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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 50 (14 December 1992)
A newsletter of the |
FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
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/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
/|oo \ | +1-415-863-2739
(_| /_) | NEW!--> 1:1/23@FidoNet
_`@/_ \ _ | [email protected]
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| (*) | \ )) | Editors:
|__U__| / \// | Tom Jennings
_//|| _\ / | Tim Pozar
(_/(_|(____/ |
(jm) | Newspapers should have no friends.
| -- JOSEPH PULITZER
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For information, copyrights, article submissions, obtaining copies and
other boring but important details, please refer to the end of this
file.

Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
Editorial: Snore .............................................. 1
2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 3
Lost Children ................................................. 3
PGP-Toss.LZH - Pretty Good Privacy Tosser ..................... 4
Bad Nodelist Entries .......................................... 8
PGP 2.1 Available ............................................. 14
FITNESS ECHO .................................................. 15
The Swedenborgian Ideas Echo .................................. 16
Introducing FrontDoor APX ..................................... 17
Brigadoon Village Network ..................................... 19
3. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 22
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Snore

by Tom Jennings (1:1/23)

Nothing new this week, really.

Really.

So I'll just shut up.

Oh yeah, please send more questions for the "Ask EFF!" column.

What's "Ask EFF!"? Well, the premiere column ran last week. It will be
a monthly column devoted to BBS & FidoNet'ing legal issues for sysops
and users. Questions sent here will be answered by Shari Steele, a
telecomm-savvy staff lawyer form the EFF (Electronic Frontier
Foundation). Here's the little infobox that preceeds each column:

+------------------------------------------------------+
| Ask EFF! |
| |
| Ask EFF! is a monthly column devoted to answering |
| sysops questions about their online rights. Answers |
| to "Ask EFF!" are provided by Shari Steele, a Staff |
| Attorney for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. EFF |
| is a nonprofit, membership organization dedicated to |
| advancing freedom and openness in computer-based |
| communications. |
| Send your questions to "Ask EFF!" c/o FidoNews, |
| 1:1/23 in FidoNet, or to [email protected]|
+------------------------------------------------------+

(The EFF was founded to deal with the social and legal aspects of
communiations technology. Here on the FidoNews BBS I've got one of
their infodisks setup as a file area. Feel free to call in and browse,
and take a look to see what they're about. Or contact the EFF at
[email protected] via Internet. Sorry, no FidoNet access...)

Well, one more thing. I've generated a PGP 2.x public key for
FidoNews. It is included in the boilerplate section at the end of
FidoNews. If you feel the need, you can secure correspondence to
FidoNews using the public key.

FidoNews 9-50 Page 2 14 Dec 1992

Well, OK, one last thing. I forgot this last week.

From: John Souvestre@1:396/1
To: Tom Jennings@1:1/23
Subject: FidoNews - Table of Contents

Hi Tom.

Have you ever wanted to be able to do a quick search for an article
which appeared in FidoNews? I have! So... I've sent you the
following files:

FNEWS1TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 1 (1984)
FNEWS2TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 2 (1985)
FNEWS3TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 3 (1986)
FNEWS4TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 4 (1987)
FNEWS5TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 5 (1988)
FNEWS6TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 6 (1989)
FNEWS7TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 7 (1990)
FNEWS8TC.ZIP FidoNews, Table of Contents, Vol. 8 (1991)

Each contains a single file which is made up of the Table of Contents
for that year's FidoNews issues. Except for the first year, each of
the ZIP's is about 10K.

If you feel that it's worthwhile, you are welcome to mention them in
FidoNews. They are available for FReq.

AARGH! Because of a bug? misfeature? of 4DOS and NETWARE LITE, when I
MOVEd the files John sent me to the fnews directory on the FidoNews
BBS, they disappeared. You can filerequest them still from Johns
system. Thanks John! I hate all software.

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FidoNews 9-50 Page 3 14 Dec 1992

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ARTICLES
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Some Thoughts on Recent Articles
Name withheld for obvious reasons

In issues 943 and 944 of FIDONEWS, two articles stood out
for me. The first was an editorial by Mr. Jennings wherein he
speculated that a lost girl, found through FIDO, may not have
wanted to be found. The second was an article lauding all those
who participated in said finding. I have waited in vain to hear
any response to eithor of those articles, perhaps because I am a
coward, and the pieces hit just a little too close to home. I
have thought about it for several weeks, and decided that
someone has to speak up. Hence this.

I am going to make it short and sweet ... attempt to tell it
as a story.

I am married to a lovely lady, about 33 years old. When she
turned 12 or so, like most young girls, she started to develop
as a woman. Unlike most young girls, however, she also started
to get raped by her father two or three times per week ...
maybe that is not unlike most young girls ... I know only that I
find it horrific.

