Volume 7, Number 47                              19 November 1990
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                       Table of Contents
    1. EDITORIAL  ................................................  1
       Back from COMDEX  .........................................  1
    2. ARTICLES  .................................................  2
       Should Zone 3 defect?  ....................................  2
       General Elections in Zone 4: Results!  ....................  6
    3. COLUMNS  ..................................................  8
       Talk me through it, Honey  ................................  8
    4. LATEST VERSIONS  .......................................... 11
       Latest Software Versions  ................................. 11
    5. NOTICES  .................................................. 16
       PERNnet: Brigadoon Gift Certificate  ...................... 16
    And more!
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 1                   19 Nov 1990


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                                EDITORIAL
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    Hi.

    I'm really worn out, guys.

    I've been to COMDEX. I don't really know what to tell you about
    what I saw there. More Taiwanese (and other) crap, lots of 486
    motherboards, damn few 486 systems you can buy because the FCC
    is still frying eggs on the case -- Windows mania, Bob Denver in
    his Gilligan outfit, some poor brave UNIX-loving souls... and
    probably the first show where there was enough OS/2 product to
    make it seem that you could actually use it in your business.

    I think I'm going to wait for some PC rag to tell me What It All
    Meant To The Industry. Because I sure can't figure it out. All it
    means to me is that my feet don't like me one bit (and that I now
    have T-shirts from nearly every modem vendor EXCEPT USR).

    While I was gone, someone in Zone 3 sent an interesting article
    which you'll be reading in a few minutes. In it, he suggests that
    Zone 3 should secede from FidoNet. I have had a similar but
    perhaps more grandiose idea myself.

    What I would like to see is the breakup of FidoNet into separate
    domains, operating independently. The domains should be set up
    more or less the same as the Zones are now arranged (such as
    EUR.FIDONET.ORG replacing Zone 2, and so on). The passage of
    mail from one domain to another would be handled by the ING
    Policy that was published recently. My idea goes on and on, and
    I'll expound upon it more next week. I just thought it would be
    appropriate to put my idea and Garth's on the table at the same
    time, to get your creative juices flowing. Are you are up to it?

    Back to COMDEX. One of the nicer things that happened was the
    get-together on Wednesday night. I met Henry Clark, my most
    regular of irregular columnists. I met Ward Christensen. I met
    the authors of PCBoard and RBBS-PC. I got together again with
    Phil Becker, Scott Hunter, Rick Deming, Chuck Forsberg, Wynn
    Wagner, and many other people whose company I had previously
    enjoyed. As Henry points out in his column this week, there
    were some very DIFFERENT ideas emanating from the dais. I am
    going to attempt to get permission to reprint an article from
    Telecomputing magazine to give you a feeling for it.

    THAT was fascinating. I hope you can read it here soon.

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                                ARTICLES
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    Garth Kidd
    FidoNet 3:680/828


    Here I sit, having had far too little sleep in the last week and
    a half. Unfortunately, in this tired state I decided that a good
    thing to do whilst waiting for the pizza to arrive was to read a
    few editions of FidoNews.

    Ouch.

    Guys, why are you all being so \serious\ about all this? You'd
    think the fate of the world rested on the editorial policy of
    FidoNews. (I have my own views on this, and I'll mention them
    later).

    For now, however, a wee question:

                          _____________________

                          Should Zone 3 defect?
                          _____________________


    Actually, that should read "Should all zones but Zone 1 defect?",
    but since I'm not a member of the other zones, I won't make
    comments on their behalf. Come to think of it, a lot of people
    are going to be a little irked on my speaking "on behalf" of Zone
    3. Don't worry, guys, it's not like I'm in a position of power or
    anything. Noting wrong with expressing an opinion, unless you're
    in ZONE3_SYSOP. Oops, complete giveaway. :-)

    Back to the subject at hand: Zone 1 seems to be largely
    irrelevant to the rest of FidoNet, except as:

     a) something that acts as a really convenient feed point for
        the rest of the Net;

     b) something that keeps us supplied with this "wonderful"
        FidoNews, which hardly any of us read, and;

     c) something that helps coordinate the nodelist for us

    And, of course, there are all of the wonderful people in Zone 1
    that we talk to every day, swapping choice bits of information
    like baseball cards. There are also the people who ask really
    silly questions without bothering to read the manual first, but
    we can put up with them. Most of the time.

