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Volume 8, Number 7 18 February 1991
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
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Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
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Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Copyright 1991, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication
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For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software.
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the Members of the
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FidoNet (r) International Amateur Electronic Mail System. It is
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a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors
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Opinions expressed in FidoNews articles are those of the authors
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Most articles are unsolicited. Our policy is to publish every
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responsible submission received.
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Table of Contents
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1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
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And on This Anniversary .................................. 1
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Editorial: Support Your Favorite Online Service? ......... 3
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Compression method flag? ................................. 6
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2. COLUMNS .................................................. 7
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InterChange, Getting it there ............................ 7
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3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 9
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Latest Software Versions ................................. 9
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 14
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Sincerest apology, FidoNet ............................... 14
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The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 14
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ARTICLES
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Aaron Goldblatt
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1:130/20.1102 FidoNet
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20:491/223.0 MailNet
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45:200/52.0 RATnet
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And on This Anniversary . . .
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After seeing my article in FidoNews 806 I decided to do it
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again. Please forgive me but it's an ego thing. :-)
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This week I'd like to talk about echomail. Yes, that's
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right, the method by which we communicate about all sorts of
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topics from cooking to politics to C++ to idle chatter.
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If you're like most people you're reading this on Monday
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evening after a day at work, and today is February 18, 1991.
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The date is important in this one instance, for last
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Saturday, as noted in the Interrupt Stack for quite a while,
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was the fifth anniversary of the introduction of echomail by
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a man named Jeff Rush.
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I think it proper that we all take a moment to reflect on
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what the past five years have brought us as a result of
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Mr. Rush's scheme of mail transfer. The average user can
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talk to people as far away as China and Sweden free of
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charge by just reading and entering a message. The average
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sysop can do likewise, and also discuss BBS and mailer
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software, mail processors, doorware, and a host of other
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things. Echomail is primarily a form of communication.
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That is what it was intended for, I think - for people to be
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able to talk to one another using a simple yet powerful
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medium (those of you still trying to get your mail
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processors to pack your mail correctly may differ on the
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simple part, but I think you must admit it is a powerful
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method of communication). The average message on an
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international echo could travel around the globe in less
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that two days, and a reply could be on its way in less than
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three. Wow - netmail can't do that by its very nature.
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So just stop and think a moment. Echomail is not a tool by
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which you may control people ("Do it my way or your feed is
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history!"), and it is not a vehicle for individual
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betterment. It is a way to talk - to communicate - to
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exchange ideas and information. And it seems to have become
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the very basis of FidoNet.
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Just stop and think a moment what echomail has done for you.
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That's all I ask.
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 3 18 Feb 1991
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Jack Decker
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SUPPORT YOUR FAVORITE ONLINE SERVICE?
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[My apologies in advance to those readers located outside of
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the United States of America, because the following editorial
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probably won't be of much interest to you, but there is no
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"Zone 1" or "U.S.A. only" edition of Fidonews.]
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The following item recently appeared in Communications Week, a
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telecommunications trade publication:
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"COALITION PETITIONS FCC - A broad coalition of users and
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providers of enhanced services last week petitioned the FCC to
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declare that regulating enhanced-service providers as if they
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are public utilities is contrary to the public interest.
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Noting that the District of Columbia Public Service Commission
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has tentatively concluded that it has the authority to impose
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tariff requirements and market-entry and -exit rules on
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enhanced-service providers, the 16 petitioners urged the FCC to
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pre-empt any such state regulatory action. The District
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proceeding is prompting some enhanced-service providers to
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consider restructuring their services 'and possibly restricting
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offerings in the District,' the petitioners said. Among the
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petitioners were BT Tymnet Inc., the California Bankers
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Clearing House Association, CompuServe Inc., Digital Equipment
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Corp., IBM, the Information Industry Association, MasterCard
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International Inc., McGraw Hill Inc., Prodigy Services Co. and
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Visa U.S.A. Inc." [End of quote.]
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Now, many of us use, or have in the past used enhanced-service
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providers (we sometimes call them "Packet Switching Networks"
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or "Online Services"). And, our first inclination might be
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that we don't really want each of the 50 states setting
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different regulations and requirements for the various
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providers.
