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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 36 6 September 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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| _ | +27-41-581-5913 [5:5/23] |
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| (_| /_) | Editor: |
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| _`@/_ \ _ | |
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| | | \ \\ | Henk Wolsink 5:7104/2 |
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| (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 5:5/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| submissions=> editor@fidonews.org |
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| hwolsink@catpe.alt.za |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
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| please refer to the end of this file. |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Netmail Information Service .............................. 2
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Z-snips: the Legacy of Star Wars ......................... 4
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 6
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 8
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Future History ........................................... 8
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5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 9
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 12
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 1 6 Sep 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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Since Douglas Myers did a stand-in editor job while I was away,
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I have given the job to him. Any complains? No, I knew you would
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agree. ;-)
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Doug will take over as from issue 38, or 20 September 1999.
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Happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 2 6 Sep 1999
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ARTICLES
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Collin County Station's Netmail Information Service
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Welcome to "InfoMail"
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Useing this program/service is very simple.
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1. Enter a Netmail message to "InfoMail" without the quotes.
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(capitalization isn't important) Fidonet address, 1:124/6308
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You can send this "Routed" or "Crash". _ALL_ replies will be "Routed"
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2. For a subject, put the document that you want to receive
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If you don't know, or just want to search for a word in the list,
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send the Netmail to "InfoMail Search" <sans quote> and put the word
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you are looking for in the Subject area.
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3. In the text area, put anything you like. This is ignored but
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required for many mailers to handle the message.
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Upon receiving the message, my system will search the document list
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for a match and send the response back to you via a Netmail message.
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Please let me know if there are errors. I'm only human and make
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mistakes like anyone else. :-)
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Here is a list of the documents we have available here;
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? List of documents available
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ARTSPEC FidoNews Article Submission Guidelines
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BackBone North America BackBone Echolist
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Backbone1 List of active echos, Zone 1 Backbone
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Backboneww List of Echos carried on the World Wide Backbone
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BackStat North American Backbone - Status and Changes
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Backstat1 Change Status, Zone 1 Backbone
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Backstatww World Wide Backbone Status and Changes
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Big_Dummy ** THE BIG DUMMY'S GUIDE TO FIDONET **
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DFWLIST The DFW BBs List
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Fido_Ben_Baker Fidonet History according to Ben Baker
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Fido_History_Pt1 FidoNet History and Operation (8 Feb 85) Tom
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Jennings
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Fido_History_Pt2 FidoNet History and Operation Part 2 (Tom Jennings)
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Fidonet? What is Fidonet
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Fidonews The Weekly Fido News
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HUBGUIDE Net 124 HUB GUIDELINES
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Internet_Point How to use your Point System with the Internet
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Internet_to_Fido How gate E-Mail to and from Fidonet
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Net106 BBs list for Net 106 (Houston, Tx. Area)
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Net112 BBs list for Florida's_First_Coast_Net,
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Jacksonville_FL
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Net116 BBs list for Middle_Tennessee_Net,Nashville_TN
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Net117 BBs list for Net 117 (Brazos Valley Area, Tx.)
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 3 6 Sep 1999
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Net123 BBs list for Mid-South_Net,Memphis_TN
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Net124 BBs list for Net 124 (Dallas, Tx.)
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Net130 BBs list for Net 130 (Ft. Worth, Tx.)
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Net133 BBs list for Atlanta_Net_NC,Tucker_GA
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Net135 BBs list for South_Florida_Net,Miami_FL
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Net137 BBs list for Florida_Suncoast_Net,Bradenton_FL
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Net147 BBs list for Net 147 (OKC MetroNET, Ok.)
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Net151 BBs list for NC_Net,Raleigh_NC
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Net170 Bbs list for Net 170 (Tulsa Area, Ok.)
