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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 11 16 March 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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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
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The Impending Civil War
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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PGP for Dummies .......................................... 1
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Changing the Balance ..................................... 4
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 6
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3. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 9
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 10
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Future History ........................................... 10
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5. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 11
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FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 11
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6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12
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7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 1 16 Mar 1998
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ARTICLES
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* Originally by David Hallford, 1:10/2@fidonet
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* Originally to Bob Satti, 1:153/6
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* Originally dated 11 Mar 1998, 8:44
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Hi Bob,
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Unlike my normal reticent self, I am going to crosspost this
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netmail to Zorch for inclusion in the Fidonews.
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I see the ZC as the 'Chairman of the Board of Directors' of Z1 and
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as the representative of Z1 to the rest of Fidonet. Looking back over
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the past few years I beleive that you have done an outstanding job.
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You have endured a lot of mud-slinging with good humor, and used good
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common sense when making decisions.
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Some people have made accusations that you are a member of a
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conspiracy to control Fidonet. I think that they are wrong for 2
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reasons. The first, and most obvious, is that the man who controls
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the Nodelist already has the tools necessary to do what he wants done
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without the need of a conspiracy. The second is much less obvious to
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most of Fidonet... you are a good and decent man (with an excellent
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sense of humor) and I think such pettiness as they accuse you of is
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too far beneath your dignity to do.
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As you know, I am leaving Fidonet after 11+ years. Please
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understand that if all of Fidonet were more like you I would do
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whatever was necessary to stay.
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Don't shut the door on me, though. We may find out that I can't
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survive without my daily dosage of Fidonet.
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I just wanted you, and everyone else, to know the high regard I
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have for you.
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with my highest regards,
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Dave
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PGP for DUMMIES
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Jim Cannell
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1:306/21
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What is PGP? PGP (Pretty Good Privacy (tm), (c) Phillip Zimmermann,
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is a public key encryption program. What is public key encryption?
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Public key encryption is a virtually tamper-proof method of
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encrypting and/or verifying data. Unlike conventional encryption,
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which requires a secure channel to exchange keys, public key
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 2 16 Mar 1998
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encryption uses two keys, one of which can be distributed publically
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through insecure channels, while the other is kept in the exclusive
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possession of the owner.
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This article is intended to give the reader sufficient knowledge to
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encrypt/decrypt, sign, and verify integrity of files using PGP. PGP
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uses two keys, public and secret. The secret key stays in the owner's
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possesion, and is encrypted with a passphrase known only to the owner.
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The public key can and should be distributed widely in such places as
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the internet keyservers and/or the FidoNet PKEY_DROP Echo.
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First, you need to install PGP on your system. The PGP archive as
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distributed is named PGP262.ZIP. Information on where to get PGP is
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included at the end of this article. The distribution archive
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contains three files: PGP262I.ASC, PGP262I.ZIP, SETUP.DOC. if these
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three files are not present, throw the archive away, and get another
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copy from a different source. With PGP, as with any strong encryption
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program, you do not want to take a chance on a corrupt file. Read
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SETUP.DOC. It gives you useful information about setting up the
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program. PGP262I.ASC is a detached signature file for the archive
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PGP262I.ZIP. Once you get PGP set up, it can be used to verify the
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integrity of the archive. Again, if it doesn't check out, get a
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different archive.
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Now you are ready to actually install PGP. First, make a directory
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C:\PGP, and add this directory to your path. Change to this directory
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and run:
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pkunzip -d pgp262i
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The -d option is required. Unzipping this archive will create a DOC
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subdirectory, which is necessary to run PGP. After this step, PGP is
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ready to execute.
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The simplest thing that can be done with PGP is to verify the
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integrity of a PGP signed file. All you need for that is a copy of
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PGP and the signer's public key. To verify the integrity of a PGP
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signed file named SIGNDFIL.ASC, execute the following command:
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pgp signdfil.asc
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This will create a new file named SIGNDFIL (without the extension).
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The new file will have the signature removed, and PGP will tell you if
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the signature is good or bad. If even one bit in the file has changed
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after it has been signed, PGP will tell you that the signature is bad.
