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F I D O N E W S Volume 15, Number 51 21 December 1998
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | +27-41-515-913 [5:5/23] |
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| /|oo \ | |
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| _`@/_ \ _ | |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Henk Wolsink 5:7104/2 |
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| (_/(_|(____/ | |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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| Submission address: FidoNews Editor 5:5/23 |
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| MORE addresses: |
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| |
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| submissions=> editor@fidonews.org |
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| hwolsink@catpe.alt.za |
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| For information, copyrights, article submissions, |
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| obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ |
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| please refer to the end of this file. |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 9
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4. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 10
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5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 13
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 1 21 Dec 1998
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings
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Did some 'surfing' the WWW in particular fidonet.org and some of it's
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links. I'm supprised how many of them are out of date or just don't
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work. Please keep us up to date with any changes. Thanks.
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This issue is in a way, a major mishap and thats an understatement.
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My Linux machine decided to say goodbye and with a few articles on
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it, which I cannot retrieve, it will have to wait until I can replace
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it. It appears, the power supply is the faulty part.
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So, my apologies for not placing your article.
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For those celebrating Christmas, may you have peace, and happy
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holidays. Whatever you are going to do, don't drink and drive -
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please arive alive!
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Happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 2 21 Dec 1998
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ARTICLES
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FidoNews Article Submission Guidelines
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FidoNet address 5:5/23
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Updated 16 August 1998 by Henk Wolsink
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Updated 1 Mar 1998 by Zorch Frezberg
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Updated 1 Jan 1998 by Christopher Baker
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Updated 29 May 1991 by Tom Jennings
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Based on the original work by Thom Henderson
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| denotes a change since the last update |.
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"Fido" and "FidoNet" are registered trademarks of
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Tom Jennings, Box 410923, San Francisco CA 94141, USA
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and are used with permission.
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SYNOPSIS:
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FidoNews is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network,
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for both its Sysops and users. It is passed to its readers
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electronically via the FidoNet and other computer networks
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and to non-network readers as well as to the InterNet.
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This document intends to tell you how to write and submit
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articles for publication in FidoNews. Much of it describes
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the technical specifications which an article must meet in
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order to be included in the newsletter, as well as broad
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(very) guidelines on content. (Of course you realize
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articles can be submitted only electronically.)
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Please read this document carefully.
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The article you save might be your own.
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INTRODUCTION:
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FidoNews was originally founded in early 1984 to include
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all parts of the lives of its member Sysops and users,
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which of course means not just technical matters. We do
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not have fixed goals of maximum distribution or maximum
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readership (i.e. lowest common denominator) but only to
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meet the needs of our individual network members. The
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success of this venture has always been contentious at
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best (ahem).
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In any case the grand experiment continues.
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Over fifteen years later and roughly 20,000 Nodes in the
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 3 21 Dec 1998
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network, the editorial policy, or lack of one, of FidoNews
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has shown to best fit our ever-changing and unpredictable
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needs.
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SUBJECT MATTER:
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Articles on any subject of interest to FidoNet members and
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users are welcome and encouraged, not necessarily of a
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technical nature, though priority may be, but not
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necessarily, given to articles of importance to the FidoNet,
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its technology and its uses; other networks such as uucp and
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the Internet; social aspects of communications; ethical
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issues; other related matters.
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ARTICLE LENGTH:
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Try to keep articles short. The longer it is, the less
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likely people are to read it. Consider splitting long
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articles (more than five pages) into smaller articles to
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be run serially.
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Exceptions will be made at the whim of the editors.
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For practical reasons, we will attempt to keep FidoNews to
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a "reasonable size", which is of course a highly subjective
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and variable thing. As of Mar 1998, the goal is to keep
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each issue under 100,000 bytes. Decisions regarding content
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may be made based upon this, though in general it shouldn't
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be an issue.
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As above, exceptions will be made at the whim of the
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editors.
