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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 18 4 May 1998
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 |
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Where does it end...and begin again?
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 2
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Zone 1 awash in radish frenzy, news at 11 ................ 2
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3. ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ........................ 5
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DOC LOGGER is a SPACE MONKEY !!!! ........................ 5
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 6
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Future History ........................................... 6
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5. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 7
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FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 7
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6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 8
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs ................................ 8
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7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 11
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 1 4 May 1998
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EDITORIAL
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There isn't a lot in this issue...outside my window, it's raining
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during a storm that wasn't supposed to be here until this coming
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Wednesday. Another El Nino artifact, I presume, modified by the
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arrival this early morning of a Harrier jump jet for a series of
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training exercises at the local National Guard air base.
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For those of you who have never experienced a Harrier landing, be
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prepared to dive for cover, as the noise generated is not unlike a
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large airliner crashing into your living room...for about five
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minutes.
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One thing came to mind this visit, however...how is this plane to
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"quietly" attack its targets? Or does it's strike speed make up for
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it's lack of 'stealth'?
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There's a message in there...just think it over a bit.
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As things go, Zone 2 seems to have modified its "position", in that
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Ward Dossche is no longer making noises of separating Zone 2 from the
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rest of FidoNet...but then, he still doesn't want to allow any sort
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of dissenting opinion to be posted along with his own messages.
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To that end, a new echo called ZCC-DISCUSSIONS looks like it is being
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formed to route around Ward's censorship. You might inquire about
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the availability of the echo if you are interested in Zone and
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International matters.
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And, for the last time, I ask if anyone out there has a compiler for
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Lattice C code, or a "translation" scheme to move the Lattice C code
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to something a bit more 'useful' or 'relevant' to modern C or C++
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compiles...please contact me at one of the addresses below.
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-zf-
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 2 4 May 1998
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COLUMNS
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Dear Editorbeing,
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This article is submitted by Doc Logger (1:163/110,
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cherriot@magmacom.com) whose bleary eyes were caused by
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creating new Map projections to satisfy the geographic
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anomalies in Net163.
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Roll da flic, Zorch....
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Dear Reverend Visage,
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The editors of Swamp Swine Magazine were a tadge concerned
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about the recent photo essay you submitted. They said that
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Sports Illustrated had already done the swimsuit issue theme
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and they could hardly discern which audience would be
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intrigued by scantily clad penguins. Did you send the right
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box of slides?
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Not much has happened on the Western Front this week other
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than the fact that Bob "Noted" Satti used up a mere 37 words
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of his quota last week so we can look forward to perhaps as
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much as 54 stunning words of wisdom from him next week. I
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posted the survey results in the usual elflord echos where
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it served as a useful spacer between the avalanche of
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Tannacore trophalactic effluvia and the Tom Cole Charm
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School lessons. To his credit, Jerry Schwartz took the time
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to question the validity of the survey but didn't quite
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bring himself to say whether he disbelieved the results.
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The elves in Net163's Sherwood Forest have added a node from
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Edmonton and a node from Rhode Island to their merry band.
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Needless to say, our lil' buddy Dallas Hinton has fired off
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the usual pre-policy complaint inquiries. Hint for Blondes:
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Yo Dallas, if NCs in your net weren't so busy threatening to
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excise sysops from the nodelist, perhaps they'd be happier
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to stay on as labourers in your Gulag. What is even more
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amusing about this latest exchange of grapeshot is that,
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after reading Bob "noted" Satti's last policy appeal
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decision wherein Satti whinged about not being asked for a
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geographic exemption; the NC-babe of net163 humoured him
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with a request. Bob "Noted" Satti sat on his prehensile
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thumbs and didn't deign to answer the request.
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The much maligned Bob Kohl emerged from his bunker long
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enough to post a series of incomprehensible responses to his
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multitude of detractors. Of course, once his head was up
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above the foxhole, he took it in the shorts again for having
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violated the privacy of routed netmail. The RECs have
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resolved not to call for Kohl's removal as the Z1EC, but
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instead to ignore him in the hopes that he finds amusements
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 3 4 May 1998
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more suited to his talents - like sanding wooden blocks, for
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example.
