Volume 7, Number 11 12 March 1990 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ | | / \ | | /|oo \ | | - FidoNews - (_| /_) | | _`@/_ \ _ | | FidoNet (r) | | \ \\ | | International BBS Network | (*) | \ )) | | Newsletter ______ |__U__| / \// | | / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / | | (________) (_/(_|(____/ | | (jm) | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings Copyright 1990, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact Fido Software. FidoNews is published weekly by the System Operators of the FidoNet (r) International BBS Network. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or authorized agents of the authors. 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ARTICLES ................................................. 1 FIDOCON 1990 REGISTRATION FORM ........................... 1 The new BASIC Echo ....................................... 5 Announcing DIGITRON echo ................................. 8 New Echo for Those Interested in Florida_USA! ............ 9 Rumors, Rumors, Rumors.. jeez! ........................... 10 2. COLUMNS .................................................. 15 Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 15 3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 17 Latest Software Versions ................................. 17 4. NOTICES .................................................. 20 And more! FidoNews 7-11 Page 1 12 Mar 1990 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= The Secret Sysop Society presents __ *** Conclave '90 *** / \ The SYSOPS Convention /|oo \ Home of FidoCon 1990 (_| /_) Lyndhurst, New Jersey _`@/_ \ _ August 1-5, 1990 | | \ \\ | (*) | \ )) ______ |__U__| / \// / Fido \ _//|| _\ / (________) (_/(_|(____/ (tm) Rate Plan Schedule: Before 6/1/90: Before 4/1/90: -------------- -------------- A. Single Occupancy.......$595.00 $545.00 $495.00 B. Double Occupancy.......$450.00 $400.00 $350.00 C. Conference w/ meals....$300.00 $250.00 $200.00 D. Conference w/ Banquet..$205.00 $155.00 $105.00 E. Conference only........$175.00 $125.00 $ 75.00 F. Banquet only...........$130.00 $80.00 $ 30.00 (All rate plans except plan F include all conference and hotel fees. Those registering before 4/1/90 get a $100.00 discount, those registering before 6/1/90 get a $50.00 discount.) You must pay by Check, Money Order, or Credit Card. Please send no cash. All monies must be in U.S. Funds. Checks should be made out to: "Conclave '90" The following registration form must be completed and mailed to: PO Box 12 Lyndhurst, NJ 07071 You may register by Netmailing this completed form to 1:1/90 for processing. Rename it to ZNNNXXXX.REG where Z is your Zone number, N is your Net number, and X is your Node number. US Mail confirmation is required within 72 hours of electronic filing. If you are paying by credit card, please include the required information. For your own security, do not route any message with your credit card number on it. Crash it directly to 1:1/90. The official Conclave '90 airline is American Airlines. American offers a 5% discount the lowest applicable round-trip fare, including 1st class travel, subject to availability of inventory. All fare rules and restrictions apply. In addition, American offers 40% off their round trip unrestricted day coach fare. International travelers qualify for special benefits, including complimentary admittance to the Admiral's Club Lounge at any American Airlines terminal. Newark is an American Air- lines city with direct flights to most major cities. When making reservations, you must call American's Toll-free reservation FidoNews 7-11 Page 2 12 Mar 1990 number at 800-433-1790, and reference Star number 13704F. FidoNews 7-11 Page 3 12 Mar 1990 C O N C L A V E '90 R E G I S T R A T I O N F O R M Name: __________________________________________________________ Address: _____________________________ Apt. or Suite: _________ City: _________________________ State or Province: ____________ Postal Code: __________________ Country: ______________________ Voice Phone: ______________________ Data: _____________________ Zone:Net/Node.Point@Domain: ____________________________________ Special requirements: __________________________________________ +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Option | Full | | Pricing | Line | |(Choose 1: A-F)| Name | Qty | Thru 4/1 | Total | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN A* | | | $495.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN B* | | | $350.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN C* | | | $200.