F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 3 19 January 1998

F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 3 19 January 1998
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Thank them BEFORE they die!

Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
Who are these people? .................................... 1
2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2
ARGUS Information update ................................. 2
Election Issues: Candidate Answers ....................... 2
Candidate questionnaire response tally ................... 4
Announcement of FTSC decisions ........................... 5
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 6
Tributes to Cliff Harrold in Zone 2 ...................... 6
ZCC-PUBLIC .. a peek in the ZC-kitchen ................... 11
4. COORDINATORS CORNER ...................................... 12
Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 016 ...... 12
5. ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ........................ 13
SPAM belongs in this can? ................................ 13
6. NOTICES .................................................. 14
Future History ........................................... 14
7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 15
Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 15
8. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 19
FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 19
9. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 20
10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 22
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EDITORIAL
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The ZEC1 Election got an extension due to the extensive mail outages
produced by recent weather in the Great White North and other points
south and east. Though no official notice was received here for
inclusion, I've snatched a few tidbits from here and there and stuck
them here without consultation. [grin]

I also put some SPAM here which could be found in most of the Backbone
Echos I carry here and probably everywhere else. When will folks learn
to use the resources available? FidoNews - it's not just for inane
ASCII art. [snicker]

The death of Cliff Harrold in Zone 2 is further subject of tribute in
today's edition. Treasure your cyberfriends while they're here is the
message. We ARE a community!

There is also an update to the ARGUS info posted in 1501 and some info
from the 'new' FTSC.

C.B.

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:47:30 1998

From: Oleg Dashevskii @ 2:5000/102
To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
Date: 13 Jan 98 00:02:34
Subj: IP mailer

Hello, Christopher!

In the first FidoNews issue of 1998 (BTW, Happy New Year :) one guy
mentioned ARGUS, our russian mailer which can make FTN connections via
IP. But he probably doesn't know that Argus uses protocol named
'BINKP' which was implemented first in BinkD mailer. BinkD was
developed also in Russia, in Magadan. (it's cold there :) BinkD can
carry out FTN sessions only via IP and is available for Win95, WinNT,
OS/2 and Unix. Moreover, it is available in sources, one can compile
it for anything he wants.

Check http://www.magadan.su/~maloff/binkd

I just can add that BinkD carries 99% of our Russian bone. ;)

Have a good day, Oleg {- [Team OS/2].

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--- Following message extracted from Z1_ELECTION @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:51:08 1998

From: ANDREA SANTOS
To: ALL
Date: 18 Jan 98 03:54:56
Subj: Election Issues: Candidate Answers

Subject: Election Issues Candidate Position Summary

The following table is a summary of the election issues and the pro
and con positions candidates have towards the issues or questions
presented in the Z1_ELECTION echo.

The issues and questions were selected by going through the message
base questions posted to the candidates by various participates in the
Z1_ELECTION echo. A sampling of 19 key issues or questions were
selected.

Obviously, many issues went unanswered by the candidates. If any
candidate wishes to "fill in the blanks" for any question marked with
an ? , or clarify a "U" response, with only a Y/N answers, please go
ahead and do so. In addition, if you wish to make a position change,
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please do so as well.

Answer Legend:

Y Yes/Agrees to question/Issue
N No/Disagrees to question/Issue
U Undecided, Yes/No wasn't provided
? No answer was received

Candidate Abbreviation:

JB Jim Balcom
DC David Calafrancesco
WL Wayne DeLisle
JG John Glinski
BK Bob Kohl
ML Mike Luther
JS Jeff Smith