At fourteen, she started to run away from home. She was
found and returned. More rape. She comes form a wealthy and
politically well connected familly. Excellent access to police,
excellent access to judges. In fact, the judge that would hear
any child abuse cases was appointed by her father.

Nevertheless, her father began to get worried. He hired a
psychiatrist in an attempt to get her committed. It is a
measure of the power of Authority, perhaps, that this
psychiatrist, although a respected member of the establishment,
was afraid to blow the whistle. It is a measure of human
decency that he assisted her in running away, this time
successfully.

She changed her name and country, and began to live on the
streets as a fifteen year old. Twice she was tracked ... both
times she was able to dissappear. She put herself through
highschool, and then through university (BA & MA). She earned
her way both illegally and legally ... everything from dealing
drugs to delivering pizza.

I met her when she logged into my BBS and argued quite
eloquently for aliases. She had been validated under an alias,
but one that was also in the phone book. It was not the same as
the name on her degrees, nor the one that she works under.
Eventually I gave her a yet another by marrying her.
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We are learning, she and I. I am learning that my middle
class background does not qualify me to make judgements, and I
am learning street smarts (which I always thought I had). She
is learning not to hide.

But when I read those two pieces, I could not help but hear
her response to me, in one of those countless talks that we have
had on people, and on society, and on trust. She had expressed
a profound mistrust of a couple that I rather liked. I asked
why, coupled with the observation that they were both kindly
people. Her reply was succinct and to the point.

"Whenever I ran away, f*****s like that always helped the
police to bring me back. They are do-gooders that insist only
their standards and world-view apply to everything".

I hestitate to condemn efforts such as the one made to find
that little girl. I also think that times have have changed in
the last twenty years ... perhaps a young girl of today has a
chance of being believed. That, of course, presumes she has the
nerve to state the truth. My wife would simply say that she
would be stupid to make the assumption ... smart kids run.

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Fredric L. Rice,
The Skeptic Tank, 1:102/890.0. (818) 914-9551
Version 1.1, December 1992

PGP-Toss.LZH - Pretty Good Privacy Tosser

Objectives:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

Echo Mail and Network Mail directories are scanned for *.MSG message
files which contain PGP encrypted messages. When such mssages are
located, PGP-Toss will either move them to another directory or make
a copy of each message into another directory.

PGP-Toss can also return PGP encrypted mail to the origination system
automatically, allowing the message to be marked as either "HOLD for
pick-up" or "IMMEDIATE transmission."

After a PGP-type message has been processed, it is 'marked' as having
been processed by setting the first character in the 'subject' field
with a '.' (a period character.) PGP-Toss will ignore all messages
that
have subjects which are preceeded with a period.

Why?
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

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To accumulate PGP texts automatically and put them into a single
directory for review or further automatic processing. This enables
operators and Users to use the PGP project a little easier. Public
Keys which are exchanged in EchoMail forums as well as encrypted
messages may be copied to an accumulation subdirectory or folder.

In addition, those systems which would not like to allow encrypted
messages to pass through their systems can intercept them, accumulating
them in a directory, and then either destroy them or return them to
the origination system.

Kludge Lines Supported:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

PGP-Toss, when automatic message returns are enabled, will provide
the following kludge lines in the *.MSG files it creates:

MSGID
FLAGS IMM, DIR
FMPT
TOPT
INTL

Diagnostic displays:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

If /diag is offered on the command line, PGP-Toss will offer
information
on what it is doing while it is processing the messages areas it
is told
to look in.

Configuration elements:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

The environmental variable PGPTOSS is used to tell PGP-Toss what
directory the PGP-TOSS.CFG configuration file is located in. If the
environment variable is not set, the current directory is assumed.

set PGPTOSS=C:\UTIL\

A sample configuration file follows. This is offered for a detailed
description of how and what this project does:

; What is your systems network address? Please use the standard
; format and syntax for this, include the point and zone, please.

system 1:102/890.0

; The look command describes a directory to search for PGP
; messages. There may be any number of these commands. The
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; sequence of search will follow the sequence in the
configuration
; file. There must be at least one such command.

look c:\fd\echo\socal
look c:\fd\echo\net102

; Messages containing PGP stuff may be either moved to a holding
; directory or copied to another directory. Messages may not be
; both copied and moved BOTH.
;
; If PGP messages should be returned to the originator, this value
; would usually indicate the path to the network mail
directory and
; the 'return' value in the configuration file below would be set
; to YES.
;
; If messages are not to be moved out of the echo mail directory
; and moved into another directory, the value which follows the
; MOVE-TO keyword should be "NONE"

move-to c:\fd\pgphold

; Messages containing PGP stuff may be copied to another
directory
; without killing the original. If you do not wish a duplicate to
; be placed in another directory the value which follows the
; COPY-TO keyword should be "NONE"
;
; If the value offered is the network directory, the RETURN
; command below would be set to YES to automatically return the
; message to the originating system.

