F I D O N E W S         Volume 17, Number 16             17 Apr 2000
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                       Table of Contents
    1. EDITORIAL  ................................................  1
       At What Age Maturity?  ....................................  1
    2. ARTICLES  .................................................  3
       FOTI's new website  .......................................  3
    3. COLUMNS  ..................................................  4
       Ol'WDB: Sayings  ..........................................  4
       This Weeks Web Page  ......................................  5
    4. NET HUMOR  ................................................  6
       Stupid People  ............................................  6
    5. COMIX IN ASCII  ...........................................  7
       Famous Cows  ..............................................  7
    6. INTERNET INFO  ............................................  8
       Fidonet-related sites  ....................................  8
    7. FIDONEWS INFO  ............................................ 13
       Masthead  ................................................. 13
    FIDONEWS 17-16               Page 1                   17 Apr 2000


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                                EDITORIAL
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                           At What Age Maturity?
                                 Doug Myers

    The Halls of Fidonet are quiet tonight.  The Fido Elders have
    retired to their Chambers and have not issued Pronouncements for a
    long time now.  The Grunt Sysops are peacefully tilling their fields
    and don't seem in revolt at the moment.  Indeed, the ElfLords seem
    to have dropped their agenda of atrocities.  The mail movers
    haven't shot any stars out of the constellation; the splintering
    into more backbones seems arrested.

    All in all, it's a slow news day...

    But over in the Z1C echo, Stewart Hornsberger comes to our rescue,
    fending off several of Fido's more "experienced" sysops in an
    argument over maturity.  Though I haven't examined all the messages
    related to the string, it appears that Stewart revealed his age of
    19 on his web page, and was subsequently called down for
    "immaturity" in some of his subsequent posting.

    Whether the charge is accurate or not I couldn't tell you, as I
    didn't read the original messages.  But I'm familiar with Stewart's
    posting in other conversations and know that he's given to
    passionate and confrontational exchanges which some associate with
    immaturity.  Mr. Hornsberger mainly makes the point that maturity
    cannot be determined by age alone, and cites events in his life
    which would contribute to maturity at an early age, such as passing
    newspapers to purchase his first computers rather than being born
    with a keyboard in his lap.

    So at what age is one sufficiently mature to post in a Fidonet echo?
    The debate will undoubtedly continue to rage in the Z1C conference
    as I don't expect to resolve it here.  However, I expect to make a
    few observations which may fuel the conversation... or, more likely,
    be disregarded as the ramblings of an editor trying to make
    something of a slow news day.

    Nineteen isn't such a bad age.  Though the age seems far away to me
    at the age of 53, I seem to recall that I had most of my language
    skills developed by that age and had a good general idea of how
    people interacted.  While I've got to admit that subsequent life
    experience has modified my approach to things, I believe that at the
    age of 19 I was sufficiently mature to enter conversations as an
    adult.  But then, I wasn't online then... I was nineteen in the
    sixties and hardly anyone was online then!  Especially, I wasn't
    interacting in a hobby which has somewhat passed its prime and whose
    participants tend to middle age rather than youth.

    To Stewart I can only offer this observation:  if you post in a
    confrontational style, folks are going to look at you at the age of
    nineteen and say that the style is obviously a sign of immaturity.
    FIDONEWS 17-16               Page 2                   17 Apr 2000


    If *I*, at the age of 52, post in that same confrontational style,
    folks are going to conclude that it's obviously the sign of some
    mid-life crisis.  If Warren Bonner posts in that same
    confrontational style, folks will conclude that it's a sign of
    dotage.

    Posting passionate messages arguing your maturity probably won't
    change folks perceptions... it's kinda like holding your breath
    until they see you as mature.

    To the more experienced participants in the discussion, I'll offer
    this observation:  Like it or not, Stewart is the future of Fidonet.
    Any plan which will accomplish growth in Fido is going to have to
    involve younger people - the middle aged folks are already here :)

    Imagine... the future of Fido is in the hands of a sysop who goes by
    the handle of Black Death.  Kinda scary, eh?


