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Volume 5, Number 41 10 October 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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AHA Conference Dates Announced ........................... 1
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Hasson's Bowling League Secretary ........................ 2
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Dentist, Anyone? ......................................... 3
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An Echo Conference Rules Repository ...................... 4
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On Nuclear Power and Viruses ............................. 6
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SYSOP LIABILITY FOR DISCLOSING PRIVATE MESSAGES .......... 9
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2. FOR SALE ................................................. 11
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Make money distributing software ......................... 11
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 13
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 13
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"Butt Don't Rebutt that Butt" ............................ 13
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 14
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 1 10 Oct 1988
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ARTICLES
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FLASH !!! - - AHA Conference is Kentucky Bound in 1989!
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For the first time in it's history, the American Homebrewers
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Association's national homebrew convention will be held outside
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of Colorado. The 11th Annual Conference on Quality Beer and
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Brewing will take place June 7-10, 1989, at Oldenburg
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Microbrewery, Beerhall and Drawbridge Inn in Fort Mitchell, Ky.
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(the Cincinnati, Ohio, metropolitan area and site of FidoCon
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'88).
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Highlights of the conference will be homebrew, beers from
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regional breweries, the National Homebrew Competition, exhibits,
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a homebrew club night, presentations and seminars, beer
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personalities and the world's largest brewerania collection.
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For more information write:
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American Homebrewers Association
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P.O. Box 287
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Boulder, Colorado 80306
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or call:
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(303) 447-0816.
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 2 10 Oct 1988
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The Hillbilly BBS
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1:264/555
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Sysop - Keith Hasson
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Fellow Bowlers,
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I have been bowling for 3 years now and have
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seen many bowling league secretary programs used, some
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commercial & some Public Domain. I have been working
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on one of my own because I feel that I can develop a
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program much better than those available. I have put
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onto my bbs the first version of my program. I have
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named it Hasson's Bowling League Secretary.
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I wanted to let people try-out what I've done
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so far and give me some feedback on what they think
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of it. If the responce is favorable, I will proceed
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in its development. The program name is BOWLEXE.EXE
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and is available for Filereq or you can sign onto my
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bbs under First & Last Name: BOWLER Password: PIN
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Thank You
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 3 10 Oct 1988
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DENTIST, ANYONE?
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I've just set up a node at my dentist's office in Wheaton,
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Maryland, and I'd like to start a DENTAL echo conference. If
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any of you have an interest in this echo, dentistry, or are
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dentists yourselves, please drop me a note in netmail. Our system
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will also be participating in AIDS/ARC, GRAND_ROUNDS (if we
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get permission from the coordinator), RECOVERY, MENSA,
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MENSANS_ONLY, and INTERTEL.
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George Falcon, Sysop,
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"Doctor Dave's Distinguished Dentistry Den"
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Opus 1:109/763
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PCPursuit DCWAS
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(301) 933-9519
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 4 10 Oct 1988
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Mike Fuchs
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1:1/201
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EchoList - The EchoMail Conference List
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And the New Rules Repository
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First, I wanted to spread the fact that the EchoList Moderator
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Update Instructions (ELISTMOD.ARC) have been rewritten. My
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intent was to make them clearer and easier to understand.
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Unfortunately, I "simplified" it into twice as many pages! Sorry
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about that, but I do get long winded. And I put more explanatory
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detail into them, which tends to make the entire process of
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sending me a simple message look much more complex than it is.
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I'm open to critique.
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Second, I wanted to point out the one major change documented in
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those instructions: The addition of a repository for conference
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rules in text files. I have to credit John Tarbox from 150/3 for
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giving me the idea.
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Basically, many conferences have developed a specific set of
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rules and procedures for their participants. Generally these get
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published within the conference itself as a message from time to
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time. What John suggested was that people might like to know the
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rules before linking-in, and it would be a good idea to have all
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those rules available in a central place so that Sysops didn't
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have to run down several moderators to assemble the information.
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The EchoList provides a pretty generous amount of space for
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describing a conference, but I think it's necessary to keep
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things under control so that there's not too much detail given
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there (as opposed to my moderator instructions...). I've had
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people submit lengthy, detailed policy and instructions for their
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conferences in that description field, only to have me edit it
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down to the basic "advertising" to balance it out with other
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entries. The EchoList also has flags for certain general
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restrictions. I'm always glad to add more, but I can't cover
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every term and condition with binary flags. Enter: The Rules
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Repository.
