F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 38 21 September 1998

F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 38 21 September 1998
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 2
Conflict of Interest - both yours and mine ............... 2
3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 4
4. ARTICLES ................................................. 5
Zone 1 Echo Coordinator Election - ever again? ........... 5
5. WANTED ................................................... 7
Point system details wanted .............................. 7
6. NOTICES .................................................. 8
7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 10
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,

Is it not valid, that whatever happens in FidoNet world, some form
of announcement is made in Fidonews? Is FidoNews not for _ALL_ the
users and 'whoever'? The 'whoever' being whoever reads FidoNews!
If so, than lets read what is happening in your Zone, no matter what.

I have an interesting question, to which I have my own views, but
hopefully the IC and/or ZCC or for that matter, anyone interested,
can give a answer or two. Ofcourse, this may have been debated in
the past, without me being aware of it. If such, my excuse for asking.

Q. Is it not true, that when a message appears in _any_ one of the
Echo's, it is 'public domain'? Please keep in mind, that when I
refer to 'public domain' (PD), it is in reference to your editor to
take such message from any echo, and publish it here in FidoNews.

Lets have your views on the above, as it is an interesting aspect.

Happy reading.

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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Conflict of Interest
Douglas Myers

It's been over 30 years since I took a journalism course, and it was
at Penn State, a university more known for its linebackers than it's
journalists. An ethical standard then, and still a good idea today,
was for a writer to disclose any personal interest he may have in an
article. I have submitted such an article for publication in this
week's edition of Fidonews - a news piece concerning the Zone 1 Echo
Coordinator election. You should know that I intend to run as a
candidate if the office is to be determined by a sysop-level
election. I don't plan to campaign at the moment figuring such
activity is better reserved until the election is actually set, but
I do plan to inform.

That's my potential conflict of interest. Now let's discuss your
conflict if you're a zone 1 sysop.

There may not be another election for this position where the zone 1
sysops may vote directly. The reason, if I may paraphrase the
analysis of one particularly eloquent writer in the ZEC echo, is
that the last one sucked. I've briefly discussed the last election
in the article itself, but here I'd like to focus on one of the more
significant objections: In the last ZEC election, only about 6% of
the sysops in zone 1 cast a ballot. Opponents of an election for
this office say it's because sysops are too apathetic to vote.
Proponents claim that the "grunt" sysops just didn't get the word
about the election.

The decision on how the ZEC position is to be filled rests in the
hands of the Regional Echo Coordinator's Council. It's being
decided right now, and there's still time for you, as a sysop, to
have a voice in this decision. If you have an opinion right now,
you need only to get it to your Regional Echo Coordinator (REC). If
you don't know who he (or she) is, your own net's NEC or NC would be
able to tell you. If you want to hear what others are saying about
this election, or if you want to express yourself in an interactive
setting, join the ZEC conference. ZEC (and all the other confereces
mentioned in the article) are publicly available echos carried by
the BACKBONE and FIDOSPINE and can be had wherever you get your
echomail.

In my opinion, the upcoming decision by the RECC goes beyond merely
filling the ZEC position right now. The ZEC is the only zone 1
office to ever be decided by a vote in which all sysops were
elegible to cast a ballot. It was an experiment, and if the RECC
decides that the experiment was a failure, then it's unlikely that
"grunt" sysops will ever cast a ballot for a zone 1 office again.

So now we come to your own conflict of interest: if you've read
this far, then you know what's going on. You know what's at stake,
FIDONEWS 15-38 Page 3 21 Sep 1998

and you know what you can do about it. You can choose to act on it
now, or simply let others make the decision for you.

--
| Fidonet: Douglas Myers 1:270/[email protected]
| Internet: [email protected]
| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
| From Mdtn_BBS @mdtnbbs.com [ In the Heart of Three Mile Island ]

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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Hello Henk, congratulations upon being appointed Fidonews editor.

Please feel free to publish this.

I've started an e-mail list for anyone interested in discussing
Fidonet. If you'd like to know more, or would like to subscribe,
feel free to check out the link below.

http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion

Thanks,
Ed Lee

[Thanks Ed for your wishes. Henk.]

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ARTICLES
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The Zone 1 Echo Coordinator Election
Will there ever be another?
Douglas Myers 1:270/720

The Zone 1 Echo Coordinator (abbreviated here as Z1EC or ZEC) is an
obscure position, not often doing anything noticable to the average
sysop. If you've never heard of the office, don't be embarrassed -
the chances are that you're in good company. In fact, Zone 1 has
spent much of the recent years without anyone doing this job at all.