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Our prayers and our edible underwear should go out to the
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multitude that is Zorch. Apparently one of his detractors
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has alleged that more than one vote was cast by one warm
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body in the Z1EC election. Zorch has stated that he has
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enjoyed the suppositions which either indicates that his
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detractors are sucking pipe, or else Zorch is suffering from
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a radish deficiency. Maurice Kimal, who would have made a
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great Young Republican when Nixon was clinging to his last
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venal months of power, has chastised Zorch's detractors for
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their "witch hunt tactics." His Zorchness recommended
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reading Ayn Rand's naive capitalist anthem "Atlas Shrugged"
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which I found amusing. Perhaps he would be delighted to know
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that the modern era Hank Reardons are 22 year old
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derivatives traders at Morgan Stanley who can pole-axe
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national monetary policy with just a few, ill chosen trades.
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For this week's Chautauqua I would like to include a pithy
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quote from Wayne C. Booth's "Is There Any Knowledge That a
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Man Must Have?" The issue arose in a personal way when I
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noted that neither of my teenmonsters who are attending high
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school have had to write a single essay in school this year.
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My first and obvious conclusion was that they were being
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adequately trained to become the next generation of echomail
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participants where standards of literacy are no asset. In
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the case of my teenmonsters, what concerns me about the lack
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of essays was the more important issue of what sort of
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critical abilities can they hope to achieve if they are
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never compelled to use them. Anyway, here's Booth's
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commentary:
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"The man who has not learned anything about how to
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understand his own intentions and to make them effective in
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the world, who has not, through experience and books,
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learned something about what is possible and what
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impossible, what desirable and what undesirable, will be
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enslaved by the political and social intentions of other
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men, benign or malign."
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Booth doesn't say it, but I also wonder if there is a more
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prevalent ideology which suggests that the first preference
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of people is *not* to have their feet held to the flames of
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knowledge. Ignorance and irresponsibility are bedfellows.
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>From experience I surmise that one of the cruelest torments
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you can inflict on those who refuse to be educated is the
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insistence that they be responsible. This is the fly in the
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ointment of democracy because assuming an informed
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electorate is fallacious. This truth is used by disparate
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groups on the political spectrum. From the Dallas Hintons
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who assert the sysops are too dumb to choose their own
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masters, to the anarchists who assert that the only valid
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compact is one between individuals. I favour the latter
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reasoning but also recognize that between the choices of
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totalism and democracy, the latter is the lessor evil.
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 4 4 May 1998
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I must go Visage. I have promised to give a Theremin concert
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for a roving pack of whales in Rivierre Du Loup this
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evening. One has to take audiences wherever they can be
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found, as you well know. I hope your secretary appreciated
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the truckload of radishes that I thoughtfully had delivered
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to her room.
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Regards,
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Doc Logger
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Tuber Tranquillity Research Centre,
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Furlang Island, South Pacific
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 5 4 May 1998
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ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT
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DOC LOGGER is a SPACE MONKEY ... and works
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undercover for N.A.S.A.!
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NOT REALLY. Just kidding.
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BUT.... now that I have your attention, why don't
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you try some of these fine echos today:
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the CFL echo:
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Everything CFL: the Canadian Football
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League.
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the AMIGA_LC echo:
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Fidonet's only echo exclusively for programming
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the Amiga with C and C++.
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the WELFARE echo:
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For debating the systems of social
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welfare (including Social Security) in
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the United States and other countries,
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alternatives to them, and associated
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politics.
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All of the above available on the North American Backbone
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and distributed by the FidoSpine distribution system.
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-- Ronnie L. Grant, 1:3603/140
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or ronnie.grant@global.dyn.ml.org
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 6 4 May 1998
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NOTICES
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Future History
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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 15-18 Page 7 4 May 1998
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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 8 4 May 1998
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fbn@dandy.net (new addr)
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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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FIDONEWS 15-18 Page 9 4 May 1998
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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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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.goldware.dk/ftsc
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Echomail [MIA]
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WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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