F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 48 29 Nov 1999

F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 48 29 Nov 1999
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Table of Contents
1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
Keeping Echomail in perspective .......................... 1
Ukraine CoModerator disconnects Moderator ................ 2
2. COLUMNS .................................................. 4
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 4
God's Work ............................................... 7
ECHO TALK - Fidonews is American-Oriented ................ 8
3. NET HUMOR ................................................ 10
My Good Deed ............................................. 10
In Days of Old ........................................... 10
4. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 12
The Milky Way ............................................ 12
5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 13
Masthead ................................................. 13
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ARTICLES
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Keeping Echomail in perspective
* By Joe Jared (1:103/301) [email protected]

In order to understand the failure of echomail we must also
look at the success of Usenet newsgroups. Our audience of
10 years ago has gone to newsgroups, and fidonet's survival
is dependent on finding new ways of doing things.

A few statistics about the delivery of echomail. Between a
few of the major distribution systems there are close to 800
echoes, roughly speaking. All totaled, about 3 megabytes of
uncompressed mail flow through the backbone. Of these
echoes, close to 200 of these echoes have had zero traffic
in the past 30 days, and some have had no traffic in months.
In my own logs, the following are the top 10 areas:

EchoMail Traffic
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Period: 1999-10-26 to 1999-11-21

AREA NAME TOTAL AVERAGE TRAFFIC
REC.ARTS.COMICS.STRIPS 1958 72 2.37% !
POLITICS 2162 80 2.62%
REC.AQUARIA.MARINE.REEFS 2207 81 2.68% !
HOLYSMOKE 2339 86 2.84%
REC.AUTOS.TECH 2779 102 3.37% !
COMP.DCOM.XDSL 2922 108 3.54% !
COMP.LANG.C 3541 131 4.29% !
REC.RADIO.CB 3919 145 4.75% !
REC.MOTORCYCLES 5639 208 6.84% !
REC.AUTOS.SPORT.NASCAR 6020 222 7.30% !

Note that there is no central theme to the above list,
except that political and religious discussions were the
only things that were able to make it into the top 10 areas.
Looking at my nightly logs from my own news server confirms
that the top listed gated newsgroups are also reflected in
the list. There is no bias, and occasional posts in
1backbone also reflect this fact.

Excluding newsgroups, for the usenet impaired, and simply
going with echoes, the "winners" last month in volume
were...

Z1_BACKBONE 585 21 0.71%
WIN95 642 23 0.78%
ABORTION 655 24 0.79%
FILK 821 30 1.00%
MEMORIES 825 30 1.00%
Z1C 853 31 1.03%
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ECHOLIST 876 32 1.06%
FN_SYSOP 941 34 1.14%
OS2 1054 39 1.28%
COOKING 1250 46 1.52%
LINUX 1312 48 1.59%
FUNNY 1451 53 1.76%
POLITICS 2162 80 2.62%
HOLYSMOKE 2339 86 2.84%

Given the above statistics, I personally am left to wonder
what would happen if we collectively spent as much energy
improving fidonet as we did fighting with each other. If
something isn't done to reduce or eliminate unnecessary
control and bickering, we will likely become a network of
administrators, with nothing to administer. As we are now,
we're truely unimportant in the big scheme of mail movers,
excluding the fact that this is just a hobby.

In our prime, it wasn't uncommon to see 10000+ messages per
day. We've shrunk, and yet Usenet distribution has increased
to well over 20GB/day and when including binaries, over
60GB+/day.

In one area, I see our network becoming more anarchistic
each day, which contrary to the stigma of the word, is a
good thing. When people get truely sick of the bickering
and groping for power, alternatives are available. The
fidonet via internet list is primarily intended to provide
these alternatives, and one I have found to work well for
many. The war isn't over mind you, as suspicions of Jim
Balcom's known Z1B bias becomes more visible. What neither
Jim, the NAB, nor the Z1B appear to realize is that none of
them individually are all that important. The ONLY
important thing about echomail is that it gets distributed
efficiently, and with few incidents. The personalities
behind the tossers don't mean squat to downlink systems,
except when they find a message from one of the
personalities.

