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F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 44 30 Oct 2000
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| _ | 1-714-639-0377 1:1/23 |
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| | | \ \\ | Editor: Warren Bonner |
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| | (*) | \ )) | editor@fidonews.org |
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| |__U__| / \// | wdbonner@pacbell.net |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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Editorial ................................................ 1
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2. CORRECTIONS .............................................. 2
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3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 4
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LETTERS TO EDITOR ........................................ 4
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4. ARTICLES ................................................. 8
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ARTICLES ................................................. 8
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5. COLUMNS .................................................. 10
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Ol'WDB's Column .......................................... 10
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6. FIDONET BIOGRAPHIES ...................................... 12
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Fidonet Biographies ...................................... 12
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7. NET HUMOR ................................................ 14
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HUMOR .................................................... 14
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8. QUESTION OF THE WEEK ..................................... 15
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK ..................................... 15
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9. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 16
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Fidonet Related Sites .................................... 16
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10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 21
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 21
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 1 30 Oct 2000
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EDITORIAL
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editor@fidonews.org
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This week we have a "mail storm" of echo mail in the echoes most
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heavily traveled by Elflords and their subjects. It seems that the
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election time table is a bone of contention by some of the brightest
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minds in Fidoland. I don't find the various excuses for delaying the
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election until after the holidays credible. Why? Simply because there
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will ALWAYS, (any time of the year), be obstacles of holidays,
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vacations, unrest in some regions, and pouting, kicking, pointing, mud
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pie deliveries... etc.; so let us get on with it NOW.
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Since the Z1C serves at the behest of the RCC, the same should huddle
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in conference among themselves and come to the conclusions necessary
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for the accomplishment of an election for the Z1C position. Either
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announce a Sysop type election, or a RCC type election.
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In either case an "Election Chairman" should be appointed by the RCC.
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She/he should announce the rules of the election. The rules should be
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simple, straight forward, and succinct. Considering this age of
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instant electronic communication, the time frame can be cut
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dramatically from the time frames used in the past. Months to do what
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should be accomplished in weeks, should be one of the MAIN guide
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lines. By today's technology. This could be accomplished by
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Thanksgiving Day in America. I can hear the roar of disapproval now...
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Can't please all.
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JMHO.
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Ed.
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CORRECTIONS
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(8443) Mon 23 Oct 00 3:33p
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By: Lee Ayrton
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To: FidoNews Robot
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Re: FidoNews 17:43 [02/03] Columns
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St: Reply in 8466
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>FR> Did you know...
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LA> Did you know that a lot of stuff that people thought was really,
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LA> really true ... isn't? See www.snopes.com or www.urbanlegends.com
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LA> for the nitty gritty and amusing details.
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>FR> Coca-Cola was originally green.
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LA> I can't find any references to prove or refute this one. It _is_
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LA> possible to make colas clear, or colored. Coke bottles were LA>
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green, though.
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~~~~~~~~~~~SNIP~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lee, the editor put this
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little "tickler punny" in as a light moment for the Snooze readers,
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not as FACT. Since you took it seriously and challenged it, I took you
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advice and looked more carefully at your referenced URL. I did find
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references to refute, Correction below:
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How Green Was My Ballyhoo Claim: Coca-Cola was originally green.
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Status: False.
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Origins: Though this tidbit of knowledge has been widely distributed
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as part of an Internet "Did You Know?" list, at no time in Coca-Cola's
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history has that beverage been green. The original formula called for
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caramel to give Coca-Cola its rich brown color, and although the
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recipe has undergone some changes through the years, none of them
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affected the ultimate color of the product.
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(Brown also hides impurities in any given batch, something the
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backroom chemist who invented Coca-Cola in 1886 kept well in mind as
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he proceeded with his formulation. These days syrup producers and
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bottlers have no impurities to hide, but back in the "three copper
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kettles in somebody's basement" days, covering up what might have
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inadvertently dropped into the mix was a concern, and brown hid
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indiscretions remarkably well.)
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Coke has at times been bottled in green glass bottles, which perhaps
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explains the popularity of this particular rumor.
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Barbara "rub of the green" Mikkelson
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Last updated: 16 November 1999
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The URL for this page is http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/green.htm
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Please use this URL in all links or references to this page
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 3 30 Oct 2000
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Urban Legends Reference Pages (C) 1995-2000 by Barbara and David P.
