F I D O N E W S -- Volume 13, Number 52 23 December 1996
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MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
Happy Holidays to All! ................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
Privacy for Routed NetMail ............................... 2
3. GETTING TECHNICAL ........................................ 4
FidoNet Technical Proposals - FSC-0003 - Route Files ..... 4
4. COORDINATORS CORNER ...................................... 16
Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 355 ...... 16
5. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 17
Where is FidoNet going? .................................. 17
Goodbye Carl Sagan ....................................... 18
Merry Christmas fellow Sysops [hic]? ..................... 20
6. NET HUMOR ................................................ 22
Who put the X in Xmas? ................................... 22
7. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 25
The 12 Days of Christmas in ASCII ........................ 25
This Christmas tree sez it all? .......................... 28
A master collection of Christmas ASCII? .................. 29
8. NOTICES .................................................. 37
Future History ........................................... 37
9. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 38
Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 38
10. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ..................................... 45
This Space intentionally left blank? ..................... 45
And more!
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EDITORIAL
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Merry Christmas to those of that persuasion. There are several
seasonal features in this Issue.
I had a .BIO of Santa but it mysteriously disappeared. There were
suspicious tracks leading up to this keyboard but no exit trail. I
suspect elves trying to suppress information.
Pinky and the Brain are trying to take over the North Pole on the
WB as I compose this editorial. Does the name Noodlenoggin mean
anything to you? [grin]
I hope all of you get what you wish for this year. I hope the rest of
you get what you deserve. [snicker]
And to all a good night!
C.B.
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ARTICLES
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PRIVACY FOR ROUTED NETMAIL
Jim Cannell
1:216/21
Since its humble beginnings in 1984, FidoNet has enabled people over
the entire world to communicate inexpensively and reliably. One very
important element is missing from standard FidoNet communications ---
privacy. A copy of each NetMail message exists on each and every
system that the message is routed through, available for the sysop
and possibly others to read.
Are you unwilling to share your private mail with all these other
people, but yet do not want to pay the high price of direct NetMail?
Now, you can have the best of both worlds -- the privacy of direct
mail coupled with the low or zero cost of routed NetMail. The
SecureMail system is a group of FidoNet sysops dedicated to preserving
the privacy of your NetMail. The SecureMail hosts promise to neither
monitor nor censor any intransit NetMail on their systems. All
enroute traffic is erased as soon as processed by SecureMail hosts.
There are no restrictions on the content of mail passed through the
SecureMail system other than it not be illegal or commerical. The
message content is of concern only to the sender and recipient. For
those that want even more privacy, the SecureMail system not only
accepts and delivers encrypted messages, but encourages the use of
encryption to prevent anyone but the intended recipient to read your
private mail. SecureMail hosts are mail movers -- not censors nor
voyeurs.
SecureMail is a part of FidoNet; it is not a separate network. It
exists in the original spirit of FidoNet to provide communications
among widely separated people without adding layers of bureaucratic
control. It is a totally voluntary and cooperative effort to move
mail efficiently while maintaining the privacy of the correspondents.
The SecureMail hosts are dedicating their own time and resources to
accomplish this goal.
To use the SecureMail system, identify your local Net SecureMail host
by looking in the nodelist for the U?SMH flag. These hosts will
forward your private NetMail into the SecureMail system for quick,
reliable, and private delivery. All you have to do to is route your
outbound NetMail through this SecureMail host. Wouldn't you rather
entrust your private NetMail to those that care about your privacy
than to just dump it into a distribution system where it can be
delayed and read while enroute?
SecureMail is a rapidly growing international mail system. If there
is not a ?SMH in your net or close by, we encourage you to volunteer
for the post. As long as you are willing to forward mail without
monitoring or censoring, you will be welcomed. You can obtain a full
information package by freqing SECUREML from 1:216/21, 1:18/14,
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2:51/2, 2:5100/8, or any of the ?SMH systems located near you. This
package contains details on the operation of SecureMail, guidelines,
and general philosophy of SecureMail. It also contains the latest
SecureMail routing map. Since not all SecureMail hosts are allowed
to fly the U?SMH flag in the nodelist, you may find a closer ?SMH to
you by reviewing the map rather than the nodelist.
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GETTING TECHNICAL
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[This is the first of the FidoNet Technical Proposals. FSC-0001 and
FSC-0002 were obsoleted by FTS-0001 and FTS-0005, respectively. The
difference between FidoNet Standards [FTS] and FidoNet Proposals for
standards [FSC] is that FTS files are required to be followed to the
letter where used by software developers and FSC files are merely
suggestions not yet in wide use or not yet moved to FTS status. Some
of the FSCs are explanatory and some are actual code to be used in
FidoNet software. There are over 90 FSCs at this writing. All of
them will appear in these pages over the next year if they are still
active. This is also part of our continuing FidoNet History series.
This document has been reformatted where required to meet the 70
column limit. As always, the unadulterated files are available here
or at the various locations listed in the Masthead information.] Ed.
FSC-0003
FidoNet Route Files Explained
Part 1 -- The Many Faces of FidoNet
by Ben Baker, Fido 100/76
There is no aspect of FidoNet more universally mis-
understood than routing. It is the intent of this foru-
part series to clear some of the fog.
The justification for nets and routing has been
discussed many times and will NOT be discussed again here.
Given that routing is good, how is it done? What's the
meaning of the various statements that go into route files?
Indeed, what's the meaning of route files?
Let's first take a look at "the network." But how do we
do that? In reality, there is no "the network." FidoNet is
a different thing when viewed by each different Fido! The
only formal definition of FidoNet is the node list, and it
serves as an adaquate view of "the network" for most
independent Fidos but only the members of some nets.
Consider the hypothetical node, Fido 21/7. He's an
independent member of a "Region." To him, "the network" is a
couple of hundred other independent nodes to whom he sends
messages directly and another couple of hundred to which he
has access through 36 defined "Hosts." If he receives a
message not addressed to his node, his Fido "orphans" it.
He has no intention of forwarding someone else's mail. They
can pay their own phone bills! When he sends a message to
18/3, Fido knows (from the node list) that is another
independent and sends the message direct. When he sends a
message to 100/76, Fido knows (from the node list) that is a
member of net 100 and sends it to 100/0. Fido 21/7 executes
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only schedule A during the national mail window. He has no
use for ANY route files.
Another hypothetical node, Fido 201/4 is a member of an
"inbound only" net. Since the sysop has used the '4'
command properly, Fido knows he is a member of net 201 and
will treat other members of that net as though they were
independent nodes. When he sends a message to 201/5, Fido
will send it direct and not to 201/0. Messages headed out-
side net 201 will be handled for 201/4 just as they were for
21/7. Fido 201/4 executes two schedules, A during the
national window followed immediatly by B when he just sits
quietly and waits for 201/0 to send him any mail he
received. He has no use for ANY route files.
Everyone else has a view of "the network" more
complicated than Fido can discover from just the node list.
If you're a Southern California Hub, or a local node in the
New York Megalopolis, or maybe the host of a modest network
in Memphis "the network" looks different to you than to
other sysops. It is the function of route files to modify
Fido's view of "the network" to conform to yours.
If your Fido is executing any mail event and any other
Fido calls it up and offers it a mail packet, your Fido will
graciously receive that packet and at the end of the mail
event, he will unpack it into messages. These actions have
nothing whatever to do with route files!
Reread that last paragraph two or three times until it
sinks in. It is a very important, very misunderstood point.
Route files do not and cannot control the way you receive
mail. ROUTE FILES CONTROL ONLY THE WAY YOU SEND MAIL!!!
After all, that's when you're paying the phone bill.
Furthermore, what you say in ROUTE.B has absolutely
nothing to do with how Fido behaves in schedule C. I will
come back to this point later.
