F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 8 23 February 1998
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| The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: |
| FidoNet community | "FidoNews" |
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| | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 |
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| (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. |
| | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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Huh? Wha? Who?
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
Revitalizing a Small Part of Fidonet ..................... 2
Why Web Pages ............................................ 4
3. COORDINATORS CORNER ...................................... 6
Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 051 ...... 6
Zone 1 EchoMail Coordinator Results ...................... 6
4. WE GET EMAIL ............................................. 9
5. NOTICES .................................................. 10
Future History ........................................... 10
6. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 11
FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 11
7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14
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EDITORIAL
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What can I say, other than this has been one heck of a week?
With this issue, and an hour later than I planned, I am assuming
the role of Editor of one of FidoNet's oldest traditions, and
will turn the FidoNews into a "sewer of feces and lies", as
one Region Echomail Coordinator claims my appointment has caused.
And I haven't even *published* an issue until now.
Of course, this fails to note that the FidoNews is made from the
submissions of other sysops...all the Editor does is to bring these
together, uncensored, into a coherent form.
As long as the submission follows the ARTSPEC.DOC parameters (see
the masthead at the end of the FidoNews for details), what is
submitted is going to be printed.
I would suggest, however, that the use of profanity unnecessarily
doesn't always build up your audience to sympathize with you.
There may be some changes in the format of the Snooze, interms of
placement of articles and information, and alternate distributions
are being discussed in the FIDONEWS echo. Join us as the "de facto"
FidoNews Editorial Board if you have input. If you want to discuss
an article you see here, connect to the NEWSCHAT echo, where each
issue is posted each week.
Beyond that, well...let's not give *everything* away at once, right?
In this issue, we ignore the last two issues and pretend that they
never happened, and continue with Ward Dossche's "Countdown to
Destruction", two articles, and a plea for help from a person in
Zone 2 who needs to know the routing set-up for a Fido<>InterNet
Gateway.
And, of course, the Zone 1 Echomail Coordinator Election results.
-zf-
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ARTICLES
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Revitalizing a Small Part of Fidonet by Neil Hoener, 1:128/103,
nhoener@fatalerr.com
Introduction:
Following is the approach that the Pikes Peak Net took to
change, ward off, slow down, warp, the decline of Fidonet in Colorado
Springs. You might find our path entertaining. Hopefully it might
even give you insight about how to combat the general malaise
affecting Fidonet in your own local area.
Background:
Colorado Springs is a paragon of economic growth nestled in the
shadow of Peaks Peak, one of Colorado's many 14,000 foot Rocky
mountains. It is home to the Air Force Academy, three air force
bases and one army base. High technology is in abundance here. From
the ever-present defense contractors, to telecommunications and
computer giants in the private sector with MCI, DEC, USANET and HP;
Colorado Springs is known in some circles as Little Silicon Valley.
Since the early 1980s, Fidonet Net 128 (The Pikes Peak Net), has
been an active partner in Colorado Springs' telecommunications and
computing community. Boasting of more than 80 BBS'es at its peak in
1994-95 and just like the rest of Fidonet, we have been suffering
from a general malaise and a drastic decline in the number of users
that call our boards.
Identifying the Problem:
The commonly touted explanation for the decline in Fidonet
callers has been that they were opting for the Internet over the
Fidonet BBS community they used to call. While the attraction for
the Internet is certainly one of the reasons for decline in callers,
we also found that they do not have the software they need to call
us.
In our surveys of local computer stores, we could not find a
single terminal program that could be used to call an ANSI screen
BBS. Plenty of web browsers and web construction software, but not a
single terminal program. Fidonet is not being so much as abandoned
for the World Wide Web, as our callers can not reach us. They do not
have and will not be able to find the prerequisite software they need
to call the old style Fidonet BBS.
Impact of Windows 95 on Fidonet:
The general lack of commercial terminal software is singularly
important when you consider the number of computers that have been
sold in the past three years with the "point and click" simplicity of
Windows 95. It is this new generation of Windows 95 computer users
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that are not calling the old style BBSs. The software giants have
effectively steered our callers away from us.
We began by identifying terminal software that would:
1) allow an ANSI screen terminal display,
2) use an external dialing directory and
3) be easily understood and used by this new
Windows 95 generation.
