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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 02 11 January 1999
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | +27-41-515-913 [5:5/23] |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Henk Wolsink 5:7104/2 |
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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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| 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. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 3
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Who Decides - Douglas Myers .............................. 3
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3. ARTICLES ................................................. 4
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ECHO TALK - David E. Waters on The Real Problem .......... 4
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 5
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5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 6
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 10
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 1 11 Jan 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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So much has been written about how much/many Nodes FidoNet is
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loosing every week, that I have pleasure showing you a few
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messages from previous posted Nodelist stats.
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I'm not going to present you with any meaningfull or otherwise
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bull here as the figures below, speak for themselves. Please,
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regardless whether the figures are correct or not is not the point,
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what is the point, it presents some form of demise of FidoNet in
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a manner, which is frighting. A hobby in which I and many of you,
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have spent many hours in, not to speak of the amount of money we
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invested in it.
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From a message: 23 April 1996.
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Nodelist Robot
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| Nl-4 | Nodelist-3 | Nodelist-2 | Nodelist-1 | Current Nl |
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------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
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Zone-1| 14734| 14535 -199| 14572 37| 14457 -115| 14340 -117|
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Zone-2| 16478| 16567 89| 16576 9| 16629 53| 16599 -30|
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Zone-3| 1154| 1155 1| 1152 -3| 1146 -6| 1124 -22|
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Zone-4| 584| 584 0| 584 0| 584 0| 584 0|
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Zone-5| 120| 120 0| 120 0| 120 0| 117 -3|
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Zone-6| 880| 1226 346| 1229 3| 1228 -1| 1228 0|
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------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
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Total | 33950| 34187 237| 34233 46| 34164 -69| 33992 -172|
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------+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
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| Nl-4 | Nodelist-3 | Nodelist-2 | Nodelist-1 | Current Nl |
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+------+-------------+-------------+-------------+-------------+
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From a message: 3 January 1997.
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Nodelist Robot
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|Zone|Nl-341|Nodelist-348|Nodelist-355|Nodelist-362|Nodelist-003|%%|
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+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
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| 1 | 10931|10737 -194 |10564 -173 |10452 -112 |10370 -82 |36|
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| 2 | 16185|16150 -35 |16127 -23 |16104 -23 |16056 -48 |55|
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| 3 | 882| 882 0 | 878 -4 | 876 -2 | 869 -7 | 3|
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| 4 | 578| 572 -6 | 413 -159 | 556 143 | 552 -4 | 2|
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| 5 | 94| 94 0 | 93 -1 | 93 0 | 93 0 | 0|
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| 6 | 1006| 1003 -3 | 1003 0 | 1075 72 | 1073 -2 | 4|
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+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
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| 29676|29438 -238 |29078 -360 |29156 78 |29013 -143 |
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+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
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From a message: 3 January 1998
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Nodelist Robot
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!Zone/Jul!Ndl-339!Nodel.-346!Nodel.-353!Nodel.-360!Nodel.-002!%%!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 1/360 ! 6338 ! 6338 0! 6225 -113! 6199 -26! 6199 0!27!
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 2 11 Jan 1999
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! 2/002 ! 14627 !14654 27!14605 -49!14523 -82!14538 15!63!
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! 3/360 ! 591 ! 591 0! 592 1! 580 -12! 580 0! 3!
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! 4/353 ! 436 ! 434 -2! 434 0! 435 1! 435 0! 2!
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! 5/353 ! 92 ! 92 0! 92 0! 91 -1! 91 0! 0!
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! 6/318 ! 1091 ! 1091 0! 1091 0! 1091 0! 1091 0! 5!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 23175 !23200 25!23039 -161!22919 -120!22934 15!
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+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+
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From a message: 10 January 1999
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Nodelist Stats
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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!Zone/Jul!Ndl-345!Nodel.-352!Nodel.-359!Nodel.-001!Nodel.-008!%%!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 1/008 ! 3714 ! 3675 -39! 3660 -15! 3613 -47! 3593 -20!20!
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! 2/008 ! 13073 !13127 54!13071 -56!13089 18!12994 -95!72!
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! 3/008 ! 345 ! 344 -1! 338 -6! 338 0! 311 -27! 2!
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! 4/008 ! 267 ! 267 0! 267 0! 267 0! 267 0! 1!
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! 5/008 ! 60 ! 60 0! 60 0! 60 0! 59 -1! 0!
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! 6/001 ! 912 ! 912 0! 912 0! 906 -6! 906 0! 5!
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+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
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! 18371 !18385 14!18308 -77!18273 -35!18130 -143!
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As can be seen, FidoNet is loosing Nodes at a rate of some 4000 per
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annum. At this rate, we have some 4 years to go, before it's
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history. A very sad state of affairs.
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Not so happy reading,
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 3 11 Jan 1999
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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Who Decides - Douglas Myers
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Who Decides?
