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Volume 5, Number 43 24 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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Elvis Lives .............................................. 1
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HAYES Technical Support Echo Announcement ................ 2
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New Message Editor ....................................... 4
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 5
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Let's YACK about The Negative Side ....................... 5
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 6
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 6
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 6
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 1 24 Oct 1988
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ARTICLES
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Noel Crow
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FidoNet 170/200
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ELVIS
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A Generic Echomail Statistics Utility
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ELVIS was designed to maintain a history of Echomail traffic for
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your system. It reports counts of incoming messages, in each
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echo area, and from each network node sending to you. Since
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Elvis derives its data directly from incoming packets, and
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requires no system-specific control files other than its own,
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it's compatible with just about any MS-DOS system that receives
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FidoNet-compatible echomail. It is useful for identifying dead
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echos, broken links, and dupe sources, especially for echomail
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hubs handling a large number of echo areas or nodes.
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Elvis consists of two executable files; ELVIS.EXE, which scans
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incoming mail and stores message counts in monthly data files.
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ELVISRPT.EXE is used to generate ASCII reports from the data
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files written by ELVIS.EXE. Any date range (that you have data
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for) may be specified. Command line switches may be used to
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report only the message counts in certain echo areas or from
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certain nodes.
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File Request ELVIS100.ARC from FidoNet 170/200. Size is 39K,
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about 3 minutes at 2400 baud.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 2 24 Oct 1988
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Mike Ratledge
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SysOp of East Bay X-Change TCommNet BBS
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372/555, 372/666, 372/777 and 372/888
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I am pleased to announce that I have received permission to
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create a HAYES technical support conference for owners of Hayes
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Microcomputer Products modems.
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I will host this new EchoMail area (tag is "HAYES") and the
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folks at Hayes technical support department will check in daily
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to answer any new questions.
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The following is the unedited text of a letter I received
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electronically from John Aitken, the head of Hayes SysOp support
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in Atlanta:
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Hayes Microcomputer Products, Inc
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705 Westech Drive
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Norcross,GA.30092
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TO: Mike Ratledge, Sysop - East Bay X-Change BBS
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FROM: John Aitken, Hayes - Sysop Support Coordinator
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SUBJECT: Hayes Technical Support Forum
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Date: 16 September, 1988
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Mike, We at Hayes are actively committed to supporting our
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Customers, and are always seeking new ways to provide that
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support. Towards that end I accept your invitation to
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participate in your Hayes Support Message Area within the Fido
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- Networking System.
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Once your Message Area is up and running we will actively
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participate by signing-on daily, answering questions and
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providing technical support to all callers within the network.
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Additionally, I have provided you with full access to the Hayes
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Sysop Support Conference, where you will have access to all
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technical files, bulletins, and configuration notes - contained
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within our Technical Library.
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Please feel free to utilize any of the technical information
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that you may find within our file directories and be sure to let
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me know how we can provide additional help or information.
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FidoNet callers are invited to submit their questions,
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suggestions, and comments - within the message area, and we will
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monitor and reply on a daily basis.
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If there is anything that we can do for you or your FidoNet
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callers - please don't hesitate to ask.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 3 24 Oct 1988
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Best regards and good wishes for your Network!
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John Aitken
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Hayes Sysop Support Coordinator
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Training and Customer Services
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If you would like to recieve this echomail area on your system,
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please get in touch with me at 372/888 and we'll setup your link
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according to the volume of requests I receive. I imagine that
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this echo area will warrant being carried on the "backbone" in a
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short time! NOTE: 372/555 is a Hayes V96 unit - it's online at
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5:30PM each weekday (until 8AM) and all weekend, too. If you
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wish to sign on locally, you should call 372/666 or 372/888 and
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register. Be sure to ask for access to the V96 unit. I will
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have a second V9600 online by the time this article is printed.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 4 24 Oct 1988
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jim nutt
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'the computer handyman'
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1:114/15.11
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Announcing version 1.87 of msged, the only Fidonet mail editor
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with complete c source code. Features include:
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Message body text searching
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Integrated full screen editor
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Uses existing config files (binkley.cfg and areas.bbs)
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Easy to Use
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Easy to Install
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Full Zone:Net/Node.Point>Domain addressing
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Intelligent Point remapping
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Support for Netmail, Echomail and Local Areas
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Uses All 80 columns of the screen
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Quoting (of course!)
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Message Forwarding
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Carbon Copies
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Address Lookup
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Text file import/export
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Abort/Delete Confirm (optional)
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Support for large displays
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Optional Tear and Origin lines
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Direct Screen Video (video fossil and bios support soon)
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Source compatible with Quick C, Zortech C and Turbo C
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Creates a confmail echomail export log
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Large message handling (big version only)
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All versions will run in under 128k of memory
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Fast! (100 messages in under 20s 8mhz AT and Desqview)
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Free! No charge for non-commercial use
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Coming features include:
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Message selection list
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Editor block commands
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UUCP addressing
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You Tell Me what you want!