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WRITING GUIDELINES:
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We are not all professional writers, nor is that even a
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goal for the FidoNews -- we want real communication to and
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from real people; even at the expense of so-called "good
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writing", which is frequently a tool to exclude.
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There are, however, a few minimum requirements for any
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successful writing, even for the lowly FidoNews:
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* The subject discussed must be clear to people other
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than the author! Don't assume that people will pick
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up the context from your writing. Tell them
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_explicitly_.
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* Why are you writing this? It may _seem_ obvious --
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"Review of the new Acme 75-baud Modem" -- but it's
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 4 21 Dec 1998
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not. Are you the manufacturer? An irate customer?
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Let us know your point of view.
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* Who *are* you? A good question! Anonymity is
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acceptable, though most people want to take credit
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for their work. Include full contact information
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including NetMail and E-Mail addresses, where such
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is feasible.
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* Articles submitted via Netmail or E-Mail must
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contain all the technically required lines and
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delimiters in the BODY of the message. This
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includes the *[title] line and the 70 character
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width requirement. To indicate the filename type for
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one of these message submissions, place the
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FILENAME.TYP in the SUBJ: line of your E-Mail,
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NetMail, or EchoMail. Those that require extra
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editing may be delayed from appearing in FidoNews.
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* Articles will appear when space becomes available,
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not necessarily the "next" issue. If your article
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is of a time-critical nature, please say so when you
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submit it; the editor still has final say.
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* The editor reserves the right to request changes
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from an author to meet these "standards", which you
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have to admit are pretty loose. It is not the intent
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for this to be a mechanism to refuse articles the
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editor does not like, but simply to keep the
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contents intelligible.
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* If we have a backlog of articles, we may get fussier
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about things. Historically, this has not been a
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serious problem.
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SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE
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TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS:
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If all that hasn't scared you away, the next step is to
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create a text file which contains the text of your article.
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The resulting file should be sent or uploaded to "Editor",
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| FidoNet address 5:5/23, or to "editor@fidonews.org".
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The "physical" location (and phone number) of FidoNews
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varies, and hence must be found elsewhere, such as
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within a recent copy of FidoNews itself.
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Filenames must follow the MSDOS standard:
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FILENAME.TYP
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a 1 to 8 character file name (A - Z, 0 - 9)
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a period,
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 5 21 Dec 1998
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a 0 to 3 character file type (A - Z, 0 - 9)
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File types are used to distinguish types of submissions, as
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follows:
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.LET Letters to the Editor.
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.ART An article, commentary, open letter, or
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general news item.
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.GUE Want to write a Guest Editorial?
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Place [*Name & Node on line 1]
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.RTX Need to make a Retraction of a previous
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article or notice?
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.COL Want to become a regular contributor
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with your own column?
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.ANS Answers to the Question of the Week.
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.BIO FidoNet biographies - tell us your
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personal story.
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.TRU True stories of FidoNet.
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.HIS FidoNet history - got an anecdote
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to share?
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.REV Reviews of related product, services,
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or programs.
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.JOK Net humor in print.
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.FIC FidoNet (computer related) short fiction.
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.CMX Comics in ASCII.
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[watch those lines at 70 columns!]
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[.CMX that are political will be
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renamed to .GUE]
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.PRF Want to Proofread? Get a cookie for
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spotting errors.
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.AD Advertising FREE services or events.
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.SAL "For Sale"
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.WAN "Wanted"
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.NOT A notice for the back of the issue.
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Keep them short.
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.INT Internet addresses for FidoNet-related
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Web Pages of general interest.
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If your file doesn't have one of the above extensions, then
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it will lay around taking up disk space until someone takes
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a look at it and realizes what it is.
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Maybe.
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The name of the file is up to you, though you should use a
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name which is not likely to be "stepped on" by someone
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else -- the system will not guarantee file names are unique.
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For example, FNEWS.ART is probably not a good name for an
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article.
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CHARACTER SETS:
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The character by character contents of the file itself must
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 6 21 Dec 1998
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meet the following standards or it cannot be published in
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FidoNews.
