F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 20 18 May 1998

F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 20 18 May 1998
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Always Check Your Premises Before...

Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
FidoNet European Convention .............................. 3
BURY THE DEAD PLEASE *C's! ............................... 6
3. COLUMNS .................................................. 20
Cabbages and Kings ....................................... 20
4. NOTICES .................................................. 22
Future History ........................................... 22
5. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 23
FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 23
6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 24
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 26
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 1 18 May 1998

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EDITORIAL
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I had hoped to present an interview with a fellow FidoNet sysop for
this issue, but the meeting didn't quite turn out as anticipated.
The notes I did gather were not sufficient to really turn the meeting
into an interview, so instead we simply enjoyed a break in the bad
weather plaguing the western coast of Zone 1.

And I heartily recommend St. Stan's brewpub in Modesto, California,
the home of Net 208...on a Sunday afternoon, it is quiet, relaxing
and home to some good quality microbrewery production.

One point in particular was a current issue over privacy in FidoNet;
it would seem that many have the idea that you "must" have something
"to hide" if you use encryption in netmail.

Few seem willing to understand that encryption is a part of your life
everyday...credit cards, account numbers, personal identification...
and that the personal use of encryption merely enhances the security
of keeping that information confidential.

There are many in Zone 2 who can also testify on the usefulness of
personal encryption in getting and keeping free minds and spirits.

With that, a message of interest was submitted by a sysop in the
"Zone 7" area as to the view of FidoNet from within the confines of
the former "Iron Curtain" countries. I hope to see this, as well as
more news of the rest of FidoNet.

One thing that I have noted in several past issues is a call for
articles and submissions from other Zones for publication here...and
with very mixed results.

I do note several Regions have opted to translate issues in the
language of the Region...but it helps more to actually _have_ the
information to share with others, so it can be published at large to
all of FidoNet. Just because it is an event in your area does not
mean that no one else is interested.

As an example, the FidoNet European convention information is posted
in this issue as an example of what can be presented here...

And yet...no one on the convention committee posted a copy to the
FidoNews for announcement by press time, not even the press agent.

This is _your_ FidoNews, this is _your_ FidoNet...if you don't use
it, who will?

In other news, RanD posts another informational tidbit on the lack
of correct information in the Nodelist...which does have a point,
even if it does annoy people.

Doc Logger returns, of course, and looks to be seeing the light a
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 2 18 May 1998

bit at a time...or, at least, getting close enough to see it is a
light after all.

And the fun begins in FidoNet once again...

-zf-

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ARTICLES
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FidoNet European Convention

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------- FIDONET'S EUROPEAN CONVENTION 1998 -------
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----------------- THE EUROCON '98 ----------------
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- The Place to Be -
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The 1998 EuroCon takes place in Koenigsbrunn, close to AUGSBURG,
BAVARIA, GERMANY from 3/7/98 to 5/7/98.

We have rented the whole HOTEL ZELLER, which is the premier hotel
around. It's ballroom is cool enough for us, it also features
three ISDN-ports for the final techno geeks who want to show
something off...

Parking is free, the bar will be open as long as anyone can stand.

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- Speakers & Sponsors -
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We are still looking for speakers for ANY topic, sex-related
themes excluded (sorry, folx, there are kids.. :-) ).
We are also still grateful for anyone who wants to sponsor or
donate any giveaway for the big tombola Saturday evening.

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- Organizing Committee -
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Master of Disaster: Klaus D. Bader 2:2480/141 or 2:2/1998
Webmaster: Werner Ammon 2:2480/92
Critic: Franz Scherer 2:2480/73
Mistress of Kitchen: Sabina Scherer 2:2480/73
Press: Stefan Trinkwalder 2:2480/100
Graphix: Stefan Hoffmann 2:2480/86

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- Prices and Payment -
----------------------

All prices are in DEM (German Marks)
All prices are for one person

Please do register prior to June 5th.
Late registration _can_ carry an
additional late-reg-fee of 50 DM.
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 4 18 May 1998

Payment is expected shortly after
reception of the registration form.

Please do only pay by bank transferral
to the bank account mentioned below.

Rooms will be given away at a first-come-first-served basis as we do
only have a limited number of triple-bed-rooms and also (naturally)
only a limited number of rooms altogether.

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- Accompanying Person's Program -
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There will be an accompanying person's program for those who want
to be there, but do not take a bigger interest in the sessions.

We will organize some interesting activities, esp. for Saturday
(shopping, visit of Augsburg etc.)

Please register with the form above and indicate the person
you are accompanying. We offer a reduction of 60,- DM to
accompanying persons!

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- Kids -
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We will also try to organize some activities for the kids,
especially some SONY-games.