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                                ARTICLES
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                            FOTI's new website!
                                Bobby Queen

    Folks as some of you may already know Simon Slater  has stepped down
    as the webmaster of the FOTI (FidoNet on the Internet) site.  I made
    an offer to take over the site and Simon agreed.  The site's already
    be relocated to a new site at http://foti.webjump.com.  I've already
    fixed all of the mail links etc & I'm now going to start on the list
    of all the echomail echos.   The previous sites listing has links to
    any websites set up for the echos and email links to the moderators.
    I am going to get my email links from the elist echo list but if you
    have a webpage setup for your echo then you can send that info to me
    at [email protected].   Any other suggestions can be sent to me at the
    same address.


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                                 COLUMNS
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                                 "SAYINGS"
                                Collected by
                            [email protected]

    Quotes:
    Ah, yes, "divorce," from the Latin word meaning "to rip out a man's
    genitals through his wallet." -Robin Williams

    Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the
    only time of the month that I can be myself. -Roseanne

    Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. -Billy
    Crystal

    I just broke up with someone and the last thing she said to me was,
    'You'll never find anyone like me again!'   I'm thinking, "I  should
    hope not! If I don't want you, why would I want someone like you?"
    -Larry Miller

    If you want to say it with flowers, a single rose says: "I'm cheap!"
    -Delta Burke

    You can say any foolish thing to a dog, and the dog will give you
    this look that says, "My God, you're right! I never would've thought
    of that!" - Dave Barry

    According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable
    undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other
    women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men
    are just grateful. - Jay Leno

    I am not the boss of my house. I don't  know when I lost it. I don't
    know if I ever had it. But I have seen the boss's job and I do not
    want it. - Bill Cosby

    In the last couple of weeks I have seen the ads for the Wonder Bra.
    Is that really a problem in this country? Men not paying enough
    attention to women's breasts?- Jay Leno

    "Sure-nuff" Bumper Sticker Sayings:

    You are depriving some poor village of it's IDIOT.

    Your gene pool needs a little chlorine.

    100,000 Sperm and YOU were the FASTEST?

    All men are animals... some just make better pets.

    You used to have a handle on life, but it broke!

    FIDONEWS 17-16               Page 5                   17 Apr 2000


    IF you don't feel close to God anymore, guess who moved...

    QUITURBITCHIN NOBACKSEATDRIVING


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                               This Weeks Web Page
                                  by Frank Vest
                                  1:124/6308(.1)

    What: Welcome to Echoes BBS Homepages

    Where: http://www.echos.demon.co.uk/index.html


     The BBS is located (as best I can tell) in Farnborough. I assume
    this is in England.

     This page's background is a nice star field. Below the "Welcome to
    Echoes BBS Homepages" is a Logo for the BBS. Also on this page is an
    Amiga Web Ring.

    Just below the Logo is the link "meet the Sysop". Check this out
    first. Steve has some interesting hobbies. :)

     The BBS is running on an Amiga. Click on the link "Tell me more
    about Echoes BBS" to find out about the system and other information
    on the BBS. The "Networks carried" link will take you to a page
    telling about the different Networks carried. Echos BBS has over 10
    Networks connected according to this page.

     Point Systems are offered as well and explained on the pages. There
    is a page to apply for membership to the Echos BBS as well. The
    "Download filelists and guides" link offers files about the BBS,
    Pointing and File lists. There is a guest book as well. When you
    visit the page, be sure to sign it... I did. :)

    On the "Some of my other links" link is a place to add your own link
    along with many links to other interesting and helpful sites.

    When you're out surfing the Internet, drop by this page and look it
    over.

    Regards,

     Frank
     [email protected]


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                                NET HUMOR
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                               Stupid People
                             Thanks to Roy Reed

    Stupid people should have to wear signs that just say, "I'm Stupid".
    That way you wouldn't rely on them, would you? You wouldn't ask them
    anything. It would be like, "Excuse me...oops, never mind. I didn't
    see your sign."

    It's like before my wife and I moved. Our house was full of boxes
    and there was a U-Haul truck in our driveway. My friend comes over
    and says "Hey, you moving?" "Nope. We just pack our stuff up once or
    twice a week to see how many boxes it takes. Here's your sign."

    A couple of months ago I went fishing with a buddy of mine, we
    pulled his boat into the dock, I lifted up this big 'ol stringer of
    bass and this idiot on the dock goes, "Hey, y'all catch all them
    fish?" "Nope - Talked 'em into giving up. Here's your sign."

