F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 13 30 March 1998

F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 13 30 March 1998
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ZCC-PUBLIC...or not?

Table of Contents

1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. COORDINATORS CORNER ...................................... 3
Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 086 ...... 3
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
Virtual Museum on the Internet ........................... 3
4. NOTICES .................................................. 4
Future History ........................................... 4
5. COLUMNS .................................................. 4
Dear Reverend Visage - The Usual Troll Stories ........... 4
6. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 5
FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 5
7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 6
FidoNet Via InterNet Hubs ................................ 7
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 9

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EDITORIAL
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As stated in the last editorial (issue 12), I advised the general
Fido population of the existance of the ZCC-PUBLIC echo.

As of several days ago, the erstwhile moderator of the echo, Ward
Dossche, Z2C, has announced that the echo is now "read only",
despite his message on 16 Jan 1998 which indicated it to be an echo
where posts could be made without allowing direct access to the
ZCC echo.

An interesting claim made is that it is 'customary' in Zone 2 to
not respond in such an echo if a mere sysop, but the FTSC-PUBLIC
echo operates in a similar manner, and no one in Zone 2 I've
observed follows such a 'custom'.

The interesting point is the interpretation of "openness".

The claim Ward makes is that he is cross-posting his own messages
into ZCC-PUBLIC as a gesture that he is 'more open' than other ZC
members...but we have no direct proof that he is posting *all* of
these.

Likewise, the posting of messages of others, albeit as a quote, does
tend to lend itself to manipulation of the actual context of the
original message...One would only have to select particular quotes to
fit one's responses, and whole new meanings could be made from the
actual statements.

As well, does such "openness" really benefit FidoNet?

Do we wish to restrain people from discussing matters in private, in
order to discover which way the sentiments go?

If we force open private echoes, is the forced opening of private
netmail far behind?

Another reason to suspect someone who claims to be working in "your
best interests"...once they start in your name, what does it take
to stop them?

If the ZCC were acting against the best interests of FidoNet, I would
expect the members to speak out against that, and go public over the
actions, but to force it open for no other reason than a self-serving
need to force issues...?

Sorry, I have trouble finding legitimacy and justification...your
mileage may vary.

In other news, a press release from the Virtual Museum finds its way
into the editor's mailbox; Ward sends in his doomsday countdown; and
Doc Logger rides again.

Also, the debate over FTS-0001 comes up again, begging the question:
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"Do we update the software protocols and eliminate non-DOS/non-OS/2
nodes, or do we let those running FTS-0001 only remain in Fido and
hold us back from our hope and glory?"

Your comments, as always, are invited.

-zf-

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COORDINATORS CORNER
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Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 086
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2

+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
!Zone/Jul!Ndl-058!Nodel.-065!Nodel.-072!Nodel.-079!Nodel.-086!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 1/086 ! 5781 ! 5667 -114! 5620 -47! 5578 -42! 5512 -66!25!
! 2/086 ! 14274 !14327 53!14066 -261!14219 153!14215 -4!66!
! 3/079 ! 550 ! 528 -22! 526 -2! 523 -3! 520 -3! 2!
! 4/079 ! 403 ! 402 -1! 402 0! 401 -1! 400 -1! 2!
! 5/037 ! 87 ! 87 0! 87 0! 87 0! 87 0! 0!
! 6/058 ! 319 ! 934 615! 934 0! 934 0! 934 0! 4!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 21414 !21945 531!21635 -310!21742 107!21668 -74!
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ARTICLES
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Virtual Museums on the Internet

March 1998
Salzburg, May 8-10, 1998

A Symposium organised by the ARCH Foundation
in collaboration with
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, (United States)
The ZKM - Center for Art and Mediatechnology, (Germany)
Illuminations, (Great Britain)
The Universtiy of Applied Arts (Austria) and Techno-Z (Austria).

The proposed symposium on virtual museums is aiming to define
the dimensions of new a museum space which has no real world
manifestation. These definitions will form the core of the ARCH
Virtual Museum, within which all appropriate artworks dedicated
to STATE OF THE ART project can be experienced.

The ARCH Foundation's mission is to communicate an awareness
initiative for the preservation of the world's cultural
heritage through the intervention of contemporary artists.

ARCH is trying to define how artworks created through the use of
new media can become an important and effective communicator of
the intrinsic value of cultural heritage. New forms of creative
interactive dialogue and visual interpretation using ever evolving
technology offer a provocative dimension to artistic expression.
We hope that the challenge of multiple contexts will generate
results that will stir the artistic community, as well as
stimulate participation of a new audience into communities
of interest. We want to put people in front of cultural heritage,
and to bring the values it symbolizes to life.

