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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 11 15 March 1999
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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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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Nodus Operandi - an application of Cole's Law ............ 2
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3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 4
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In response to Rob Echler's recent submission: ........... 4
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4. ARTICLES ................................................. 5
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NAB & Z1B Echo Diff ...................................... 5
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The Fido/IP project: Fidonet's future - Successful and ... 5
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InterMail/InterEcho Has a New Owner! ..................... 7
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North American Backbone Echo Changes [Jan-Feb] ........... 7
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Another sad article? ..................................... 8
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Z1 Backbone Echo Changes [Jan-Feb] ....................... 9
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5. NOTICES .................................................. 11
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6. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 12
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Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 12
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7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 17
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8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 21
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 1 15 Mar 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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Will those readers who submit articles, please note, that when
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submitting such articles please ensure you send them in standard
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ASCII format. No HTML, thank you.
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My Internet address system, is a plain Linux system. ;-)
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Will some kind sole, please send something for the readers out
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there in explaining what has been happening with the breakup of the
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Z1 backbone? But please, do apply KISS. Thanks. <g>
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I've had a few questions about it, but not residing in Z1, I cannot
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clearly provide the correct or any answer. Thanks again. <g>
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Does it not makes you cry, reading all those sad stories about how
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good FidoNet was and why they, the authors, are leaving? ;-)
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Hey, we know it's good, it always was good and always will be good,
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provided, we get rid of P4. Common, do we really need P4? Take
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some of those characters, they not sure how to read, nevermind P4. ;-)
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Happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 2 15 Mar 1999
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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Nodus Operandi - an application of Cole's Law
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Nodus Operandi
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An Application of Cole's Law
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Douglas Myers, 1:279/720, doug@mdtnbbs.com
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Regular readers of the Zone 1 echoes realize that Fidonet is
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governed by two great documents: the organizational writings of
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Policy 4 and the thinly sliced cabbage of Cole's Law. Tom Cole, the
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author of the latter living document, revealed yet another subtlety
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of interpersonal communication last week in a new section of his
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policy entitled Nodus Operandi.
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Nodus Operandi basically allows for multiple personality
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identification based on node number. This is not a new treatment
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for schizophrenia, but rather a method of distinguishing between a
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person as the sysop or as the coordinator. Simply put,
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coordinators must post from their /0 node number when they wish to
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speak as coordinator, or from their "real" node number when posting
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as a sysop.
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This bit of administrative legerdemain was in response to the
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prospect of a Policy Complaint being filed against Tom. Tom
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contends that the aggrieved party would have to file the complaint
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with Tom /0 rather than the RC because Tom's posts were made using
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his "real" node number. Many have complained about the prospect of
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Tom the NC sitting in judgement of Tom the sysop, but few recognize
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that Mr. Cole may just be onto something here.
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Why not have administrative node numbers for special purposes? For
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example, when David Hallford is engaged in pizza acquisition, I (for
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one) would like to know. Martin Blecke recently refused to divulge
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his personal opinion on how the Z1C should be selected on the basis
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that folks would interpret it as his official opinion (the official
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position presumably being based on his region's input). If he would
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just post using his "real" node number, then there would be no
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ambiguity.
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I, personally, would be willing to switch the AKA matching software
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off in my mailer and BBS to gain the many benefits of posting from
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special node numbers. I could maintain one node number when I'm
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posting as an Ace Fidonews Reporter and another when I'm posting in
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the chat echoes as a Lounge Lizard. That way, when I strike out, it
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wouldn't impugn on the good name of Fidonews... and when I post a
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dry, uninteresting Fidonews article, I could flirt in the SUPERBITCH
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echo.
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One should not be afraid to examine the runes in the cabbage leaves
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for a good idea. After all, ancient cultures examined entrails for
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enlightenment.
