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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 37 14 September 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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| _ | +27-41-515-913 [5:5/23] |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Henk Wolsink 5:7104/2 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 5:5/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> editor@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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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 2
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Fido's Ugly Duckling with the Funny Web Feet ............. 2
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3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
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FidoNet Technical Standards Committee Year 2000 program .. 3
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4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 5
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Gone from the Backbone ................................... 5
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5. NOTICES .................................................. 7
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6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 9
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7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 12
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 1 14 Sep 1998
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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Some write a lot and some don't. Is it important that your editor
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writes more or less in the editorial? What does it matter, if he
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writes anything at all. What matters, that you write article(s) for
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FidoNews, as that makes the newsletter, not what I utter, good or
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bad. ;-)
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Two notices were received about BBS's being available via Telnet.
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Should a reader be interested in keeping such a list, please let
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me know, as it might be a good idea keeping a list to be included
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in FidoNews.
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Thanks to Colin Turner, for sending us the FTSC2000 details.
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Hope to see more news from the FTSC in future.
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Happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 2 14 Sep 1998
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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Fido's Ugly Duckling with the Funny Web Feet
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Douglas Myers 1:270/720 doug@mdtnbbs.com
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I got some feedback this week from a strange duck who used to hang
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around the local net. He didn't leave us like I'd thought... he
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just moved for a job. But he doesn't walk a straight nodeline
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following Mother Fido like the rest of us ducklings any more - he's
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put on some Web feet.
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He wrote to let me know that sysops aren't threatening to put up
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HTML-based bbses as I'd reported... he's doing it now. And some of
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the other creatures with Web feet are seeing a BBS for the first
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time, and they're impressed.
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He's not alone, of course. Though few BBSes are completely
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HTML-based right now, access through telenet has been with us for
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some time. This community is growing and talking about
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interconnecting through networks a bit kinder to Web feet... and
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there is a growing perception that Mother Fido is getting old and
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won't be able to lead her ducklings off the familiar paths she can
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still see.
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To you ugly ducklings out there, I send my wish that Maw Fido
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consents to have her cataracts removed soon. Removed so that she
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can see that the pond opens into a big river... removed so that she
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can know that her ugly ducklings have grown to become graceful swans.
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--
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| Fidonet: Douglas Myers 1:270/720@fidonet.org
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| Internet: doug@mdtnbbs.com
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| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
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| From Mdtn_BBS @mdtnbbs.com [ In the Heart of Three Mile Island ]
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 3 14 Sep 1998
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ARTICLES
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FTSC2000 - FidoNet Technical Standards Committee Year 2000 program.
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By Colin Turner 2:443/13 ct@piglets.com
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Have you checked the year 2000 compliance of your hardware and
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software yet?
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Have you told us the results?
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If the answer is no, please read on.
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Recently Group Y of the FTSC (FidoNet Technical Standards Committee)
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released a package of tests to help nodes and points examine the
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compliance of their hardware and software with the change fast
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approaching in the year 2000.
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This has already been announced in FTSC_PUBLIC, and a reasonable
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number of nodes have requested the test package either over FidoNet
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as a file request or from the web site, but not enough.
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This article has two purposes, firstly to inform the wider FidoNet
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community about this, and also to remind you that we need your help.
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FidoNet is (at least in theory) a co-operative venture, and
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participation from all nodes and points is greatly appreciated.
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The changeover date is fast approaching, and it isn't realistic
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(or even possible) for a small group like a subset of the FTSC to
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check all existing software.
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If you are a developer, download the test set, check out your
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software. We want to hear from you if its compliant, we want to hear
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from you even if it's not compliant and you have a release date for a
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compliant version. We even want to hear if it's not compliant and
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will no longer be developed. It's in your interests to use this
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opportunity to tell your users you are on top of the problem, or no
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longer want to deal with your software.