What we were looking for was a shareware windows product that
was point and click. What we found was a vastly improved upgrade to
a terminal program originally included with Windows 95, HyperTerminal
v.3.0. We asked Hilgraeve, the author of HyperTerminal v.3.0, if we
could distribute their software as part of our terminal software
package and received their blessing.
The beauty of HyperTerminal v.3.0 is you can place a dialing
icon anyplace on a hard drive in a Windows 95/NT environment and
invoke HyperTerminal by merely clicking on an .ht icon. We wrote an
install program that places a .lnk icon on the Windows 95/NT desktop
and installed our BBS dialing icons to a directory created by the
install program.
Each of our sysops submitted a short readme file describing the
theme of their BBS and they were placed with the dialing icons. The
BBS readme files were reformatted as .doc files, so a click on the
file would default to wordpad, Windows 95's built in text editor.
Distribution Scheme:
Now that we had the software in place, the next question was how
to get that software into the hands of our potential point and click
Windows 95 callers. Distribution of free proprietary software worked
very well for AOL in the early 90s and it could work for us.
We setup a web site with our terminal software and put the
archive on disk in the local public libraries. We then picked
several computer-related locations in town to place disks and asked
the proprietor if they would support Fidonet by providing display
space. There are still a surprising number of people out there that
remember what Fidonet and a BBS are.
Finance and Marketing Schemes:
I am sure at this point you are saying, "DISKS? Don't they cost
money?" Where did a bunch of hobbyist, amateur sysops come up with
money to buy a lot of disks? Well, four of our sysops came up with
about 800 disks, another provided and designed the labels, others
assisted with disk copying and still others dropped their ducats into
a common pot to help out. It was a true group effort, coordinated in
our sysop echo and at our monthly Net meetings.
Now to get the word out. Peak Computing, a weekly Computer
magazine for Colorado, publishes a list of bulletin boards systems
for the state. The senior editor of the magazine was extremely
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supportive and offered to place a full page ad advertising Fidonet,
the availability of the software and where to find it. She said
she'll run the ad until we ran out of disks.
The disks and labels cost about 26 cents a piece. The displays
we put up were in most cases provided by the location sponsor. The
library disks were placed in video cases donated by Blockbuster.
They were going to thrown away anyway. Always think "donation",
you'll never know if you don't ask.
After a month our sponsors noted the public response to the
net's software offering and have offered to fund the next round of
disks. They are also suggesting additional ways they could
distribute the disk. This time we are going to shoot for a run of a
thousand.
Who knows where it will end.
Conclusion:
Where is Pikes Peak Net going with this effort? The nay-sayers
suggest that we are just flying in the face of change and all our
efforts will be for naught. However, this generation of computer
users deserves to have calling options other than the large online
services and the Internet.
A hobbyist Fidonet BBS offers a sense of local online community.
The large online services are huge, but have no community. A
hobbyist Fidonet BBS is free. Neither the large services or the
Internet are free by any stretch.
Maybe the Pikes Peak Net is flying in the face of change, but
we're having fun trying. The net has more new callers and we're
having an effect. There is still room for the small hobbyist BBS in
today's high-charged computer world. We just need to give our
callers the venue to call us and, if we have to, give them the
software to do it.
If you are interested in applying our experiences to your local
Fidonet area, or if you would like to share your own net's success
stories; contact the Pikes Peak Net NC via netmail at 1:128/0 or
128/103, attn: Neil Hoener; Internet E-mail, nhoener@fatalerr.com.
If you would like to take a look at our terminal software
archive, it is available at www.whit.org/fido or it can be FREQ'd as
128HYPE3.ZIP from 1/128/103.
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Why Web Pages?
A short article by David Hallford
Have you ever read an echomail message that refers you to an
Internet web page? Ever wonder why the person didn't just post
whatever it was in the echo? I have. I have even been the point
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of a web page! I'm sure that gives me a greater claim to fame than
my previously having been condemned to Hades for all eternity by
someone who was not a "false modem scum".
Having now shown why I became interested in the topic, I can
continue.