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN D* | | | $105.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN E* | | | $ 75.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | PLAN F | | | $ 30.00 | | +===============+=====================+=====+==========+=======+ | NJ Beach Trip | | | $ 24.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | AC Casino trip| | | $ 22.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Eve. NYC Tour | | | $ 37.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Broadway Show | | | $ 75.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | NYC Shop Tour | | | $ 36.50 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ | Costume Ball* | | | $ 50.00 | | +---------------+---------------------+-----+----------+-------+ * includes all conference fees & Hotel | Total $ | | ** includes dinner, show, and costume +==========+=======+ MC _____ Visa _____ Card Number: _____________________________ Expiration: ___________ Signature _____________________________ ( Credit card registrations require valid signature ) FidoNews 7-11 Page 4 12 Mar 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 5 12 Mar 1990 Brice Fleckenstein Sysop, 1:231/190 And now, by popular demand, we introduce: AREA: BASIC - the BASIC Echomail Conference (My cat is with me as I type this....) The Purpose of the BASIC Echo ----------------------------- This conference was created in responce to the constant fustration expressed in the QUIK_BAS echo that there was no viable place to discuss all of the various OTHER BASIC variants out there, from the original Dartmouth to the current crop of non-MicroSoft Compiled BASICs. I saw a need, so I set out to fill it. Valid postings in the BASIC Echo -------------------------------- Valid messages for this conference should deal with programming tricks, features, "how to", problem reports, interesting applications, interaction with other products, and other such related topics. Product reviews and comparisons are also appropriate topics of discussion, but "This BASIC is better than this other BASIC" flames will NOT be permitted. Who should be reading the BASIC Echo ------------------------------------ Anyone who programs in BASIC, or any potential BASIC programmer, should access the BASIC echo. Addressing the question: Who died and left YOU boss? ---------------------------------------------------- Someone had to be Moderator. I elected myself, as nobody else seemed more willing to start an echo like this. My qualifications ----------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 6 12 Mar 1990 I first learned to program on a DEC PDP-11/70, in BASIC+ under RSTS/E. I have since programmed in BASIC+2 on various other PDP-11's, MBASIC on several CP/M machines, Level I and II BASICs on the TRS-80 models 1/3/4, Commodore's BASIC 2.0 and the BLITZ! Compiled BASIC on Commodore C64's, Commodore BASIC 7.0 and the Abacus Basic-128 compiler on C128's, BASICA/GWBASIC and Turbo BASIC and Quick BASIC on various IBM XT/AT Clones. I've also "played" with about 10 other BASIC dialects not listed here over the years. Just to keep things balanced, I've also programmed in a few FORTRAN dialects, COBOL, 6502/6510/8502 assembler, MACRO-11, TECO, MASM, JRT Pascal, Z80 assemblers, and played around in another 5 - 10 other languages. Getting a feed -------------- Send Net Mail to "Sysop" at 1:231/190, and I'll put you in the distribution list. I'm going to be HOLDing for all of you for now, as I can't afford the outgoing calls. Once the message traffic builds up, I plan to link BASIC into the Backbone. The Rules --------- Here, I blatantly cribbed from Vince's BinkleyTerm Code of Conduct - basically, the rules are simple. Stay on the subject, leave the politics and the flamethrowers at home, and have an enjoyable and (hopefully) informative time. What about the QUIK_BAS echo? ----------------------------- QUIK_BAS is a usefull and informative echo - it does what it's intended to do, which is to discuss MicroSoft's QuickBASIC and it's close relatives BASICA/GWBASIC and BASCOM. (I'm not sure where Basmark's UNIX ports of QuickBASIC fall, as the question hasn't come up yet.) I intend to continue to be a participant and carry QUIK_BAS. I just wanted a forem where I could talk about the OTHER dialects of BASIC I use or have used in the past - and several other folks expressed the same desire. BASIC is not intended to supplant QUIK_BAS - it's intended to reduce the off-base traffic there by providing a PROPER forem for some of the valid but off-topic QUIK_BAS traffic. If any of