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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 05 1 February 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. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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Free Elections - getting your money's worth in Romania ... 2
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New FTSC website ......................................... 4
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Grunged Echomail Deleted - Roy J. Tellason ............... 4
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3. NOTICES .................................................. 6
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4. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 7
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5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 11
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 1 8 Feb 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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It's nice to see, FidoNews is read and appriciated by those in far
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away places such as Northern Russia. ;-)
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Still extremely hot here in Africa with unbelievable temperatures,
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the worst or is it highest, for many a decade and not pleasant at all.
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Preparing for another business trip and will be back in time for the
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next issue.
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Enjoy.
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 2 8 Feb 1999
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ARTICLES
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Free Elections - getting your money's worth in Romania.
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Free Elections
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Getting Your Money's Worth in Romania
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Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, doug@mtdnbbs.com
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I've got to confess to some feeling of inadequecy in reporting
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events in Romania. I'm not there, I don't really know the people
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involved, and my contact started out simply as part of a mass
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mailing. Nonetheless, a lot of information has come through here,
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and it's too disturbing to simply ignore.
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Region 53 has recently undergone elections to determine a new
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Regional Coordinator to replace the fired Catalin Bradu. Catalin
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was fired by Ward Dossche, Z2C, for refusing to implement Ward's
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order to reinstate the excommunicated Gabi Andrei. Ward named
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Costin Manda as temporary R53C, charged with conducting an election
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for a permanent RC.
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Candidates in the recently concluded election were Mihai Banciu and,
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ironically, Catalin Bradu. Catalin claimed victory with a final
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vote of 11-7, however Ward Dossche awarded the victory to Mihai
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Banciu based on a 25-13 return which included point nodes.
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Catalin is currently petitioning Bob Satti for a "zone independant"
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regional assignment, to operate his region outside the influence of
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Ward Dossche. He has announced that the region will leave Fido and
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function as a network independant of Fido if all else fails.
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Those are the facts, as nearly as I can determine them, primarily
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derived from email and netmail from Catalin Bradu, Ward Dossche, and
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Codrut Popescu (R53C prior to Catalin). There are many unanswered
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questions concerning appropriatness, however.
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The first concern is the appropriateness of excommunicating Gabi
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Andrei. While it seems that he was sufficiently annoying to warrant
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complaints based on "Excessively Annoying Behavior," his own NC
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would not file such a complaint and even supported Gabri. Is it
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appropriate that an RC will then implement excommunication?
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Granted, it was a popular move - but it was done without the consent
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of the Z2C. Bob Satti informs me via echomail that a node is not
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normally removed from the nodelist until arguements have been heard
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at the zone level, so the excommunication appears to be procedurally
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incorrect. However, there is a concern that nodes should not be
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forced to connect to those they find offensive.
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A second concern is the appropriateness of a ZC firing a
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popularly-elected RC. Policy gives the ZC this power, but practice
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has been to honor elections. Further, the Z2C has a policy of
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allowing elections... does this imply an obligation to back the
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results of such? Ward Dossche, in email to Bob Satti with a copy to
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 3 8 Feb 1999
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me, claims that Catalin was never popularly elected as RC, only as
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NC. Codrut Popescu, who conducted the elections in question,
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explains the actual events in email to me:
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----------------- extracted from email --------------------
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Almost a year ago I was the elected RC53 in Romania. The Network
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Coordinator position in 530 was open, so I organised elections. You
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have to know that in R53 there are two networks, 530 and 531. 530 for
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Bucharest and 531 for the rest of the country. If you still have the
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nodelists for that period you'll see that 530 was 80% of the total
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nodes number in R53. Now is over 95%.
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The candidates were Alex Sovu, Catalin Bradu and Gabi Andrei. They
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gained 8, 11 and 3 votes, respectively. It is to be mentioned that
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from these 22 votes, 2 were from 531. The NC position in 530 was so
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very important for 531 so I allowed the nodes (very few) from 531 to
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express their votes in these elections.
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So Catalin Bradu gained most of the votes. There was a big rivalry
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between Catalin and Alex, the last one was about to leave the network
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because of his failure in the elections. At the same time I was
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involved in a new position in a bank and when you're 27 years old
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there are some priorities in life. So I appointed Catalin as RC and
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Alex as NC after both of them agreed to stick together for the good of
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the network. Mr. Ward Dossche was informed about this elections at the
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end, and he agreed with the replacement. Though, he was not announced
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about this shifting in the *C hierarchy due to my retirement.