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 3 15 Mar 1999
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 4 15 Mar 1999
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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I have been in associated with Fidonet since 1990. While that may not
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be as long as some, but it's longer than others. When I first joined
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Fidonet I was amazed at the vast amount of information being spread
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around. There was an echo for just about anyone. I was sold. I
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learned much of what I know in several areas today due to Fidonet and
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the geat poeple associated with it. Their names are too many to list.
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Infact I owe much of my currently career in the Infomation Technology
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industry to Fidonet.
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We are in new times. Many don't even know what a BBS or Fidonet is
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anymore. We are not main stream. However, the amount of information
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being disseminated is still amzing. I recently devloped a intrest in
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getting my kids involved in precision shooting and learning how to
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hand load ammunition. I post messages in a couple relevant echoes.
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Because of these posts and the subsequent replies my kids and I were
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able to attend a local course on high power shooting. They really
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liked it. We met some really great people, most of whom are not
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associated with Fidonet, over the course of the past two weekends.
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I have received a vast amount of help and information in regards to
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hand loading. It has enabled to to learn from the mistakes of others
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and avoid making the same mistakes myself.
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The only complaint I have ever had with Fidonet is the well earned
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stigma of it really being "Fight-O-Net". I really wish the powers
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that be within the Fidonet infastructure would learn to live in
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harmony. I know that years ago in my own net we were stuck in the
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muck of "back room politics" and ego's clashing. We worked to get
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out of this and we did. We lost some nodes. But we are a much better
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group now.
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In my opinon we have people here that need to try and make Fidonet not
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so complicated and work together to keep this great communications
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medium alive and healthy. As with everything else we need to evolve
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or die out. I honestly feel that if Fidonet's people do not get their
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acts together we might fade away into the dark of night. We need to
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get back to the basics. This is a amateur mail/message network. Do
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we really need all of these extra groups and commitees that are still
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point fingers, making accusations, and squabbling over basically the
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same things they have been for years?
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If Fidonet continues to thrive it's to our benefit an credit. If
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Fidonet dies out it's all our fault too. What do we want?
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Rgds,
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Don Waybright
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internet email: don@net264.org
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Fidonet 1:264 : http://www.net264.org
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 5 15 Mar 1999
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ARTICLES
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NAB & Z1B Echo Diff
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by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/9
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lisa@psg.com
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The old NAB (North American Backbone) split into two parts at
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the end of February, 1999. The divorce created two distribution
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systems, the (new) NAB with about 58% of the topology, and the
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Z1B (Z1_Backbone) with about 42% of the topology.
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The (new) NAB echo list is backbone.na. ELISTed echos will be
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added to backbone.na by the NAB at the moderator's request (no
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REC requests needed). Echos are removed from backbone.na at the
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moderator's request. Echo removal by the NAB for other reasons
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(low traffic or expired ELIST entry) is not currently implemented,
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but is being discussed.
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The Z1B list of echos is called backbone.z1b. Echo addition and
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deletion procedures are similar to those used by the NAB in the
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past, and are described in the document SLA9903.Z1B. Briefly, the
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moderator of a wannabe echo needs to request addition to the Z1B
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and two Hubs or RECs need to request that the echo be added. Echos
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are removed from backbone.z1b at the moderators request. Echos may
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also be removed from backbone.z1b by the Z1B because of low traffic
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or no current ELIST entry.
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diff backbone.na (07-Mar-99) backbone.z1b (07-Mar-99) [edited]
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Echos on the NAB but not on the Z1B
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EQUUS HORSE DISCUSSION ECHO
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INET_NODELIST FidoNet Nodelisting of Internet Sites
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OJ_SIMPSON O.J. Simpson discussion
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PARROTS PARROTS CONFERENCE
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WIN2000 Discussions of potential convergence of Win95
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WIN99 Echo for the discussion of Windows 99 software
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Echos on the Z1B but not on the NAB
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None
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The NAB list, backbone.na (07-Mar-99) has 749 echos.
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The Z1B list, backbone.z1b (07-Mar-99) has 743 echos.
