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Volume 5, Number 28 11 July 1988
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Editor in Chief Dale Lovell
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Editor Emeritus: Thom Henderson
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Contributing Editors: Al Arango
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FidoNews is published weekly by the International FidoNet
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Association as its official newsletter. You are encouraged to
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submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission
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standards are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from
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node 1:1/1.
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Copyright 1988 by the International FidoNet Association. All
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rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for
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noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances,
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please contact IFNA at (314) 576-4067. IFNA may also be contacted
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at PO Box 41143, St. Louis, MO 63141.
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Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of
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Fido Software, 164 Shipley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107 and
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are used with permission.
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The contents of the articles contained here are not our
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responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them.
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Everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING
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received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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Lynx, A new BBS system ................................... 2
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SUN Echo Created ......................................... 4
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Coping with Rapid Growth ................................. 5
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LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE ................. 11
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2. NOTICES .................................................. 15
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 15
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Recap of FidoCon'88 Agenda ............................... 15
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 16
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FidoCon '88 Registration Form ............................ 18
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 1 11 Jul 1988
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ARTICLES
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Yes Folks FidoCon '88 in Cincinnati is almost here! You have
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until July 15th to register if you want a chance to win the Delta
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Airlines ticket and don't forget the conference fee goes up to
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$75 August 1st. There are also VERY few USR coupons left!
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Register now if you want to cash in on this terrific discount!
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Hotel space is going fast! We have reserved a block of rooms at
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a discounted rate but once they are gone, they're gone! You will
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not receive the FidoCon room discount if you register at the
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door, you must make your hotel reservations in advance. If you
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are planning on attending FidoCon this year register now.
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We are hard at work putting together what we believe will be the
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BEST FidoCon ever and from the way that registrations are flowing
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in, I can see that many of you feel the same way!
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Watch FidoNews for weekly updates on the conference and for more
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current updates and information there is a FIDOCON Echo available
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to all. Just contact Rick Ashworth at 1/88 for more information.
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If you have any questions about FidoCon'88 contact Rick at 1/88
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or myself at 1/88 or 108/62.
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See you here in August!
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 2 11 Jul 1988
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Lynx is a mult-user BBS system that supports 8 com ports, 31000
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messages areas, 31000 file areas, has 31000 access levels not
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including the special bit field flags.
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Lynx also use the one message file structure for the message
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bases and all the messages in all the areas go into the same
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file. This one file structure is also extended to cover the
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system files as well. The message area and file area control
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files are contained in one single file instead of a multitude of
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system control files. So, no matter how many message areas you
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might have, you'll only have one message area system control
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file.
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Lynx Menus
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Lynx has 3 help levels, much the same as Fido or Opus, but the
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big difference is the FULL help menu. This menu must be designed
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by the sysop. It's a simple text file that you can create with
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any word processor or any ANSI program such a THEDRAW. You can
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create both an ANSI menus or an ACII menu or combine then into a
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single file using the LANSI commands for color and Moving ANSI
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graphic's. You also have the option of turning the default
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prompt off and adding a customized menu prompt to any menu. The
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Lynx script processing commands can be used in these menus so
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you can get as fancy with them as you like.
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The second and third help levels are much the same as Fido or
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OPus and you have to accept the default system prompt there.
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Commands
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To further allow you total control over your system, the sysop
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must also select the command keys to activate the associated
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options. For example, at the main menu, the command to go to the
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file area can be set to F, D, ESC, control-F, etc. It doesn't
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matter what you want to use, the idea is that you select the
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key. And, these command keys do NOT have to be the first letter
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of the command.
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Not only do you set the command keys, but you also have to set
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the individual access levels for those keys. Now, the big
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difference here is in the message and file areas. Each message
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area has it's own cluster of command keys and associated command
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key access levels. Message area 1 might use the A to switch
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areas with an access level of 5 while message area 2 might use C
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to switch areas with an access level of 3. Doesn't make sense to
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do it that way but the ability is there if you want to use it.
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The same thing goes for the file areas.
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Each message area and each file area has a default access level
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required to gain access. To further enhance this, each file area
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and each message area also has a set of 8 flags. You can set any
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one of the eight flags or a combination of the 8 flags and the
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caller must have the same set of flags turned on in his user
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record to gain access to that area no matter what his standard
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access level is.
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 3 11 Jul 1988
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Lynx also has the supports Tradewar's 1000, RBBSdoors, PCboard
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programs, Who else is online, CB chat, Baduser, New upload scan,
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New Mail scan, Last caller to system, caller count,
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upload/download ratio warning with automatic no Downloading when
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this ratio is out of wack(setable by the sysop), single file
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extraction from an archive for downloading with full cleanup,
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automatic no uploading duplicates on the system, ANYWHERE. All
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of this is built into the Lynx system plus more.