Please ask for our special kids-conference-prices as we try to
organize special arrangements for families.

Standard arrangements can be seen from the regform which follows:

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EuroCon '98 Registration Form

>PLEASE REGISTER BY DIRECT NETMAIL TO
>Klaus D. Bader 2:2480/88 (ISDN) OR 2:2/1998

You will receive a routed netmail to validate your registration
and another netmail to confirm reception of your money.

Name: __________________________________________________
Fido address: __________________________________________________
e-mail address: __________________________________________________
Voice phone: __________________________________________________

Size for T-Shirt: [ ] L [ ] XL [ ] XXL
(specific sizes are NOT guaranteed!)

I will arrive by [ ] car
[ ] train (AUGSBURG HBF)
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 5 18 May 1998

arrival time & date:_________________

from: _______________________________

[ ] plane (MUC)
arrival date & time: ________________

flightno: ___________________________

PLEASE NOTE: If you share your room with other people,
the others have to register, too!

Payment by: [ ] national money order (Ueberweisung)
Bank: Raiffeisenbank Augsburg
BLZ: 720 601 00
Konto: 78 (kein Tippfehler, ist wirklich so kurz)
Inhaber: Klaus D. Bader / KOALA e.V.

[ ] SWIFT money order (please add 5,- DM)
SWIFT: GENO DE FF 701 Acc.No. 2100
Bank: Raiffeisenbank Augsburg
Account: 78
Address: Klaus D. Bader / KOALA e.V.

[ ] EuroCheque
(foreign currencies please add 10,- DM)
Sent to and
payable to: Klaus D. Bader
c/o KOALA e.V.
Karwendelstr. 11
D-86343 Koenigsbrunn
Germany

Registration packets: (please do only quote the part you need)

Full-Blown Packet (Fri afternoon - Sun noon)
-----------------
[ ] NO ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee,
Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 150,- DM

[ ] Single room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee,
Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 320,- DM

[ ] Double room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee,
Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 280,- DM

Please indicate the person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________

[ ] Triple room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee,
Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 255,- DM

Please indicate the 1st person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 6 18 May 1998

Please indicate the 2nd person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________

Semi-Cool (Saturday morning to Sunday noon)
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[ ] NO ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee,
Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 125,- DM

[ ] Single room, 1 night, breakfast, convention fee,
Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 210,- DM

[ ] Double room, 1 night, breakfast, convention fee,
Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 190,- DM

Please indicate the person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________

[ ] Triple room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee,
Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 175,- DM

Please indicate the 1st person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________

Please indicate the 2nd person you want to share your room with:

_______________________________________________________

Essential (Saturday only)
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[ ] No ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee,
Sat lunch & dinner 100,- DM

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BURY THE DEAD PLEASE *C's! The stench in Fidonet is bad enought!
by RanD, 1:141/1030

The following nodes have been marked down for at least the
following nodelists; nodelist.121, nodelist.128 and nodelist.135.
Do you think that our illustrious and glorious *C structure could
find the time to do the job they were appointed to do and cull
the dead wood into either HOLD piles or failing that perform the
ultimate aztec sacrifice and exorcise them from the nodelist. I
mean, gimme a break, we mark unpublished nodes as down? Private
is already not reachable by the fidonet grunt sysop. These
granite tombstone markers etched with the names and nodes of
sysops who have fallen in the holy war on the internet deserved
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 7 18 May 1998

an appropriate interment. Are the unpublised ones the tomb of
the unknown sysops? These 678 nodes are either gone or on hold.
What the *C structure doesn't want to admit, is that their
administrative-node-to-grunt-syso-node ratio is soaring as they
shore up the nodelist with the dead bodies of former nodes.
Fidonet is dying. The *C's should have a heart and bury the
bodies as P4 says to, mainly 2 weeks after they are marked down.
They need to stop the pattern of self delusion that the nodelist
is still big and that one day, like the prodigal child, sysops
will return home to the nodelist. Dozens of these nodes have
been marked down for many months and a few for years!