Election Issues Candidate Position Summary
+===================================================================+
|Questions/Issues | JB | DC | WL | JG | BK | ML | JS |
|===================================================================|
|Would you continue with other | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | N |
|FTN positions if elected ZEC? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support an echomail policy? | Y | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support a Z1 Ombudsman? | N | N | U | N | N | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Echo Appeal Court for users | N | N | N | N | N | N | N |
|abused by Moderators? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Prefer elections for echomail | Y | Y | Y | Y | N | ? | Y |
|positions versus appointments? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Experience moving large | Y | Y | Y | N | ? | N | Y |
|volumes of mail? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Have you ever been an REC? | Y | Y | N | N | Y | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Have you ever been a RC? | N | N | N | N | Y | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Should # of hats worn be | N | Y | Y | Y | ? | Y | Y |
|limited? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Any axes to grind? | Y | N | Y | N | ? | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Elimination of *EC chain? | N | N | N | N | ? | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Does Zone 1 NEED a ZEC? | Y | Y | ? | Y | Y | Y | Y |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Do you want an Assistant? | Y | U | U | N | ? | Y | ? |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support CRP BAN of Software? | Y | Y | ? | N | ? | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
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|Support CRP BAN of Sysops? | Y | Y | ? | N | ? | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Mail Tampering before export? | ? | U | ? | ? | ? | N | N |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Conflict of interest for *C, | N | U | N | Y | Y | ? | ? |
|*EC to create, operate | | | | | | | |
|distribution system? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Should *C's be involved with | ? | Y | Y | Y | ? | ? | ? |
|file distribution? | | | | | | | |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Does REC/ZEC have control over | Y | N | U | Y | ? | Y | ? |
|NEC/REC? | | | | | | | |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

Andrea Santos
Origin: Xpress Online! * 305-248-7815 (1:135/382)

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--- Following message extracted from Z1_ELECTION @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:50:41 1998

From: John Souvestre
To: All
Date: 17 Jan 98 06:47:20
Subj: Questionnaires

Hi all.

I kept a rough tally of candidate questionnaires (not individual
questions). I saw 9 posted. They were from: Gronke, Hallford,
Simmons, Mitchell, Roberts, Whitaker, Santos, Souvestre and Kershew.

Of these 9, I saw this many answered by each of the candidates:

Jim Balcom 8
David Calafrancesco 9
Wayne DeLisle Sr 4 <== Storm?
John Glinski 9
Bob Kohl 2 <==
Mike Luther 9
Jeff Smith 6

Not bad, actually. All answered 6 or more except for two candidates.
Wayne's link was down part of the time due to the storm so perhaps he
is still catching up. Bob Kohl, however, answered only 2.

Thanks to those of you who took the time to respond.

John

Origin: Southern Star - sstar.com - 504-885-5928 - (1:396/1)

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--- Following message extracted from FTSC_PUBLIC @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:52:27 1998

From: Odinn Sorensen
To: All
Date: 17 Jan 98 12:34:00
Subj: Announcement of FTSC decisions

Hello All.

Based on public input and consensus in FTSC_PUBLIC and votes among
members in FTSC, the FTSC have decided the following:

1. The numbering scheme for FTS documents will be grouped as in my
proposal a while ago, i.e. FTS-XYYY.

2. Standards that are not directly Fidonet Standards (such as msgbase
formats), will be collected and maintained by the FTSC, but with a
different prefix. This prefix is FRS (Fidonet Related Standard).

3. The prefix for both FTS and FRS proposals will be FSP (Fidonet
Standard Proposal), and proposals that don't get accepted will both
get the prefix FRL (Fidonet Reference Library).

4. The old FSC documents keep their FSC prefix and will NOT be renamed
with the FRL prefix.

5. The "Key words to indicate requirement levels" document has been
adopted as FTA-1006. The issue of whether it applies to itself has
been clarified in the revision that will be posted later.

6. The Public Domain requirement of FTA-1001 has been replaced with
the "Intellectual Property Rights" document, which has been adopted
as FTA-1007. This means that the FTSC can now accept both Public
Domain and copyrighted documents. For copyrighted documents, the
copyright holder (or a representative) must give the FTSC a license
to use, distribute and modify it. See the document for details.
This is basically the same license as that used by the IESG
(Internet Engineering Steering Group, the internet counterpart to
the FTSC) to accept documents for RFC's and STD's (RFC2026).

