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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 03 18 January 1999
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2
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FIDODOWN ................................................. 2
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3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
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The *real* stranglehold on Fidonet ....................... 3
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An old friend of mine died last week ..................... 6
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ROLLER_JAM ............................................... 7
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 8
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5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 9
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 13
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 1 25 Jan 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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Does Zone 1 have probelms?
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Why is it, how people want to continue take an amateur network such
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as FidoNet and claim it their own.
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I'm not fully conversant to what has been happening with or how the
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various systems, such as George Peace's work within Zone 1. But
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why one person should try and make it difficult for the free
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distribution of information is beyond me.
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What is a hub trying to achieve?
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Instead of standing together and building up a network, no, we need
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to break it up so that people cannot enjoy it fully.
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I would appriciate some feedback, on how the various hubs, such as
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George's system, operate within Zone 1. I know, George is a very busy
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man, so if I do not receive details from him, no sweat.
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Thanks in advance.
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Happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 2 25 Jan 1999
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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FIDODOWN
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By: Kent Anderson, kand@onr.com
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To the Editor:
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Thanks for publishing the very frightening statistics on the
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shrinkage in the Fidonet nodelist.
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These figures become even more alarming if one looks behind them and
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realizes that over one third of the nodes listed are not BBS's open to
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the garden variety user. They are administrative, mail only or private
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nodes.
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Many, many cities, towns and villages in Zone 1 have no BBS at all,
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and to participate in any way, a user must telnet into a Fido BBS. We
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owe a huge vote of thanks to those SysOps who provide these services.
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It may not be too long before that is the only way for a participant
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to access Fidonet.
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It is almost unbelievable to me that one who has experienced the
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chaos of the Usenet Newsgroups can prefer them to the moderated
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echoes of Fidonet. We all need to become evangelists in this regard,
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and spread the word about Fidonet and echomail. If we do not, it will
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certainly perish.
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 3 25 Jan 1999
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ARTICLES
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The *real* stranglehold on Fidonet
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John Souvestre, echomail controller, manipulator
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by Gary Gilmore, 1:2410/400
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Once again, John Souvestre power-trips, and we all lose for it. I
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give you this:
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Area : Z1_RBC
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Date : Sun Jan 10, 17:20
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From : George Peace 1:270/101
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To : John Souvestre
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Subj : Low Traffic
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JS>Butch can't seem to find time to post in public, except for the
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JS>occasional proclamation. George will wait till it's all over with
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JS>and then tell everyone what mistakes they made. Ken and Bob will
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JS>follow the crowd in the long run.
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As usual, John, you've done your best to play politics in the
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shadows. As usual, you're afraid to venture out in the open until
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you've gathered up your fan club and instructed them how to act.
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As usual, you're using an amassed history of small incidents to
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develop a certain course of events that will once again return you to
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control. King John and JohnBone at any cost. Pardon me if I don't bow
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before you.
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Guess what. I'm not going to wait for your little game to play out.
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I'm damned tired of the games YOU have been playing. I'm damned tired
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of the acusations YOU have been tossing about. And most important,
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I'm damned tired of being slandered and defamed by the likes of YOU
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and your band of yes-men.
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I brought democratic reform to FidoNet. I pounded on tables and
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exposed you and your cronies when you wanted to shove unilateral
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policies in SysOps' faces without due process. I was the only thing
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standing in the way of your total control of FidoNet.
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Well Johnny, I'm finally done dealing with your petty games and
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accusations.
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Poof. Now there are three ZHubs. Your skapegoat is gone.
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-!- FLAME v1.1/b
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! Origin: Pennsylvania Online! 717.657.9785 (1:270/101)
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One of the best, and most impartial ZHubs around (as well as the
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father of our current "Fidonet via Internet" method), bullied until
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he could take no more by "King John", and there we go. John has yet
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again saved all us poor dumb sysops.