102 -=[ Mega BBS #2 ]=- -Unpublished-
25 Megatronics BBS -Unpublished-
28 GrindStone Online Distribuion -Unpublished-
3 Stray Cat -Unpublished-
32 Scout's Honour BBS -Unpublished-
343 The Bird's Nest -Unpublished-
611 Mumbo Jumbo Line I -Unpublished-
740 Mayday Software -Unpublished-
77 Muse Studio BBS -Unpublished-
7777MTB [Down:05-04-98] -Unpublished-
970 Give and Take BBS 1-215-467-1398
201 Bob's Bored BBS 1-215-788-8459
16 Politzania 1-217-359-1081
29 Quest 1-217-875-3259
2000The Jupiter Project 1-219-936-3146
4231The Galactic WarZone BBS 1-281-498-4231
317 AdventureQuest V - The Tower 1-303-280-0205
345 The What Up BBS 1-303-371-3335
286 FISBBS 1-303-429-3513
356 Trantor BBS 1-303-670-7947
605 MICAP(sm) Network 1-303-762-7852
792 Practically Pointless 1-303-838-4681
27 Blue Powder BBS 1-304-727-6733
641 The I.B.S.A. BBS 1-310-204-4205
2 SoCalNet EC 1-310-553-6379
611 Spec-Com 1-319-583-6462
545 MID-NITE REQUESTS BBS 1-319-752-1189
505 SVBBSystem II 1-330-545-0093
90 Brink of Reality 1-352-375-6035
1994Paradise Island 1-352-726-7681
196 Dreadnaught BBS 1-360-891-6756
1023Eric's 1-401-434-6658
1025Dark Empire 1-401-785-2144
25 Southeast CC 1-402-223-2889
2 Paradise Xpress 1-402-228-7392
64 Sky Realm's BBS 1-402-291-1023
22 Wayne State College 1-402-375-7564
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16 The Peed BBS 1-402-477-2587
23 Columbus CC 1-402-564-3913
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 8 18 May 1998

24 Northeast CC 1-402-644-0685
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628 The CopShop 1-410-833-8933
314 AWEsome bbs 1-412-734-2129
313 Basement Records BBS 1-412-795-8523
475 Nightingale BBS 1-415-292-7314
1010The Warriors BBS 1-416-491-4969
106 Night BBS 1-418-839-4666
101 SpellBound 1-502-935-3600
180 Louisville Hot House 1-502-969-3806
208 Oregon Trails BBS 1-503-655-4645
108 The LHC BBS 1-509-663-1814
69 Drivel Head BBS 1-512-939-9535
4 After Hour Computer Shop BBS 1-512-993-0763
1 The SeaHorse BBS 1-512-994-9643
140 Blue Moon BBS 1-514-723-3218
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56 The OWM Jefferson City Node 1-573-634-0393
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56 AZ MAC UG 1-602-553-0749
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323 The Black Stallion BBS 1-602-834-6550
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47 Land Of Nomad 1-602-936-5587
503 INFO Zone 1-602-937-7780
491 The Blue Room 1-602-938-4277
253 The DESERT BBS 1-602-942-1584
27 The Tiger's Den 1-602-992-9879
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4070Black Hole BBS 1-612-444-6698
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800 Rogers' BBS! 1-614-274-8556
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10 Leisure Time 1-618-397-5825
1511Chem-tronics Computer Club BBS 1-619-258-5286
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 9 18 May 1998