    FidoNews 7-47                Page 3                   19 Nov 1990


    Unfortunately, Zone 1 also acts as something else entirely:

     d) a seemingly endless supply of documents like ECHOPOL and
        POLICY, none of which seem to have been formed with any
        zones apart from Zone 1 in mind.

    Guys, just in case you haven't noticed, Australia isn't the 52nd
    state of America yet. (51st? Whatever). And despite the wonderful
    things happening in Europe, they have some pretty definite ideas
    about being annexed to the USA, and they're not "yes, lets!".

    Here in Zone 3, the POLICY we inhereted from you only seems to
    get dragged out of the closet in a couple of situations:

     a) some stickler for rules and regulations has gone totally
        overboard, and is looking for some kind of fight. Usually
        combined with righteous indignation at people not agreeing
        with him or her, and usually to do with trying to kick
        someone else out of the Net, and;

     b) trying to get rid of the aforementioned stickler. Otherwise
        known as "fighting fire with fire". I personally reckon most
        rulebook-bashers are "annoying", often "excessively" so.

    Ditto for ECHOPOL, which I seem to remember reading once. I
    didn't like it. I'm a moderator of an echo, and I really don't
    like the idea of some book-wielding beuracrat being able to take
    an echo away from me and my users.

    Here in Zone 3, and I guess the situation also holds for zones 2
    and 4..infinity, we tend to try and get along without these
    hugely officious tomes. Unfortunately, we have our fair share of
    rulebook-bashers who just \love\ POLICY, and aren't going to give
    up their slice of power for anything.

    What I reckon should happen is that each of the Zones get treated
    essentially as its own FTN (FidoTechnologyNetwork), and pretty
    much IGNORE anyone from Zone 1 trying to tell them how to run
    their lives. Heck, we're already largely doing that. Why not make
    it official?

    WORLDPOL is a great idea, because it makes each Zone largely
    responsible for its own actions. We can all adapt the rules to
    suit our environment, which is great. It also allows the same
    kind of thing to happen at the regional and network levels. Oh,
    just one thing, folks:

                 NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO JOIN A PARTICULAR
                      NETWORK IF THEY DON'T WANT TO.

    Gosh, that'd mean removing the requirement that networks be
    formed on solely geographical boundaries, wouldn't it?

    FidoNews 7-47                Page 4                   19 Nov 1990


    Damn right it would.

    This means that if you don't like the rules a particlar network
    is using, you are actually allowed to leave it and look for
    another more to your liking. Without that little statement, all
    the nice "democratic" stuff is pretty useless, because people
    don't have the option of voting with their feet. The statement in
    caps above should be a part of WORLDPOL that simply can't be
    overriden by POLICY at any level.

    Back to WORLDPOL: it needs a little more work, mainly to do with
    correcting some of the more ambiguous wording. Also, section 6 is
    a little strange. What, exactly, are the "western standards" of
    democracy?

    As far as the Council is concerned with voting: their having to
    approve the voting method used to vote for WORLDPOL and the local
    POLICY is fine. Them being able to block a Zone from choosing its
    own extremely strange, "non western" system of deciding things
    from then on is not. Some networks work VERY well with benevolent
    dictators, and if people don't like them, they can always vote
    with their feet. So long as they're allowed to, of course, and
    they should be.

    So, support WORLDPOL and suggest changes to it if you like. I'm
    sure the authors will appreciate it. :-)

                           Back to "defecting":

    If Zone 1 doesn't approve WORLDPOL or a variant thereof, it
    shouldn't be too surprised if the rest of the world sticks a
    symbolic finger in the air and approves it without them.

                                   ===

    On Editorial policy: Cute topic. Very hot. The debate on that
    one's going to last nearly as long as the abortion debate, and it
    too will suffer from people pushing the limits. I just hope
    someone doesn't UUencode bits of the nodelist archive and try to
    submit it as an article.

    Suggested modifications to the editorial policy:

     a) Incitement to violence of any sort should be vigorously
        supressed. Let people discuss (say) how evil and thick they
        think black people are until the cows come home, but as soon
        as they advocate killing them off, put the foot down.

     b) Most places have defamation and libel laws. Remember that.

     c) Where are all the disclaimers? Lots of people are saying
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 5                   19 Nov 1990


        plenty radical things with \no\ disclaimers. The risks you're
        taking, especially in Zone "home of the lawsuit" 1, are
        pretty damn obvious.

     d) Each Zone should have its own FIDONEWS equivalent.

     e) There should be a FIDONEWS equivalent dedicated to \just\ the
        operation of the network itself, discussion of rules, and so
        forth. This'll be less amusing, but more compact.