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Msged is available from 1:114/18 or 1:114/15 for file request
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as MSGED and a msged support echo is being formed. For more
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information contact me (jim nutt) at 1:114/15.11.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 5 24 Oct 1988
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COLUMNS
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YACK
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Yet Another Complicated Komment
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by Steven K. Hoskin
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( STEVE HOSKIN at 1:128/31 )
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Episode 13: The Negative Side
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"IF THIS REALLY WAS A GOOD HOBBY NETWORK YOU'D TALK ABOUT D&D".
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This was a message to me from a user about my board. I don't
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happen to have any message areas that cover D&D. Funny that
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should be the case, since my advertised specialty areas are
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EagleTech Software and the national AVIATION EchoMail conference.
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I politely responded, explaining that "Amateur Hobby Network"
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means that *I* have a hobby in playing with computers and
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networking them together. It does not necessarily follow that I
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support all hobbies. Even though I happen to like D&D and other
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adventure, role-playing and war games.
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Then I get this guy who calls in with a name whose validity I
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question. So I left him a message AND a custom welcome, asking
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him to verify the name, with address and phone number. Seven
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times he logged in, saw the custom welcome, and hit all the file
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areas and logged off. I dropped him to DISGRACE status, left a
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more clearly worded custom welcome; still he called in about four
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more times, tried to hit the file areas (the only one allowed at
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DISGRACE level is the FidoNews Area), and logged off. So I
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TWITted him. Why didn't he just leave me a message? I even told
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him how to do it on the custom welcome.
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And the classic - "Hacker calling". Oh, that's TWIT level
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immediately.
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Why is it so hard for people to say who they really are on BBSs?
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I don't recall ever having that difficulty when *I* was a mere
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user. And if ever there was a strange person, I definitely
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qualify. But *I* never had any problems using my real name.
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Handles are kind of nice, when they apply, but this doesn't cut
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well in EchoMail. Too many people out there.
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Oh, well, even FidoNet can't be all blessings and charm, I
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suppose. I've been blessed, even in my troubles with users, in
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that I haven't had any vicious hackers trying to crash my board
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or slam my communication links. I've heard of such, but (knock
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on wood) haven't seen any.
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I guess I'll just overlook the negative side and enjoy my hobby.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 6 24 Oct 1988
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NOTICES
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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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20th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus"
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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Latest Software Versions
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BBS Systems Node List Other
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& Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
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Dutchie 2.90b* EditNL 4.00 ARC 5.22*
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Fido 12h MakeNL 2.12 ARCmail 1.1
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Opus 1.03b Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00*
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SEAdog 4.10 XlatList 2.86 EchoMail 1.31
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TBBS 2.0M XlaxNode 2.22* MGM 1.1
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BinkleyTerm 2.00* XlaxDiff 2.10 TPB Editor 1.21*
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QuickBBS 2.03* ParseList 1.20*
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TPBoard 4.2*
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TComm/TCommNet 3.1*
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TCOMMail 1.1*
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Lynx 1.10*
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D'Bridge 1.10
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FrontDoor 2.0
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 7 24 Oct 1988
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OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION
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Hal DuPrie 1:101/106 Chairman of the Board
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Bob Rudolph 1:261/628 President
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Matt Whelan 3:3/1 Vice President
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Ray Gwinn 1:109/639 Vice President - Technical Coordinator
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David Garrett 1:103/501 Secretary
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Steve Bonine 1:115/777 Treasurer
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IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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DIVISION AT-LARGE
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10 Courtney Harris 1:102/732? Don Daniels 1:107/210
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11 Bill Allbritten 1:11/301 Hal DuPrie 1:101/106
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12 Bill Bolton 3:54/61 Mark Grennan 1:147/1
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13 Rick Siegel 1:107/27 Steve Bonine 1:115/777
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14 Ken Kaplan 1:100/22 Ted Polczyinski 1:154/5
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15 Larry Kayser 1:104/739? Matt Whelan 3:3/1
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16 Vince Perriello 1:141/491 Robert Rudolph 1:261/628
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17 Rob Barker 1:138/34 Steve Jordan 1:102/2871
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18 Christopher Baker 1:135/14 Bob Swift 1:140/24
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19 David Drexler 1:19/1 Larry Wall 1:15/18
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2 Henk Wevers 2:500/1 David Melnik 1:107/233
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 8 24 Oct 1988
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FidoNews 5-43 Page 9 24 Oct 1988
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