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It's very simple, really. A new moderator submission message
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format has been added that provides for submitting an attached
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file. That file must be named xxxxxxxx.RUL, where xxxxxxxx is a
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unique abbreviation (if necessary) of the symbolic Area Name.
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The file should be a raw text file (not a word processor file,
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and not ARC'd). What's in it? Anything the moderator wants!
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Formatted any way he/she wants. There are no restrictions on
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size or content.
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When my EchoList update processor finds such a message it will:
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1) note the file name in the EchoList database for reference, and
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2) ARC the .RUL file into the ELISTRUL.ARC file with all the
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other rule files. Deleting the EchoList entry will automatically
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delete any rule file associated with that conference. The
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ELISTRUL file will be distributed along with the ELISTnnn and
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ELISTMOD files, as well as being available for file-request or
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 5 10 Oct 1988
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first-time user download here at 1/201.
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The only thing I don't like about this procedure is that there is
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no way for people to selectively request the rules for a specific
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conference. You get them all. But, it was much simpler to
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implement this way (you don't need a key to the file names to get
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the rules for a conference with a long name). And, you always
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have to get the entire EchoList when you request it, not selected
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entries. So, it doesn't seem too unreasonable.
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As of this writing (10/1/88) the rules file has just been
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implemented, and there is no ELISTRUL.ARC file to request! So
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don't waste your nickel on trying to pick it up just yet. But I
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hope this will eventually be helpful. If you are a conference
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moderator and would like to submit an entry or rules file to the
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EchoList, please get a copy of the new Conference Listing Update
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Instructions dated 10/1/88, and have at it!
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As a reminder, the following "magic" file names (use without a
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period or file extension) are always file-requestable at 1:1/201.
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ECHOLIST The latest Echolist, plus cross-references.
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ECHORULE The collection of Conference Rules Files.
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ECHOMOD The latest Moderator Update Instructions.
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ECHOPOL The latest draft EchoMail Policy document. (This is
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a document being assembled by FidoNet *C's and *EC's
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for EchoMail in general, NOT just EchoLIST policies.
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If you have ANY interest in where EchoMail is going,
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please read it and contribute.)
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Enjoy,
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And have fun with it!
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- Mike Fuchs
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- 1:1/201
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 6 10 Oct 1988
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ON NUCLEAR POWER AND VIRUSES
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By Milo Tsukroff, former FidoNet Sysop.
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Contact through Willi-Board, 1:320/216.0.
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US Mail: 84 Ash St., Apt. 32, Willimantic, CT 06226-2943
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May God protect us from 'experts'. Whether they are 'experts' on
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nuclear power plants, or on computer viruses, they make our
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lives miserable by knowing _almost_ everything, but not enough.
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Then they try to run our lives accordingly.
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Fredrick L. Rice's article "To Disassemble The Machine", in
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FidoNews 5-36 (5 Sep 1988) was an interesting work of fiction. I
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highly recommend it, as it has many good, sound technical
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points. However, I wish to point out a few inaccuracies, and
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then write something along the same lines that'll knock your
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socks off -- about computer viruses.
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The problem with article is that it tells a great deal about
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the nuclear industry, but it is totally wrong in a few minor
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details. They're the critical ones. What the article
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hypothesizes about a nuclear plant accident resulting from an
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unexpectedly strong California earthquake could probably happen,
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but never to the degree that it predicts. Even worse for the
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position stated in the article, no possibility of nuclear
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explosion exists.
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One major point that the article does not discuss is that
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nuclear piping and valves are not the kind of pipes and valves
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that we are all used to. An electron-beam welding company that I
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worked for occasionally welds nuclear valves. The piping for a
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nuclear plant is rather interesting -- the pipes that these
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valves control have an inner diameter of about 3 inches. Their
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outer diameter is about 9 inches. That's right -- the walls are
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3 inches thick of pure stainless steel. I wonder if these pipes
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would even be affected by a ground-zero atomic blast, let alone
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a little 8.5-Richter earthquake.
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Even granting the possibility that these pipes _could_ break, as
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metals (especially a nuclear reactor's hydrogen-embrittled
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steels) do strange things under stress, the prospect of a
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nuclear explosion occurring in an atomic power plant is
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ludicrous.