I spent a few nanoseconds wondering what the point of an 'assault'
style web page was, when it dawned on me. No one can file a Policy 4
complaint on the contents of a web page! Voila - a new 'work around'
for Policy 4. I'll just learn a little HTML and say what I want about
folks in Fidonet and they can't do anything against me, because I am
outside the scope of Policy 4!
After realizing this, I went and looked at my web page to see if I
had said anything about folks in Fidonet. I went to http://www.the
vision.net/hallford and looked. Hmmm a section that talks about my
military service...maybe that was a 'slam' on the President of the
United States?
A section on TransX...hmmmm maybe that was a 'slam' on other
software?
Nope...couldn't find a negative word anywhere.
Maybe I am misusing my web page. If any of my brother or sister
SysOps has one of these 'assault' style web pages, could you please
send me the data on it so I can go review it? I can write an regular
piece for the Fidonews... a review of web page assaults, so to speak,
if there are enough of them.
The sad news is that after 11+ years in Fidonet, meeting and
messaging with many SysOps, I just don't believe that there will be
enough material for a continuing article.
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COORDINATORS CORNER
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Nodelist-statistics as seen from Zone-2 for day 051
By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
ZC/2
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!Zone/Jul!Ndl-023!Nodel.-030!Nodel.-037!Nodel.-044!Nodel.-051!%%!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 1/044 ! 6020 ! 6020 0! 5872 -148! 5872 0! 5828 -44!27!
! 2/051 ! 14406 !14360 -46!14370 10!14384 14!14299 -85!67!
! 3/044 ! 573 ! 566 -7! 565 -1! 553 -12! 550 -3! 3!
! 4/044 ! 424 ! 410 -14! 410 0! 406 -4! 403 -3! 2!
! 5/037 ! 91 ! 91 0! 87 -4! 87 0! 87 0! 0!
! 6/016 ! 322 ! 322 0! 322 0! 322 0! 322 0! 1!
+--------+-------+----------+----------+----------+----------+--+
! 21836 !21769 -67!21626 -143!21624 -2!21489 -135!
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Zone 1 EchoMail Coordinator Results
by Martin Belcke, Election Coordinator, 1:232/10
edited for size by Zorch Frezberg, Editor, 1:1/23
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[NOTE: In compiling the statistics, the results totalled about
87K in size, which would likely have resulted in the 'angered mob
with torches and pitchforks' heading this way. I have selected the
most critical and informative of the statistics posted, with the
full version available by FREQ at 1:205/1701 (name: STATS), or at
http://209.77.232.66/fidonews/results.html
for your review. -zf-]
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In the final round of the tallying, the breakdown is
REGION MOST VOTES TO MOST VOTES PER NET
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10 BK BK 60
11 BK ML 34
12 ML TIED 6
13 BK
14 TIED
15 BK
16 BK
17 BK
18 BK
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19 ML
ROUND 6 RESULTS
BALLOT STATISTICS:
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Total Ballots Cast : 324
Total Invalid Ballots (See FOOTNOTE 2) : 8
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Total Beginning Number of Valid Ballots : 316
Ballots eliminated during tallying : 68
Total Ending Number of Valid Ballots : 248
TALLYING RESULTS:
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NOTE: A VALID BALLOT is any ballot that meets the
ELIM = Eliminated election requirements and still has a valid
candidate listed.
ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND ROUND
1 2 3 4 5 6
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Valid Ballots : 316 315 311 298 277 248
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Required to win : 159 158 156 150 139 125
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WAYNE DELISLE, SR 7 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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DAVID CALAFRANSESCO 54 57 60 65 72 ELIM
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MIKE LUTHER 72 72 73 81 81 109
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JEFF SMITH 26 26 26 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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JIM BALCOM 31 31 31 31 ELIM xxxxxxx
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JOHN GLINSKI 9 9 ELIM xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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BOB KOHL 117 120 121 121 124 139
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Statistics of the election for those who like them are as follows:
NOTE: Percentages rounded off.
