Original Message Date: 27 Jun 92 09:48:28 From: Mike Reardon on 1:280/6 To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1 Subj: Fidonews ^AINTL 1:1/1 1:280/6 Hello Tom! Below please find a cut-and-paste from the current Fidonews: My electronic world is deteriorating. I have to call in at 300 baud to edit this rag (sic) due to problems with the phone line here at my (new) boyfriends house here in the Pacific NorthWest. I have to admit that I'm not doing a particularly good job this week; I've fallen terribly in love with a wonderful punk boy, and won't be back at the end of the month like I said. Don't worry, I wont inflict lovey-dovey garbage on FidoNews readers. People in love are sooo disgusting to be around (just ask his roommate). ========================================================================== I am glad for you that you are happy with your new lover, however, I have Ť absolutely no desire to read about your private life in Fidonews. I have seen you mention being gay at different times in the editorial. I Ť don't personally care whether you are gay, straight, twisted, asexual, or Ť whatever <grin>. I don't, however, read Fidonews to find out about your Ť latest sexual adventures. I read it to find out about Fidonet, and I Ť don't see that being gay or any or sexual preference has anything Ť whatsoever to do with running a Fido system. This is a personal request to leave your private life out of Fidonews. Thanks, Mike Original Message Date: 24 Jun 92 02:21:14 From: Karen Maynor on 1:3640/5 To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1 Subj: SDN CD ^AMSGID: 1:3640/5@FidoNet.Org 57964744 Hi Tom, The SDN 1 Plus CDROM is now a reality.. Yeah! I have the #0001 framed on Ť my wall and your copy was sent Saturday.. Look for it whenever you get Ť back from vacation... Hope you enjoy it... I read of all your troubles Ť calling to read your mail at 300 baud (ick!), so I won't bother you with Ť annoucement about the disc in fnews until you return home and it will be Ť easier for ya... Also, many congrats on your new love.. :) Hope it works out wonderfully Ť for you. Karen Original Message Date: 03 Jul 92 13:31:46 From: Al Anderson on 1:377/37 To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1 Subj: Backbone Politics ^AMSGID: 1:377/37@fidonet.org 5c8d1825 Dear Sir; While I have not been around FIDO all that long, I was under the mistaken Ť belief that it was an amateur communications network of, for & by the Ť people. Recently the Perot echo completed all previously known requirements to be Ť placed on the backbone. Now, additional previously unpublished rules have Ť been formulated which appear to be aimed specifically at delaying backbone Ť status to this one particular echo. I am not a political person, but I am a firm believer in freedom of speech Ť and an informed populace. That is the reason I carry so many echos - Ť backbone or not, pro or con anything. I run a free multi-line FIDO board Ť for just that purpose and carry over 110 echos and now the FileBone. I Ť carry everything from AIDS/GENDER/GAY to some of the most right wing stuff Ť ever to cross a CRT. I find this latest twist disgusting, reprehensible and petty as just a few Ť adjectives that cross my mind. I wonder if the AIDS echos fought a Ť similar battle. Just blowing off steam. I carry the echo as part of my LD effort and will Ť continue to carry it regardless of what petty efforts are made by those in Ť a position "of authority" to stifle communications. I believe some people Ť do not understand that they are also in a position of "responsibility" - a Ť novel concept. Btw...good luck with your latest love. I just about died when I read the Ť last two news issues. Openness on Fido? thank you for your time... --- Original Message Date: 01 Jul 92 09:00:52 From: Uucp on 1:125/555 To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111 Subj: Re: FidoNet Newsletter, Volume 9, # 25 ^AINTL 1:125/111 1:125/555 From kumr!pozar From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar) To: joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 8:41:30 PDT Cc: Tom.Jennings@f111.n125.z1.fidonet.org joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM wrote: > This newsgroup will henceforth be blocked from this system due to Ť repeated > references to what many users have found disgusting (namly the fag and Ť his > boyfriend). > > Sorry ladies..... You're still not accepted on this system. Nice to see homophobia is alive and well in your community... Tim -- Internet: pozar@kumr.lns.com FidoNet: Tim Pozar @ 1:125/555 UUCP: ...!uunet!kumr.lns.com!pozar Snail: Tim Pozar / KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108 / USA Voice: +1 415 788 2022 Original Message Date: 12 Jul 92 21:53:50 From: George Willard on 1:286/66 To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111 Subj: boyfriend? ^AFLAGS PVT,CRA,XMA,DIR Just read your editorial where you mentioned the node/net/whatever that Ť decided to quit distributing FidoNews because of "the fag and his new Ť boyfriend." What a hoot! Jeeze, I wonder how many people will freak when/if I decide to announce Ť the ZOOPHILE echo in FNEWS? Maybe you should put me on the FidoNews staff Ť so they can gripe about "the pervert and his four-legged wife," thus Ť drawing the heat off of you? Sorry, but I find some folks' attitudes Ť absolutely hilarious -- when they aren't downright terrifying! Hey, I was glad to see that you found a nice friend and lover. Ť Everyone needs love; some of us seek it out or discover it in Ť less-than-traditional manners, that's all. (Some of us in Ť MUCH-less-than-etc., grin.) Oh, about the proposed echo -- I'm dead serious, but am waiting to hear Ť from Butch Walker exactly how to set it up so that it will be in Ť compliance with backbone policy; i.e., no obscenity, no solicitation or Ť sharing of partners, no pornography exchanges and/or sales ... topics held Ť to support for individuals, sharing of coping strategies, discussion of Ť issues both political and social as applied to "strangelove." Wonder if I Ť can pull it off? I haven't yet decided whether to moderate it as "Hossius Anonymous" or Ť "Dr. Doolittle." A local user dubbed me the latter as a flame, but I Ť rather like it. George Willard, 1:286/66, non-CM, LO, MO co-moderator of WRITING echo Original Message Date: 24 Jul 92 01:04:57 From: Josh Burke on 1:343/95 To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1 Subj: Problems ^AFLAGS DIR A recent article in fidonews contained the following lines: " Well, no scandals, flames, outings, net wars, political conspiracies this week. Too bad. It's getting quiet around here. Actually, the above reminds me of something Vince Perriello (Josh (my boyfriend, remember him?) and I had coffee & pizza with Vince in Seattle) brought up, and I think is so obvious (in hindsight) that I'm completely amazed I've never heard it before -- " The use of "Josh" without any other form of identification has caused me Ť some problems within the network. I have had a number of flaming Ť netmails, insults, and I believe I have lost Zone Coordinator position in Ť the network I started. I believe that you intended no ill towards me, nor Ť any other "Josh"'s in Seattle. I would appreatiate some clarity of what Ť you meant by this in a upcoming fidonews. Please note that I have nothing Ť aginst homosexuals... I have been in Austraila for 11 days, to find my BBS crashed (Neighbor did Ť not reset the computer, he reset the VCR!), Zone Coordinator position Ť lost, Fido feed cut... not the kind of things you like to see after 28 Ť hours in a airplane. (I did warn everybody I was going to Australia)