copy-to none

; Messages that contain PGP text may be returned to the
; originators system. The "MOVE-TO" or "COPY-TO" command above
; would indicate the network mail directory.
;
; The value here is YES or NO with NO being the default.

return no

; Messages that are to be returned to the origination system may
; be marked for 'Hold for pick-up.' This value configures
whether
; messages which should be returned will be marked as Hold.
;
; The value here is YES or NO with NO being the default.

hold no

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; Messages that are to be returned to the origination system may
; be marked a "immediate mailing." This value configures
whether
; messages which should be returned will be marked as Immediate.
;
; The value here is YES or NO with NO being the default.

immediate no

; Every time a message is copied or moved, a log file entry can
; be made. If logging is desired, the following value should be
; set to YES else it should be set to NO. Default is NO.
;
; The log file name is : PGP-TOSS.LOG

log yes

ErrorLevels:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
The PGP-Toss program wll return with an error level which is used to
indicate to the calling batch file what the condition of the projects
compleation was. The usual return value of 0 indicates a successfull
run. However, when there are failures of some sort, the following
ERRORLEVEL values will be returned:

No_Problems 0
Missing_Config 10
No_Memory 11
Config_Return_Error 12
Config_Hold_Error 13
Config_Immediate_Error 14
Config_Look_Error 15
Move_Copy_Bad 16
Cant_Read_Message 17
Cant_Open_File 18
Cant_Create_File 19
Cant_Write_Message 20
Cant_Update_Message 21
Reseek_Error 22
Bad_System_Address 23

The Future
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In version 1.2, it is hoped, the project will be able to offer a
list of the so-called "Security HUBs" that appear in the nodelist.
In version 1.2, the command line argument /list will list all of
the Security HUBs in the systems Zone and Network, if any. If the
command line argument is /listall, the project will offer a list
of all Security HUBs appearing in the nodelist.

This update wll be performed when the nodelist flag for the
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Security HUBs is approved. It is requested that no one take the
source code and make further releases until I have finished this
update.

Distribution Package:
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
PGP-TOSS.LZH contains:

PGP-TOSS.EXE Executed file.
PGP-TOSS.CFG Sample configuration file. Please update.
PGP-TOSS.C The source code in C for this project.
PGP-TOSS.DOC This documentation file.

This project is copywritten by myself yet I grant anyone to use the
project and the source code as they wish. Please note that I refuse
to be held responsible for its use or misuse yet I _will_ take
people
who steal from the public domain by selling my stuff (for _any_ cost)
to court.

In other words, please distribute freely.

Fredric L. Rice
Packet: kc6efh@wb6ymh.#socal.usa.ca
Internet: [email protected]
FidoNet: 1:102/890.0 (818) 914-9551

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by Leonard Erickson (1:105/51)
Who's checking the Nodelists?

A few months back, I started to write a utility to generate nodelist
statistics. I wanted to get some statistics that none of the ones I'd
seen provided.

Based on my experience with other databases, as a first step, I wrote
some code to generate a list of the nodelist flags that were *actually*
used. As I expected, there were flags in use that weren't in the spec.
What I *didn't* expect was the *number* of "illegal" flags and
otherwise non-compliant entries.

There is also a completely ridiculous number of "user flags", but
that's a matter for another article.

I've polished up the original code a bit and run it against
NODELIST.346. The resulting output is reproduced below. All 294 "bad"
entries (Unless the editor chopped them :-). Note that many of these
entries have been "bad" for over 3 months! The format is:

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zone(region):net/node <flag list>

If the flag is in paratheses, that means that it's a *legal* flag, but
that it was found *after* the first user flag. Which means that all
FTS-0005 compliant nodelist processors will *ignore it (ie it's a waste
of space in the nodelist).

If some one would care to make the check program available for FREQ,
I'll File attach it to them (I'm non-CM, so FREQing me is not a good idea!)
BTW, the program will parse any FTS-005 nodelist OR NODELIST SEGMENT
(hint, hint)

Here's the list. Read it and weep...

