F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 8 No. 36 (9 September 1991) The newsletter of the | FidoNet BBS community | Published by: _ | / \ | "FidoNews" BBS /|oo \ | (415)-863-2739 (_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1 _`@/_ \ _ | Internet: | | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org | (*) | \ )) | |__U__| / \// | Editors: _//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings (_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar (jm) | ----------------------------+--------------------------------------- Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international amateur network. Copyright 1991, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews. Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00US Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free! For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1 Editorial: OK, I was wrong .................................... 1 2. FIDONET NEWS .................................................. 3 (No FidoNetNews this week) .................................... 3 3. ARTICLES ...................................................... 4 FidoCon91, Commercialization, and The ONE BBSCON .............. 4 Anyone know how to talk to Russing FidoNet's? ................. 9 Treasury Enforcement Communications System .................... 10 No Advertisements, Please? .................................... 11 Matchem Program Release Notice ................................ 11 Electronic Gay Magazine Expands ............................... 13 CAPNet -- The Civil Air Patrol Network ........................ 14 ASP Echo Available On BackBone! ............................... 15 Another Fort Worth Update - SIZES! ............................ 16 Death Throws With Much Twitching .............................. 17 4. RANTS AND FLAMES .............................................. 21 5. CLASSIFIEDS ................................................... 22 6. NOTICES ....................................................... 23 The Interrupt Stack ........................................... 23 SOB Conference (Sick Of Bush) ................................. 23 7. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 25 FidoNews 8-36 Page 1 9 Sep 1991 ====================================================================== EDITORIAL ====================================================================== Editorial: OK, I was wrong First, I was wrong on FidoCon '91 articles. I guess everyone was busy; it simply took three weeks for articles to appear, which really isn't much of a delay. Merely my impatience. OK, and I admit it, I was wrong about another thing. A step in our grand experiment failed. Elvis pictures were the last straw. I am proposing to change the article submission policy to FidoNews, to require that articles be related to BBSing, FidoNet or tele-comm- unications in some way. (Non-communications-related articles may be included at the editors discretion.) I'll work on specific wording in the next week or two, but unless someone can come up with a Damn Good Reason why we should continue the current policy, consider it done. I will also take this opportunity to remind complainers that FidoNews is not "USA TODAY" happy-news, but an experiment. Mistakes are allowed. If controversies make you sneeze go somewhere else. And keep your I-told- you-so's to yourself. (Some of our more observant readers may detect a slightly annoyed and defensive tone here; use your obviously-adequate facilities to imagine the complaints I get about the service in this joint. If they only knew how bad the tips were...) For your reference, here is the original paragraph in ARTSPEC.DOC that I propose changing: -------------- SUBJECT MATTER: Articles on any subject of interest to FidoNet members and users are welcome and encouraged, not necessarily of a technical nature, though priority may be, but not necessarily, given to articles of importance to the FidoNet, its technology and its uses; other networks such as uucp and the Internet; social aspects of communications; ethical issues; other related matters. I propose to change this paragraph to something like this: -------------- SUBJECT MATTER: Articles must be in some way related to the FidoNet, FidoNews 8-36 Page 2 9 Sep 1991 its technology and its uses; other networks such as uucp and the Internet; social, ethical or legal aspects of the above; and any other related matters. You are welcome to submit articles on other subjects, but their inclusion is at the whim of the editor(s). If you have ideas on specific text, either the whole thing or a single word or phrase, please send 'em my way. CLASSIFIED ADS: Somewhere in here is an article proposing that I remove the CLASSIFIED AD section of FidoNews. The reason given was simply that the interests of sellers are better served on BBSs or in Echo conferences. I agree, and unless someone can come up with an elegant argument in favor of keeping it, I'll drop it also. I might as well go so far as to propose that we drop the .NOT "Notices" section. It's poorly understood anyways, and could simply be replaced with a very small article. Such things exist today; I could argue either way whether Echo Conference announcements are notices or articles. This would mean that submissions to FidoNews would be anything with a filename extension of ".ART". (Keep your wisecracks to yourself.) Simple, no? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 8-36 Page 3 9 Sep 1991 ====================================================================== FIDONET NEWS ====================================================================== ################################################################ FidoNetNews -- a weekly section devoted to technical and factual issues within the FidoNet -- FidoNet Technical Standards Committee reports, *C reports, information on FidoNet standards documents and the like. ################################################################ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- There were no FidoNetNews submissions this week. Tune again in next week! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 8-36 Page 4 9 Sep 1991 ====================================================================== ARTICLES ====================================================================== by Jack Rickard, Editor Boardwatch Magazine 1:104/555 FidoCon91, Commercialization, and The ONE BBSCON Thought I would submit a few words to Fido News regarding FidoCon91 and address a couple of very legitimate concerns regarding "commercialization". Phil Becker, author of TBBS and president of eSoft, Inc., and myself (Jack Rickard - Boardwatch Magazine) were approached last spring by a member of this year's FidoCon91 committee who wanted a show with a wider attendance than they'd seen at FidoCons in the past couple of years. I've heard the figure 90 and also 76 attendees for the FidoCon in New Jersey in 1990 and similar turnouts for the San Jose event. We agreed to "help" as long as we could make it a wider, more diverse group attractive to a wider range of people. The results were good and bad - depending on how you look at it. As I understand it, there were 408 attendees and I don't think anyone disputes the fact that it was the largest event ever. I also think the vendor area with PCBoard, MajorBBS, Wildcat, Searchlight, CompuCom, Exactus, U.S. Robotics, Boardwatch, QModem, SEAMail, and so on was actually a bit of fun. Prodigy hosted a hospitality suite. Representatives from BIX, CompuServe, and ZiffNet were there. So it was definitely more commercial than past FidoCons. I'll take the heat for that, I contacted most of those companies myself and lobbied pretty hard for it to happen. There were some complaints about that and I'm going to guess I agree they had some merit. It WAS different. And it was more commercial. It seemed natural I suppose because Boardwatch Magazine is more or less commercial. It may be a smallish, pee-yellow monthly rag with a bit of an unconventional viewpoint, but it's how I feed the kids and I get to do something I really like as well - write about bulletin boards, online services, and so forth. The conflict is that as much as anyone else, I buy into the amateur nature, the lack of central authoritarian organization, and the anarchist, grass-roots Tom Jennings vision of what FidoNet is and ought to be, pretty much lock, stock, and barrel. I don't want a corporation running it, and don't think it needs all the marvelous "payoffs" dangled under the banner of commercialization. It's kind of a marvel that 11,000 BBS can "network" without having to have smarmy meetings with Roberts Rules of Order and a bunch of suits continually looking concerned and asking the lawyers what they can do and can't do. I'm going to guess I would resent that changing. FidoNews 8-36 Page 5 9 Sep 1991 At the same time, I had a ball at this years event and it sure looked like a lot of others did as well. I like the idea of 400 operators gathered face-to-face and I like the idea of 1000 of them even better. There were some things that happened schedule-wise that begged for improvement, and while Phil and I promoted the thing shamelessly, we didn't really have much control of that end of it. But despite some obvious problems, I just had a really good time and it seemed to me that most of the people there did as well. So basically, I WANT a BIG BBS show with LOTS of operators and vendors. And I don't want FidoNet to change at all - much less by my own hand. Finally, I'm just not too hot on "committees" - even good ones. So - to the bottom line. Phil Becker and I did help the FidoCon91 committee this year and we have effectively ended that relationship and "broken" with the FidoCon91 committee of Terry Travis, Marshall Barry, and Michelle for 1992. We are planning a grass-roots general BBS show in Denver next August - tentatively August 13-16, 1992. We have no further official connection with FidoCon or the FidoCon91 committee of Travis et al. I understand they are planning something for next year and wish them well with it. We've formed a third company titled ONE, Inc. (Online Networking Expositions) and we're calling the show The Online Networking Expostion and BBS Conference - The ONE BBSCON. I'm pretty well committed to getting 1000-1300 BBS operators and 50 vendors there and significantly improve some of the scheduling and execution problems encountered this year. For one thing, there won't be ANYTHING scheduled after Sunday noon and Sunday morning is going to be real "lite". There won't be any back-to- back sessions in the same room without a break. Some of my hot buttons on Internet, NREN, and so forth are