F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 37 11 Sep 2000

F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 37 11 Sep 2000
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
Passing of a Superman .................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
REC13 Election ........................................... 2
Standing the Watch ....................................... 2
ARTSPEC.DOC .............................................. 3
3. NET HUMOR ................................................ 6
Psychiatric Hotline ...................................... 6
4. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 8
Cowed Forces ............................................. 8
5. NOTICES .................................................. 9
Missing Article .......................................... 9
6. INTERNET INFO ............................................ 10
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 10
Change to Fidonet Related Sites .......................... 13
7. FIDONEWS INFO ............................................ 15
Masthead ................................................. 15
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EDITORIAL
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Passing of a Superman
Doug Myers

In fiction, Clark Kent is the alter ego of the famous hero. For
many years, Fidonet has been graced with its own Kent... though this
one never changed the course of mighty rivers nor bent steel in his
bare hands. In fact, Kent Anderson, though a superman to those who
knew him, was not what one would consider a "power" in Fido: he was
never a Coordinator, never excommunicated anyone - in fact, I don't
think he was ever in the nodelist, posting from a point node most of
the time I communicated with him.

But Kent was a superman where it counted to many of us who cherish
the echoes of Fidonet. Not only was he a prolific poster in the
echoes he frequented, but he seemed to avoid the contentious style
of posting that many of us fall into... and would even calm the
storm if he were passing through such arguments.

A man with this quality might seem a natural as an echo moderator,
and that is a role Kent filled often and with distinction. He is
probably best remembered for his stewardship and participation in
the MEMORIES echo, though who could forget his unifying effect when
he took over the troubled echo MODERATOR?

Kent Anderson was a moderator's moderator in more than just title,
though. Many of us remember his sage advice to other moderators,
and his vision of the moderator as echo steward rather than boss.

Kent passed away last Tuesday, September 5th at the age of 79. His
death was not unexpected, as he'd spent his last few months in a
hospice, but he'll be missed by many. It may be tempting to think
of his death as a loss to Fido, but the truth is that Fidonet is
forever richer for his influence. Kent was a superman where it
counted most!

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ARTICLES
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REC13 Election
Carol Shenkenberger, 1:13/0

The REC13 election has been concluded early due to only 1 candidate
other than the current RC agreeing to run, and stipulating they
would do so only with 2 other running mates. There were no other
running mates.

The reason for this is because the current RC (me) is active duty
military and going to transfer earlier than initially expected. This
means an early RC election. With that news already regionally known,
interest is high in who will become the RC and the desires of the
net show a long turnover time is what is wanted, more than
discussing who will be REC.

To reduce turmoil, Carol Shenkenberger, RC13 will assume REC13
duties on 15SEP00.

Discussion will take place shortly in region 13 sysop echos, on who
the possible candidates for RC13 will be. There have already been
posts accepting to run for that position.

More will be posted in FIDONEWS regarding R13 elections, in
accordance with our internal regional policy as we progress to the
next stage.

Carol Shenkenberger, 1:13/0

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Standing the Watch
Carol Shenkenberger

The Navy has a tradition. It's called 'passing the watch' or
'standing the watch'. It means we all stand to train our successor
and when the time comes, we pass on 'the watch'. When DavidM was so
busy figuring out all the new things he needed to do as Z1C, I told
him not to worry. 'I stand the watch'.

I now stand the watch for DaveC and will do the traditional training
of whomever the region selects to replace me. To ensure that, DaveC
and I are transitioning the one aspect over quickly which leaves
some 5 *months* or more before a new RC here would take over, and
still leave me some 2-4 months 'here' to assist them in any way
needed after that date.

A wise person sees a plan that is better than their own, and adopts
it <G>.

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I do not know when we will start collecting candidates 'offically'
but there's noting wrong in asking about it. We already have one
poor SOB on record as willing to try (evil grin) and from
netmail/other I know of at least 2 possible candidates besides him.

I ask only as we move o to the next phase to remember 2 things.

1. You had no clue who I was or what I would be like when I was
skyrocketed suddenly before your eyes to this.

2. The most important quality is CARING for your region enough to
make extra effort to help.

(Ok a 3rd, none of us have a choice in this. I'm moving out of
country 'someplace' and Sasebo Japan or Yokosuka are 99% sure to be
the location. So factor that in and wish me well while thinking
over who will take care of you and 'stand the watch').

xxcarol
RC13

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ARTSPEC.DOC
Doug Myers

A new revision of ARTSPEC.DOC is being distributed on the FIDONEWS
echo. A focus of this revision is to eliminate some of the
technical considerations which are handled by the editor anyway in
the hopes of making the submission process more tempting to
prospective writers. Coordinators and mail movers are encouraged to
check and ensure that the normal distribution process has replaced
older revisions of this document.