Odinn

--- FTSC Administrator 1.0
* Origin: http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc * e-mail: [email protected]

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ARTICLES
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--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:48:01 1998

From: Cliff Hetherington @ 2:254/60
To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
Date: 16 Jan 98 21:57:48
Subj: Cliff Harrold (again)

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* Forwarded by Cliff Hetherington (2:254/60.10)
* Area : FIDONEWS
* From : Barry Salter, 2:254/301 (12-Jan-98 03:50:11)
* To : Chris Baker
* Subj : Cliff Harrold (again)
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Hi Chris,

Here's a collection of some of the messages that have been posted in
NET254, ENET.SYSOP and REGION25 regarding the death of Cliff Harrold
(former RC 2:25). Could you please put them in the first available
issue of Fidonews?

/* (CLIFF.TXT)

= F*REGION25
============================================================Inter=
Msg : 336 [1-424]
From : DAVE CARTER 08-Jan-98 20:40:00
2:254/60
To : ALL
Subj : Cliff Harrold
========================================================F* REGION25=
* Crossposted in R25C
* Crossposted in REGION25
* Crossposted in UKEC

Folks,

I'm afraid I am the bearer of some deeply saddening news :-(

I have just learned that Cliff Harrold passed away suddenly today.

Details are sketchy at the moment, but I am in touch with his family,
and will pass on any further information if they ask me to.

At this moment in time Cliff's system is still up, and one of his sons
is familiar with the running of it - however, it would obviously be
insensitive of us to presume that the system will be left on for any
great length of time, so, as a temporary measure, Peter Burnett and I
are offering our systems as standby feeds in order to take the weight
off 2:442/403 as quickly as is practical. Peter and I carry the full
backbone, and have sufficient disk space etc to cope with any
FIDONEWS 15-03 Page 7 19 Jan 1998

additional feeds that may be requested, and I'm sure there will be
others who will step in and make a similar offer.

Dave -[ [email protected] ]-

-!- GoldED/386 3.00.Beta2+ 32UK1
- Origin: TRAK-ONE! * (2:254/60)

= F*REGION25
============================================================Inter=
Msg : 350 [1-424]
From : BILLY CONNELLY 08-Jan-98 18:39:00
2:258/1
To : ALL
Subj : Cliff Harrold
==========================================================F* REGION25=
* Crossposted in REGION25
Hi All!

I have just learned that the REC Cliff Harrold has Passed away
:-(

I have been feeding from Cliff's MNL for nearly 5 years now and I
considered him to be a very good friend. We often spoke for ages on
the phone. I am deeply shocked that this has happened. I was talking
to him only last night on the phone and everything seemed to be ok.

He will be deeply missed by many.

Cya l8tr

Billy

-!-
- Origin: Flight Of Fantasy , Glasgow (2:258/1)

= F*REGION25
============================================================Inter=
Msg : 352 [1-424]
From : KEITH WASSELL 08-Jan-98 23:25:00
2:440/1
To : ALL
Subj : Obituary - Cliff Harrold
=========================================================F* REGION25=
* Crossposted in AA_KW_PRIVATE_NETMAIL
* Crossposted in REGION25
* Crossposted in FREE25
* Crossposted in R25C
* Crossposted in UKEC
* Crossposted in ENET.SYSOP

Dear Friends & Colleagues!

It is with great sadness, and disbelief, that I have to tell you all
that Cliff Harrold, R25EC. Has passed away from our circle! 8-(
FIDONEWS 15-03 Page 8 19 Jan 1998

I only started to work with Cliff a couple of years ago. Our first
contacts were not always easy. I felt he needed to be more assertive ,
and he rose to the challenge.

My appreciation of him grew, to a good working relationship, and, over
many a silly dispute, he proved an excellent advisor, and anchor man.

He was instrumental in solving my dispute with Z2EC last year, and a
cornerstone in the foundation of Net 258.

He also worked selflessly, and enthusiastically to forward the
echomail distribution in the UK. His enthusiasm, and down to earth
approach, coupled with his willingness to go that 'extra mile' to
achieve an acceptable result to all sides will be sorely missed. His
devotion to his job was unquestionable, even in the face of a
'dwindling' fidonet. Cliff was always there in the background, making
sure things 'worked' on the echomail front.

This is the fourth sad passing of a fellow sysop I have had to
witness, and it only goes to amplify the mortality of us all.