going to get more time and resources. We hope to pull in some more significant shareware participation. There will probably be more tracks and they'll probably be more thematic. And if anything, more diverse with some greater numbers of Unix people, PCBoard people, and international participation. Finally, while we will undoubtedly do some sessions ourselves, I'd like to get more good speakers here like Mitch Kapor and John Barlow and avoid the "Jack and Phil Show" aspect that our "fill in the holes" efforts caused this year. We are working on bringing in representatives of Ilink, PCRelay, and a number of other "networks" simply because a lot of BBS operators are interested in networking. And I'm going to guess that we would like some representation from FidoNet. One thing that struck me about this year's event was that four different people approached me on Sunday as the show was winding down to express bewilderment that they had come all this way, attended lots of sessions, and still didn't exactly know how to join FidoNet. So I hope we can at least get one of the local FidoNet operators or our NC to come host a session on how to join the thing. FidoNews 8-36 Page 6 9 Sep 1991 And simply because of our personal history with FidoNet, if the net, or portions of the net wants a larger participation in The ONE BBSCON, it's going to be hard to cough up a "no" to any specific requests for facilities, session tracks, etc. But my personal feeling is that it would probably be healthy if there was a "FidoCon" somewhere else next year. I am uncomfortable with the allegation that Phil Becker and I have designs on "commercializing" FidoCon. Our actions in 1991 were intended to make it more successful. I apologize if they were inappropriate. And our plans for 1992 are specifically and by design not related to FidoCon period. We are going to do a general BBS industry and networking trade show and we're going to make it a relatively big one. And I have already enlisted the aid of Jim Warren, the man who started the West Coast Computer Fair that Tom Jennings referred to in the last FidoNews, as our personal coach and mentor/advisor for matters regarding The ONE BBSCON. I can't think of anyone better myself, I admire him immmensely (he also founded Dr. Dobbs Journal and InfoWorld and hosted the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference last March) and while he has no direct involvement or material obligation to The ONE BBSCON, he has enthusiastically agreed to advise and mentor as the official "kibitzer". By funding a full-time organization to handle this annual show, getting the best advice we can, and promoting it full speed for a full year, I'm going to guess we'll put together our 1000 attendees and then some. It should work out to be the most fun you can have standing up. Jack Rickard Editor/Publisher, Boardwatch Magazine President, ONE, Inc. 1:104/555 /* Thanks for responding. I'll reiterate (for anyone who missed last week's) that I'm not opposed to "commercial" interests taking part in the FidoNet, I only worry about the possibility of them being considered "more legitimate" or some such rot. I thought FidoCon '91 was great! But I also look forward attending to the ONE BBSCON ... The world we're creating is growing fast, and we need to broaden our interconnections... and if Jim Warren likes it, it will be a Good Thing. */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message Date: 31 Aug 91 15:36:00 From: Chris Anderson on 1:104/114 To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1 Subj: Problems With Attaches to Your System I have been unable to attach a file (an article for FNEWS) to your system via either Wazoo or Sealink sessions using two different mailers - got tired of the LD charges after about half a dozen various attempts. Wish I could do it "your way", but .... Kept getting a whopping 128 bytes across then died in terminal lack of ACKs. In fact, I haven't even been able to get THIS across to you as a simple message. I think packet 00010001.PKT is getting tired. Anyway, in an effort to find SOMEONE who has a mailer FidoNews 8-36 Page 7 9 Sep 1991 compatible with yours, I am routing it via 125/0. I hope your NC has better luck than I did. It may explain why you haven't had as many articles recently as you might have liked. Please accept this article in the only form I seem to be able to deliver it to you. It *was* to have been called FIDO91.ART, but now I guess it'll be called something mundane like 9.MSG . * FidoCon '91 Aftermath by Chris Anderson 1:104/114 FidoCon '91 Aftermath It took me the better part of the rest of the next week to recover fully. FidoCon '91 was, by best estimates, a success, with a total of over 400 folks attending in various capacities. I was pleased to *finally* have the opportunity to meet some of the true "authors" of this hobby - those that were there from the beginnings of Fido, EchoMail, and all of the many other things we have taken for granted in such a very, very short time. It was interesting to note that your Editor's hair was *not* green as had been projected by some; he did, however, arrive in the LP powered Rambler as promised. For one who might very well question the results of his "baby", Tom Jennings has managed to distance himself from this phenomenon just sufficiently to retain his perspective on what has