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FidoNews Article Submission (September 10, 2000)

FidoNews, founded in early 1984, is the newsletter of the FidoNet
computer network, for both its Sysops and users. It is passed to
its readers electronically via the FidoNet and other computer
networks and to non-network readers as well as to the InterNet.
Fidonews welcomes articles, editorials, and features of interest to
the Fidonet Community. To have your article included in Fidonews,
simply send it via netmail to 1:270/720 or via internet email to
[email protected].

In the past, this article submission document outlined the many
technical details involved in processing Fidonews articles. The
assumption in the past seems to have been that articles would be
automatically processed from the editor's inbound mail directly into
Fidonews. However, the current editor does no automatic inbound
processing; rather, each article is examined before publication and
technical details are handled by the editor rather than imposed on
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the person submitting the article. It works better that way - it
means that you are free to just concentrate on what you want to say.

It's perfectly acceptable to simply write your article the same way
you would write netmail or email. Don't worry about the stuff added
by software along the way... I edit that out anyway. All I need at
this end is a text message which I can read with standard software
and which I can import into a standard text editor to format for the
Fidonews software. Alternatively, you can file attach an ASCII text
copy of your article.

Here are some guidelines you can use to help me make it easier to
format your article for Fidonews:

1. Use standard ASCII text. Most word processor formats can't be
used by the Fidonews software. In addition, the Fidonews software
won't accept most ASCII control characters nor any characters above
ASCII 127 (this, unfortunately, includes all those neat box drawing
characters).

2. Start your lines at the left of your screen when typing. The
software puts in a left margin automatically, and I have to manually
remove any left margin appearing in your document.

3. Keep your line length to under 70 columns for tables or charts
(or if you include an ASCII illustration). Regular paragraphs
exceeding this 70 column limit can be reformatted during the editing
process, but tables and charts are normally distorted beyond
recognition by a simple reformatting.

4. Separate paragraphs with a blank line. This is how my text
editor recognizes paragraph endings, so I have to add blank lines
manually if you don't.

5. Title your article as you'd like to see it in the Table of
Contents. If you don't, I'll make up a title for you, but I'd
rather have the article appear as you wish.

6. Include your name and node number (or internet address) under
the title. I'll grab it from your message, if necessary... but,
again, I'd rather have the article appear as you wish.

7. Check your own spelling and wording. Though I feel free to
reformat your article so it conforms to technical requirements, I
generally leave the wording (and spelling) alone as I don't want to
distort what you have to say.

8. Send your article before Sunday in order to see it in that
Monday's edition. Normally I put the newsletter together Sunday
Evening and send it out... and I normally check email and netmail
before I finalize the edition. So if I get your article before
Sunday evening, I'll include it... but send it by Saturday to be
safe :)

9. If you're not sure whether you should write or send in your
article, I would encourage you to send it anyway. Chances are, if
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you write of something of interest to yourself, it'll be of interest
to others. Besides, Fidonews is a better publication when it's
written by a variety of people :)

Douglas C. Myers
Fidonews Editor

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NET HUMOR
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Psychiatric Hotline
Thanks to Roy Reed

"Welcome To The Psychiatric Hotline!"

If you are Type A press 1 before anyone else does.

If you are obsessive compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly, just in
case.

If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to press 2 for you.

If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6.

If you are paranoid, we know who you are and what you want; just
keep reading while we trace your brain waves.

If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a little voice will
tell you which # to press

If you are manic-depressive, it doesn't matter which number you
press, no one will answer.

If you are dyslexic, press 96969696969696969696.

If you have a nervous disorder, please fidget with the hash key
until a representative comes on the line.

If you have post-traumatic stress disorder, slowly and carefully
press 000.

If you have bi-polar disorder, please leave a message after the beep
- or before the beep - or after the beep. Please wait for the beep.

If you have attention deficit disorder, start to press ......Hello!
...Hello?!!

If you have short-term memory loss, please try your call again
later.

If you have amnesia, press 8 and state you name, address, phone
number, date of birth, social security number and your mother's and
grandmother's maiden names.

If you are masochistic, shove the receiver as far as you can up your
left nostril.

If you are sadistic, well,........you get the idea.

If you are grandiose, any number you press will be superior to
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anything that anyone else might have pressed.

If you are Oedipal, press 7 and your mother will answer.

If you are possessed, press 666.

If you are narcissistic, press 3 to hear a recording of your own
voice.

If you have low self-esteem, please hang up. All of our operators
are far too busy to talk to you.

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COMIX IN ASCII
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(___) (___) (___)
(0 0) (0 0) (0 0)
\ / \ / \ /
__[_V_]__ __[_V_]__ __[_V_]__
/_________\===: /_________\===: /_________\===:
\OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/ \OOO---OOO/

Cowed Forces

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NOTICES
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Missing Article

Missing from this week's issue is the announcement about a Russion
language book about Fidonet. The announcement was sent to me
earlier in the week, but was irretrievably damaged due to disk
failure. If the author will resend the announcement, I'll be happy
to include it in the first weekly issue after receipt. My apology
for the inept handling of the original.