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Mikkelson
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Note: Editor normally would not use space to correct items unless they
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pertained to personal misquotes, or misinformation about Fidonet.
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Lee's challenge was correct, thus the correction.
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ED
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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(8378) Mon 23 Oct 00 10:28p Rcvd: Tue 24 Oct 10:37a
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By: Ruth Argust
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To: Warren Bonner
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Re: R14 - Let it Alone!
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St: Rcvd
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Hiya Warren.
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How da hell ya doing ol' man?
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Warren Bonner wrote in a message to Ruth Argust:
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> Had Ross discussed the situation with Douglas via netmail (since
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WB> Very true. Although I do not think Ross meant it as a malicious
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WB> attack, some others put that twist on it. He should have used
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WB> netmail had he given it the credence it proved to merit later.
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Hang on cuz I am gonna say one thing GOOD about our esteemed BK :) A
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very long time ago, I was having some severe problems in an echo I
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moderate and had to cut the feed of a user with a really dirty mouth.
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I crashed netmail out the wazoo and got nary a response from the
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sysop. (I think BK was the REC of R10 at that time and not yet the
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RC.) Well, there I was, not wanting to take it a step further and I
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asked BK for advice on the issue, giving him the details. Kohl gave me
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a lecture on being patient to wait on a response even though the war
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was really ripping my echo into shreds. Sure enough, I did get a
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response about the next day from the sysop who deeply apologized for
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not having answered sooner and he told me he had cut the user's
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access. The sysop had been out of town on business.
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Now, to be honest, one assumes that the RC's are paying attention to
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their netmail more closely the average Joe Sysop does and if I see a
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post from an RC who has not yet answered *important* netmail I sent
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them, I start to really wonder.
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>>RA> circumstances. Doing so did exemplify someone with a nasty >
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disposition.
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>WB> Exemplify = "Is to set example". Possibly you ment
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"expose". *^)
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RA> No, I did mean exemplify but thanks for asking :) As Temp Editor
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you =should= do things like that <g>.
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WB> At any rate it is water under the bridge, and we should hold to
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WB> each other with strong working and forgiving friendships if our
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WB> favorite pet puppy is to survive the operations necessary for it
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WB> to survive.
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Tell the party of the first part that he should not dredge up old
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 5 30 Oct 2000
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stories which are untrue and then he will not get corrected.
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WB> You and I have worked togather a number of years now, we
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WB> haven't always pleased eachother in opinions, but we have fought
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WB> togather for what was right for puppy Fido.
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Now that's a very polite way to say in the past you and I have fought
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with each other like banshees ;)
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WB> Time for all of us to forgive any grievances of the past, they
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WB> don't make for good building blocks for the future. You are one of
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WB> the strongest, brightest minds in Fido-any-zone. Let your light
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WB> shine pure, undiminished by shades of dark past echo thunder and
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WB> lightening.
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You are getting downright poetic, Warren. How did you hide this from
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me for all these years? S M O O C H !
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WB> We all love your spirit, and rich humor when you feel good. 8^)
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I feel like crap. Will know more (I hope) tomorrow. If I disappear,
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someone will let you know why since I have posted what's up in
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fn_sysop. But don't you worry none, I'll be back with my six shooter
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loaded with silver bullets -:)
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WB> Please don't take this wrong. You are one of my best Fido
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friends.
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You have been a very bright spot in my Fido life, Warren. I don't
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=always= take things wrong from you. Now if it was Joe............
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<BEG>
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*ruth*
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---
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Fido-folks, let's all take a moment to ask our God's blessings for
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Ruthie and all others in our Fido family who are suffering great pain
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and need releif and healing.
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~end~~~~~~~~~~~~
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Sit down for a spell, Ol' WDB; I've got a little tale to tell you...
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It's a sordid, seedy tale, the same kind that sells so well in those
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supermarket tabloids, and it involves nodelists, lies and echomail.
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It seems there's been news getting out about some very disturbing
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elfish behavior of the chief nodelist clerk of that region that claims
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to be the great bastion of Fido freedom. Apparently if a sysop in
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Region 12 doesn't agree with the way things are being done there, he's
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looked down upon. If a R12 sysop chooses not to vote in their annual
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elections, he's apparently casted as an "outsider", and his
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nodelisting may even get pulled for "inactivity in the R12 echos", or
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some other foolishness in such vague terms as "lack of participation".
