F I D O N E W S --       Volume 14, Number 35          1 September 1997
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       HOW MUCH IS THAT AREA CODE CHANGE IN THE WINDOW?


                       Table of Contents
    1. EDITORIAL  ................................................  1
       Got a new Area Code?  .....................................  1
    2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR  ....................................  2
       Internet email response to 1431  ..........................  2
    3. ARTICLES  .................................................  4
       About files lists: tracking program?  .....................  4
    4. TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET  ..................................  5
       BBSes are NOT DEAD!  ......................................  5
    5. NET HUMOR  ................................................  8
       You have reached the help desk?  ..........................  8
    6. COMIX IN ASCII  ........................................... 13
       Use the Force?  ........................................... 13
    7. NOTICES  .................................................. 14
       Future History  ........................................... 14
       New addresses for Lockwood III  ........................... 14
    8. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................................. 16
       Latest Greatest Software Versions  ........................ 16
    9. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY  ...................................... 20
       FidoNews PGP public-key listing  .......................... 20
    10. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ..................................... 21
    11. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  .................................... 23
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                                EDITORIAL
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    Seems like every week my mailer queue complains about not having any
    accounting information for a given phone number in the Nodelist. The
    phone companies are going nuts trying to keep up with all the new
    phones and phone number usage like computers, cellphones, faxes, etc.,
    that the telecommunications revolution is creating. Florida has split
    3 Area Codes this year and more are on the horizon.

    The Coordinators are going to be the first to notice a new Area Code
    in their area so I'd like to request they [as a group or individually]
    report these changes and additions to all of us via FidoNews as a .NOT
    [Notice] or .LET [Letter to the Editor]. C'mon NCs, RCs, ZCs, how
    about passing that new info along to the rest of us the easy way?

    And speaking of such prefix numbers, how is the revolution affecting
    number distribution in the other Zones? Are new Country Codes coming
    out as the result of the equipment explosion or has it yet to get to
    that point elsewhere?

    Other than that, it's a typical Issue of typical size. [grin]

    C.B.

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                          LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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    --- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
        By Christopher Baker on Fri Aug 29 04:23:25 1997

    From: Wouter van Marle @ 2:283/317
    To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
    Date: 27 Aug 97  19:10:44
    Subj: Article in FidoNews 14-31

    Hallo Pete & Christopher!

    A reaction to an article in FidoNews 14-31 : "Fido needs piece of
    software".

    This article discusses the need of providing INternet e-mail via
    Netmail using the normal BBS structure. No gateways, but the BBS
    directly calling the Internet. And making it completely transparent to
    the users.

    This is exactly what I do for over a year and a half by now, and soon
    after I started my BBS and mailsystem. I have a UUCP account by an
    ISP, so I can poll for my Internet e-mail and news, just like I call
    for my Fidonet netmail and echomail. Off course I need other software
    to do this, and a kind of gateway (the well-known GIGO program) to
    convert Internet style mail to Fidostyle.

    My points can get a real e-mail address (<username>@medusa.xs4all.nl),
    if they like. Mail sent to that address is received by them as
    netmail. They can send their e-mail to anyone on the internet using
    normal Fidostyle netmail, just use the e-mail address as to-name and a
    special point-address on my system. My editor (GoldED) even
    automatically adds the correct Fido address if it finds a e-mail
    address in the to-field of the header!

    BBS users currently can't do e-mail on my system, but if I want I
    think I can configure that quite easily. It's not required, in Z2 the
    point-system is the most common way of mailing for users.

    All the "extra" software I needed to do this was the Internet polling
    stuff, the gateway, and some lines in my batch-files. For a sysop easy
    to do, and the used software is freeware and good developed. So I
    really don't understand the idea of extra software that should be
    necessary to do this...

    In Z2, R28 all major BBSes provide e-mail and news to their Fido
    points. And many, many of the smaller BBSes (like mine) do the same.
    It's easy to setup after you configured a Fidonet system, and I like
    this way of reading/writing my e-mail better than using a second
    Internet-only editor.

    I call twice a day, sometimes more (manual). For most points this is
    fast enough, because they call only once a day or less. Off course,
    calling every hour or after someone dropping mail is also possible.
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    It's all very easy to configure.

    At my system all Fido stuff is free, for Internet stuff I ask a small
    charge.  It still is much more expensive than Fidonet, and I don't
    have much money. But there are BBSes that provide e-mail for free.

     _    ___
      "--~   ~-.         Groetjes,
      __\.      \
        ~:       Y          \    /
     |   |    q pj           \/\/ outer.      /* Vaak live in Down Under
    *\
     \   j  -. ./   _
      \_/   \| (___/()    Speeding up to Warpspeed with OS/2 Warp!
          /~-.______./
       __Y                PGP: Netmail naar PGPServer (2:283/317)

    ... y
    "Meneer Aart: Kom je net terug van een pyama feestje?