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----------------- end extract -----------------------------
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It would appear that Ward Dossche is technically correct that
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Catalin was not specifically elected as RC, but, from Codrut's
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description of events, it seems to me that his appointment was in
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order and reflected the will of the voters.
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A third concern is the appearance that the outcome of the recent
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election was predetermined. This appearance comes from two sources:
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1. A netmail message from Ward Dossche to Costin Manda instructing
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him that Mihai Banciu was the winner of the election despite an
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early return which favored Catalin by about 2-1.
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2. The inclusion of point nodes in the final vote count, despite
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the assertion that points were only permitted advisory input
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throughout the election. Since the points essentially determined
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the election, this is a vital issue. Ward Dossche claims in email
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that points were traditionally allowed to vote in R53 elections, but
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both Catalin Bradu and Codrut Popescu inform me that point nodes
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have never had a vote in any election until Ward included their
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totals in this most recent vote count.
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A fourth concern is the appropriateness of resolving political
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incompatibilities by entire regions leaving Fido. Though this may
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be a mere threat, it's hardly conducive to the concerns of many that
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nodelist shrinkage must be halted somehow. Of course, it may be the
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 4 8 Feb 1999
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only way which Catalin Bradu can get the "zone independant number"
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he's asking for... by forming a new zone. I'm not sure how Bob
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Satti can issue a "zone independant number."
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New FTSC website
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Hi Folks,
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The FTSC website and anonymous FTP site have new names.
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The new URL for the website is
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http://www.ftsc.org
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The anonymous FTP server is now to be found at ftp.ftsc.org
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-=-
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If you have links to the website I'd be grateful if you could update
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them.
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http://www.piglets.com/ftsc (the old URL) and http://www.ftsc.org are
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exactly the same place but the latter is clearly easier to remember.
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-=-
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More importantly....
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If you are mirroring the FTP site on ftp.piglets.com then you should
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now mirror ftp.ftsc.org.
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I will maintain the old archive for a brief time, but it's location
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(pub/FTSC) is /not/ the same as the new location which is actually in
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ftp.piglets.com/ftp.ftsc.org.
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So if you don't change over before I remove the old archive you could
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have a problem ;-).
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The CGI script on the webpages is already accessing the new document
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repositry.
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CT.
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---
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* Origin: - FTSC Member - (2:443/13)
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Grunged Echomail Deleted.
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Grunged Echomail Deleted
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Roy J. Tellason
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1:270/615
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 5 8 Feb 1999
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roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com
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John Souvestre wrote in a message to Roy J Tellason:
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JS> This is to inform you of what seems to be a discrepancy
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JS> between a message from your system and the currently
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JS> accepted specifications for echo mail.
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JS> Because the message appeared to be grunged, or a dupe, it
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JS> was deleted in order to protect the rest of the echo mail
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JS> distribution system. This copy is sent to you for
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JS> information purposes, to help you find the source of the
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JS> problem and fix it.
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JS> The discrepancy noted in the message, as received here, was:
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JS> 1) Header and text of 31,814 bytes exceeds maximum of
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JS> 31,000 bytes.
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JS> The message was in the 10TH_AMD area.
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(...)
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I post some fairly lengthy messages in that echo fairly often, and
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have never *heard* of any 31,000 byte length limitation. About that
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"to protect the rest of the echo mail distribution system" part, are
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there people out there who carry that echo who are running software
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that can't handle a message of that size? I've certainly never
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received any complaints, excepting those who are running some really
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old offline readers that truncate stuff at 150 lines or whatever.
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As far as "currently accepted specifications" for echo mail, where
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are these specifications noted? It certainly doesn't appear in the
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current copy of BOFAQ901.TXT that's on my system here. The closest
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seems to be this part here:
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5) Due to the limitations of some current software, the Backbone
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can not guarantee delivery of messages in excess of 13,000
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bytes.
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Backbone Hubs are encouraged to use message processing
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software which allows larger messages, preferably up to 64K
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bytes, to be handled.
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There's a *BIG* difference between "cannot guarantee delivery" and
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"your message has been deleted because..."
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As far as I'm concerned, this amounts to nothing more than simple
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censorship based on unpublished criteria. My position as moderator of
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10TH_AMD is that you either carry the whole echo or don't carry it at
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all.
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email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 6 8 Feb 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 16-05 Page 7 8 Feb 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.ftsc.org/
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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 14:
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Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
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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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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 8 8 Feb 1999
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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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============
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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============
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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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============
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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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============
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 9 8 Feb 1999
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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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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* 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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FIDONEWS 16-05 Page 10 8 Feb 1999
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