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Perhaps you want to ensure that those receiving a file know that it
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was written by you, and that it has not been modified. This is done
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by signing the file. Again, this is a simple operation. Just execute
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the command:
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pgp -s yourfile.ext
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PGP will ask you to enter your passphrase. After you do this, PGP
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will add your signature to a new file named YOURFILE.PGP. This works
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well for binary files, but if your original file was a text file, you
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will notice that the signed file is unreadable. Don't despair, the
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recipient will still be able to verify the signature, and read it. If
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you really want the text readable before the signature is verified,
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use the command:
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pgp -sat yourfile.txt
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After entering your passphrase, PGP will create a new file named
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 3 16 Mar 1998
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YOURFILE.ASC, which has your original plaintext bounded by the PGP
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delimiter lines, and a signature attached. You have probably seen
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this format as signed messages in some Echos. This can be a quite
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useful tool for moderators who have a problem with others sending
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moderator messages. A PGP signature cannot be forged, thus assuring
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the reader that the message really is from the moderator.
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Now you are probably wondering how to get the PGP key pair used to
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sign the file. This is also a simple operation. Enter the command:
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pgp -kg
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PGP will offer you three choices of 384, 512, or 1024 bits. You may
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also enter a value for the number of bits up to a maximum of 2047.
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For PGP to be effective, do not use a key length shorter than 1024
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bits. You will then be prompted to enter a user ID for your key. Any
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text string will work, but it should be something meaningful. For
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example, the ID string on my key is:
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Jim Cannell <jim.cannell@f21.n306.z1.fidonet.org>
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Next, you will be prompted to enter your passphrase. The passphrase
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can be a long sentence or phrase with numbers and/or punctuation marks
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included. It can be any length, but should be limited to 128
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characters if you are running MSDOS or a similar OS. To be secure, it
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should contain a mix of upper and lower case characters along with
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numbers and punctuation marks. The words in it should be badly
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misspelled, and be utter nonsense. Any meaning should be recognizable
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only to yourself. Make sure it is something that you can remember
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without ever writing it down. After you enter the passphrase, you
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will be asked to enter it again for verification. Next you will asked
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to enter some random text. Then, the actual key generation process
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will begin. This process is quite lengthy, even on a fast computer,
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but fortunately, you only have to do it once. The key pair that you
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just generated will be in your PGP directory in the files PUBRING.PGP
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and SECRING.PGP.
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Now that you have your own PGP key, you need to take steps to protect
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it. First, sign your key. This is done with the command:
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pgp -ks youruserid
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After you have signed it, make at least one backup copy of both
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PUBRING.PGP and SECRING.PGP and store it in a secure place somewhere
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offline.
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Next, you need to publish your public key. To do this, first extract
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it from your keyring with the command:
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pgp -kxa youruserid keyfile
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This creates a file named KEYFILE.ASC. For your own key, make this a
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unique file name. For example, my keyfile is named CANNELL.ASC. Post
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your keyfile as a message in the PKEY_DROP Echo, upload it to the
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internet key servers, and make it file requestable on your system with
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the magic name PGPKEY. Encourage your correspondents to freq it. You
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need to distribute this key as widely as possible.
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To encrypt a file for a given recipient only, run:
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pgp -e pvt_file.ext hisuserid
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This will create a file named PVT_FILE.PGP, which can only be read
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by the recipient. When he gets it, he executes the command:
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pgp pvt_file.pgp
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PGP will ask him for his passphrase, and if it is correct will decrypt
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 4 16 Mar 1998
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the PVT_FILE.PGP into the plaintext file, PVT_FILE. Note that when
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you encrypt a file with PGP, no one but the recipient can decrypt it;
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you won't even be able to decrypt it yourself.
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This article should be sufficient to allow you to use PGP for its
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simpler tasks. To really discover how versatile this program is,
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read the included documentation. It is quite well written. I plan on
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this being the first of a series of articles on PGP. In future
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articles, I will describe how to do some of the more complex functions
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of PGP, such signing other people's keys, revoking keys, multiple IDs,
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multiple recipients, the web of trust, and more.