314 Pea's Keep 1-619-291-6746
1630Tierra-Miga 1-619-292-0712
354 OS/2 Connection 1-619-549-4215
1513Buck's Place BBS 1-619-579-8526
112 The Hobby Shop 1-619-596-0821
1631Quantum Interactive Online 1-619-689-0177
902 The Library BBS 1-626-914-0221
222 The Board 1-702-399-6375
310 Underdark BBS 1-704-279-8402
402 Spirit BBS 1-704-297-5973
108 G-2 1-704-324-6164
11 Global Access BBS 1-704-334-9030
48 Shadow Graphics 1-704-532-8392
605 Basement BBS 1-704-628-9908
309 Batcave BBS 1-704-633-9705
114 The Holler BBS 1-704-688-2472
402 Single Modem Line 1-704-788-2929
1200STANLY COUNTY HUB 1-704-982-9223
1201King's Dominion 1-704-982-9223
30 Mostly Country 1-705-253-3120
906 Keymaster's Inferno 1-706-866-6927
7 Covenant Keeper BBS 1-707-987-3022
690 Red Jacket School 1-716-289-3926
150 T. A. B. B. S. 1-716-837-6050
712 Blue Light Special 1-717-957-9230
9 Modems Delight Node 1 1-719-547-0604
237 Vector Time Point BBS 1-719-599-9533
6001Hub 600 EchoMail Coordinator 1-732-324-2617
677 The Nut House 1-732-324-2617
636 Dark Waters 1-732-603-7947
120 The Maven's Roost 1-732-940-8810
15 Utopia's Cookie Jar 1-765-548-0534
50 The Fast Lane BBS 1-765-664-2043
215 Freedom's Choice:CBCS/VETLink #181-781-593-2605
619 The Village BBS 1-802-223-0866
1019The Grinder 1-805-527-1830
1008MODEM ONE BBS 1-805-582-1534
220 Computer God!!! 1-805-946-9832
19 The HamShack BBS 1-816-796-6695
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33 The Extravaganza BBS 1-864-322-8767
72 Quick's Room 1-901-360-0317
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27 The GrindStone BBS Node 1 1-904-734-2916
140 The Game Room 1-904-778-3760
4 CD Mania 1-904-789-4786
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17 The Night Owl BBS 1-904-789-8452
209 The Psycho BBS 1-905-527-2057
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108 The HOLO-DECK BBS 1-905-575-9826
614 Compro Systems 1-905-987-3777
7 Freedom of Speech 1-910-691-1121
11 Information Plus 1-910-852-8664
80 Emerald BBS 1-913-776-7359
49 Holiday BBS 1-916-921-9949
515 Encounters BBS 1-920-469-2663
645 Eagles Nest 1-920-729-1157
623 Joe's Place 1-920-734-7144
655 Future Generation 1-920-739-8242
640 Midnight Oil 1-920-832-0686
43 GhostComm BBS 30-31-812104
3 Surfer 30-623-42406
209 EDC 31-10-4184257
309 WestPoint II 31-10-4382548
707 Eddy's Postorder VOF 31-181-327172
451 Gunbiker 31-24-6415029
61 Commodore BBS 31-252-621144
807 THESMI BBS 31-255-516133
163 HCC Forth BBS 31-26-4422164
703 Elcom HUB West II 31-30-2801586
616 End Of Line 31-318-430201
458 Elusive Dream BBS 31-38-3868264
724 ToFra Software BBS 31-475-537027
100 ProgrammaTel 31-512-541943
317 Medusa 31-53-4313082
459 Dragon Lore BBS 31-570-650712
611 EarthQuake BBS 31-79-3290568
634 FibreBridge Services 31-79-3427732
504 CompuMed-BBS *1* 32-3-2395386
2237Musique BBS 32-4-2264949
3221Cryo BBS 32-71-812290
1928Apocalyps 32-9-2322794
9928Apocalyps ISDN 32-9-2324209
16 SGS-THOMSON Micros 33-442291416
22 D.I.E ISDN 33-493122093
21 D.I.E 33-493122155
31 LiM BBX 34-942-542496
5 Irakasle BBS 34-943-714063
9 Deusto BBS 34-944-130397
12 Euskal Amiga 34-944-219718
17 TopSexcret BBX 34-944-316179
21 Quasar 34-948-162628
18 32 Bits BBS 34-965251953
18 Music 351-1-4537461
15 Skylab 351-1-7210045
1100Quark 2 351-1-7510365
31 Circuits 351-1-7579742
17 High Flight 351-2-5511509
19 Ants'Nest 351-39-20203
50 Praxis 351-39-33685
12 Cyber Dreams 351-53-215214
19 WannaBee 351-53-514495
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51 Old Timer 351-56-7580162
780 HOOVER 358-6-8314347
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21 Nus+ 359-2-518306
34 PolyNet 359-52-889421
90 More BBS 371-2573108
26 Rusty Bolt 371-7248115
888 Bane Mailer 372-2479764
777 Crazy BBS 372-6325552
44 Humpy 380-322-426090
73 LLM 380-322-646978
93 Studio Leva's BBS 380-322-729268
63 Integral&Servis 380-322-742459
2 VT Station 380-36-2279797
14 Sail BBS 380-38-22-22222
13 Renesance Station 380-38-22-65762
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1 muppet show bbs 380-4337-26122
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243 DrugMan Station 380-44-2432438
