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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 8 23 February 1998
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | 1-209-251-7529 [1:1/23] |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 |
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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=> zorch@fidonews.org |
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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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Huh? Wha? Who?
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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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Revitalizing a Small Part of Fidonet ..................... 2
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Why Web Pages ............................................ 4
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3. COORDINATORS CORNER ...................................... 6
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Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 051 ...... 6
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Zone 1 EchoMail Coordinator Results ...................... 6
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4. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 9
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5. NOTICES .................................................. 10
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Future History ........................................... 10
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6. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 11
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FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 11
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7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12
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8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 1 23 Feb 1998
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EDITORIAL
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What can I say, other than this has been one heck of a week?
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With this issue, and an hour later than I planned, I am assuming
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the role of Editor of one of FidoNet's oldest traditions, and
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will turn the FidoNews into a "sewer of feces and lies", as
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one Region Echomail Coordinator claims my appointment has caused.
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And I haven't even *published* an issue until now.
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Of course, this fails to note that the FidoNews is made from the
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submissions of other sysops...all the Editor does is to bring these
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together, uncensored, into a coherent form.
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As long as the submission follows the ARTSPEC.DOC parameters (see
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the masthead at the end of the FidoNews for details), what is
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submitted is going to be printed.
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I would suggest, however, that the use of profanity unnecessarily
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doesn't always build up your audience to sympathize with you.
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There may be some changes in the format of the Snooze, interms of
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placement of articles and information, and alternate distributions
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are being discussed in the FIDONEWS echo. Join us as the "de facto"
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FidoNews Editorial Board if you have input. If you want to discuss
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an article you see here, connect to the NEWSCHAT echo, where each
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issue is posted each week.
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Beyond that, well...let's not give *everything* away at once, right?
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In this issue, we ignore the last two issues and pretend that they
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never happened, and continue with Ward Dossche's "Countdown to
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Destruction", two articles, and a plea for help from a person in
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Zone 2 who needs to know the routing set-up for a Fido<>InterNet
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Gateway.
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And, of course, the Zone 1 Echomail Coordinator Election results.
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-zf-
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 2 23 Feb 1998
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ARTICLES
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Revitalizing a Small Part of Fidonet by Neil Hoener, 1:128/103,
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nhoener@fatalerr.com
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Introduction:
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Following is the approach that the Pikes Peak Net took to
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change, ward off, slow down, warp, the decline of Fidonet in Colorado
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Springs. You might find our path entertaining. Hopefully it might
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even give you insight about how to combat the general malaise
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affecting Fidonet in your own local area.
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Background:
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Colorado Springs is a paragon of economic growth nestled in the
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shadow of Peaks Peak, one of Colorado's many 14,000 foot Rocky
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mountains. It is home to the Air Force Academy, three air force
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bases and one army base. High technology is in abundance here. From
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the ever-present defense contractors, to telecommunications and
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computer giants in the private sector with MCI, DEC, USANET and HP;
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Colorado Springs is known in some circles as Little Silicon Valley.
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Since the early 1980s, Fidonet Net 128 (The Pikes Peak Net), has
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been an active partner in Colorado Springs' telecommunications and
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computing community. Boasting of more than 80 BBS'es at its peak in
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1994-95 and just like the rest of Fidonet, we have been suffering
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from a general malaise and a drastic decline in the number of users
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that call our boards.
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Identifying the Problem:
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The commonly touted explanation for the decline in Fidonet
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callers has been that they were opting for the Internet over the
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Fidonet BBS community they used to call. While the attraction for
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the Internet is certainly one of the reasons for decline in callers,
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we also found that they do not have the software they need to call
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us.
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In our surveys of local computer stores, we could not find a
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single terminal program that could be used to call an ANSI screen
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BBS. Plenty of web browsers and web construction software, but not a
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single terminal program. Fidonet is not being so much as abandoned
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for the World Wide Web, as our callers can not reach us. They do not
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have and will not be able to find the prerequisite software they need
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to call the old style Fidonet BBS.
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Impact of Windows 95 on Fidonet:
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The general lack of commercial terminal software is singularly
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important when you consider the number of computers that have been
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sold in the past three years with the "point and click" simplicity of
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Windows 95. It is this new generation of Windows 95 computer users
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 3 23 Feb 1998
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that are not calling the old style BBSs. The software giants have
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effectively steered our callers away from us.