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FidoNews is supposed to be a newsletter of the whole Fido, but it
looks like it's only American. So... Here's a short article on
current evevts in 2:463.

Comod Disconnects Mod For Unwarranted Moderation.

Ruslan Kondratskiy, the comoderator of KIEV.TALKS, got his power
together with another comod Al Yatsenko, and the moderator Juliy
Chirkov on June'99 election. In some months, Juliy Chirkov had to
quit Fido and appointed Al Yatsenko a temporary moderator. Ruslan
agreed with the fact of the appointment, but doubted Al's full
power. Still the echo lived its life, Ruslan put moderatorials, Al
just supervised a bit. But a lot of people started complaining on
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Ruslan's activity to NE463C, because Comod started punishing for
"numerous crossposts" or "non-permitted forward". NE463C promised to
start new elections. Meanwhile, Al, the officially appointed
"temporary moderator", published a moderatorial letter, proclaiming
amnesty for all, punished by Ruslan. Then the Comod... put
moderatorial [!] (disconnection) to Al for "unwarranted moderation".
The Mod answered by putting [!] to Ruslan. Echo couldn't stop
laughing. The conflict was solved by Vadim Serkov, the NE463C, who
took KIEV.TALKS under his personal control till the elections.

Andrei Besedin with best wishes from Kiev, Ukraine.

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COLUMNS
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Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
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Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/

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(Chinese)

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3639/93 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP | 128K+ | n/c
3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
3803/1 @ Ben Ritchey | UUE | 56k | n/c
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31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
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902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c

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God's Work

In the beginning there was Aristotle,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
And objects in motion tended to come to rest,
And God saw that is was boring.
Then God created Newton,
And objects at rest tended to remain at rest,
And objects in motion tended to remain in motion,
And energy was conserved, and momentum was conserved,
and matter was conserved,
And God saw that is was conservative.

Then God created Einstein,
And everything was relative,
And fast things became short,
And straight things became curved,
And the universe was filled with inertial frames,
And God saw that it was relatively general,

but some saw it as especially relative.

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Then God created Fidonet,
And there was the principle,
And the principle was Policy 4.07,
And all things were quantified,
But some things were still relative,
And God saw that it was confusing.

Then God created an Election Guide,
As an election would/should unify,
And he would have peace in theory,
And all would be as one, rosy and merry.
But it was the seventh day and God rested!

Meanwhile the old Elflords did their work,
Screaming Pee Four forever more,

We will reign no matter the pain,
The nominations , the seconds, the acceptances...
Don't really mean a damn thing,
not until Old policy 4.07 is finally slain!!!

Ol'wdb extension on God's Work, author unknown

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| Food for thought from Fido's echomail. |
| Purloined without permission by D Myers |
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Fidonews is American-Oriented

This week's Echo Talk column is drawn from FIDONEWS, the echo to
talk about this newsletter. The author, Jodi Crisp, wasn't the
first one to comment on the subject (as can be seen from the quotes
she included), but her message drew the most response... including
one from Andrei Besedin who's article appears in this issue.

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My sweetest friend,

17 Nov 99 14:14, Matt Bedynek wrote to Malcolm Miles:

MM>> And anyone outside Zone 1 found it utterly boring.

MB> Not that I care for political stuff, but how come other zones
MB> don't submit articles of any type? I would actually like to know
MB> whats going on in other zones (not polically), but general stuff.