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Let me state here that a worst-case scenario can indeed include
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hydrogen-oxygen gas explosions, core melt-down, and
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magnificently huge steam explosions. The article is technically
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correct on those points, and we avoided them by only a little
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bit at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant accident. The
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prospect of a radiation-laden steam cloud being forced out of
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nuclear plant is a very real but very low-probability threat,
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one which we should be prepared to deal with.
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But the possibility of a nuclear EXPLOSION occurring in a
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nuclear power plant does not exist. At all. First of all,
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uranium metal is never used in a commercial reactor. The Nuclear
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 7 10 Oct 1988
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Regulatory Commission (NRC) does not allow it. Instead, the
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uranium is dispersed in ceramic. The ceramic is made into small
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pellets, each of which is so low in radioactivity that you could
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hold one in your hand with only a small amount of shielding and
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not receive any dangerous levels of radiation (not that I would
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want to, mind you!).
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Ceramic can melt, given high enough temperatures. I'll even
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grant that, in the article's scenario, the ceramic (not pure
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uranium, though!) could melt together, fuse, and heat up
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drastically, thus producing a killer cloud of atomically charged
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steam. But the differences between uranium isotopes does not
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seem to be understood. Uranium-238, which is non-radioactive, is
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the primary isotope of uranium. The fissionable isotope,
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uranium-235, appears in very small percentage in uranium. It is
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present in such small quantities that the nuclear-fuel
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manufacturers must 'enrich' the uranium that they sell with a
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little bit of uranium-235 so that the pellets will sustain a
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nuclear chain reaction. The process of separating out U-235 from
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U-238 is so difficult that it does not occur in nature.
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If a nuclear reactor is to explode in a run-away nuclear fission
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chain reaction, as some of the less-informed but more zealous
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anti-nuclear groups claim is possible, the reactor would have to
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be a fast-fission, pure-uranium fueled reactor. (It is possible
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that the reactors on nuclear-powered ships come under this
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label. I don't know, though.) Given a commercial nuclear
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reactor, with a sizeable amount of fuel, and under the worst of
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circumstances, an atomic-bomb type of explosion cannot possibly
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occur. You can check with the more reputable anti-nuclear groups
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on this.
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One more thing has been left out: The production of fissionable
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plutonium by alpha-absorbtion of U-238 atoms. (Sorry, I don't
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have a physics book on hand to look up the exact atomic number.)
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According to an engineer at the Northeast Utilities Millstone
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nuclear power plant, at the end of a fuel pellet's life, most of
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the U-235 is spent. Nearly 40 percent of the pellet's heating
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power comes from plutonium fission.
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These plutonium atoms are, again, contained in the ceramic
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matrix of the pellet. The possibility of spontaneous separation,
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refinement, and run-away nuclear fission ("atomic-bomb"
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explosion) does not exist.
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I commend the article for being a well-written piece. Problems
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with poorly-located nuclear plants have resulted both from the
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dollar greed of the power industy managements, and from
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citizens' refusal to let power plants be built in safer places
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(the old "Not In My Back Yard" or NIMBY syndrome).
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While reading "To Disassemble the Machine", I had a happy
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thought: Why not do a 'worst case' scenario about problems with
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computer viruses? Why not even take a couple of _very_ minor
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liberties with the facts, and create a scenario to put fear into
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the heart of _every_ technically competent reader? . . . . . .
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 8 10 Oct 1988
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Well, I don't have to. The editors of TIME Magazine have done it
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for me -- and on the front cover, no less! They feature Computer
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Viruses on the front cover of their September 26th edition.
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Their set of articles insinuates that viruses are here, they're
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spreading fast, and that no BBS or computer network is safe.
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This issue of Time will certainly make future business for
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FidoNet quite ... interesting, shall we say? It scares the
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dickens out of _me_, that's for sure!
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Sadly, I think that this is a great and terrible piece of irony.
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"To Disassemble the Machine" strikes another blow in the
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direction of anti-technological ignorance. It practically
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screams its message of "Down with the nukes!" Now FidoNet will
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receive the same bitter fruit of non-technical ignorance,
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hatred, fear, and loathing -- directed at its own Bulletin Board
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Systems. The very system that has been such a medium of
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communication, and therefore such a benefit to Mankind, is laid
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low by ignorant 'experts' who think that they'll make a buck
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scaring the daylights of the average computer user. I don't
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appreciate FidoNews carrying that article, and I don't
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appreciate Time for printing that issue on computer viruses.