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Net340 BBs list for South_Vancouver_Island,BC_Canada
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Net342 BBs list for Central_Alberta,Edmonton_AB
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Net343 BBs list for Lesser_Seattle_Opera,Seattle_WA
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Net346 BBs list for Inland_Northwest_Fidonet,Spokane_WA
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Net360 BBs list for Augusta_Net,Augusta_GA
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Net3601 BBs list for Florida_Gator_Net,Gainesville_FL
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Net3602 BBs list for Birmingham_Net,Birmingham_AL
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Net3603 BBs list for PinellasNET_3603_Host,Pinellas_Park_FL
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Net3607 BBs list for North_Alabama_Net,Cullman_AL
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Net3608 BBs list for Panama_City_Net,Lynn_Haven_FL
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Net3609 BBs list for Gator_Net,West_Palm_Beach_FL
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Net361 BBs list for Florida_Independents_Net,Wausau_FL
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Net3612 BBs list for Net_3612_Pensacola_FL,Pensacola_FL
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Net3613 BBs list for Georgia-Alabama_Consolidated_Net,
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Cusseta_Ga
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Net3614 BBs list for Jacksonville_NC_Net,Jacksonville_NC
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Net3615 BBs list for TN_Valley_Net,Knoxville_TN
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Net3618 BBs list for West_Volusia_Fl_Net,Deltona_Fl
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Net3619 BBs list for West_Pasco_Net,New_Port_Richey_FL
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Net362 BBs list for Chatta-NET_METRO,Chattanooga_TN
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Net3621 BBs list for Clarksville_Net,Woodlawn_TN
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Net363 BBs list for Orlando_Data_Information_Network,
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Orlando_FL
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Net3632 BBs list for Jackson_Metro,Clinton_MS
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Net3634 BBs list for Fayetteville_Net,Sanford_NC
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Net3639 BBs list for Upstate_SC_Net,Greenville_SC
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Net3648 BBs list for The_Central_Carolina_Network,
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Asheboro_NC
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Net365 BBs list for North_Central_Fla_Net,Ocala_FL
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Net3651 BBs list for Pee_Dee_NET,Hartsville_SC
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Net366 BBs list for NW_Florida,Ft_Walton_Beach_FL
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Net3660 BBs list for Wayne_County_Net,Freemont_NC
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Net3661 BBs list for Winston-Salem_NET,Winston-Salem_NC
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Net3666 BBs list for NW_NC_NET,Hickory_NC
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Net3667 BBs list for NC_Independents_NET3667_NC,Shelby_NC
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Net369 BBs list for Treasure_Coast_Net,Coconut_Creek_FL
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Net371 BBs list for SW_Florida_Coast_Net,Fort_Myers_FL
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Net372 BBs list for Charleston_SC_Net,Charleston_SC
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Net374 BBs list for Space_Coast_Net,Melbourne_FL
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Net375 BBs list for Central_Alabama_Net,Montgomery_AL
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Net376 BBs list for Cola_Net,Columbia_SC
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Net377 BBs list for Tampa_Bay_Net,Tampa_Fl
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Net379 BBs list for CHARLOTTE_AREA_NET,Pine_Harbor_NC
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Net380 BBs list for Net 380 (S'port/Bossier Net, La.)
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Net3800 BBs list for Net 3800 (Baton Rouge La)
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Net3802 BBs list for Net 3802 (Victoria TX)
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Net3803 BBs list for Net 3803 (Lafayette LA)
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 4 6 Sep 1999
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Net3804 BBs list for Net 3804 (Lubbock TX)
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Net3807 BBs List for Net 3807 (LakeArea Net,Westlake LA.)
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Net381 BBs list for Net 381 (West Texas Net)
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Net3812 BBs list for Net 3812 (Brazoria County Net,
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Richwood TX)
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Net382 BBs list for Net 382 (Capitol of Texas)
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Net3821 BBs list for Net 3821 (Little Rock Metro,
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Little Rock AR)
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Net3828 BBs list for Net 3828 (Causeway North Net,Bush LA)
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Net387 BBs list for Net 387 (San Antonio, Tx.)
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Net388 BBs list for Net 388 (Heart of Texas, Waco)
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Net393 BBs list for Net 393 (Denton, Tx.)
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Net395 BBs list for Net 395 (Central Texas & Fort Hood)
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Net396 BBs list for Net 396 (New Orleans Area, La.)
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Net397 BBS list for Net 397 (South TX/Rio Grande Valley)
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Net_info Net 124 Node Information File
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Netstats Statistics from the Fidonet Nodelist
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Satti Decisions made by Bob Satti as Z1C
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StartBBs So you want to start a BBS?
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End of Document
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Z-snips: the Legacy of Star Wars
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Douglas Myers 1:270/720
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A while back, when the North American Backbone (NAB) was the
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undisputed prime mover of mail in Zone 1, I reported and commented
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on the upheavals of the Star systems of the NAB. Though the Star
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Systems of that time are still prominent, new players on the scene
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tend to call themselves Z-hubs now. The major storms which led to
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the splintering of the NAB are still around, but they're spread
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thinner among new players now. The Fidonews Weather Service has
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downgraded these storms from "Star Wars" to "Z-snips."