I have found that Fidonews does seem to be very America -oriented. I
found it interesting to read about a bit of the political stuff, but
after a while it did go on a bit- i mean, maybe it's interesting to
who it is relevant to, but it would be nice to see articles from
other countries sometimes at least.
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Love and other grievous bodily harm, jodiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

-!- FMail 1.22
! Origin: [email protected] (2:440/226.6)
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Though Fidonews isn't intended to be Zone 1 oriented, I've got to
admit that this is the result. I can think of several reasons for
this: Fidonews was started here at a time when the other zones
didn't exist; not all countries speak English as a first language...
But there's one premptive reason for the Zone 1 orientation - there
just aren't too many contributions to the Snooze from other zones.
Even when Henk Wolsink published from Zone 6, I was often the sole
contributor... and I just don't have the sophistication to supply an
international orientation. I've never lived outside the states of
Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the Eastern United States.

But then, my own lack of international orientation is easily
overcome... all it takes is input from sysops in other zones. As a
matter of fact, I've tried soliciting from other zones, but without
much success. I kinda hope Jodi takes up the invitation expressed
in the FIDONEWS echo to write some articles herself. I have a
feeling her "Love and other grievous bodily harm" is a more powerful
incentive than any *I* could offer :)

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NET HUMOR
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My Good Deed
Thanks to Roy Reed
[email protected]

A guy arrives at the pearly gates, waiting to be admitted. St.
Peter is reading through the Big Book to see if the guy's name is
written in it. After several minutes, St. Peter closes the book,
furrows his brow, and says, "I'm sorry, I don't see your name
written in the Book."

"How current is your copy?" he asks.

"I get a download every ten minutes." St. Peter replies, "Why do
you ask?"

"I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I was always the stubborn type.
It was not until my death was imminent that I cried out to God,
so my name probably hasn't arrived to your copy yet."

"I'm glad to hear that, "Pete says, "but while we're waiting for
the update to come through, can you tell me about a really good
deed that you did in your life?"

The guys thinks for a moment and says, "Hmmm, well there was this
one time when I was driving down a road and I saw a group of
biker gang members harassing this poor girl. I slowed down, and
sure enough, there they were, about 20 of them harassing this
poor woman. Infuriated, I got out my car, grabbed a tire iron
out of my trunk, and walked up to the leader of the gang. He was
a huge guy; 6-foot-4, 260 pounds, with a studded leather jacket
and a chain running from his nose to his ears. As I walked up to
the leader, the bikers formed a circle around me and told me to
get lost or I'd be next."

"So I ripped the leader's chain out of his face and smashed him
over the head with the tire iron. Then I turned around and
yelled to the rest of them, 'Leave this poor innocent girl alone!
You're all a bunch of SICK, deranged animals! Go home before I
really teach you a lesson in PAIN!'"

St. Peter, duly impressed, says "Wow! When did this happen"

"About three minutes ago."

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In Days of Old...
Thanks to Ol'WDB

King Arthur was in Merlin's laboratory where the good wizard was
showing him his latest invention. It was a chastity belt, except it
FIDONEWS 16-48 Page 11 29 Nov 1999

had a rather large hole in the most obvious place.

"Why this is no good, Merlin!" the king exclaimed, "Just look at
this opening. How is this supposed to protect m'lady, the Queen?"

"Ah, sire, just observe," said Merlin.

He then selected his most worn out wand, one that he was going to
discard anyway. He inserted it in the gaping aperture of the
chastity belt whereupon a small guillotine blade came down and cut
it neatly in two.

"Merlin, you are a genius!" exclaimed the grateful monarch. "Now I
can leave, knowing that my Queen is fully protected." After putting
Guinevere in the device, King Arthur then set out upon his Quest.

Several years passed until he returned to Camelot. Immediately he
assembled all of his knights in the courtyard and had them drop
their trousers for an informal 'short arm' inspection. Sure enough,
each and every one of them was either amputated or damaged in some
way. All of them, except Sir Galahad.

"Sir Galahad," exclaimed King Arthur."My one and only true knight.
Only you among all the nobles have been true to me. What is it in
my power to grant you? Name it and it is yours!"

But, alas, Sir Galahad was speechless.

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COMIX IN ASCII
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