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The uploading section supports Ymodem, Ymodem Batch, SEAlink,
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Zmodem, Hyper-Drive, and finally Xmodem. Callers automatically
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receive upload credit in the form of the time they spent
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uploading the file along with an increase in their downloading
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limits. The files. bbs display is quite attractive and loaded
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with information. Each file has a 3 line display showing the
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file name, filesize, times downloaded on the 1st line. The
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second line shows who uploaded the file and when they uploaded
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it, and finally the 3rd line is the 80 character description
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field. All uploads are posted at the TOP of the file instead of
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at the bottom. For those of you that like to include little area
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description headers, Lynx also allows for a header.qbs file in
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each of your downloading areas. If this file exists, its
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displayed before the files are listed out when a file list is
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requested. You can include anything in the header.qbs file
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including script processing commands. Caller's can also set a
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user record auto-protocol switch so that Lynx will automatically
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use their protocol when uploading and downloading.
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Lynx also has a fairly large text file script processing
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language that includes a set of LANSI commands much the same as
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those in Opus. You can set any color combination that ANSI
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supports with these script commands including foregound,
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background, reverse video, and even video screen modes.
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Netmail and Echomail? Yes, both are fully supported.
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Now, I can't tell you EVERYTHING that Lynx is capable of doing
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unless I wanted to just include the doc's so I'll close this up.
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If you would like to see Lynx in action, we have the system
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setup to except human callers between the hours of 8 PM and
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10:30 AM CST. The phone number is (314) 334-6359 or for you
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Binkely / Dutchie people, 100/504 or 1/116. File area 1 also has
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the lynx doc's available for downloading if you'd like more
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information.
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There is also a Lynx echo for anyone that would like to tie into
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it. Tie in points are 157/505, 157/46, 100/504, 44/504, 46/1,
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440/1. Contact the sysops of these nodes for more information as
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to WHERE you can tie in.
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Mike Bryeans, 100/504
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 4 11 Jul 1988
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Bernard Aboba
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Fido 204/444
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MailCom/SUN City of Palo Alto, CA has started a new
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conference called SUN, all about SUN Microsystems
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computers, including the SUN 2,3,4, and 386i series
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machines. SUN will also discuss development under
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the OPEN LOOK standard. Boards interested in
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subscribing should send NETMAIL to 204/444.
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 5 11 Jul 1988
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Lee Kemp, Communet 1:221/162.14
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11 June 1988
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C O P I N G W I T H R A P I D G R O W T H Part 1
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Last week I put forward some ideas for dealing with Trojan
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Viruses.
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I'm hoping to do a regular weekly series. Next week's will be a
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detailed technical proposal in response to Ben Baker's article
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about the "Nodelist Crisis" in FidoNews 522. This week's is just
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an introduction to that proposal.
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THE NODELIST CRISIS
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Ben proposed a switch to Region based nodelists because the full
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international list will soon be just too big for processing.
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Clearly it WILL get too big, and the problem SHOULD be addressed
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now. But I believe there are other solutions that CAN preserve
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Tom Jennings original concept of FidoNet as a "fully coupled
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network" - where EVERY node has an accurate CURRENT address for
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EVERY other node that it communicates with.
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An INTERIM solution is for new XLATLIST type software to process
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NODEDIFF files that contain full net/node addresses for the lines
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changed instead of line numbers. This would allow each SysOp to
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just specify which nets and nodes they want to keep track off,
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without maintaining full copies of the entire nodelist below net
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or region level (where they are needed for file request by new
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nodes etc.)
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But in the long term, even NODEDIFF files WILL become too big for
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regular weekly processing, so eventually a more radical change
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WILL be needed.
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The technical problem with region based lists is that MANY nodes
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have regular communications with nodes outside their region or
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zone for both mail and file requests. FidoNet technology enables
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cheap and efficient communications between people who have common
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interests but are NOT in the same geographic region.
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When one sees a message in an international conference its
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important to be able to just whip of a private reply, or a file
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request, without HAVING to go through a Regional OGATE or make
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special arrangements for processing "foreign" nodelists.
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The solution I propose is a means for nodes to AUTOMATICALLY
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obtain continuous current updates of their nodelist entries FOR
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THOSE NODES THEY COMMUNICATE WITH. Most nodes will have a MUCH
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smaller list than all the nodes in their Region, let alone all
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the nodes in the world. But as long as that list can be
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automatically and continuously updated, it meets ALL the
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requirements for a "fully coupled" network.
