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F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 06 8 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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| / \ | |
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| /|oo \ | |
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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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+--------------------------------------------------------------------+
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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. RETRACTIONS .............................................. 2
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Grunged Echomail Deleted - Retraction .................... 2
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3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
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What's Not Happening - Broken Backbone ................... 3
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 6
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5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 7
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 11
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 1 8 Feb 1999
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,
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Whats happening with the routing of mail within Zone 1? Are the
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problems solved? ;-)
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Had one heck of a week, with work and more work. It's good for the
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pocket I hear you say? Nope, the taxman takes nearly half.
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Anyway, there is going to be another very busy week ahead, so please
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excuse the once again short note from me. ;-(
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Enjoy,
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 2 8 Feb 1999
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RETRACTIONS
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Grunged Echomail Deleted - Retraction
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Grunged Echomail Deleted
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Retraction by Douglas Myers
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1:279/720, doug@mdtnbbs.com
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Last week, I submitted an article in the name of Roy Tellason
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entitled "Grunged Echomail Deleted." This was originally sent to me
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netmail by Roy, and was intended only for my information, not for
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publication. I misread the intent of his netmail: he had asked of
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me information on contacting FIDONEWS, and I took this as a request
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to submit the article for him. He has since informed me that he
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preferred to work out the complaint more quietly, and was chagrined
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that I jumped the gun on publication.
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I'd like to publicly apologize to Roy, who's confidence I violated,
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and to John Souvestre, who has enough trouble right now that he
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doesn't need any agitation from this corner. I'd further like to
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congratulate these two gentlemen for making the effort to work
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things out without a lot of fuss, thus bucking the trend here on
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FightOnet.
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 3 8 Feb 1999
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ARTICLES
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What's Not Happening - Broken Backbone
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.-- -- -- -- -- -- WHAT'S NOT HAPPENING -- -- -- -- -- --.
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| There isn't always something happening on Fidonet, but |
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| there's always something which isn't happening. This |
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| column is dedicated to the lost causes which make Fido |
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| what it isn't today. Published semi-occasionally... |
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`-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --'
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BROKEN BACKBONE
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Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, doug@mdtnbbs.com
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After George Peace resigned as zone hub and disconnected from John
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Souvestre (for echomail, anyway), several participants in the
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BACKBONE echo pronounced the North American Backbone "broken." It's
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been hard to detect at this node - echomail has been coming in and
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going out at a seemingly undiminished rate, and all the echomail
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here flows through George's system.
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As a confirmed echomail junkie, I've attempted to follow the bloated
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BACKBONE echomail conference to get some idea as to what's going on.
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It's somewhat like panning for gold in the local Susquehanna River -
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I need to push through a lot of mud and debris to uncover a rare
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nugget. Some nuggets I've uncovered:
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- George is still an ZHUB, but he's no longer a NAB ZHUB. The main
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distinction between the two is that a ZHUB merely moves the mail,
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but NAB ZHUBS take on other obligations being revealed gradually by
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John Souvestre. The only solid information I can offer at this
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point is that NAB ZHUBS follow published routing charts (most of the
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time) to move netmail.
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- Of the major mail movers, George and John don't want to work
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together, Bob and John don't want to work together, and Ken wishes
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everyone would just get along.
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- Up until recently, George retained his connections to Bob Seaborn
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and Ken Wilson and continued to supply all his downlinks with
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echomail, with no apparant loss of mail. However, dupes started
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appearing on John Souvestre's system, caused by the fact that mail
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sent through George's system no longer contained John's node number
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in the seen-by lines. This caused the tossing software at Bob's and
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Ken's system to BOTH pack echomail messages for John. As nearly as
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I can tell from the conversation, dupe detectors at John's system
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prevented these duplicates from flowing to his downlinks. George
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has since relinked echomail to John's system, presumably to prevent
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the duplicate generation which results if he doesn't.
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The BACBONE isn't broken yet, but it seems like a marriage in
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trouble. The trial seperation didn't work out as the partners found
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that they have to work together, but they still haven't worked out a
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 4 8 Feb 1999
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reconciliation.
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Hello,
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If you haven't yet heard of Fast Engines, Inc. or Fast.Serv, wel
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hello, hello. Fast.Serv is the Web server plug-in that turbo charges
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Web performance.