     -30-

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                                ARTICLES
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    Files-lists and how to read them
    --------------------------------
    by Eneko Lacunza (2:344/20.13, 2:344/19.11, [email protected])

    I've always felt that reading and looking through BBS' files-lists is
    quite boring and time loosing: I have to browse over all the list
    (which can be >1Mb!) to figure out what files and programs are
    on-line. Of course, there are some shortcuts: search for strings,
    look at the index, ... but they aren't comfortable if you want to see
    what's on your favorite BBS.

    Finally, some months ago, I decided that it was time to do something.
    So I have written a program that allows the user to browse over the
    areas list, select one and then look at its contents, go back to the
    areas list and select another and so on. It also has an autoFREQ
    feature similar to those found on message editors such GoldEd.

    The questions are: Do you guys think it is useful? Are you interested
    in such a program? Is out there any program that does it?

    The matter is that right now the program speaks Spanish, so I'd like
    to know people's opinion before I take the work to translate it.

    Any comment would be appreciated!
    Eneko.

    Fidonet 2:344/19.11 | 2:344/20.13
    e-mail  [email protected]
    http    www.arrakis.es/~enlar

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                         TRUE STORIES OF FIDONET
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    --- Following message extracted from 374SYSOP @ 1:18/14 ---
        By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:05 1997

    From: Walt Young
    To: All
    Date: 28 Aug 97  04:25:08
    Subj: FINALLY!!!

    I am finally back on the Pentium running "full bore".  I was lucky I
    still had the old 486 (8 ram, 340 HD), to at least keep the mail and
    messages flowing during this time.  So no loss of mail or files
    anyway.  Boy that used to be my "top of the line" system.  Now it is
    slower than molasses compared to the big one.  But then I guess it
    didn't bother my Commodore people too much since they have 2 mhz
    machines and 1200/2400 baud modems.  (G)

    Can't believe the problems I've run into in the past 4 weeks.  What
    started out to be a "simple" HD and Modem upgrade turned into the
    biggest pile of crap.  The first thing that happened is I lost the
    Motherboard and a power supply.  Since I had blown all my savings on
    the HD and Modem, I had nothing to buy replacement parts with.  Flat
    broke.

    Well someone squealed on me, and mentioned it on the BBS.  Next thing
    I know, I have donations coming in like crazy.  I received donations
    from a Computer Club and a number of individuals, two of whom donated
    $100 each, and a bunch of smaller ones....which all added up to approx
    $550.  Needless to say I was back in business!!!

    WHO SAID BBS'S ARE DEAD AND NOT APPRECIATED???   NOT THIS ONE!!!!

    I have maintained for a long time, that the problem with most people
    in 'puters these days is that they have progressed so far and have
    totally forgotten the "little people", the ones just starting out, the
    ones with small machines, like 286s, XTs, Commodore, CoCo, and don't
    take the time to help them learn so they can progress too.  Well I
    never forgot what it was like to be a "newbee" and stumbling all over
    some sysops BBS, trying to figure out what to do while being totally
    intimidated by the whirring screens and myriad of confusing commands,
    don't know how to post a message (although we browbeat people to
    post), don't know how to download even a simple file.  I felt if you
    "take care of your Customers" then at some point your Customers "will
    take care of you"!

    Well, with the exception of 2 people...all those that donated all have
    small machines of one type or another, and all were older than the
    "Yuppy Generation".  All those with higher powered fancy machines,
    totally ignored the situation....not even a "gosh I'm sorry to hear
    that"...not a dime.  I think I've learned something in all this....I
    was right!!!

    Back to the 'puter, mostly it was hardware not wanting to play
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    together, then software didn't want to play with hardware, then
    hardware would retaliate against the Software, then some bat files
    played their 'game'...and on and on and on.

    The biggest problem was when people would download QWK packets via
    SFQuick program (SFQ), they would pack, and DSZ would download the
    packet, but when DSZ was to exit and go back to SFQ, it would lock the
    system and give me an error screen, telling me that DSZ is being used
    by another Application.  Well hell, there was NO other application
    running.  I deleted them all just to be sure.  There were some
    installs in the past where i did not have that problem, yet if I
    install direct from the Installation program of OS2...It would cause
    SFQ/DSZ to do the lockup.

    I bet I installed, uninstalled, destalled, astalled, etc., a dozen
    times trying to find it.  I was bound and determined.  Well I still
    don't know what "causes" the problem, but I found a "CURE" for it
    anyway.  One lousy line in the Config Sys "AUTOFAIL=YES".  Not sure
    how it got into some configs in the past and not in others, but as
    long as that line is there SFQ/DSZ work perfectly fine.  Took me 2
    weeks to find it.

    The other major problem was my Mouse and my Sound Card both wanted to
    "own" Irq 5.  The mouse was a serial, so had to use extra serial card,
    and put mouse on com3, irq5 since both modems had 3 and 4.  Well
    neither the soundcard nor mouse would budge, even trying to "fool"
    them with config sys entries.  So finally went down and bought a PS/2
    bus mouse and that solved that problem.  Now they are both "happy".