Ever since we first began routing FidoNet messages to
places other than their final destination, route files have
used three basic commands to mold Fido's view of FidoNet to
correspond with your view. In part 2 we will look at
SCHEDULE, ROUTE-TO and ACCEPT-FROM and see just how they
influence Fido.
Part 3 will examine a bevy of new routing commands
available with Fido V11 and see how they have made automatic
distribution at last possible.
LISTGEN V2 is capable of generating route files auto-
matically. Part 4 will discuss how ROUTE.CTL statements map
to route file commands.
Stay with me for the next few weeks and maybe we can
burn off the fog and find a bright sky, a calm sea and clear
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sailing. (And don't throw away your newsletters, you'll
want to refer back from time to time.)
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FidoNet Route Files Explained
Part 2 -- In the Beginning
by Ben Baker, Fido 100/76
From the time he first began "routing" messages, Fido
has used "route files" to tell him what messages to send
where when. Three basic route file commands do this;
SCHEDULE aka SEND-TO, ROUTE-TO and ACCEPT-FROM. This week,
we'll look at these commands in depth.
Before going farther, I need to define a couple of
terms. A "target" is a node to which your Fido will connect
and directly send a message. An "addressee" is the ultimate
destination node for a message. This is an important
distinction. Because of routing, the addressee and the
target for a particular message are often different nodes.
A "packet" is a collection of messages all to be sent
to a single target (though perhaps several addressees). At
the beginning of each schedule Fido builds all the packets
he will be permitted to send during that schedule.
Now, let's take a look at the three basic commands that
may appear in a route file, and see how each of them can
modify Fido's behavior.
SCHEDULE <tag> <target list> or
SEND-TO <target list>
These commands are equivalent. They tell Fido "During
this schedule, you may build packets for any target in
<target list>. Include all messages to different addressees
which may be routed to these targets. Do not consider any
outgoing messages which cannot be sent to one of these
targets." Unless there is an ACCEPT-FROM statement (see
below) only messages originating on your Fido qualify to go
into packets. If <target list> is empty (and this is NOT
schedule A), Fido will not build any packets. If he doesn't
build any packets he will not send any mail, even if he is
POLLed (see next week).
ROUTE-TO <target> <addressee list>
This command will override any node list implied
routing affecting these nodes. It tells Fido "If <target>
is in <target list> and there are outgoing messages for any
nodes in <addressee list>, put them in <target>'s packet."
If <target> is not in <target list> you blew it. It's
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almost, but not quite a "no operation." No packets will be
built for nodes in <addressee list>, even if they are in
<target list>! Don't route messages to a <target> that's
not in the <target list> for this schedule.
By the way, a bug in an earlier version of Fido pre-
vented messages to <target> from being sent unless he was
also in <addressee list>. I don't know if that has been
corrected, but it's still good general practice to put
<target> in <addressee list>.
ACCEPT-FROM <originating list>
Normally, Fido only sends mail originating on your
board. If you receive a message originating on A and
addressed to B, without this statement, your Fido will not
attempt to send it along to B. Instead, he will mark it
"orphan" to give you an indication that he had a problem
with it and otherwise ignore it. This statement in a route
file tells Fido "When you build packets, if you find any
messages from any nodes in <originating list>, treat them as
if they originated here. In other words FORWARD any
messages from the nodes in <originating list> that you can
get into packets FOR THIS SCHEDULE's <target list>."
I actually suggested this verb for this action and have
regretted it ever since! It's a misnomer. A better verb
might be "FORWARD-FOR" but hindsight is always 20-20. It
really means "Accept, for forwarding, only messages from
these guys." It's designed to prevent you from paying
someone else's phone costs without prior arrangement.
So where do you put this statement? Remember two
important points I've mentioned before. 1) Route files
affect how you SEND mail, not how you receive it. 2) A
particular route file affects only the schedule with the
matching <tag>. Consider Fido 202/0, a hypothetical bi-
directional host. He executes three schedules each night.
During schedule B, before the national window, he collects
outgoing mail from his locals. During schedule C he sends
mail from himself and his locals to "the network" and
receives mail for himself and his locals from it. Then in
schedule D, after the national window, he distributes the
mail he received for his locals.
ROUTE.B needs neither a <target list> nor an ACCEPT-
FROM statement. Indeed, he doesn't really need any ROUTE.B
file at all because HE ISN'T SENDING ANY MAIL DURING
SCHEDULE B.
ROUTE.C has the national net excluding 202/0's locals
in its <target list>. It also has "ACCEPT-FROM 1, 2, 3,
(all locals)." Now let's say that 202/3 received a message
from 125/1 last night, but it wasn't delivered because 202/3
was down. The message is still here. Won't it be
"orphaned" because 125/1 isn't in the ACCEPT-FROM list? NO!
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Because 202/3 isn't in the <target list>, the message won't
even be considered DURING THIS SCHEDULE.
ROUTE.D has all the nodes in net 202 in the <target
list>, and an "ACCEPT-FROM ALL" statement. Now the fore-
going message will be processed correctly and forwarded to
202/3.
Now let's say that 100/76 tries to forward a message to
Jakarta through 202/0. 202/0 cannot refuse delivery of the
offending message, so there it sits in his mail area.
During schedule B, he ignores all outgoing mail because he
doesn't have a <target list>. During schedule C Jakarta is
in his <target list>, but 100/76 is not in his <originating
list>, so the message is orphaned. During schedule D 100/76
IS in the <originating list>, but Jakarta is not in the
<target list> so the message is again ignored.
Make no mistake, if Jakarta had been in the <target
list> in schedule D, the message would have been sent, even
though it had been marked an orphan during schedule C
(provided, of course that a connection could be made and
Jakarta happened to be in a mail schedule at that time).
This means that if messages are orphaned because of errors
in your routing files, the routing files can be corrected
and the messages can still be sent. The orphan flag is NOT
a dead end!
A similar kind of bug existed (and may still; I don't
know) with ACCEPT-FROM as with ROUTE-TO (above). If a route
file contains an ACCEPT-FROM statement, make sure your own
node is in the <originating list>. (The first time I used
this statement, I forwarded a lot of messages, but
"orphaned" my own messages!)
Well, that's how routing is achieved. Remember, all
these statements control out-going mail. You can receive
mail even if you don't have any route files!
A final point on routing. If a message says it has a
file attached (even if the file doesn't exist) all bets are
off. Routing is suspended and the message will be sent
direct from the originator to the addressee. Fido has
several built-in safeguards to prevent you from forwarding
someone else's files, or forwarding your files through
someone else for that matter.
Next week we'll take a close look at the goodies TJ has
provided in version 11 and see how they are making automatic
node list distribution at long last a reality.
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FidoNet Route Files Explained
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Part 3 -- Keep the Old, Ring In the New
by Ben Baker, Fido 100/76
Last week we looked at the basic routing statements
that have been with us since version 7 or so. Now let's
look at what's been added in version 11.
Please refer back to last weeks definitions. I con-
tinue to use them as defined.
RECV-ONLY
This tells Fido "Go ahead and build packets for any
targets in the SCHEDULE command's <target list>, but DON'T
ATTEMPT TO CALL ANYBODY. If any targets happen to call in
for any reason, try to give them their packets before they
get away."
There MUST be a <target list> for this statement to
mean anything. It is not intended for normally "receive
only" schedules like 202/0's collection schedule (see last
week). Instead, it prevents you from originating calls
during schedules when you are trying to SEND mail. (Route
files control how you send mail, not how you receive it.)
You are really trying to send mail on the other guy's
nickel, but as you will see, he has to cooperate in that
venture.