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But, there are those of us who remember not so long ago when
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the enhanced-service providers were asking everyone to lobby
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the FCC on their behalf, so that they wouldn't have to pay the
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same types of access charges that voice long distance carriers
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have to pay to local telephone companies. Telenet (now
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SprintNet) in particular asked all their users, including users
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of their PC Pursuit service, to write the FCC on their behalf.
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The FCC was swamped with letters of protest (as were several
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congressmen), and plans to levy the access charge were dropped.
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And how did the enhanced-service providers reward those who had
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written on their behalf? Well, in Telenet's case, they changed
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the pricing structure on PC Pursuit so that instead of paying a
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flat rate for monthly service, you paid a higher rate for a
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service with a 30 hour cap... and very few of their promises to
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upgrade equipment in various cities and add new access points
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were kept (we were promised an indial in Sault Ste. Marie,
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Michigan over two years ago. We're still waiting). To say
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that a lot of PC Pursuit users felt like they had been shafted
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is probably more than just a bit of an understatement!
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Well, there's a pretty good chance that the enhanced-service
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providers may come around asking for your support again. May I
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offer a suggestion? Go ahead and write the FCC and urge that
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the enhanced-service providers be subject to Federal regulation
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only in all states in which they offer universal access...
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that is, full access to all their services at the price of a
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local call, from any point within the state, so that those
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living in suburban and rural areas are not disadvantaged. In
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those states where access is not universal, however, the states
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should have regulatory jurisdiction.
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What's the rationale behind this? Well, apparently the FCC and
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the Federal government aren't too interested in seeing that the
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enhanced-service providers don't "cherry pick" - that is, offer
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services only in the more lucrative major metropolitan areas
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and medium-size cities, while ignoring the smaller cities and
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rural areas. However, the state governments would presumably
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be somewhat more responsive to the needs of all their
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residents, including those that live in the outlying areas.
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The concept of "universal service" has been applied to the
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telephone industry for quite some time. In many areas, even if
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you can't reach an alternate long distance carrier by using
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"dial 1" access, you can get to their switch by using a
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"950-xxxx" access number, which is generally a free call from
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anywhere in a LATA (even if you have to dial a "1" or "0" first
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to make the call go through an older switch). If the long
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distance carriers can achieve "universal service" (or something
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very close to it) through use of the "950-" numbers, I wonder
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why the enhanced-service providers can't put some of their
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access ports on "950-" numbers, so as to make them available in
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areas outside of the major cities.
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The city that I live in has a population of over fifteen
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thousand, a state university, the headquarters of TWO electric
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power utilities, the headquarters of two banks plus branch
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offices of several other financial institutions, and several
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state and federal offices, all within the local calling area.
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We are also THE major shopping area for folks living within a
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50-mile radius. If none of the enhanced-service providers are
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interested in providing service here, I can just imagine how
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long the wait will be for those small towns that have only a
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couple of gas stations, a small supermarket, and a dry goods
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store. If the telephone companies offered service the way the
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packet networks do, I might have to drive 150 miles to make or
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receive a long distance call!
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Those of you who are concerned with the environment
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(specifically, air pollution caused by thousands of automobiles
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stuck in traffic jams), and who have advocated "telecommuting"
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(working at home using a computer and modem) as one possible
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solution should be especially concerned about this. No one is
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going to pay several dollars an hour in long distance charges
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to work from their home! So because access to the
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packet-switching networks is not often available from the "far
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suburbs" of a city, the workers that have to travel the
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furthest (and use the most gasoline) are forced by economics to
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drive to work even when that work could be done from home.
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So, if you are asked to write to the FCC, please consider
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making your support conditional upon the enhanced-service
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providers showing some "corporate responsibility" and not
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thumbing their collective noses at the smaller cities. It is
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high time that the enhanced-service providers realized that
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there is life outside the big cities, and that those folks
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deserve access, too. As it is, folks in some foreign countries
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can access U.S. online services and packet networks for less
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than what it costs folks in some of our own rural areas (in
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many countries you can access the packet network as a local
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call from any telephone exchange in the country!).