    Then Tues morn I wake up with the flu or some terrible man-eating
    disease, and was miserable for 2 days.  Trying to install stuff for
    final run thru, since i finally got all the 'bugs' worked out.  But
    just does not work when you feel like you are a limp dishrag.  So quit
    for the night.  This morn I started in again and it all came together,
    got everything installed by 3 pm, and machine purred like a kitten.
    So decided not to wait a min longer.  Shut down the 486, put the two
    HDs in the Pentium and then copied the BBS over to the Pentium Drives.
    Took about 45 mins, and we were up and running.

    So far...so good!!  I hope it's another lifetime before I have to go
    through this again!!!.

    But now we are up with the "big boys and girls" (or catching up,
    anyway).  We still have Pentium 75, but added up to 64 ram,  have a 4
    gig and the old 850 for close to 5 gigs total space.  Now have a 33.6
    on the Mail Node, and moved the Supra 28.8 to the BBS replacing the
    14.4, which is now in the backup 486.  After all the above problems
    figured I earned some "luxuries" so bought a new video and sound card.
    Great...video card has all kinds of stuff my monitor (el cheapo bottom
    of line) won't see.  Well one of these days I hope to get a 17" or 20"
    monitor so I can better read what's on the screen.  Or maybe Santa
    will bring me one!!  (hee hee).

    Now I need to work on the File Areas and Conf Areas, both in bad need
    of revamping.  Now that I have the space, I hope to get a better
    selection of files from the Filebone, at least in some selected areas.
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    Well now that I've done my "bragging" and got it out of my system
    (although I think the donation part was justified, the rest...blah),
    it's back to the "hole" and "normal (whatever that is) operation".

    I've scanned the echo, albeit quickly, but think I have the
    "Headlines"...Larry resigns due to work commitments, Tim is now NEC,
    Genie is Temp NC pending Election in which so far she's the only one
    in nomination.  Whoo  Whooo  Whooooo I hear the train a-comin, comin
    round the bend....hee hee.  An Echo list was past out to be reviewed
    and revised.  Think that is most of it.  Now I'll try to get to the
    details in next day or two to get caught up.

    Now I hope that I can be a better "asset" to the Net as a whole, as
    well as to my Super Customers!

    Walt

      Origin: Space Coast REACT, Melbourne FL <407> 255-9069 (1:374/710)

     -30-

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                                NET HUMOR
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    From: "Mike Riddle" <[email protected]>
    To: "Baker, Christopher" <[email protected] (Christopher Baker)
    Date: Tue, 26 Aug 97 15:10:10 -0600
    Reply-To: "Mike Riddle" <[email protected]>
    Subject: Fwd: Help desk

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    [email protected]
    From: cynic <[email protected]>
    Subject: Help desk
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    The Proper Way to Run a Help Desk  -  A Helpdesk Log

    * Monday

     8:05 am User called to say they forgot password. Told them to use
    password retrieval utility called FDISK. Blissfully ignorant, they
    thank me and hang up. God, we let the people vote and drive, too?

     8:12 am Accounting called to say they couldn't access expense reports
    database. Gave them Standard Sys Admin Answer #112, "Well it works for
    me" Let them rant and rave while I unplugged my coffeemaker from the
    UPS and plugged their server back in. Suggested they try it again. One
    more happy customer.

     8:14 am User from 8:05 call said they received error message "Error
    accessing Drive 0. "Told them it was an OS problem. Transferred them
    to microsupport.

     11:00 am Relatively quiet for last few hours Decided to plug support
    phone back in so I can call my girlfriend. Says parents are coming
    into town this weekend. Put her on hold and transferred her to
    janitorial closet down in basement. What is she thinking? The "Myst"
    and "Doom" nationals are this weekend!

     11:34 am Another user calls (do they ever learn?) Says they want ACL
    changed on HR performance review database so nobody but HR can access
    database.  Tell them no problem. Hang up. Change ACL. Add @MailSend so
    performance reviews are sent to */US.

     12:00 pm Lunch

     3:30 pm Return from lunch.

     3:55 pm Wake up from nap. Bad dream makes me cranky. Bounce servers
    for no reason. Return to napping.

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     4:23 pm Yet another user calls. Wants to know how to change fonts on
    form.  Ask what chip set they're using. Tell them to call back when
    they find out.

     4:55 pm Decide to run "Create Save/Replication Conflicts" macro so
    next shift has something to do.

    * Tuesday

     8:30 am Finish reading support log from last night. Sounded busy.
    Terrible time with Save/Replication conflicts.

     9:00 am Support manager arrives. Wants to discuss my attitude. Click
    on PhoneNotes SmartIcon. "Love to, but kinda busy. Put something in
    the calendar database!" I yell as I grab for the support lines, which
    have (mysteriously) lit up. Walks away grumbling.

     9:35 pm Team leader from R&D needs ID for new employee. Tell them
    they need form J-19R=9C9\\DARR\K1. Says they never heard of such a
    form.  Tell them it's in the SPECIAL FORMS database. Say they never
    heard of such a database. Transfer them to janitorial closet in
    basement.