This statement might be used by the locals during the
collection schedule in a large, busy net. Collisions are
avoided because there's only one node, the outbound host,
placing calls. He POLLs (see below) the locals for their
outgoing traffic.
HOLD <hold target list>
"OK, Fido, build packets for targets in the <target
list>, but don't attempt to actually call any targets in
<hold target list>." This is a limited "RECV-ONLY" command.
Any packets for targets not in <hold target list> will be
sent normally (if they haven't been picked up), but packets
for <hold target list> have to be "picked up."
There's a hidden gimmick here that bears further
exploration. Ken Kaplan (Fido 100/22 AKA 1/0) is the
original source in the national nodelist distribution
system. Regional coordinators call his Fido each week to
pick up copies of the latest nodelist. The route file for
his national window contains the statement "HOLD <regional
coordinator list>." Fido will not attempt to send any
packets targetted for a regional coordinator. Does this
mean that he can't send "normal" messages to the
coordinators? Not at all. Because he is a member of net
100, all his "normal" messages, including those addressed to
the coordinators, wind up in a packet targetted for 100/10,
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the outbound host. Since 100/10 is not in the <hold target
list>, that packet is sent and the messages go out. HOLD
APPLIES TO THE TARGETS OF PACKETS, NOT TO THE ADDRESSEES OF
MESSAGES! It is only when Ken sends messages to the
coordinators with the nodelist (or other files) attached to
them that Fido builds packets targetted for them instead of
100/10.
Does that mean that Ken can't send the coordinators
other files without waiting for them to pick them up? Well,
yes and no. Because of the HOLD statement, he can't say
send FIDO_IBM.EXE to 14/61 (see PICK-UP below for why 14/61
and not 14/0). But he can use another gimmick. The
coordinators have dual identities (set by the '4' command of
Fido) and he can certainly send a file to 14/0. Fido is
smart, but so smart he'll notice that 14/0 and 14/61 happen
to have the same phone number. He'll send the packet for
14/0 and hold the one for 14/61. By the same token, if both
packets are still present when 14/61 calls in, he'll only
pick up the the nodelist targetted for 14/61 and not the new
Fido targetted for 14/0. (You can't have your cake and eat
it too.)
PICKUP <pickup target list>
Whenever any other Fido calls your Fido for any reason,
your Fido looks to see if there is a packet targetted for
him. If there is, your Fido will try to deliver it then and
there and avoid making the phone call which you have to pay
for. Without this statement (or the next one) in his route
file, the other Fido will simply hang up on you, leaving you
with a phone call to make in order to deliver your packet.
This statement says to Fido "If you happen to call any
target in <pickup target list>, hang around to see if he has
mail for me."
This is a two-edged sword. It can speed up mail
exchange, but the Fido that places the call pays for it. It
works best within a local net where the calls are all toll
free anyway. In fact, it won't work at all between larger
nets supported by distinct inbound and outbound hosts.
Specifying "PICKUP 100/0" in your national window schedule
would only get you messages originating on 100/0 (or 100/51
actually) with files attached. Any other mail for you might
be in a packet addressed to you, but on 100/10, the outbound
host, and that's not who you called.
Even worse, let's say Tom Jennings is sending a file to
100/10 and wants to pick up any mail from St. Louis for San
Francisco while he's at it. He's the host of net 125, and
that's perfectly legitimate, right? Wrong! His primary
identity (the '4' command again) is 125/1 and 100/10 may
have a packet for 125/0, but he won't have a packet for
125/1. This command deals at the packet/target level just
as the HOLD command does. Furthermore, it deals with real
identities, not alternate identities.
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As I said, this is most useful within a local net, and
that's where it probably should be applied.
POLL <poll target list>
This tells Fido "Even if I don't have any mail for the
targets in <poll target list> generate empty packets
addressed to them so you have an excuse to call them. Then
when you do call them, pick anything they have for me."
"POLL <poll target list>" implies "PICKUP <poll target
list>" which need not be specified. This is the statement
an outbound host might use to poll his locals or hubs for
outgoing traffic prior to national mail time. Together with
the next statement, this method can be very efficient.
The regional coordinators run a special schedule each
Saturday morning during the national mail window. It's
route file is identical to their normal national schedule
route file except that it contains the statement "POLL 1/0."
That's how they get the nodelist for subsequent redis-
tribution.
As I see it, POLL has a lot more uses than PICKUP.
SEND-ONLY
This one is mainly for outbound hosts. It says "I'm
not expecting any mail during this schedule, so don't wait
the normal one or two minutes for incomming calls after
making an outgoing call. As soon as you finish one, dial
another until all packets have been sent."
As I said above, this can be very efficient, but
there's a problem you need to be aware of. Fido will make a
maximum of 30 attempts without connect to send a packet to a
particular target. If you have only one packet addressed to
a busy target, Fido would normally take about an hour to use
up 30 attempts, but in SEND-ONLY mode he can attempt 30
calls in about 20 minutes! If you have a Courier and are
running it in "X4" response code mode, he'll make 30
attempts in 10 to 15 minutes. (The Courier doesn't waste a
lot of time in "fast-dial, busy-detect" mode.)
If you're an outbound host and want to try SEND-ONLY
during the national window, you risk using up your call
attempts while your target is busiest, then when he's
quieted down and you could get through, you've given up! I
suggest you break your national time into two schedules, and
only use SEND-ONLY during the last 20 minutes or so of the
national window.
On the other hand, polling your locals or hubs is a
different matter. They should be in RECV-ONLY mode and you
can expect every call to connect the first try. The call
attempt limit doesn't apply to this situation and the SEND-
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ONLY command should be used to shorten the time needed to
POLL everyone.
NO-ROUTE <addressee list>
This command tells Fido "Do not send messages addressed
to these nodes anywhere but to the addressed nodes. Treat
them as though they have files attached, whether they do or
not."
This lets you say things like Fido 100/76 (in Illinois)
might:
SEND-TO 100/10 ; Outbound Host (in Missouri)
ROUTE-TO 100/10 ALL ; Send everything to accross the river
NO-ROUTE 100/482 ; Except other Illinois traffic
The only other way to achieve this end is to list in
the ROUTE-TO command all 500 odd nodes whose messages should
be routed to 100/10, and that list changes every week!
Now you should have a good handle on how the commands
used in ROUTE.<tag> control how Fido SENDS files during
schedule <tag>. But sometimes these commands require very
long lists of node numbers which change from week to week as
the node list changes. LISTGEN 2 will generate the route
files automatically and let you specify the long lists
symbolically in terms of nets, area codes, etc.. Next week
in the last part of this series, we'll see how the
statements in LISTGEN's ROUTE.CTL file correspond to the
commands in ROUTE.<tag>.
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FidoNet Route Files Explained
Part 4 -- LISTGEN and ROUTE.CTL
by Ben Baker, Fido 100/76
LISTGEN Version 2 will automatically generate route
files for you if you desire. The advantage is that LISTGEN
is driven by a control file, ROUTE.CTL, in which you specify
the statements necessary with symbolic parameters that you
define in terms of nets, area codes, etc.. A properly
designed ROUTE.CTL need only change when your routing needs
change. LISTGEN will continue to create correct route files
week after week as the nodelist changes.
Before I begin, I'd like to do a quick review of the
route file commands and their effect.
SCHEDULE <tag> <list> or
SEND-TO <list> Determines which nodes may have
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packets build to SEND mail to.
ROUTE-TO <target> <list> Directs that messages to par-
ticular addressees be SENT in
packets to another node.
ACCEPT-FROM <list> Specifies which oritinators'
messages may be SENT.
RECV-ONLY States that packets may only be
SENT by being picked up.
HOLD <list> States that packets to part-
icular nodes may only be SENT
by being picked up.
