason for FidoNet,
|
||
/ \ /||||\ / \ now."
|
||
/ \ /||||||\ / \
|
||
/_ \o========o/ _\
|
||
`--...__|`-._ _.-'|__...--'
|
||
| `' |
|
||
Echovader
|
||
|
||
Origin: Tuut Tuut har kommer jag med puffar rostade i honung!
|
||
(2:200/617.15)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 14 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
Future History
|
||
|
||
25 Sep 1997
|
||
Happy Birthday, Joaquim H. Homrighausen
|
||
|
||
13 Oct 1997
|
||
Thanksgiving Day, Canada.
|
||
|
||
1 Dec 1997
|
||
World AIDS Day.
|
||
|
||
10 Dec 1997
|
||
Nobel Day, Sweden.
|
||
|
||
12 Jan 1998
|
||
HAL 9000 is one year old today.
|
||
|
||
30 Apr 1998
|
||
Queens Day, Holland.
|
||
|
||
22 May 1998
|
||
Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.
|
||
|
||
1 Dec 1998
|
||
Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
|
||
Tom Jennings.
|
||
|
||
31 Dec 1999
|
||
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
|
||
|
||
1 Jan 2000
|
||
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
|
||
|
||
15 Sep 2000
|
||
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
|
||
|
||
1 Jan 2001
|
||
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
|
||
|
||
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
|
||
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:06:22 -0700
|
||
From: William Scott Lockwood III <wsl3@cts.com>
|
||
Reply-To: wsl3@cts.com
|
||
Organization: Corpsmans Corner BBS
|
||
To: cbaker84@digital.net
|
||
Subject: Hello Everybody!
|
||
|
||
Just a quick note to let everyone know, here's my new E-Mail address
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 15 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
and web page address (See below).
|
||
|
||
Hope to continue to hear from all of you soon! BFN...
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
TTYL,
|
||
Scott
|
||
mailto:wsl3@cts.com
|
||
http://www.users.cts.com/king/w/wsl3/
|
||
|
||
-30-
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 16 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
|
||
Latest Greatest Software Versions
|
||
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264
|
||
|
||
Yawn. One update.
|
||
|
||
-=- Snip -=-
|
||
|
||
Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column
|
||
|
||
OS Platform :
|
||
Software package name :
|
||
Version :
|
||
Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. :
|
||
Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? :
|
||
Author / Support staff contact name :
|
||
Author / Support staff contact node :
|
||
Magic name (at the above-listed node) :
|
||
|
||
Please include a sentence describing what the package does.
|
||
|
||
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
|
||
|
||
-=- Snip -=-
|
||
|
||
MS-DOS:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
|
||
ALLFIX 4.40 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
|
||
Announcer 1.11 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
|
||
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm-XE XR4 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT
|
||
FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO
|
||
FastEcho/16 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE16
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD
|
||
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
|
||
FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD
|
||
FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO
|
||
GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED
|
||
GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
|
||
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 17 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
|
||
InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
|
||
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
|
||
InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO
|
||
InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB
|
||
IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET
|
||
JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV
|
||
Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY
|
||
Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386
|
||
JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H
|
||
JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G
|
||
MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL
|
||
Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
|
||
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE
|
||
McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
|
||
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
|
||
Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP
|
||
Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP
|
||
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD
|
||
Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
|
||
O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
|
||
PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP
|
||
QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS
|
||
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
|
||
RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA
|
||
Silver Xpress
|
||
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
|
||
Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP
|
||
Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH
|
||
StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK
|
||
StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL
|
||
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
|
||
Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD
|
||
Terminate 4.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO
|
||
TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP
|
||
TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS
|
||
TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG
|
||
TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS
|
||
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
|
||
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
|
||
WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS
|
||
xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL
|
||
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS
|
||
|
||
OS/2:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
ALLFIX/2 1.10 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2
|
||
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
FIDONEWS 14-35 Page 18 1 Sep 1997
|
||
|
||
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm-XE XR4 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST
|
||
FleetStreet 1.20 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
|
||
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
|
||
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP
|
||
Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP
|
||
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF
|
||
PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
|
||
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
|
||
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2
|
||
|
||
Windows (16-bit apps):
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
|
||
FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW
|
||
|
||
Windows (32-bit apps):
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I
|
||
Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI
|
||
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTW
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
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