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 6 11 Jul 1988
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The key problem is that as soon as a user enters a message to a
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new node, not previously communicated with, the current nodelist
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entries for that node have to be automatically obtained and added
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to the local nodelist.
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My solution is simple, and also overcomes the problem of
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addresses from "foreign" networks like AlterNet appearing in
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EchoMail conferences where they cannot be easily replied to.
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SOLUTION
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Just include the full nodelist lines for each node within
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EchoMail messages from that node, in addition to the
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zone:net/node.point address shown on present * Origin lines.
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If standards for including that information are developed now,
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then future BBS software can automatically update the local
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nodelist whenever a user wants to reply to an EchoMail message.
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(With additional lines for the other nodes inwards routing Hub
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and Host if necessary).
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After all, probably 90% of NetMail and file requests are
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generated in response to EchoMail. (Or FidoNews articles, which
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can use a similar system). Most of the rest would be in response
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to NetMail messages received (again as a result of EchoMail or
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FidoNews articles). These can be handled by automatically
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extracting nodelist lines from NetMail packets. (For direct mail
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sessions the Wazoo protocol already exchanges BBS name and SysOp
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name and could easily add phone number and flags etc. This could
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result in AUTOMATIC updates to MAKENL by local *Cs who have
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regular netmail sessions with their nodes. Instead of arguing
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about whether to elect *Cs, let's automate them!)
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Nodelist entries initially obtained in this way, can be kept up
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to date as part of EchoMail importing. It shouldn't be too hard
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for the EchoMail software to watch for changes in those entries
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kept locally and update them automatically while importing. A
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method like the ConfMail dupelists can be used for fast lookup of
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CRCs to flag when a nodelist entry for a "known" node has
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changed.
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For those few cases where CURRENT nodelist lines haven't been
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obtained from recent NetMail or EchoMail packets or direct
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NetMail sessions, outgoing messages would have to be delayed,
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while an automatic request for updated nodelist lines is made to
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a "directory server". These "directory server" nodes at regional
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or net level could reply automatically - like MEGALIST or
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MGMLINK. Their replies would then be automatically incorporated
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in the local nodelist, like AUTOECHO updating an AREAS.BBS file.
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A major problem for this proposal is that EchoMail is insecure
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and fake nodelist lines could be generated by anybody
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impersonating another node. This can be overcome using "public
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key digital signature" techniques as described last week for
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dealing with Trojan viruses. This can also provide additional
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 7 11 Jul 1988
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benefits for secure and authenticated NetMail and EchoMail.
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A minor problem is that SEEN-BYs etc already add too much to each
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message sent, and we don't want more superflous information in
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every packet. There is a technical solution to that too. Details
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in part 2, next week.
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WHY IT MATTERS
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Over the next few weeks I'll also be explaining why I think these
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technical issues have important policy implications. Its based on
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our experiences over the past year since Communet joined the
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Australian Region of FidoNet, where all netmail and EchoMail has
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ALREADY been routed through a single regional OGATE, controlled
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by the Australian Regional Coordinator, John Blackett-Smith.
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Our experiences show that a political problem can arise if the
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network does not remain "fully coupled". FidoNet internationally
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COULD cease to be a network dedicated to the "free exchange of
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information", as has ALREADY happened in Australia, where we are
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rather less "fully coupled" than most US Regions.
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Two weeks after we joined FidoNet, we were summarily kicked out,
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because the then Regional Coordinator, who was also our net host,
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did not like the "Political Overtones" of files in our internal
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file areas. (He did not actually READ any of the files, but he
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logged in and objected to the NAMES of files called "DONTVOTE.*"
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relating to current Australian elections.)
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The *C decided we were a "nest" of "commies" and because of this
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political prejudice, we found ourselves suddenly totally isolated
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from the net, as he was killing incoming NetMail.
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We appealed against that and were promptly removed from the
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nodelist by John Blackett-Smith for "ideas beyond the acceptable
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limits of the normal political spectrum".
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We appealed against that, and Australian SysOps discussed our
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"case" WITHOUT US BEING ABLE TO TAKE PART. Not being in the
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nodelist makes it rather difficult to answer accusations!
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June 23 will be the first anniversary of our excommunication from
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the Australian Region of FidoNet and we will start publishing
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full details. Unbelievable as it may sound, NOTHING has been done
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to put us back in the Australian Region nodelist in the entire 12
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months.
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It has proved impossible for us to communicate freely with
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Australian Region FidoNet nodes, and impossible to get either the
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Zone 3 administraton or the International Coordinator to do
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anything about it. Hence my interest in the problems that can
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arise from splitting FidoNet into regions that cannot easily
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communicate with each other except through regional OGATEs.
