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** F I D O N E W S **
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 2
Not a Member ............................................. 2
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
A Star is Born ........................................... 3
QEDIT Echo renamed ....................................... 3
4. NOTICES .................................................. 5
5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 7
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 10
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,

Nothing much new this week.

Some poor soul broke into my car and managed to rip out the radio,
but he was caught in the act, just as he managed to break the window
on my wife's car. (Auto for some of you. ;-) )

Why poor soul you may ask.

When he was asked the question to what he was looking for, he replied
ever so brightly, 'money'. So why was the radio removed? That's
money, if he sells it, came the reply. What can one say.

It must be remembered, here in South Africa, we have a extremely high
unemployment and stealing from those who have it, is part of todays
living.

So, have the car repaired and living carries on, until it gets
broken into once more, as that is the norm around here these days.

Zone 5 www site is down at the present moment, as it is being moved
to a new location. Give it until the end of the week and all should
be well again.

Happy reading,

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FIDONEWS 15-40 Page 2 5 Oct 1998

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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Not a Member
Doug Myers

I have this annoying trait of calling those I speak with "members of
Fidonet." At least, it must be annoying to some, as I'm constantly
reminded that moderators are not members of Fidonet, users are not
members of Fidonet, point systems are not members of Fidonet...

What _is_ Fidonet, anyway, that folks who make important
contributions are not considered among the ranks? Do I not come
here to participate in the echoes, created by those moderators? Do I
not enjoy the conversations with those users and point systems?

Is Fidonet just the technical organization? Is it just composed of
the keepers of the key to entry, the BBS? If so, then Fidonet is
truly dying: those who breathe life into Fidonet have found new
roads and don't need the key to the old gates any more.

Or is Fidonet the community, only with a huge underclass? Then how
long will we survive when the underclass has an option to leave, and
we're setting up an atmosphere where even the Microsoft Network
looks friendly by comparison?

I'm a member since I'm on the nodelist, I've been told. I used to
own one thirty-five thousandth according to my nodelist compiler.
However, it's been a long time since I stayed up nights and watched
my batch files run the compiler. I've been advised that my share
got smaller as Fido got bigger, but that my share has _really_ grown
of late. Whatever, on my thirty-five thousandth (or greater) share,
there is no underclass!

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| 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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ARTICLES
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A Star is Born

While the shepherds of Fido abide their flocks, wise men watched the
star in the East... and the one in the South, and the one in the
North. But Lisa Gronke was watching the signs, and found a new star
in the Northwest. She noted it in the scriptures with these very
words:

'My, my.....
'My nerd instincts ask "Why does it [the backbone] do that [make a
fourth ZHub]?"
'.....and with so little fanfare....'

Lisa refers, of course, to the North American Backbone, the major
distribution system in Fidonet Zone 1. The new Star is Bob
Seaborn, announced with a quiet "ahem" by John Souvestre at the end
of his stirring weekly summary of echomail changes, BACKSTAT.NA.
The list of Zone Hubs has previously only included three:

Zone Hubs:
Eastern Star George Peace 1:270/101 [email protected]
Southern Star John Souvestre 1:396/1 [email protected]
North Star Ken Wilson 1:12/12 [email protected]
NorthWest Star Bob Seaborn 1:140/1 [email protected]

Perhaps the lack of fanfare which Lisa noted was because Bob Seaborn
is hardly a stranger to echomail distribution. He's long flown the
"NorthWest Star" origin line in his outspoken postings in
administrative echoes, and has long been the key player in that
"other" major distribution system, the FidoSpine. In fact, he was
already connected to George Peace and Ken Wilson, though only
recently in a "fully connected triangle topology" (a connection
which aids in the prevention of duplicates, which Lisa has patiently
explained in the echoes).

This star-watcher would like to welcome Bob's ascendancy, and
anxiously awaits Lisa Gronke's analysis of the new topology.
Perhaps she'll dub it a "superimposed triangles topology" or perhaps
it can now be known as a "tetrahedron topology with two open and two
closed corners."

--
| 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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QEDIT Echo has a new name.
FIDONEWS 15-40 Page 4 5 Oct 1998

By Stu Turk, 1:129/26, [email protected]

QEDIT, the support Echo for SemWare Corporation's popular text
editor, has been renamed to SEMWARE. This was due to SemWare's loss
of the trademark and their request that the name be removed from the
EchoList. The editor itself has been renamed to The Semware Editor
Jr (TSE Jr for short.) The current shareware demo version can be
found on many FidoNet boards as TSEJR40C.ZIP and ftp from semware.com.
The new name reflects the fact that SEMWARE is also the support
Echo for SemWare's other text editors, including the larger and more
powerful The Semware Editor Pro (TSE Pro, TSE Pro/32 for Win95) and
other products.
Information on SemWare editors can be found at
http://www.semware.com.
If you followed the QEDIT Echo in the past, turn on the new
SEMWARE Echo. The SemWare mailing list is being gated into the Echo
and SemWare's Technical Support staff participate.

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FIDONEWS 15-40 Page 5 5 Oct 1998

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NOTICES
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Future History

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

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.

21 Sep 2000
10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)

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 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/

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

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

Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/

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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

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

Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)

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

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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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
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form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or
file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet.
PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal
address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request
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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
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ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/
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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:

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

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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
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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.

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"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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