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At the very least, the information in this article will enable you to
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determine whether or not your copy of this issue of FidoNews has been
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altered or censored since its publication by the Editor.
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There are many places to obtain PGP. It is available for freq at
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1:306/21 with the magic name PGP. The source code is available with
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the magic name PGPSRC. There is an ftp site at MIT, but you will be
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required to prove that you are a US or Canadian resident before being
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allowed to download. Thanks to the shortsighted US government, strong
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cryptographic protocols are considered munitions, and as such, their
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export is prohibited. Since I have an allergy to steel bars on my
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door, I must limit freqs to Zone 1 systems. If you want a copy,
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NetMail me from a Zone 1 address, and I will give you the password
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necessary to freq PGP. Although the US government has prohibited the
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export of PGP, it is freely available throughout the world anyway. In
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fact, every version of PGP has been available at overseas locations
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within minutes of its release. For those of you in other zones, I
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suggest that you first try to obtain PGP from 2:51/2. There are
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probably other locations closer to you that I am not aware of.
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I invite you to join us in the PUBLIC_KEYS Echo to learn more about
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PGP and encryption. Both PUBLIC_KEYS and PKEY_DROP are international
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Echos distributed on several backbones in all six FidoNet zones.
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If you have any questions, comments, etc., you can contact me in the
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PUBLIC_KEYS Echo or via NetMail at 1:306/21. Happy PGPing.
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| Changing the Balance Michael Strates, 3:635/725 |
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News Flash!! FidoNet has gone back into action, with people leaving
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the Internet to go back to where they started. Hundreds of people are
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storming back to the older network, by 1,000's and the nodelist is
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growing out of control. Zones 1 & 3 have gained nearly 65,000 entries
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together.
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Okay.. Perhaps I'm dreaming, but with a little bit of work, we can
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get our existing network to 'network'. Why did everybody leave
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FidoNet? The World-Wide-Web.. And what can FidoNet offer people
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 5 16 Mar 1998
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using the existing services.. The World-Wide-Web, well a slight
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diversion from the real Web.. a thing I like to call SuperText.
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SuperText is FidoNet's WWW. Let's say the base host for SuperText is
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3:635/725, and the SysOp decides to put up three pages, one
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advertising his BBS (advert.stp), one about oil refineries
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(oilref.stp), and lastly, one about himself (me.stp).
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The SysOp opens up the SuperText door, goes into the E)dit Pages
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section, and uploads the new .stp's into his SuperTextSpace. They get
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zipped into the database, frozen and the new entries are exported in
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Netmail for delivery to the next SuperText uplink.
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Days later, it has been updated world-wide, and everybody can access
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his pages (in a flash) by opening the SuperText door, going into
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V)iew Pages, and typing in "centralbbs.mel.au/advert.stp" which would
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bring up his BBS advertisment.
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SuperText will work. But there is a few obvious limitations with this
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design. Firstly, hard disk space is one -- however, it'll take a heck
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of alot of pages to fill an average 10MB free space up (considering
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they're compressed -- text files compress extra good!).
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I've already created a UNIX prototype of SuperText, which seems to
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work well, but I need your help to continue development. I need
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people to write MEX scripts, and doors, and stuff for SuperText, and
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possibly an offline reader like Bluewave for SuperText.
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If you can help with this new promising innovation, please send me
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netmail, "Michael Strates @ 3:635/725" or e-mail
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"mstrates@croftj.net".
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 6 16 Mar 1998
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COLUMNS
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Dear EditorBeing,
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This article is submitted by Charles Herriot(163/110) who
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discovered Logger hunched over a threadbare copy of the
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"Bride of Frankenstein" whose title had been crossed out and
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replaced with the words "Policy 4." Logger was wearing a
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"Zorch for IC in '98" button in his left lapel (and, a
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"Clinton for Pope in 2000" button in his right lapel.)
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Roll da flic, Zorch....
