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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 51 20 Dec 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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| | | \ \\ | 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. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Hot Dogs, Baseball, Apple Pie, and the GI ................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Full Moon ................................................ 2
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A New Fidonet Structure? ................................. 2
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ECHO TALK - Y2K Information .............................. 3
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3. COLUMNS .................................................. 7
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Fidonet-related sites .................................... 7
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Ol'WDB: Life from Domestic Viewpoint ..................... 10
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4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 12
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The good, the bad, & the ugly ............................ 12
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Santa Statistics ......................................... 12
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5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 15
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Santa Cow and his Rein Cows .............................. 15
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16
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Masthead ................................................. 16
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EDITORIAL
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Hot Dogs, Baseball, Apple Pie, and the GI
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Doug Myers
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It's strange what can border on contraversy. We've argued on Fido
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about our Coordinators, about our mail movers, about those who have
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turned internet technology to Fido's advangage, about those who
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haven't...
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But in the last week we've come dangerously close to tramping on
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icons - at least one particular icon held dear in the United States.
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Ol'WDB passed on a call from some writer to honer the American
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Soldier for his part in helping defend the country so we may all
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enjoy Christmas. The image this invokes in most of us here in the
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US - that of young men in the prime of their life being asked to
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interrupt their lives, leave their wives and children and family, to
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fight on foreign soil - has got to be confusing to those of another
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culture. The article prompted at least one confused response
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wondering if Jesus was American and what did the American
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Servicement - the GI - have to do with Christmas.
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Okay... it's tough to explain these days. During the two World
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Wars, the US entery into battle was delayed and reluctant... and
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wiedly approved by our allies. But our entry into the Korean War
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was not so widely regarded - and in Viet Nam we had our rear ends
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beat by what was supposed to be an inferior force. Though we didn't
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treat our returning veterans well as they returned from these
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unpopular war, and barely acknowledged those who didn't return, it
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was tough to ignore the sacrifice they'd made forever.
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I've heard all the stories about the atrocities committed by some
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who wore the GI's uniform, and even share the reservations of some
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who question our involvment in recent skirmishes... but if you don't
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mind, I'll still honer the icons. There's no greater pastime than a
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major league baseball game, no more perfect meal than a hot dog
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topped off by a piece of Mom's apple pie, no vehicle that can
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outperform the ol' 57 Chevy (once it's properly tuned, of course),
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and no greater hero than the American fighting man who has risked
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his life that the rest of us can take our freedom for granted.
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 2 20 Dec 1999
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ARTICLES
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Full Moon
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Ol'WDB
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This year will be the first full moon to occur on the winter
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solstice, Dec. 22, commonly called the first day of winter in, 133
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years. Since a full moon on the winter solstice occurs in
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conjunction with a lunar perigee (point in the moon's orbit that
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is closest to Earth). The moon will appear about 14% larger than
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it does at apogee (the point in its elliptical orbit that is
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farthest from the Earth). Since the Earth is also several million
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miles closer to the sun at this time of the year than in the
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summer, sunlight striking the moon is about 7% stronger making it
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brighter. Also, this will be the closest perigee of the Moon for
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the year since the moon's orbit is constantly deforming. If the
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weather is clear and there is a snow cover where you live, it is
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believed that even car headlights will be superfluous.
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On December 21, 1866, the Lakota Sioux took advantage of this
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combination of occurrences and staged a devastating retaliatory
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ambush on soldiers in the Wyoming Territory.
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In laymen's terms it will be a super bright full moon, much more
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than the usual AND it hasn't happened this way for 133 years!
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Our ancestors 133 years ago (1866) saw this. Our descendants 100
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or 200 or so years from now will see this again.
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I hope someone else might find this interesting! Remember this
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will happen December 22, 1999.
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A Proposed new Structure for Fidonet
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by John H. Guillory (1:3807/1 john.guillory@mainline.nu)
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There has been a lot of talk recently over various changes to
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fidonet. Many sugest we should not be bound to zone mail hours,
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some have commented that with the majority of fidonet getting their
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netmail and echo mail via internet, the need to be grouped via
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region is not needed as badly. Granted, we can't just throw all
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nodes in 1 zone/region/network, because then the NC would have a
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nightmare keeping up with everything, and the RC and ZC wouldn't
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have anything to do. An option I have been thinking about lately
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would be to group BBS's via Common Intrest. Rather than break
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fidonet by a sudden change, I say create a few extra zones, eg.