43 Dangerous Man bMG 380-44-2454878
111 Trodat Soft 380-44-2455832
1024TechnoDaemon's Station 380-44-2634108
110 Inominatus SyStem 380-44-2778072
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7 Future Crew 380-4463-66369
2 Tesseract Corner 380-482-280408
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48 First Angle 380-482-474592
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178 Kentaur 2 381-81-44675
109 BUG BBS 385-1-301897
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609 ValMedical 39-571-242193
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113 Eclipse 39-574-21882
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116 EUROBBS 39-574-950189
119 PAN 39-575-24676
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332 Mimac 3 SBDI 39-6-35403152
321 Argo 39-6-5191770
358 PNRA Link 39-6-5826841
359 HELL 39-6-6664270
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394 RomAmigA 39-6-86899687
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121 Thunder Box 2 41-91-6001222
242 RM II 420-19-224887
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34 ELO Computers 420-616-25765
72 Villa BBS system 420-634-330583
61 Jezek BBS 420-66-32659
800 The Home of the Lost Clusters 43-1-257377040
114 Amiga LIVE! BBS 43-1-3680102
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118 the newsroom bbs 43-1-4852575
9 Teddy-Bear-BBS 43-1-5261051
510 VIS 43-1-5815160
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1001His Master's Voice V [OS/2] 43-1-600993333
107 UNITED NETWORKS 43-1-6044469
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64 Duval City BBS 44-1482-449343
26 These Days 44-1482-573617
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88 Unicorn 44-1482-790496
69 Techno Nites 44-1482-812017
191 The Empty Slot BBS 44-161-281-2856
600 Scorpion Mail Server [Line 2] 44-171-278-1146
129 The Plymouth Area BBS 44-1752-252366
403 The Bad Lands 44-1968-679725
27 CyberCom BBS 45-38111545
30 The Total Perspective Vortex 45-63120200
51 BC-Soft BBS 45-65312764
205 TopGun BBS 45-75-143370
173 No Limit BBS 45-8618-9992
99 View of Darkness 45-8628-6626
262 Jutlandia BBS 45-8637-6550
60 Pertos Asshole Amiga-PC BBS#1 45-87-340480
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222 Digisoft BBS 46-11-187217
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130 HAL9000 node 3 46-18-501352
124 HAL9000 node 1 46-18-504865
160 The Golder Beer Inn BBS 46-19-127909
152 Looser Inn 46-19-187403
156 Malfunction 46-19-240285
155 Tuben BBS 46-19-291011
163 THA HiDEOUT 46-19-6112313
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202 Eriksson's Bbs #4 46-270-427324
265 Eriksson's Bbs #3 46-270-428055
138 TFO 46-40-407284
622 Cold Beer 46-44-126995
629 C.O.O.L 46-44-129070
624 Newmill BBS 46-44-217217
623 Incertus BBS 46-44-229190
621 Absolut BBS 46-44-247248
220 Vasterviks Gymnasium 46-490-88280
643 Shadow Zone BBS 46-54-568007
625 Decades 46-54-831561
617 PC Station 46-552-10427
159 Midnight Sun 46-581-14451
141 Zenith BBS 46-581-30496
620 T.L.L 46-8-324685
449 Xanadu BBS 46-8-918390
508 ELINGE BBS 46-90-138440
516 The CrossWay BBS 46-90-50083
501 Datafiluren 46-930-20911
33 The StarWars BBS [24h] 48-119-46207
52 JR-Mail BBS [2300-0700] 48-22-408770
85 TeRRoRGaRDeN inbound gateway 48-22-6228552
80 TeRRoRGaRDeN 48-22-6485588
105 xAB.oRG [24h] 48-22-6596183
43 The Fanatic BBS [DCF77] 48-22-8261983
39 Alien BBS [24h] 48-54-312977
54 CountDown MO Node [ZMH] 48-91-4357145
50 FX20 BBS [2200-0700] 48-91-4357892
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1081STARBASE 108-1 49-201-413095
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2001KAMPUS ISDN 49-203-752080
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310 WARLORD'S BATTLEFIELD 1 49-2052-961023
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428 Domingo 49-209-375522
770 Pascal Server 49-2151-933220
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1009FireworkerS BBS 49-228-697403
406 CHRONOLOGIE 49-231-525775
