F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No. 5 (30-Jan-1995)
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| (_/(_|(____/ | Tim |
| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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Table of Contents
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1. Editorial..................................................... 2
2. Articles...................................................... 2
Subject: CHAINS - bOING bOING Broken Chain Letter........... 2
CORELDRAW echo available.................................... 4
New Pink Floyd Echo......................................... 4
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE....................................... 5
From: Michael Johnson....................................... 5
Subject: Dictactorship in Z4 - Update....................... 8
Let's Bash Politics!!! (New Echo)........................... 9
Clues sought in Kayla Mayberry murder....................... 9
3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 10
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 2 30 Jan 1995
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Editorial
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Our net has been having a lot of discussion lately on the
cost of the CRP. One of my pet peeves as a hub (I am not
hubbing anymore, but used to), was the 2400 baud BBS's that
received 1.5 megabytes (compressed) of echomail daily. I once
expanded that, and counted the pages. By my calculations, the
BBS would have needed 45 hours a day of online time to read it
all.
I wonder just how much mail is actually read, and how much
is received to cater to the "my BBS is bigger than your BBS"
syndrome. Perhaps, with satellite feed, it does not affect the
cost for most CRP's. Waste still irks me though.
On another subject, I just finished a book than was
interesting to anybody involved in net culture. It was called
"Megatrends, Global Paradox" by John Naisbitt. I am not about
to attempt to summarize a 400 page paperback in an editorial, but
the essential theme of the book is to compare global trends to
the mainframe/microcomputer network tradeoff. The author makes
a convincing arguement that the world will (and should) evolve
into many more smaller and smaller nations, almost a citystate
existance. Email and automated voting procedures will play a
major part, and electronic banking will effectively produce a
world currency, regardless of the actual number of "national"
currencies. A stimulating head trip that I am still mulling
over.
Last but not least, we have cut an article today, or at
least put it on hold. It was an ad for a piece of software that
is not shareware, but purely commercial. While we do run ads
for software that pertains to BBSing, we have always stuck to
shareware only. What do people think about ads for BBS software
that is a commercial product? I should mention that the author
is a Fido sysop.
On with the snooze.
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Articles
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From:
[email protected] (FringeWare Inc)
Subject: CHAINS - bOING bOING Broken Chain Letter
Here's the Official bOING bOING Broken Chain Letter (created by
Mark Frauenfelder). Send this in response to any chain letters you
recieve. Don't forget to send it to EVERY rube on the list.
clip and save clip and save clip and save
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YOU HAVE BEEN CHOSEN TO BE A VICTIM!
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 3 30 Jan 1995
This message has been e-mailed to you for no good reason. The
original sender has been hunted down and executed. It has been sent
back and forth to the same superstitious dorks for about 20 years.
This stupid piece of trash has now been e-mailed to you. You will
back and forth to the same superstitious dorks for about 20 years.
This stupid piece of trash has now been e-mailed to you. You will
spread the boredom within seconds of receiving this message -
provided you, in turn, e-mail it on.
This is no joke. Not even I, the sender, am amused. You will gets lots
of angry e-mail in return, but no money. Send copies to people you
think are as stupid as you are. E-mail your credit card number and
expiration date to as many people as you can. Don't send money as it
will clog up your Net connection. Do not keep this message. This
message must leave your hard drive in 96 hours.
* A United States Crack Dealer received $470,000 Dollars.
* Another Man received $40,000 Dollars and lost it because he
couldn't find it.
* In the Philippines, Gene Welch lost his wife 51 days after receiving
the message. He failed to circulate the message. However, before his
death, he received 7,555,000 new wives.
Please e-mail twenty copies to Canter & Seigel and see what happens
in four days. The chain comes from Venezuela and was written by
Saul De Groda, a plumber from Cleveland. He has been hunted down
and executed. Since the copy must tour the Net, you must make
twenty copies and e-mail them to friends and associates. After a few
days you'll get a flood of angry responses. Nothing is true, even if
you are superstitious. Do note the following:
* Constantine Dias received this chain in 1958, several years before it
was created. He asked his boss to make twenty copies and send them
out. He was fired and became a prostitute. A few days later he won
two dollars in the lottery.
* Carlos Daditt, an office droid, received the message and forgot that
it had to leave his hard disk in 96 hours. He lost about 20KBytes of
storage space. Later, after finding the message again, he erased it
from his hard drive. A few days later he was fired and went into
storage space. Later, after finding the message again, he erased it
from his hard drive. A few days later he was fired and went into
business with Constantine.
* Dalan Fairchild received the message and, not believing, deleted it.
Nine days later he choked to death on a ham sandwich while watching
the "Space Madness" episode of Ren & Stimpy.
* In 1987, the message received by a young woman in California was
full of garbage characters due to line noise, and was barely readable.