    Anyway, on with the show for the time being. Have fun, people.


    gk

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                      General Elections in Zone 4
                   Elecciones Generales en la Zona 4
                       Eleicoes Gerais na Zona 4

    FidoNet's Zone 4 "Latin America" has just finished it's first
    "general elections for all coordinators" process, where all
    the coordination positions were democratically elected
    simultaneusly.

    This text is being publish simultaneously on the LATIN.SYSOP
    echo and FidoNews.
    The format used to display the results is the following:

    <Position>
    <Candidates>           <Percentage of votes received>   <Status>
    .
    .
    .

    Here are the results of the election in which all the sysops in
    FidoNet were entitled to be candidates and to vote for all the
    positions in their area:

    Net Coordinator 801, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
    Rodrigo Martinez                    100 %                ELECTED

    Net Coordinator 802, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
    Lauro Henrique                      100 %                ELECTED

    Net Coordinator 806, Brasilia DF, Brazil
    Otto Brito                          100 %                ELECTED

    Net Coordinator 808, Recife PE, Brazil
    Clovis Lacerda                      100 %                ELECTED

    Net Coordinator 900, Buenos Aires CF/BA, Argentina
    Alejandro Hopkins                    45 %
    Sunchie Yang                         55 %                ELECTED

    Net Coordinator 901, Rosario SF, Argentina
    Gonzalo Borracer                    100 %                ELECTED

    Region Coordinator 80, Brazil
    Charles Miranda                     100 %                ELECTED

    Region Coordinator 90, Argentina
    Billy Coen                         72.7 %                ELECTED
    Gustavo Zacarias                   27.3 %

    Zone Coordinator 4, Latin America
    Pablo Kleinman                      100 %                ELECTED

    FidoNews 7-47                Page 7                   19 Nov 1990


    The newly elected coordinators will take over their positions
    next Friday November 16th, 1990.


    Elecciones (4:4/444)
    November 11th, 1990


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                                 COLUMNS
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    Henry Clark
    1:124/6120


    Comdex '90

    Due to the special weekly electronic nature of Fidonews, you
    are probably reading your first column on Comdex '90.

    It was bad...  not terrible, but really almost boring.

    Sunday : Nice flight into Vegas and then all stop.  It took my
    sister's husband 1.5 hours to get the car so even though they
    were there ahead of me, we waited.  Hurry up an wait.  I'll
    have to find a better time to arrive if I ever go again.

    I love to drive onto the strip and see the lights.  It's always
    amazing.  We got to Bally's hotel and joined the madhouse
    there.  Finally got checked in.  It's such a nervous situation
    with so many people packed around you, waiting in line, with
    only a reservation slip in hand.  Pray they have your room.
    They did, and we all got rooms together, so slick.

    Up in the room, the computer works and the modem works;
    I'm set.

    Monday : register and badgemaking and another long line.  Well
    not as bad as I saw later.  I failed to receive my badge in
    the mail, and rather than fight the Convention Center lines, I
    just had a new one made in Bally's with a spare guest pass.  I
    don't think anyone pays to attend the exhibits.  There were
    guest passes lying on the floor.

    We cruised Bally's two showrooms first.  Most interesting was
    the real-time video in a Window's window, which will be useful
    for our video conferencing product.  New Media Graphics has a
    $800 board and software to put the video signal into a Windows
    window, sizeable and movable.  Other companies had video on the
    PC screen, but they were pure hardware, not real time or cost
    $2000.

    Also checked out the ASP - Association of Shareware
    Professionals and the Mustang Software Wildcat BBS display.
    It's amazing who you find at Comdex. PKWare and Artisoft too.

    Then off to the Sands Convention Center.  The next biggest
    exhibition hall. I looked at 486 boxes, 486 cards ( not
    motherboards, there were a ton of those ), rewritable optical
    disks, and the Dolch 486 lunchbox portable.  The VGA Color
    plasma screen on the Dolch was beautiful and 3800 bucks !  I
    picked up a lot of junk too, which Kevin will like.

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    Nobody has synchronous multiport cards ( well, I do, but nobody
    else does ).