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By David Moufarrege, 1:2613/404.0
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Over the past few years I have come accustomed to reading the snooze
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each week as it finds itself into my mailbox. It seems that a gloom
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and doom article are appearing in the snooze at least monthly.
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 6 15 Mar 1999
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Usually it is a departing node or a former node trying to get in a
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parting shot, telling the rest of us how bad it is.
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Well, I have some news... It's not that bad!
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Fidonet is going through changes, just as every other aspect of
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Information Technology.
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Why would we be any different? Why would we expect not to have to
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change along with the currents of technology? We cannot expect to hold
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onto the past without embracing the future. A future that has
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unlimited opportunities if we approach it with the same sense of
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camaraderie and pioneering that this network was founded on in the
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first place - a future that seeks out new frontiers.
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The new frontier these days is Fido/IP integration, making Fidonet
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systems available on the Internet. It's the only way to let new
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generations of computer users experience what we already know. It is
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also a way of reaching those that have "migrated".
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Meet the Fido/IP project:
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The Fido/IP project is based on the premise that Fidonet has to
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embrace new technologies and philosophies while continuing to support
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its traditional membership. The goal is to create a coherent network
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that contains both POTS and IP nodes alike.
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The notion to use the Internet as a transport medium is not new.
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George Peace was the pioneer in utilizing FTP as a means to
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inexpensively and quickly move mail and files over great distances.
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Then came VModem and the idea to use Telnet as a "carrier" for
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standard protocols to connect via the Internet. Now we have BinkP -
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a protocol designed to work directly over the Internet, socket to
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socket. As a matter of fact, BinkP is the first protocol that was
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designed as a Fido/IP protocol, and it is the first protocol to then
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be adapted to a Fido POTS protocol in its Niagara incarnation.
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To make a long story short: Today there is a growing number of
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Fido/IP systems. Zone 1 and Zone 2 have implemented the I-suite of
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flags proposed by Lothar Behet. Zone 3 is reportedly close to doing
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the same. More and more mailer programs and bbs systems are natively
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IP-capable.
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Fidonet's structures and ways of interacting are changing as a result
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of it. New nodes are joining Fidonet and former nodes are coming back.
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It's a slow process, but it is a growing trend. We will see more of it
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as time goes on.
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If you want to embrace this new era, check out the following programs:
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Argus - A Win/32 native GUI POTS & Fido/IP mailer. Supports BinkP,
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IFCICO, Telnet, VModem - www.ritlabs.com/argus/
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BinkD - The original BinkP mailer. Compiled for *NIX, WinNT, Win9x,
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OS/2, and others
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BeeMail - 16 and 32bit POTS & Fido/IP mailer. Win 3.1, Win9x and WinNT
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- www.beemail.com
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BBBS - BBS system which includes "BackDoor", a telnet capable
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 7 15 Mar 1999
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Fidonet mailer for many platforms - www.bbbs.net
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EleBBS - A Remote Access compatible BBS which includes a native
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Telnet server.
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Various platforms. - www.pcmicro.com
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NetModem- Win95 Telnet server for DOS based BBS systems.
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- www.concentric.net/~Drip
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WC!5 - WildCat!5 AKA WinServer. - www.santronics.com
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VModem - Part of SIO, a driver for OS/2. - www.gwinn.com
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Also, subscribe to the INODELST and I-OTHER file echos for the latest
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nodelist extracts of IP capable Fidonet nodes and Fido/IP utilities.
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Available from all FileGate systems.
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For more information about Fido/IP contact David Moufarrege,
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1:2613/404.0, in Zone 1. In Zone 2 contact Lothar Behet, 2:2446/301.0
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InterMail Products Sold
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by Dale Barnes, dbarnes@ifido.com
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In the Month of February, Further Development, Inc., sold
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its products InterMail, InterEcho and InterPCB to Majik.Net,
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Inc. of Sugar Land, TX.