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D. Myers, 1:270/720
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One of the consequences of being an internationally-known Fidonet
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Busybody is that I am occasionally confused with someone with
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actual influence. Such was the case recently when Catalin Bradu of
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Romania, the RC of Region 53 sent me information he really wanted to
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get to Bob Satti.
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He was under the mistaken impression that I would have the email
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address of Fido's Top Cop. All I have is a calling plan which lets
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me call in the US and Canada for a dime a minute, so crashing
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netmail is almost trivial. If I'd been smart, I'd have just sent it
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along and let it go.
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It was stuff I didn't want to hear about. He was excommunicating
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someone named Gabi Andrei for Excessively Annoying Behavior in
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proselytizing his particular brand of religion. Though he
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apparently had the support of his region, his ZC, Ward Dossche
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ordered him to reverse his ruling. A few days later, Ward removed
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him as RC, placing someone in charge who didn't support the EAB
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action.
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Now who wants to get involved in this? Who wants to support someone
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proselytizing in netmail and echomail? But then, who wants to
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support the nasty business of excommunication? Especially in
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far-off Romania?
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Who should be making these decisions anyway? Should Excessively
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Annoying Behavior be determined by the folks in the region where it
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occurs, or is it the province of the Zone Coordinator?
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For that matter, who decides when a popularly-elected Regional
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Coordinator should be removed. Is it the province of his
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electorate, or is it up to the Zone Coordinator?
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 4 11 Jan 1999
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ARTICLES
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ECHO TALK - David E. Waters on the Real Problem
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. -- -- -- -- -- ECHO TALK -- -- -- -- -- .
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| Food for thought from Fido's echomail. |
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| Purloined without permission by D Myers |
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` -- -- -- -- -- -- - -- -- -- -- -- -- '
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David E. Waters on The Real Problem:
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There is no depth in Fido. For instance, there is no school for
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future Sysops. When we all die, thats it it's over. Nobody is
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trained to take over any of the "Jobs" in Fido. How many know the
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politics of how to get mail from N.A. to Austraila? (Show of hands
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please.)
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Sysoping will very quickly become a lost art like "canning" (you
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know those jars our Grandmothers had full of stuff when we were
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kids). The unreleased version of Trade Wars is a prime example, it
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ties directly through a server and does not need a BBS to run.
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I know I am a "Johnny come lately" and most folks figure I do not
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whats going on and for the most part they are right. I am also a
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locksmith and there are no new people (Kids, teenagers & young
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adults) training behind us at least not enough to keep open all the
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shops that are out there now. Which means the fewer there are the
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resource gets more expensive (think about that the next you call 2-3
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locksmiths for an estimate, what if there was only 1?).
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I'm 52 and no I do not know how old anybody else is and it really
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does not matter, we ALL die sometime. All of us better figure out
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how to solve this part first or the who is doing what will not
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matter if there is no what to do, because the mail and files will
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have stopped because somebody died and nobody could take thier
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place.
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 5 11 Jan 1999
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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 16-02 Page 6 11 Jan 1999
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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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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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Not sure where the following should be placed:
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http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/fido.html
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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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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 7 11 Jan 1999
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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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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 8 11 Jan 1999
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============
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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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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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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
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1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
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1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
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1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
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2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
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2:284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
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2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
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3:633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP | 33.6 | n/c
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4:905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
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5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
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--
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
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* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
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* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
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[I'm only cataloging transfer methods, eg, ftp, email, telnet.
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Specific programs using these protocols are no longer being listed.
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Contact the system operators for details of which programs they have
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available.]
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 9 11 Jan 1999
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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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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
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Editor: Henk Wolsink
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Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
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Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg
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"FidoNews Editor"
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FidoNet 5:5/23
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BBS +27-41-515-913, 2400/9600/V.34/V.90
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more addresses:
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Henk Wolsink -- 5:7104/2, hwolsink@catpe.alt.za
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews Editor
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P.O. Box 12325
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Port Elizabeth,
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6006
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South Africa
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
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of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation
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does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in
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these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of
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FidoNews and/or the Editor.
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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Copyright 1998 Henk Wolsink. All rights reserved. Duplication
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and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
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use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
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the Editor.
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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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PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
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address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
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FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
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back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSFnn.ZIP] for a
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particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
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where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
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current year [8], i.e., FNWSJAN8.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 98.
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 11 11 Jan 1999
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Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
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1 - 15 for 1984 - 1998, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
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size from 48K to 1.4M.
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INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
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http://www.fidonews.org
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http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
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ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
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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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You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:
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jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net
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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
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by sending email to:
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ftpmail@fidonews.org
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You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:
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http://www.fidonews.org
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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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Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
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FIDONEWS 16-02 Page 12 11 Jan 1999
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for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.
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The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also
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available almost immediately after publication on the FidoNews Editor
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homepage on the World Wide Web at:
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html
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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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email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.
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SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
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FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
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ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable
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from 5:5/23 [5:7104/2] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators
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"Disagreement is actually necessary,
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or something to amuse ourselves
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and create the requisite chaos."
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-Tom Jennings
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