1(10):102/163 ,0200-0300
1(10):102/803 ,DA5P-8A,WE24
1(10):102/850 ,HUB
1(10):102/910 ,DS
1(10):103/0 ,NC
1(10):103/100 ,NC
1(10):103/121 ,NC
1(10):103/122 ,NC
1(10):103/123 ,NC
1(10):103/234 ,(GUUCP)
1(10):103/355 ,NEC
1(10):103/356 ,NEC
1(10):103/700 ,NEC
1(10):119/1033 ,NEC
1(10):125/111 ,RE
1(10):143/106 ,HEC
1(10):143/110 ,HEC
1(10):143/113 ,XM
1(10):143/143 ,NEC
1(10):161/503 ,NEC
1(10):161/702 ,V.32
1(10):161/711 ,CA
1(10):204/7 ,NEC,SDS
1(10):205/12 ,DVN,SDS
1(10):205/13 ,DVN,SDS
1(10):206/0 ,HST.V32
1(10):207/104 ,DA1600-0800,WE24
1(10):208/200 ,DS
1(10):208/205 ,V42BIS
1(10):208/402 ,DS
1(10):211/31 ,(CM),(MO)
1(10):215/129 ,HST/DS
1(10):215/215 ,NEC
1(10):215/34 ,V32BIS,V42BIS,NC
1(10):215/427 ,V32BIS
1(10):215/53 ,V32BIS
1(10):215/606 ,8PM-8AM
1(10):345/0 ,ASP
1(10):345/3003 ,XXCM
1(10):345/33 ,21:00-05:00
1(10):345/49 ,21:00-08:00
1(10):345/9 ,ASP
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1(11):110/565 ,XU
1(11):157/200 ,PN1037
1(11):157/3 ,(V32B)
1(11):159/950 ,PN30134
1(11):2230/0 ,DDS
1(11):2230/100 ,DDS
1(11):2230/200 ,GSDS
1(11):2230/202 ,GSDS
1(11):226/220 ,PN30318
1(11):2260/1 ,LEDS
1(11):2280/1 ,NEC
1(11):231/120 ,DVN
1(11):231/20 ,DDS
1(11):231/50 ,DDS
1(11):233/13 ,PN30114
1(11):233/15 ,PN30311
1(11):233/3 ,PN30087
1(11):233/5 ,PN30044
1(11):233/69 ,PN30178
1(11):234/1 ,PN:30077
1(11):2340/100 ,HUB
1(11):237/500 ,(HST),(V32B),(V42B)
1(12):163/438 ,(XA),(CM)
1(12):167/140 ,OS2NET
1(12):167/219 ,MNP5
1(12):167/239 ,MNP5
1(12):229/2 ,NEC
1(12):229/3 ,NEC
1(12):244/133 ,DA1800-0600,WE24
1(12):249/124 ,(ZYX)
1(12):250/740 ,LAPM
1(12):252/400 ,XYZ
1(12):252/404 ,XYZ
1(13):107/547 ,PN:30197
1(13):107/548 ,PN:30197
1(13):107/557 ,SDS,PDN,CLN
1(13):107/558 ,SDS,PDN,CLN
1(13):107/820 ,PN:1036
1(13):107/9000 ,SDS
1(13):107/911 ,SDS
1(13):107/930 ,PN:1036
1(13):109/337 ,PN30491
1(13):13/75 ,(V32B),(V42B)
1(13):150/350 ,V4
1(13):2600/2 ,(HST)
1(13):2601/541 ,0000-1800
1(13):2601/572 ,1600-0900
1(13):2604/306 ,DDS
1(13):2607/110 ,MNP5
1(13):2607/302 ,DDS
1(13):2608/15 ,42B
1(13):2613/333 ,(GUUCP)
1(13):262/10 ,NEC
1(13):268/102 ,PN30223
1(13):270/3 ,DA1800-0600,WE24
1(13):271/1 ,GSDS
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1(13):271/3 ,GSDS
1(13):271/30 ,GSDS
1(13):275/25 ,MNP5
1(13):276/100 ,NEC
1(13):278/3 ,HDN
1(14):100/470 ,42B
1(14):280/319 ,WDN
1(14):280/9 ,(LO)
1(14):282/31 ,(XA)
1(14):282/4012 ,DVN
1(14):284/34 ,MNP5
1(14):287/513 ,CPS
1(14):291/22 ,DVN
1(14):291/3 ,V42B.
1(14):296/4 ,NEC
1(15):114/153 ,(CM)
1(15):114/181 ,NABW
1(15):128/113 ,WDN
1(15):300/1 ,NEC
1(15):301/1001 ,XA.CM
1(15):307/18 ,16K8,FAX,OS/2
1(15):312/14 ,12AM-12PM
1(16):132/130 ,PDN
1(16):132/288 ,WZ:
1(16):141/333 ,PN30245
1(16):141/545 ,PN30152
1(16):141/820 ,SDN
1(16):321/218 ,(GUUCP)
1(16):324/10 ,(XA)
1(16):324/278 ,SDN
1(17):152/69 ,SDS,DDS,DVN
1(17):152/7 ,SDS,DDS,DVN
1(17):153/7057 ,V3B
1(17):153/7060 ,V3B
1(17):153/913 ,BRA
1(17):153/919 ,BEZY
1(17):153/926 ,RA