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1640Byte-Line 1 49-2325-988950
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416 WINNI 49-2331-65829
450 Cygnus 49-2335-974929
325 Animal Mothers's Home 49-234-680844
628 Souvenir BBS 49-234-9620347
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50 Higli-Box 49-261-9422648
92 Freiheit 49-2632-953414
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311 Imperium BBS 49-2821-74658
402 Thing ISDNServer 49-30-46404273
401 Thing BBS & UUCP 49-30-4642166
7301ESA-BOX 49-3691-29930
7304ESA-BOX 49-3691-743000
7302ESA-BOX ISDN 49-3691-743001
7305ESA-BOX 49-3691-743001
7303ESA-BOX ISDN 49-3691-743002
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5130Vogtland I 49-37421-28611
5131Vogtland II 49-37421-28612
9031Strela-Box-ISDN 49-3831-310307
9030Strela-Box 49-3831-390560
9050Ingo's Box 49-38326-65885
9040Oliver's Box 49-38326-65889
9070KIDS-21 49-3981-24750
5781TIGER-BBS #2 49-40-366013
5462Campe Box 49-4154-841648
4018Fun & Pleasure 49-4191-959827
2001on the other line ISDN 49-441-940083
2090The Drugstore 49-4421-998393
2091The Drugstore 49-4421-998394
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32 DatenBahn BBS 49-5085-6116
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306 DiGiTaL NiGHTMARE VI 49-5121-157108
305 DiGiTaL NiGHTMARE V 49-5121-157636
330 Trick or Treat BBS 49-5121-33919
840 PC-ONLiNE Network WHQ 49-5201-849885
870 XTC Line I 49-5231-592758
219 SpieleKiste BBS 49-551-43753
305 M.B.N.I. ComputerSystems II (V34)49-6102-59348
304 M.B.N.I. ComputerSystems I (ISDN)49-6102-756493
1369Die Siedlung im Wald 49-6103-947090
1542AERO Flightpoint BBS 49-6196-28534
6628Elektronet HQ 49-6301-33578
231 Chako's BBS II 49-6441-97161
213 Chako's BBS 49-6441-97162
323 GiGa-BaSe Line 1 49-651-80814
317 Grave BBS 28.8 49-651-96260
316 Grave BBS iSDN 49-651-96261
324 GiGa-BaSe Line 2 49-651-9980267
365 Andi's Inn 49-6591-985045
375 Waldy's Datenwueste 49-6599-961039
1280GAGERN BOX 49-69-21237788
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1824Camelot OS/2 49-7033-537838
205 AFU-BOX 49-7131-507456
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1817InfoPool Stuttgart (IPS) 49-7152-997497
1420Oppelsbohmer Dorfbox #2 49-7181-972802
9092[ UNITY III ISDN ] 49-7392-911051
9093[ UNITY IV ISDN ] 49-7392-911052
9090[ UNITY I V.34 ] 49-7392-912213
9091[ UNITY II V.34 ] 49-7392-912214
8211Jeronymo Port 2 49-7424-5461
8230EFFATAH 49-7461-8102
8060Little-FHF 49-7723-50032
3730Little Black Box 1 ISDN 49-8191-971000
3731Little Black Box 2 49-8191-971001
24 crazy 0815 49-8231-91230
1503RA Support 3 Analog 49-911-9975810
1501RA Support 1 ISDN 49-911-9975813
1502RA Support 2 ISDN 49-911-9975814
1970Predator BBS 1 49-9131-710177
1971Predator BBS 2 49-9131-710178
1511ComDas BBS 2 ISDN 49-9132-798064
1510ComDas BBS 1 Analog 49-9132-798065
4002CCB e.V. II 49-921-39814
3333Schweinestall/2 49-9403-7238
315 Free Support-System 49-9405-961022
8005ELECTRIX-SUPPORT BOX 49-9824-93100
2 MegaLink 52-14-16-3194
11 Mercurio BBS 52-28-40-1412
10 Canal-PC 52-29-35-4737
4 Soft Code BBS 52-3-647-5621
5 CARRIER BBS 52-3-679-2017
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172 Giudice BBS 55-11-843-0336
56 JM BBS 55-21-264-4923
15 BIOHARDWARE 55-21-267-6944
86 WU! BBS 55-21-286-9743
48 Toca da Raposa 55-21-322-0572
22 ASMail 55-21-372-1385
84 SESP-BBS 55-21-396-7371
52 Undercover BBS 55-21-431-2158
13 Junt Software BBS 55-21-551-7136
72 Scorpion BBS 55-21-552-9478
89 Shout BOARD 55-21-553-8793
92 Techno File Cartel 55-21-571-4752
50 Campos Network 55-247-22-5664
15 Jason Lives BBS 55-41-24-2155
20 Premium BBS 55-41-253-3553
4 Red Baron BBS 55-41-254-4907
7 SnR BBS 55-51-342-7106
404 NetServ 55-61-443-8003
1 Valparaiso On-Line BBS 56-32-91-3067
10 Microtekno BBS 56-32-97-7219
7 The Lost Road 60-3-2530964
416 K.K.K. BBS 61-2-9418-6005
111 The OnLine Tryst 61-2-9601-2232
920 1st Community Network 61-2-9628-3855
617 SCI-FI Haven BBS 61-2-9629-3652
918 MIDI Plus 61-2-9820-7640
921 tHE uNdeRgRoUNd bBs 61-2-9898-0357
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319 Blue Marlin 61-47-76-1211