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The FidoNews staff WILL NOT be responsible for making file
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contents conform to these standards.
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* FLUSH LEFT MARGIN: Please do not put a "left margin"
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on your articles. Have the text start at the very
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first column.
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* RIGHT MARGIN AT COLUMN 70 OR LESS: Less is tolerable,
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more is definitely not. If your cursor is resting at
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column 71 when your line is ended, you're okay. But,
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*one* character past that, even with trailing spaces
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and MAKENEWS will barf on your submission.
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If your submission is physically rejected, the Editor
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will have to fix it manually or send it back for
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reformatting.
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* RAGGED-RIGHT TEXT: Word-Star style "justification"
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(inserting spaces into sentences so that a paragraph
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is perfectly rectangular) is extremely hard to read,
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and consumes needless space. Please don't use it!
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* NO FUNNY CHARACTERS: This includes formfeeds, returns
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without linefeeds, linefeeds without returns, tabs and
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other oddities.
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The only control codes (character codes 0 through 31
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decimal) allowed are carriage return (CR) and
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linefeed (LF). The only exception is: Control-Z
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"end of file" terminator characters are tolerated.
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Not required.
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* NO GRAPHICS CHARACTERS: Believe it or not, not
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everyone in the world has an IBM PC. Please restrict
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yourself to printable ASCII characters in the range
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20 hex to 7E hex (space to tilde).
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* LINES TERMINATED: Each line in the article should
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be terminated with a 'newline' -- either the MSDOS
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standard (CR/LF) or the unix standard (LF only).
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SUBMISSION FORMAT:
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Below is a sample article properly formatted. Features of
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it are discussed further below.
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--article file example begins below this line--
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*A Sample Article [this is in LINE 1 starting at COLUMN 1]
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This is My Title
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by Joe Schmoe, [Netmail/email address]
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 7 21 Dec 1998
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And here is my article. Note that it is flush left (zero indent).
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Also note that the right margin is at column seventy so that it
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won't overflow "most" text windows. Each line has a newline. Note
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the *'ed first line. My article will be listed in the table of
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contents exactly as it appears after the * above.
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Figure 1. Table 1.
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+-------+ ========
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| A Box | Alpha
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+-------+ Bravo
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Note that we am not using any funny-o characters. This ensures
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that the final article will look the same to every user, no
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matter what sort of hardware he has.
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This is the last sentence of our article.
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--article file example ends above this line--
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The FIRST line of text is the Table of Contents line. It MUST
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begin with an asterisk * as shown above. NO BLANK lines above
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title line are permitted. If you do not follow this instruction
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exactly, the article will not be listed in the Table of Contents.
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This Table of Contents listing method works for all submission
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file types.
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* Everything that follows the *'ed line will appear in
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the body of the newsletter. The *'ed line will be
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stripped out of your article text so if you want it
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repeated as your title in the article BE SURE to REPEAT
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it on a second line without the *.
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* Next should be the title or name of your article,
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your name, and contact information (network
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address(es), Postal Service address, etc). Try to
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keep it to one or two lines each.
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* Put a blank line between paragraphs. Paragraphs that
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all run together are very difficult to read, and may
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be rejected.
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* If you want to put in a table or a figure, go right
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ahead. We do not rearrange text if you follow these
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submission guidelines, so your table or figure should
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remain exactly as you entered it. Try to limit them
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to ones that make the communication CLEARER.
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* Don't put a lot of blank space at the top or bottom.
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The FidoNews-generator programs will visually
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separate articles automatically.
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* Please check for basic errors in spelling, grammar,
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and punctuation. We're not publishing a textbook, but
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you don't want it to embarrass yourself do you?
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 8 21 Dec 1998
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* Don't use FidoNews to grind your personal axes
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against other FidoNet members. An article presenting
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a side of an internal dispute is one thing. An
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article defaming or perseverating over several
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Issues is another. Articles that merely quote
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endlessly from other sources to no particular effect
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are also not a good idea.