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It seems the elfishness even extends to the holy and anointed mail
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mover and "defender of the dogma" of Region 12, to whom someone
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apparently forgot to mention that the moving of echomail should not
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 6 30 Oct 2000
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involve politics. Heaven forbid that an R12 node might try to crash
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route a netmail; the Fido "free region" is internet aware, don't you
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know; and has perfect routed netmail lines that never lose mail. Why
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bother with a silly little thing like POTS connectivity? Who still
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uses modems these days anyhow?
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But I digress... Getting back to the elfin antics of the top banana
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in the R12 bunch; it seems recently this "nodelist clerk" took a
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dislike to the sudden appearance of a certain node number of which he
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did not approve, in the path lines of a certain member of his region's
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echomail. Now this little detail perturbed this nodelist clerk so much
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that he just felt he had to fire off an immediate netmail to the
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offending node in order to voice his displeasure.
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Now is it just me, or does anyone else out there wonder just what
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business it is for a "nodelist clerk" where one of his regions sysops
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pulls his echomail from? The last time I checked, getting an echomail
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feed from a different source than the "approved" one was not a Fido
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crime, and not even against any policy that a region might choose not
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to recognize. It's funny, but when I started receiving echomail from a
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source in Region 18, it didn't seem such a big urgent deal to my
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"appointed" RC-17 that he felt he had to send me a netmail to try and
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get me "back in line". In fact, now I'm feeding my local net from that
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same source, and never heard a peep against it out of my own region.
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Yes, Ol' WDB, you guessed right; the node number which the R12
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ElfLo-* err, "nodelist clerk" objected to so much to was none other
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than 1:134/11; my own happy Fido home on the range. It's unlikely the
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RC-12 will believe it, but this particular sysop I did not solicit, as
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I do not believe in that sort of thing. He came to me of his own
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volition, since he was one of our hubs in another FTN of which I am an
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administrator, and he had returned from the black hole that others
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thought had swallowed him up for good, and wanted a feed in that
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network. As he was very dissatisfied with the holy anointed R12 mail
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mover, he also asked me to feed him Fidonet echomail. Being a good,
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hospitable Albertan and former Nova Scotian, I was not about to turn
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away a friend in need.
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Now true, I may have locked horns a time or two in the FN_SYSOP echo
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with the RC-12, but really, when it comes down to it, I am a Z1B mail
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hub, and anyone in this fine network who requests an echomail feed
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from me will be readily accomodated, so long as I have the resources
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to do so. I will *not* pick and choose who I feed echomail to based on
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Fidonet politics, and I should be able to expect that the elfishness
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of others should not be used as a vice to "squeeze" any of my
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downlinks about their echomail choices.
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It seems to me it doesn't make a difference if a *C is elected or
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appointed in this network. An elected *C who claims to be just a
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"nodelist clerk" clearly *can* act just like the ElfLords of yore. Not
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to worry, though; by the time this letter goes into the 'snooze, at
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least two oppressed nodes in Region 12 will have availed themselves of
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the geographic exemption clause in the Fidonet P-1.04 policy document
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and found asylum elsewhere. And to think; R12 thought *they* owned the
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concept of political asylum in Fidonet!
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ARTICLES
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FTSC- What does it do?
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By David Hallford
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First of all I would like to thank those who wrote me about my
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previous article. All responses were positive, which (trust me) is not
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the normal response I get when I write an article for the Fidonews.
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One thing most of the messages had in common were a
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misunderstanding of what the Fidonet Technical Standards Committee
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really does.
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Excerpts from FTA-1000 revision 2 dated 29 December 1997 and titled
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"FTSC Charter"
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================== 1. Mission ----------
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The Fidonet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC) is responsible for
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providing a thorough technical definition of FidoNet and its
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protocols sufficient to maintain it as a compatible electronic mail
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system, specifically by:
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1. Documenting current practice in technical standards.
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2. Encouraging new technologies in Fidonet software development.
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3. Reassessing and revising FTS documents regularly.
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4. Being publicly accessible to Fidonet sysops.
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5. Distributing Technical Standards and Proposals.
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6. Providing FTS document interpretations on software compatibility.
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The FTSC shall maintain a publication which documents only the
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minimum acceptable protocol for a Fidonet node to receive mail as
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referred to in the current FidoNet Policy Document (Policy 4.07 at
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this writing) The FTSC shall not take upon itself any right to
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increase or decrease this requirement without express direction to do
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so from the International Coordinator (IC).