120 Cosmic 63-2-245-6879
103 EMail Company 63-2-635-4152
305 Pilipinas Sierra HQ 63-2-715-3807
1 C.E.B.U. BBS * Node 1 63-32-231-3797
20 Eastern Star 63-47-223-5004
300 JayBee's 64-6-836-6229
315 Phoenix 64-6-876-5865
245 AnArchy OnLine BBS 65-2353217
225 MAGIC's 32 65-2421133
806 Every Minutes BBS 65-2805590
811 SuPPort Xentre BBS 65-3377669
807 I-Chi-Ban BBS 65-3388527
414 Nato/2 65-3444937
244 X-Link BBS 65-3452083
403 The Elite Plus Bulletin Board 65-3542825
810 Dark Domains BBS 65-3655162
251 ICE BLUE BBS 65-440-1229
409 SpaceCamp BBS 65-4552157
805 Footprints BBS 65-458-3496
211 Hwa Chong Planet 65-4622508
256 New Alliance 65-4633971
803 Task Force 9000 #1 65-4660097
804 Task Force 9000 #2 65-4666657
412 HourGlass Trinity 1991 65-7412932
255 The Dawn Raiders BBS 65-7535901
9 Hogbens BBS 7-0112-465888
13 Binom Line 2 7-081-266-1336
2 AT Station 7-0855-210503
16 Warlock's Private 7-091-232-5000
26 Servis TV 7-093-223-1323
3 Spika 7-094-2516936
10 Buy Net 7-094-3522484
735 Sunrise 7-095-362-5513
1510SM's Productions 7-095-570-5820
3 Netwanderer's residence 7-0967-634887
24 Rot Kopf 7-321-274-0972
9 Eurasian News 7-327-250-7065
133 ADIS 7-343-2243745
63 MikeSoft 7-343-2560632
89 EHP 7-343-2921233
59 Holiday 7-343-2939814
16 Wanderer I 7-343-9276627
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200 School System 7-34711-68090
39 Coliseum BBS 7-3472-313-121
47 Link 7-3472-37-5400
160 SBCCD BBS 7-35222-26541
18 PromBANK 7-35222-33202
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31 Corvin 7-3532-775236
3 CTC's Node 7-363-235-0023
66 Auto Mail System 7-363-244-4760
29 Amber Illusion 7-381-256-3747
3 PCB 7-3852-24-8698
8 Die Hard 7-3852-26-2825
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57 Helios 7-395-232-9023
45 Dim Killer's Station 7-395-233-6729
79 Simona 7-395-233-8817
121 Value Point 7-395-234-9631
78 Data Research 7-395-236-8428
9 music drain 7-423-226-7366
31 Larry Laffer II 7-423-228-6237
2 Paradise 7-423-231-2577
1 Far Post War Dream Machine 7-423-232-9418
3 Pskov Beer Club 7-8112-160043
152 Slayer 7-812-105-5955
279 Naked Gun's 7-812-110-1113
574 Transfinit 7-812-112-8674
676 IP HUB Project 7-812-164-1255
605 Aragorn 7-812-235-3339
610 Jane System Station 7-812-238-1097
358 FOSSTIL BBS 7-812-239-6412
119 SWAP drop 7-812-249-8399
201 Night Scorpione BBS 7-812-265-6179
319 Deon Station 7-812-275-5078
360 Shepherd Moons 7-812-279-2856
242 Dragon Station 7-812-310-6713
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543 Sleeping Station 7-812-325-2306
146 Security Station 7-812-327-8095
31 Night Star 7-812-327-8096
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349 Cambion Station 7-812-351-6771
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343 Earl Grey Station 7-812-393-4043
225 Compromise 7-812-394-0025
29 Neptun 7-812-422-7012
192 Palmira 7-812-470-4482
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692 Avatar BBS 852-2458-7972
322 Po Chi Lam 852-2511-0661
656 < < <<VooDoo Junkie>> > > 852-2524-1469
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614 Stealth Fighter Board 852-2559-7106
510 Metamorphose BBS 852-2562-5108
16 ZyXEL Support [Nebula #6] 852-2577-7515
695 Jordan/2 Network 852-2578-9447
155 <<Ashley Board>>-OS/2-Line2 852-2580-0110
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280 PencilPoint 852-2598-4409
329 SFC BBS 852-2606-6161
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1 TAIC Maximus-CBCS 852-2631-1994
8 HK PC User Group Software Library852-2631-2540
323 Comics World BBS 852-2637-4873
370 Comics World BBS 852-2637-4873
57 City Connection BBS 852-2657-3381
399 DataZone 852-2667-5889
795 Brave New World 852-2706-6216
758 Paramount BBS 852-2768-8397
320 Tai Hung BBS 852-2773-9933
368 [Spy #4]Spy Arena 852-2785-7076
784 <: Vision Studio :> 852-2858-5826
130 <<Ashley Board>>-OS/2-Line1 852-2871-0272
94 Back to the Future BBS 852-2886-5904
721 Sirius of Milky Way 852-2887-8587
235 Pearl 852-2898-7297
297 Angel Land 852-2984-1168
26 Federal BBS 86-10-6264-7865
10 CiX The CyberInfo Exchange 91-80-3341137