you have ANY other questions about the BASIC echo, feel free to send me mail. FidoNews 7-11 Page 7 12 Mar 1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 8 12 Mar 1990 George Adam Stanislav 1:129/39 Digital Electronics Circuit Echo I love getting at the root of things. By the same token, I love getting as much out of my computer as possible. That is probably why I program mostly in assembly language. Lately I came to the realization that assembly language is still pretty high level for my personal preference. :-) At any rate, I started playing with my old love, electronics, more specifically digital electronics. I will probably not be satisfied until I design my own microchips. At this point I have more questions than answers, so I started looking for an echo where I could ask them without being considered weird. I could not find it, so I decided to start one. By the time you are reading this, DIGITRON should be readily available at the backbone. The echo will deal with all aspects of digital electronics. By that I do not mean "How do I put a hard disk controller in my computer", but more something along the line of "How do I design a hard disk controller". The echo is not restricted but should attract those who like keeping thier computer without a cover and close to their soldering pencil. If you subscribe to Circuit Cellar Ink or to Micro Cornucopia, you are the kind of person this echo has been designed for. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 9 12 Mar 1990 Christopher Baker MetroFire, 1:135/14, Miami_FL_USA Barbara O'Keefe Ramblin' Roots, 1:135/54, Miami_FL_USA FL_LIVING Echo We have a local Echo [FLA_CUISINE] that has changed names and content and become Extralocal that you and your Users may be interested in. FL_LIVING is Hosted and Moderated by Barbara O'Keefe at 1:135/54 and is dedicated to the discussion of all aspects of Florida Living including but not limited to: dining; recipes; weather; housing; regional specialties; tourist information; entertainment; fishing forecasts; real estate info; or anything else you can think of in the State of Florida! This Echo is not restricted to Florida systems and ALL Region 18 AND FidoNet systems EVERYWHERE are invited to participate. This Echo may be of interest to anyone considering moving or retiring to Florida or those just interested in the Sunshine State. [grin] If participation picks up, it may become available on the Backbone. It should be available at REC18 by the time you read this. In the meantime, contact Barbara O'Keefe at 1:135/54 or me at 1:135/14 for a link. We hope that more Florida systems will join in so we can get the perspective of the middle and northern parts as well as the southern viewpoint. That's the general idea. [grin] The Echo label is FL_LIVING. In addition, Florida systems should have their Florida city in their origin line so everyone knows what part of Florida you are talking about and if you mention a specific place or area, you should define it as if people outside your immediate area are reading it [as they will be]. This ain't a 'local' Echo anymore! [grin] TTFN. Chris ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 10 12 Mar 1990 Joaquim Homrighausen 1:135/20 Aaaarrrgh! All environments where people don't stay in personal contact have the same disease, misinformation. Unfortunately, some people in FidoNet and OtherNet(probably tm) has always taken it upon themselves to uphold the BIRS (Bullshit Information Retrieval System). I usually don't give a damn about rumors, but enuf is enuf. I didn't really feel like writing this article until I spoke to a local SysOp over the phone. He had read in the Wildcat! conference that "Yes, Joaquim is in Australia" and this was supposed to be on "good authority". Someone else claims that I'm going to Australia to work on RemoteAccess full-time, that I stole source code from Adam Hudson's QuickBBS, and that I put it in RemoteAccess. I don't know who's spreading these rumors, and I don't really care - unfortunately, other people seem to believe them. I'm moving to Australia on the 12th of March. I've always wanted to see Australia and I was (am) getting bored down here in Miami. Whether or not my Australian Adventure(tm) :-) will be a permanent thing, I don't know. This does have some impact on things I'm involved in at the moment. 