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One final note - those of you who only call BBS's and who don't
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subscribe to any of the online services may wonder why you
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should even care about this. Well, just keep in mind that some
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of those great programs that you've downloaded from your
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favorite BBS (or that your users have uploaded to you, if
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you're a SysOp) may have originally reached your area through a
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packet-switching network or online service. The more folks
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that can economically access such services, the faster new
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software travels around the world. Besides, someday YOU may
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have a need to access an online service from somewhere out in
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the boonies!
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 6 18 Feb 1991
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Kristian (Kris) Stark
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As Bruce Gingery noted in his article in FidoNews 806 (Feb 11,
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1991), there is still a general problem with file compression.
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As it is now, there are several different formats being used for
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compressed files within the net that cannot use the standard
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compressed file extensions. (ie. ZIP, PAK, ARC etc) This holds
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true for nodelists/diffs as well as our beloved friends, the
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mail packets that come. Bruce mentioned the usage in an
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alternate network of a single character change to make life
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easier for sysops and others looking for files and how to
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decompress it. Well, that is all well and good, but something
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is still lacking.
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Today, most nodes support compressed mail packets. This is
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easily determined by looking at the latest nodelist, which will
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give an indication of what nodes do support ArcMail, and which
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do not. However, time has passed, and ARC is definately not the
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best archiving metheod available for use anymore. Many sysops
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with considerable echo traffic have realized this and have
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switched to other compression methods for echomail. All well
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and good for sending mail between known systems, but what about
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others? Even netmail is starting to move in compressed files,
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with the all too vague extensions. What decompressor should I
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use for mail from node x? How about y? What should I use to
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compress mail for node z?
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Suggestion? Well, it would seem like the most logical way to
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take care of this situation would be to add a flag to the
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nodelist. Yes, it means adding to the size of that already huge
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file, but I think it would be worth it. Instead of the MN flag
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(no compression supported), a separate flag could be implemented
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that would define the preferred compression format for that
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node. This flag could then be automatically used by programs
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such as echomail tossers, mailers, and by human users as well.
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So, my question is -- what to do? This is one suggestion, more
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are welcome...
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COLUMNS
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Bruce Gingery
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FidoNet 1:310/5.1
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YAPPPI (Yet another packet proposal - part 1)
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Our computer telecommunications has been growing by leaps and
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bounds. FidoNet is officially part of InterNet, with regular
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gates to everywhere. I believe I even saw an Origin line from
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Antarctica, as a point from a Zone-3 node not too long ago.
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The growth is not merely geographical, however. In addition,
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there are STILL greater varieties of the types and forms of com-
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munication. While true action video mail remains a twinkle in
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the eye of some, the NeXT pastes a "lips" icon to a message for
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far more than the old "sealed with a kiss". Click the lips, and
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you LISTEN to the digitized accompanying voice mail recording,
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music or whatever digitized sound has been mailed, in CD quality.
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Fax machines, and fax boards get faster and finer. More and
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more detail is included in high resolution graphics images and
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digitized video, in resolution, in depth of color or graytone,
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desired transparency, as well as overall height and width. And
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more and more, the computer is THE hub of it all.
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With each new development, from the original swapping of a
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message base, to today's 4-d addressing of all continents,
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FidoNet is the "compatibility" standard because the people
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whose heart is in it, do it best. And FidoNet has established
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a fairness tradition of accepting the new without dropping those
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who are not yet mechanically able to embrace the new.
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Because of this also, however, we have MANY proposed standards,
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and probably should. Though we can extend our hands together
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to Tom Jennings, no single person could have brought even the
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readership of this FidoNews together, let alone the uncounted
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users who actually participate in the Networks to which we
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are connected by these keyboards and screens.
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The fast growth has started, and many of the kludges will have
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to fall behind, just as patches on an outfit are lost when that
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portion of the clothing is replaced. Yet, in the tradition of
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FTS-0001, we can not justly abandon anyone who can now partici-
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pate.
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In the next several weeks, I will attempt to illustrate how
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packets, messages, tick-files, compressed mail and these other
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advances can be smoothly integrated, while leaving the connect-
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ion OPEN for those who cannot quickly move into these advances.
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Already, the sheer bulk of the full NodeList makes it nearly
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impossible for some to "FULLY" participate, but the tree hier-
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archy makes allowances for that, allowing the use of partial
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nodelists by those who cannot support the entire list, and even
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more, POINTing as the rest of the network can reasonably presume
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Boss routing for unlisted point systems.