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Dear Editorbeing,

This article is submitted by Doc Logger(163/110) who was
still puzzled over His Zorchness' obtuse references in the
previous Snooz. Mostly, Doc was puzzled over why anyone
would announce that they read "Atlas Shrugged" in 7 hours.
Is this an Olympic event now and will World Records be
benchmarked against how long it takes to read Pynchon's
"Gravity's Rainbow"? We should be told.

Roll da flic, Zorch....

Dear Reverend Visage,

Bad craziness abounds. One of Satti's fartcatchers, a fellow
named Bowerman sent a stern message to someone who doesn't
post in the ZIC echo suggesting that "they might want to
take a two week holiday." I know that were the message
addressed to me, I'd have declined the invitation. I'd have
to borrow a sampling from His Zorchness' paranoia and
speculate that poor Bob Satti was getting miffed at being
called a moron in the elflord echo.

Naturally, it wouldn't occur to Satti that he might want to
deal with the root of the problem with nodes migrating to
net163 because they were abused by their NCs. Bob "noted"
Satti, being a genius, chose the path where he figured that
he could browbeat net163 into sharing his totalist
nightmare. Hint for Blonde Bobs Again: Go away, get lost,
leave net163 alone and go play with your peer, Bob Kohl.
Peefour isn't now and never was the law in Fidonet. No
matter how many times Satti snivels that he is bound by
policy it still doesn't give it any greater jurisprudent
weight.

Satti wasted his entire week's worth of 46 words by whining
that if people stopped insulting him, that he could actually
answer questions instead of using his lame "noted" macro.
He's been asked several times a week by nodes in Region10 to
do something about Kohl's excesses and incompetence by
hasn't yet mustered enough working neurons to come up with a
solution. It strikes me as a real simple issue: ask Kohl to
seek an electoral mandate from the sysops in Region10. While
that is happening, get Belcke to obtain a sysop level
mandate from his region as well.

For my Chautauqua this week I've chosen a quote from
Francois Mauriac's "Viper's Tangle" which should give me a
good running start to answer some of the questions which
have been posed to me in email concerning last week's
offering in the Snooz:
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 21 18 May 1998

"Is it possible for us...to observe only one side of a
person who shares our life? Can it be that, out of habit, we
pick and choose among the things they say and the things
they do, retaining only that which nurtures our grievances
and perpetuates our resentment? Have we a fatal tendency to
simplify other people - to eliminate all those features
which might be regarded as extenuating, which might render
more human the caricature of them which our hatred needs for
its justification?"

My simple answer is yes. I do indeed selectively choose
those things that offend me and give them more stature than
simple context would normally allow. This becomes for me an
ends justifies the means sort of argument. My premise begins
where Fidonet began - as a truly noble experiment in
communication that was unfettered by anything other than
minimal levels of cooperation with respect to technical
connectivity. This may seem trite, but Fidonet represented a
great hope that communication couldn't be shackled by
bureaucracy or regulatory intrusion, or commercial conquest.
Fidonet represented in practice the concept that people are
free to associate with whom they choose, on the terms that
are mutually agreeable.

The transformation from that noble dream into the current
nightmare is tragic. It offends me deeply as it ought to
offend anyone who has the presence of mind to give credence
to the worth of their freedom. It is a long, long way from
that noble dream to where we have cretins asserting that
nodes must conform to geographic boxes where they can be
tormented by local despots. It is an equally distant remove
from the original concept to have a small coterie of
elflords presuming to "rule" Fidonet from positions where
owe more to positional heredity than merit.

I must go Visage, my netmail runneth over, and for a
pleasant change it isn't entirely composed on insane
speculations about His Zorchness.

Regards,
Doc Logger
Furlang Island,
South Pacific

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Future History

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

3 Jul 1998
FidoNet European Convention (see this issue for details).

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
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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.
- Ye Editor

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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.goldware.dk/ftsc
Echomail [MIA]
WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html

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

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

Region 14:

Region 15:

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

Region 17:

Region 18: http://techstop.pdn.net/fido/

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

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

ZEC2:
Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/

Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 25 18 May 1998

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 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb

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: Zorch Frezberg

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

"FidoNews Editor"
FidoNet 1:1/23
BBS 1-209-251-7529, 300/1200/2400/9600/V.34/V.90

more addresses:
Zorch Frezberg -- 1:205/1701, [email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]

(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews Editor
P.O. Box 642
Fresno, CA 93709-0642
U.S.A.

voice: 1-209-446-9038 [voice mail = 'blind' numbers not returned]

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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 Zorch Frezberg. 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.

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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
FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSFnn.ZIP] for a
particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP
FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 27 18 May 1998

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:

[email protected]

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
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 FidoNews Editor
homepage on the World Wide Web at:

http://209.77.228.66/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 [1:205/1701] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from
IKVHFoT! BBS at 1-209-251-7529 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area X. 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 [1:205/1701] 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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