The speakers of this symposium are :

James Boyle, Prof. of Law at American University, Washington (US)
Peter A. Bruck, Managing Director, Techno-Z R&D (Austria)
Graham Defries, Attorney, Bird & Bird, London (UK)
Matthew Drutt, Associate Curator for Research,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (US)
Volker Grassmuck, Sociologist (Germany)
John Handardt, Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (US)
Lynn Hershman Leeson,Media Artist and Professor for
"Electronic Art" at the University of California, Davis (US)
Tom Krens, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (US)
Michael Naimark,Artist, Interval Research Corporation, Palo Alto (US)
Hans Peter Schwarz, Director ZKM, Media Museum (Germany)
Jeffrey Shaw, Director, ZKM, Institute for Visual Media (Germany)
Charles Symonyi, Chief Architect, Microsoft Cooperation (US)
Peter Weibel,Media Artist and Curator (Austria)
John Wyver, Chairman, Illuminations (UK)

...and the list is not closed yet

A little background information :

The ARCH Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 1991 by
Francesca von Habsburg and its international headquarters are
located in Salzburg, Austria. The foundation dedicates itself to the
preservation and restoration of cultural heritage. Its focus was to
promote and restore cultural heritage from Central and Eastern
European countries. ARCH's latest project is a global awareness
campaign which seeks to generate support for global cultural
conservation.

ARCH has turned to the medium of new media art, and has begun asking
the most influential as well as emerging artists to articulate this
mission so as to engage a young and captive audience to this cause.
Our aim is to combine the future with our past in a compelling and
imaginative way.

Titled STATE OF THE ART, the project was inaugurated in Salzburg in
the summer of 1997 to great critical acclaim. Each of the
participating artists have dedicated works of art corresponding to
chosen restoration sites. As a first step, both the artworks and
panoramic photographs of the sites themselves were then mounted onto
larger than life size projections onto the famous M�nchsberg rock
in the center of Salzburg. The sensational projections were
approximately 8000m^2 in size and were projected from an impressive
Communications Tower. The problem on how to store these "light
sculptures" and to exhibit them in the alternative world of
cyberspace in an innovative way was the initiating spark behind this
symposium. Being experts in conservation rather than in new media,
we seek to define, with the help of international experts, how the
combination of man's greatest achievements of the past can be
brought successfully into the future and be experienced under new
and exciting conditions and environments.

In concordance with the foundation's motto: "Engaging the past into
the present is synonymous with participating in the future."

ARCH will be inaugurating this summer in Salzburg, a Communications
Center with its own New Media exhibition space, as well as
"The Station", an artist-in-residence studio.

For more information about the ARCH Foundation, STATE OF THE ART
and the "Virtual Museums Symposium", check our homepage at :

http://www.arch.at

or contact :

Pierre Collet - Executive Director
Verein ARCH Foundation - Gst�ttengasse 29 - A-5020 Salzburg
TEL: +43 662 84 26 16 0 - FAX: +43 662 84 26 15
e-mail: [email protected]

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NOTICES
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Future History

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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COLUMNS
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Dear Reverend Visage - The Usual Troll Stories

This article is submitted by Doc Logger(163/110) who, thanks
to the miracle of nodelist transformations, no longer
requires adult supervision to submit articles under his own
name.

Roll da flic, Zorch....

Dear Reverend Visage,

I don't think I have to tell you that the editors of Swamp
Swine magazine were a little testy when they phoned to
protest the latest petty cash vouchers that you submitted.
To silence them, I passed the receipts on to Zorch, although
I'm not sure that he'll understand that you needed to book
400 hours of camera time on the Hubble Space Telescope in an
attempt to find the Z1C, Bob Satti. Lisa Gronke, Fidonet
Minister of Antiquities, was inquiring as to your
whereabouts and we can only hope it wasn't because she
discovered *those* photos that were taken when we interned
at the White House. (I think the best defense here is to go
with total denial and claim that the huge tubs of Mazola and
the walrus were just a science project. Can you get Vernon
to back us up on this so we don't have to spend the rest of
our lives as the Revlon cover-girls?)