1(17):153/963 ,BRA
1(17):340/47 ,42B
1(17):3400/24 ,V42BIS
1(17):3400/30 ,V42BIS,XXXX
1(17):3400/32 ,V42BIS
1(17):3402/17 ,2400
1(17):343/142 ,V32BIS,V42BIS
1(17):343/15 ,SDN
1(17):344/10 ,SDN,SDS,PDN
1(17):344/61 ,SDN,SDS,PDN
1(17):346/10 ,(GUUCP)
1(17):346/13 ,V42B.8P-4A
1(17):346/20 ,CM.XA
1(17):347/0 ,SDN,SDS,NEC,NC
1(17):347/17 ,SDN,SDS,NEC,NC
1(17):347/2 ,SDN,SDS,NEC,NC
1(17):348/704 ,CL,XM
1(17):349/10 ,1AM_TO_8AM
1(17):349/100 ,9PM_TO_4AM
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1(17):349/9 ,9PM_TO_4AM
1(17):352/597 ,(CM),(XX)
1(17):353/340 ,MNP5
1(17):353/370 ,MNP5
1(17):353/715 ,MNP5
1(17):355/1 ,NEC
1(17):356/100 ,21:00_7:00_PST
1(17):356/18 ,21:00_7:00_PST
1(17):356/2 ,6PM_8AM_PST
1(18):112/59 ,GSDS
1(18):133/209 ,V42BMO
1(18):133/609 ,XM
1(18):137/211 ,18:00-09:00
1(18):137/225 ,18:00-07:00
1(18):151/125 ,SDN
1(18):3603/0 ,SDS,SDN,DDS
1(18):3603/110 ,SDS,SDN,DDS
1(18):3603/321 ,9600
1(18):3605/123 ,CA,X42B
1(18):3609/100 ,NEC
1(18):3609/6 ,V422B
1(18):3618/10 ,MNP5
1(18):3623/2 ,NEC
1(18):3632/28 ,(XA)
1(18):3632/3 ,V32V
1(18):3633/9000 ,(MO)
1(18):3646/2 ,NC
1(18):3646/4 ,NEC
1(18):3647/0 ,PN32178
1(18):367/15 ,SDN,CDN
1(18):371/30 ,NEC
1(18):376/0 ,PN30122
1(18):379/80 ,CM.MO
1(18):379/900 ,V43B
1(19):124/2213 ,(V32B),(V42B)
1(19):147/46 ,DVN,SDS
1(19):3804/7 ,NC,NEC
1(19):3808/12 ,V42V
1(19):384/3 ,PN30425
1(19):384/7 ,4V2
1(19):399/11 ,(CM),(XA)
2(20):203/137 ,V22B
2(21):502/811 ,V22B
2(22):221/117 ,V22B
2(24):2402/109 ,V22B
2(24):241/2021 ,V32V
2(24):241/4164 ,V32B.MNP
2(24):244/36 ,ZXY
2(24):245/801 ,V42B1
2(24):248/314 ,ZYXV32B
2(24):248/407 ,MNP5
2(25):253/153 ,(GUUCP)
2(25):254/21 ,V22B
2(25):254/37 ,MNP5
2(25):255/30 ,V32BIS,V42BIS
2(28):280/312 ,DA:02-06
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2(28):280/404 ,1800-0700
2(28):280/407 ,V22B
2(28):280/416 ,V32:MO
2(28):280/453 ,DA:00-08
2(28):280/460 ,V22B
2(28):280/503 ,(V32),(V32B)
2(28):280/601 ,V32V
2(28):280/609 ,DA:20-24
2(28):280/613 ,V22B
2(28):280/708 ,V22B
2(28):281/2 ,SDS
2(28):281/200 ,SDS
2(28):282/207 ,V22B
2(28):282/320 ,V22B
2(28):282/452 ,V22B
2(28):282/516 ,V22B
2(28):282/601 ,V22B
2(28):284/101 ,V22B
2(28):286/100 ,V22B
2(28):286/101 ,V22B
2(28):500/246 ,XX3
2(28):500/249 ,V22B
2(28):500/253 ,V43B
2(28):512/175 ,V22B
2(29):292/100 ,(XA)
2(30):301/750 ,(XX)
2(32):325/100 ,(XA)
2(33):332/107 ,V42BIS
2(33):335/414 ,32B
2(34):343/112 ,V22B
2(34):343/117 ,V22B
2(38):380/101 ,REC
2(40):402/77 ,NEC
2(43):430/5 ,V22B
2(44):446/5 ,V22B
2(44):446/6 ,V22B
2(46):463/50 ,MNP.MO.LO
2(46):469/32 ,MO.XX
2(47):478/1 ,V22B
2(47):478/2 ,V22B
2(47):478/7 ,V22B
2(50):50/307 ,2400
2(50):5005/1 ,NEC
2(50):5010/2 ,NEC
2(50):5055/0 ,V22B
2(50):5055/1 ,V22B
2(50):5055/2 ,V22B
2(50):5055/3 ,V22B
2(50):5060/5 ,MNP.MO
2(50):5080/2 ,NEC
2(50):5080/23 ,V22B
2(50):5080/24 ,V22B
3(50):632/348 ,GINTLNET
3(54):622/413 ,LH2100-0800
3(54):714/907 ,V32MNP
4(80):801/27 ,V32BIS
FidoNews 9-50 Page 14 14 Dec 1992