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 4 25 Jan 1999
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Tired of this sort of "leadership" from John? Tired of his "GMD"
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making decisions about YOUR echomail? (Like killing mail because
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JOHN thinks it's too old) Tired of John making moderators jump thru
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HIS hoops?
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Cancel your accounts with him, and use one of the others (George
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Peace, Ken Wilson, Bob Seaborn, or others that don't link thru
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Souvestre) and send him a real message.
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Get John out of OUR Fidonet business. "Move the mail, and shut up,
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John". That's the message we need to send, once and for all.
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Don't think John -is- into power? How about this threat from John to
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Bob Seaborn in the Z1_BACKBONE echo:
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JS> This is strike three for you on this matter Bob. Either fix it
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JS> or forget about remaining a NAB hub of any sort.
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Now maybe I'm wrong, but since when does John himself make decisions
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about who's a NAB Hub or not? According to John himself, anyone that
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moves mail is a "NAB Hub", so what's he threatening here? Is he
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threatening to keep Bob from moving any mail? Or is he overstepping
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his bounds (yet again) and threatening to remove Bob as a ZHub.
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(Since it requires a majority of the OBO and ZHubs to make such a
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move, where does John get off making this sort of threat?)
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John's gotten into trouble once already for making arbitrary threats
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like this. He was completely against Bob Seaborn as a NAB Hub in the
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first place, and at the first opportunity, removed Bob from the Hub
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listing in the BACKSTAT.NA file. Result? Butch Walker pulled John's
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right to release the BACKSTAT,NA, and took back the production of the
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file. (Which is why you now see the "Authorized version" tag on them
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now.)
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Need more proof of John's power tripping? How about this quote from
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the FILE_MOVERS echo (where the FDN heads and Filebone hubs
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congregate):
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JS> There is a balance there. Giving FDN heads any say at all in
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JS> running the Filebone upsets that balance, in my opinion.
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..and then we have this:
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JS> I agree fully! Also, the Filebone Hubs should have more say than
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JS> the FDN heads, in my opinion. :-)
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Hmm.. the Filebone would be a pretty useless thing without the FDN's,
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yet John doesn't want the FDN coordinators to have any say in how the
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Filebone operates? He wants to shut out the very people that make
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the Filebone possible.
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Why would that be? ...perhaps because John sees himself as "Filebone
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Hub #1"? You draw the conclusions, but it's painfully obvious that
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John covets all the power he can wield. John gets his power from
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writing rules, or whipping out "FAQ's" (and treating them like stone
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tablets from the mountain), or whipping up a frenzy amongst his
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 5 25 Jan 1999
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supporters. (Many of which are downlinks, and I'd venture that
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they're afraid to say "Boo" to John anyway.)
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John uses his GMD program to force YOUR echomail to fit the "specs"
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that he deems proper. (Although some of his "specs" are not adopted
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Fidonet specs, mind you.) How about the fact that John himself
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decides how old is "too old" where echomail is concerned, and stops
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it in transit. Who gave him this power? Where is there any Fidonet
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policy that says he has such a right? Doesn't matter... John
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decided, and you've let him.
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It's high time that this sort of abuse of OUR echomail be stopped,
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once and for all.
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John (at least once) has pulled an echo from distribution because
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-he- didn't like it. Is that what we need? (Though he did hide
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behind a smokescreen of excuses for why he did it, and what his
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authority was to do it. All weak excuses indeed.)
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John will get his power, or at least influence by any means,
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underhanded, by "rules" or "FAQ's" (which he usually writes), from
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behind the scenes, or in whatever manner he finds handy at the time.