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* Don't republish copyrighted material from other
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sources WITHOUT the permission of those sources.
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Include the permission in such articles.
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* Remember that FidoNews is no better or worse than
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the articles submitted to it. If you want FidoNews
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to be a useful newsletter, get involved and submit
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useful articles. It's up to YOU to make it work.
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SUBMISSION DEADLINES:
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FidoNews is published on Monday of every week.
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| To assure the best possible chance of being published in
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| this week's issue, the deadline for file submission to
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| the FidoNews Editor via FILE-ATTACH is at 0800 UTC/GMT
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| on the previous Saturday.
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| The deadline for submissions via NetMail, E-Mail, or in
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| the FIDONEWS Echo is 1800 UTC/GMT the previous
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| Friday.
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Submissions which miss the deadlines will be processed the
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following week. Submission by deadline is not a guarantee
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of appearance in that week's FidoNews but it is likely
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depending on volume of submissions.
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As well, submissions may be missed due to changes in the
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personal schedule of the FidoNews Editor, but should be
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published in the following issue.
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 9 21 Dec 1998
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NOTICES
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Future History
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16 Feb 1999
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13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush.
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12 May 1999
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12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
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10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.
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24 Jul 1999
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XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
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9 Jun 1999
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Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.
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10 Sep 1999
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10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.
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26 Oct 1999
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Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.
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31 Dec 1999
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Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
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1 Jan 2000
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The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
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1 Jun 2000
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EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
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15 Sep 2000
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Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
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21 Sep 2000
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10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)
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1 Jan 2001
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This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
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-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
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Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 10 21 Dec 1998
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
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FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
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FidoNet:
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Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
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FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
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WWW sources http://travel.to/fidonet/
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FTSC page http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc
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Echomail [pending]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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http://www.nrgsys.com/orb/foti
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List servers:
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http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion
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============
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
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Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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Region 13:
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Net 264: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
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Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
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Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
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Region 19: http://www.compconn.net/r19
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Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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ZEC2:
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Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/echolist/
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)
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Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/
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Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
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REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
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Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
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Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
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Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)
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Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
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Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
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REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
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Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
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Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
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Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
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Region 42: http://www.fido.cz
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Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
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Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
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Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
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Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
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Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
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Net 5073: http://people.weekend.ru/soa/ (Russian)
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4:
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Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
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Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
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and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
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FIDONEWS 15-51 Page 12 21 Dec 1998
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no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
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that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
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should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
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to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
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-----------oOo-------------
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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|
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
|
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-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
|
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1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
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1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
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1:106/1 | Matt Bedynek | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $5/$15mo.
|
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1:106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP,VMoT | 64k | $5/mo.
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1:107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
|
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1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $10/$20mo.
|
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1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
|
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1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
|
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1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
|
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1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 28.8 | $10/yr.
|
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1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
|
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1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
|
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1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
|
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1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
|
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1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | $15yr.
|
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1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
|
||
1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
|
||
1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
|
||
1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
|
||
1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
|
||
2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
|
||
2:284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
|
||
2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
|
||
3:633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
4:905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
|
||
5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
|
||
--
|
||
* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
|
||
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
|
||
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
|
||
[I'm only cataloging transfer methods, eg, ftp, email, telnet.
|
||
Specific programs using these protocols are no longer being listed.
|
||
Contact the system operators for details of which programs they have
|
||
available.]
|
||
|
||
Compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@dandy.net
|
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Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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|
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
|
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|
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|
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OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
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file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
|
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Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
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|
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ftp://ftp.irvbbs.com/fidonews/
|
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ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/Fidonet/Fidonews
|
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|
||
And in non-English formats via:
|
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|
||
http://www.hvc.ee/pats/fidonews (Estonian)
|
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|
||
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|
||
|
||
You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
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|
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|
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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
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|
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|
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STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
|
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Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:
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|
||
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
|
||
|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
|
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to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an
|
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