4(80):801/990 ,V32BIS
6(60):600/300 ,H168
6(60):600/315 ,H168
6(60):600/316 ,H168
6(62):720/1000 ,V42BIS
6(62):720/1001 ,V42BIS
6(62):720/203 ,FAX
6(62):720/528 ,V42V,42B
6(62):722/211 ,PN9191
6(62):722/221 ,42B
6(62):722/9 ,(V32)
6(62):723/300 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/302 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/305 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/307 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/308 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/309 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/312 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/317 ,V32BIS
6(62):723/319 ,MNP.CM
6(62):727/11 ,9600
6(62):727/17 ,32B
6(62):727/21 ,32B
6(63):63/1 ,V42V42B,SDS
6(63):731/0 ,V32BIS
6(63):731/13 ,V32BIS
6(63):731/15 ,V32BIS
6(63):731/16 ,V32BIS

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PGP 2.1 Available

From: [email protected] (Philip Zimmermann)

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PGP 2.1 Available
- -----------------

Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) Version 2.1 is now available, from Europe.
This new version of the world's most popular and politically
controversial public key encryption program has numerous bug fixes
over version 2.0, and several new features.

For example, you can now display the MD5 hash of a public key, to
facilitate verifying it over the telephone with the owner of that
public key. Also, it is now possible to send via email an
unencrypted signed message without putting the whole message in
Radix-64 format, to make it possible to read without PGP. This is
analogous to the PEM MIC-CLEAR signed message functionality.

FidoNews 9-50 Page 15 14 Dec 1992

PGP 2.1 incorporates many patches from the user community to port it
to more platforms. And it runs faster. Also, a lot of annoying bugs
and ergonomic oversights have been fixed. PGP 2.0 fans will find
many rough edges have been smoothed out.

The filenames are pgp21.zip for the MSDOS executable release, and
pgp21src.zip for the source code release. You must have PKUNZIP
version 1.1 or later to unzip them, or they won't unzip. The primary
initial FTP sites that have it are:

Finland: nic.funet.fi (128.214.6.100)
Directory: /pub/unix/security/crypt/

Italy: ghost.dsi.unimi.it (149.132.2.1)
Directory: /pub/security/

As previously, this prohibited and politically popular program will
probably propagate through the same channels as PGP 2.0. Of course,
if you live in the USA, you really shouldn't be using it.

If you have any questions about where else to get it, contact Hugh
Miller, at [email protected]. Hugh can send you the latest
evolving list of FTP sites, BBS phone numbers, and other sources.

Philip Zimmermann
Phil's Pretty Good Software

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By Mike Griffin
The Health and Fitness Echo

Well we are at it again. We are looking for a few more nodes to add to
the Health and Fitness Echo. If you are interested in this echo please
read on.

The Health and Fitness Echo covers all topics concerning Physical
Fitness and the General Health of the human body. Topics include body
building, weight control, nutrition, sports medicine, injury
prevention, work outs, aerobic training, competitive sports,
conditional training, vitamin supplements and more..

FidoNews 9-50 Page 16 14 Dec 1992

The nineties are being called, "The decade of physical fitness." Come
join in and learn what you can do to better your health or provide us
with some tips for improving ours. We look forward to having you
involved.

The Echo information will be posted in ELIST soon. Hopefully we can
get it on the backbone. For now, please send your request for the echo
to me at the address listed below.

Thanks and Have a Nice Christmas and Happy New Year!

FITNESS ECHO INFO.
Send a netmail request to Mike Griffin at 1:106/5999
The echo tag is FITNESS..

Things have slowed down just a bit since the
holidays are upon us and we need to get things going

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by Lee Woofenden
Synthesis, 1:3401/101 (206) 293-8856

The Swedenborgian Ideas Echo

Are you interested in Christianity, but turned off by the conservatism
and literalistic Bible interpretations found in many of the religious
echoes? Then the Swedenborgian Ideas echo may be for you.

The Swedenborgian Ideas echo is a forum for discussing the spiritual
and philosophical ideas of the new Christianity as envisioned by
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688-1772). Swedenborg was a scientist and
philosopher who later turned his mind toward religion. By his account,
he spent the last thirty years of his life conscious in both the
spiritual world and the material world at the same time. He believed
that the Lord had called him to reveal new ideas which would
revitalize Christianity. Here are a few of his basic ideas:

1) There is one God: the Lord Jesus Christ. The Father, Son, and Holy
Spirit mentioned in the New Testament are not three different
persons of God, but three different aspects of God, analogous to
our own soul, body, and actions.

2) The Bible has a spiritual meaning which tells the story of our
inner spiritual growth and development. This deeper meaning is
accessible to us via a type of symbolism called "correspondences."