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That's the political background to my proposals for a nodelist
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 8 11 Jul 1988
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structure that is not subject to the arbitrary whims of
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megalomaniac *Cs.
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Meanwhile, a few days ago was the first anniversary of our
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announcing ourselves in FidoNews 424. As background to who is
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making these proposals I am republishing an article from
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Communet's President, written a week or two after we first
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joined.
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vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv
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* Hello from Communet
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Peter Green Communet, 631/326
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H E L L O F R O M C O M M U N E T
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June 7, 1987
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Communet ("Communications Network for the Community") was setup
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six months ago by several non-profit community groups in
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Melbourne Australia, including the Community Interest Computer
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Consultancy, the Working Women's Centre and the Coalition Against
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Poverty and Unemployment.
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As we are new to FidoNet, this article is to explain who we are
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and seek contacts with other nodes anywhere in the world that may
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have similar interests. We are particularly anxious to join any
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international Echomail conferences discussing social and
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political topics likely to be of interest to our members, as well
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as technical topics relevant to establishing our network
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facilities or assisting community groups to make the best
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possible use of computers.
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TECHNICAL PLANS
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Due to very limited budgets, we need to establish communications
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facilities as cheaply as possible, yet with greater technical
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sophistication than typical mainframe systems, so they can be
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easily used by our non-computer literate constituency. We will
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therefore be generating lots of technical questions about the
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best way to do different things. Hopefully we will also be able
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to contribute some answers when we have gained more experience.
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Our primary aim is to establish a national computer network to
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link micro-computers currently used simply for wordprocessing by
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various non-profit community groups and other organisations. We
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are working jointly with ASYNC ("Australian Students Information
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Network Committee"), which is planning a similar service,
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primarily to exchange material between student newspapers.
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When funding is available, multi-user AT or 386 based Unix
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conferencing systems with large fixed disks will be established
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in each major city, linked by packet network channels for
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continuous parallel updating of all conferences in all cities. A
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FidoNews 5-28 Page 9 11 Jul 1988
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gateway will be maintained to FidoNet, both for general access
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purposes and to transfer messages, files and Echomail to users
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operating "Dutchie" point software.
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The main services Communet will offer are Computer Conferencing
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and Email and file exchange for remote typesetting and Desktop
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Publishing of text files uploaded from wordprocessor software.
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But we are also interested in chatlines, multi-player role
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playing games and just about anything else that will encourage
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non-computer oriented people to get a modem and hook up!
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Initially, we have established a single line private FidoNet
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node, currently running Opus 0.0 under SEAdog 4.00, as a
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preliminary test system. This is accessed regularly by members
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and associates of Communet to become familiar with various
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aspects of communications networks and to provide some initial
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services. As our orientation is towards non-computer literates
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and we lack technical knowledge, especially with Unix and
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communications networks, we hope to learn a lot from other
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FidoNet users. But we also hope to eventually contribute some
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ideas of our own.
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PHONE NUMBER
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Although we are not yet open to the general public, and therefore
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do not want our phone number listed in the nodelist where it
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could encourage calls from numerous BBS users, we would welcome
|
||
direct file transfers and crashmail from other FidoNet nodes
|
||
around the world. This can be achieved by simply including the
|
||
following line in XLATLIST.CTL or equivalent:
|
||
|
||
PHONE 631/326 61-3-482-1718
|
||
|
||
|
||
PLANNED SERVICES
|
||
|
||
Two Communet services almost operational are:
|
||
|
||
1) 'Community Calendar' - a continuously updated list of
|
||
activities and dates for public meetings and other events.
|
||
|
||
2) 'Public Radio News' - a professionally edited daily news feed
|
||
for Public Broadcast stations around Australia. This will have
|
||
associated with it a discussion area for feedback on news stories
|
||
and comments on current events. We anticipate that users with a
|
||
wide range of different political and philosophical outlooks will
|
||
find this a useful way to debate and exchange views, and that it
|
||
will spawn separate discussion areas on particular topics.
|
||
|
||
Other groups that have expressed an interest in setting up
|
||
conference topics and interstate hook-ups include the Community
|
||
Arts Network and Community Youth Support Schemes. They are keen
|
||
to learn how to use Opus boards, and will be seeking funding to
|
||
obtain the necessary hardware.