I know that you'd rather have root canal surgery than hear
anything about Echopol, but you truly would admire the fact
that no one seems to be answering my plaintive bleats about
which problems need to be fixed that would require any more
policy. The cognitive leap seems like a group of people
announcing that they will have a Woolly Mastodon in their
kitchens and then launching into debates about which colour
to paint the beast - neatly ignoring the first question
which ought to be why they need or desire a Mastodon in the
first place. Bob Kohl has stomped his hindpaw and tried to
tell a succession of sysops that they are "off topic" for
asking important questions. Even more interesting is that
David Hallford who has said goodbye in the last two Snoozs
failed to note that he was leaving because of his disgust
with Bob Kohl R10C. (Hallford was the R10EC) Even more
interesting is that Kohl appointed our beloved Snoozlord,
Zorch as the new R10EC.

All the signs are pointing towards the assumption that Ward
Dossche is our kind of guy. At least that is a fair guess
based on the quality of his detractors. The ZCC-PUBLIC echo
is rather infested with trophalactic wheazers so it is hard
to decipher the significant issues. What is worth more than
a few giggles is that Mr. Dwight is one of Ward's most
vociferous critics. Given Mr Dwight's history as the Z2C
elflord, I'd think that Ward is thanking his favourite deity
that Mr. Dwight is on the opposing team. Even Zorch was
<nudge><nudge<wink><winking> with reference to Ward in his
editorial about "learning from history" and I don't think he
was talking about abolition of dwarf tossing in France. If I
wasn't so gosh darned obtuse, I'd guess that Zorch's
reference was meant to evoke an unkind comparison to a 40's
European politician. Mercifully, such tawdry
characterizations are beneath Zorch so he must have been
talking about something else.

For this week's Chautauqua I would like to discuss
Puritanism which is particularly germane given that one of
the topics being discussed in the FIDOECHOPOL conference is
whether mail transit nodes can censor by subject matter.

The working definition of a Puritan is: one who is possessed
by a profound fear that somewhere, somehow, someone else is
having fun.

Bertrand Russell said in "The Recrudescence of Puritanism"

"My point is that pleasures which remain possible after the
Puritan has done his utmost are more harmful than those that
he condemns. Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest
pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying
themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power.
Consequently those who live under the domination of
Puritanism become exceeding desirous of power. Now love of
power does more harm than love of drink or any of the other
vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous
people love of power camouflages itself as a love of doing
good, but this makes very little difference to its social
effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for
being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either
case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of
the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as
it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who
control propaganda."

When I first read the essay I found myself in the
paradoxical position of being "morally indignant" at
censorship which puts my motives into the sinister category,
while on the other hand, agreeing with Russell that
Puritanism as a placebo for virtue is really vice in search
of an excuse, which puts me on the side of the angels. In
the case of Fidoland, the paradox asserts itself in the form
where I believe that *ECs have no right to control echomail
content, balanced against some *EC's desire not to involve
themselves in the propagation of mail they would find
repugnant.

I think the resolution of the paradox would reside in the
ability of sysops to choose from a variety of mail sources,
just as radio listeners can choose from several channels and
avoid Howard Stern if they are inclined to be offended. In
the ideal case, the recipient of the echomail makes a form
of compact with the mail delivery sysop. If there are
content restrictions applied by the delivering node, then
the recipient should be able to find an alternative feed.

In a rigidly defined echomail system with hierarchies of
mail topographies, the opportunity for a balancing of sysop
desires versus *EC morality has no mechanism for resolution.
Either the sysops will assert and prevail in the opinion
that they can make their own decisions about what is virtue
and what is vice, or, the *ECs subjugate the desires of
sysops and impose *their* morality.

Naturally, I am much happier in a world where I make my own
choices about what will offend me, and where the Puritanism
of others is given no means to control my choices. Even if
the Puritans prevail, I will always know that I am having
more fun than they are and the very least I can do is let
them know this. They will suffer horribly from this
knowledge and hopefully take Pyrrhic comfort from the
aphorism that virtue is its own reward. I hope they choke on
it.

I must go Visage, your secretary's behaviour is getting out
of hand. She keeps swooning about Leonardo DeCaprio whose
appearance in the movie "Titanic" she has seen 567 times.
I'm the only one in the universe who hasn't seen the movie
yet. Quite frankly, if I'd wanted to watch a large, costly
enterprise, sink slowly into the slime I'd have gone to the
last Republican National Convention.

Regards,
Doc Logger
Furlang Island,
South Pacific

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

NOTE: I am looking for a comprehensive list of Telnet, VMODEM, BinkP,
Argus and other TCP/IP based nodes operating FidoNet on the
InterNet, either by Zone or worldwide, to post here as well.
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FidoNet:

Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
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 [TFN]
General Info http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html

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

Region 14:

Region 15:

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://techstop.pdn.net/fido/

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

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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)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

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

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

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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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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Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
FIDONEWS 15-13 Page 11 30 Mar 1998

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

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There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
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