really happened -- Mitch Kapor (founder of Lotus) had similar feelings as an outsider to our hobby. A 12,000 member amateur network in just a few short years in this medium is nothing short of amazing. It was revealing to hear the originator and a relative newcomer reminding us of the impact that FidoNet has had on communication. I enjoyed listening to the comments of both of these (and others) in that it helped me regain some perspective. The conference had not one but several keynotes. As most of you are probably aware, the legal issues surrounding this "hobby" of ours are just being formed into opinion - and there's not much of it established as yet. The ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) that was really a palative for the cellular phone industry has had some interesting side effects on the BBS business, and it was good to hear legal and personal opinion on our status as sysops in this forum. Many of us aren't sure where our legal responsibilities lie with regard to "private" communication, nor what sort of illegal communication we may or may not be liable for when posted on our systems. Lance Rose noted that he is updating his book on Sysop law and that the revised version is to be (as I remember it) available sometime towards the end of the year. Steve Jackson was present to tell his tales of woe with the Secret Service and the ill-conceived Sun Devil bust of his system last year. Lance noted that although a person might not be arrested, one's system could effectively be "arrested"... an odd state of affairs unless the law behind it is understood. Steve had just received a reply from the Feds that said, in effect, "We didn't do it, but if we did, it was OK." The EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) was FidoNews 8-36 Page 8 9 Sep 1991 on hand en masse, and they will be pressing the suit on Jackson's behalf. For the record, Steve Jackson Games didn't even publish software - it published role playing game books. What was confiscated from his business were the computers essential to that publishing effort. He is still waiting to have some of the equipment returned. We had all of the personalities of most of the more popular mailer and BBS software present to demonstrate their latest wares and views on the state(s) of the art. We had an interesting mix of other "personalities" as well, and I suppose I shouldn't have been surprised to find a few "bad apples" in the bunch. If you have a chance to view the tape of the Software Developers' RoundTable, drop me a NetMail sometime and I'll tell you who the abusive off-camera voice belongs to. Some folks just seem to be genuinely *unhappy* individuals bent on spreading it around a bit. A service has been located that can not only duplicate the videos we shot during the conference, but will be able to do a lot with the audio clean-up of them as well. A future note here will give details on ordering tapes as soon as we're sure which ones are of sufficient quality to reproduce (most of them were). Of the various modem manufacturers, U.S. Robotics and CompuCom were the only ones represented by their own companies, although The Index System of Georgia did handle the "trade show" end of things for Hayes. I was rather disappointed that Randy from Hayes didn't put in an appearance, especially at the Modem Manufacturers' panel. We received a bit of an education on development and testing procedures there. Of special note is CompuCom's plan to introduce a line of V.32bis modems to that include not only FAX and voice mail switching facilities, but Caller ID as well - for sysop prices you ** simply wouldn't believe** even if I printed them here. The hot models are due to be available in limited quantities by about the time you read this article. Modems that would use yet another proprietary-only protocol have put off a lot of sysops that don't have but a few lines, but with everything else up to and including V.32bis available, there's little risk in putting one up on any line and hoping that our users take advantage of the dirt cheap "simplex" high speed CSP protocol modems that retail (as I remember it) for around $169 list. For that, our users get a decent 2400 baud MNP modem with the CSP protocol if they can find sysops that are willing to give these new modems a try. An uphill battle once faced by CompuCom may be eased greatly by adding true standard protocols to their products - and that's what they're promising. The non-commercial version of FrontDoor 2.01 was available from On-Line and appears (we have quite a number of installations in Denver already as a result) to be working pretty much as advertised, with full FTS-007/008 support. I tried out the user interface on a copy and was pleasantly surprised at the features. FidoNews 8-36 Page 9 9 Sep 1991 Also copped a copy of SEAmail while there (show special of $95), and brought it home to try it out. Evidently the documentation was handled by an outside firm this time, and was unavailable by the time of FidoCon '91. Full docs are promised to start shipping about September 1, and for those of you who got the package and have tried to install from the disk docs, you'll be glad to hear it. Tom has added (!) WaZoo and FAX session support, full domain and zone support, and a host of other features. Many of the aggravations of SEAdog have been addressed, but a