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 10 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
Aims of Communet are:
|
||
|
||
1. Establish a network to link computers used by computer groups
|
||
and their members at minimal cost and maximum performance.
|
||
|
||
2. Promote computer conferencing in Australia, by encouraging and
|
||
assisting the setting up and running of such conferences and by
|
||
providing access to international conferences and databases.
|
||
|
||
3. Provide computer communications services to the community
|
||
sector comparable to those available in corporate networks, and
|
||
to promote the the use of computer communication between
|
||
community groups.
|
||
|
||
4. Establish an influential position for the community sector in
|
||
exploiting computer conferencing and build this up as a counter
|
||
to the press and TV monopolies.
|
||
|
||
As Australia's mass media are dominated by a very small group of
|
||
large owners, we see the potential for computer conferencing to
|
||
provide an alternative media that is far more democratic and
|
||
interactive - allowing users to participate in the media rather
|
||
than merely consuming it.
|
||
|
||
We also see computer conferencing as having great potential for
|
||
breaking down international barriers.
|
||
|
||
At present these potentials are mainly being used by people with
|
||
a technical interest in computing. But as the cost of hardware
|
||
keeps falling and the quality of software keeps improving, more
|
||
and more non-computer oriented people will join in.
|
||
|
||
|
||
THANKYOU
|
||
|
||
We would like to thank everyone involved in FidoNet and public
|
||
domain and shareware software development (especially Opus and
|
||
related utilities) for the help and inspiration already received.
|
||
We look forward to meeting lots of new friends in the matrix.
|
||
|
||
Peter Green, for Communet 631/326
|
||
|
||
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
|
||
|
||
Note: We aren't 3:631/326 any more, we're now a CANADIAN "point"
|
||
- 1:221/162.14 But our Australian phone number remains the same.
|
||
|
||
A few days after that was written, we were thrown out.
|
||
|
||
A year is long enough. The FULL story of how the Zone and
|
||
International Coordinator's dealt with the abuse of power over
|
||
the nodelist by *Cs in Australia will now be told.
|
||
|
||
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|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 11 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
Leonard Mednick
|
||
Fido 345/1
|
||
|
||
LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE
|
||
|
||
I love America! Where else could the son of immigrant parents
|
||
run for a seat, on the republican ticket, in the senior house of
|
||
the United States Congress. As a matter of fact, even for the
|
||
presidency this year. Therefore I am privileged to now announce
|
||
my candidacy for the United States Senate to you, my fellow
|
||
sysops.
|
||
|
||
Later in this article, you will read my position on major
|
||
issues, and also my resume. Two major points of my program are
|
||
to extend the peace initiative President Reagan began in Moscow,
|
||
recently; and to wrench our disgraceful federal deficit into
|
||
control!
|
||
|
||
I am also concerned by the many attempts of government to
|
||
interfere with the joyful fulfillment our electronic hobby
|
||
affords us. Now government wants us to be responsible for ALL
|
||
postings on our boards even when many of us are handling
|
||
hundreds, even thousands of messages a day. There is a nagging
|
||
in my brain that if we do not band together to stop these
|
||
incursions, it will not be long before the FBI, or some other
|
||
agency will be knocking on our doors. This situation cannot be
|
||
tolerated and it must not be ignored.
|
||
|
||
Senator Goldwater (R-AZ) has long championed the amateur radio
|
||
operator (ham) community. We, in the amateur computer
|
||
communications community have no such champion. I promise that
|
||
when I am elected, I will always carry our message to my fellow
|
||
senators.
|
||
|
||
Now the nitty gritty. Unless you are a registered voter in the
|
||
state of Hawaii, you cannot vote for me. But modern elections
|
||
are won, sad to say, by those with the most money, all too
|
||
often. That is where you can help me, and help us all. If you
|
||
know members of any Political Action Committees (PACs), please
|
||
bring my name to their attention. Show them my position and
|
||
resume. Ask them to send me money, NOW! That is what they are
|
||
in business for.
|
||
|
||
Post this article onto your bulletin boards. Disseminate it as
|
||
widely as you can. Even with non-FidoNet sysops!
|
||
|
||
Senators are elected by their individual state electorates but
|
||
campaign contributions come to them from all over the world!
|
||
Check with your employers, your professional or trade
|
||
associations and your friends. They can help in our campaign to
|
||
protect rights of sysops by sending their contributions to:
|
||
|
||
Leonard Mednick for United States Senate
|
||
700 Bishop Street Suite 1014
|
||
Honolulu, HI 96813-4112
|
||
345/1
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 12 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
Day Voice: 808/526-0666
|
||
P.M. Voice: 808/531-6603
|
||
BBS: 808/533-0190
|
||
|
||
Thanks and I will see you at FidoCon88, soon!