3) We create our own heaven or hell by the choices we make in our
lives. People of all religious beliefs--or no particular religious
FidoNews 9-50 Page 17 14 Dec 1992

belief--can find heaven and be "saved" if they love God and show
kindness to other people according to their own beliefs.

If you would like to discuss this new Christianity in an open
atmosphere, the Swedenborgian Ideas echo is for you. If you just want
to push your own religious beliefs on others, please don't bother.

The Swedenborgian Ideas echo is listed in the Fidonet Echolist, with
the echotag SWEDENBORG. It is available to sysops from the Moderator,
Lee Woofenden, at 1:3401/101. If you are not a sysop and would like to
follow the Swedenborg echo, it is now available on the following BBSs:

Synthesis Guemes Island, WA (206) 293-8854 (1:3401/101)
Electronic Educator Washougal, WA (206) 837-3299 (1:105/114)
The Magic Bus Royal Oak, MI (313) 544-3653 (1:120/418)

Come join us!

--Lee Woofenden

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OETRANGE, LUXEMBOURG, December 7th, 1992 --- Advanced Engineering sarl
is pleased to introduce FrontDoor APX, the premier electronic mail
system for points.

FrontDoor APX (pronounced "APEX") is the first, and only, COMPLETE
electronic mail and file transfer system specifically designed for
points. It requires no additional software, such as conference mail
processors, compression software, FOSSIL drivers or other external
utilities; operating in a minimum system environment of 400kb of
diskspace and 384k of RAM.

Anyone can configure and use FrontDoor APX in minutes, experience
in electronic mail systems is not required. With the easy
installation, coupled with an extensive on-line help system available
at the touch of a key, FrontDoor APX can be installed and configured
in less than 15 minutes.

FrontDoor APX allows the exchange of private and conference mail, as
well as file requests and file attaches with a designated server.

Security comes naturally with FrontDoor APX, providing session and
packet level password security.

FrontDoor APX is designed to operate with a single server, such as
FrontDoor. All transactions are with the server system, affording
management control of all transfers. A network can be configured to
include as little as a single FrontDoor Server and a single FrontDoor
APX point, or it can include unlimited FrontDoor APX points operating
under multiple FrontDoor Servers. FrontDoor APX and FrontDoor can
meet your requirements, whatever they are.

FidoNews 9-50 Page 18 14 Dec 1992

+---------+ +---------+
|FrontDoor| ---------------------- |FrontDoor|
| Server | | Server |
+---------+ +---------+
/ | \ / | \
/ | \ / | \
/ | \ / | \
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+
| FDAPX | | FDAPX | | FDAPX | | FDAPX | | FDAPX | | FDAPX |
+-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+ +-------+

FrontDoor APX is clearly the front runner in electronic mail systems
for networks utilizing the point concept. Combined with the power of
a FrontDoor server, an effective, secure and manageable electronic
mail network provides the ultimate in electronic communciations.

Minimum hardware required:

- A PC, XT, AT, 386, 486, PS/2, or 100% BIOS compatible machine.
- 384 kb of available RAM.
- Asynchronous modem utilizing the AT command set.
- FrontDoor or another EMSI or FTS-6 ZedZap capable server (Zmodem
only).

Features:

- Simple installation and operation, up and running in less than 15
minutes.
- On-line help system at the touch of a key, no manual required.
- Secure sessions, utilizing session and packet password protection.
- 50 message folders capable of:
1 Private mail folder supporting:
Name macros (with addresses)
Message replying
Reply comments
Carbon copies
Hidden carbon copies
Blind carbon copies
1 Trashcan folder for holding deleted messages until maintenance.
Up to 48 Conference folders supporting:
Name macros (without addressing)
Message replying in the same conference or via private mail.
- Message base format capable of:
Up to 65000 messages
Messages up to 16kb can be created/displayed
- Macro manager allows up to 50 frequently used names and addresses
to be configured for utilization with a simple macro command.
- File requests/attaches
- Automated and manual conference maintenance
- Automatic detection and unpacking of mail archives in PKARC 3.6x,
PAK 2.51 and PKZIP 1.1x formats.
- Full mouse support
- Full support for real reply threads (as opposed to 'subject
FidoNews 9-50 Page 19 14 Dec 1992

linking').
- FSC-39 and full 4D addressing support.
- Automatic maintenance
- Can be command-line driven
- Supports DTE speeds of up to 115.2 kbps
- Supports the use of NS16550A[FN] FIFOs for high speed modems
- EMSI and FTS-6 support (Zmodem only).
- Does not utilize a nodelist.