Why, then, is this office the most hotly contested in Fidonet? Why
does this position dominate the interest of Fido's political
activists? Why is this office so prominant (or notorious, of late)?

The ZEC is basically an assistant to the Zone Coordinator, much the
same as a Regional Echo Coordinator (REC) assists a Regional
Coordinator (RC) and a Net Echo Coordinator (NEC) assists a Net
Coordinator (NC). As the title implies, the specific duties of the
ZEC are related to Fido's echomail. The ZEC is charged with acting
as a Chairperson for the Regional Echo Coordinator's Council (RECC)
and acting as a liason of sorts between the distribution services
(Backbone, Fidospine, and others), the echo moderators, and the
Echolist Keeper. The job description goes into more detail than
I've summarized above, but the summary should serve to illustrate
that the duties themselves would not inspire the passionate and
long-lasting debate current with the Fido Politicos.

What has fanned the coals of this interest into a raging fire is Bob
Satti's decision, as Zone Coordinator, to transform the position of
ZEC from an appointed position to an elected position. The last
ZEC, Bob Kohl, became the first functionary in Fidonet to be elected
in a zone-wide sysop-level election.

But this may be the last time sysops at large in Zone 1 may ever
have a direct vote in any election. Both the proponents and
opponents of such elections agree that the last one was
disappointing:

1. Only about 6% of Fido sysops cast a ballot in the election.
This has been blamed on multiple causes, ranging from sysop
apathy to insufficient publicity for the election.

2. The election itself was vocal and time-consuming, with confusion
over the preferential voting system used... and the results were
considered tainted by some over allegations of multiple votes by
at least one individual.

3. The elected candidate did not complete his term. Instead, he
removed from office by the RECC acting in conjunction with the
ZC. Charges are too numerous to mention here, but left some
with a distrust of further direct elections.
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As it currently stands, the future of direct sysop voting is being
considered by the RECC and the ZC. An interim ZEC, Gary Gilmore,
was previously appointed to conduct an election in the event that
the ZEC could not complete his term. He has assumed the interim
position, but was instructed to hold off on the election until the
RECC and ZC decide on the most appropriate way to fill the office.
Zone 1 awaits this decision.

What can you, as a sysop, do? If you have strong feelings on how
the next ZEC should be selected, tell your REC. If you want more
information or just want to watch events unfold, moniter the ZEC and
the Z1C echos. You may also want to moniter the Z1_ELECTION echo.
Some discussion is going on there now and it's a likely choice for
voting if there is to be another sysop-level election. I get a
surprising amount of "unapproved" information from what may not be
an obvious place - the SUPER-BITCH echo. And Z1_POLITICAL is
another place to keep an eye on - It's not too active now, but a
likely site for those "unmoderated" discussion if things heat.

Finally, you could mention to your friends that there's a bit of
background material right here in FIDONEWS. A copy should be
available from anyone's NC, and I'll attempt to summarize upcoming
news in future issues.

--
| Fidonet: Douglas Myers 1:270/[email protected]
| Internet: [email protected]
| Standard disclaimer: The views of this user are strictly his own.
| From Mdtn_BBS @mdtnbbs.com [ In the Heart of Three Mile Island ]

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WANTED
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I am looking to learn more about operating a "point system" on
Fidonet.

There was a document out there making the rounds called "point.doc".
Does anyone have a copy of this that they can forward to me?

(In english please, I recently DID get a copy of it in another
language. :-) )

If you have a copy of "point.doc" in english, could you send it
along to me.

If you run a 'point system' on fidonet, I would love to hear from
you.

Thanks for your help!

Dave

[email protected]

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NOTICES
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Future History

5 Oct 1998
29th Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus".

10 Sep 1998
9th Anniversary of Zone 5 operations.

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.

23 Nov 1998
35th Anniversary of Doctor Who.

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

16 Feb 1999
13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush.

12 May 1999
12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.

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

9 Jun 1999
Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.

10 Sep 1999
10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.

26 Oct 1999
Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.

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.

FIDONEWS 15-38 Page 9 21 Sep 1998

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 BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.

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 [pending]
WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
http://www.trak-one.co.uk/foti

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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 18: http://techshop.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/echolist/

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

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

Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)

Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/

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/ (French)

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

FIDONEWS 15-38 Page 11 21 Sep 1998

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

Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (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 (Greek/English)

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

Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
Net 5073: http://people.weekend.ru/soa/ (Russian)

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

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Zone 4: http://www.altern.org/zone4

Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

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Zone 5: http://www.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 (Chinese)

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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
should list access points to all Networks within the Region.

TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.

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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+-----------
1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton |FTP,VMoT,F2I,UUE| 64k | $10/$20mo.
1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | F2I | ??? | $2mo.
1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE,F2I | 28.8 | $10/yr.
1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $1mo.
1:2424/3121| Earl Clark | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VFOS | 33.6 | $15yr.
1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
1:342/1022 | Steve Steffler | UUE,F2I | 33.6 | n/c
1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
2:2490/5170| Lenny Murphy | F2I | ??? | n/c
5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
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+ VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
+ F2I = Fido2Int (W95)
+ UUE = uuencode<->email packet transfers

compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, [email protected]
Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.
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! Origin: * Fly By Night * (609)814-1978 *(1:2623/71)

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* Region 17 FidoNet BBS available via telnet from the Internet *
* 15-Sep-98 *
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All systems verified Sept '98. If you know of a Region 17 FidoNet
telnet(able) BBS that is not on this list, please let me know.

Lisa Gronke
FidoNet: 1:105/9
Internet: [email protected]

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Dimension 7 BBS (1:152/7, 1:152/8)
Location: Eugene_OR (USA)
telnet: dimstar.net (208.129.202.174)
dialup: 1-541-688-5853
Runs: BBBS/LiI v3.42
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Sysop: Russ Johnson ([email protected])
Notes: FidoNet backbone echos; AnimeNet conferences.

The Computer Hotline (1:357/1)
Location: Albany_OR (USA)
telnet: klock.com (198.68.19.64)
dialup: 1-541-928-9535
Runs: Wildcat for Win95/NT v5.00.439
Sysop: Khile Klock ([email protected])
Notes: Selected Fidonet & FamilyNet echos; k12.* newsgroups.
Standard access after using Telefier ("CBV" for telnet
callers).

Mach2 BBS Systems (1:342/61)
Location: Edmonton_AB (Canada)
telnet: mach2.v-wave.com (24.108.9.29)
dialup: 1-403-489-4250
Runs: Maximus/2 v3.01 behind BT 2.60XE (VMODEM)
Sysop: Richard Dodsworth ([email protected])
Notes: Mach2 carries the complete Fidonet backbone & filebone
as well as Os2Net, IBMNet, CAOS2, AnimeNet & JustaNet
echos and the comp.os.* newsgroups. An OS/2 support BBS.

Pacifier Online Data Service (1:105/103)
Location: Vancouver_WA (USA)
telnet: pacnt2.pacifier.com (199.2.117.107)
dialup: 1-360-699-7112
Runs: Wildcat for Win95/NT v5.00.439
Sysop: Doug Palin ([email protected])
Co-Sysop: Shawn Booze ([email protected])
Notes: 670+ FidoNet backbone echos, 10+ local (Net 1:105) echos,
25+ local (van.*, pdx.*) usenet newsgroups.

Terra-Firma-BBS (1:153/765)
Location: Vancouver_BC (Canada)
telnet: tfbbs.tvinet.com (205.210.70.88)
dialup: 1-604-434-3665
Runs: DLG Pro BB/OS v1.0 on Amiga
Sysop: Dana Huggard ([email protected])
Notes: BBS serves the Amiga community. AmigaNet node and RC
(40:800/0). See article in FIDO1527.NWS, p 20.

WCS Online (1:105/278)
Location: Oregon_City_OR (USA)
telnet: bbs.wcssoft.com (204.245.231.172)
dialup: 1-503-631-4545; 631-4546; 631-8439
Runs: Wildcat for Win95/NT v5.00.443
Sysop: Rob Williams ([email protected], [email protected])
Notes: 200 Intelec conferences, 100 FidoNet backbone echos;
20 Northwest Net conferences, a few usenet newsgroups.

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

Editor: Henk Wolsink

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

"FidoNews Editor"
FidoNet 5:5/23
BBS +27-41-515-913, 2400/9600/V.34/V.90

more addresses:
Henk Wolsink -- 5:7104/2, [email protected]

(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews Editor
P.O. Box 12325
Port Elizabeth,
6006
South Africa

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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 and/or the Editor.

Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
Copyright 1998 Henk Wolsink. 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
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.

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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/
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/Fidonet/Fidonews

And in non-English formats via:

http://www.hvc.ee/pats/fidonews (Estonian)
http://www.fidonet.pp.se/sfnews (Swedish)

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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.

*

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/

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Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 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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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 5:5/23 [5:7104/2] 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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