|
||
|
||
|
||
LEONARD MEDNICK
|
||
Resume
|
||
|
||
PERSONAL:
|
||
- Born June 13, 1934 (Chicago)
|
||
- Divorced
|
||
- Three adult children: David
|
||
Kelimia
|
||
Max
|
||
- Moved to Los Angeles, 1953
|
||
- Moved to San Francisco, 1959
|
||
- Moved to Honolulu, 1961
|
||
|
||
EDUCATION:
|
||
- Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State College (BA)
|
||
- Master's Degree in Business Administration, University
|
||
of Hawaii (MBA)
|
||
- Certified Public Accountant (CPA)
|
||
- Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU)
|
||
|
||
EXPERIENCE:
|
||
- Owns and operates CPA firm since 1967
|
||
- Specializes in representing taxpayers before the Internal
|
||
Revenue Service (The IRS Dehassler <tm>)
|
||
- Veteran, entered Army as Private; honorably discharged as
|
||
Captain in the U.S. Special Forces Group Reserve (Green Beret)
|
||
- Instructor in "Practices and Procedures Before the IRS"
|
||
for CPA societies in Hawaii, Colorado, Nevada and Utah
|
||
- Lecturer at the College of Business, University of Hawaii
|
||
- Completed 3 1/2 year TV series on KITV Channel 4 on tax tips
|
||
- Frequent guest speaker and media "quote" resource
|
||
- Radio Talk Show Host; KTRG, KNDI, KORL
|
||
|
||
COMMITTEES (PAST AND PRESENT):
|
||
- Member of the American Institute of Certified Public
|
||
Accountants, State Legislation Sub-Committee
|
||
- Member of the Hawaii Society of Certified Public Accountants
|
||
- Board liaison to Taxation Committee, HSCPA
|
||
- Board liaison to Peer Review Committee, HSCPA
|
||
- Director, HSCPA
|
||
- Chairman of Legislative Committee, HSCPA
|
||
|
||
POLITICAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE (PAST AND PRESENT):
|
||
- Commissioner, Planning Commission, City and County of Honolulu
|
||
- Chairman, Downtown Neighborhood Board #13
|
||
- Member, Advisory Committee on Tax Simplification and
|
||
Reform to Congressman Cecil Heftel (Ways and Means Committee)
|
||
- Treasurer and Director, International FidoNet Association
|
||
(IFNA)
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 13 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
- District Chairman, Republican Party
|
||
- Republican Candidate State House 1984 general election
|
||
- Director of Habilitat
|
||
- Member of Waikiki Jaycees
|
||
- Member of Toastmasters Club
|
||
- Member of Rotary Club
|
||
|
||
|
||
LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE
|
||
Position Statement
|
||
|
||
As your representative to the United States Senate from Hawaii,
|
||
I believe our government must:
|
||
|
||
PEACE
|
||
Assure peace and tranquility within our borders.
|
||
|
||
NATIONAL DEFENSE
|
||
Maintain an appropriate national defense.
|
||
|
||
FINANCE
|
||
Operate within a balanced budget.
|
||
|
||
TAXES
|
||
Administer the tax system fairly.
|
||
|
||
CRIME
|
||
Assure criminals pay the price of their crimes.
|
||
|
||
HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE
|
||
Assist those who cannot help themselves.
|
||
|
||
NATURAL ENVIRONMENT
|
||
Preserve our natural environment so that it may be enjoyed.
|
||
|
||
TRANSPORTATION
|
||
Encourage a balanced transportation system.
|
||
|
||
COMMERCE
|
||
Stay out of the business of business, except where
|
||
inequitable.
|
||
|
||
SMALL BUSINESS
|
||
Encourage small business opportunity.
|
||
|
||
AGRICULTURE
|
||
Support the small family farmer.
|
||
|
||
EDUCATION
|
||
Assure a quality education opportunity for all.
|
||
|
||
ENERGY
|
||
Encourage a safe, economical and steady source of energy.
|
||
|
||
EQUAL OPPORTUNITY
|
||
Assure equal opportunity for social and economic fulfillment.
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 14 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 15 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
NOTICES
|
||
=================================================================
|
||
|
||
The Interrupt Stack
|
||
|
||
|
||
16 Jul 1988
|
||
A new areacode, 508, will form in eastern Massachusetts and
|
||
will be effective on this date. The new area code will be
|
||
formed from the current areacode 617. Greater Boston will
|
||
remain areacode 617 while the rest of eastern Massachusetts
|
||
will form the new areacode 508.
|
||
|
||
25 Aug 1988
|
||
Start of the Fifth International FidoNet Conference, to be
|
||
held at the Drawbridge Inn in Cincinnati, OH. Contact Tim
|
||
Sullivan at 108/62 for more information. This is FidoNet's big
|
||
annual get-together, and is your chance to meet all the people
|
||
you've been talking with all this time. We're hoping to see
|
||
you there!