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===================
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As you can see, the FTSC does not establish the technical standards
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of Fidonet,they document them. This does not mean that individual
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members of the FTSC, writing as individuals, do not write software
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which ends up in a standard. It means that the FTSC doesn't establish
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what the standard is - that is done by its acceptance by Fidonet *C's
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and SysOps. The FTSC merely takes the already established standard and
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documents it's use.
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So (IMHO) don't allow yourself to be limited by a current standard. If
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you have a better way of doing something - DO IT! - if it is accepted
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by the SysOps of Fidonet then it will be documented as a standard.
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COLUMNS
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wdbonner@pacbell.net
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DID YOU KNOW...
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Q. Email sent with only a "handle@something.com" is almost anonymous?
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A. Always include your name in closing your message.
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Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month?
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A. Conception.
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Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show?
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A. No theme song.
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Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what?
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A. Their birthplace.
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Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat
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name requested?
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A. Obsession
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Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go
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until you would find the letter "A"?
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A. One thousand
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Q. What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and
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laser printers all have in common?
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A. All invented by women.
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Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil?
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A. Honey
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Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the
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year?
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A. Father's Day
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Q. What trivial fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most
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ironic?
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A. He was allergic to carrots.
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Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party?
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A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet.
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FIDONET BIOGRAPHIES
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Frank Vest
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1:124/6308(.1)
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flv@texoma.net
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http://texoma.net/~flv
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Hello to all of Fidonet,
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Things happen in life that make you believe that there is a power
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above what we know and experience in this world. Sometimes it's a
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little thing, sometime it's big. The big stuff is easy to see and
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realize, the little things take more looking, but are just as
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wonderful.
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Generally in this section of Fidonews, I give a Web Page location and
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then a review of the page in as much of an analytical manner as my
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abilities can.
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Ok, here's the page address:
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http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org/
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And the title:
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TartarNet (2:5049@fidonet) official site
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Now, pardon me while I "bubble"(praise & ramble) a while. :-)
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To say this is a great site is by far an understatement in my humble
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opinion. I love the background! What is that picture of? Is it clouds
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or...? Anyway, I like it!
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The site is Russian... Tatarstan Republic (Russia) to be exact. Now,
|
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don't let this stop you from visiting the site. The address that I
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gave came up in english. If I understand what I think I understand,
|
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the page detects the language you are using (from Windows) and
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displays the page accordingly.
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I really wish I had learned a second language when I was in school
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those many years ago. At my age now, I don't think that learning a
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second language would be possible. If you are a young person in
|
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school, learn that second, third, or as many, languages as you can.
|
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You might not think it worthwhile now and it might be a pain, but you
|
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will thank yourself later in life. Don't argue with me, just DO IT!
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;-)
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Ok, back to the site.
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Look this site over good. Follow _ALL_ the links. Many are in Russian,
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but many are in english. Even the ones in Russian tell a story if you
|
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look and take a few minutes to study them. Find the photos of the
|
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people in this TartarNet and see what they look like, who they are and
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 13 30 Oct 2000
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realize that we aren't so different after all! If you follow the links
|
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deep enough, you'll learn about the Tatarstan Republic, Fidonet in
|
||
Russia, Fidonet in this area of Russia and more.
|
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|
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Now, what was it I was saying in the first paragraph of this review??
|
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Ah yes...
|
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|
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"Things happen in life that make you believe that there is a power
|
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above what we know and experience in this world. Sometimes it's a
|
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little thing, sometime it's big. The big stuff is easy to see and
|
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realize, the little things take more looking, but are just as
|
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wonderful."
|
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|
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Now, I've probably got you wondering and confused. Here we go:
|
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|
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In the Fidonews Echo, there has been much talk about different
|
||
formats, languages and ways to offer the Fidonews and Fidonet. Here's
|
||
a place that is doing just that. Praise be to the people behind this
|
||
site. They have went the "extra mile" and learned the "second
|
||
language" and used it to show Fidonet to their country as well as
|
||
allow another country to understand their country. A small thing? Yes,
|
||
but just as wonderful. If you look hard, you will also realize that
|
||
this "TartarNet" offers their Echos to any that is wanting them.
|
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Another small thing, but still wonderful.