1) I have No, Nada, Zip, Zilch, Njet, Inga, Nix intention of quitting the development of FrontDoor, TosScan and/or AirMail, my pet project. I know this is hard for some people (no names) to swallow, but: while(!believe_me), read_fact(1); 2) FrontDoor 1.99c has been released by the time you read this. And is hopefully working like it should. My main concern is (of course) whether or not it talks properly to SEAdogs so Phil Buonomo doesn't have to start his FDECHO polution again. 2a) There will ALWAYS (read it again to make sure you get it), be a free for noncommercial use version of FrontDoor. 3) TosScan 1.10 will go into beta testing two or so weeks after I've arrived in Australia and found all the bars in town (hmm, that could take three weeks I guess..). Whether or not I'll be able to add TBBS/PCBoard support for 1.10 is something I don't know at the moment. But they're included in my plans at least. 4) Both FrontDoor and TosScan (and most likely AirMail) will be available for OS/2 and Xenix towards the end of 1990 hopefully. FidoNews 7-11 Page 11 12 Mar 1990 5) I will be polling 1:260/340 once or twice per day as well as picking up some echomail (FDECHO, etc.) from his system. I also have a private system listed in Net-260 (1:260/20) which will be routed via 1:260/340 (which is the host system). So mail will always reach me in or less than a day. 6) People who have ordered the commercial version of FrontDoor will be receiving it in the near future. That's my top priority when I get down under. 7) Before spreading rumors, read 1-6. 8) See 7. Too all FrontDoor and TosScan users, and the KoolDudes(tm), hang in there.. it only gets better. To all the others, have no illusions, I'm not even getting close to a burn-out. It's party time! Thanks for your attention, Joaquim Homrighausen ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 12 12 Mar 1990 MSGID / REPLY A proposal for unique message identifiers and reply chain linkage INITIAL DRAFT 06 March 1990 jim nutt 1:114/30@fidonet From a message originally posted in the NET_DEV conference The following is a brief description of the proposed standard for generating msgid/reply 'kludge' lines in a message. Msgids have a number of uses besides simply being a unique message identifier. They can be used for dupe killing and reply linkage as well. MSGID A MSGID line consists of the string ^AMSGID: followed by a space, the address of the originating system and a serial number unique to that message on the originating system. i.e: ^MSGID: zone:net/node.point@domain serialno It is not the intent to limit the address field of the msgid to fidonet style addresses, they are used here simply for illustration, messages originating from other types of systems should use an address appropriate to the originating system. The serial number may be anything the developer's little heart desires, AS LONG AS IT IS UNIQUE, NO TWO MESSAGES ON A SYSTEM MAY SHARE A SERIAL NUMBER!! The serial number is formatted as an 8 character hexadecimal integer, i.e. a 32 bit word. since this yields in the neighborhood of 4 billion unique numbers, I don't think it will be a limit for most systems. A common choice for the serial number is the number of seconds since 1 jan 1970 00:00:00 gmt, this is unique on a single user system and relatively easy to generate. A more elaborate system will doubtless be necessary in the case of a multi-user system. REPLY A REPLY line looks similiar to a MSGID line, and is in fact, very close. REPLY lines are generated using the MSGID line of the message being replied to. The ^AMSGID: string in the MSGID line is replaced with ^AREPLY: and then written to the text of the new message. i.e.: ^AREPLY: msgid of original message Again, this is very simple and as non-compute intense as possible FidoNews 7-11 Page 13 12 Mar 1990 GENERAL For best results, MSGID and REPLY lines should be the first two lines of the message after extended addressing lines (FMPT, TOPT, INTL, DOMAIN), with MSGID appearing above REPLY. This makes it unlikely that a MSGID will be damaged by something that doesn't destroy the binary message header as well. As mentioned above, it doesn't really matter what method is used in generating the serial number, as long as it produces an eight digit hexadecimal number UNIQUE TO THE ORIGINATING SYSTEM. Finally, a MSGID SHOULD BE GENERATED ONLY AT MESSAGE CREATION, IT SHOULD NEVER, EVER BE STRIPPED FROM A MESSAGE NOR SHOULD ONE BE ADDED TO A MESSAGE PASSING THROUGH A SYSTEM (whew, all those caps wore me out!). This is essential for a msgid to be useful, without this restriction, msgids are useless or worse. RATIONALE Finally, what you've all been waiting for (I'm entering this in sixty line mode and the top has scrolled off...) WHY you should use msgid and reply kludge lines. Good question and one that has several answers, which I will cover one by one... 1) They eliminate the need for origin lines. A msgid contains all the information an origin line is technically there for. It is in a safer place than an origin line and much less likely to be truncated or destroyed while leaving the rest of the message intact. 