|
||
|
||
24 Aug 1989
|
||
Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
|
||
|
||
|
||
If you have something which you would like to see on this
|
||
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
|
||
FidoCon'88 is taking shape. Come August, Cincinnati will be full
|
||
of BBSers and their families ready to soak up fun, friendship and
|
||
knowledge.
|
||
|
||
We have an exciting agenda taking shape and I will keep you
|
||
informed here as things move along. Here is a quick look at
|
||
some of our speakers and what they will be talking about.
|
||
|
||
George Stanislov Opus
|
||
George Stanislov Avatar
|
||
Tim Pozar UUCP->FidoNet Gateway
|
||
Henk Wevers Dutchie & Region 2 report
|
||
Tom Jennings & Ken Kaplan History of Fidonet
|
||
Michael Connick Tabby and Tabby point
|
||
Phil Becker TBBS
|
||
Decker Doggett Lessons in echomail
|
||
Mike Bader FidoNet technology in the
|
||
Work-place
|
||
Julia Stockreef New online information system
|
||
Chris Irwin D'Bridge
|
||
Bob Hartman/Vince Periello Binkleyterm
|
||
Bob Hartman FTSC
|
||
Thom Henderson SeaDog & AXE
|
||
Ben Baker History of FidoNet Calendar
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 16 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
Ben Baker Living with FidoNet Calendar
|
||
Marshall Presnell ANS
|
||
Jonathon Wallace Legal ramifications of BBS'es
|
||
Randy Van de Loo Hard Drives and ARLL technology
|
||
David Dodell Policy 4
|
||
Harry Lee GS point, Glu fwd and others
|
||
Mike Bryeans Dutchie and Brinkers
|
||
Joaquim Homrighausen Front Door
|
||
Butch Walker Echo Policy
|
||
Linda Thompson BBS & Privacy - A question of
|
||
Liability
|
||
|
||
We are also expecting presentations from some of our favorite
|
||
vendors such as: US Robotics, Borland, Apple and Compuserve.
|
||
|
||
Also on the slate are panel discussions dealing with IFNA,
|
||
Echomail, FidoNet of the future and much more!
|
||
|
||
And a very special guest will be here to address us at the Friday
|
||
night banquet!
|
||
|
||
Make plans now to be here this August. For more information
|
||
contact Rick Ashworth at 1/88 or Tim Sullivan at 108/62. Just a
|
||
few more days left before the Delta Airlines ticket is given
|
||
away! Don't miss out! Register before July 15th.
|
||
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Latest Software Versions
|
||
|
||
BBS Systems Node List Other
|
||
& Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
|
||
|
||
Dutchie 2.90* EditNL 4.00* ARC 5.21
|
||
Fido 12h MakeNL 2.12* ARCmail 1.1
|
||
Opus 1.03b Prune 1.40 ConfMail 3.31
|
||
SEAdog 4.10 XlatList 2.86 EchoMail 1.31
|
||
TBBS 2.0M XlaxNode 1.02 MGM 1.1
|
||
BinkleyTerm 1.50 XlaxDiff 1.02
|
||
QuickBBS 2.01 ParseList 1.10
|
||
|
||
* Recently changed
|
||
|
||
Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
|
||
reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
|
||
all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 17 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
|
||
|
||
Ken Kaplan 100/22 Chairman of the Board
|
||
Don Daniels 107/210 President
|
||
Mark Grennan 147/1 Vice President
|
||
Dave Dodell 114/15 Vice President - Technical Coordinator
|
||
David Garrett 103/501 Secretary
|
||
Leonard Mednick 345/1 Treasurer
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
|
||
|
||
DIVISION AT-LARGE
|
||
|
||
10 Steve Jordan 102/2871 Don Daniels 107/210
|
||
11 Bill Allbritten 11/301 Hal DuPrie 101/106
|
||
12 Leonard Mednick 345/1 Mark Grennan 147/1
|
||
13 Rick Siegel 107/27 Brad Hicks 100/523
|
||
14 Ken Kaplan 100/22 Ted Polczyinski 154/5
|
||
15 Jim Cannell 128/13 Kurt Reisler 109/74
|
||
16 Vince Perriello 141/491 Robert Rudolph 261/628
|
||
17 Rob Barker 138/34 Greg Small 148/122
|
||
18 Christopher Baker 135/14 Bob Swift 140/24
|
||
19 Vernon Six 19/0 Larry Wall 15/18
|
||
2 Henk Wevers 2:500/1 Gee Wong 107/312
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 18 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
FidoCon '88 - Cincinnati, Ohio
|
||
At The Drawbridge Inn and Convention Center
|
||
August 25-28, 1988
|
||
|
||
Attendee Registration Form
|
||
|
||
|
||
Name: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Address: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Address: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
City: _______________________ State: ____ Zip: ___________
|
||
|
||
Country: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Phone Numbers:
|
||
|
||
Day: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Evening: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Data: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
Zone:Net/
|
||
Node.Point: _______________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Your BBS Name: _______________________________________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
BBS Software: _____________________ Mailer: _________________
|
||
|
||
Modem Brand: _____________________ Speed: _________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
What Hotel will you be Staying at: ____________________________
|
||
|
||
Do you want to share a room? ______
|
||
|
||
Are you a non-smoker? ______
|
||
|
||
Do you want an in room point? ______