    I was watching one of those animal shows on the Discovery Channel.
    There was a guy inventing a shark bite suit. And there's only one
    way to test it. "Alright Jimmy, you got that shark suit on, it looks
    good...  They want you to jump into this pool of sharks, and you
    tell us if it hurts when they bite you." "Well, all right, but hold
    my sign.  I don't wanna lose it."

    Last time I had a flat tire, I pulled my truck into one of those
    side-of-the-road gas stations. The attendant walks out, looks at my
    truck, looks at me, and I SWEAR he said, "Tire go flat?" I couldn't
    resist. Said, "Nope.  I was driving around and those other three
    just swelled right up on me.  Here's your sign."

    We were trying to sell our car about a year ago. A guy came over to
    the house and drove the car around for about 45 minutes. We get back
    to the house, he gets out of the car, reaches down and grabs the
    exhaust pipe, then says, "Darn that's hot!" See? If he'd been
    wearing his sign, I could have stopped him.

    I learned to drive an 18 wheeler in my days of adventure. Wouldn't
    ya know I misjudged the height of a bridge. The truck got stuck and
    I couldn't get it out no matter how I tried. I radioed in for help
    and eventually a local cop shows up to take the report. He went
    through his basic questioning..ok..no problem. I thought sure he was
    clear of needing a sign...until he asked "So..is your truck stuck?"
    I couldn't help myself! I looked at him, looked back at the rig and
    then back to him and said "no I'm delivering' a bridge...here's your
    sign."


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                             COMIX IN ASCII
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                                Famous Cows

                \ _ /
               - ( ) -                          /\
                / " \                         /|  |   (__)
                (__)                        /  |  |   (oo)\
        ________(oo)                      /____|  |    \/|  \
       /|        \/                     /       \/       |    \
      / |_______||                   __(_______          |||__  \
     *  ||      ||                  |__________|         |||  ____\---*
        ^^      ^^
    Thomas Edison's cow               Cow hearing his master's voice


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                              INTERNET INFO
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    Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html
    SDS Files:    http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
    FTSC page:    http://www.ftsc.org/
    General:      http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html

    List server:
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    Zone 1:       http://www.z1.fidonet.org
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                  http://www.tnl-online.com/andy/rgn10.htm
        Net 103:  http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
        Net 203:  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
      Region 11:  http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
       Net 2410:  http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/
      Region 12:  http://sparkys.dyndns.org
      Region 13:  http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
        Net 264:  http://www.net264.org/
        Net 275:  http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/
      Region 14:  http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
        Net 282:  http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
      Region 15:  <vacant>
      Region 16:  <vacant>
      Region 17:  http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
      Region 18:  http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/

      Region 19:  <Vacant>
        Net 124:  http://www.startext.net/np/net124
                  http://texoma.net/~flv
        Net 130:  http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
        Net 393:  http://www.chatter.com/~wb/

    Zone 2:       http://www.z2.fidonet.org
                  ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.)
      Region 20:  http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
      Region 23:  http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)
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      Region 24:  http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
        Fido-IP:  http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
      Region 25:  http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
      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)
                  http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
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    ? Region 33:  http://www.fidoitalia.net  (Italian)
      Region 34:  http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm  (Spanish)
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      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 42:  http://www.fido.cz
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      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 5028:  http://5028.yaroslavl.ru/
       Net 5030:  http://kenga.ru/fido/  (Russian & English)
       Net 5049:  http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org  (English/Russian)
    ??  Net 5085:  http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)

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

    Zone 4:
      Region 80:  http://fidobrasil.8m.com  (Portuguese)
      Region 90:
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    Zone 5:       http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/

    Zone 6:       http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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                         Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

    See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html

    a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
    address. The email is translated as follows
    [email protected] will automatically route to the
    appropriate individual's email.  Anyone in this list will
    also receive routed notice of this feature.  In my case, it
    would still be [email protected], but you get the idea.

    Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
    latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
    time between when the message is received, and when it is
    sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
    defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
    immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
    FIDONEWS 17-16               Page 10                  17 Apr 2000


    after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.

               v-email flag [email protected]
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      10/3     @ Brenda Donovan    | FTP,UUE,BinkP  | 384K,30| n/c
      10/345   @ Todd Cochrane     | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,!  | n/c
      12/12    @ Ken Wilson        | FTP            | T1    | $24mo.
      13/25    @ Jim Balcom        | FTP            | 56k   | $20mo.
     103/5     @ Mark Luetger      | BinkP          | 384k,!| n/c
     103/153   @ Michael Box       | BinkP          | aDSL,!| n/c
     103/301   @ Joe Jared         | BinkP,FTP      | 384k,!| n/c
     103/401   @ Warren Bonner     | BinkP          | aDSL,!| n/c
     105/8     | Russ Johnson      | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k  | n/c
     105/72    @ Larry James       | FTP, BinkP     | aDSL  | $50/yr
     106/1     @ Matt Bedynek      | BinkP, FTP     | 128k  | n/c
     106/6018  | Lawrence Garvin   | FTP, VMoT      | aDSL,60| n/c
     107/453   @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
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     167/133   | Stephen Monteith  | BinkP          | 128k+ | n/c
     211/417   @ Korombos          | BinkP,UUE,FTP  | T1    | n/c
     218/109   @ Matt Munson       | BinkP,UUE      | 33.6k | n/c
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     246/160   @ Mason Vye         | FTP, UUE       | 56K   | n/c
     271/140   @ Tom Barstow       | UUE,FTP        | T1    | n/c
     280/169   | Brian Greenstreet | FTP            | 33.6  | $2mo.
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     395/670   | Arthur Stark      | BinkD,FTP      | 128k  | n/c
     396/1     @ John Souvestre    | FTP,VMoT       | T1,10 | $5/mo
     396/45    | Marc Lewis        | UUE            | 33.6  | $26/yr
    2604/104   @ Jim Mclaughlin    | FTP,VMoT,UUE   | 33.6  | $1mo
    2613/404   @ David Moufarrege  | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c
    2624/306   @ David Calafrancesco  | VMoT        | 33.6  | n/c
    3613/2     @ [email protected] | UUE            | 28.8  | n/c
    3632/84    | Robert Todd    |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
    3639/93    @ Ross Cassell      | FTP, BinkP     |128K+,!| n/c
    3651/9     @ Jerry Gause       | FTP,VMoT       | 33.6  | $3/$6
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    Zone 2     |
      20/11    | Henrik Lindhe     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      31/1     | Gabriel Plutzar   | BinkP          | T1+   | n/c
     203/600   | Mikael Karlsson   | UUE            | 64k   | n/c
     221/360   @ Tommi Koivula     | BinkP,UUE      | ???   | n/c
     236/205   @ Michael Kaaber    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     246/2098  | Volker Imre       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     284/800   @ Jeroen VanDeLeur  | FTP,UUE        | 64k   | n/c
     292/620   | Eddy Missoul      | VMoT, UUE      | 64k   |N/C
     292/624   | Steven Leeman     | UUE          | 64k   | N/C
     292/2003  | Eric Vaneberck    | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
     301/1     | Peter Witschi     | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
     332/807   | Roberto Mascolo   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     335/535   @ Mario Mure        | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k   | n/c
     335/610   | Gino Lucrezi      | UUE            | 33.6  | n/c
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     344/201   | Julio Garcia      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     346/3     @ Carlos Navarro    | UUE            | ???   | n/c
     382/100   | Sinisa Burina     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     406/555   | Ofir Michaeli &   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     406/555   | Marius Kaizerman  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     423/81    | Milos Bajer       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     464/4077  | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE            | 19.2  | n/c
     465/204   | Va Milushnikov    | BinkP          | 33.6k | n/c
     469/84    | Max Masyutin      | VMoT           | 256k  | n/c
     480/112   | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k  | n/c
    2411/413   @ Dennis Dittrich   | UUE,BinkP      | 64k   | n/c
    2446/301   | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP  | 64K   | n/c
    2474/275   | Christian Emig    | UUE            | 64k   | unkn
    5030/115   | Andrey Podkolzin  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
    5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
    5020/1159  | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE          | 33.6  | n/c
    --------------------------------------------------------------
    Zone 3
     633/260   @ Malcolm Miles     | FTP,BinkP      | 64K   | n/c
     640/954   | Rick Van Ruth     | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
     774/605   @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c

    --------------------------------------------------------------
    Zone 4
     905/100   | Fabian Gervan     | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k  | n/c
     902/18    | Javier Tejedor    | UUE            | 33,6  | n/c

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