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We began by identifying terminal software that would:
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1) allow an ANSI screen terminal display,
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2) use an external dialing directory and
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3) be easily understood and used by this new
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Windows 95 generation.
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What we were looking for was a shareware windows product that
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was point and click. What we found was a vastly improved upgrade to
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a terminal program originally included with Windows 95, HyperTerminal
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v.3.0. We asked Hilgraeve, the author of HyperTerminal v.3.0, if we
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could distribute their software as part of our terminal software
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package and received their blessing.
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The beauty of HyperTerminal v.3.0 is you can place a dialing
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icon anyplace on a hard drive in a Windows 95/NT environment and
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invoke HyperTerminal by merely clicking on an .ht icon. We wrote an
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install program that places a .lnk icon on the Windows 95/NT desktop
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and installed our BBS dialing icons to a directory created by the
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install program.
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Each of our sysops submitted a short readme file describing the
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theme of their BBS and they were placed with the dialing icons. The
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BBS readme files were reformatted as .doc files, so a click on the
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file would default to wordpad, Windows 95's built in text editor.
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Distribution Scheme:
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Now that we had the software in place, the next question was how
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to get that software into the hands of our potential point and click
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Windows 95 callers. Distribution of free proprietary software worked
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very well for AOL in the early 90s and it could work for us.
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We setup a web site with our terminal software and put the
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archive on disk in the local public libraries. We then picked
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several computer-related locations in town to place disks and asked
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the proprietor if they would support Fidonet by providing display
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space. There are still a surprising number of people out there that
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remember what Fidonet and a BBS are.
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Finance and Marketing Schemes:
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I am sure at this point you are saying, "DISKS? Don't they cost
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money?" Where did a bunch of hobbyist, amateur sysops come up with
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money to buy a lot of disks? Well, four of our sysops came up with
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about 800 disks, another provided and designed the labels, others
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assisted with disk copying and still others dropped their ducats into
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a common pot to help out. It was a true group effort, coordinated in
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our sysop echo and at our monthly Net meetings.
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Now to get the word out. Peak Computing, a weekly Computer
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magazine for Colorado, publishes a list of bulletin boards systems
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for the state. The senior editor of the magazine was extremely
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 4 23 Feb 1998
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supportive and offered to place a full page ad advertising Fidonet,
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the availability of the software and where to find it. She said
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she'll run the ad until we ran out of disks.
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The disks and labels cost about 26 cents a piece. The displays
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we put up were in most cases provided by the location sponsor. The
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library disks were placed in video cases donated by Blockbuster.
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They were going to thrown away anyway. Always think "donation",
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you'll never know if you don't ask.
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After a month our sponsors noted the public response to the
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net's software offering and have offered to fund the next round of
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disks. They are also suggesting additional ways they could
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distribute the disk. This time we are going to shoot for a run of a
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thousand.
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Who knows where it will end.
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Conclusion:
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Where is Pikes Peak Net going with this effort? The nay-sayers
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suggest that we are just flying in the face of change and all our
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efforts will be for naught. However, this generation of computer
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users deserves to have calling options other than the large online
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services and the Internet.
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A hobbyist Fidonet BBS offers a sense of local online community.
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The large online services are huge, but have no community. A
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hobbyist Fidonet BBS is free. Neither the large services or the
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Internet are free by any stretch.
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Maybe the Pikes Peak Net is flying in the face of change, but
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we're having fun trying. The net has more new callers and we're
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having an effect. There is still room for the small hobbyist BBS in
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today's high-charged computer world. We just need to give our
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callers the venue to call us and, if we have to, give them the
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software to do it.
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If you are interested in applying our experiences to your local
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Fidonet area, or if you would like to share your own net's success
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stories; contact the Pikes Peak Net NC via netmail at 1:128/0 or
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128/103, attn: Neil Hoener; Internet E-mail, nhoener@fatalerr.com.
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If you would like to take a look at our terminal software
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archive, it is available at www.whit.org/fido or it can be FREQ'd as
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128HYPE3.ZIP from 1/128/103.