At this time, let us not argue about silly things, over moderator
elections etc, etc. Let us all reflect on Cliff's success in fidonet!.
All that he stood for, and all that was/is good in this hobby we
share. Let us all work selflessly to put our hobby back where it
belongs in the future, not as some second class refuge to Internet.
That's what Cliff would have asked of us, were he here to say it
himself.

Lastly, when you read this message - spare a minute of silence in
respect for him! Then think where are you coming from, and going to. I
hope Cliff's last Journey from this world, will be one of
enlightenment, and fulfillment!

Success is a Journey!

it is not a quantity, you cannot measure it!

In Fidonet, Cliff achieved reasonable success!. I only hope his
successor can aspire to what he has put in place.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

Keith Wassell, R25C, and proud to have had the honour of working with
him.

-!- GoldED/386/2.42.G0615+/#0020UK1
- Origin: P C FORUM * DARTFORD, KENT, UK * +44-1322-288006 *
(2:440/1)

= F*REGION25
============================================================Inter=
Msg : 404 [1-424]
From : DAVE CARTER 11-Jan-98 03:53:00
2:254/60
To : ALL
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Subj : More info
==========================================================F* REGION25=
* Crossposted in C_NIGHTLINE
* Crossposted in R25C
* Crossposted in REGION25
* Crossposted in FREE25
* Crossposted in UKEC
* Crossposted in NET254
* Crossposted in T1-LINX

Folks,

Cliff Harrold, our friend and colleague, will be laid to rest this
coming Friday, 16th January.

The party will leave the Harrold's home a little before 1pm, to make
the 1 hour journey to the crematorium at Narberth, Carmarthenshire.

Mrs. Harrold has spoken to me regarding the suggestion that we club
together to make a collection for some flowers for Cliff's funeral.
She would prefer that we make a donation to a charity, and will let me
know over the next few days which one she would like to nominate.

I suspect that we will each be able to make a donation direct to the
charity, if we so wish, but Billy Connelly (2:258/1) has very kindly
offered to act as a collection point, for those who wish to contribute
that way. I will leave it up to Billy to post any details, and will
let you know the name of the nominated charity in due course.

Regards,

Dave

-!-
- Origin: (2:254/60)

= F*REGION25
============================================================Inter=
Msg : 417 [1-424]
From : DAVE CARTER 12-Jan-98 00:27:00
2:254/60
To : ALL
Subj : To Cliff from Woody
==========================================================F* REGION25=
* Crossposted in C_NIGHTLINE
* Crossposted in R25C
* Crossposted in REGION25
* Crossposted in FREE25
* Crossposted in UKEC
* Crossposted in ENET.SYSOP

Steve has asked that I post this in the relevant echos for him ....

* Forwarded by Dave Carter
* From : Steve Woodmore (11 Jan 98 / 20:57)
* Subj : Cliff Harrold
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Dear Fidonet Friends,
it is with a heavy heart, and a great deal of
sadness that I find myself writing this message, it is something that
I thought I would never have to do.

After being informed of the passing away this week of the REC, Cliff
Harrold, I can say that I am still in a state of shock, and I am
mourning the loss of a good friend.

I first got to know Cliff when he started running his Midnight line,
and over the years since then we became good friends.

I was very suspicious of his motives for becoming REC, and I can quite
safely say that he had proved me totally wrong, and did the job with a
vigor and dedication to an amateur hobby, that I have only ever seen a
few other people aspire to.

Cliff impressed me very much with his dedication, and after I became
Z2EC I found out just how hard he did work on behalf of fidonet.
Almost daily we would be on the phone to each other quietly behind the
scenes, sorting out feeds, broken links, and general EC problems, in
fact cliffs phone number has appeared on my bills more times than any
one else's, it wasn't because he wanted or needed help either, its
because he was dedicated, and a total perfectionist, if there was the
slightest problem, he would be there, quietly, behind the scenes
trying to sort it out for the good of the network.

What many of you will not have seen is that tireless dedication,
sometimes into the wee small hours, that lead to the prevention of
problems that many of you would not have seen, he corrected them,
sorted them out, and dealt with them whilst they where minor niggles,
and long before they became major issues.