She promised herself that she would retype the message and e-mail
it on, but she set it aside to do volunteer work at an orphange. She
was plagued with various problems, including being beaten up by
the kids at the orphanage. The e-mail did not leave her hands within
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 4 30 Jan 1995
96 hours. She finally typed the letter as promised and was beaten so
severly by the children that she was hospitalized for 18 months.
So, Good Luck, but please remember: 20 copies of this message MUST
leave your computer in 96 hours...
You must not sign off on this message...
YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!
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CORELDRAW echo available
CORELDRAW echo now backboned!
CorelDraw is the leading professional graphics package available for
PCs running MS Windows. With a program as complex as this one, there
are bound to be tips and tricks you're not aware of to help you work
faster and better. Tune in to the CORELDRAW echo to discuss the
software, and how you work with it.
Request CORELDRAW through your regular zone 1 mail feed!
Rick Pali
CORELDRAW Moderator
1:163/328
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New Pink Floyd Echo
New Pink Floyd Discussion echo
by Stuart Charlton <1:224/120>
Just a reminder to everyone that a new echo under echotag PINK
has been opened. The topics include but are not limited to: album
discussion, lyric interpretation, rumours, Publius enigma, and Water's
solo works. The echo is currently available from 1:224/120, but a
request for backbone status has been filed. Bug your NEC/REC to carry the
echo!
All in all, it was just a brick in the wall...
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 5 30 Jan 1995
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Joe Klemmer (1:109/370)
Contact:
Sarah Charf
Microsoft Corporation
(206) 882-8080
Microsoft Clarifies Trademark Policies
REDMOND, Washington--January 4, 1995--In response to customer
inquiries, Microsoft today clarified the naming policy for Bob(tm),
its new software product designed for computer beginners. Contrary
to rumors, Microsoft will not demand that all persons formerly named
"Bob" immediately select new first names.
"I don't know where these rumors come from," commented Steve
Balmer, Microsoft Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and
Support. "It's ridiculous to think Microsoft would force people
outside the computer industry to change their names. We won't, and
our licensing policies for people within the industry will be so
reasonable that the Justice Department could never question them."
Balmer said employees of other computer companies will be given the
opportunity to select new names, and will also be offered a
licensing option allowing them to continue using their former names
at very low cost.
The new licensing program, called Microsoft TrueName(tm), offers
persons who want to continue being known by the name Bob the option
of doing so, with the payment of a small monthly licensing fee and
upon signing a release form promising never to use OpenDoc. As an
added bonus, Bob name licensees will also be authorized to display
the Windows 95 logo on their bodies.
Persons choosing not to license the Bob name will be given a 60-day
grace period during which they can select another related name.
"We're being very lenient in our enforcement of the Bob trademark,"
said Bill Newkom, Microsoft's Senior Vice President of Law and
Corporate Affairs. "People are still free to call themselves
Robert, Robby, or even Rob. Bobby however is derivative of
Microsoft's trademark and obviously can't be allowed."
Microsoft also announced today that Bob(tm) Harbold, its Executive
Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, has become the first
Microsoft TrueName licensee and will have the Windows 95 logo
tattooed to his forehead.
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From: Michael Johnson
Subject: song
(sung to "Wh0 Are You?" by the immortal Peter Townsend)
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FidoNews 12-05 Page: 6 30 Jan 1995
Steve's Song
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Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
I went on Sunday to my Pentacostal church to hear the preacher bray,
He was spouting off about Acts 2:38 and about the judgement day.
I got the fever and I spoke in tongues and all could hear me say, I'll
convert my computer to a BBS and I'll torment all when I say.....
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (you know you'll burn in helllll)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (I wanna nuke false christian scummmm)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (I really want to curse)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
SO I opened up a network BBS and I bone'd HOLY_BIBLE toooooo,
People got all upset when I offered some unpopular views,
I just laughed and cursed them long distance collect and in FIDONEwwws,
I added all their names to a list so my lawyer could sueeeee.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (you modem-scum are nuuuukked)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (I damn you all to he-ellllllllll)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (You know I'm gonna suuuuuueee)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Then back last summer someone wrote a bogus article to Fidonews one day,
It advocated hanging pagans and nuking their boards for play.
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 7 30 Jan 1995
Everyone thought I had done it and to that I must sayyyyyy,
Some of the ideas presented there would have been by me..okay.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (i absolutely dooooooo)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (you echo trash disrupterssss)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
I really want to curse.....
I really want to curse.....
I really want to curse.....
I reallly want to curse....
Yoooo-ooo--ooouuuuu
(you-ah you-ah you-ah you-ah you-ah you-ah you-ah)
Guitar solos and dramatic rock-stuff
...buildup to crescendo....
I lost my node and I got it back to the false-modem-scum's dismayyyyy,
And now I am able to curse them in email twenty four hours a day.