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Majik.Net, Inc., a Internet Service Provider and developer
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of custom Delphi applications purchased InterMail to use for
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special needs of some if its customers and to keep the product
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advancing for the current install base of InterMail customers.
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Majik.Net, Inc. has already started working on the next version of
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InterMail to add new features and make sure it is Y2K compliant. In
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the works now are a Win9x/NT version with a OS/2 version is a real
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possibility.
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If you would like to have some input on the direction that InterMail
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and InterEcho takes in the future and to stay up to date with
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InterMail and InterEcho. Visit the new web site at www.ifido.com
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or send email to sales@ifido.com.
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North American Backbone Echo Changes [Jan-Feb]
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by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/9
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lisa@psg.com
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Summary of NAB echo changes during Jan & Feb.
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Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.
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The old NAB (North American Backbone) split into two parts at
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the end of February, 1999. The divorce created two distribution
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systems, the (new) NAB with about 58% of the topology, and the
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 8 15 Mar 1999
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Z1B (Z1_Backbone) with about 42% of the topology.
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The (new) NAB adds echos at the moderator's request. The wannabe
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echo must have an ELIST entry, but there are no other requirements.
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Echos are removed from the NAB at the moderator's request. The NAB
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is still discussing how they will handle echos with an expired ELIST
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entry.
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diff backbone.na 03-Jan-99 backbone.na 07-Mar-99 [edited].
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Added to the NAB list of echos
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> ALABAMA GENERAL CHAT FOR ALABAMA
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> EMS-FR Emergency Medical Services -First Responder
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> FIDO2000 FidoNet 2000 Conference
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> FIDOWEB FidoNet Web Page Conference
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> FILEGATE IFDC FileGate Project(sm) International Echo
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> F_I_D_O_E_R_R_O_R_S fIDO ERRORS
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> HCW_ECHO Fantasy Wrestling Echo
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> LS_ARRL Bulletins from the ARRL
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> MICHIGAN GENERAL CHAT FOR MICHIGAN
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> OJ_SIMPSON O.J. Simpson discussion
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> PEN_PALS Where Friends Meet!
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> ROLLER_JAM ROLLER JAM Discussion Conference
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> TEXAS GENERAL CHAT FOR TEXAS
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> WIN2000 Discussions of potential convergence of Win95
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> WIN99 Echo for the discussion of Windows 99 software
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> XENA:WP Gathering place for fans of the hit show Xena
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> Z1BACKBONE Z1B discussion
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Removed from the NAB list of echos
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None
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o There are 749 echos in backbone.na [07-Mar-98] (up 17)
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After reading Rob Echlers Fidonet obituary (Volume 14, #10), I have
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decided to pen my own.
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I bought my first 300 baud modem in 1981 and started my first BBS a
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few years later, joining Fidonet in 1984. Many thousands of hours of
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my life was spent in echomail and netmail, and most of my lifelong
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friends were met through Fidonet or BBSing. I have no regrets about
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this time spent in my youth, as I learnt much about sociology and
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human relationships from this time.
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Now I'm a I.T. consultant and Project Manager, and owe much of my
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success to my experience in Fidonet.
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In fact, I suspect that many people now in their 30s who got into
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Fidonet in their teens have had much success in their lives due to the
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unique experiences that Fidonet offered. What better way to learn how
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to manage people than to become a echomail moderator, or to gain
|
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technical proess by running Multiple BBS and mail sessions
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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 9 15 Mar 1999
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concurrently under desqview!
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A few weeks ago, I found an old 80MB Hard Drive lying around and
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plugged it in to discover my BBS, Front Door, Fmail and echo areas
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that I thought had been long lost. I had a great laugh reading all the
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OS/2 will destroy Windows flames, (where are all the OS/2 bigots
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now?), and wondered if there was anything resembling a shell of
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Fidonet left. In a sudden burst of nostalgia, I tried to get
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everything running again and maybe even join Fidonet again to see out
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its last, but alas I was too late. I compiled my ancient nodelist (it
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makes you realise how fast computer have become when it took 10
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seconds instead of 2-3 minutes!) and tried to File Request an up to
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date nodelist, but not one system was left to poll from, and I
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couldn't even find a single BBS to connect to. In the end I gave up,
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so this message will have to do as my goodbye.