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Why Web Pages?
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A short article by David Hallford
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Have you ever read an echomail message that refers you to an
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Internet web page? Ever wonder why the person didn't just post
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whatever it was in the echo? I have. I have even been the point
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 5 23 Feb 1998
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of a web page! I'm sure that gives me a greater claim to fame than
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my previously having been condemned to Hades for all eternity by
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someone who was not a "false modem scum".
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Having now shown why I became interested in the topic, I can
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continue.
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I spent a few nanoseconds wondering what the point of an 'assault'
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style web page was, when it dawned on me. No one can file a Policy 4
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complaint on the contents of a web page! Voila - a new 'work around'
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for Policy 4. I'll just learn a little HTML and say what I want about
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folks in Fidonet and they can't do anything against me, because I am
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outside the scope of Policy 4!
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After realizing this, I went and looked at my web page to see if I
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had said anything about folks in Fidonet. I went to http://www.the
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vision.net/hallford and looked. Hmmm a section that talks about my
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military service...maybe that was a 'slam' on the President of the
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United States?
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A section on TransX...hmmmm maybe that was a 'slam' on other
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software?
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Nope...couldn't find a negative word anywhere.
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Maybe I am misusing my web page. If any of my brother or sister
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SysOps has one of these 'assault' style web pages, could you please
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send me the data on it so I can go review it? I can write an regular
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piece for the Fidonews... a review of web page assaults, so to speak,
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if there are enough of them.
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The sad news is that after 11+ years in Fidonet, meeting and
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messaging with many SysOps, I just don't believe that there will be
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enough material for a continuing article.
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 6 23 Feb 1998
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COORDINATORS CORNER
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Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 051
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By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
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ZC/2
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!Zone/Jul!Ndl-023!Nodel.-030!Nodel.-037!Nodel.-044!Nodel.-051!%%!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 1/044 ! 6020 ! 6020 0! 5872 -148! 5872 0! 5828 -44!27!
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! 2/051 ! 14406 !14360 -46!14370 10!14384 14!14299 -85!67!
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! 3/044 ! 573 ! 566 -7! 565 -1! 553 -12! 550 -3! 3!
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! 4/044 ! 424 ! 410 -14! 410 0! 406 -4! 403 -3! 2!
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! 5/037 ! 91 ! 91 0! 87 -4! 87 0! 87 0! 0!
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! 6/016 ! 322 ! 322 0! 322 0! 322 0! 322 0! 1!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 21836 !21769 -67!21626 -143!21624 -2!21489 -135!
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Zone 1 EchoMail Coordinator Results
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by Martin Belcke, Election Coordinator, 1:232/10
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edited for size by Zorch Frezberg, Editor, 1:1/23
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[NOTE: In compiling the statistics, the results totalled about
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87K in size, which would likely have resulted in the 'angered mob
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with torches and pitchforks' heading this way. I have selected the
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most critical and informative of the statistics posted, with the
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full version available by FREQ at 1:205/1701 (name: STATS), or at
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http://209.77.232.66/fidonews/results.html
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for your review. -zf-]
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In the final round of the tallying, the breakdown is
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REGION MOST VOTES TO MOST VOTES PER NET
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10 BK BK 60
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11 BK ML 34
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12 ML TIED 6
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13 BK
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14 TIED
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15 BK
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16 BK
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17 BK
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18 BK
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19 ML
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ROUND 6 RESULTS
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BALLOT STATISTICS:
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Total Ballots Cast : 324
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Total Invalid Ballots (See FOOTNOTE 2) : 8
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Total Beginning Number of Valid Ballots : 316
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Ballots eliminated during tallying : 68
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Total Ending Number of Valid Ballots : 248
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TALLYING RESULTS:
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NOTE: A VALID BALLOT is any ballot that meets the
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ELIM = Eliminated election requirements and still has a valid
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candidate listed.