PICK-UP <list> States that it is OK to receive
mail from particular nodes when
we originate calls to SEND them
packets.
POLL <list> Directs that packets (empty if
necessary) be generated and
SENT to particular nodes in
order to pick up mail.
SEND-ONLY States that calls may be made
rapid-fire to SEND as many
packets as possible.
Note that each definition above includes the verb SEND
or SENT. I did that deliberately to emphasize that these
commands all control some aspect of sending mail.
LISTGEN has been adaquately documented and I do not
intend to re-document it here, but I would like to show you
how ROUTE.CTL commands map to the ROUTE.<tag> commands
covered above.
SCHEDULE <tag> <target list>
When LISTGEN encounters this command in ROUTE.CTL it
does two things. First it closes any route file it may be
working on and creates a new ROUTE.<tag> file for the new
<tag>. Then it generates a SCHEDULE statement from the
specifications in this one for the new ROUTE.<tag>,
expanding any symbolic parameters to lists of nodes from the
nodelist. In other words, it begins a new route file as you
would expect it to by defining the <target list>.
FROM <accept list>
This phrase, when encountered, generates an ACCEPT-FROM
statement.
TO <addressee list> [ VIA <target> ]
If the VIA clause is present, this statement generates
a "ROUTE-TO <target> <addressee list>." Successive TO
phrases without VIA clauses accumulate to make a larger
<addressee list> until a VIA clause IS found. Then the
entire list is routed to the <target>. (I'm not entirely
happy with this "feature," but that's the way it works.) If
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no VIA clause is ever found, the TO phrase generates no
output at all! It does serve as documentation in your
ROUTE.CTL file, saying "I expect to be sending mail TO these
nodes in this schedule."
All of the other route file commands discussed above
map one-for-one in the same format from ROUTE.CTL to
ROUTE.<tag>.
The big advantage in using LISTGEN is to be able to use
simple symbols which it will translate into long lists of
nodes. To illustrate, net 100 spans two area codes, 314 in
Missouri and 618 in Illinois. To minimize the number of
toll calls placed accross the Mississippi, I serve as "Metro
East" hub to concentrate the Illinois traffic. I have the
following statements (among others) in my ROUTE.CTL file:
define Metro-East as Net-100 except Area-314 ; Area 618
define Outbound as 100/10
define World as all except Metro-East
* * *
FROM Metro-East TO World VIA Outbound
Nodes may come and go, both in our net and across the
country, and these statements need not change. LISTGEN
interprets them week after week and builds the right route
files every time. And in several months, if our outbound
host should change making it necessary to change ROUTE.CTL,
I can look at this and not have to say to myself "What on
earth was I trying to do here?" It's all pretty obvious.
Before I wrap it up, there are two important exceptions
to the things I have said. First, schedule A is special in
that the <target list> always is the entire nodelist, no
matter what ROUTE.A says. For that reason, if you do any
routing not defined by the node list, I recommend that you
DO NOT USE SCHEDULE A. For all other schedules, Fido does
exactly what ROUTE.<tag> tells it to do and nothing more.
And second, ROUTE.BBS is a special route file that affects
all schedules for which there are no ROUTE.<tag> files. For
that reason, I recommend that you FORGET YOU EVER HEARD OF
ROUTE.BBS. It'll cause more problems than it'll ever solve!
So, routing can get pretty complex (just ask 'em in
Southern California), but it doesn't need to be complicated
once you know what the objective of each schedule is from
your point of view, and what your Fido needs to do to meet
those objectives.
In fact, it's pretty easy if you just remember the two
points I have been hammering at you since we began:
1) Route files control the way you send messages, not
the way you receive them. Every command we discussed above
controls some aspect of sending messages. And. . .
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 15 23 Dec 1996
2) A particular route file only affects the schedule
with the matching <tag>. What you say in ROUTE.B has no
bearing whatever on schedule C. Each schedule must be
separately spelled out.
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=================================================================
COORDINATORS CORNER
=================================================================
Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 355
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2
+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
|Zone|Nl-327|Nodelist-334|Nodelist-341|Nodelist-348|Nodelist-355|%%|
+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
| 1 | 11127|10931 -196 |10931 0 |10737 -194 |10564 -173 |36|
| 2 | 16291|16240 -51 |16185 -55 |16150 -35 |16127 -23 |55|
| 3 | 905| 886 -19 | 882 -4 | 882 0 | 878 -4 | 3|
| 4 | 589| 584 -5 | 578 -6 | 572 -6 | 413 -159 | 1|
| 5 | 94| 94 0 | 94 0 | 94 0 | 93 -1 | 0|
| 6 | 1008| 1008 0 | 1006 -2 | 1003 -3 | 1003 0 | 3|
+----+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+--+
| 30014|29743 -271 |29676 -67 |29438 -238 |29078 -360 |
+------+------------+------------+------------+------------+
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=================================================================
WE GET EMAIL
=================================================================
--- Following message extracted from FIDONEWS @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sat Dec 21 17:52:05 1996
From: Harry Bush
To: Dana Marshall
Date: 16 Dec 96 00:54:10
Subj: FidoNews 1350 is in the can!
Hello Dana!
(My apologies to Moderator if this is going slightly off-topic...
that is, if Future of FidoNet can be off-topic ;-)))
Saturday December 14 1996 from DANA MARSHALL 1:343/311 to HARRY BUSH:
HB>> There certainly are decent Net users among them but I cannot say
HB>> this for AOL majority. Do we want this kind of people in Fido?
HB>> Personally, I don't.
DM> Yeah, but I notice from the nodelist that the number of nodes is
DM> dropping. Do we want to keep quality sysops, or have a lot of
DM> nodes?
This is really The Question of todays FidoNet, IMHO. Thanks God and
Jennings, :-) unlike commercial providers we do not need evergrowing
net. It's inevitable that those people who just needed cheap kind of
E-mail will switch to Internet now when it's becoming cheaper every
day. We all do, to some degree.
Many of us (maybe majority ;) do use Internet in everydays work, much
like library, shop and consulting info source. Nevertheless, there
are people like me (and probably you) who stay in FidoNet too.
Why? ;-) Because I like to do computer network (well, part of it)
myself instead of being just "user of a black/grey box". It's great
to know _how_ it works, and to try new things (wish there were more
principially new developments in Fido). I like also the feeling of
being able and free to connect (well, at least theoretically) to any
other node in the network, if I want, without asking anybodies
permission and without anything capturing my letters in message bases
keeping every word you have ever sent to any newsgroup - and I do not
believe that E-mail is not captured in the same way. I like also that
in Fido we all are SysOps - well, some are *CS ;-) but nevertheless
everybody - be it young teenee using old Amiga, or rich "silver wings"
running big Hub just for phun, or somebody with health problems
dictating all his mail to VoiceType in his Warped computer, - we all
are equal as SysOps.
Besides of shrinking of nodelist, there is another tendency going on
in Europe for a long time: many nodes, even CM ones, have no BBS'es at
all. Seems to me that role of kinda network provider (BBS Keeper) has
calmly separated from that of being part of Global Fidonet. With
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 18 23 Dec 1996
computers becoming cheaper one can set up his home node just for fun,
just to have his mail/files/whatever collected and sent automatically,
to participate in echoes, to keep good contacts with nice people etc.
No necessity to expand node into a BBS, it's whole another business
with it's own problems (lots of them).
Comparing to history of radio amateurs we can predict that Fido
community may shrink a bit but probably will remain as community of
people who _know_ how things work in computer networks. Many leading
computer and electronic developers have HAM background, and many
specialists in network area are, or have been in Fido, some of them
had their own Fido-Technology based networks (using Zone numbers like
92, he he ;-)
In some aspects Fido is still leading compared to "big Net world". My
mailer (Xenia, by Arjen Lentz) can and do use cryptographic methods to
authentificate connecting nodes - this is not yet a common practice.