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I that that it goes to show that if you tolerate, even foster,
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anti-technological attitudes, and try to act the 'expert' about
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what you are attacking, it'll get back to you eventually. Or, as
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it was better said by someone else: "What goes around, comes
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around." God save us from 'experts'!
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Anybody for a nice, little, radioactive virus?
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(I have expressed my own opinions here. In no way do I bear Mr.
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Rice or the editors and writers of TIME Magazine any personal
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ill will. My address is in this article. FLAMES > NUL.DEV, thank
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you.)
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 9 10 Oct 1988
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SYSOP LIABILITY FOR DISCLOSING PRIVATE MESSAGES
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In what appears to be the first case of its kind, an
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Indiana law student and BBS user has sued a local sysop, Bob
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Predaina, in federal court, claiming that he intentionally
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disclosed her private electronic mail to others without her
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permission.
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The lawsuit, which is in the early stages and has not
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reached trial, relies upon the Electronic Communications Privacy
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Act of 1986 (the "ECPA"), which makes disclosure of private
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electronic mail without consent either of the sender or the
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recipient a federal crime.
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The ECPA does not obligate sysops to offer private mail
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on their systems. However, if a sysop promises private mail, that
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promise must be kept and the contents of private messages may not
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be disclosed without consent.
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The ECPA provides limited exceptions to the general
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rule of no disclosure. A sysop may voluntarily disclose to law
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enforcement authorities the contents of a message pertaining to
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the commission of a crime, if read inadvertently by him or if it
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is read pursuant to the exercise of his duties as a sysop.
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Until the courts clarify these rules, sysops who read
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private mail on their systems and disclose it may be playing with
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fire. Prior court cases involving telephone operators have
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established some useful guidelines: an operator may disclose
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information she overheard while checking the line at the
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user's request, but may not disclose information overheard
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while eavesdropping out of curiosity. Sysops, like phone
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operators, will not be considered to have a blanket authorization
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to intercept and disclose private messages.
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Systems such as Fido 11W which routinely make all
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private mail visible to the sysop are therefore problematic. BBS
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programmers should consider making private mail truly private--
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while allowing sysops to turn the private mail option off if they
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do not want it.
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In the meantime, sysops should reconsider whether it is
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worth having private mail on their systems and should make clear
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to users in no uncertain terms, through bulletins and messages,
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the degree of privacy which can be expected, if any.
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Note: a copy of the complaint filed in the Thompson v.
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Predaina case is available on the LLM BBS, Fido 107/801
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((212)766-3788) in file area 5 under the name "Indiana".
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* * *
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JONATHAN D. WALLACE, ESQ. is an attorney in New York City
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specializing in computer law. With Rees Morrison, he is the
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author of the Sysop's Legal Manual, published this year by LLM
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Press. He can be reached at (212) 766-3785 (voice) or at the
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LLM BBS, given above.
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 10 10 Oct 1988
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 11 10 Oct 1988
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FOR SALE
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If you are a system operator and wish to make money by
|
||
distributing The Structured Programming Language, you
|
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can call a 2400 baud bbs in NY at 516 935 2027 and
|
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download file SPL.EXE which will take only 15 minutes.
|
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It is important to note that the self extracting archive
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file SPL.EXE has 2 files in it that are passsword locked
|
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and unless given the password will fail crc checks, but
|
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the files are good. These files are documentation that
|
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your users will contact me to get the passwords, which
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will insure that I get paid and thus you get paid.
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You will be paid $5 for every paid registration I get from
|
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users who tell me the filename that uniquely identifies
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The Interrupt Stack
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23 Nov 1988
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25th Anniversary of "Dr. Who" - and still going strong
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24 Aug 1989
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Voyager 2 passes Neptune.
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5 Oct 1989
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Now wait a minute. There has been a flood of personal mail
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which occurred in FidoNews pertaining to "To Disassemble The
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It seems that a rebuttal issued from the MENSA Hub was posted
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which was apparently concerned with my spelling and use of
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abbreviations which were misunderstood by the author. Though I
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haven't seen the rebuttal yet, the general consensus in my mail
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describes such things as the use of NRA rather than NRC to
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meant the National Rifle Association? It seems the author
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Association to the AEC, (that's Atomic Energy Commission, MENSA,
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not Automated Equipment Controller).
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As was suggested in some of my mail, I would ask that those of
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FidoNews 5-41 Page 14 10 Oct 1988
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I'm the one with the Universal Mayhem ear rings and the white
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