few new items still have several of us puzzled about SEAmail. Hopefully, the printed docs will elaborate a bit. The package really lends itself better to GroupMail than it does to EchoMail, but then... that's politics in Net 107 I guess. Haven't had a chance to try out the newcomer - InterMail - but from what I hear, it's one of the few packages to be relatively bug free (I haven't heard a peep to the contrary) right out of the chute. If so, hearty congratulations are due Peter and Michelle for deciding to get it right *before* releasing. A LOT of test time goes into that kind of effort. What else do the Swedes have to do during those long cold winters, anyway ;). Well, ARTSPEC advises against long articles - and this could go on for a great many pages. I hope someone else takes time to write about the NAPLPS demo (amazing graphics speed over modems), and the eats supplied by Net 128, and the other vendors, and Tom Henderson's toy collection, and the parties (Bit Bucket buys the best beer) and and and ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Anyone know how to talk to Russing FidoNet's? To: Fidonews on 1:125/111 Subj: help ^AINTL 1:125/111 1:125/555 From kumr!lll-winken.llnl.gov!tab.ieee.org!daemon From: 72760.1762@CompuServe.COM (Jean-Marc) To: Date: 02 Sep 91 12:52:50 EDT I am having a problem contacting some Fido BBS in the Soviet Union. I hope you can help me. I am posting my letters on Compuserve. Unfortunately the only way one can contact a Fido BBS through Compuserve is via Internet. The format is >INTERNET: ALL@f2.n5020.z11.fidonet.org where 2:5020/11 is the Fido address of the BBs in question. I don't know if my messages are getting through to the BBS using Compuserve and most importantly, if it is possible for them to reply. I think there are a lot of people in North America who would be most interested in exchanging E-mail with people in the Soviet Union. Could you tell me if there is an alternate way for me to address my messages and what info I should include inside of them to make sure I get a reply. Also I would appreciate general information on Fido. What it is? How it interacts with the other Networks. Can one get a directory of Fido BBS in Europe? I do hope you can help me and thank you in advance for your FidoNews 8-36 Page 10 9 Sep 1991 assistance. Jean-Marc Lacombe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message Date: 28 Aug 91 00:06:16 From: Uucp on 1:125/777 To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111 Subj: Treasury Enforcement Communications System ^AINTL 1:125/111 1:125/777 From: toad.com!gnu Date: Tue, 27 Aug 91 23:40:40 -0700 ------- Forwarded Message Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1991 11:47:29 EDT From: "James Salsman" Organization: Bovik Research To: eff@eff.org Subject: TECS II Dear Members of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, I have been spending a good portion of my summer searching government documents from a state GPO repository library and I have uncovered an aspect of the federal government that needs to be brought to your attention. The Department of the Treasury has designed a system, a revison of the Treasury Enforcement Communications System, called TECS II. Among other things, this system will be used to track all people coming into and leaving the nation. The system is to be accessable to many government employees in diverse geographic areas and any number of unauthorized users. The potential for abuse of this information is considerable, far exceeding anything we've ever seen from credit bureaus. Some of the Customs employees that will have access to this system are located in small aristrips and ports and are under very little supervision. The TECS II database is to join Customs records, Bank Secrecy Act records, the NCIC, and IRS corporate and personal files. The undersecretary who is responsible for the development and coordination of this system is Donald E. Kirkendall, Inspector General of the Treasury. TECS II and Treasury interagency cooperation being used to develop it is descripbed in report numbers OIG-90-004 (10/25/89), OIG-90-024 (1/10/90), OIG-90-030 (2/28/90), and IRS-09255 (1/17/90). To obtain these reports, one must send a request in writing to "FOIA Requests," Room 1054, Department of the Treasury, 1500 Penn Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20220. There is also information about the system contained in public Treasury documents since 1988. FidoNews 8-36 Page 11 9 Sep 1991 Sincerely, :James P. Salsman ------- End of Forwarded Message ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by Jerry Schwartz (1:142/928) No Advertisements, Please? Everyone seems to be crabbing about the sizes of files these days, and I seem to recall someone specifically complaining about the size of FidoNews. (Personally, I'm a little puzzled by some of this: the average system has loads of .GIFs, some of which rival the nodelist in size and most of which are less useful.) In any case, I suggest that the section for classified ads be eliminated. At first, I thought it might be a good way to find out about neat new stuff, and perhaps it could be; but I question the value of sending an ad for some specific item around the world and back. I don't intend any offense towards those who placed these ads; I just question whether or not this is the right