There are routing subsets of Fido (SecureMail) allowing routed
encrypted private netmail. Only recently in Internet http protocol so
called "reget" was introduced, allowing to continue receiving of some
information if connection was lost - something we are absolutely used
to assume in Fido for years ;-) etc.etc.
One thing that effectively _can_ kill Fido is sticking too much to old
standards and refusing new technologies. For example I wonder why
there still are no Fido message editors capable of
writing/interpreting HTML... Oh yes, there is no Fido standard for
it... so what... ;))
Best wishes, Harry
Monday December 16 1996 00:54
Origin: Hi, gang! This is getting real sociable, isn't it? (2:51/2)
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[From Internet email]
To:
[email protected]
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 11:25:39 EST
Subject: AUFORA News Update <
[email protected]>: AUFORA -
Carl Sagan
From:
[email protected] (Rob A Shinn)
Could you run this in FidoNews? I think it might be of some interest
to Fido SysOps..,
--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
From: AUFORA News Update <
[email protected]>
To:
[email protected]
Subject: AUFORA - Carl Sagan
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 02:33:18 -0700
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 19 23 Dec 1996
AUFORA News Update
Friday, December 20th, 1996 <www.helios.org>
___________________________
***
We at AUFORA would like to express our most profound sympathies over
the loss of such an influential and great man.
***
STATEMENT BY NASA ADMINISTRATOR DAN GOLDIN ON THE PASSING OF
ASTRONOMER CARL SAGAN
"All of us at NASA are saddened by the passing of Carl Sagan.
For more than three decades, Dr. Sagan was an eloquent, passionate
voice for the sciences that he so ably advanced.
As much as any scientific figure of our time, Carl described for
an entire generation -- the generation of the Space Age -- the true
wonders of the Universe around us. His unbelievable ability to
explain the complexities of space and space exploration inspired
people to look up into the night sky in wonder. Through such efforts
as the television series 'Cosmos' and his recent book, 'Pale Blue
Dot,' Carl reached -- and touched --millions around the world.
He was a pioneer of the idea that life could exist on Mars, years
before NASA was able to uncover evidence of potential early life on
the Red Planet, and he was an important voice in our Mars science
programs for many years. He was an early champion of the idea that
the two leading spacefaring powers, America and Russia, should work
together in the exploration of space.
He also was at the forefront of constructing humanity's first
messages to the stars, which even now are hurtling out of our Solar
System aboard the Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft. Carl himself
likened the effort to the launching of a message in a bottle on the
interstellar ocean. We will remember his vision, his eloquence, and
his intellect, and we will miss him."
__________________
AUFORA News Update
News, Information, Facts from the world of UFOlogy
To subscribe send e-mail to:
[email protected]
AUFORA Web:
http://www.aufora.org/
AUFORA News:
http://www.aufora.org/news/
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___________________________________________________
Distributed by The Alberta UFO Research Association
--------- End forwarded message ----------
[ Rob ] -=- Deus ex Machina -=- <
[email protected]>
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--- Following message extracted from 374SYSOP @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Dec 22 18:32:12 1996
From: Jim Chiravalle
To: All
Date: 22 Dec 96 10:30:00
Subj: X-mas Time... 2
Remember this one Walt?
Date: 24 Dec 94 21:57:00
From: Walt Young
To: All
Subj: Merry Christmas
A CHRISTMAS LETTER TO MY FRIENDS
by
Your Fellow Sysop
Dear Fellow 374 Sysops,
Now that Christmas time is here I generally like to take
time to write a message to all my friends who have been so kind
during the year. I'd like to say thanks for all the support,
the messages, the files you've put on this board and for the
technical stuff. Writing this kins of message is a swell
habit, I think.
Tonight is a blustery evening, but I feel cozy and snug
as I sit here typing this message, watching the fire in the
fireplace, listening to some good music, and sipping on a
double martini .. I only wish you were here to join me in
one, but since you are not - the least I can do is to toast
your health and happiness ... So, I shall take time out and
bend my elbow to you in a little toast.
I also took time out to mix another martini and while I
was out in the kitchen I thought I might as well drink it out
there, mix another and bring it in here to save getting up
again to go mix another out there and in doing so I feel like
I,m beginning to feel a littl hih. It,s funny how a cold
dring can warm up your stomahe and inspire your thoughts,
inn,nt?I must have been sitting to close to thefire vor I
startew feel a littlet dizzy so i muxed another martini and
now my head feels a clear as a bellagin? Oo youa can9t beart
the comnation of good gin vermooth and stiffed olives. beer
ansqotch and bouban are allrigh but you can7t beat gin
ermouth even with picled onoions.
Now i like allittet dring now anthen and I have tak a
fourth and or maybe afifthf and I am more than evew concicse
that any man who does8t is stupif and not inth pr'er 1993?)
icould dring martinis alday and nefer wqubber an etelash and
so no worse a citzeb that I was befor. this country is good
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 21 23 Dec 1996
as it evew wax. We al nkow taxes are highrt, but still we
arewell of in Isa... There ujst inn8t a bettercountry1
SSay tese martinis isal righr, when wev need stimulanzwe
sure do even if some people don9t like ti who blunooses and
its pretty kinf of a kettle-fish is i can! drink a taost to
old frens. O i coulf drink martinis by fthe quart to yourr
health all nihgt and stil pass anu sibruty tets sos herees
again to yor heltj!!!!!
N merra Chrutmiss
y yOUR fELL oWL sYSOPE.......
.. Christmas Spirit is what you GIVE...not what you GET!
Origin:**Jim In Motion BBS*Palm Bay, Fl*(407)952-8089 ** (1:374/32)
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=================================================================
NET HUMOR
=================================================================
From: "Mike Riddle" <
[email protected]>
To: "Baker, Christopher" <
[email protected] (Christopher Baker)
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 07:41:28 -0600
Reply-To: "Mike Riddle" <
[email protected]>
Subject: Fwd: x-masfile
==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE==================
>From the Dec 16, 1996 edition of the _New Yorker_
The Xmas Files by Frank Cammuso and Hart Seely
The Place: 37 ELM STREET
BETHLEHEM, PA.
The Time: 11:51 PM, DECEMBER 24TH
Fox Mulder: We're too late! It's already been here.
Dana Scully: Mulder, I hope you know what you're doing.
M: Look Scully, just like the other homes: Douglas fir,
truncated, mounted, transfromed into a shrine; halls decked
with boughs of holly; stockings hung by the chimney, with
care.
S: You really think someone's been here?
M: Someone, or SOMETHING.
S: Mulder, over here, it's fruitcake.
M: Don't touch it! Those things can be lethal.
S: It's OK. There's a note attached: "Gonna find out who's
naughty and nice."
M: It's judging them, Scully. It's making a list.
S: Who? What are you talking about?
M: Ancient mythology tells of an obese humanoid entity who could
travel at great speed in a craft powered by antlered servants.
Once each year, near the winter solstice, this creature is
said to descend from the heavens to reward its followers and
punish disbelievers with jagged chunks of anthracite.
S: But that's legend, Mulder--a story told by parents to frighten
children. Surely you don't believe it?
M: Something was here tonight, Scully. Check out the bite marks
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 23 23 Dec 1996
on this gingerbread man. Whaterver tore through this plate of
cookies was massive --and in a hurry.
S: It left crumbs everywhere. And look, Mulder, this milk glass
has been completely drained.
M: It gorged itself, Scully. It fed without remorse.
S: But why would they leave it milk and cookies?
M: Appeasement. Tonight is the Eve, and nothing can stop its
wilding.