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This responsibility does not fall on the developers alone. If you are
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an "ordinary" node or point and feel that you have a moderate
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technical understanding, then you can also help. Check the software
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that is running on your system, it's in your interests to determine
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if you need to change it or ask for upgrades from the author. Don't
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just test the software, please send us the results, so that other
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nodes and points can benefit from your findings.
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If you are a FidoNet user who does not feel capable of testing your
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software, then there are still ways you can help. Ask your software
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author if they have checked the software for compliance, ask if they
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have submitted the results to us. Tell other people about our project,
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and include the contact details below on your web page if you have
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one.
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 4 14 Sep 1998
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It is the ambition of this project to build a database of software in
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use in FidoNet (and other compatible networks) in all platforms. It's
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even more important on obscure platforms where variety of software is
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sorely limited. We want to be able to post results in FidoNews to
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keep you posted of test findings by ourselves, developers and other
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FidoNet users.
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This group is interested in working with anyone who wants to
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constructively deal with the year 2000 problems in FidoNet Technology
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Networks, if you want to participate, please contact us.
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For information, please file request (from 2:443/13 or 2:443/14):
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FTSC2000
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For the tests sets themselves, in various compression formats, please
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file request:
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FTSC2000ARC (ARC compression);
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FTSC2000ZIP (ZIP compression);
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FTSC2000LHA (LHA compression);
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FTSC2000RAR (RAR compression).
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You can also obtain them from the Internet at
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http://www.piglets.com/ftsc2000
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Colin Turner, 2:443/13, ct@piglets.com,
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Working Group Y (Year 2000 Issues) co-ordinator,
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FidoNet Technical Standards Committee.
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 5 14 Sep 1998
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NET HUMOR
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Recently, the Overseer of Backbone Operations announced that the
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backbone would cease the practice of automatically deleting
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low-traffic echos. This action did not meet with wide approval from
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the ZHUBS and RHUBS, and these folks are meeting right now to
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discuss the issue. While final details of a new plan are yet to be
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announced, there has been considerable compromise. All are agreed
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that the following echos should not be restored to the backbone for
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any reason:
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Z&Z&Z&Z This now sleepy echo was once the gathering place
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the various identies of Zorch, rumored to have been
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the head of one of the most powerful voting blocks
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ever seen on Fido. Dropped by the Elist Robot when
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the moderator failed to produce evidence that he
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existed.
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HORNY14 This echo stands as an empty tribute to the fourteen
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year olds who once dominated the chat echos as the
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carrier pigeon once dominated the skies of North
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America. The plaintive wails of lonely hearts
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attempting contact with their adolescent peers of
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the opposite sex are but a memory, commemorated only
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by their intellectual heirs, the fifty-ish crowd who
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preserve their traditions.
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P5 Designated the public conference for continued
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policy improvement, the echo just never caught on.
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ELC Designated the ElfLord Contact conference, this echo
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fell into disuse in 1989 at a time when the ElfLords
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scribed their collective wisdom onto great stone
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tablets which still stand at the entrance to
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Fidonet.
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FTSC_DOCS This echo is for the release of new documents by the
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Fidonet Technical Standards Committee. Dropped by
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the NAB due to no volume.
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BIBLE_THUMPER This write-only echo accounted for 21.6% of all
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backbone traffic when it was removed from the elist.
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The moderator was discovered to have no valid Fido
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address, and evidence indicates that he was probably
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a fictitious character who frequented the DISNEY
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echo.
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Z1C_INPUT Another popular write-only echo, the idea was that
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end-nodes could write to the Z1C without being
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burdened by replies. Dropped at the moderator's
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request because it duplicated the function of the
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Z1C echo.
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 6 14 Sep 1998
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NMAD The Naked Mother's Against Dyslexia echo was
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accidentally unlisted in 1997 when the
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organization's founder discovered that her autopost
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robot had failed. She attempted a manual update,
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thus creating the DAMN conference. Ironically, 2000
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naked mothers who had tried to areafix the NMAD
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conference previously found themselves
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auto-connected within two hours of DAMN's addition
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to the backbone.