place. There are plenty of national and local echos for the purpose. Perhaps this category could be replaced by one explicitly called "New Items of Interest." /* I tend to agree. Please see the editorial in this issue for a related discussion. */ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fredric L. Rice. FidoNet 1:102/901.0 Have you ever FileRequested several files from a system working from a list of files you've written down or printed out and, after you acquired them, forgotten what they were? (I've received over one hundred files from 102/770 and about twice that many files from 102/943). You can go through the file description listing of each system again, perhaps asking your editor of choice to look for them, or you can use Matchem. This becomes a big task as you may acquire many files over a long period of time and have file listings from several systems. Not only that but other people who might use your network address to FileRequest files may never talk to you (happens in a lot of companies these last couple of years). FidoNews 8-36 Page 12 9 Sep 1991 The Matchem program will take as its arguments the file name of your log file (where FileRequests are logged as 'Rcvd' entries) and then the file names of what I call Description Files. The Description Files are just file listings that most systems offer you when you FileRequest the magic name FILES. An example would be something like: C:\FD\FILES> matchem fd.log pxchange.lst ccbfiles.lst tnet.doc In this sample, 'fd.log' is FrontDoors' log where FileRequests are marked with a 'Rcvd' entry (the source code is provided in the event your mailer doesn't produce a 'Rcvd' entry. If you need to have the project scan for something like 'Received' or whatever, and don't have the ability to create a new version, just give me a sample of your log file and I'll FileAttach the update direct to your system -- no charge. I could even put what to look for into a configuration file). The files 'pxchange.lst', 'ccbfiles.lst', and 'tnet.doc' are files that have been received from three other systems where a file name followed by a description occurs. Usually, you would download or FileRequest a systems FILES and you would get a list of the files the system has. For this example, Matchem would open up and read-in the entries in 'pxchange.lst' that described each file. Matchem would then scan through the 'fd.log' file for Rcvd files and see if there are any matches. If there are, the program displays the description it found in 'pxchange.lst.' (It's DOS redirected to an output file, usually). After that had been done, Matchem will open up the next file, file 'ccbfiles.lst', and scan that file for descriptions. The next Description File is scanned and so on until all have been processed. There is no limit to the number of Rcvd entries or Description Files other than time. Of course it works another way where you perform a directory of your disk and redirect it to a file, then edit that file to have a 'Rcvd' at the beginning of each file name. Then you can run your newly created directory listing through the Matchem program, compared against all your other-system Description Files, and get a description created for all (or most) of the files in all of your directories. Finally, after the output is redirected to a file, perhaps, the output file can be sorted to remove any duplicates or a better description of the file can be selected from any that are described more than once. As usual, the C source code is provided and has been pretty well documented. The file to request is called MATCHEM.LZH and is available at 1:102/901.0 24 hours a day. About the only problem you might experience will be in the log files entry for received files but I'll help with that. FidoNews 8-36 Page 13 9 Sep 1991 Fredric. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Electronic Gay Magazine Expands The (Electronic) Gay Community Magazine is now available for file requests at 9600 baud via PC Pursuit. In addition, the magazine is also available in ZIP format in addition to the traditional ARC format. For those unfamiliar with the publication, the (Electronic) Gay Community Magazine is a set of text files specifically set up for display on computer bulletin board systems who wish to provide news services for their users. News articles on issues important to gay men and lesbian women are updated constantly. There is no charge for use of the magazine. Here is an example of some of the magazine sections: +-------------------------------------------------+ | |+ | The (Electronic) Gay Community Magazine || | || | [-]=BACK Previous Menu || | [B]=BRIEFS News Shorts || | [L]=LIFESTYLE The Gay 90's || | [F]=JUDICIAL Our Legal System || | [P]=POLITICS The Legislature || | [E]=EDITORIALS Informed Opinion || | [C]=CAMPAIGNS Camp & Satire || | [R]=REVIEWS Books & Movies || | [A]=AIDS/ARC On the Frontline || | [H]=HEALTH Staying Healthy || | [U]=UNIVERSITY Campus Update || | [I]=INFORMATION About (E)GCM || | || +-------------------------------------------------+| +-------------------------------------------------+ For the past year the (Electronic) Gay Community Magazine has been available for polling from the Land of Awes computer in Wichita, Kansas (Fido node 1:291/9 at 316-269-3172) by requesting the GCM.ARC file. Now an additional pickup point has been arranged for