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Original Message Date: 27 Jun 92 09:48:28
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From: Mike Reardon on 1:280/6
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: Fidonews
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^AINTL 1:1/1 1:280/6
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Hello Tom!
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Below please find a cut-and-paste from the current Fidonews:
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My electronic world is deteriorating. I have to call in at 300 baud to
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edit this rag (sic) due to problems with the phone line here at my
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(new) boyfriends house here in the Pacific NorthWest.
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I have to admit that I'm not doing a particularly good job this week;
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I've fallen terribly in love with a wonderful punk boy, and won't be
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back at the end of the month like I said. Don't worry, I wont inflict
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lovey-dovey garbage on FidoNews readers. People in love are sooo
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disgusting to be around (just ask his roommate).
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==========================================================================
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I am glad for you that you are happy with your new lover, however, I have <20>
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absolutely no desire to read about your private life in Fidonews.
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I have seen you mention being gay at different times in the editorial. I <20>
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don't personally care whether you are gay, straight, twisted, asexual, or <20>
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whatever <grin>. I don't, however, read Fidonews to find out about your <20>
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latest sexual adventures. I read it to find out about Fidonet, and I <20>
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don't see that being gay or any or sexual preference has anything <20>
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whatsoever to do with running a Fido system.
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This is a personal request to leave your private life out of Fidonews.
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Thanks,
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Mike
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Original Message Date: 24 Jun 92 02:21:14
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From: Karen Maynor on 1:3640/5
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: SDN CD
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^AMSGID: 1:3640/5@FidoNet.Org 57964744
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Hi Tom,
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The SDN 1 Plus CDROM is now a reality.. Yeah! I have the #0001 framed on <20>
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my wall and your copy was sent Saturday.. Look for it whenever you get <20>
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back from vacation... Hope you enjoy it... I read of all your troubles <20>
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calling to read your mail at 300 baud (ick!), so I won't bother you with <20>
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annoucement about the disc in fnews until you return home and it will be <20>
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easier for ya...
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Also, many congrats on your new love.. :) Hope it works out wonderfully <20>
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for you.
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Karen
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Original Message Date: 03 Jul 92 13:31:46
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From: Al Anderson on 1:377/37
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: Backbone Politics
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^AMSGID: 1:377/37@fidonet.org 5c8d1825
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Dear Sir;
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While I have not been around FIDO all that long, I was under the mistaken <20>
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belief that it was an amateur communications network of, for & by the <20>
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people.
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Recently the Perot echo completed all previously known requirements to be <20>
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placed on the backbone. Now, additional previously unpublished rules have <20>
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been formulated which appear to be aimed specifically at delaying backbone <20>
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status to this one particular echo.
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I am not a political person, but I am a firm believer in freedom of speech <20>
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and an informed populace. That is the reason I carry so many echos - <20>
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backbone or not, pro or con anything. I run a free multi-line FIDO board <20>
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for just that purpose and carry over 110 echos and now the FileBone. I <20>
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carry everything from AIDS/GENDER/GAY to some of the most right wing stuff <20>
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ever to cross a CRT.
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I find this latest twist disgusting, reprehensible and petty as just a few <20>
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adjectives that cross my mind. I wonder if the AIDS echos fought a <20>
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similar battle.
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Just blowing off steam. I carry the echo as part of my LD effort and will <20>
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continue to carry it regardless of what petty efforts are made by those in <20>
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a position "of authority" to stifle communications. I believe some people <20>
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do not understand that they are also in a position of "responsibility" - a <20>
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novel concept.
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Btw...good luck with your latest love. I just about died when I read the <20>
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last two news issues. Openness on Fido?
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thank you for your time...
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---
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Original Message Date: 01 Jul 92 09:00:52
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From: Uucp on 1:125/555
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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Subj: Re: FidoNet Newsletter, Volume 9, # 25
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^AINTL 1:125/111 1:125/555
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From kumr!pozar
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From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
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To: joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM
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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 8:41:30 PDT
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Cc: Tom.Jennings@f111.n125.z1.fidonet.org
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joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM wrote:
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> This newsgroup will henceforth be blocked from this system due to <20>
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repeated
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> references to what many users have found disgusting (namly the fag and <20>
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his
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> boyfriend).
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>
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> Sorry ladies..... You're still not accepted on this system.
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Nice to see homophobia is alive and well in your community...
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Tim
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--
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Internet: pozar@kumr.lns.com FidoNet: Tim Pozar @ 1:125/555
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UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr.lns.com!pozar
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Snail: Tim Pozar / KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108 / USA
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Voice: +1 415 788 2022
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Original Message Date: 12 Jul 92 21:53:50
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From: George Willard on 1:286/66
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
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Subj: boyfriend?
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^AFLAGS PVT,CRA,XMA,DIR
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Just read your editorial where you mentioned the node/net/whatever that <20>
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decided to quit distributing FidoNews because of "the fag and his new <20>
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boyfriend."
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What a hoot!
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Jeeze, I wonder how many people will freak when/if I decide to announce <20>
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the ZOOPHILE echo in FNEWS? Maybe you should put me on the FidoNews staff <20>
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so they can gripe about "the pervert and his four-legged wife," thus <20>
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drawing the heat off of you? Sorry, but I find some folks' attitudes <20>
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absolutely hilarious -- when they aren't downright terrifying!
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Hey, I was glad to see that you found a nice friend and lover. <20>
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Everyone needs love; some of us seek it out or discover it in <20>
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less-than-traditional manners, that's all. (Some of us in <20>
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MUCH-less-than-etc., grin.)
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Oh, about the proposed echo -- I'm dead serious, but am waiting to hear <20>
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from Butch Walker exactly how to set it up so that it will be in <20>
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compliance with backbone policy; i.e., no obscenity, no solicitation or <20>
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sharing of partners, no pornography exchanges and/or sales ... topics held <20>
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to support for individuals, sharing of coping strategies, discussion of <20>
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issues both political and social as applied to "strangelove." Wonder if I <20>
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can pull it off?
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I haven't yet decided whether to moderate it as "Hossius Anonymous" or <20>
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"Dr. Doolittle." A local user dubbed me the latter as a flame, but I <20>
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rather like it.
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George Willard, 1:286/66, non-CM, LO, MO
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co-moderator of WRITING echo
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Original Message Date: 24 Jul 92 01:04:57
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From: Josh Burke on 1:343/95
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To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
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Subj: Problems
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^AFLAGS DIR
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A recent article in fidonews contained the following lines:
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"
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Well, no scandals, flames, outings, net wars, political conspiracies
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this week. Too bad. It's getting quiet around here.
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Actually, the above reminds me of something Vince Perriello (Josh (my
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boyfriend, remember him?) and I had coffee & pizza with Vince in
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Seattle) brought up, and I think is so obvious (in hindsight) that I'm
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completely amazed I've never heard it before --
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"
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The use of "Josh" without any other form of identification has caused me <20>
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some problems within the network. I have had a number of flaming <20>
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netmails, insults, and I believe I have lost Zone Coordinator position in <20>
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the network I started. I believe that you intended no ill towards me, nor <20>
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any other "Josh"'s in Seattle. I would appreatiate some clarity of what <20>
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you meant by this in a upcoming fidonews. Please note that I have nothing <20>
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aginst homosexuals...
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I have been in Austraila for 11 days, to find my BBS crashed (Neighbor did <20>
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not reset the computer, he reset the VCR!), Zone Coordinator position <20>
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lost, Fido feed cut... not the kind of things you like to see after 28 <20>
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hours in a airplane.
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(I did warn everybody I was going to Australia)
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