The Fidogawds are helpless to stop my maniac fundy jihad-crusaaade,
I post 200 administrative messages to fuck up everybody's day.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (I really want to curse)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (You false modem scuuuuummmm)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you. (I'm gonna quote you from the bible)
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
SO now I have so many to curse that it fills out my whole daaaay,
I get corporate bulk rate long distance from MCI just so I can play.
When you get your call and you will and it may be a very soon daaaaay,
You too will have the honor of hearing Steve Winter saaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 8 30 Jan 1995
Iiiiiiii curse you,
Curse, curse....curse you.
I really want to curse....I really want to curse...I really have to
curse.....curse...curse.....YOU.
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Subject: Dictactorship in Z4 - Update
Hello Fidonetters,
This article is only to keep the world up-to-date with the last
happenings in Z4 - Region 80.
The ZC4 (Gamey Garcia) kept his decision in replacing our RC80,
and as i said before, even a single word of reason wasn't stated.
All former NCs decided to keep their decisions in not to agree
with the ZC's act, and they even tried to make a deal with the
ZC, but again, the ZC didn't agree.
While this, our new RC80 performed a 'cleaning' job in the
region. He killed 4 nets, and merged 'em with other nets. Some
days ago, he simply replaced all NCs, and killed my net (4:808).
In the new positions, he assigned SysOps without previous
experience or even enough knowledge to handle their new jobs. Oh
well, i wish 'em luck in their new position.
It's simply incredible, how a person like Mr. Gamey Garcia make
deals with persons like our new RC80 and a few supporters (less
than 10) of his ideas around the country.
This children game is only playing with more than 10.000 users in
Brazil, and they're very angry with this situation.
Today, FidoNet in Brazil is broken in two pieces. One of them
controlled by the current RC, with less than 10% of the original
number of +- 170 nodes, and the other one with the rest.
This is a funny situation. We have two fidonets, one called
"FidoClean" and another called "Fidonet", running in paralell...
Folks, wake up for the current situation in Fidonet. There are
many conflicts today... the fight for the power is becoming an
insane war, with lots of loosers fighting for a stupid position
of *C, and the only victims are the users around the globe.
Fidonet-Brazil is dead. More than 90% of the SysOps are willing
to move to another network, or even create a new network. This
dirty policy is killing a 6 year job performed by several SysOps
in our Country, in a great effort to consolidate the network.
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 9 30 Jan 1995
I'm so sorry we can't do anything, but we're with tied hands...
Well, i'm stopping here, because we're only a few nodes trying to
reestablish the order in our Region, and we're dealing with dirty
minds.
I really hope that Fidonet can survive here in Brazil...
That's all.
Regards,
Alexandre Beltrao (former 4:808/3)
E-Mail: alex%
[email protected]
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Let's Bash Politics!!! (New Echo)
by Josh Kayser (1:105/249)
NIGHT_SHIFT_BASH_POLI
There is a new echo to FidoNet. It is another in the line of the famous
NIGHT_SHIFT echos! It is NIGHT_SHIFT_BASH_POLI where you can
bash/defend politics, politicians, or just talk about them. We are
attempting to get it backboned, but we need some REC requests! So send
a message to your Regional Echomail Coordinator and ask them to get
NIGHT_SHIFT_BASH_POLI on the backbone! If you are interested in getting
this echo, please contact Josh Kayser or Joe Shear at 1:105/249 or just
simply write to your REC and tell them you want it backboned! It's that
easy! And remember, you can bash politics all you want! That's what
it's here for!
-Josh Kayser, Moderator NIGHT_SHIFT_BASH_POLI
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Clues sought in Kayla Mayberry murder
Daniel Tobias
1:380/7
The family and friends of Kayla Mayberry are desperately seeking clues
to help solve her murder.
Kayla was last seen at The Wet Bar on Spring Street in downtown
Shreveport, Louisiana, on Saturday, October 22, 1994 after 10 PM.
Her family spent the next two weeks searching for her, but this ended
tragically when her body was found in an abandoned farmhouse in east
Texas.
Now, they're attempting to find anybody who has any information that
might lead to the solution of this case.
FidoNews 12-05 Page: 10 30 Jan 1995
Kayla Mayberry was 5'6", 115 lbs, age 19, medium blonde hair, brown
eyes, and was last seen wearing light blue Guess jeans and a
sleeveless blue and white striped v-neck tank top. Anyone with
information on this case can call Crime Stoppers at (318) 673-7000, or
Detectives Allen Johnson and Gary Foster at (318) 673-6955.
To assist this search, I have made a picture of Kayla available for
download or file request. The filename is KAYLA.GIF, and my system,
Dan's Den, is at (318) 424-9260, FidoNet address 1:380/7.
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