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Why are the Z-hubs snipping at each other these days? The answer is
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most likely two-fold. 1) Fidonet is aptly nicknamed Fight-o-net in
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that old hostilities never seem to die and new ones are constantly
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discovered. 2) There are more problems with echomail distribution
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than there were when the structure was more monolithic.
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Leaving number 1 alone above, let's look at number 2: why are there
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more problems? Mostly it's a matter of increased complexity in the
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top level of distribution (Star distribution or Z-hub distribution).
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The Star distribution until very recently was relatively simple:
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A
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/ \
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B --- C
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Three star systems polled each other frequently throughout the day,
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and all other echomail feeds were derived from one of these systems
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(at least ideally). The system had the advantage of rapid mail
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delivery and no inherent problem with duplicates.
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 5 6 Sep 1999
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Towards the end of 1998, however, a fourth star system was added to
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the structure:
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A
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/ | \
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B - + - C
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\ | /
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D
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This seemed like a good idea at the time, as it incorporated the
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Fidospine distribution system under the NAB system... it seemed just
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recognition of a situation which already existed. However, it did
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increase the complexity of the structure to the extent that all four
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systems had to cooperate even more than before to ensure the smooth
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flow of mail - and unwillingness to cooperate ultimately splintered
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the NAB.
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This system was susceptible to duplicate message generation if one
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system decided to stop polling another system. To visualize this,
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imagine that system A decides to disconnect system D. Before the
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cut, system A would add system D's node number to the "seen-by"
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control lines of each echomail message it would process for him
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before sending it to him. The echomail processors at nodes B and C
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would read the seen-by line before making mail packets, and not
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include this message for system D. However, once system A cuts
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system D and stops adding this number to the seen-by line, both
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systems B and C will pack the message for system D, resulting in
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duplicate messages at system D.
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Though these duplicates were generated during the spats which
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characterized the period right before the NAB splintered, virtually
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all of them were detected by a cyclic redundancy check at the
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systems getting these dupes, and few were passed on. So the problem
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was more imagined than real, but it fueled the arguments over
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non-technical issues (such as who was in charge) and ultimately led
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to the withdrawal of systems from the NAB to start the Z1B.
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The current issue rocking the tranquility of echomail distribution
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seems to be an ongoing argument between John Souvestre and Alec
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Grynspan. John has, in the recent past, disconnected from all NAB
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Star systems except George Peace in an effort to prevent the
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generation of duplicates. Alec has recently expanded his echomail
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connections to span both the Z1B distribution and the NAB
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distribution, effectively establishing a mesh which can lead to
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duplicates. John has shown a portion of his logs which indicate
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that at least one duplicate flowed through Alec's system. How
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extensive the problem is truly is unknown to me, but the argument
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itself has the potential for destabilization. It's reminiscent of
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the arguments between John and Bob Seaborn before the splintering
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of the NAB.
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 6 6 Sep 1999
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COLUMNS
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Last Updated: 8/30/1999
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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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Zone 1 |
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10/3 | Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | T1? | $??/$10
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12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
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13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
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103/301 | Joe Jared | BinkP | aDSL | n/c
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105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
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106/1 | Matt Bedynek | BinkP, FTP | 128k | n/c
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106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | 64k | $5/mo
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107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
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167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
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211/417 | Korombos | BinkD,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c
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270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
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271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
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280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
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342/3 | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
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345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
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396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $10/mo
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396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
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2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
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2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
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2424/101 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1 | n/c
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2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
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2613/404 | David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+ | n/c
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2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
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3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
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3639/93 | Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP | 128K+ | n/c
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3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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Zone 2 |
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20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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23/999 | Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
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221/360 | Tommi Koivula | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
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284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
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292/626 | Filip Ruymen | Binkp, UUE | 128K+ | n/c
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292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
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301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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335/535 | Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
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335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 7 6 Sep 1999
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406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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464/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | 19.2 | n/c
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465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
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469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
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480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
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2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
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2446/301 | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
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2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
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5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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Zone 3
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633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
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640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
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774/605 | Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
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Zone 4
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905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c
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902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
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--
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
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* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
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* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
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* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
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Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
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Joe Jared, 1:103/301, joejared@osirusoft.com, and
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complaints to jarhead@osirusoft.com .
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 8 6 Sep 1999
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NOTICES
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Future History
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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 16-36 Page 9 6 Sep 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.ftsc.org/
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Echomail [pending]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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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: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
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Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
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Region 14:
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Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
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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://members.home.net/hbh3/r19
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Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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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/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://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
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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 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (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 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4:
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
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and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
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no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
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that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
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should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
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to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
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FIDONEWS 16-36 Page 12 6 Sep 1999
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ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
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And in non-English formats via:
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