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We will only be free from this oppressive influence when John is
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removed from the NAB, and his "power" over OUR echomail is diminished
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by such an action. I urge you to write to these people and request
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that John Souvestre be removed immediately as NAB ZHub:
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Overseer of Backbone Operations:
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Butch Walker 1:157/2 bwalker@en.com
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Zone Hubs:
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Ken Wilson 1:12/12 kwilson@ccai.com
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Bob Seaborn 1:140/1 bob@nwstar.com
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Many cry and wail about putting Fidonet control back into the hands
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of the "grunt sysop", but John Souvestre has no such desire. Oh, he
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might say he does, but don't be fooled... anything that would remove
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his death-grip on the control of OUR echomail, or his influence on
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file distributions is completely out of the question for him. He'll
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be totally against it, and will work against it either in public or
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behind the scenes (where he's most comfortable) to stop it. You can
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turn that around. Spend 5 minutes writing to one (or better yet) all
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of the above people with a simple statement;
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"I wish to see John Souvestre removed as a NAB Zhub"
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Only then can we really begin to put the "power" and "control" of OUR
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echomail (and file distributions) back into OUR hands. It's up to
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-you-.
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I'll sit back now, and await the diatribe by John (or his followers)
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that's sure to follow. He'll name call, slander, and try to
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generally discredit me or anyone that agrees with these views. Don't
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be swayed by his "turn the tables" or "switch the topic" tactics.
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He's a master at it, and it's his forte. That's how he's kept his
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power so long. By bullying, blustering, and doing what some call his
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 6 25 Jan 1999
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"Spin master" technique. Expect it, but don't be fooled by it.
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If I'm lying, then so must George Peace. Allow me redirect you to
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his words above:
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"I pounded on tables and exposed you and your cronies when you wanted
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to shove unilateral policies in SysOps' faces without due process. I
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was the only thing standing in the way of your total control of
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FidoNet."
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George has probably worked closer with John Souvestre than anyone,
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and is privy to far more "inside" information than anyone. His
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statement would seem to bear out what I've mentioned here, wouldn't
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it? (Perhaps we should be worried more about what we don't know than
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what is obvious from John's actions, no?)
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Given the choice of the two, I think anyone would trust George's word
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over John's. (Unless, of course, you're part of the "John can do no
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wrong" party.)
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Remove John, and remove the self-proclaimed king from the throne he
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has stolen from us when we weren't watching. Again, I urge you to
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write & send your netmail (or email) today, and send it direct, just
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to avoid any potential "problems".
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An old friend of mine died last week.
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OPUS 1.03 Makes Last Event Exit
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Storrs, CT, USA <FidoNews>
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Sometime in the wee hours of January 4, 1999, OPUS v1.03 quietly
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curled up its toes and died peacefully in its sleep. It was 11 years
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old. The quickness of the end came as a surprise to its long-time
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friend and last remaining sysop, Lee Ayrton. "It was well known that
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OPUS 1.03 had difficulty with leap years," said Mr. Ayrton in a
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prepared statement, "And we knew that OPUS wouldn't make it past The
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Great Rollover, but we didn't expect v1.03c to go so soon."
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Forgotten by most of its former sysops and users, OPUS 1.03 lived on
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at 1:320/455 on a small hard disk with its companions, Binkley and
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QMail. "OPUS was its usual self the day before, handling a caller
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just fine," said Mr. Ayrton, "And now it is gone. It was a fine
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program, one that I've known for over a decade, and I shall miss it."
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OPUS 1.79a has now taken over the BBS duties.
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While no autopsy was performed, it was assumed that the same internal
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date calculation difficulties that had caused problems in 1990 were
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responsible for its inability to load this year. OPUS 1.03 had twice
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undergone post-release patching. Efforts to resuscitate the aging
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BBS by reinstalling version b in place of version c were fruitless
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and v1.03 made its last Event Exit at 10am on January 4th.
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OPUS v1.03 remained robust, caller-friendly and flexable to the end.
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In spite of its reputation for repeatedly biting new sysops during
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 7 25 Jan 1999
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initial set-up, OPUS 1.03 was once the choice of thousands of FidoNet
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sysops and was well known for its wry sense of humor -- and its habit
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of greeting other OPUS BBSi with the exchange "YOOHOO/2U2". Once
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supported by scores of developers, it learned to run external doors,
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allowing on-line games and other tricks that it hadn't been designed
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to do.