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It is a very slow and painful death that Fidonet is going through, and
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I believe it would be a great idea to go out on a high note and pull
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the plug formally at the end of this year - to mark Fidonet as a 20th
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Icon as a precursor to the Internet. However, the reality is that the
|
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threads of cohesion are too weak now for any cohesive decisions to be
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reached at any level within Fidonet.
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So for a time the ghosts will continue to haunt what once was Fidonet.
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These are the outsiders, most of them running linux or OS/2, but never
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Windows with outlook for e-mail and newsreader. People who once
|
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dreamed and begged to become a "hub", can now become their own NCs and
|
||
even ZCs if they wish!
|
||
One request - Please keep any old echomail (esp Sysop areas) archives
|
||
that you have stored. I know that one day soon, Fidonet will be
|
||
preserved and remembered in much the same way as my TRS-80 model 1,
|
||
with a virtual emulator. On the Internet you will be able to connect
|
||
to a virtual BBS and browse through the past with records of echomail,
|
||
doors and games from a bygone era. I can imagine a Java nodelist
|
||
compiler emulator, and emulated copies of everything from Opus to
|
||
Frontdoor, allowing you to install a virtual BBS on the Net and even
|
||
emulate the connections to other virtual systems to enable Netmail to
|
||
flow again, but this time, just for the sake of fun and remembering
|
||
the good old days. I look forward to this new project kicking off, and
|
||
hope that there are many ex Sysops out there with an archive of their
|
||
systems that can contribute to the virtual Fidonet archives.
|
||
So on this positive note, I bid goodbye and farwell.
|
||
|
||
Tim Epstein ex 3:635/526, ex3:634/304,
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
Z1 Backbone Echo Changes
|
||
by Lisa Gronke, 1:105/9
|
||
lisa@psg.com
|
||
|
||
Summary of Z1B echo changes during Jan & Feb.
|
||
|
||
Brought to you courtesy of (unix) diff.
|
||
|
||
The old NAB (North American Backbone) split into two parts at
|
||
the end of February, 1999. The divorce created two distribution
|
||
systems, the (new) NAB with about 58% of the topology, and the
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 10 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
Z1B (Z1_Backbone) with about 42% of the topology.
|
||
|
||
The Z1B "grandfathered" existing NAB echos as of 28-Feb-99, but
|
||
sent mail to all moderators advising them that they could remove
|
||
their echos from the Z1B. Unlike the (new) NAB, the Z1B requires
|
||
two Hub or REC requests before a new Z1B wannabe echo will be added
|
||
to the list of Z1B echos (backbone.z1b). Also unlike the (new) NAB,
|
||
the Z1B is expected to purge echos that do not meet minimum traffic
|
||
requirements or whose ELIST entry expires. For these reasons, the
|
||
Z1B list (backbone.z1b) is expected to diverge from the NAB list
|
||
(backbone.na) over time, and may be temporarily out-of-sync for a
|
||
week or two on new echos that are requesting addition to both
|
||
backbones.
|
||
|
||
What I have done here is a "two month diff" between the last NAB
|
||
list that I reported and the current Z1B list. This means that
|
||
most of the echos in the "Added to the Z1B list of echos" were
|
||
actually added to the NAB before the divorce.
|
||
|
||
diff backbone.na 03-Jan-99 backbone.z1b 07-Mar-99 [edited].
