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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 44 01 Nov 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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| _ | 1-717-732-6820 1:270/720 |
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| /|oo \ | |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: Douglas Myers, 1:270/720 |
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| | (*) | \ )) | DougM@paonline.com |
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| (_/(_|(____/ | |
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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. HEADLINES ................................................ 1
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New Fidonews Columnist ................................... 1
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2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2
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The New MODERATOR Moderator .............................. 2
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3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 3
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Zone 3 Coordinator Resigns ............................... 3
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4. ARTICLES ................................................. 5
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Z2C's IP node hostility .................................. 5
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5. COLUMNS .................................................. 6
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Ol'WDB: Engineering Design Principles .................... 6
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Fidonet-related sites .................................... 6
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6. NET HUMOR ................................................ 11
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The Last Chocolate Chip .................................. 11
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7. NOTICES .................................................. 12
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Future History ........................................... 12
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8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 13
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Masthead ................................................. 13
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 1 1 Nov 1999
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HEADLINES
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New Fidonews Columnist
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Fidonews welcomes Warren D. Bonner to the Fidonews staff as a
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feature columnist. Warren writes under the pen name of "Ol'WDB" and
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specializes in history and humor.
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Ol'WDB revealed that he maintains a collection of "keepers," such as
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the articles he published last week and this, in conjunction with
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his work as a free-lance writer. Warren is currently working on a
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historical manuscript about the true high seas battles in the
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Atlantic Campaign of World War II. His latest book, "The Mighty
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`E'astwind" is due for publication soon by the U. S. Government
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Press.
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Warren is a member of Net 103 along with Joe Jared, Fidonews
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columnist who has done such a great job in keeping the Internet
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information current and accurate. Speaking of Joe, catch his column
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this week. He's been looking at the Fidonet sites and identified
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some which don't respond or don't appear to be related to Fidonet.
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If you operate one of these sites and are experiencing temporary
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difficulties, now is a good time to talk with Joe before your site
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is deleted. Joe has also added information about Internet Relay
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Chat and Newsservers.
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 2 1 Nov 1999
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EDITORIAL
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The New MODERATOR Moderator
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Last week, even as Fidonews was being put together, Kent Anderson
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announced that Tom Knowles had resigned as moderator of the echo
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MODERATOR and named Kent to the job. Tom, presumably, had found
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personal issues would limit his further involvement in Fidonet...
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though many speculated that charges of ELIST tampering may have
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influenced his decision.
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Kent Anderson has been a moderator's moderator for some time on
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Fidonet. He's well known for his even approach in the echoes he
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moderates, and his helpfulness to other moderators in general.
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Already, Kent has defused most of the unrest in the MODERATOR echo
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brought about by Tom Knowles authoritarian style.
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As Tom Knowles - either the real person or the alter ego - becomes
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but a dim memory in Fidonet, I expect the ELIST tampering issue to
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fade also... unresolved. Like most unresolved issues, though, it
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will rise Phoenix-like from it's own ashes, at the most inconvenient
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times.
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 3 1 Nov 1999
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Zone 3 Coordinator Resigns
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Many thanks to Steve Asher (3:800/432) for relaying this message
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from his local echomail bases:
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Area : ZONE3_SYSOP
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Date : Sun Oct 24, 12:43
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From : David Hales 3:801/200
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To : All
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Subj : Z3C
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Hi All
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Jackson Harding has asked me to pass on the following information
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due to his system having crashed.
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The other day his system had a fatal failure. The system is beyond
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immediate repair and due to work committments (possibly overseas for
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a few months) available time to make such repairs is in short
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supply.
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As such and the fact he can not get on line to tell you personally,
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he has asked me to make this post.
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Jackson has stated he will not be returning to the net. That he has
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formally resigned as Z3C as of now.
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He wishes all of us well and has asked me to contact the RCs (which
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has been done) to organise a replacement.
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As for the nodelist, well, if its on his machine we may be up the
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creek for trying to retrive it. I have put it to the RCs perhaps
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whoever replaces Jackson should give us a FULL list asap and we can
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go from there.
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You will no doubt be hearing from the RCs soon. In the conversations
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I have had with them it looks like Malcolm Miles will be a good
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prospect to take the caretaker role pending an election.