To receive additional information about FrontDoor APX electronically,
please file request APXINFO from 1:132/000@fidonet or 2:270/17@fidonet.
Scheduled release date is February 1, 1993. For additional information
on FrontDoor APX and FrontDoor, contact:

United States and Canada: Europe, Australia, Asia, Africa,
and S.America:

Online Communications, Inc. Advanced Engineering sarl
22 State Street 8, am For
Bangor, Maine 04401 L-5351 Oetrange
USA Luxembourg

Telephone: (207) 941-1110 Telephone: +352 355935
BBS: (207) 990-3511 BBS: +352 355936
NetMail: 1:132/300, 255:2001/1 NetMail: 2:270/7, 255:3001/1,
[email protected]

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Brigadoon Village Network

Green Dragon Good Time Pub

Today's drink specials are:

GREEN DRAGON
1 1/2 oz. gin
1 oz. green creme de menthe
1/2 oz kummel
1/2 oz lemon juice
several dashes peach or orange bitters
Mix all ingredients with cracked ice in a shaker or blender and strain
into a chilled cocktail glass.

GREEN FANTASY
1 oz vodka
1 oz dry vermouth
1 oz melon liqueur
kiwi slices
Mix all ingredients, except kiwi, with plenty of crushed ice until drink
is frappeed. Serve in a chilled balloon glass and garnish with kiwi
slices.

FidoNews 9-50 Page 20 14 Dec 1992

GREEN ISLAND
1 1/2 oz vodka
3 oz pineapple juice
juice of 1 lime
1/2 tsp. sugar syrup
1/2 oz green creme do menthe
Pineapple spear

Mix all ingredients, except creme de menthe and pineapple spear, with
cracked ice in a shaker or blender and strain into a chilled Hurricane
glass. Top with float of green creme de menthe and garnish with
pienapple spear.

GREEN LAGOON
1 oz gin
1 oz green creme de menthe
2-3 oz pineapple juice
Mix all ingredients with cracked ice in a shaker or blender and strain
into a chilled cocktail glass.

Green Stinger
one part GREEN Creme de Menthe
one part CLEAR Brandy
I always order a Green Stinger. Somehow the brown ones (made with brown
Brandy and clear Creme de Menthe) just don't taste as good :-)

AND FOR YOUR CLOSE FRIENDS ...

THE VULCAN DEATH GRIP
1 part Ouzo (preferably 90proof)
1 part Bacardi 151

O /
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O \

for information or to join Brigadoon contact:

James Pallack (aka J'mes)

1:325/101.0 FidoNet
10:802/101.0 Brigadoon
[email protected] InterNet

For information package, FREQ the magic name: BRIGADOON

FidoNews 9-50 Page 21 14 Dec 1992

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FidoNews 9-50 Page 22 14 Dec 1992

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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
======================================================================

------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------

Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello

IMPORTANT NOTE: The FidoNet address of the FidoNews BBS has been
changed!!! Please make a note of this.

"FidoNews" BBS
FidoNet 1:1/23 <---- NEW ADDRESS!!!!
Internet [email protected]
BBS +1-415-863-2739, 300/1200/2400/16800/V.32bis/Zyxel

(Postal Service mailing address) (have extreme patience)
FidoNews
c/o World Power Systems <---- don't forget this
Box 77731
San Francisco
CA 94107 USA

Published weekly by and for the members of the FidoNet international
amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual
articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The
contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the
rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those
of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews.

Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
copyright 1992 Tom Jennings. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or
distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in
other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or FidoNews
(we're easy).

The following is the PGP 2.x public key block for the FidoNews public
key, key ID "FidoNews <[email protected], 1:1/23>", also
requestable from the FidoNews BBS as FREQ magicname KEY. You may use
this key to send secure, private mail to FidoNews.

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FidoNews 9-50 Page 23 14 Dec 1992

OBTAINING COPIES: The-most-recent-issue-ONLY of FidoNews in electronic
form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or
Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained from Fido Software for $10.00US each
PostPaid First Class within North America, or $13.00US elsewhere,
mailed Air Mail. (US funds drawn upon a US bank only.)

BACK ISSUES: Available from FidoNet nodes 1:102/138, 1:216/21,
1:125/1212, 1:107/519.1 (and probably others), via filerequest or
download (consult a recent nodelist for phone numbers).

A very nice index to the Tables of Contents to all FidoNews volumes
can be filerequested from 1:396/1. The name(s) to request are
FNEWSxTC.ZIP, where 'x' is the volume number; 1=1984, 2=1985...
through 8=1991.

INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.ieee.org, in
directory ~ftp/pub/fidonet/fidonews. If you have questions regarding
FidoNet, please direct them to [email protected], not the
FidoNews BBS. (Be kind and patient; David Deitch is generously
volunteering to handle FidoNet/Internet questions.)

SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". Please read it.

"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
trademarks of Tom Jennings, Box 77731, San Francisco CA 94107, USA and
are used with permission.

Asked what he thought of Western civilization,
M.K. Gandhi said, "I think it would be an excellent idea".

-- END

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