Over the last two years, I have also become involved with Cliff, in a
few projects that were not Fidonet related, and again he impressed me
with the same dedication and helpfulness that he showed me in fidonet.

I can safely say that Cliff was the BEST, MOST DEDICATED and Caring
REC that it has been my pleasure to work with, and having met him
several times I can also safely say that he was a friend, and one of
this worlds truly "Good guys".

I shall miss his daily phone banter, I shall miss his friendship, and
Fidonet has lost one of the most dedicated people I have known.

Cliff, if somehow you could read this, then I know what you did for
fidonet, and I appreciate your efforts more than you will ever know,
if there is a heaven, I know that it will benefit from your
dedication. Goodbye matey, you will be surely missed.

-=> Steve Woodmore <=-

-!-
- Origin: (2:254/60)
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*/
Cya,

Barry Salter
Sysop, Video Vault BBS (2:254/301@fidonet)

-!- Terminate 5.00/Pro ViaMAIL! v1.30/WC
- Origin: Video Vault BBS, London, UK, +44-(0)181-884-3653
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To: Cliff Hetherington
Date: 16-Jan-98

Hello Chris,
This is the message you missed from Barry regarding my
namesake, Cliff Harrold.

Cheers,
Cliff

Written offline at 21:58 Hrs

--- Terminate 5.00/Pro*at Support FREE2000 & F.O.T.I

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ZCC-PUBLIC .. a peek in the ZC-kitchen
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2

As of today (Jan. 16, 1998) I have started to crosspost all my
messages from the ZCC-conference to a new conference entitled:

ZCC-PUBLIC

This conference will be offered free to all and available for
worldwide distribution.

Messages not originating at my keyboard are, of course, not
crossposted.

All ZC's are invited to connect to it and post their own messages in
it.

Upon request however and for their comfort I can also install a robot
to automagically take care of it.

The idea for a parallel-conference, instead of allowing link-ins to
ZCC who would be abused anyway, is Alwyn's. That way the ZC's wouldn't
be bothered by possible background-noise.

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COORDINATORS CORNER
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Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 016
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2

+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!Zone/Jul!Ndl-353!Nodel.-360!Nodel.-002!Nodel.-009!Nodel.-016!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 1/016 ! 6225 ! 6199 -26! 6199 0! 6142 -57! 6053 -89!27!
! 2/016 ! 14605 !14523 -82!14538 15!14501 -37!14439 -62!64!
! 3/009 ! 592 ! 580 -12! 580 0! 570 -10! 570 0! 3!
! 4/009 ! 434 ! 435 1! 435 0! 435 0! 425 -10! 2!
! 5/353 ! 92 ! 91 -1! 91 0! 91 0! 91 0! 0!
! 6/318 ! 1091 ! 1091 0! 1091 0! 1091 0! 1091 0! 5!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 23039 !22919 -120!22934 15!22830 -104!22669 -161!
+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+

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ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT
=================================================================

--- Following message extracted from AAOS @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:49:17 1998

From: Ed Koon
To: All
Date: 14 Jan 98 21:17:32
Subj: Telnet Accessible Fidonet BBS!

Greetings All!

Just a quick plug for my BBS!

Lost your favorite Fidonet BBS? I toss the complete Fidonet Backbone!
Access is Free! Access it from anywhere with Telnet! or Http in with
your favorite browser!

Free Instant Access! No Bothersome Call Back Verifier!

Telnet to docsplace.dyn.ml.org 10 CD Roms online too! Running
Winserver!

Enjoy! Ed Koon -=DOC=- Webmaster!

======================================================================
Cheers From The Droolers! Ed Koon -=DOC=- Sysop & General Website
Slave. Doc's Place Online. Free Adult Access. In Sunny Clearwater Fla
(USA!)
Email: [email protected] Member of COCA & Droolnin Proud Of
It!!
======================================================================
Fidonet=1:3603/140 Droolnet=85:360/50 Catnet=169:360/140 Icq=2248697
Internet Access http://docsplace.dyn.ml.org |
telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org Inbound Ftp is also avalible for Fast
File Access ftp://docsplace.dyn.ml.org
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... Doc's Place Online. telnet://docsplace.dyn.ml.org

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NOTICES
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Future History

6 Feb 1998
Waitangi Day, New Zealand.

30 Apr 1998
Queens Day, Holland.

17 May 1998
Independence Day, Norway.

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

14 Sep 1998
Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98].

22 Sep 1998
First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org.

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

24 Jul 1999
XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].

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

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

1 Jun 2000
EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.

15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.