S: But if this thing does exist, how did it get in? The doors and
windows were locked. There's no sign of forced entry.
M: Unless I miss my guess, it came in through the fireplace.
S: Wait a minute, Mulder. If you're saying some huge creature
landd on the roof and came down this chimney, you're crazy.
The flue is barely six inches wide. Nothing could get down
there.
M: But what if it could alter its shape, move in all directions
at once?
S: You mean like a bowl full of jelly?
M: Exactly, Scully. I've never told anyone this, but when I was
a child my home was visited. I saw the creature. It had long
white shanks of fur surrounding its ruddy, misshapen head. Its
bloated torso was red and white. I'll never forget the horror.
I turned away, and when I looked back it somehow took on the
facial features of my father.
S: Impossible.
M: I know what I saw. And that night it read my mind. It brought
me a Mr. Potato Head, Scully. IT KNEW THAT I WANTED A MR.
POTATO HEAD!
S: I'm sorry, Mulder, but you're asking me to disregard the laws
of physics. You want me to believe in some supernatural being
who soars across the skies and brings gifts to good little
girls and boys. Listen to what you're saying. Do you
understand the reprecussions? If this gets out, they'll close
the X-files.
M: Scully, listen to me: It knows when you're sleeping. It knows
when you're awake.
S: But we have no proof.
M: Last year, on this exact date, SETI radio telescops detected
bogeys in the airspace over twenty-seven states. The White
House ordered a Condition Red.
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 24 23 Dec 1996
S: But that was a meteor shower.
M: Officially. Two days ago, eight prized Scandanavian reindeer
vanished from the National Zoo, in Washington, DC. Nobody--
not even the zookeeper--was told about it. The government
dosn't want people to know about Project Kringle. They fear
that if this thing is proved to exist the public will stop
spending half its annual incom in a holiday shopping frenzy.
Retail markets will collapse. Scully, they cannot let the
world believe this creature lives. There's too much at stake.
They'll do whatever it takes to ensure another silent night.
S: Mulder, I--
M: Sh-h-h. Do you hear what I hear? On the roof. It sounds
like...a clatter. The truth is up there. Let's see what's the
matter.
===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE===================
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FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 25 23 Dec 1996
=================================================================
COMIX IN ASCII
=================================================================
[Forwarded by Walter Tietjen at 1:151/114]
From: In:
[email protected]
To: ** All **
Subj: ASCII Christmas Story
+---------------------------------------------------------------+
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, my true love gave to me:
Twelve Drummers Drumming
.-} .-} .-}
|_| |_| |_|
(_) (_) __ (_) .---.
| \ .--. | \.' '. | \/ \
|\_|--o ) |\_|--o ; |\_|--o |
|:| '--' |:|'.__.' |:|\ /
|:| |:| |:| `---`
|:|_ |:|_ |:|_
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
.-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-. .-.
|M| |E| |R| |R| |Y| |X| |M| |A| |S|
(_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_) (_)
/\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\ /\Y/\
[XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX] [XXX]
||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||
||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||
_|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Eleven Pipers Piping
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_) ,/_)
(") (") (") (") (") (") (") (") (") (") (")
/I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\ /I\
(/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\) (/^\)
||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||
||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||
_|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_ _|||_
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Ten Lords A-Leaping
w w
w 0__ \0__
\0__ w /|_ w /_
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 26 23 Dec 1996
/_ __0/ '\/ / \0_ '\/ / w
'\/ / /_ ` /_ ` __0/
` `\/ \, _\ \, /_
w ` `\/ \,
\0__ w w
/_ 0__ w \0__
_\ \, /|_ __0/ |_
` `\/ \, /_ _\ \,
`\/ /, `
Nine Ladies Dancing
|~
() () 0` |~
() _/)(\_ () _/)(\_ 0`
_/)(\_ /^^\ () _/)(\_ /""\
/~~\ /____\ _/)(\_ /``\ /____\
/____\ /""\ /____\ ()
() /____\ _/)(\_ ()
|~ _/)(\_ () /^^\ _/)(\_
0` |~ /``\ _/)(\_ /____\ /~~\
0` /____\ /~~\ /____\
/____\
Eight Maids A-Milking
__.----. __.----. __.----. __.----.___
(\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' ;--`
`(uu)' _ `(dd)' _ `(gg)' _ `(vv)' _ |
) ( (|) ) ( (|) ) ( (|) ) ( (|) |
(o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8 ,/
`--'\_ (__).`--'\_ (__).'`--'\_ (__).'`--'\_ _(__)|
`|||~~/\|| `|||~~/\|| `|||~~/\|| `||~|| /\||
^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^
__.----. __.----. __.----. __.----.___
(\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' (\(__)/)-' ;--`
`(99)' _ `(66)' _ `(aa)' _ `(ee)' _ |
) ( (|) ) ( (|) ) ( (|) ) ( (|) |
(o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8 (o o) 8~8,/
`--'\_ (__).'`--'\_ (__).`--'\_ (__).`--'\_ _(__)|
`|||~~/\|| `|||~~/\|| `|||~~/\|| `||~|| /\||
^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^`^
Seven swans A-Swimming
___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___
/,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ /,_ \ _,
|/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ |/ )/ / |
// _/ |// _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ // _/ |
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 27 23 Dec 1996
/ (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ / (_/ _)
/ ` / ` / ` / ` / ` / ` / ` _/)
\ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- \ ~=- /
~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~^~
Six Geese A-Laying
__ __ __ __ __ __
>(' ) >(' ) >(' ) >(' ) >(' ) >(' )
)/ , )/ , )/ , )/ , )/ , )/ ,
/(____/\ /(____/\ /(____/\ /(____/\ /(____/\ /(____/\
/ ) / ) / ) / ) / ) / )
\ ` =~~/ \ ` =~~/ \ ` =~~/ \ ` =~~/ \ ` =~~/ \ ` =~~/
`---Y-' __ `---Y-' __ `---Y-' __ `---Y-' __ `---Y-' __ `---Y-' __
~~' (__) ~~' (__) ~~' (__) ~~' (__) ~~' (__) ~~' (__)
Five Golden Rings
.-. .-. .-. .-. .-.
((_)) ((_)) ((_)) ((_)) ((_))
'-' '-' '-' '-' '-'
Four Calling Birds
___ ___ ___ ___
('v') ('v') ('v') ('v')
(( )) (( )) (( )) (( ))
-/-"---"---/-"---"---/-"---"---/-"---"--
Three French Hens
(\ }\ (\ }\ (\ }\
( \_('> ( \_('> ( \_('>
(__(=_) (__(=_) (__(=_)
-"= -"= -"=
Two Turtle Doves
_ _
<')_,/ <') ,/
(_==/ (_==/
='- ='-
And a Partridge in a Pear Tree
_
('>
/))@@@@@
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/@"@@@@@()@
@@()@@()@@@@
@@@O@@@@()@@@
@()@@\@@@()@@
@()@||@@@@@
@@||@@@
||
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
+--------------------------------------------------------+
Take care!
Anne McReary
[email protected]
Origin: Point and Counter Point*Ft Lewis, WA 1-206-912-1922(8:7720/0)
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Date: 15 Dec 96 10:51:35
From: Paulette Boudreault-Gilbert
To: Everyone
Subj: Season Greetings..:)
______________________________________________________________________
Hi Everyone!