|
||
|
||
Added to the Z1B list of echos
|
||
------------------------------
|
||
ALABAMA GENERAL CHAT FOR ALABAMA
|
||
EMS-FR Emergency Medical Services -First Responder
|
||
FIDO2000 FidoNet 2000 Conference
|
||
FIDOWEB FidoNet Web Page Conference
|
||
FILEGATE IFDC FileGate Project(sm) International Echo
|
||
F_I_D_O_E_R_R_O_R_S fIDO ERRORS
|
||
HCW_ECHO Fantasy Wrestling Echo
|
||
LS_ARRL Bulletins from the ARRL
|
||
MICHIGAN GENERAL CHAT FOR MICHIGAN
|
||
PEN_PALS Where Friends Meet!
|
||
ROLLER_JAM ROLLER JAM Discussion Conference
|
||
TEXAS GENERAL CHAT FOR TEXAS
|
||
XENA:WP Gathering place for fans of the hit show Xena
|
||
Z1BACKBONE Z1B discussion
|
||
|
||
Removed from the Z1B list of echos
|
||
----------------------------------
|
||
EQUUS HORSE DISCUSSION ECHO
|
||
INET_NODELIST FidoNet Nodelisting of Internet Sites
|
||
PARROTS PARROTS CONFERENCE
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
o There are 743 echos in backbone.z1b [07-Mar-98]
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 11 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
Future History
|
||
|
||
12 May 1999
|
||
12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
|
||
10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.
|
||
|
||
24 Jul 1999
|
||
XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
|
||
|
||
9 Jun 1999
|
||
Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.
|
||
|
||
10 Sep 1999
|
||
10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
|
||
|
||
26 Oct 1999
|
||
Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.
|
||
|
||
31 Dec 1999
|
||
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
|
||
|
||
1 Jan 2000
|
||
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
|
||
|
||
1 Jun 2000
|
||
EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
|
||
|
||
15 Sep 2000
|
||
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
|
||
|
||
21 Sep 2000
|
||
10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)
|
||
|
||
1 Jan 2001
|
||
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
|
||
|
||
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
|
||
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 12 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
|
||
Latest Greatest Software Versions
|
||
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:228/158
|
||
|
||
Well, it has been quite a while. Been wondering if I should come
|
||
back. Guess I just did. <grin>
|
||
|
||
Everything is out of date. I've got a backlog, but while I catch
|
||
up on old mail, I also want to get new mail as well. So write me.
|
||
|
||
There's been some speculation about web page listings and e-mail
|
||
addresses for this list. I do plan to add them to the web version
|
||
of this list within the next couple of weeks. Please send them in.
|
||
|
||
Please note the new contact info:
|
||
|
||
Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
|
||
fido@popovich.net
|
||
http://www.popovich.net/fido
|
||
|
||
Peter Popovich
|
||
|
||
-=- Snip -=-
|
||
|
||
Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column
|
||
|
||
OS Platform :
|
||
Software package name :
|
||
Version :
|
||
Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. :
|
||
Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? :
|
||
Author / Support staff contact name :
|
||
Author / Support staff contact node :
|
||
Magic name (at the above-listed node) :
|
||
Internet e-mail address :
|
||
Web page :
|
||
|
||
Please include a sentence describing what the package does.