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OPUS 1.03 is survived by three later releases. It was predeceased by
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three earlier releases and by v2.xx. No services are planned.
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Lee Ayrton (1:320/455)
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dayrton@wesleyan.edu
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ROLLER_JAM!
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By: Bobby Queen, 1:3667/5, wizards@connectu.net
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For those of you considering whether or not to contact your REC to
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request the new echo ROLLER_JAM I just wanted to post the scores for
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this weeks game. This beginning week featured the New York Enforcers
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vs the Florida Sun Dogs. The Enforcers won by a score of 25 to 24.
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Next week the Florida Sun Dogs will be against the California Quakes.
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If you missed this weeks game then you missed a good one. One of the
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referees got his arm broken while trying to break up a brawl. I told
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you ROLLER_JAM was going to be more intense than Roller Derby was. If
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you are interested in seeing more about ROLLER_JAM on the WWW their
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address is www.rollerjam.com. Or at least thats what I think it was.
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:) I was too busy watching the action.
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They also have a fan club where you can get a newsletter and to find
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out about that just call 1-877-ROLLERJAM. This is a toll free number.
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You can also get tickets through this number if you are going to be in
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the Orlando area and want to watch it live at Universal Studios. Hawk
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from American Gladiators is one of the announcers. So send in those
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requests today and lets get this echo backboned and get started talkin
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about the matches.
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And of course for the men those girls fighting are well worth the 2
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hour show. :) See you in ROLLER_JAM which will be available soon at a
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HUB near you!
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 8 25 Jan 1999
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NOTICES
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Future History
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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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21 Sep 2000
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10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)
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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 16-03 Page 9 25 Jan 1999
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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://travel.to/fidonet/
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FTSC page http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc
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Echomail [pending]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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http://www.nrgsys.com/orb/foti
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List servers:
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http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion
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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:
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Net 264: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
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Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
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Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
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Region 19: http://www.compconn.net/r19
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Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/
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Not sure where the following should be placed:
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/fido.html
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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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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 10 25 Jan 1999
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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 (German)
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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 42: http://www.fido.cz
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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:
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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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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 11 25 Jan 1999
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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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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
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-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
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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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1:106/1 | Matt Bedynek | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $5/$15mo.
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1:106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP,VMoT | 64k | $5/mo.
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1:107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton | FTP,VMoT,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 | UUE | T1 | n/c
|
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1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 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,UUE | T1 | 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 | VMoT | 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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1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
|
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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.
|
||
2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
|
||
2:284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
|
||
2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
|
||
3:633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
4:905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
|
||
5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
|
||
--
|
||
* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
|
||
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
|
||
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
|
||
[I'm only cataloging transfer methods, eg, ftp, email, telnet.
|
||
Specific programs using these protocols are no longer being listed.
|
||
Contact the system operators for details of which programs they have
|
||
available.]
|
||
|
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 12 25 Jan 1999
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||
|
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|
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Compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@dandy.net
|
||
Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
|
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|
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|
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|
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FIDONEWS 16-03 Page 13 25 Jan 1999
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
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Editor: Henk Wolsink
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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,
|
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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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|
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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.
|
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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
|
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address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
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|
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Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
|
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|
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
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http://www.fidonews.org
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http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
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ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
|
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ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
|
||
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/Fidonet/Fidonews
|
||
|
||
And in non-English formats via:
|
||
|
||
http://www.hvc.ee/pats/fidonews (Estonian)
|
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|
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
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|
||
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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
|
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|
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ftpmail@fidonews.org
|
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|
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|
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|
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and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
|
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|
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www.fidonews.org.
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|
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|
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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 -
|
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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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|
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The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also
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available almost immediately after publication on the FidoNews Editor
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homepage on the World Wide Web at:
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|
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html
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|
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There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
|
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to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an
|
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email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
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|
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|
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|
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