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Dear Reverend Visage,
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Where the hell are you? I must tell you that the editors of
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Swamp Swine Magazine have become overly concerned about your
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recent submission of petty cash vouchers. I somehow doubt
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that they want to be the proud owners of some prime real
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estate located on the Whitewater River in Arkansas, even if
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Whitewater happens to have the historic value of being the
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only place in the universe where Slick Willy kept it in his
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shorts.
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I trust you noticed that this month's issue of Rolling Stone
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has several incoherent column inches from that toothless old
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troll, Hunter S. Thompson? I fear that the poor sod has
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skidded off the Proud Highway and now lies blubbering in the
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ditch. I shall burn a few LeeAnne Rimes CDs as an
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appeasement to the gods that must be torturing his hollow
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soul.
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At the risk of sending you even further to a life of drink,
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loose cars and fast women, I should tell you that the bad
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craziness in Region 12 continues to amuse. Our RC, Mike
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O'Connor lumbered up onto his hind paws and informed the
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net163 NC to "clean up the nodelist" or else all of the net
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would sink below the Pacific. Mike "Weasels R' Us" O'Connor
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made this threat by invoking the name of Bob "ZC for Life"
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Satti. Naturally, the NC163 flexed a spine of purest jello
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and caved in to Mike's demands. Much embarrassment all
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around when it was discovered that Bob "ZC for Life" Satti
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had made no threat and that the whole brouhaha was a product
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of Mike's fertile, bootlicking imagination. Triples all
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round at the Z1REGCON echo, and may the farce be with them.
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(Hint: When whispering the name "Z1REGCON" around Bob Kohl,
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be sure to wear asbestos underwear because he strains a few
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headgaskets at the concept that Fidoserfs would ever learn
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of the SuperSecret FidoGod echo.)
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This week's Chautauqua springs from a fascinating book
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called "Witch Hunt, A True Story of Social Hysteria and
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 7 16 Mar 1998
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Abused Justice" by Kathryn Lyon. Lyon asserts that there
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have been three major bouts of legal hysteria in the U.S.
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The first and second were the Salem Witch Trials, and
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Mccarthyism. The third and ongoing witch hunt concerns the
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area of prosecutions for sexual abuse. She details the
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outrageous behaviour of various Wenatchee, Washington
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police, social workers, etc. who charged 41 people with
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offenses based upon the principle testimony of a 4 year old
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girl. The girl was browbeaten into making the claims by a
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deranged police detective and the stories defied logic and
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physical possibility. The author takes pains to point out
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that sexual abuse is a problem, that real incidents are
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horrific and abhorrent, but what is even more frightening is
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that the accusations of abuse have become a new realm where
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lives are ruined and grudges settled by malign individuals.
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What makes the Wenatchee story so provocative is that the
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zealotry of the police extended to persecuting the critics
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of their methods. Simple concepts like presumption of
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innocence fell by the wayside, and the same hysterical fears
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engendered by McCarthy kept decent people from voicing their
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repugnance at the police methods. What really jolted me as I
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read the book was that I realized that the occurrence wasn't
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a Kafka fiction - but rather a very real story taking place
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in 1995 in the theoretical heartland of the civilized world.
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Even discounting the hyperbole that attends the Excited
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States' head-patting about their Constitutional freedoms, I
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had assumed that they paid more than lip service to rights
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and due process. This book is scary reading.
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What makes this Chautauqua somewhat relevant to Fidoland is
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the notion that freedom is a perilously fragile commodity.
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It takes very few individuals with presumptive powers to cow
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the gullible, the brainless and the gutless into submission.
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The recent silliness with respect to net163's nodelist is a
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case in point, where a few socially maladroit complainants
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have somehow gotten the ear of Fidogods. Why is it that the
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skirl of martial bagpipes seems to goad *C-beings into
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flexing power? Why do *C-beings suddenly become morons and
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lose sight of basic notions of due process and freedom of
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expression?
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On that cheery note I must go, Visage. Your secretary is
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braying like a hippo in estrous. Who'd have thought that her
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psychic balance could be so unsettled by the fact that I
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left her a joke fax purportedly from Kenneth Starr - asking
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her to submit her bra for serology testing. Your secretary
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is not a well woman Visage,and it may not be wise to include
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her on the guest list for the upcoming nuptials of Zorch and
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John.