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ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND
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1 2 3 4 5 6
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Valid Ballots : 316 315 311 298 277 248
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Required to win : 159 158 156 150 139 125
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WAYNE DELISLE, SR 7 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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DAVID CALAFRANSESCO 54 57 60 65 72 ELIM
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MIKE LUTHER 72 72 73 81 81 109
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JEFF SMITH 26 26 26 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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JIM BALCOM 31 31 31 31 ELIM xxxxxxx
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JOHN GLINSKI 9 9 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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BOB KOHL 117 120 121 121 124 139
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Statistics of the election for those who like them are as follows:
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NOTE: Percentages rounded off.
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Overall Stats:
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NOTE: Total nodes eligible and total nodes per region is taken
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from information compiled by David Bowerman and are from
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nodelist .037
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Total Eligible Voters: 6,256
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Total Nodes Voting : 316
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Percent of Eligible : 5%
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Total Nets : 344
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Total Nets Voting : 111
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Percent of Total Nets: 32%
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Votes Sent Via DIRECT NETMAIL : 182 58%
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Votes Sent Via ROUTED NETMAIL : 72 23%
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Votes Sent Via INTERNET E-MAIL : 62 19%
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Nodes Per Region Stats: Nets Per Region Stats:
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REG TOTAL VOTES PERCENT REG TOTAL VOTED PERCENT
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R10 549 61 11% R10 25 17 68%
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R11 755 39 5% R11 45 15 33%
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R12 713 26 4% R12 25 6 24%
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R13 979 62 6% R13 44 24 55%
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R14 318 10 3% R14 21 3 14%
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R15 339 7 2% R15 19 6 32%
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R16 378 7 2% R16 14 4 29%
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R17 662 30 5% R17 34 11 32%
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R18 983 26 3% R18 78 11 14%
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R19 580 47 8% R19 39 14 36%
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Statistics on the total number of REGION INDEPENDENT NODES
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was not compiled. A total of 6 RI's voted.
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WE GET EMAIL
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Subject: From Munich
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:39:30 +0100
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From: Klaus-Juergen Feilkas
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<Klaus-Juergen_Feilkas@physik.tu-muenchen.de>
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To: zorch@fidonews.org
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Hi sysop,
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I'm from Germany and I found an old friend of mine with yahoo.
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Email:
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XXXXXXXXX_XXXX@F1428.N246.Z2.FIDO.SUB.ORG
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My server doesn't accept F1428.N246.Z2.FIDO.SUB.ORG.
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What's wrong? How can I mail from Internet / via Internet (Navigator)
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Thanx for your help
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Klaus
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NOTICES
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Future History
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30 Apr 1998
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Queens Day, Holland.
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17 May 1998
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Independence Day, Norway.
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22 May 1998
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Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.
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14 Sep 1998
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Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98].
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22 Sep 1998
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First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org.
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1 Dec 1998
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Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
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Tom Jennings.
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24 Jul 1999
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XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
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31 Dec 1999
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Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
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1 Jan 2000
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The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
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1 Jun 2000
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EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
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15 Sep 2000
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Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
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1 Jan 2001
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This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
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-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
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Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 11 23 Feb 1998
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FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
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=================================================================
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[this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or
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it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key]
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[ PGP Key being re-set and available next week ]
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File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:205/1701] or download it from
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IKVHFoT! BBS at 1-209-251-7529 anytime Zone 1 ZMH at 300-9600+ V34.
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The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed
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in the Masthead information.
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FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 12 23 Feb 1998
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=================================================================
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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=================================================================
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as
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of this appearance.
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NOTE: I am looking for a comprehensive list of Telnet, VMODEM, BinkP,
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Argus and other TCP/IP based nodes operating FidoNet on the
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InterNet, either by Zone or worldwide, to post here as well.
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- Ye Editor
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============
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FidoNet:
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Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
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FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
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http://209.77.232.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
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WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
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FTSC page http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc.htm
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Echomail http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html
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WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
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General Info http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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============
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
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Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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Region 13: http://www.smalltalkband.com/st01000.htm
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Region 14: [disappeared?]
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Region 15: [disappeared?]