+
"X"
"XXX"
"XXXXX"
"GOD JUL"
"BUON ANNO"
"FELIZ NATAL"
"JOYEUX NOEL"
"VESELE VANOCE"
"MELE KALIKIMAKA"
"NODLAG SONA DHUIT"
"BLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDA"
"""""""BOAS FESTAS"""""""
"FELIZ NAVIDAD"
"MERRY CHRISTMAS"
"KALA CHRISTOUGENA"
"VROLIJK KERSTFEEST"
"FROHLICHE WEIHNACHTEN"
"BUON NATALE-GODT NYTAR"
"HUAN YING SHENG TAN CHIEH"
"WESOLYCH SWIAT-SRETAN BOZIC"
"MOADIM LESIMHA-LINKSMU KALEDU"
"HAUSKAA JOULUA-AID SAID MOUBARK"
"""""""'N PRETTIG KERSTMIS"""""""
"ONNZLLISTA UUTTA VUOTTA"
"Z ROZHDESTYOM KHRYSTOVYM"
"NADOLIG LLAWEN-GOTT NYTTSAR"
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 29 23 Dec 1996
"FELIC NADAL-GOJAN KRISTNASKON"
"S NOVYM GODOM-FELIZ ANO NUEVO"
"GLEDILEG JOL-NOELINIZ KUTLU OLSUM"
"EEN GELUKKIG NIEUWJAAR-SRETAN BOSIC"
"KRIHSTLINDJA GEZUAR-KALA CHRISTOUGENA"
"SELAMAT HARI NATAL - LAHNINGU NAJU METU"
"""""""SARBATORI FERICITE-BUON ANNO"""""""
"ZORIONEKO GABON-HRISTOS SE RODI"
"BOLDOG KARACSONNY-VESELE VIANOCE "
"MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR"
"ROOMSAID JOULU PUHI -KUNG HO SHENG TEN"
"FELICES PASUAS - EIN GLUCKICHES NEUJAHR"
"PRIECIGUS ZIEMAN SVETKUS SARBATORI VESLLE"
"BONNE ANNEBLWYDDYN NEWYDD DDADRFELIZ NATAL"
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From one friend to another....pass it on...Happy Hollidays!
Paulette
[email protected]
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9631
Origin: AB_NET's Private BBS (403) 963-6385 (1:342/510)
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Date: 24 Dec 91 02:41:31
From: Arthur Greenberg
To: All D'bridge Folks
Subj: Season's Greetings !!
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From D'Bridge Help/Information 1:1/168.0
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All the D'Bridge Sales/Support Sites WorldWide
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We wish you the best for this Holiday Season
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Have a Merry, Safe, Happy, and Healthy Holiday
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Arthur Greenberg * D'Bridge Help/Information *
Origin: D'Bridge Help/Information * It's Almost Time... !! (1:3601/14)
Date: 13 Dec 92 17:41:00
From: Patrick Browne
To: ALL
Subj: XMAS CARD
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From Patrick Browne, Sysop - "THE GAIJIN GROTTO" - Kobe, Japan.
Kind Regards,
Patrick
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 31 23 Dec 1996
CIS: 73570,2740
NifftyServe: QFHO2740
Origin: D'Bridge - Sales & Support, Japan (6:732/1)
Date: 17 Dec 92 15:47:00
From: James Waldron
To: ALL
Subj: Happy Holidays
______________________________________________________________________
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UNitek Research Institute
1:2604/401, UNitex Communications BBS
Origin: UNitek --> United Nations Information Network (1:2604/401)
From: Frits Spieker
To: All
Date: 18 Dec 94 10:54:00
Subj: Happy New Year!
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Talk to you later,
// Frits //
... Mother will wait up until you get in...
Origin: BrainPark3. Rotterdam, the Netherlands. (2:286/115)
Date: 15 Dec 96 16:08:47
From: RanD
To: All Sysops
Subj: Seasons Greetings
______________________________________________________________________
...and best wishes for a healthy and prosperous New Year.
(I sure hope that this is allowed in here... :-) )
The Merriest of Christmas is wished to all!!!
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Origin: The Brookfield Community BBS (203) 775-6198 (1:141/1030)
Date: 17 Dec 96 19:40
From: Rich Woods
To: All
Subj: Merry Christmas!
______________________________________________________________________
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Origin: If you have whoedown with hoes, what do you have with a
crackdown?(1:209/245)
Date: 21 Dec 96 06:04:00
From: Genie Bohn
To: All
Subj: Greetings
______________________________________________________________________
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FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 37 23 Dec 1996
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NOTICES
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Future History
26 Jan 1997
Australia Day, Australia.
6 Feb 1997
Waitangi Day, New Zealand.
16 Feb 1997
Eleventh Anniversary of invention of Echomail by Jeff Rush.
29 Feb 1997
Nothing will happen on this day.
25 May 1997
Independence Day, Argentina
11 Jun 1997
Independence Day, Russia
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.
15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 38 23 Dec 1996
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
=================================================================
Latest Greatest Software Versions
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264
-Still- in the process of catching up. Ugh.
Phased out this week: ProBoard 1.20, QuickBBS 2.75,
PCBoard 14.5a, and Phoenix 1.07.
Phase-out highlights:
This week: SimplexBBS 1.05 and SLBBS 2.15C
Deadline for info: 03 Jan 1997.
Last week: RBBS 17.3b and RemoteAccess 1.11
Deadline for info: 27 Dec 1996.
-=- 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 4.33 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
Announcer 1.1 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
CheckPnt 0.5 beta O F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 CHECKPNT
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
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:297/11 IMAIL
ImCrypt 1.04 O F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 IMCRYPT
InfoMail 1.11 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
InfoMail/386 1.20 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 39 23 Dec 1996
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
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
MakePl 1.8 N F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 MAKEPL
Marena 1.1 beta O F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 MARENA
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
McMail 1.0g5 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
MsgEd 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Opus CBCS 1.73a B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
O/T-Track 2.63a O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
PcMerge 2.7 N F Michiel van der Vlist
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PlatinumXpress 1.1 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX11TD.ZIP
RAR 2.00 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 4.3 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR43.ZIP
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 2.599I M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
Terminate 4.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
TriBBS 10.0 B S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRIBBS
TriDog 10.0 M S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRIDOG
TriToss 10.0 T S Patrick Driscoll 1:372/19 TRITOSS
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
WWIVTOSS 1.30 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
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BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
FleetStreet 1.18 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
ImCrypt 1.04 O F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 IMCRYPT
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
MsgEd 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
PcMerge 2.3 N F Michiel van der Vlist
2:500/9 PCMERGE
RAR 2.00 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
T-Mail 2.599I M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2
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Windows (16-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
Windows (32-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXN
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
T-Mail 2.599I M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAILNT
Unix:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ifmail 2.8g M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
ifmail-tx 2.8g-tx7.8 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
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
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CrashMail 1.23 T X Fredrik Bennison 2:205/324 CRASHMAIL