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This proposal IS for two new packet headers, but with a powerful
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difference. These are equally applicable to packets and the
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single message, and to the free flow of files of all types
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without choking the network on unprocessable problems. It also
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allows for streamlining of processing, at origin, in transit
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and at the ultimate leaf destination.
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There has been a tremendous growth of POINT activity, in all
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zones, but, as I have been told, especially in zone two. In
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recognition of this, these type-4 and type-5 headers allow for
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full 4-d addressing. With 4-d addressing, the POINT is, of
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course, the ultimate "leaf" in the FidoNet tree structure.
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Full implementation of 4-d addressing allows para-FidoNet
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direct point-to-point communications, as well as Boss Node
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pass-through in Leaf-to-Leaf communications.
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The type-5 header addresses the needed bulk of seen-by and path
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information, so important in shared ECHO and Group mail. The two
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headers are as compatible as possible, both with the type-2 FTS-
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0001 header, as well as with the FTS-0001 .MSG format, and with
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nod to the FSC-0007 type-3 proposal.
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The kludges have grown to fill in what would not fit in the
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header and may amount in quite a few cases, to more kludge than
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message. Yet, hobbiest dollars have a far greater affinity to
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improvements and new items than the moving of information which
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actually IS useless -- which in the final analysis does NOT
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contribute either to direct information, nor smooth flow.
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Many places now, a text word or entire line takes the place of a
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bit or two, or perhaps 8 bytes.
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Next week, I'll introduce the proposed flagset, and after that,
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the headers which it helps to identify.
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Latest Software Versions
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Bulletin Board Software
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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DMG 2.93 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5g
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
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GSBBS 3.02 RBBS 17.3B TComm/TCommNet 3.4
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Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
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Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
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Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.55
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Opus 1.14+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
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PCBoard 14.5 XBBS 1.15
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Network Node List Other
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Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version
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BinkleyTerm 2.40 EditNL 4.00 ARC 7.0
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
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Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
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FrontDoor 1.99c Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
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SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 DOMAIN 1.42
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TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 EMM 2.02
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XlaxNode 2.35 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18
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Gmail 2.05
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GROUP 2.16
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GUS 1.30
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HeadEdit 1.15
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InterPCB 1.31
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LHARC 1.13
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MSG 4.1
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MSGED 2.06
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MSGTOSS 1.3
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Oliver 1.0a
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.10
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QM 1.0
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QSORT 4.03
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Sirius 1.0x
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SLMAIL 1.36
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StarLink 1.01
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TagMail 2.41
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TCOMMail 2.2
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Telemail 1.27
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TMail 1.15
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TPBNetEd 3.2
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TosScan 1.00
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UFGATE 1.03
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XRS 4.00*
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XST 2.2
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ZmailH 1.14
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OS/2 Systems
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Maximus-CBCS 1.02 BinkleyTerm 2.40 Parselst 1.32
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ConfMail 4.00
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EchoStat 6.0
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oMMM 1.52
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Omail 3.1
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MsgEd 2.06
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MsgLink 1.0C
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MsgNum 4.14
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LH2 0.50
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.02
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ARC2 6.00
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PolyXARC 2.00
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Qsort 2.1
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Raid 1.0
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Remapper 1.2
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Tick 2.0
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VPurge 2.07
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Xenix/Unix
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BBS Software Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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BinkleyTerm 2.30b Unzip 3.10
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ARC 5.21
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ParseLst 1.30b
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ConfMail 3.31b
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Ommm 1.40b
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Msged 1.99b
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Zoo 2.01
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C-Lharc 1.00
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Omail 1.00b
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 11 18 Feb 1991
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Apple CP/M
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Daisy v2j Daisy Mailer 0.38 Nodecomp 0.37
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MsgUtil 2.5
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PackUser v4
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Filer v2-D
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UNARC.COM 1.20
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Macintosh
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Red Ryder Host 2.1 Tabby 2.2 MacArc 0.04
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Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
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WWIV (Mac) 3.0 LHArc 0.33
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Hermes 1.01 StuffIt Classic 1.6
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FBBS 0.91 Compactor 1.21
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TImport 1.92
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TExport 1.92
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Timestamp 1.6
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Tset 1.3
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Import 3.2
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Export 3.21
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Sundial 3.2
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PreStamp 3.2
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OriginatorII 2.0
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AreaFix 1.6
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Mantissa 3.21
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Zenith 1.5