     10:00 am Perky sounding intern from R&D calls and says she needs new
    ID.  Tell her I need employee number, department name, manager name,
    and marital status. Run @DbLookup against state parole board database,
    Centers for Disease Controldatabase, and my Oprah Winfrey database. No
    hits.  Tell her ID will be ready tonight. Drawing from the lessons
    learned in last week's "Reengineering for Customer Partnership," I
    offer to personally deliver ID to her apartment.

     10:07 am Janitor stops by to say he keeps getting strange calls in
    basement Offer to train him on Notes. Begin now. Let him watch console
    while I grab a smoke.

     1:00 pm Return from smoking break. Janitor says phones kept ringing,
    so he transferred them to cafeteria lady. I like this guy.

     1:05 pm Big commotion! Support manager falls in hole left where I
    pulled floor tiles outside his office door. Stress to him importance
    of not running in computer room, even if I do yell "Omigod --Fire!"

     1:15 pm Development Standards Committee calls and complains about
    umlauts in form names. Apologizing for the inconvenience, I tell them
    I will fix it.  Hang up and run global search/replace using gaks.

     1:20 pm Mary Hairnet from cafeteria calls. Says she keeps getting
    calls for "Notice Loads" or "NoLoad Goats," she's not sure, couldn't
    hear over industrial-grade blender. Tell her it was probably "Lettuce
    Nodes." Maybe the food distributor with a new product? She thinks
    about it and hangs up.

     2:00 pm Legal secretary calls and says she lost password. Ask her to
    check in her purse, floor of car, and on bathroom counter. Tell her it
    probably fell out of back of machine. Suggest she put duct tape over
    all the airvents she can find on the PC. Grudgingly offer to create
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    new ID for her while she does that.

     2:49 pm Janitor comes back. Wants more lessons. I take off rest of
    day.


    * Wednesday

     8:30 am Irate user calls to say chipset has nothing to do with fonts
    on form. Tell them Of course, they should have been checking "Bitset,"
    not "chipset." Sheepish user apologizes and hangs up.

     9:10 am Support manager, with foot in cast, returns to office.
    Schedules 10:00 am meeting with me. User calls and wants to talk to
    support manager about terrible help at support desk. Tell them manager
    about to go into meeting. Sometimes life hands you material...

     10:00 am Call Louie in janitorial services to cover for me. Go to
    support manager's office. He says he can't dismiss me but can suggest
    several lateral career moves. Most involve farm implements in third-
    world countries with moderate to heavy political turmoil. By and by, I
    ask if he's aware of new bug which takes full-text indexed random e-
    mail databases and puts all references to furry handcuffs and Bambi
    Boomer in Marketing on the corporate Web page. Meeting is adjourned as
    he reaches for keyboard, Web browser, and Tums.

     10:30 am Tell Louie he's doing great job. Offer to show him mainframe
    corporate PBX system sometime.

     11:00 am Lunch.

     4:55 pm Return from lunch.

     5:00 pm Shift change; Going home.


    * Thursday

     8:00 am New guy ("Marvin") started today. "Nice plaids" I offer. Show
    him server room, wiring closet, and technical library. Set him up with
    IBM PC-XT. Tell him to quit whining, Notes runs the same in both
    monochrome and color.

     8:45 am New guy's PC finishes booting up. Tell him I'll create new ID
    for him. Set minimum password length to 64. Go grab smoke.

     9:30 am Introduce Louie the custodian to Marvin. "Nice plaids" Louie
    comments Is this guy great or what?!

     11:00 am Beat Louie in dominos game. Louie leaves. Fish spare dominos
    out of sleeves ("Always have backups"). User calls, says Accounting
    server is down. Untie Ethernet cable from radio antenna (better
    reception) and plug back into hub. Tell user to try again. Another
    happy customer!

     11:55 am Brief Marvin on Corporate Policy 98.022.01: "Whereas all new
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    employee beginning on days ending in 'Y' shall enjoy all proper
    aspects with said corporation, said employee is obligated to provide
    sustenance and relief to senior technical analyst on shift." Marvin
    doubts. I point to "Corporate Policy" database (a fine piece of work,
    if I say so myself!) "Remember, that's DOUBLE pepperoni and NO
    peppers!" I yell to Marvin as he steps over open floor tile to get to
    exit door.

     1:00 pm Oooooh! Pizza makes me so sleepy ...

     4:30 pm Wake from refreshing nap. Catch Marvin scanning want ads.

     5:00 pm Shift change. Flick HR's server off and on several times
    (just testing the On/Off button...). See ya tomorrow.


    * Friday

     8:00 am Night shift still trying to replace power supply in HR
    server.  Told them it worked fine before I left.

     9:00 am Marvin still not here. Decide I might start answering these
    calls myself. Unforward phones from Mailroom.

     9:02 am Yep. A user call. Users in Des Moines can't replicate. Me and
    the Oiuji board determine it's sunspots. Tell them to call
    Telecommunications.

     9:30 am Good God, another user! They're like ants. Says he's in San
    Diego and can't replicate with Des Moines. Tell him it's sunspots, but
    with a two-hour difference. Suggest he reset the time on the server
    back 2 hours.

     10:17 am Pensacola calls. Says they can't route mail to San
    Diego.Tell them to set server ahead three hours.