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I suggested that if everyone is happy with Malcolm that we just get
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on with it (forego an election). We have just had one recently and
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there is no point to re-invent the wheel so soon unless there is
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severe discontent. (sorry Malcolm, I've put you in it).
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This is all of course is all subject to Malcolm and the majority of
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RCs being in agreement.
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Even though Jackson can not read this I think a thank-you is in
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order from us here in SA and on behalf of the member boards here
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 4 1 Nov 1999
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best wishes with the future.
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I suppose this is all that really needs to be said at this point and
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it will now be up to the RCs and input from the rest of us.
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David Hales
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NC801
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3:801/200
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email: david@gzbbs.apana.org.au
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-!-
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! Origin: (3:801/200)
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 5 1 Nov 1999
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ARTICLES
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Z2C's IP node hostility
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By Peter Karlsson, 2:206/221.0
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About a month ago, I got a netmail from the Z2C stating that my IP
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node, 2:206/222.0, wasn't allowed to be listed according to the
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specifications used in the nodelist and recently documented by the
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FTSC:
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"To make a long story very short, in Z3 '000' is the number to alert
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the emergency-services. Whether or not dial-translation should take
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care of that in the nodelist is irrelevant because there always will
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be buggy systems that may create havoc; when we have an opportunity
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to avoid potential problems we shouldn't dismiss it, therefore I
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support Jackson Harding (the ZC/3) in his actions."
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"Therefore I am now instructing you, nodes/hubs/hosts/NCs/RCs that
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are involved in zone-2, to deal with this issue and get rid of the
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'000-'-entries. You have until Nov.1 1999 to do this, after that
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date the '000-'-number will systematically be replaced by
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'-unpublished-' and a 'Pvt' inserted in front."
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This is utter stupidity. IP nodes are here to stay, and we have a
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standard of listing them that is actually supported by both mailers
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and nodelist compilers. Why should people that can't configure their
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mailers properly stop that?
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Oh, and if anyone wonders why I'm writing this here instead of
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taking it up with the Z2C, let me quote the ending paragraph in the
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netmail:
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"Anyone that doesn't agree may make himself heard but unless a
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loaded and cocked hotgun points to my delicate parts I am not
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inclined to move on this one."
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Oh, well. Guess I'll see in the next nodelist whether my nodelisting
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of 2:206/222.0 is gone or not. And if it is, well... I'm seriously
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considering leaving Fidonet after over five years of active
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participation. :-(
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\\//
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Live long and prosper,
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Peter Karlsson
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 6 1 Nov 1999
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COLUMNS
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Subject: Root of Modern Engineering Design Principles
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From: Ol'WDB
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The US standard railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4
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feet 8.5 inches. That's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that
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gauge used? Because that's the way they built them in England, and
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the US railroads were built by English expatriates. Why did the
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English build them like that? Because the first rail lines were
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built by the same people who built the pre-railroad tramways, and
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that's the gauge they used. Why did 'they' use that gauge then?
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Because the people who built the tramways used the same jigs and
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tools that they used for building wagons, which used that wheel
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spacing. Okay! Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel
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spacing? Well, if they tried to use any other spacing the wagon
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wheels would break on some of the old, long distance roads in
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England, because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts.So who built
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those old rutted roads? The first long distance roads in Europe (and
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England) were built by Imperial Rome for their legions. The roads
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have been used ever since. And the ruts? The initial ruts, which
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everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels
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and wagons, were first made by Roman war chariots. Since the
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chariots were made for, or by Imperial Rome, they were all alike in
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the matter of wheel spacing. Thus, we have the answer to the
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original question. The United States standard railroad gauge of 4
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feet, 8.5 inches derives from the original specification for an
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Imperial Roman war chariot. Specifications and bureaucracies live
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forever. So the next time you are handed a specification and wonder
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what horses ass came up with it, you may be exactly right--because
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the Imperial Roman war chariots were made just wide enough to
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accommodate the back ends of two war horses. Now the twist to the
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story.............. There's an interesting extension to the story
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about railroad gauges and horses' behinds. When we see a Space
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Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster rockets
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attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid rocket
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boosters, or SRBs. The SRBs are made by Thiokol at their factory at
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Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs might have preferred to
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make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by train from
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the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the factory
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had to run through a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs had to fit
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through that tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than the railroad
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track, and the railroad track is about as wide as two horses
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behinds. So, the major design feature of what is arguably the
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world's most advanced transportation system was determined by the
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width of a Horse' Ass!