|
||
|
||
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
|
||
|
||
-=- Snip -=-
|
||
|
||
MS-DOS:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
|
||
ALLFIX 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
|
||
Announcer 1.12 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
|
||
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 13 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT
|
||
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO
|
||
FastEcho/16 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FEX
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD
|
||
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
|
||
FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD
|
||
FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO
|
||
GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED
|
||
GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
|
||
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
|
||
InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
|
||
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
|
||
InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO
|
||
InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB
|
||
IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET
|
||
JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV
|
||
Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY
|
||
Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386
|
||
JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H
|
||
JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G
|
||
MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL
|
||
Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
|
||
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE
|
||
McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
|
||
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
|
||
Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP
|
||
Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP
|
||
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD
|
||
NorthStar 3.31.29 B S A&B Darin 1:285/82 NSTAR
|
||
Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
|
||
O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
|
||
PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP
|
||
QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS
|
||
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
|
||
RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA
|
||
Searchlight 4.5 B S Paul Casey 1:343/117 DEMO450.ZIP
|
||
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
|
||
Silver Xpress
|
||
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
|
||
Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP
|
||
Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH
|
||
StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK
|
||
StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 14 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
|
||
Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD
|
||
Terminate 5.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO
|
||
TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO
|
||
TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP
|
||
TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS
|
||
TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG
|
||
TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS
|
||
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
|
||
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
|
||
WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS
|
||
xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL
|
||
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS
|
||
|
||
OS/2:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
ALLFIX/2 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2
|
||
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST
|
||
FleetStreet 1.21 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
|
||
FP-OS/2 97-03-21 O F Mike Bilow 323/107 FPOS2
|
||
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
|
||
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
|
||
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
|
||
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP
|
||
Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP
|
||
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF
|
||
PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
|
||
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
|
||
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
|
||
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO2
|
||
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
|
||
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2
|
||
|
||
Windows (16-bit apps):
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
|
||
FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW
|
||
|
||
Windows (32-bit apps):
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 15 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I
|
||
Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI
|
||
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
|
||
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP
|
||
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_W32
|
||
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
|
||
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTW
|
||
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
|
||
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
|
||
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXN
|
||
Msged/NT 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41W.ZIP
|
||
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFW
|
||
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
|
||
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
|
||
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAILNT
|
||
WinFOSSIL/95 1.12 r4 F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 WNFOSSIL.ZIP
|
||
WinFOSSIL/NT 1.0 beta F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 NTFOSSIL.ZIP
|
||
|
||
Unix:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
ifmail 2.12 M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
|
||
ifmail-tx ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
|
||
ifmail-tx.rpm ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX.RPM
|
||
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
|
||
Amiga:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
CrashMail 1.31 T X Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHMAIL
|
||
CrashTick 1.2 O F Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHTICK
|
||
DLG Pro BBOS 1.15 B C Holly Sullivan 1:202/720 DLGDEMO
|
||
GMS 1.1.85 M S Mirko Viviani 2:331/213 GMS
|
||
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
|
||
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
|
||
TrapDoor 1.86.b2 M S Maximilian Hantsch
|
||
2:310/6 TRAPDOOR
|
||
TrapToss 1.50 T S Rene Hexel 2:310/6 TRAPTOSS
|
||
|
||
Atari:
|
||
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
|
||
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
ApplyList 1.00 N F Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 APLST100.LZH
|
||
BinkleyTerm/ST 3.18pl2 M F Bill Scull 1:363/112 BINKLEY
|
||
BTNC 2.00 N G Daniel Roesen 2:2432/1101 BTNC
|
||
JetMail 0.99beta T S Joerg Spilker 2:2432/1101 JETMAIL
|
||
Semper 0.80beta M S Jan Kriesten 2:2490/1624 SMP-BETA
|
||
|
||
Function: B-BBS, P-Point, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser,
|
||
C-Compression, F-Fossil, O-Other. Note: Multifunction will
|
||
be listed by the first match.
|
||
|
||
Cost: P-Free for personal use, F-Freeware, S-Shareware, C-Commercial,
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 16 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
X-Crippleware, D-Demoware, G-Free w/ Source
|
||
|
||
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:228/158
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 17 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONET BY INTERNET
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
|
||
FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
|
||
|
||
FidoNet:
|
||
|
||
Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
|
||
FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
|
||
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
|
||
WWW sources http://travel.to/fidonet/
|
||
FTSC page http://www.ftsc.org/
|
||
Echomail [pending]
|
||
General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
|
||
http://www.nrgsys.com/orb/foti
|
||
List servers:
|
||
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion
|
||
|
||
============
|
||
|
||
Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
|
||
|
||
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
|
||
|
||
Region 13:
|
||
|
||
Net 264: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
|
||
|
||
Region 14:
|
||
|
||
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
|
||
|
||
Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
|
||
|
||
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
|
||
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Region 19: http://members.home.net/hbh3/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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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 18 15 Mar 1999
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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 (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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============
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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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FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 19 15 Mar 1999
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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============
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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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|
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
|
||
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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|
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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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1:106/1 | 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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1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
|
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1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
|
||
1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
|
||
1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 28.8 | $10/yr.