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Zones 7-9, which would then be known as the Common Intrest Zones.
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Zone 7 could be defined as the Amature BBS's (I know, Fidonet is an
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amature Network, and as such all BBS's should be amature, but by
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amature here, I mean any BBS that does not fit into zones 8 or 9).
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 3 20 Dec 1999
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Zone 8 would be defined as the Business/Support Zone. Groups in
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this zone would include the Binkley Term Support Board, IREX
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Support, FMail Support, Portal Support, etc. The Region would
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define the type of support, Network would define the product. Any
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additional support boards/distribution boards, etc. would be listed
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under the network for the product. Such that if I was looking for
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the latest version of Portal of Power, I could be guaranteed to find
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it by looking in Zone 8, in the Mailer Region, under the Portal
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Network on any of the BBS's within that network. (It should become
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clear here what the intentions of this are). Any product who's
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programmers offers support via Fidonet would be listed in Zone 8.
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Zone 9 could be for Non-Profiet Organizations, if there's any left
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in fidonet.
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Within Zone 7, we'd have Regions broken down by main Intrest with
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networks being a sub-intrest. Eg. Suppose I'm looking for some MIDI
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files, I could then go to Zone 7, Multi-Media Region, MIDI Network,
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and find a list of BBS's that specialize in MIDI files.
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The way I see it, we are loosing many Fidonet BBS's on a regular
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basis, and many have stated they will pull the plug on or before
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Dec. 31, 1999 due to lack of callers. We need to help the users
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find the BBS's they want in order to save whats left of fidonet, and
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change the direction back to a Growing Network. Imagine sysop's
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providing BBS listings to the users based on primary features of the
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BBS's. We could also have online doors that let the users browse
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the nodelist for other BBS's. Another benefit to this is that the
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BBS's who share a common intrest tend to communicate with each other
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more frequently. By sharing the same Net number, many BBS's would
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require the users to only enter the Node number of the BBS. It'd be
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that much quicker and easier for the users to communicate with other
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users via netmail in common intrest networks. It's just something
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I've been thinking about, and wanted to post in fidonews for others
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to ponder and post their opinions.
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. -- -- -- -- -- ECHO TALK -- -- -- -- -- .
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| Food for thought from Fido's echomail. |
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| Purloined without permission by D Myers |
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` -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- -- -- -- -- -- '
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Rumor has it that in less than two weeks, the Internet will fall
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from the sky and it will be the end of civilization as we know it.
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And it's all because computers can't count past 2000, I'm told.
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Like many sysops, I've known all along that I should be preparing
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for these momentous events by buying a new computer, upgrading all
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my software, and adjusting my attitude.
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Somewhere along the way, the system fell apart for me... I never
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knew quite what to do. I learned a few simple tests I could run on
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my system to tell if it would work in the year 2000... and then
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heard that it may not work even if the tests work. I've learned
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 4 20 Dec 1999
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that much of the software designed for Fidonet won't work in the
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year 2000, but then I learned that the software I was going to
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replace it with wouldn't work either.
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The information has been so bad that I've simply taken a fatalistic
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attitude... I'll wait until after Y2K and see what's busted. It's
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not a bad approace: rumor has it that I won't be able to use my
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hardware or software, so anything I can actually use is a bonus.
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I'm not due for any disappointment using this approach.
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But in his regional echoes and in the Z1C echo, Darrell Salter has
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taken a more ambitious approach and is actually discussing operating
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systems and software. I don't know how accurate all of it is, but
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if you're not content to stick your head in the sand and wait for
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what Y2K brings, here's some information.
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----- fidoy2k.txt begins -----
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Y2K INFORMATION FOR FIDONET SYSOPS
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==================================
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Note: As this database fills out we should come up with a pretty
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good idea of what is, and isn't Y2K compliant. Please notify me of
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any errors or additions to the following list. If you are unsure
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about a piece of software you are running, notify me and it will be
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added to the list, and perhaps someone can notify us of it's Y2K
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compliancy. By all means, please contact the software's author to
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verify.
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Sysops may download Fidonet related Y2K programs, updates, and
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patches from my BBS or by surfing to my web site at
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http://sparkys.dyndns.org and going to the Y2K section of the File
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Archives. ftp://sparkys.dyndns.org also works.
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OPERATING SYSTEMS
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=================
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DOS:
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-!-
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MSDOS ------ NO! Several problems, no fixes planned.