     11:00 am E-mail from corporate says for everybody to quit resetting
    the time on their servers. I change the date stamp and forward it to
    Milwaukee.

     11:20 am Finish @CoffeeMake macro. Put phone back on hook.

     11:23 am Milwaukee calls, asks what day it is.

     11:25 am Support manager stops by to say Marvin called in to quit.
    "So hard to get good help..." I respond. Support manager says he has
    appointment with orthopedic doctor this afternoon, and asks if I mind
    sitting in on the weekly department head meeting for him. "No
    problem!"

     11:30 am Call Louie and tell him opportunity knocks and he's invited
    to a meeting this afternoon. "Yeah, sure. You can bring your snuff" I
    tell him.

     12:00 am Lunch.

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     1:00 pm Start full backups on UNIX server. Route them to device NULL
    to make them fast.

     1:03 pm Full weekly backups done. Man, I love modern technology!

     2:30 pm Look in support manager's contact management database.
    Cancel.

     2:35 pm Appointment for him. He really should be at home resting, you
    know.

     2:39 pm New user calls. Says want to learn how to create a connection
    document. Tell them to run connection documentutility CTRL-ALT-DEL.
    Says PC rebooted. Tell them to call microsupport.

     2:50 pm Support manager calls to say mixup at doctor's office means
    appointment cancelled. Says he's just going to go on home. Ask him if
    he's seen corporate Web page lately.

     3:00 pm Another (novice) user calls. Says periodic macro not working.
    Suggest they place @DeleteDocument at end of formula. Promise to send
    them document addendum which says so.

     4:00 pm Finish changing foreground color in all documents to white.
    Also set point size to "2" in help databases.

     4:30 pm User calls to say they can't see anything in documents. Tell
    them to go to view, do a "Edit -- Select All", hit delete key, and
    then refresh.  Promise to send them document addendum which says so.

     4:45 pm Another user calls. Says they can't read help documents. Tell
    them I'll fix it. Hang up. Change font to Wingdings.

     4:58 pm Plug coffee maker into Ethernet hub to see what happens. Not
    (too) much.

     5:00 pm Night shift shows up. Tell that the hub is acting funny and
    to have a good weekend.

    ___________________
    cynic rides the short bus

    [email protected]
    www.capone.org

    ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================

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                             COMIX IN ASCII
    =================================================================

    --- Following message extracted from ASCII_ART @ 1:18/14 ---
        By Christopher Baker on Sun Aug 31 18:38:43 1997

    From: Anders Lageras
    To: All
    Date: 29 Aug 97  17:11:02
    Subj: Dart

    [with apologies to Anders for the additional text]


             _.-'~~~~~~`-._
            /      ||      \
           /       ||       \
          |        ||        |
          | _______||_______ |
          |/ ----- \/ ----- \|
         /  (     )  (     )  \             "Come to the Dark Side of
        / \  ----- () -----  / \             FidoNet, Luke."  "Echomail
       /   \      /||\      /   \            is the reason for FidoNet,
      /     \    /||||\    /     \           now."
     /       \  /||||||\  /       \
    /_        \o========o/        _\
      `--...__|`-._  _.-'|__...--'
              |    `'    |
                Echovader

      Origin: Tuut Tuut har kommer jag med puffar rostade i honung!
       (2:200/617.15)




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                                 NOTICES
    =================================================================

                               Future History

    25 Sep 1997
       Happy Birthday, Joaquim H. Homrighausen

    13 Oct 1997
       Thanksgiving Day, Canada.

     1 Dec 1997
       World AIDS Day.

    10 Dec 1997
       Nobel Day, Sweden.

    12 Jan 1998
       HAL 9000 is one year old today.

    30 Apr 1998
       Queens Day, Holland.

    22 May 1998
       Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.

     1 Dec 1998
       Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
       Tom Jennings.

    31 Dec 1999
       Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.

     1 Jan 2000
       The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.

    15 Sep 2000
       Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.

     1 Jan 2001
       This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.

    -- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
       Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.

    -----------------------------------------------------------------

    Date: Sun, 31 Aug 1997 15:06:22 -0700
    From: William Scott Lockwood III <[email protected]>
    Reply-To: [email protected]
    Organization: Corpsmans Corner BBS
    To: [email protected]
    Subject: Hello Everybody!

    Just a quick note to let everyone know, here's my new E-Mail address
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    and web page address (See below).

    Hope to continue to hear from all of you soon!  BFN...

    --
    TTYL,
    Scott
    mailto:[email protected]
    http://www.users.cts.com/king/w/wsl3/

     -30-

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                        FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
    =================================================================


    Latest Greatest Software Versions
    by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264

    Yawn. One update.

    -=- Snip -=-

    Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column

    OS Platform                             :
    Software package name                   :
    Version                                 :
    Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. :
    Freeware / Shareware / Commercial?      :
    Author / Support staff contact name     :
    Author / Support staff contact node     :
    Magic name (at the above-listed node)   :

    Please include a sentence describing what the package does.

    Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264

    -=- Snip -=-

    MS-DOS:
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Act-Up         4.6      G D Chris Gunn        1:15/55     ACT-UP
    ALLFIX         4.40     T S Harald Harms      2:281/415   ALLFIX
    Announcer      1.11     O S Peter Karlsson    2:206/221   ANNOUNCE
    BGFAX          1.60     O S B.J. Guillot      1:106/400   BGFAX
    Binkley Docs   2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BDOC_260.ZIP
    BinkleyTerm    2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BDOS_260.ZIP
    BinkleyTerm-XE XR4      M F Thomas Waldmann   2:2474/400  BTXE_DOS
    CFRoute        0.92     O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70    CFR
    CheckPnt       1.0a     O G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     CHECKPNT
    FastEcho       1.45a    T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400  FASTECHO
    FastEcho/16    1.45a    T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400  FE16
    FastLst        1.36     N S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   FASTLSTD
    FidoBBS (tm)   12u      B S Ray Brown         1:1/117     FILES
    FrontDoor      2.12     M S JoHo              2:201/330   FD
    FrontDoor      2.20c    M C JoHo              2:201/330   FDINFO
    GEcho          1.00     T S Bob Seaborn       1:140/12    GECHO
    GEcho/Plus     1.11     T C Bob Seaborn       1:140/12    GECHO
    GEcho/Pro      1.20     T C Bob Seaborn       1:140/12    GECHO
    GIGO           07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler      1:1/141     INFO
    GoldED         2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GED
    GoldED/386     2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEX
    GoldED Docs    2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEM
    GoldNODE       2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEN
    Imail          1.75     T S Michael McCabe    1:1/121     IMAIL
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    ImCrypt        1.04     O G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     IMCRYPT
    InfoMail/86    1.21     O F Damian Walker     2:2502/666  INFOMAIL
    InfoMail/386   1.21     O F Damian Walker     2:2502/666  INFO386
    InterEcho      1.19     T C Peter Stewart     1:369/35    IEDEMO
    InterMail      2.29k    M C Peter Stewart     1:369/35    IMDEMO
    InterPCB       1.52     O S Peter Stewart     1:369/35    INTERPCB
    IPNet          1.11     O S Michele Stewart   1:369/21    IPNET
    JD's CBV       1.4      O S John Dailey       1:363/277   CBV
    Jelly-Bean     1.01     T S Rowan Crowe       3:635/727   JELLY
    Jelly-Bean/386 1.01     T S Rowan Crowe       3:635/727   JELLY386
    JMail-Hudson   2.81     T S Jason Steck       1:285/424   JMAIL-H
    JMail-Goldbase 2.81     T S Jason Steck       1:285/424   JMAIL-G
    MakePl         1.9      N G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     MAKEPL
    Marena         1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     MARENA
    Maximus        3.01     B P Tech              1:249/106   MAX
    Max User Ed.   0.18     O F Larry Cooke       1:300/53    MUE
    McMail         1.0      M S Michael McCabe    1:1/148     MCMAIL
    MDNDP          1.18     N S Bill Doyle        1:388/7     MDNDP
    Msged          4.10     O G Andrew Clarke     3:635/728   MSGED41D.ZIP
    Msged/386      4.10     O G Andrew Clarke     3:635/728   MSGED41X.ZIP
    NEF            2.38     O S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   NEFD
    Opus CBCS      1.79     B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14    OPUS
    O/T-Track      2.66     O S Peter Hampf       2:241/1090  OT
    PcMerge        2.8      N G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     PCMERGE
    PlatinumXpress 1.3      M C Gary Petersen     1:290/111   PX13TD.ZIP
    QuickBBS       2.81     B S Ben Schollnick    1:2613/477  QUICKBBS
    RAR            2.01     C S Ron Dwight        2:220/22    RAR
    RemoteAccess   2.50     B S Mark Lewis        1:3634/12   RA
    Silver Xpress
      Door         5.4      O S Gary Petersen     1:290/111   FILES
      Reader       4.4      O S Gary Petersen     1:290/111   SXR44.ZIP
    Spitfire       3.51     B S Mike Weaver       1:3670/3    SPITFIRE
    Squish         1.11     T P Tech              1:249/106   SQUISH
    StealTag UK    1.c...   O F Fred Schenk       2:284/412   STEAL_UK
    StealTag NL    1.c...   O F Fred Schenk       2:284/412   STEAL_NL
    T-Mail         2.600    M S Ron Dwight        2:220/22    TMAIL
    Telegard       3.02     B F Tim Strike        1:259/423   TELEGARD
    Terminate      4.00     O S Bo Bendtsen       2:254/261   TERMINATE
    Tobruk         0.33     T G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   TOBRUK
    TosScan        1.01     T C JoHo              2:201/330   TSINFO
    TransNet       1.00     G S Marc S. Ressl     4:904/72    TN100ALL.ZIP
    TriBBS         11.0     B S Gary Price        1:3607/26   TRIBBS
    TriDog         11.0     T F Gary Price        1:3607/26   TRIDOG
    TriToss        11.0     T S Gary Price        1:3607/26   TRITOSS
    WaterGate      0.93     G S Robert Szarka     1:320/42    WTRGATE
    WWIV           4.24a    B S Craig Dooley      1:376/126   WWIV
    WWIVTOSS       1.36     T S Craig Dooley      1:376/126   WWIVTOSS
    xMail          2.00     T S Thorsten Franke   2:2448/53   XMAIL
    XRobot         3.01     O S JoHo              2:201/330   XRDOS

