F I D O N E W S -- Vol.13 No.20 (13-May-1996) +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | A newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" BBS | | _ | +1-519-570-4176 | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editors: | | | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: editors 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca | | Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of fidonews or the internet gateway faq | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ======================================================================== Table of Contents ======================================================================== 1. Editorial..................................................... 1 2. Articles...................................................... 2 MENSANS_ONLY Echo Notice.................................... 2 A FidoNet historical compilation on CD-ROM in the works..... 3 SKEPTIC Echo on the Zone 1 Backbone!........................ 4 3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 4 ======================================================================== Editorial ======================================================================== I have a couple more applications for the editors's job. All are from zone one, to date. FidoNews 13-20 Page: 2 13 May 1996 ======================================================================== Articles ======================================================================== MENSANS_ONLY Echo Notice Christopher Baker 1:374/14, Titusville_FL_USA MENSANS_ONLY Echo MENSANS_ONLY is open to any verified member, past or present, of any Mensa organization anywhere. MENSANS_ONLY is not connected with American Mensa, Ltd. [The High IQ Society], or any other Mensa organization anywhere. MENSANS_ONLY has no opinions. Any opinions expressed are those of the writer and any replier. MENSANS_ONLY exists solely to provide a convenient forum for electronic conversation between accepted members of any Mensa organization. Any other inference you may glean from perusing this Echo is all in your head, which is where it should stay. It is Hosted and Moderated from Rights On! in Titusville_FL_USA at 1:374/14. It is intentionally withheld from the FidoNet Backbone distribution system and is offered for point-to-point links only. Any Backbone system discovering this Echo traversing their system should immediately remove it and notify anyone sending or receiving it through them to desist unless said Backbone system is an active and verified participant of MENSANS_ONLY. Anyone may read the traffic in this Echo but only verified members may post in this Echo. Non-members interested in more information about Mensa are directed to the general Mensa Echo of the same name [MENSA] available from the FidoNet Backbone and Moderated by Dave Aronson of 1:109/120. Sysops who link into MENSANS_ONLY agree to abide by the access restrictions above. The content of that Echo is not restricted to any single topic or idea. The number of systems linked to this Echo and the volume of traffic in this Echo varies. Traffic is generally light which is typical of non-Backbone, special interest Echos. Anyone interested in linking into MENSANS_ONLY, should send Netmail to: Christopher Baker at 1:374/14 {Rights On!, Titusville_FL_USA}. The following is a list of primary links for M_O: FidoNews 13-20 Page: 3 13 May 1996 [Zone 1:] 109/120 114/74 135/71 374/14 374/98 380/7 387/31. Zone 2 is also connected thru the Netherlands courtesy of Frits Spieker at 2:286/115. [thanks, Frits!] The Sysops of the above systems may link others into MENSANS_ONLY based on the acceptance of the restrictions, imposed above, by the link requesting Sysop. Anyone requiring a direct feed or further information should send Netmail to me at 1:374/14. Rights On! is a 24 hour system currently at 9600+ bps. It is at 9600+ HST/V32 on a USR Courier HST dual standard courtesy of their Sysop Purchase Plan. TTFN. Chris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- A FidoNet historical compilation on CD-ROM in the works by Carlos Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70, 2:31/62 2:341/79 2:341NC This is simple a short request for FidoNet related stuff. I'm compiling a CD-ROM with all the Fido stuff I can get my hand on. I have already found a good nodelist collection (many thanks to Jan Vermeulen) and all the FidoNews (thanks to Jan again). I also have many pictures from very well known and not so well known sysops. I would like to include more stuff such as local pointlists, local policies, old backbone.na's, and so on. The CD will of course be free of charge to everyone (other than the cost of the blank CD-R). Any submittion will be very welcome. Please send them to: cfs@emporium.subred.org 2:341/70, 62, 79 (do not route!) even snail mail is ok. I will return every disk I receive. Carlos Fernandez Sanz Fermin Caballero 60, 3-B Madrid 28034 Spain Thanks in advance! FidoNews 13-20 Page: 4 13 May 1996 SKEPTIC Echo on the Zone 1 Backbone! Christopher Baker Rights On!, 1:374/14 SKEPTIC Echo is alive and well! SKEPTIC is a Backbone Echo that originally sprang forth from the San Francisco area. It now originates from Zone 3 in Hawthorndene, Australia under the Moderatorship of Jackson Harding at 3:800/857. Co-Moderator is David Bloomberg in Springfield, IL at 1:2430/2112. If any of you or your Sysops are interested in obtaining this Echo, you or they should contact their regular, Backbone Echo source! SKEPTIC has appeared in FIDONET.NA [now BACKBONE.NA} since 2 May 92. SKEPTIC is devoted to examination and report of paranormal and fringe-science claims. It has NO official or unofficial connection to CSICOP {Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal} but has a similar philosophy. Claims are not rejected on a priori grounds but rather are investigated by objective and critical inquiry. The Echo is now fully activated and waiting for those with an interest in the mission stated above. Complete information about the Echo may be found in the current issue of the EList and the ELRules files. Come and join us in the pursuit of knowledge! [grin] TTFN. Chris Zone 1 Hub for SKEPTIC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== Fidonews Information ======================================================================== ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------- Editor: Donald Tees Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar Tom Jennings, Sylvia Maxwell "FidoNews" BBS FidoNet 1:1/23 BBS +1-519-570-4176, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(DS) more addresses: FidoNews 13-20 Page: 5 13 May 1996 Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews 154 Victoria St. S. 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' ' disgreement is actually necessary, or we'd all have to get in fights or semethin to amuse ourselves,, and create the requisite chaos." -Tom Jennings -- END FidoNews 13-20 Page: 6 13 May 1996 -------------------------------------------------------------------