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DR-DOS ------ YES
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PC-DOS 2000 - YES
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CALDERA DOS - YES
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WINDOWS:
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-------
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WINDOWS 3.1 ---------------- NO! Problems. Some patches.
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WINDOWS 95 ----------------- Patches required
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WINDOWS 98 ----------------- Patches required
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WINDOWS 98 SECOND EDITION -- Patches required
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WINDOWS NT ----------------- YES (Service Pack 4 required)
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WINDOWS 2000 --------------- Beta, should be ok
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OS/2:
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 5 20 Dec 1999
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OS/2 V.3 -------- YES (FixPak 40 required)
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OS/2 V.4 -------- YES (FixPak 10 or higher required)
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Note: TCP/IP and MPTS must be upgraded seperately.
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LINUX:
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All Versions - YES
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FIDONET SOFTWARE
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NODELIST COMPILERS:
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------------------
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FASTLIST - YES
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QNODE ---- YES
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XLAX ----- UNKNOWN
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FRONT END MAILERS:
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-----------------
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FRONTDOOR ------ YES (version 2.26 required)
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BINKLEYTERM ---- NO (Cosmetic problems)
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BINKLEYTERM XE - YES
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ARGUS ---------- YES (Versions 3.1 and above)
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BBS:
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-!-
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CONCORD ------ YES (Version 0.01g5 and above)
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MAJORBBS ----- NO!
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MAXIMUS ------ YES (Y2K Patch required)
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SEARCHLIGHT -- YES (Version 5.02 and above)
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WILDCAT! ----- YES (Version 4 and above)
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WORLDGROUP --- YES (Version 3.1 and above)
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REMOTEACCESS - UNKNOWN
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SPITFIRE BBS - YES (Version 3.6 and above)
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MAIL PROCESSORS:
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FASTECHO -- YES (Version 1.46 and above)
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SQUISH ---- YES (Y2K Patch required)
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WATERGATE - YES (beta)
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GECHO ----- YES (non-shareware)
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FILE ECHO PROCESSORS:
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--------------------
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ALLFIX - YES (Versions 5 and above)
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NETMAIL MANAGERS:
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NETMGR - YES (Y2K Patch required)
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NETMAIL UTILITIES:
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-----------------
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CFROUTE - YES
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MSC. UTILITIES
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 6 20 Dec 1999
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--------------
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MSGTRACK --- UNKNOWN
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EDITORS:
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-------
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TIMED ------- YES (Y2K Patch required)
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MSGED ------- YES (TE Versions)
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GOLDED ------ UNKNOWN
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FLEETSTREET - YES
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Contact Information:
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Fidonet: 1:229/2
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BinkD: sparkys.dyndns.org
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Email: r12c@sprk.com
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Web: http://sparkys.dyndns.org
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Ftp: ftp://sparkys.dyndns.org
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Links:
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www.microsoft.com/Year2000
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www.software.ibm.com/year2000
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www.novell.com/y2k
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www.intel.com/Year2000
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www.amd.com/support/y2k/y2k.html
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www.cyrix.com
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www.award.com
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www.phoenix.com
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 7 20 Dec 1999
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COLUMNS
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! = New entries this week
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? = not responding
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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: Dec 18, 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://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
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ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
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!Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html
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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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List server:
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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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http://www.tnl-online.com/andy/rgn10.htm
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Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
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Net 203: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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Net 2410: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/
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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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Net 124: http://www.startext.net/np/net124
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http://texoma.net/~flv
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Net 130: http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
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Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/
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Zone 1 Elist http://members.xoom.com/echolist/
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc)
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
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Region 25: http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
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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 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 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian)
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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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Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese)
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Region 90:
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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
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(Chinese)
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html
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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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Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
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latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
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time between when the message is received, and when it is
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sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
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defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
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immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
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after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.
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v-email flag firstnamelastname@osirusoft.com
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| email address or
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
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10/3 @ Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| $??/$10
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10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1,! | n/c
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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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103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | 384k,!| n/c
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103/153 @ Michael Box | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
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103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP | 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 | DS-3,5| $5/$15 mo
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106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
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107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
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140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP | T3,30 | $5/$16
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167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
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211/417 @ Korombos | BinkP,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c
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218/109 | Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE | 33.6k | n/c
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246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c
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271/140 @ Tom Barstow | UUE,FTP | 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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395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | 128k | 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,! | $25.00/mo
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2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
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3613/2 @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | 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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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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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 | 768k | 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 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | 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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Fidonet oriented news servers
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news.osirusoft.com
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news.tardis.net
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Fidonet oriented chat rooms.