    Worn out feet and brain.  Hopped a taxi back to the hotel and
    took a nap.  Well, except it lasted 12 hours...

    Tuesday : Rest of Sands was boring.  There's nothing new at
    Comdex.  I've either heard about it before, or it's the same
    old stuff.  I am happy to have seen several 486 on a card
    vendors for our passive backplane computer setup.

    Wednesday : Did the Hilton. Very interesting talk with a
    surface mounting company, who talked about board manufacturers
    and costs, etc.  This is the good stuff.  Saw the Quarterdeck
    X-Windows running, I thought it was ugly.  A real-time video
    product called the Video Toaster looked like the hottest
    display at the show.  Real-time manipulation of video,
    including colorization and lots of effects. Unfortunately, (
    for me ) it ran on an Amiga.

    Next the Convention Center proper.  Big companies, shows and
    lots of interesting convention items, but again, no new PC
    stuff.  I did make a point of picking up the PC-Mag and PC-Week
    benchmark diskettes.

    Stopped in at the Oracle meeting room.  Many VARs showing
    Oracle and DB related tools and apps.  I felt like I could have
    shown an Oracle app or two there.  Spoke at length with the
    people from JAM, which makes a forms tool.  Too bad their demo
    was kind of ugly, I guess they go overboard showing features.
    Also checked in with the Oracle VAR program people, got signed
    up for some info to do that.

    I now have little regard for Comdex '90.  I know this was my
    first trip, and I really am not doing business here, but 95% of
    this stuff represents money better spent on support or new
    products.  I'm convinced that multimedia simply means you have
    more than 12 chairs for your presentation.

    All the PC distributors begin to sound the same.  A 386 box
    here for $695. A big hard drive there for $195.  In quantity of
    course.  I'm just not interested in power supplys and
    motherboards.  Nor is there much point in watching the
    Wordperfect/Word/Wordstart type presentations.  For an
    end-user, a good magazine subscription would be much better.

    Across the street at the Dunes, the Telecomputing party was a
    highlight.  There were keynote speakers and door prizes.  In
    one room in one hour I shook hands with Vince Perriello, Wynn
    Wagner, Chuck Forsberg and Phil Katz.  I guess I won't wash my
    hand for a couple of weeks.  For a BBS Sysop, it was quite an
    experience.  The latest Telecomputing magazine had an article
    which was expounded upon several times by speakers :  democracy
    thru modems.  What a crock. These guys may write the software,
    but they certainly haven't tried to use it. [Editor's note:
    None of the folk Henry just mentioned had anything to say along
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 10                  19 Nov 1990


    those lines. We were trying very hard to be polite...]

    It was a good experience to end the week on.  Oh, I stayed in
    Vegas for another day, I just didn't fool with the convention.
    Next week, I'll give you the low down on the 'vacation' part of
    my trip.


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                             LATEST VERSIONS
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                        Latest Software Versions

                             MS-DOS Systems
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                          Bulletin Board Software
    Name        Version    Name        Version    Name       Version

    DMG            2.93    Phoenix         1.3    TAG           2.5g
    Fido            12s+   QuickBBS       2.66    TBBS           2.1
    GSBBS          3.01    RBBS          17.3A    TComm/TCommNet 3.4
    Lynx           1.30    RBBSmail      17.3B    Telegard       2.5
    Kitten         2.16    RemoteAccess  0.04a    TPBoard        6.1
    Maximus        1.02    SLBBS          1.77    Wildcat!      2.50
    Opus           1.13+   Socrates       1.10    WWIV          4.12
    PCBoard        14.5                           XBBS          1.15

    Network                Node List              Other
    Mailers     Version    Utilities   Version    Utilities  Version

    BinkleyTerm    2.40    EditNL         4.00    ARC            7.0
    D'Bridge       1.30    MakeNL         2.31    ARCAsim       2.30
    Dutchie       2.90C    ParseList      1.30    ARCmail       2.07
    FrontDoor     1.99c    Prune          1.40    ConfMail      4.00
    PRENM          1.47    SysNL          3.14    Crossnet      v1.5
    SEAdog        4.51b    XlatList       2.90    EMM           2.02
    TIMS      1.0(Mod8)    XlaxDiff       2.35    Gmail         2.05
                           XlaxNode       2.35    GROUP         2.16
                                                  GUS           1.30
                                                  HeadEdit      1.15
                                                  InterPCB      1.31
                                                  LHARC         1.13
                                                  MSG            4.1
                                                  MSGED         2.00
                                                  MSGTOSS        1.3
                                                  PK[UN]ZIP     1.10
                                                  QM             1.0
                                                  QSORT         4.03
                                                  Sirius        1.0x
                                                  SLMAIL        1.36
                                                  StarLink      1.01
                                                  TagMail       2.41
                                                  TCOMMail       2.2
                                                  Telemail      1.27
                                                  TMail         1.15
                                                  TPBNetEd       3.2
                                                  TosScan       1.00
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 12                  19 Nov 1990