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INTERNET INFO
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. -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
| FIDONET-RELATED SITES |
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Last update: September 10, 2000

FidoNet
Homepage: http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews: http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
Echolist: http://www.baltimoremd.com/echolist/
Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html
SDS Files: http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
FTSC page: http://www.ftsc.org/
General: http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html

Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10: http://www.r10.org
http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
Net 203: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
Net 2410: http://www.earforce.dyndns.org/net2410/
Region 12: http://sparkys.dyndns.org
Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
Net 275: http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/
Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
Region 15: <vacant>
Region 16: <vacant>
Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/

Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19
Net 124: http://www.startext.net/np/net124
http://texoma.net/~flv
Net 130: http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/

Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.)
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
http://www.was-ist-fido.de/
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
Region 25: http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
FIDONEWS 17-37 Page 11 11 Sep 2000

REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)
? Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)
Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
REC34: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
Region 42: http://www.fido.cz
! Net422: http://www.fido.sk (Slovak/English)
Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5028: http://5028.yaroslavl.ru/
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
Net 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian)
?? Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)

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

Zone 4:
Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese)
Region 90:
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/

Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html
(Chinese)

Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html

a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
address. The email is translated as follows
[email protected] will automatically route to the
appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
also receive routed notice of this feature. In my case, it
would still be [email protected], but you get the idea.

Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
time between when the message is received, and when it is
sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.

v-email flag [email protected]
| email address or
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
| | |latency|
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
Zone 1 | | | |
10/3 | Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c
10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c
12/12 @ Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
13/25 @ Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | 384k,!| n/c
103/153 @ Michael Box | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c
103/401 @ Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
105/72 @ Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr
106/1 @ Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 128k | ???
106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
211/417 @ Korombos | BinkP,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c
218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE | 33.6k | n/c
244/2 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1,! | $25.00/mo
246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | 128k | n/c
379/1 @ Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
396/1 @ John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1,10 | $5/mo
396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
2613/404 @ David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c
2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
3613/2 @ [email protected] | UUE | 28.8 | n/c
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3639/93 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c
3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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Zone 2 |
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
284/1601 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE | 64k |N/C
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | N/C
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
335/535 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
464/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | 19.2 | n/c
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
--------------------------------------------------------------
Zone 3
633/260 @ Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c

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Zone 4
905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c

--
* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
* NFS = Linux Networking
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Fidonet oriented news servers

news.osirusoft.com
news.tardis.net

Fidonet oriented chat rooms.

room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays
irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted)

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Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
Joe Jared, 1:103/301, [email protected]. All email addresses
here for purpose of corresponding with fidonet members about
obtaining a feed. Improper use of the virtual email addresses, and
most especially, email addressed to [email protected]
will be considered a request to be blocked by my open relay spam
stopper at http://relays.osirusoft.com

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Change to Fidonet Related Sites

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Gary Gilmore, 1:2410/400, notes the following change to the "Fidonet
Related Sites" listing. This change has been forwarded to Joe Jared
and included in this week's listing.

Under Region 11, Net 2410.
Previously read:
Net 2410: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/

Now reads:
Net 2410: http://www.earforce.dyndns.org/net2410/

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FIDONEWS INFO
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Masthead

+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
| |
| Editor: Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, [email protected] |
| Webmaster: Jim Barchuk, [email protected] |
| Columnist: Joe Jared, 1:103/0, [email protected] |
| (Fido Via Internet Hubs column) |
| Columnist: Warren D. Bonner, 1:103/401, [email protected] |
| (Warren uses the pen name "Ol'WDB") |
| Humor: Roy Reed, [email protected] |
| Features: Frank Vest, 1:124/6308.1 |
| |
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +

+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - EDITORS EMERITI - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
| |
| Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince |
| Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees, |
| Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg, Henk Wolsink |
| |
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +

"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.

Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of Fidonet.
Fidonews is Copyright (C) 2000 by Douglas Myers, though authors
retain rights to their contributed articles. Opinion expressed by
the authors is strictly their own. Noncommercial duplication and
distribution within Fidonet is encouraged. Authors are encouraged
to send their articles in ASCII text to Douglas Myers at one of his
addresses above.

The weekly edition of Fidonews is distributed through the file area
FIDONEWS, and is published as echomail in the echo FIDONEWS. These
sources are normally available through your Network Coordinator.
The current and past issues are also available from the following
sources:

+ -- -- -- -- -- -- - FIDONEWS AVAILABILITY - -- -- -- -- -- -- +
| |
| Freq FIDONEWS @ 1:270/720, 1:140/1, or 1:396/1 |
| ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/ |
| ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/ |
| http://www.fidonews.org |
| email subscription: [email protected] |
| (subject: help body: list) |
| ftp mail: [email protected] (subject: help) |
| |
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