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Region 16: http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm
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Region 17: http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/region17.htm
|
||
REC17: http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/
|
||
|
||
Region 18: http://www.citicom.com/fido.html
|
||
|
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Region 19: http://www.compconn.net
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
ZEC2: http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm
|
||
Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/
|
||
|
||
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
|
||
FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 13 23 Feb 1998
|
||
|
||
|
||
Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German)
|
||
|
||
Region 25:
|
||
http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254
|
||
|
||
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
|
||
|
||
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (in French)
|
||
|
||
Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (in Swiss)
|
||
|
||
Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian)
|
||
|
||
Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (in Spanish)
|
||
REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
|
||
|
||
Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
|
||
|
||
Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
|
||
|
||
Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (in Greek and English)
|
||
|
||
Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 4: (not yet listed)
|
||
|
||
Region 90:
|
||
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish)
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China)
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 14 23 Feb 1998
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONEWS INFORMATION
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
|
||
|
||
Editor: Zorch Frezberg
|
||
|
||
Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
|
||
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
|
||
Donald Tees, Christopher Baker
|
||
|
||
"FidoNews Editor"
|
||
FidoNet 1:1/23
|
||
BBS 1-209-251-7529, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32b/V.42b/V.34
|
||
|
||
more addresses:
|
||
Zorch Frezberg -- 1:205/1701, zorch@repairnet.com
|
||
zorch@fidonews.org
|
||
zorch@qnis.net
|
||
zorch@eiv.com
|
||
zorch@kumr.lns.com
|
||
|
||
(Postal Service mailing address)
|
||
FidoNews Editor
|
||
P.O. Box 642
|
||
Fresno, CA 93709-0642
|
||
U.S.A.
|
||
|
||
|
||
voice: 1-209-446-9038 [voice mail = 'blind' numbers not returned]
|
||
|
||
------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
|
||
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
||
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
|
||
authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
|
||
does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
|
||
these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
|
||
FidoNews.
|
||
|
||
Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
|
||
Copyright 1998 Zorch Frezberg. All rights reserved. Duplication
|
||
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
|
||
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
|
||
the Editor.
|
||
|
||
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|
||
|
||
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
|
||
form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
|
||
file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
|
||
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
|
||
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
|
||
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
|
||
FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 15 23 Feb 1998
|
||
|
||
|
||
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSFnn.ZIP] for a
|
||
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
|
||
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
|
||
current year [8], i.e., FNWSJAN8.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 98.
|
||
|
||
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
|
||
1 - 15 for 1984 - 1998, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
|
||
size from 48K to 1.4M.
|
||
|
||
|
||
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
|
||
|
||
http://www.fidonews.org
|
||
http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
|
||
ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
|
||
ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/fido/
|
||
ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
|
||
|
||
*=*=*
|
||
|
||
You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
|
||
|
||
jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net
|
||
|
||
with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist
|
||
|
||
and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email
|
||
distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no
|
||
message to the same address above.
|
||
|
||
*
|
||
|
||
You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
|
||
by sending email to:
|
||
|
||
ftpmail@fidonews.org
|
||
|
||
with a Subject line of: help
|
||
|
||
and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
|
||
instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will
|
||
respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on
|
||
www.fidonews.org.
|
||
|
||
*=*=*
|
||
|
||
You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
|
||
|
||
http://www.fidonews.org
|
||
|
||
STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
|
||
Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
|
||
|
||
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
|
||
|
||
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
|
||
FIDONEWS 15-08 Page 16 23 Feb 1998
|
||
|
||
|
||
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
|
||
|
||
=*=*=*=
|
||
|
||
The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also
|
||
available almost immediately after publication on the FidoNews Editor
|
||
homepage on the World Wide Web at:
|
||
|
||
http://209.77.232.66/fidonews.html
|
||
|
||
There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
|
||
to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an email
|
||
link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
|
||
|
||
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|
||
|
||
A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
|
||
1:1/23 [1:205/1701] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
|
||
Rights On! BBS at 1-209-251-7529 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18. It
|
||
is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the
|
||
Zone 1 Echomail Backbone.
|
||
|
||
*=*=*=*=*
|
||
|
||
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
|
||
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
|
||
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
|
||
from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators
|
||
also have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
|
||
|
||
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
|
||
trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141,
|
||
and are used with permission.
|
||
|
||
"Disagreement is actually necessary,
|
||
or we'd all have to get in fights
|
||
or something to amuse ourselves
|
||
and create the requisite chaos."
|
||
-Tom Jennings
|
||
|
||
### -30- ###
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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