                                                  UFGATE        1.03
                                                  XRS           3.40
                                                  XST            2.2
                                                  ZmailQ        1.12


                               OS/2 Systems
                               ------------

    Bulletin Board Software   Network Mailers     Other Utilities

    Name            Version   Name      Version   Name       Version

    Maximus-CBCS       1.02   BinkleyTerm  2.40   Parselst      1.32
                                                  ConfMail      4.00
                                                  EchoStat       6.0
                                                  oMMM          1.52
                                                  Omail          3.1
                                                  MsgEd         2.00
                                                  MsgLink       1.0C
                                                  MsgNum        4.14
                                                  LH2           0.50
                                                  PK[UN]ZIP     1.02
                                                  ARC2          6.00
                                                  PolyXARC      2.00
                                                  Qsort          2.1
                                                  Raid           1.0
                                                  Remapper       1.2
                                                  Tick           2.0
                                                  VPurge        2.07


                                Xenix/Unix
                                ----------

    BBS Software                  Mailers         Other Utilities
    Name             Version  Name      Version   Name       Version

    MaximusCBCS 1.02.Unix.B0  BinkleyTerm 2.30b   Unzip         3.10
                                                  ARC           5.21
                                                  ParseLst     1.30b
                                                  ConfMail     3.31b
                                                  Ommm         1.40b
                                                  Msged        1.99b
                                                  Zoo           2.01
                                                  C-Lharc       1.00
                                                  Omail        1.00b



                                Apple CP/M
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 13                  19 Nov 1990


                                ----------

    Bulletin Board Software   Network Mailers     Other Utilities

    Name            Version   Name      Version   Name       Version

    Daisy               v2j   Daisy Mailer 0.38   Nodecomp      0.37
                                                  MsgUtil        2.5
                                                  PackUser        v4
                                                  Filer         v2-D
                                                  UNARC.COM     1.20


                                Macintosh
                                ---------

    Bulletin Board Software   Network Mailers     Other Utilities

    Name            Version   Name      Version   Name       Version

    Red Ryder Host     2.1    Tabby         2.2   MacArc         0.04
    Mansion            7.15   Copernicus    1.0   ArcMac          1.3
    WWIV (Mac)         3.0                        LHArc          0.33
    Hermes             1.01                       StuffIt Classic 1.6
    FBBS               0.91                       Compactor      1.21
                                                  TImport        1.92
                                                  TExport        1.92
                                                  Timestamp       1.6
                                                  Tset            1.3
                                                  Import          3.2
                                                  Export         3.21
                                                  Sundial         3.2
                                                  PreStamp        3.2
                                                  OriginatorII    2.0
                                                  AreaFix         1.6
                                                  Mantissa       3.21
                                                  Zenith          1.5
                                                  Eventmeister    1.0
                                                  TSort           1.0
                                                  Mehitable       2.0
                                                  UNZIP         1.02c

                                  Amiga
                                  -----

    Bulletin Board Software   Network Mailers     Other Utilities

    Name            Version   Name      Version   Name       Version

    Paragon            2.07+  BinkleyTerm  1.00   AmigArc       0.23
                              TrapDoor     1.50   AReceipt       1.5
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 14                  19 Nov 1990


                              WelMat       0.42   booz          1.01
                                                  ConfMail      1.10
                                                  ChameleonEdit 0.10
                                                  ElectricHerald1.66
                                                  Lharc         1.21
                                                  MessageFilter 1.52
                                                  oMMM         1.49b
                                                  ParseLst      1.30
                                                  PkAX          1.00
                                                  PK[UN]ZIP     1.01
                                                  PolyxAmy      2.02
                                                  RMB           1.30
                                                  TrapList      1.12
                                                  UNzip         0.86
                                                  Yuck!         1.61
                                                  Zoo           2.01