2) Is related to 1) above, a msgid makes private replies to echomail via netmail a trivial process, you know exactly what system originated the message without worrying about parsing out the origin line (and we all know how much fun THAT is..) 3) True reply linkage is possible in echomail because you know exactly which message the reply is to. You just look for a message whose msgid matches the reply in the current message. And you already have a database of msgids for dupe killing (more later). This also lets you track replies ACROSS echomail conferences.... some fascinating possibilities there, eh? 4) Annoying messages can be tracked more accurately. Because msgids are a 'hidden' line and therefore not normally visible or creatable by your average user, they are considerably more difficult to forge than an origin line (forging which is a trivial task). Admittedly this isn't going to stop a twit sysop, but that 8 digit serial number is going to be a problem for him... If he copies one that already exists, the message will be killed as a dupe, if he makes one up, chances are fairly good that that will be a dupe as well, so it does make FidoNews 7-11 Page 14 12 Mar 1990 forgery a bit more difficult. 5) Accurate dupe killing is possible. By maintaining a database of msgids one can easily check to see if a message is a duplicate of one already entered. If it is stipulated that msgids must be sequential, it becomes, once again, trivial... simply store the highest serial number that has come from a particular address, any messages that come in with a serial number lower than that can be assumed dupes and killed. 6) Tracking of dupe generators is possible. Since msgids are never stripped and never added, the only msgid on a message should be the one of the originating system... 7) Simplicity. MSGID and REPLY kludgelines are very simple to generate, they require no complex calculations and are easy to parse. And they give you all the benefits above. So why NOT use them? FINALLY Your questions and comments are welcome and will be responded to as time permits. This is only the initial draft, there are a number of proposed extensions to this specification already. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 15 12 Mar 1990 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Henry Clark 124/6120 In CASE You Wondered -- "CASE enters mid-life crises." No I didn't read it, I just wanted some continuity. Hopefully, Computer Aided Software Engineering has been sufficiently exposed for the HOAX it really is. It's one of those "You haven't come a long way enough yet baby" industries. The trouble with CASE programs is that you could spend as much time learning the tool and using it as you could spend just writing the required programs. The unfortunate thing about software generation tools is that they are so terribly imperfect. You spend too much time fixing at the source level. The 'life cycle' documenter style tools are generally worthless. You really think your executives look at that stuff ? The worst part is that even when they work, CASE tools are bereft of learning potential. The methodologies are lost in the tool implementation. CASE is a waste of time. BBS For Sale -- A way back, ( Mr. Wizard ), I wrote a line protocol drivers for banks and airlines that ran in a Motorola 6800. My pride and joy was a 600 line front-end to a Big Blue bookkeeping system. Due to line tariffs imposed by the Danish government run Data Network, a minimum 5 second line charge was the driving factor in network operation. Now bank transactions tend to be pretty short and sweet, so the connect rates peaked in the 100 per second range. The system had 1500 users. Well, now after 8 years the system has been replaced by Big Blue's own hardware and 2 man years worth of custom software. My little mail system handled well over 3 BILLION CALLS; now it's gone. The hardware was sold to Air Canada, to add to their existing reservation system. Ah, Winnipeg in the spring... FidoNews 7-11 Page 16 12 Mar 1990 The Salesmanship Club -- "Just don't say NO". Have you noticed the layered approach to Big Blue's sales force? I have proof of TECHNICAL SALES, Management Sales and Executive Sales. There are probably more. In my profession, I see a lot of Technical