CrashTick 1.1 O F Fredrik Bennison 2:205/324 CRASHTICK
MsgEd 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Function: B-BBS, M-Mailer, N-Nodelist, G-Gateway, T-Tosser,
C-Compression, 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
Old info from: 01/27/92
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MS-DOS Systems
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BBS Software Other Utilities Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
RBBS 17.3b 2DAPoint 1.50* Netsex 2.00b
RemoteAccess 1.11* 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 OFFLINE 1.35
SimplexBBS 1.05 ARCAsim 2.31 Oliver 1.0a
SLBBS 2.15C* ARCmail 3.00* OSIRIS CBIS 3.02
Socrates 1.11 Areafix 1.20 PKInsert 7.10
SuperBBS 1.12* ConfMail 4.00 PolyXarc 2.1a
SuperComm 0.99 Crossnet 1.5 QM 1.00a
TAG 2.5g DOMAIN 1.42 QSort 4.04
TBBS 2.1 DEMM 1.06 RAD Plus 2.11
TComm/TCommNet 3.4 DGMM 1.06 Raid 1.00
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Telegard 2.7* DOMAIN 1.42 RBBSMail 18.0
TPBoard 6.1 EEngine 0.32 ScanToss 1.28
WildCat! 3.02* EMM 2.11* ScMail 1.00
XBBS 1.77 EZPoint 2.1 ScEdit 1.12
FGroup 1.00 Sirius 1.0x
Network Mailers FidoPCB 1.0s@ SLMail 2.15C
Name Version FNPGate 2.70 StarLink 1.01
-------------------- GateWorks 3.06e TagMail 2.41
BinkleyTerm 2.50 GMail 2.05 TCOMMail 2.2
D'Bridge 1.30 GMD 3.10 Telemail 1.5*
Dreamer 1.06 GMM 1.21 TGroup 1.13
Dutchie 2.90c GoldEd 2.31p TIRES 3.11
Milqtoast 1.00 GROUP 2.23 TMail 1.21
PreNM 1.48 GUS 1.40 TosScan 1.00
SEAdog 4.60 Harvey's Robot 4.10 UFGATE 1.03
SEAmail 1.01 HeadEdit 1.18 VPurge 4.09e
TIMS 1.0(mod8) HLIST 1.09 WEdit 2.0@
ISIS 5.12@ WildMail 2.00
Compression Lola 1.01d WMail 2.2
Utilities Mosaic 1.00b WNode 2.1
Name Version MailBase 4.11a@ XRS 4.99
-------------------- MSG 4.5* XST 2.3e
ARC 7.12 MsgLnk 1.0c YUPPIE! 2.00
ARJ 2.20 MsgMstr 2.03a ZmailH 1.25
LHA 2.13 MsgNum 4.16d ZSX 2.40
PAK 2.51 MSGTOSS 1.3
PKPak 3.61
PKZip 1.10
NodeList Utilities
Name Version
--------------------
EditNL 4.00
FDND 1.10
MakeNL 2.31
Parselst 1.33
Prune 1.40
SysNL 3.14
XlatList 2.90
XlaxNode/Diff 2.53
OS/2 Systems
------------
BBS Software Other Utilities(A-M Other Utilities(N-Z)
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
Kitten 1.01 ARC 7.12 oMMM 1.52
SimplexBBS 1.04.02+ ARC2 6.01 Omail 3.1
ConfMail 4.00 Parselst 1.33
EchoStat 6.0 PKZip 1.02
Network Mailers EZPoint 2.1 PMSnoop 1.30
Name Version FGroup 1.00 PolyXOS2 2.1a
-------------------- GROUP 2.23 QSort 2.1
BinkleyTerm 2.50 LH2 2.11 Raid 1.0
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 42 23 Dec 1996
BinkleyTerm(S) 2.50 MSG 4.2 Remapper 1.2
BinkleyTerm/2-MT MsgLink 1.0c Tick 2.0
1.40.02 MsgNum 4.16d VPurge 4.09e
SEAmail 1.01
Xenix/Unix 386
--------------
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
ARC 5.21
C-LHARC 1.00
|Contact: Willy Paine 1:343/15,| MSGLINK 1.01
|or Eddy van Loo 2:285/406 | oMMM 1.42
Omail 1.00
ParseLst 1.32
Unzip 3.10
VPurge 4.08
Zoo 2.01
Macintosh
---------
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
FBBS 0.91 Copernicus 1.0 ArcMac 1.3
Hermes 1.6.1 Tabby 2.2 AreaFix 1.6
Mansion 7.15 Compact Pro 1.30
Precision Sys. 0.95b EventMeister 1.0
Red Ryder Host 2.1 Export 3.21
Telefinder Host Import 3.2
2.12T10 LHARC 0.41
MacArd 0.04
Mantissa 3.21
Point System Mehitable 2.0
Software OriginatorII 2.0
Name Version PreStamp 3.2
-------------------- StuffIt Classic 1.6
Copernicus 1.00 SunDial 3.2
CounterPoint 1.09 TExport 1.92
MacWoof 1.1 TimeStamp 1.6
TImport 1.92
Tset 1.3
TSort 1.0
UNZIP 1.02c
Zenith 1.5
Zip Extract 0.10
Amiga
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FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 43 23 Dec 1996
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Software
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
4D-BBS 1.65 BinkleyTerm 1.00 Areafix 1.48
DLG Pro. 0.96b TrapDoor 1.80 AReceipt 1.5
Falcon CBCS 1.00 WelMat 0.44 ChameleonEdit 0.11
Starnet 1.0q@ ConfMail 1.12
TransAmiga 1.07 ElectricHerald 1.66
XenoLink 1.0 Compression FFRS 1.0@
Utilities FileMgr 2.08
Name Version Fozzle 1.0@
NodeList Utilities -------------------- Login 0.18
Name Version AmigArc 0.23 MessageFilter 1.52
-------------------- booz 1.01 Message View 1.12
ParseLst 1.66 LHARC 1.30 oMMM 1.50
Skyparse 2.30 LhA 1.10 PolyXAmy 2.02
TrapList 1.40 LZ 1.92 RMB 1.30
PkAX 1.00 Roof 46.15
UnZip 4.1 RoboWriter 1.02
Zippy (Unzip) 1.25 Rsh 4.07a
Zoo 2.01 Tick 0.75
TrapToss 1.20
|Contact: Maximilian Hantsch 2:310/6| Yuck! 2.02
Atari ST/TT
-----------
BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
FIDOdoor/ST 2.5.1 BinkleyTerm 2.40n9 ApplyList 1.00@
FiFo 2.1v The Box 1.95* Burep 1.1
LED ST 1.00 ComScan 1.04
QuickBBS/ST 1.06* ConfMail 4.10
NodeList Utilities Echoscan 1.10
Name Version FDrenum 2.5.2
Compression -------------------- FastPack 1.20
Utilities ParseList 1.30 Import 1.14
Name Version EchoFix 1.20 oMMM 1.40
-------------------- sTICK/Hatch 5.50 Pack 1.00
ARC 6.02 Trenum 0.10
LHARC 2.01i
PackConvert
STZip 1.1*
UnJARST 2.00
WhatArc 2.02
Tandy Color Computer 3 (OS-9 Level II)
--------------------------------------
BBS Software Compression Utility Other Utilities
Name Version Name Version Name Version
-------------------- -------------------- --------------------
RiBBS 2.02+ Ar 1.3 Ascan 1.2
FIDONEWS 13-52 Page 44 23 Dec 1996
DeArc 5.12 AutoFRL 2.0
OS9Arc 1.0 Bundle 2.2
UnZip 3.10 CKARC 1.1
UnLZH 3.0 EchoCheck 1.01
FReq 2.5a
LookNode 2.00
ParseLST
PReq 2.2
RList 1.03
RTick 2.00
UnBundle 1.4
UnSeen 1.1
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Key to old info:
+ - Netmail Capable (Doesn't Require Additional Mailer Software)
* - Recently Updated Version
@ - New Addition
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264
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FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
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[this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or
it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key]
-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Version: 2.6.2
Comment: Clear-signing is Electronic Digital Authenticity!
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
Pending a formal decision about including 'encrypted' material inside
FidoNews from the Zone Coordinator Council, the guts of the FidoNews
public-key have been removed from this listing.
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.
This section will contain only this disclaimer and instructions until
a ZCC decision is forwarded to the Editor.
Sorry for any inconvenience.
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
Editor: Christopher Baker
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar,
Tom Jennings, 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]
[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]
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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
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use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
the Editor.
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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
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FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSDnn.LZH] for a
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the
current year [6], i.e., FNWSMAY6.ZIP for all the Issues from May 96.
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
1 - 12 for 1984 - 1995, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
size from 48K to 1.2M.
INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:
http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm
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STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request -
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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.
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A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from
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.
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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.
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"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
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