|
||
(Tower rooms at Drawbridge only)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Do you need special accommodations? ______
|
||
|
||
(If so, please explain) ____________________________
|
||
|
||
____________________________
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 19 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
Are you a non-Sysop? ______
|
||
|
||
Are you an IFNA Member? ______
|
||
|
||
If so, will you be attending the
|
||
Sunday IFNA brunch/BoD meeting? ______
|
||
|
||
|
||
Additional Guests: ______
|
||
(not attending conferences)
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
Comments: ____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
____________________________________________________
|
||
|
||
|
||
Costs How Many? Cost
|
||
--------------------------- -------- -------
|
||
|
||
Conference fee $60..................... ________ _______
|
||
($75.00 after 7/31)
|
||
|
||
Thursday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______
|
||
|
||
Thursday Dinner $18.95 .............. ________ _______
|
||
|
||
Friday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______
|
||
|
||
Friday Banquet $24.95 .............. ________ _______
|
||
|
||
Saturday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______
|
||
======== =======
|
||
|
||
Totals ................................ ________ _______
|
||
|
||
|
||
You may pay by Check, Money Order or Visa/MC
|
||
Please send no cash. All monies must be in U.S. Funds.
|
||
Checks should be made out to: "FidoCon '88"
|
||
|
||
This form should be completed and mailed to:
|
||
|
||
FidoCon '88 Registration
|
||
P.O. Box 9294
|
||
Cincinnati, OH 45209
|
||
|
||
|
||
If you pay by Credit Card you may also register by Netmailing
|
||
this completed form to 108/62 or 1/88 for processing. Please
|
||
complete the information below and be sure to include a voice
|
||
phone number above so that we can contact you for Credit Card
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 20 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
verification. Rename this file ZNNNXXXX.REG where Z is your Zone
|
||
number, N is your Net number, and X is your Node number.
|
||
|
||
|
||
[ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard
|
||
|
||
|
||
Name as it appears
|
||
on credit card: ___________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Credit Card Number: ___________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Expiration Date: ___________________________________________
|
||
|
||
Signature: ___________________________________________
|
||
(If you mail in registration)
|
||
|
||
-----------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
FidoNews 5-28 Page 21 11 Jul 1988
|
||
|
||
|
||
INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
|
||
ORDER FORM
|
||
|
||
Publications
|
||
|
||
The IFNA publications can be obtained by downloading from Fido
|
||
1:1/10 or other FidoNet compatible systems, or by purchasing
|
||
them directly from IFNA. We ask that all our IFNA Committee
|
||
Chairmen provide us with the latest versions of each
|
||
publication, but we can make no written guarantees.
|
||
|
||
Hardcopy prices as of October 1, 1986
|
||
|
||
IFNA Fido BBS listing $15.00 _____
|
||
IFNA Administrative Policy DOCs $10.00 _____
|
||
IFNA FidoNet Standards Committee DOCs $10.00 _____
|
||
|
||
SUBTOTAL _____
|
||
|
||
IFNA Member ONLY Special Offers
|
||
|
||
System Enhancement Associates SEAdog $60.00 _____
|
||
SEAdog price as of March 1, 1987
|
||
ONLY 1 copy SEAdog per IFNA Member
|
||
|
||
Fido Software's Fido/FidoNet $100.00 _____
|
||
Fido/FidoNet price as of November 1, 1987
|
||
ONLY 1 copy Fido/FidoNet per IFNA Member
|
||
|
||
International orders include $10.00 for
|
||
surface shipping or $20.00 for air shipping _____
|
||
|
||
SUBTOTAL _____
|
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HI. Residents add 4.0 % Sales tax _____
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TOTAL _____
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SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER IN US FUNDS:
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International FidoNet Association
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c/o Leonard Mednick, MBA, CPA
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700 Bishop Street, #1014
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Honolulu, HI. 96813-4112
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USA
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Name________________________________
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Zone:Net/Node____:____/____
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Company_____________________________
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Address_____________________________
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City____________________ State____________ Zip_____
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Voice Phone_________________________
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Signature___________________________
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