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Eventmeister 1.0
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TSort 1.0
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Mehitable 2.0
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UNZIP 1.02c
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Amiga
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Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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Paragon 2.082+ BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23
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TransAmiga 1.05 TrapDoor 1.50 AReceipt 1.5
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 12 18 Feb 1991
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
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ConfMail 1.10
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ChameleonEdit 0.10
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ElectricHerald1.66
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Lharc 1.30
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MessageFilter 1.52
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oMMM 1.49b
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ParseLst 1.30
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PkAX 1.00
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PK[UN]ZIP 1.01
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PolyxAmy 2.02
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RMB 1.30
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RoboWriter 1.02
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Skyparse 2.30
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TrapList 1.12
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Yuck! 1.61
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Zippy (Unzip) 1.25
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Zoo 2.01
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Atari ST
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Bulletin Board Network Node List
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Software Version Mailer Version Utilities Version
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FIDOdoor/ST 2.11* BinkleyTerm 2.40jt ParseList 1.30
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 The BOX 1.20 Xlist 1.12
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Pandora BBS 2.41c EchoFix 1.20
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GS Point 0.61
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LED ST 1.00
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MSGED 1.96S
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Archiver Msg Format Other
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Utilities Version Converters Version Utilities Version
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LHARC 0.60 TB2BINK 1.00 ConfMail 4.03*
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ARC 6.02 BINK2TB 1.00 ComScan 1.02
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PKUNZIP 1.10 FiFo 2.12* Import 1.14
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OMMM 1.40
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Pack 1.00
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FastPack 1.20
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FDsysgen 2.16*
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FDrenum 2.10
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Trenum 0.10
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Archimedes
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 13 18 Feb 1991
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BBS Software Mailers Utilities
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Name Version Name Version Name Version
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ARCbbs 1.44 BinkleyTerm 2.03 Unzip 2.1TH
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ARC 1.03
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!Spark 2.00d
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ParseLst 1.30
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BatchPacker 1.00
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+ Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
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* Recently changed
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Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by
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reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list
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all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 14 18 Feb 1991
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NOTICES
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=================================================================
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Fredric Rice
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1:102/901
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Well, prior to my article of FidoNews 806 concerning my
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perceived degradation of the quality of FidoNews, I had several
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conversations with JonesNose at 321/202 and he suggested that I
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shouldn't air my concerns in such a negative manor; that they
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would be counter productive and would serve to foment hate; in
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deed that I should take my homophobic attitude with me to hell
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and rot for awhile.
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He told me that my attitude was hateful. He convinced me he was
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right. He did, in fact, let me know in no uncertain terms what
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kind of person he though I was. He was right again.
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I had asked that the submission be removed because he convinced
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me that I should be more tolerant of gays and not promote hate.
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It wasn't removed, it got printed, I get to live with it --
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that's not a big problem for me to live with, I'll just send an
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apology to everyone who sends me a return on my hate mail
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because they'll be right too.
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Listen up, FidoNet: I am sorry. I'll never happen again. Vince,
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your comments were eye-opening too. Rest assured I'll not
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clutter your news letter with hate again.
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If anyone wants a personal voice apology, call me from 6 p.m.
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to 11 p.m. and I'll apologize.
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1-818-963-8640
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Fredric Rice.
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The Interrupt Stack
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30 Mar 1991
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Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
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|
years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
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"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
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12 May 1991
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FidoNews 8-07 Page 15 18 Feb 1991
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Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
|
|
second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
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15 Aug 1991
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5th annual Z1 Fido Convention - FidoCon '91 "A New Beginning"
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Sheraton Denver West August 15 through August 18 1991.
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8 Sep 1991
|
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25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
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7 Oct 1991
|
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Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
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will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
|
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Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
|
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Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
|
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Islands will retain area code 415.
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1 Feb 1992
|
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Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
|
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eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
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code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
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West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
|
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Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
|
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Montebello) will retain area code 213.
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1 Dec 1993
|
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Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
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5 Jun 1997
|
|
David Dodell's 40th Birthday
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If you have something which you would like to see on this
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calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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