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F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 33 17 August 1998
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
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Table of Contents
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1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
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2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
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3. ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ........................ 5
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Announcing the WRESTLING_CHAT Echo ....................... 5
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4. NOTICES .................................................. 6
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5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 7
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6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 10
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 1 17 Aug 1998
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EDITORIAL
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Dear Readers,
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This is the first issue prepared in Zone 5. Well in the City of
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Port Elizabeth on the Southern tip of Africa. It's currently
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winter here, raining and not to pleasant.
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Allow me to thank Zorch Frezberg for having looked after FidoNews
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for the past and in trusting me with being your new editor.
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Thanks Zorch.
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As happens normally with the first issue from a new editor, there
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ain't much to be written, but I'll tell you a bit more about myself
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in later issue(s). ;-)
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Also, there is not much in this issue, but I sincerely hope, you
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will contribute and keep _our_ FidoNews in operation!!
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Happy reading.
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 2 17 Aug 1998
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Dear Editorbeing,
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This column is lashed together by Doc Logger (163/110) in
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deference to Art Lee who needs email fodder to complain
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about. As usual, Logger was winning major stuffed armadillo
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bets on the evolution of Fidonet.
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Roll da flic, Henk.....
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Dear Reverend Visage,
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I'd like to start off by thanking Zorch for being the
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Snoozlord. It takes a great deal of effort and commitment to
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put out this organ week after week, and it must have been
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doubly difficult for Zorch when quite often the submission
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cupboard contained nothing but my cheesy ravings. There is
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very little that Zorch wrote that I agreed with, but I
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appreciate the fact that he was willing to say it. If future
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Snoozlords take as seriously the concept of a free press,
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then we will be well served, as we were by Zorch during his
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tenure.
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We are still lingering in the summer doldrums waiting
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patiently for the fall netwar season to start so there isn't
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much to report. David Bowerman and I played musical chairs
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for a few days over the rights of admin moderators. This
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might have focused the issue of whether admin moderators
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should be able to shut down debate, but the issue of
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contention didn't provide enough illumination on that theme.
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I notice that Ward Dossche is asking for more than a brief
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word from Satti in the ZCC echo. I think I even detected a
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hint of sarcasm in the references to the long list of
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achievements that Satti has completed since he clawed his
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way into the IC position. If anyone does have a list of
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Satti's achievements and they don't mind sparing the
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matchbook cover they must be written on, they could shoot
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some netmail to Swamp Swine Magazine, care of myself.
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For my pithy quote to lead into the Chautauqua, I've chosen
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Eldridge Cleaver who wrote in "Soul on Ice" while raging
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about how the social revolution had been usurped, wrote:
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"..all of this in a nation where the so-called molders of
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public opinion, the writers, politicians, teachers, and cab
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drivers, are willful euphoric liars or zip-dam ostriches and
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owls, a clique of undercover ghosts... a lot of coffee
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drinking, cigarette smoking, sly suck-assing, status
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seeking, cheating, nervous, dry-balled, tranquilizer
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gulched, countdown minded, out of style, slithering snakes.
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 3 17 Aug 1998
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No wonder that many 'innocent people', the manipulated and
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the stimulated, some of whom were game for a reasonable
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amount of mystery and even adventure, had their minds
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scrambled"
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I happen to like that quote because it certainly is a
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passionate statement. I also think that it crystallizes the
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despair of anyone who has watched a hopeful dream get
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trashed in the mixmaster of popular culture. We have become
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a great deal more efficient and mercantile since 1968 when
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Cleaver was writing and now it takes very little time at all
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for legitimate social protest to become just another
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advertising vehicle for something...selling beer, or
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designer clothing, or simply selling the ideas. (Surely the
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very concept could be marketed as "Cleaver's Angst" - a
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designer cologne or at the very least a television series
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sponsored by an obliging bathroom cleanser.)
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I watch with trepidation as various souls propose New &
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Improved visual sensations for Fidoland styled after the eye
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candy of Internet. My fear springs from the fact that it
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will quickly become a medium where words don't matter except
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as graphic text boxes, and communication will hit the gutter
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of factoid style discourse.
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I recently read through the entire collection of Fidonews
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issues and I must say that it presents an interesting
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picture of an evolving Fidonet. For the most part, it also
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paints a disheartening picture of a good idea gone wrong. On
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the plus side, I believe that the original spirit of Fidonet
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is salvageable and there remain a few minor impediments to
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restoring it.
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As conceived, Fidonet was to be a militantly public domain
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network for communication between consenting sysops. What
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few rules there were operated at the level of addressing and
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connectivity. The concept was designed to be self-regulating
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and self-adjusting - an anarchist's compact in an emerging
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technology. In the good old days there was a genuine concern
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that the world of modem to modem communication would be
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dominated by commercial interests and also regulated by
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governments in order to serve the interests of those
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corporations. Fidonet owes much to the software developers
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who made the system functional, and still owes a great debt
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of thanks to those who move the mail.
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In general when people talk reverently about rights or
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freedoms they speak as though they possessed those things.