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Fast.Serv has been be praised and welcomed with open arms in the
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booming Web technology arena. Companies such as Morgan Stanley, The
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Weather Channel, CNNfn, The Vanguard Group, Hewlett Packard, BBC and
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many more are implementing Fast.Serv to keep up with their ever
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increasing demands for speed and performance on their Web sites. And
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as the Worldwide Web continues to grow Fast Engines, Inc. will
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continue to provide effective, efficient and eloquent solutions for
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Web speed to the Web technology community.
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As a respected member of high tech press, I am sending you a
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pre-release of a press release from Government Securities Clearance
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Corporation regarding their success and implementation of Fast.Serv.
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The release is scheduled for distribution by PRNewswire on February
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3rd, 1999.
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Fast.Serv is an amazingly versatile product due in part to being based
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on the open standard protocol FastCGI. You may have read Jonathan
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Roy's article in Web Review
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(http://webreview.com/wr/pub/98/12/04/feature/index.html)
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last month describing the benefits of FastCGI over CGI. Fast.Serv is
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now available for both Netscape and Microsoft Web servers with
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versions for Apache and O'Reilly servers on the way. It also runs on
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all Unix platforms as well as Windows NT. For more information
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regarding Fast.Serv please visit Fast Engines' site at
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http://www.fastengines.com.
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I am looking forward to discussing Fast.Serv with you. Please contact
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me by email (mailto: roz@fastengines.com) or telephone 617 491-3333
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with the best way and time to reach you.
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Best Regards,
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Roz Chapman
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Director of Communications
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Fast Engines, Inc.
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Tel 617 491-3333
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Fax 617 491-9933
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For Immediate Release
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Subject: Government Securities Clearance Corporation implements
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Fast Engines Inc.'s Fast.Serv FastCGI software to
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ensure lightning fast Web site response.
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Contact: Alan L. Kosow, Fast Engines, Inc., 617-491-3333 /
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alan@fastengines.com
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 5 8 Feb 1999
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NEW YORK, NY, February 3, 1999 -- Government Securities Clearance
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Corporation (GSCC) today announced that it will be utilizing Fast
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Engines' Fast.Serv FastCGI software product to enhance its Web server
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performance.
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"GSCC is moving rapidly to deliver information using Web technology to
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its participant community, which consists of approximately 100 of the
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major Wall Street firms. Due to the anticipated high volume and
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complexityof these Web based information requests, GSCC needed to
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provide its users with rapid, reliable connections and information."
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Said Sal Matera, a Vice President at GSCC.
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"The Fast.Serv product gives GSCC the tools it needs to be successful
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in developing Web based application software and frameworks. Unlike
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expensive application servers, Fast.Serv provides the capability to
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leverage on existing software and hardware investment and expertise.
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The product allows for the initialization and establishment of
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persistent connections to databases and Corba servers BEFORE the
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client accesses our site. The result is that we are able to turn page
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requests around on our Digital Alpha servers very quickly. Fast.Serv
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was the right choice for the development process and fits well into
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GSCC's technology infrastructure." Continued Matera.
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About GSCC
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GSCC is the leading provider of centralized trade comparison, netting,
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in the world's largest marketplace. In 1998, GSCC processed more than
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$200 trillion in U.S. Government securities. It continually seeks to
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provide the latest technological advances to its Participants without
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compromising the stability and reliability of its systems.
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About Fast Engines, Inc.
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Headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Fast Engines is the leader
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in developing and marketing high performance middleware tools for
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accelerating Web based applications. Fast Engines' Fast.Serv product
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for Netscape [NASDAQ:NS CP] and Microsoft [NASDAQ:MSFT] servers is
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being used by dozens of high traffic Web sites within Fortune 500
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companies including The New York Times [NYSE:NYT], Morgan Stanley
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[NYSE:MWD], Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT], A.G. Edwards [NYSE:AGE], and
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Ziff Davis [NYSE:ZD]. For more information see the Fast Engines
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homepage at http://www.fastengines.com.
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FIDONEWS 16-06 Page 6 8 Feb 1999
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NOTICES
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=================================================================
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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 16-06 Page 7 8 Feb 1999
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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=================================================================
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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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============
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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 16-06 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 16-06 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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--
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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 16-06 Page 10 8 Feb 1999
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available.]
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