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! = New entries this week
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? = not responding
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 7 1 Nov 1999
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?? = unknown content, doesn't look like fidonet
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. -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
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| FIDONET-RELATED SITES |
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` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- '
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Last update: Oct 29, 1999
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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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ftp://sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
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SDS Files: http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
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FTSC page: http://www.ftsc.org/
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General: http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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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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http://www.tnl-online.com/andy/rgn10.htm
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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http://texoma.net/~flv
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Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
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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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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 8 1 Nov 1999
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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 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html
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(Chinese)
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
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address. The email is translated as follows
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firstlast@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the
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appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
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also receive routed notice of this feature. In my case, it
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would still be joejared@osirusoft.com, but you get the idea.
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v-email flag firstnamelastname@osirusoft.com
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
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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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105/72 @ Larry James | FTP | aDSL | $5/$15 mo.
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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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140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP | T3 | $5/$16
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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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246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c
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270/101 @ George Peace | FTP | 6mbps | $20mo.
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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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2424/101 | 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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3613/1275 @ Jack Yates | UUE | 28.8 | n/c
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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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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 9 1 Nov 1999
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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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3803/1 @ Ben Ritchey | UUE | 56k | n/c
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Zone 2 |
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20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
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203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
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221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
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236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | 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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346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
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382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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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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* 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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Fidonet oriented news servers
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 10 1 Nov 1999
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news.osirusoft.com (US west coast)
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agnese.fidoitalia.net (Italy)
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Fidonet oriented chat rooms.
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room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 10AM GMT) Sundays
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irc.isonline.com
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irc.killaz-r-us.com
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irc.korombos.org
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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 16-44 Page 11 1 Nov 1999
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NET HUMOR
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The Last Chocolate Chip
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Thanks to Roy Reed
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rcreedv@juno.com
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An elderly man lay dying in his bed.
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In death's agony, he suddenly smelled the aroma of his favorite
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chocolate chip cookies wafting up the stairs. He gathered his
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remaining strength, and lifted himself from the bed.
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Leaning against the wall, he slowly made his way out of the bedroom,
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and with even greater effort forced himself down the stairs,
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gripping the railing with both hands, he crawled downstairs.
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With labored breath, he leaned against the door-frame, gazing into
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the kitchen. Were it not for death's agony, he would have thought
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himself already in heaven: there, spread out upon waxed paper on the
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kitchen table were literally hundreds of his favorite chocolate chip
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cookies.
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Was it heaven? Or was it one final act of heroic love from his
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devoted wife, seeing to it that he left this world a happy man?
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Mustering one great final effort, he threw himself toward the table,
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landing on his knees in a rumpled posture. His parched lips parted:
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the wondrous taste of the cookie was already in his mouth, seemingly
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bringing him back to life.
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The aged and withered hand trembled on its way to a cookie at the
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edge of the table, when it was suddenly smacked with a spatula by
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his wife.
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"Stay out of those," she said, "they're for the funeral."
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FIDONEWS 16-44 Page 12 1 Nov 1999
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NOTICES
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Future History
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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 16-44 Page 13 1 Nov 1999
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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FIDONEWS MASTHEAD
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Fidonews Staff:
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Editor: Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, DougM@paonline.com
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Webmaster: Jim Barchuk, jb@fidonews.org
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Columnist: Joe Jared, 1:103/0, jarhead@osirusoft.com
|
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(Fido Via Internet Hubs column)
|
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Columnist: Warren D. Bonner, 1:103/401, wdbonner@pacbell.net
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(Warren uses the pen name "Ol'WDB")
|
||
Editors Emeriti: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
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Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg,
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|
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STAR SOURCE for all past issues:
|
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|
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|
||
|
||
Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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the editor will normally take care of the technical requirements.
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"Disagreement is actually necessary,
|
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or something to amuse ourselves
|
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and create the requisite chaos."
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