|
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|
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I'm going to shut up now. In closing, I'll say this:
|
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|
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Get off you behind, fire up your web browser, connect to your ISP and
|
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visit this site. Don't argue, just _DO IT_! ;-))
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~end~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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NET HUMOR
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QUESTION OF THE WEEK
|
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=================================================================
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|
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By Brenda, R10C
|
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00 12:30p
|
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By: brenda donovan
|
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To: all
|
||
Re: opinions and comments
|
||
St:
|
||
------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Hi all,
|
||
|
||
Discussions are still going on about how to facilitate the upcoming
|
||
Z1C elections and when to have them...
|
||
|
||
Options and variations thereof being discussed are:
|
||
|
||
voting method
|
||
sysop wide voting
|
||
sysop to NC to RC style.
|
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|
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start soonest
|
||
EC (most likely Carol since she moves to Japan in May)
|
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no interim Z1C
|
||
|
||
start after holidays
|
||
interim ZC - full responsibilities
|
||
interim ZC - just diff processing
|
||
|
||
|
||
Z1_POLITICAL should be heating up soon.
|
||
|
||
--- GEcho/32 1.20/Pro * Origin: R10 RHUB - TNL Online! - IP/FTP Mail -
|
||
San Diego, CA (1:10/3)
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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=================================================================
|
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|
||
. -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- -
|
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| FIDONET-RELATED SITES |
|
||
` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- -
|
||
Last update: September 16, 2000
|
||
|
||
FidoNet
|
||
Homepage: http://www.fidonet.org
|
||
FidoNews: http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
|
||
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
|
||
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
|
||
Echolist: http://www.baltimoremd.com/echolist/
|
||
Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html
|
||
SDS Files: http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
|
||
FTSC page: http://www.ftsc.org/
|
||
General: http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html
|
||
|
||
Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
|
||
Region 10: http://www.r10.org
|
||
http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
|
||
Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
|
||
Net 203: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
|
||
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
|
||
Net 2410: http://www.earforce.dyndns.org/net2410/
|
||
Region 12: http://sparkys.dyndns.org
|
||
Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
|
||
Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
|
||
Net 275: http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/
|
||
Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
|
||
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
|
||
Region 15: <vacant>
|
||
Region 16: <vacant>
|
||
Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
|
||
Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140
|
||
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
|
||
|
||
Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19
|
||
Net 124: http://www.startext.net/np/net124
|
||
http://texoma.net/~flv
|
||
Net 130: http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
|
||
Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/
|
||
|
||
Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
|
||
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.)
|
||
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
|
||
Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
|
||
|
||
Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
|
||
http://www.was-ist-fido.de/
|
||
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
|
||
|
||
|
||
Region 25: http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
|
||
FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 17 30 Oct 2000
|
||
|
||
|
||
Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
|
||
REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
|
||
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
|
||
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
|
||
http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
|
||
Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)
|
||
? Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
|
||
Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
|
||
REC34: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
|
||
Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
|
||
Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
|
||
Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
|
||
Region 42: http://www.fido.cz
|
||
! Net422: http://www.fido.sk (Slovak/English)
|
||
Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
|
||
Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
|
||
Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
|
||
Net 5028: http://5028.yaroslavl.ru/
|
||
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
|
||
Net 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian)
|
||
Net 5074: http://www.z2.n5074.fidonet.net
|
||
?? Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)
|
||
|
||
Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
|
||
|
||
Zone 4:
|
||
Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese)
|
||
Region 90:
|
||
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
|
||
|
||
Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/
|
||
|
||
Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
|
||
Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html
|
||
(Chinese)
|
||
|
||
|
||
Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
|
||
|
||
See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html
|
||
|
||
a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
|
||
address. The email is translated as follows
|
||
firstlast@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the
|
||
appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
|
||
also receive routed notice of this feature. In my case, it
|
||
would still be joejared@osirusoft.com, but you get the idea.
|
||
|
||
Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
|
||
latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
|
||
time between when the message is received, and when it is
|
||
sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
|
||
defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
|
||
immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
|
||
after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.
|
||
|
||
FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 18 30 Oct 2000
|
||
|
||
|
||
v-email flag firstnamelastname@osirusoft.com
|
||
| email address or
|
||
Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
|
||
| | |latency|
|
||
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
|
||
Zone 1 | | | |
|
||
10/3 | Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c
|
||
10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c
|
||
12/12 @ Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
|
||
13/25 @ Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
|
||
103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | 384k,!| n/c
|
||
103/153 @ Michael Box | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
|
||
103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c
|
||
103/401 @ Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
|
||
105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
|
||
105/72 @ Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr
|
||
106/1 @ Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 128k | ???