    OS/2:
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    ALLFIX/2       1.10     T S Harald Harms      2:281/415   AFIXOS2
    BGFAX          1.60     O S B.J. Guillot      1:106/400   BGFAX
    Binkley Docs   2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BDOC_260.ZIP
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    BinkleyTerm    2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BOS2_260.ZIP
    BinkleyTerm-XE XR4      M F Thomas Waldmann   2:2474/400  BTXE_OS2
    CFRoute        0.92     O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70    CFR
    FastEcho       1.45a    T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400  FE2
    FastLst        1.36     N S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   FASTLST
    FleetStreet    1.20     O S Michael Hohner    2:2490/2520 FLEET
    GEcho/Pro      1.20     T C Bob Seaborn       1:140/12    GECHO
    GIGO           07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler      1:1/141     INFO
    GoldED         2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEO
    GoldED Docs    2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEM
    GoldNODE       2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEN
    ImCrypt        1.04     O G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     IMCRYPT
    Maximus        3.01     B P Tech              1:249/106   MAXP
    Max User Ed.   0.18     O F Larry Cooke       1:300/53    MUEP
    Msged/2        4.10     O G Andrew Clarke     3:635/728   MSGED41O.ZIP
    NEF            2.38     O S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   NEF
    PcMerge        2.3      N G Michiel vd Vlist  2:500/9     PCMERGE
    RAR            2.01     C S Ron Dwight        2:220/22    RAR2
    Squish         1.11     T P Tech              1:249/106   SQUISHP
    T-Mail         2.600    M S Ron Dwight        2:220/22    TMAIL2
    Tobruk         0.33     T G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   TOBRUK
    WaterGate      0.93     G S Robert Szarka     1:320/42    WTRGATE
    XRobot         3.01     O S JoHo              2:201/330   XROS2

    Windows (16-bit apps):
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    BeeMail        1.0      M C Andrius Cepaitis  2:470/1     BEEMAIL
    FrontDoor APX  1.12     P S Mats Wallin       2:201/329   FDAPXW

    Windows (32-bit apps):
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    Argus 95/IP    2.704    M S Max Masyutin      2:469/77    A9I
    Argus NT/IP    2.704    M S Max Masyutin      2:469/77    ANI
    BeeMail        1.0      M C Andrius Cepaitis  2:470/1     BEEMAIL
    Binkley Docs   2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BDOC_260.ZIP
    BinkleyTerm    2.60     M F Bob Juge          1:1/102     BW32_260.ZIP
    CFRoute        0.92     O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70    CFR
    FastLst        1.36     N S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   FASTLSTW
    GoldED         2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEO
    GoldED Docs    2.50     O S Len Morgan        1:203/730   GEM
    Maximus        3.01     B P Tech              1:249/106   MAXN
    Msged/NT       4.10     O G Andrew Clarke     3:635/728   MSGED41W.ZIP
    NEF            2.38     O S Alberto Pasquale  2:332/504   NEFW
    PlatinumXpress 2.00     M C Gary Petersen     1:290/111   PXW-INFO
    T-Mail         2.600    M S Ron Dwight        2:220/22    TMAILNT
    WinFOSSIL/95   1.12 r4  F S Bryan Woodruff    1:343/294   WNFOSSIL.ZIP
    WinFOSSIL/NT   1.0 beta F S Bryan Woodruff    1:343/294   NTFOSSIL.ZIP

    Unix:
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    ifmail         2.10     M G Eugene Crosser    2:293/2219  IFMAIL
    ifmail-tx      ...tx8.4 M G Pablo Saratxaga   2:293/2219  IFMAILTX
    ifmail-tx.rpm  ...tx8.4 M G Pablo Saratxaga   2:293/2219  IFMAILTX.RPM
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    Msged          4.00     O G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   MSGED
    Tobruk         0.33     T G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   TOBRUK

    Amiga:
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    CrashMail      1.23     T X Fredrik Bennison  2:205/324   CRASHMAIL
    CrashTick      1.1      O F Fredrik Bennison  2:205/324   CRASHTICK
    DLG Pro BBOS   1.15     B C Holly Sullivan    1:202/720   DLGDEMO
    GMS            1.1.85   M S Mirko Viviani     2:331/213   GMS
    Msged          4.00     O G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   MSGED
    Tobruk         0.33     T G Paul Edwards      3:711/934   TOBRUK

    TrapDoor       1.86.b2  M S Maximilian Hantsch
                                                  2:310/6     TRAPDOOR
    TrapDoor       1.86.b2  M S Maximilian Hantsch
                                                  2:310/6     TRAPBETA
    TrapToss       1.50     T S Rene Hexel        2:310/6     TRAPTOSS

    Atari:
    Program Name   Version  F C Contact Name      Node        Magic Name
    ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    ApplyList      1.00     N F Daniel Roesen     2:2432/1101 APLST100.LZH
    BinkleyTerm/ST 3.18pl2  M F Bill Scull        1:363/112   BINKLEY
    BTNC           2.00     N G Daniel Roesen     2:2432/1101 BTNC
    JetMail        0.99beta T S Joerg Spilker     2:2432/1101 JETMAIL
    Semper         0.80beta M S Jan Kriesten      2:2490/1624 SMP-BETA

    Function: B-BBS, P-Point, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser,
              C-Compression, F-Fossil, O-Other. Note: Multifunction will
              be listed by the first match.