                                Atari ST
                                --------

    Bulletin Board Software   Network Mailer      Other Utilities

    Name            Version   Name      Version   Name       Version

    FIDOdoor/ST        2.00*  BinkleyTerm 2.40j*  ConfMail      4.02
    Pandora BBS       2.41c   The BOX     1.20    ParseList     1.30
    QuickBBS/ST        1.02                       ARC           6.02
    GS Point           0.61                       FiFo          2.0b
                                                  LHARC         0.60
                                                  LED ST        0.10
                                                  BYE           0.25
                                                  PKUNZIP       1.10
                                                  MSGED        1.96S
                                                  SRENUM         6.2
                                                  Trenum        0.10
                                                  OMMM          1.40



                               Archimedes
                               ----------

    BBS Software           Mailers                Utilities
    Name        Version    Name        Version    Name       Version

    ARCbbs         1.44    BinkleyTerm    2.03    Unzip        2.1TH
                                                  ARC           1.03
                                                  !Spark       2.00d

    FidoNews 7-47                Page 15                  19 Nov 1990


                                                  ParseLst      1.30
                                                  BatchPacker   1.00


    + Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software)
    * Recently changed

    Utility authors:  Please help  keep  this  list  up  to  date  by
    reporting  new  versions  to 1:1/1.  It is not our intent to list
    all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity.

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                                 NOTICES
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            =========== >>> PERNnet: Brigadoon Weyr <<< ==========
            *********** >>>    Gift Certificate     <<< **********

    Welcome to the planet PERN where one can play Pernese style of
    life.  With this Certificate you may get ONE link into PERNnet
    regardless of the originating system's origin and network.

    Brigadoon Weyr is devoted to the weirder things in life -- fringe
    groups, nonstandard religions, Elvis searchers, cult movies, bad
    audio and video, and certified maniacs and politicians.  It is
    the goal of The Brigadoon Weyr to allow the weird, the odd, the
    huddled masses yearning to be free an electronic playpen in
    which to espouse their varied belief systems. It is a network
    of losers, winners, dreamers, screamers.

    In time the Pernese conference where one will play out the roll
    of a Pernese name and also be able to have (a) Fire Lazard(s) or
    be a dragon rider to defend the planet Pern againsts the Red
    Planet that visits every 400 years.

    In closing, I point out that we are all of us doing this as a
    hobby, and will tolerate no politics or powerplays. We make no
    distinctions as to age, background, religion, sex, gender, et
    cetera.  We are an Equal Opportunity Network, limited solely by
    the ability to move echomail around in a reasonably good manner.
    Problems with offending nodes will be dealt with via the path
    structure of the network until it reaches The Brigadoon Weyr
    Central (1:325/101@FidoNet) where we will deal with it as need
    be.

    For your free information package you may file requet the magick
    name of BRIGADOON from 1:325/101 @FidoNet, 9:1010/11 @ParaNet,
    69:2700/1 @KinkNet(AdultLinks) and this will get you the file
    BRIGADON.ZIP.  If by chance you can not deal with ZIP type
    ARChives...FREQ the name BRIGADON.ARC.   You may also FREQ
    BRIGADON.ZIP from Carl Finkeldey at 1:363/71 @FidoNet.



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                         The Interrupt Stack


     1 Jan 1991
       Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
    FidoNews 7-47                Page 17                  19 Nov 1990


       Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.

    16 Feb 1991
       Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.

    31 Mar 1991
       Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
       years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
       "Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.

    12 May 1991
       Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
       second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.

     8 Sep 1991
       25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!

     7 Oct 1991
       Area code  415  fragments.   Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
       will  begin  using  area  code  510.   This includes  Oakland,
       Concord, Berkeley  and  Hayward.    San  Francisco, San Mateo,
       Marin, parts of  Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
       Islands will retain area code 415.

     1 Feb 1992
       Area  code 213 fragments.    Western,  coastal,  southern  and
       eastern portions of Los Angeles  County  will begin using area
       code 310.  This includes Los  Angeles  International  Airport,
       West  Los  Angeles,  San  Pedro and Whittier.    Downtown  Los
       Angeles  and  surrounding  communities  (such as Hollywood and
       Montebello) will retain area code 213.

     1 Dec 1993
       Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.

     5 Jun 1997
       David Dodell's 40th Birthday


    If you have something which you would like to see on this
    calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.

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