Overall Stats:
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NOTE: Total nodes eligible and total nodes per region is taken
from information compiled by David Bowerman and are from
nodelist .037
Total Eligible Voters: 6,256
Total Nodes Voting : 316
Percent of Eligible : 5%
Total Nets : 344
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Total Nets Voting : 111
Percent of Total Nets: 32%
Votes Sent Via DIRECT NETMAIL : 182 58%
Votes Sent Via ROUTED NETMAIL : 72 23%
Votes Sent Via INTERNET E-MAIL : 62 19%
Nodes Per Region Stats: Nets Per Region Stats:
REG TOTAL VOTES PERCENT REG TOTAL VOTED PERCENT
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R10 549 61 11% R10 25 17 68%
R11 755 39 5% R11 45 15 33%
R12 713 26 4% R12 25 6 24%
R13 979 62 6% R13 44 24 55%
R14 318 10 3% R14 21 3 14%
R15 339 7 2% R15 19 6 32%
R16 378 7 2% R16 14 4 29%
R17 662 30 5% R17 34 11 32%
R18 983 26 3% R18 78 11 14%
R19 580 47 8% R19 39 14 36%
Statistics on the total number of REGION INDEPENDENT NODES
was not compiled. A total of 6 RI's voted.
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WE GET EMAIL
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Subject: From Munich
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 20:39:30 +0100
From: Klaus-Juergen Feilkas
<Klaus-Juergen_Feilkas@physik.tu-muenchen.de>
To: zorch@fidonews.org
Hi sysop,
I'm from Germany and I found an old friend of mine with yahoo.
Email:
XXXXXXXXX_XXXX@F1428.N246.Z2.FIDO.SUB.ORG
My server doesn't accept F1428.N246.Z2.FIDO.SUB.ORG.
What's wrong? How can I mail from Internet / via Internet (Navigator)
Thanx for your help
Klaus
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NOTICES
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Future History
30 Apr 1998
Queens Day, Holland.
17 May 1998
Independence Day, Norway.
22 May 1998
Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.
14 Sep 1998
Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98].
22 Sep 1998
First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org.
1 Dec 1998
Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by
Tom Jennings.
24 Jul 1999
XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].
31 Dec 1999
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.
1 Jan 2000
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.
1 Jun 2000
EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.
15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.
1 Jan 2001
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.
-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.
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FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY
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[this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or
it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key]
[ PGP Key being re-set and available next week ]
File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:205/1701] or download it from
IKVHFoT! BBS at 1-209-251-7529 anytime Zone 1 ZMH at 300-9600+ V34.
The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed
in the Masthead information.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as
of this appearance.
NOTE: I am looking for a comprehensive list of Telnet, VMODEM, BinkP,
Argus and other TCP/IP based nodes operating FidoNet on the
InterNet, either by Zone or worldwide, to post here as well.
- Ye Editor
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FidoNet:
Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
http://209.77.232.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html
FTSC page http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc.htm
Echomail http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html
WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN]
General Info http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
Region 13: http://www.smalltalkband.com/st01000.htm
Region 14: [disappeared?]
Region 15: [disappeared?]
Region 16: http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm
Region 17: http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/region17.htm
REC17: http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/
Region 18: http://www.citicom.com/fido.html
Region 19: http://www.compconn.net
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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
ZEC2: http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm
Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German)
Region 25:
http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (in French)
Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (in Swiss)
Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian)
Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (in Spanish)
REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr
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 (in Greek and English)
Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl
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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org
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Zone 4: (not yet listed)
Region 90:
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish)
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Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm
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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China)
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------
Editor: Zorch Frezberg
Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
Donald Tees, Christopher Baker
"FidoNews Editor"
FidoNet 1:1/23
BBS 1-209-251-7529, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32b/V.42b/V.34
more addresses:
Zorch Frezberg -- 1:205/1701, zorch@repairnet.com
zorch@fidonews.org
zorch@qnis.net
zorch@eiv.com
zorch@kumr.lns.com
(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews Editor
P.O. Box 642
Fresno, CA 93709-0642
U.S.A.
voice: 1-209-446-9038 [voice mail = 'blind' numbers not returned]
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INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation
of individual articles contributed by their authors or their
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Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is
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FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific
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current year [8], i.e., FNWSJAN8.ZIP for all the Issues from Jan 98.
Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number
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Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents
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There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and
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"Disagreement is actually necessary,
or we'd all have to get in fights
or something to amuse ourselves
and create the requisite chaos."
-Tom Jennings
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