|
||
1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
|
||
1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
|
||
1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
|
||
1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
|
||
1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | $15yr.
|
||
1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
|
||
1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
|
||
1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
|
||
1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
|
||
1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
|
||
2:335/535 | 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.]
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 20 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
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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|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 21 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
FIDONEWS INFORMATION
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
|
||
------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
|
||
|
||
Editor: Henk Wolsink
|
||
|
||
Editors Emeriti: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
|
||
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
|
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Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg
|
||
|
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"FidoNews Editor"
|
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FidoNet 5:5/23
|
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BBS +27-41-581-5913, 2400/9600/V34
|
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|
||
more addresses:
|
||
Henk Wolsink -- 5:7104/2, hwolsink@catpe.alt.za
|
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|
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(Postal Service mailing address)
|
||
FidoNews Editor
|
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P.O. Box 12325
|
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|
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|
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
|
||
INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
||
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
|
||
authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
|
||
does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
|
||
these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
|
||
FidoNews and/or the Editor.
|
||
|
||
Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
|
||
Copyright (C) 1999 Henk Wolsink. All rights reserved. Duplication
|
||
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
|
||
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
|
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the Editor.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
|
||
form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
|
||
file-request, or from various sites in FidoNet and the Internet.
|
||
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
|
||
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
|
||
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
|
||
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSGnn.ZIP] for a
|
||
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
|
||
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
|
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current year [9], i.e., FNWSJAN9.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 99.
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 22 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
|
||
1 - 16 for 1984 - 1999, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
|
||
size from 48K to 1.4M.
|
||
|
||
|
||
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
|
||
|
||
http://www.fidonews.org
|
||
** http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
|
||
** ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
|
||
ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
|
||
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/Fidonet/Fidonews
|
||
|
||
And in non-English formats via:
|
||
|
||
** http://www.hvc.ee/pats/fidonews (Estonian)
|
||
http://www.fidonet.pp.se/sfnews (Swedish)
|
||
|
||
** LINK HAS NOT BEEN UPDATED
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
|
||
|
||
jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net
|
||
|
||
with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist
|
||
|
||
and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the
|
||
email distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist
|
||
with no message to the same address above.
|
||
|
||
*
|
||
|
||
You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
|
||
by sending email to:
|
||
|
||
ftpmail@fidonews.org
|
||
|
||
with a Subject line of: help
|
||
|
||
and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
|
||
instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will
|
||
respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on
|
||
www.fidonews.org.
|
||
|
||
*=*=*
|
||
|
||
You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
|
||
|
||
http://www.fidonews.org
|
||
|
||
and http://www.fidonet.dynip.com/public/fidonews/default.htm
|
||
|
||
and in the FIDONEWS echo.
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-11 Page 23 15 Mar 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
|
||
Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
|
||
|
||
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
|
||
|
||
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
|
||
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
|
||
|
||
=*=*=*=
|
||
|
||
The current week's FidoNews are now also available almost immediately
|
||
after publication on the FidoNews Editor homepage on the World Wide
|
||
Web at:
|
||
|
||
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html
|
||
|
||
There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
|
||
to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an
|
||
email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
|
||
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
|
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
|
||
from 5:5/23 [5:7104/2] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators
|
||
should have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.
|
||
|
||
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
|
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trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141,
|
||
and are used with permission.
|
||
|
||
"Disagreement is actually necessary,
|
||
or we'd all have to get in fights
|
||
or something to amuse ourselves
|
||
and create the requisite chaos."
|
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-Tom Jennings
|
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