    Cost: P-Free for personal use, F-Freeware, S-Shareware, C-Commercial,
          X-Crippleware, D-Demoware, G-Free w/ Source

    Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264

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                           FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
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    File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] or download it from the
    Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone
    1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32B. The FidoNews key is also available on
    the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information.

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    =================================================================
                           FIDONET BY INTERNET
    =================================================================

    This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as
    of this appearance.

    ============

    FidoNet:

      Homepage     http://www.fidonet.org
      FidoNews     http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html
      HTML FNews   http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6894/
      WWW sources  http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
      FTSC page    http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc/ftscmirr.htm
      Echomail     http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html
      WebRing      http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html

    ============

    Zone 1:       http://www.z1.fidonet.org

      Region 10:  http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html

      Region 11:  http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/

      Region 13:  http://www.smalltalkband.com/st01000.htm

      Region 14:  http://www.netins.net/showcase/fidonet/

      Region 15:  [disappeared?]

      Region 16:  http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm

      Region 17:  http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/region17.htm
          REC17:  http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/

      Region 18:  http://www.citicom.com/fido.html

      Region 19:  http://www.compconn.net

    ============

    Zone 2:       http://www.z2.fidonet.org

    ZEC2:         http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm
    Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/

      Region 20:  http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)

      Region 24:  http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German)

      Region 25:
                  http://members.aol.com/Net254/

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      Region 27:  http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm

      Region 29:  http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/  (in French)

      Region 30:  http://www.fidonet.ch  (in Swiss)

      Region 33:  http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian)

      Region 34:  http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm  (in Spanish)
          REC34:  http://pobox.com/~chr

      Region 36:  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/

      Region 41:  http://www.fidonet.gr (in Greek and English)

      Region 48:  http://www.fidonet.org.pl

    ============

    Zone 3:       http://www.z3.fidonet.org

    ============

    Zone 4:       (not yet listed)

      Region 90:
        Net 904:  http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish)

    ============

    Zone 5:       http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm

    ============

    Zone 6:       http://www.z6.fidonet.org

      Region 65:  http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China)

    ============

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

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

    Editor: Christopher Baker

    Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
                      Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
                      Donald Tees

    "FidoNews Editor"
        FidoNet  1:1/23
        BBS  1-904-409-7040,  300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds)

     more addresses:
        Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14, [email protected]
                                      [email protected]
                                      [email protected]

    (Postal Service mailing address)
        FidoNews Editor
        P.O. Box 471
        Edgewater, FL 32132-0471
        U.S.A.


    voice:  1-904-409-3040 [1400-2100 ET only, please]
                           [1800-0100 UTC/GMT]

    ------------------------------------------------------

    FidoNews is 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 1997 Christopher Baker.  All rights reserved.  Duplication
    and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only.  For
    use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
    the Editor.

                           =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=

    OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
    form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
    file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
    PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
    address.  File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue.  File-request
    FNEWS for the current month in one archive.  Or file-request specific
    back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSEnn.ZIP] for a
    FIDONEWS 14-35               Page 24                   1 Sep 1997


    particular Issue.  Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
    where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
    current year [7], i.e., FNWSFEB7.ZIP for all the Issues from Feb 97.

    Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
    1 - 14 for 1984 - 1997, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
    size from 48K to 1.4M.


    INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:

                         http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
                         ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
                         ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/fido/

                                     *=*=*

    You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to:

                         [email protected]

    with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist

    and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email
    distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no
    message to the same address above.

                                     *=*=*

    You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at:

                         http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6894/

    STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
    Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from:

                         ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/

    Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
    for that year's issues.  The total set is currently about 11 Megs.

                                =*=*=*=

    The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also
    available almost immediately after publication on the Editor's new
    homepage on the World Wide Web at:

                 http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html

    There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
    to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an email
    link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over.

                           =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=

    A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
    FIDONEWS 14-35               Page 25                   1 Sep 1997


    1:1/23 [1:18/14] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
    Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18.  It
    is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the
    Zone 1 Echomail Backbone.

                               *=*=*=*=*

    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 Editor, or file-requestable
    from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC".  ALL Zone Coordinators
    also have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it.

    "Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
    trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141,
    and are used with permission.

            "Disagreement is actually necessary,
             or we'd all have to get in fights
             or something to amuse ourselves
             and create the requisite chaos."
                               -Tom Jennings

     -30-

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