Salespersons. If they think they are losing you, they call up Management Sales who talks to your boss. If you have explained to your boss why Big Blue's latest box won't help, and he passes this on to Management Sales, then here comes Executive Sales. The most efficient method to employ is to keep Technical Sales happy by never, repeat NEVER, mentioning that you are not 100% for their proposal. Some good leader lines include : We are analyzing our software to determine the best method for porting; We are discussing a merger with Department B and need a better definition of storage requirements; We are awaiting your announcement on . You get the picture. Danish for Honey -- Honey wants to write momma a letter on WHOSE machine ? Let's see now, KEYBDA for the keyboard : oh no, where's the slash key ? OK now how do I set the screen fonts ? Darn. Well let's print it, anyway. Oops, let's try this character set. "Look, real Danish characters!" "I want a typewriter." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 17 12 Mar 1990 ================================================================= LATEST VERSIONS ================================================================= Latest Software Versions MS-DOS Systems -------------- Bulletin Board Software Name Version Name Version Name Version Fido 12q+ QuickBBS 2.62 TBBS 2.1 Lynx 1.30 RBBS 17.2B TComm/TCommNet 3.4 Kitten 2.16 RBBSmail 17.2 TPBoard 6.0 Opus 1.03c+ RemoteAccess 0.01 Wildcat! 2.10 Phoenix 1.3 TAG 2.5d1 Network Node List Other Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version BinkleyTerm 2.30 EditNL 4.00 ARC 6.02 D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.20 ARCAsim 2.30* Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.0 FrontDoor 1.99c* Prune 1.40 ConfMail 4.00 PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.01 EMM 2.02 SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 Gmail 2.05 XlaxDiff 2.32 GROUP 2.16 XlaxNode 2.32 GUS 1.30 LHARC 1.13 MSG 4.0 MSGED 1.99 PK[UN]ZIP 1.02 QM 1.0 QSORT 4.03 StarLink 1.01 TagMail 2.20 TCOMMail 2.2 TMail 1.14* TPBNetEd 3.2 TosScan 1.00* UFGATE 1.03 XRS 3.10 ZmailQ 1.10 Macintosh --------- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities FidoNews 7-11 Page 18 12 Mar 1990 Name Version Name Version Name Version Red Ryder Host v2.1b4 Tabby 2.1 MacArc 0.04 Mansion 7.15 Copernicus 1.0d* ArcMac 1.3 WWIV (Mac) 3.0 StuffIt 1.51 TImport 1.331 TExport 1.32 Timestamp 1.6 Tset 1.3 Import 2.52 Export 2.54 Sundial 2.1 UNZIP 1.01* Amiga ----- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailers Other Utilities Name Version Name Version Name Version Paragon 2.00+* BinkleyTerm 1.00 AmigArc 0.23 TrapDoor 1.11 booz 1.01 WelMat 0.35* ConfMail 1.10 ChameleonEdit 0.10 Lharc 1.10* oMMM 1.43b* ParseLst 1.30 PkAX 1.00 PK[UN]ZIP 1.01* RMB 1.30 UNzip 0.86 Zoo 2.00 Atari ST -------- Bulletin Board Software Network Mailer Other Utilities Name Version Name Version Name Version FIDOdoor/ST 1.5c* BinkleyTerm 1.03g3 ConfMail 1.00 Pandora BBS 2.41c The BOX 1.20 ParseList 1.30 QuickBBS/ST 0.40 ARC 6.02* GS Point 0.61 LHARC 0.51 PKUNZIP 1.10 MSGED 1.96S SRENUM 6.2 Trenum 0.10 OMMM 1.40 FidoNews 7-11 Page 19 12 Mar 1990 + Netmail capable (does not require additional mailer software) * Recently changed Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 7-11 Page 20 12 Mar 1990 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= The Interrupt Stack 17 Mar 1990 Release date for Opus v1.10 3 Jun 1990 Comdex/Spring, which will run from June 3-6 in Atlanta, will be held at the World Congress Center and other locations. 5 Jun 1990 David Dodell's 33rd Birthday 12 Jun 1990 Fifth anniversary of FidoNet's switch to multiple nets. 13 Jul 1990 Start of Eurocon / Techcon conference in Antwerp, Belgium. Further information will follow. 27 Jul 1990 The beginning of the REGION 17 Convention at Menucha Resort in the Columbia Gorge, Oregon. For details contact Ken Zwaschka, 1:105/54. 1 Aug 1990 Start of FidoCon '90. Contact Bill Vanglahn at 1:1/90 for details. 5 Oct 1990 21st Anniversary of "Monty Python's Flying Circus" 6 Nov 1990 First anniversary of Van Diepen Automatiseert, 2:500/28 14 Nov 1990 Marco Maccaferri's 21rd Birthday. Send greetings to him at 2:332/16.0 1 Jan 1991 Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description. 16 Feb 1991 Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush. If you have something which you would like to see on this calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1. FidoNews 7-11 Page 21 12 Mar 1990 -----------------------------------------------------------------