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Regards,
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Doc Logger,
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Small Animal Psychologist,
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Furlang Island Training Centre For
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The Olympic Giant Clam Bobsled Team,
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 8 16 Mar 1998
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 9 16 Mar 1998
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WE GET EMAIL
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Subject: hello
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Date: Sun, 15 Mar 1998 19:40:06 +0200
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From: "Radu Malica" <tzeapa@usa.net>
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To: <editor@fidonews.org>
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hello
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i want to get in contact with somebody that can provide me the
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FidoNet backbone for free, because here in the Region 53 (2:53*/*) we
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are isolated from the outer Fido. I wish that you post my request in
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a FidoNews article, or Letter to the Editor, and please, i want to
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inform you that i can provide the 2:53*/* backbone to romanian people
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in USA, through Fido2Int and/or e-mail.
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Thank You.
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PS: if somebody offers the fidonet backbone for free, please tell
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him/her to contact me at jokerul@psi.lbi.ro, tzeapa@usa.net ,
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fidonet@maxutils.com, radu.malica@contact.pcnet.ro, or at 2:530/139
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on the Fidonet. Thank you again
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Radu Malica, SysOp @ PRODiGY BBS
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+40-1-627-5454
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2:530/139@fidonet.org
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 10 16 Mar 1998
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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 15-11 Page 11 16 Mar 1998
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FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
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FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing
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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. The
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same holds true for checking the validity of this issue.
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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 15-11 Page 12 16 Mar 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://209.77.228.66/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
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REC17: http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/
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Region 18: http://techstop.pdn.net/fido/
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Region 19: http://www.compconn.net
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============
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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ZEC2: http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm
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Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 13 16 Mar 1998
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German)
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Region 25:
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http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254
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Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
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Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (in French)
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|
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Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (in Swiss)
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Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian)
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Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (in Spanish)
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REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
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Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
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Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
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Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (in Greek and English)
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Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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============
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Zone 4: (not yet listed)
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Region 90:
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish)
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============
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Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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============
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
|
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|
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China)
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 14 16 Mar 1998
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
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Editor: Zorch Frezberg
|
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|
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Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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||
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
|
||
Donald Tees, Christopher Baker
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"FidoNews Editor"
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FidoNet 1:1/23
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BBS 1-209-251-7529, 300/1200/2400/9600/V.34/V.34+
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|
||
more addresses:
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||
Zorch Frezberg -- 1:205/1701, zorch@repairnet.com
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zorch@fidonews.org
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zorch@qnis.net
|
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zorch@eiv.com
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zorch@kumr.lns.com
|
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|
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews Editor
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P.O. Box 642
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Fresno, CA 93709-0642
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U.S.A.
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|
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voice: 1-209-446-9038 [voice mail = 'blind' numbers not returned]
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
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of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
|
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does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
|
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these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
|
||
FidoNews.
|
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|
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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Copyright 1998 Zorch Frezberg. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
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||
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
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the Editor.
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=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
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|
||
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
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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
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||
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 15 16 Mar 1998
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|
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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
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size from 48K to 1.4M.
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|
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|
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
|
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|
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http://www.fidonews.org
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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
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|
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with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist
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|
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and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email
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distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no
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message to the same address above.
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|
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*
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|
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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
|
||
by sending email to:
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|
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ftpmail@fidonews.org
|
||
|
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with a Subject line of: help
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|
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and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
|
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instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will
|
||
respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on
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www.fidonews.org.
|
||
|
||
*=*=*
|
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|
||
You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
|
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|
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http://www.fidonews.org
|
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|
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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
|
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FIDONEWS 15-11 Page 16 16 Mar 1998
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|
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for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
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|
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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://209.77.228.66/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.
|
||
|
||
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=
|
||
|
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A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
|
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1:1/23 [1:205/1701] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
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IKVHFoT! BBS at 1-209-251-7529 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area X. It
|
||
is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the
|
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Zone 1 Echomail Backbone.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
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 [1:205/1701] 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
|
||
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