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room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM 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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+++++Life from a Female Domestic Engineer's Viewpoint+++++
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as told to Ol'WDB
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There's another way of looking at life...
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Thank you, God, for dirty dishes For they mean we are well fed.
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Thank you for the mortgage payments and rent notices, For they
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mean we have a roof over our heads.
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Thank you for the seemingly endless pile of laundry, For it means
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we are clothed and warm.
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Thank you, for scuff marks, crayon marks and smelly tennis shoes,
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for they mean we are active.
|
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Thank you, God, for loud stereos and busy telephones. For they
|
||
mean our teens are safe at home.
|
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Thank you for the notes from school, For they mean our children
|
||
have teachers who care.
|
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Thank you, God, for speeding tickets, For they mean our police
|
||
officers are protecting us.
|
||
Thank you for morning traffic jams, For they mean we have jobs
|
||
to go to.
|
||
Thank you for doctor's waiting rooms and deductibles and co-pays,
|
||
For they mean we have access to health care.
|
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Thank you, God, for his/her snoring, For it means he/she is safe
|
||
beside me.
|
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Thank you for little disappointments, For they mean you are
|
||
teaching us patience.
|
||
And I would like to thank you, Lord, for those unmade beds.
|
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They are so warm and comfortable. I know that many have no bed.
|
||
My thanks to you, Lord, for this bathroom, complete with all the
|
||
splattered mirrors, soggy, grimy towels and dirty lavatory, they
|
||
are so convenient.
|
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Thank you for this finger smudged refrigerator that needs
|
||
defrosting so badly. It has serve us faithfully for many years. It
|
||
is full of cold drinks and enough leftovers for two or three meals.
|
||
Thank you, Lord for this oven that absolutely must be cleaned
|
||
today. It has baked so many things over the years.
|
||
The whole family is grateful for that tall grass that needs mowing,
|
||
the lawn that needs raking; we all enjoy the yard.
|
||
Thank you, Lord, even for that slamming screen door. That means
|
||
my kids are healthy and able to run and play.
|
||
Lord, the presence of all these chores awaiting me,
|
||
say You have richly blessed my family.
|
||
I shall do them cheerfully and I shall do them gratefully.
|
||
Thank you, God, for just plain ordinary days-
|
||
|
||
Education is the Apprenticeship of Life! Send comments to:
|
||
wdbonner@pacbell.net
|
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 12 20 Dec 1999
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=================================================================
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NET HUMOR
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=================================================================
|
||
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The good, the bad, & the ugly
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||
Thanks to Ol'WDB
|
||
|
||
Good: Your wife is pregnant.
|
||
Bad: It's triplets
|
||
Ugly: You had a vasectomy five years ago
|
||
|
||
Good: Your wife's not talking to you
|
||
Bad: She wants a divorce
|
||
Ugly: She's a lawyer
|
||
|
||
Good: Your son is finally maturing
|
||
Bad: He's involved with the woman next door
|
||
Ugly: So are you
|
||
|
||
Good: Your son studies a lot in his room
|
||
Bad: You find several porn movies hidden there.
|
||
Ugly: You're in them
|
||
|
||
Good: You have a date with Adonis
|
||
Bad: You can't find your birth control pills
|
||
Ugly: Your daughter borrowed them
|
||
|
||
Good: Your husband understands fashion
|
||
Bad: He's a cross-dresser
|
||
Ugly: He looks better than you
|
||
|
||
Good: You give the "birds and bees" talk to your 8
|
||
year old daughter
|
||
Bad: She keeps interrupting
|
||
Ugly: With corrections
|
||
|
||
Good: The postman's early
|
||
Bad: He's wearing fatigues and carrying a shotgun
|
||
Ugly: You gave him nothing for Christmas
|
||
|
||
Good: Your son is dating someone new
|
||
Bad: It's another man
|
||
Ugly: He's your best friend
|
||
|
||
Good: Your daughter got a new job
|
||
Bad: As a hooker
|
||
Ugly: Your coworkers are her best clients
|
||
Way Ugly: She makes more money than you
|
||
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|
||
Santa Statistics
|
||
Thanks to Roy Reed
|
||
rcreedv@juno.com
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 13 20 Dec 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
1. There are approximately two billion children
|
||
(persons under 18) in the world. However, since Santa
|
||
doesn't visit children of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or
|
||
Buddhist religions, this reduces the workload for
|
||
Christmas night to 15% of the total, or 378 million
|
||
(according to the Population Reference Bureau). At an
|
||
average (census) rate of 3.5 children per house, that
|
||
comes to 108 million homes, presuming that there is at
|
||
least one good child in each.