|
||
106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
|
||
107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
|
||
140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
|
||
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
|
||
211/417 @ Korombos | BinkP,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c
|
||
218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE | 33.6k | n/c
|
||
244/2 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1,! | $25.00/mo
|
||
246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c
|
||
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
|
||
342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
|
||
395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | 128k | n/c
|
||
379/1 @ Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
|
||
396/1 @ John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1,10 | $5/mo
|
||
396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
|
||
2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
|
||
2613/404 @ David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c
|
||
2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
3613/2 @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE | 28.8 | n/c
|
||
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
|
||
3639/93 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c
|
||
3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Zone 2 |
|
||
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
|
||
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
|
||
236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
280/1601 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE | 64k |N/C
|
||
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | N/C
|
||
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
|
||
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
|
||
332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
335/535 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
|
||
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
|
||
FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 19 30 Oct 2000
|
||
|
||
|
||
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
464/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | 19.2 | n/c
|
||
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
|
||
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
|
||
480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
|
||
2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
|
||
2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
|
||
2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
|
||
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
|
||
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Zone 3
|
||
633/260 @ Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
|
||
640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
|
||
774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
|
||
|
||
--------------------------------------------------------------
|
||
Zone 4
|
||
905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c
|
||
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
|
||
|
||
--
|
||
* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
|
||
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
|
||
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
|
||
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
|
||
* NFS = Linux Networking
|
||
----------------------------------------------
|
||
Fidonet oriented news servers
|
||
|
||
news.osirusoft.com
|
||
news.tardis.net
|
||
|
||
Fidonet oriented chat rooms.
|
||
|
||
room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays
|
||
irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted)
|
||
|
||
----------------------------------------------
|
||
|
||
Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
|
||
Joe Jared, 1:103/301, joejared@osirusoft.com. All email addresses
|
||
here for purpose of corresponding with fidonet members about
|
||
obtaining a feed. Improper use of the virtual email addresses, and
|
||
most especially, email addressed to blockme@relays.osirusoft.com
|
||
will be considered a request to be blocked by my open relay spam
|
||
stopper at http://relays.osirusoft.com
|
||
|
||
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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|
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FIDONEWS 17-44 Page 21 30 Oct 2000
|
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|
||
|
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|
||
FIDONEWS INFORMATION
|
||
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|
||
|
||
|
||
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
|
||
| |
|
||
| Editor: Warren D. Bonner, 1:1/23, editor@fidonews.org |
|
||
| Webmaster: Jim Barchuk, jb@fidonews.org |
|
||
| Columnist: Joe Jared, 1:103/0, joejared@osirusoft.com |
|
||
| (Fido Via Internet Hubs column) |
|
||
| Columnist: Ol' WDB, 1:103/401, wdbonner@pacbell.net |
|
||
| Humor: Roy Reed, rcreed@juno.com |
|
||
| Features: Frank Vest, 1:124/6308.1 |
|
||
| |
|
||
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
|
||
|
||
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - EDITORS EMERITI - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
|
||
| |
|
||
| Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince |
|
||
| Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees, |
|
||
| Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg, Henk Wolsink, |
|
||
| Doug Meyers* |
|
||
| |
|
||
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
|
||
|
||
* deceased
|
||
|
||
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
|
||
trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA
|
||
94141, and are used with permission.
|
||
|
||
Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of Fidonet.
|
||
Fidonews is Copyright (C) 2000 by Warren Bonner, though authors
|
||
retain rights to their contributed articles. Opinions expressed by
|
||
the authors is strictly their own. Noncommercial duplication and
|
||
distribution within Fidonet is encouraged. Authors are encouraged
|
||
to send their articles in ASCII text to Warren Bonner at one of his
|
||
addresses above.
|
||
|
||
The weekly edition of Fidonews is distributed through the file area
|
||
FIDONEWS, and is published as echomail in the echo FIDONEWS. These
|
||
sources are normally available through your Network Coordinator.
|
||
The current and past issues are also available from the following
|
||
sources:
|
||
|
||
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- - FIDONEWS AVAILABILITY - -- -- -- -- -- -- +
|
||
| |
|
||
| Freq FIDONEWS @ 1:140/1, or 1:396/1 |
|
||
| ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/ |
|
||
| ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/ |
|
||
| http://www.fidonews.org |
|
||
| email subscription: majordomo@fidonews.org |
|
||
| (subject: help body: list) |
|
||
| ftp mail: ftpmail@fidonews.org (subject: help) |
|
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