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

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

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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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[from 1449. Ed.]
Latest Greatest Software Versions
by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264

New entry: Tornado, a BBS from Konstantin Klyagin. Welcome to the
list... ;-)

-=- 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
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Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP
ALLFIX 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX
Announcer 1.12 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO
FastEcho/16 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FEX
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD
FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES
FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD
FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO
GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED
GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
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Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL
InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386
InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO
InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO
InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB
IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET
JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV
Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY
Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386
JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H
JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G
MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL
Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE
McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL
MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP
Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP
Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD
NorthStar 3.31.29 B S A&B Darin 1:285/82 NSTAR
Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS
O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT
PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP
QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR
RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA
Searchlight 4.5 B S Paul Casey 1:343/117 DEMO450.ZIP
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
Silver Xpress
Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES
Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP
Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH
StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK
StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL
Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD
Terminate 5.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO
TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO
TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP
TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS
TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG
TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV
WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS
xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS

OS/2:
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Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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ALLFIX/2 5.00 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2
BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastEcho 1.46.1 T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST
FleetStreet 1.21 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET
FP-OS/2 97-03-21 O F Mike Bilow 323/107 FPOS2
GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO
GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN
ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP
Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP
Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF
PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE
RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2
Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
Tornado 1.50g B F Konst Klyagin 2:461/22 TORNADO2
WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE
XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2

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

Windows (32-bit apps):
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
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Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I
Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI
BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL
Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP
BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_W32
CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR
FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTW
GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO
GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM
Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXN
Msged/NT 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41W.ZIP
NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFW
PlatinumXpress 2.00 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PXW-INFO
Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT
T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAILNT
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WinFOSSIL/95 1.12 r4 F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 WNFOSSIL.ZIP
WinFOSSIL/NT 1.0 beta F S Bryan Woodruff 1:343/294 NTFOSSIL.ZIP

Unix:
Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name
----------------------------------------------------------------------
ifmail 2.12 M G Eugene Crosser 2:293/2219 IFMAIL
ifmail-tx ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX
ifmail-tx.rpm ...tx8.6 M G Pablo Saratxaga 2:293/2219 IFMAILTX.RPM
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 1.31 T X Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHMAIL
CrashTick 1.2 O F Rene Laederach 2:301/133 CRASHTICK
DLG Pro BBOS 1.15 B C Holly Sullivan 1:202/720 DLGDEMO
GMS 1.1.85 M S Mirko Viviani 2:331/213 GMS
Msged 4.00 O G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 MSGED
Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK
TrapDoor 1.86.b2 M S Maximilian Hantsch
2:310/6 TRAPDOOR
TrapToss 1.50 T S Rene Hexel 2:310/6 TRAPTOSS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

============

FidoNet:

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

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

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

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

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

Region 14: [disappeared?]

Region 15: [disappeared?]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Region 25:
http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254

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

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

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

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

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

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

Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html

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

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

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

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Zone 4: (not yet listed)

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

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

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

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

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

Editor: Christopher Baker

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

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

more addresses:
Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14, [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
[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
Copyright 1998 Christopher Baker. All rights reserved. Duplication
and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For
use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or
the Editor.

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

OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic
form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
FIDONEWS 15-03 Page 23 19 Jan 1998

back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSFnn.ZIP] 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 [8], i.e., FNWSJAN8.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 98.

Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
1 - 15 for 1984 - 1998, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in
size from 48K to 1.4M.

INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via:

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

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

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with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist

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

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You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail
by sending email to:

[email protected]

with a Subject line of: help

and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and
instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will
respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on
www.fidonews.org.

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

http://www.fidonews.org

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

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

Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
FIDONEWS 15-03 Page 24 19 Jan 1998

for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 13 Megs.

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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.

"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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