|
||
|
||
2. Santa has about 31 hours of Christmas to work
|
||
with, thanks to the different time zones and the
|
||
rotation of the earth, assuming he travels from east
|
||
to west (which seems logical). This works out to
|
||
967.7 visits per second.
|
||
|
||
This is to say that for each Christian household with
|
||
a good child, Santa has around 1/1000 of a second to
|
||
park the sleigh, hop out, jump down the chimney, fill
|
||
the stockings, distribute the remaining presents under
|
||
the tree, eat whatever snacks have been left for him,
|
||
get back up the chimney, jump into the sleigh, and get
|
||
on to the next home. Assuming that each of these 108
|
||
million stops is evenly distributed around the globe
|
||
(which, of course, we know to be false, but will
|
||
accept for the purposes of our calculations), we are
|
||
now talking about 0.78 miles per household; a total
|
||
trip of 75.5 million miles, not counting bathroom
|
||
stops or breaks. This means that Santa's sleigh is
|
||
moving at 650 miles per second -- 3,000 times the
|
||
speed of sound.
|
||
For purposes of comparison, the fastest man-made
|
||
vehicle, the Ulysses space probe, moves at a pokey
|
||
27.4 miles per second. A conventional reindeer can
|
||
run (at best) 15 miles per hour.
|
||
|
||
3. The payload of the sleigh adds another interesting
|
||
element. Assuming that each child gets nothing more
|
||
than a medium sized lego set (2 pounds), the sleigh is
|
||
carrying over 500,000 tons, not counting Santa
|
||
himself. on land, the conventional reindeer can pull
|
||
no more than 300 pounds. Even if we grant that the
|
||
"flying" reindeer could pull 10 times the normal
|
||
amount, the job couldn't be done with 8 or even 9 of
|
||
them - Santa would need 360,000 of these
|
||
mega-reindeer. This increases the payload, not
|
||
counting the weight of the sleigh, by another 54,000
|
||
tons, or roughly 7 times the weight of the Queen
|
||
Elizabeth (the ship, not the monarch).
|
||
|
||
4. 600,000 tons traveling at 650 miles per second
|
||
creates enormous air resistance - this would heat up
|
||
the reindeer in the same fashion as a spacecraft
|
||
re-entering the earth's atmosphere. The lead pair of
|
||
reindeer would absorb 14.3 quintllion joules of energy
|
||
per second each. In short, they would burst into
|
||
FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 14 20 Dec 1999
|
||
|
||
|
||
flames almost instantaneously, exposing the reindeer
|
||
behind them and creating deafening sonic booms in
|
||
their wake. The entire reindeer team would be
|
||
vaporized within 4.26 thousandths of a second, or
|
||
right about the time Santa reached the 5th house on
|
||
the trip. Not that it matters, however, since Santa,
|
||
as a result from accelerating from a dead stop to 650
|
||
miles per second in .001 seconds would be subjected to
|
||
centrifugal forces of 17,500 g's. A 250 pound Santa
|
||
(which seems ludicrously slim) would be pinned to the
|
||
back of the sleigh by 4,315,015 pounds of force,
|
||
instantly crushing his bones and organs and reducing
|
||
him to a quivering blob of pink goo.
|
||
|
||
5. Therefore, if Santa did exist, he's dead now.
|
||
|
||
Merry Christmas!
|
||
|
||
|
||
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|
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FIDONEWS 16-51 Page 15 20 Dec 1999
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COMIX IN ASCII
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=================================================================
|
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|
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o o o o o o
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o o o o o o o o o o
|
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o o o o ( ) o ( ) o ( ) o
|
||
O ) ( ) ( ) (
|
||
o o (__) o (__) o (__) o o (__)
|
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(oo) (oo) (oo) o (oo) o
|
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/------$$$$ o /-------\/ /-------\/ /-------\/
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/ | $$$$ / | || / | || / | ||
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* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|| o
|
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~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~
|
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Santa Cow and his Rein Cows
|
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|
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|
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