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SUPER-BATCH Bitching does strange things to the eyes, and the
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batch file writers found that they had to retreat to
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the BATPOWER conference when two blurry-eyed
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super-bitches found their way into their now defunct
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conference. The @echo off @ffectionados hope that a
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BITCHPOWER movement is not in the offing.
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--
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| Fidonet: Douglas Myers 1:270/720@fidonet.org
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| Internet: doug@mdtnbbs.com
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| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
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| From Mdtn_BBS @mdtnbbs.com [ In the Heart of Three Mile Island ]
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 7 14 Sep 1998
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NOTICES
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Future History
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5 Oct 1998
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29th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
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10 Sep 1998
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9th Anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
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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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23 Nov 1998
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35th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
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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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16 Feb 1999
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13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush.
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12 May 1999
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12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
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10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.
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24 Jul 1999
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XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
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9 Jun 1999
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Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.
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10 Sep 1999
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10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
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26 Oct 1999
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Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.
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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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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 8 14 Sep 1998
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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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Henk,
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Fidonet Region 18, Net 133 hosts two telnetable systems:
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ASN BBS, Fido 1:133/504, telnet to bbs.asnbbs.com
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Boxax Bulletin, Fido 1:133/5007, telnet to bozax.iainc.net
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We also host several web sites, including Net 133's Home Page at
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www.net133.org.
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Lastly, Fido material, including the nodelist, nodediffs, fidonews,
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etc. are available via FTP at ftp.asnbbs.com.
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Larry Cody (Net133 NEC)
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ASN Consulting Services
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(404) 713-4978
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On the Web at www.asnbbs.com!
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Greetings from Sunny Clearwater, Fla. (USA)
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I was reading an article in fido news where a poster has lost access
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to fidonet.
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My suggestion is to put fidonet bbs's accessable via the internet in
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fido news.
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Mine is accessable either by Telnet or Http, Features the complete
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Zone-1 backbone.na & no conferences, Fido news is avalible as a
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bulleton, or can be downloaded from the file areas. Nodediffs &
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Nodelists are also avalible.
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This bbs is a free service to the fidonet community at
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bbs.docsplace.org
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If anyone needs a telnet terminal program, I recommend Netterm which
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is avalible at http://www.tucows.com
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Ed Koon, Sysop, Doc's Place Bbs Online. 1:3603/140
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ed.koon@bbs.docsplace.org
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... We toss the Whole Fidonet Backbone!
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 9 14 Sep 1998
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
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FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
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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 [pending]
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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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http://www.trak-one.co.uk/foti
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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 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
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Region 19: http://www.compconn.net
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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ZEC2:
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Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/echolist/
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)
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Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/
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Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
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REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
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Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
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Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
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Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (Swiss?)
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 10 14 Sep 1998
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Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
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Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (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 (Greek/English)
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Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
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Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
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Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
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Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
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Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
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Net 5073: http://people.weekend.ru/soa/ (Russian)
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4: http://www.altern.org/zone4
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Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
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Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
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and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
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no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
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that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
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should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
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to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
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-----------oOo-------------
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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FIDONEWS 15-37 Page 11 14 Sep 1998
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
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1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
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1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
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1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton |FTP,VMoT,F2I,UUE| 64k | $10/$20mo.
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1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
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1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
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1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | F2I | ??? | $2mo.
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1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE,F2I | 28.8 | $10/yr.
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1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
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1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
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1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $1mo.
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1:2424/3121| Earl Clark | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
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1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VFOS | 33.6 | $15yr.
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1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
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1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
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1:342/1022 | Steve Steffler | UUE,F2I | 33.6 | n/c
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1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
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2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
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2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
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2:2490/5170| Lenny Murphy | F2I | ??? | n/c
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5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
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--
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+ VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
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+ F2I = Fido2Int (W95)
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+ UUE = uuencode<->email packet transfers
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compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@dandy.net
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Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
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! Origin: * Fly By Night * (609)814-1978 *(1:2623/71)
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