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The "inalienable rights" referred to in a number of national
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constitutions are in fact very alien when it comes to
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practice. The gulf between the good idea, and the desire to
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short-circuit the concept by those in power tends to raise
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the ugly specter of expediency as an excuse for chiseling at
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the dream. Fidonet started out with a practical application
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of "inalienable rights" and was hijacked along the way. From
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the self-imposed hari-kari of the International Fidonet
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 4 17 Aug 1998
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Association (IFNA) through to the brigands who proclaimed
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Peefour, the route has gone from a free association of
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sysops to a series of fiefdoms and private domains of those
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who want control over others.
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There are a myriad of arguments for having rules and rulers
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in Fidonet, some of them are even valid. The adherents of
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rigid structure speak of the horrors of mob rule leading to
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chaos. The presupposition of their arguments assumes that
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the mob would be armed with anything, unlike the current
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batch of *Cs who wield the blunt stick of Peefour. I think
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that the people who assert that we have to have rules don't
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see themselves as capable of accepting responsibility. They
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lack optimism.
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The lonely beacon of hope that has remained through
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Fidonet's history has been the Fidonews. Despite the
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frequent attempts to curtail the content, it has survived as
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a medium of free exchange. With any sort of luck, an editor
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can be found who can energize sysops to contribute articles
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and expand the common experience of us all.
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I must go Visage, I have sent the teenmonsters off to
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torment their obliging uncles and can't pass up this golden
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opportunity presented by an empty house... which is to fall
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asleep without the banshee whine of bad punk rock music
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reverberating the walls.
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Regards,
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Doc Logger,
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Furlang Island,
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South Pacific
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 5 17 Aug 1998
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ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT
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Emanuel Edwards
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1:348/963
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emanuel@escape.ca
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Hello all Fidonet Sysops:
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Where else can you find a great echo that will increase the users on
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your BBS? Well here is the answer to your question.
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The WRESTLING_CHAT echo can be classified as one of the best echo on
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Fidonet today. If you don't have internet access and want to read
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all the latest news in the wrestling world this echo will provide you
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with all the valuable information. In the last 6 months the echo
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been getting well over 200 messages a week. Once you request the
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WRESTLING_CHAT on your BBS you will see a great increase in news
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users on your BBS.
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Make that important decision today and request this great and
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interesting echo on your BBS. If you need more information about the
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echo you can contact me by email at emanuel@escape.ca
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The Areatag for the echo is WRESTLING_CHAT
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Moderator for the echo is Emanuel Edwards
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Co_Moderator for the echo is Barry Laws JR
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Volume of Mail in one months 1000 to 1200
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Emanuel
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Internet emanuel@escape.ca
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Fidonet 1:348/963
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NOTICES
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Future History
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5 Oct 1998
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29th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".
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14 Sep 1998
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Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98].
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22 Sep 1998
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First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org.
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23 Nov 1998
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35th Anniversary of Doctor Who.
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1 Dec 1998
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Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
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Tom Jennings.
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16 Feb 1999
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13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush.
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12 May 1999
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12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
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10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.
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24 Jul 1999
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XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
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9 Jun 1999
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Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.
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31 Dec 1999
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Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
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1 Jan 2000
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The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
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1 Jun 2000
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EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
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15 Sep 2000
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Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
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1 Jan 2001
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This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
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-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
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Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
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FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.
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FidoNet:
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Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
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FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
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http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
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WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
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FTSC page http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc
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Echomail [pending]
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WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
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General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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http://www.trak-one.co.uk/foti
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
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Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
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Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
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Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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ZEC2:
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Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/
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Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
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Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)
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Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/
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Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
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REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
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Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
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Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
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Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (Swiss?)
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FIDONEWS 15-33 Page 8 17 Aug 1998
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Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
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Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
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REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
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Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
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Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
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Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
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Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4: http://www.altern.org/zone4
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Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
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Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)
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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
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and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
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no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
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that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
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should list access points to all Networks within the Region.
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TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
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to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.
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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
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1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
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1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
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1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton |FTP,VMoT,F2I,UUE| 64k | $10/$20mo.
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1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
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1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
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1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | F2I | ??? | $2mo.
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1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE,F2I | 28.8 | $10/yr.
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1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
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1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
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1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $1mo.
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1:2424/3121| Earl Clark | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
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1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VFOS | 33.6 | $15yr.
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1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
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1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
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1:342/1022 | Steve Steffler | UUE,F2I | 33.6 | n/c
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1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
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2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
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2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
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2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
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2:2490/5170| Lenny Murphy | F2I | ??? | n/c
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5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
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+ VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
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+ F2I = Fido2Int (W95)
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+ UUE = uuencode<->email packet transfers
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compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@dandy.net
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Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
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! Origin: * Fly By Night * (609)814-1978 *(1:2623/71)
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
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Editor: Henk Wolsink
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Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
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Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
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Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg
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"FidoNews Editor"
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FidoNet 5:5/23
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BBS +27-41-515-913, 2400/9600/V.34/V.90
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more addresses:
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Henk Wolsink -- 5:7104/2, hwolsink@catpe.alt.za
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(Postal Service mailing address)
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FidoNews Editor
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P.O. Box 12325
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FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
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Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
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"Disagreement is actually necessary,
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or we'd all have to get in fights
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or something to amuse ourselves
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and create the requisite chaos."
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