those wishing to poll for the file at 9600 baud. The Rocky Mountain Gay Connection in Denver, Colorado (Fido node 1:104/328 at 303-777-7696) will have the latest magazine files available for polling every week day. This system is available from the CODEN outdial of the PC Pursuit packet switching network, therefore some may wish to poll from this system even at speeds less than 9600 baud. FidoNews 8-36 Page 14 9 Sep 1991 In addition to the GCM.ARC file, a ZIP version named GCM.ZIP is now available. Also, some door programs and sample menu control files for the more popular BBS software are available for downloading. Those with questions about the (Electronic) Gay Community Magazine are urged to contact: Rex Rivers; E-GCM; Post Office Box 16782; Wichita, KS 67216-0782; Voice 316-269-0913; Fax/BBS 316-269-4208; Mailer 316-269-3172. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by David Boehm, CAPNet News Editor 1:103/234@fidonet.org 55:840/0@capnet, California Wing NC I would like to take this oppurtunity to announce the Civil Air Patrol network, or CAPNet as we call it. CAPNet was started about 6 months ago to bring together the people of Civil Air Patrol who used the computer as a means of communication. We have found that many people in CAP have hobbies with computers and modems. Currently, CAPNet is trying to recruit enough nodes to complete a national hub network. If any of you know how CAP is organized, CAPNet is trying to organize its RC and NC structure the same way. Here's a diagram of the planned organization for CAPNet: ========================================================================= N_East Mddl_East Grt_Lakes S_East N_Central S_West Rcky_Mtn Pacific Region Region Region Region Region Region Region Region 5001 5002 5003 5004 5005 5006 5007 5008 ========================================================================= 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 110 210 310 410 510 610 710 810 120 220 320 420 520 620 720 820 130 230 330 430 530 630 730 830 140 240 340 440 540 640 740 840 150 250 350 450 550 650 850 160 260 560 170 180 CAP itself is divided into 8 regions and into 50 "wings". So, we divided CAPNet into 8 regions and 50 nets. (8 RC's and 50 NC's) One RC for each region of CAP, and one NC for each wing. On the chart above, each number below the region represents one wing or net. CAPNet is a FidoNet Technology Network (FTN) using Zone 55. FidoNews 8-36 Page 15 9 Sep 1991 Currently, CAPNet is running about 5 active echos including the popular CAP_NAT echo on the FidoNet backbone. We are even forming our own file echos for aviation related files and our own newsletter! We are looking for some nodes that can fill some badly needed RC and NC positions. Civil Air Patrol is sometimes regarded as America's best kept secret. Let's hope that CAPNet doesn't turn out the same! Files to freq: CAPINFO.ZIP -- Current CAPNet Policy, application, and general info. CAPLIST.A?? -- Current CAPNet nodelist. CAPNEWS.??? -- Current CAPNet newsletter. CAPNet Administrative nodes: Matt Valleau, Zone 55 Coordinator FidoNet 1:141/101 CAPNet 55:55/0 Orland Carter, Zone 55 Echo Coordinator FidoNet 1:135/72 CAPNet 55:55/2 David Boehm, CAPNet News Editor FidoNet 1:103/234 CAPNet 55:840/0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by Richard Holler 1:231/290 ASP Echo Now Available Via BackBone! Last week, we announced the creation of an echo area called ASP, which is devoted to the Association of Shareware Professionals. We stated that distribution was being handled by 1:231/290. Well, thanks to the help of some hard-working sysops, things moved pretty fast during that one-week span. The ASP echo is now available via the BackBone distribution system! We would encourage any and all ASP members to participate in this new echo area, although you don't *HAVE* to be an ASP member to join us. Also, we'd like to say that the ASP is not just for shareware authors. There are ASP memberships available for BBS systems, and Disk Vendors. If you are a sysop, please turn this echo on for your users, so they can find out about the ASP. If you are a BBS user, ask your sysop to bring this echo in for you. Thanks to all that helped us get this echo off the ground! FidoNews 8-36 Page 16 9 Sep 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aaron Goldblatt 1:130/32.1 FidoNet 20:491/110 MailNet 50:5817/9999 EchoNet pending Fort Worth Nodelist Sizes This week I do not have a new release of the specs for the Fort Worth format nodelist. Those will be released NEXT week. I do have some numbers which might interest you, however. A number of you suggested that I provide statistics on how much space my format saves over the St. Louis nodelist and I responded that I was unable to provide them because of a lack of a conversion program, and the fact that I am not a programmer good enough to write one. I invited you to write one instead. Will Schichtman of 1:350/59 answered the call and wrote a conversion program for the Fort Worth nodelist. At 10k, it's not a big one, but it does the job. It was created based on the specs presented last week, with these notes: o the CSP flag, not included in last week's specs because the article was written before the flag was announced, was shortened to C o redundant modem flags, like "9600,HST,V32,V32B,V42,V42B,MNP,..." were not changed outside of shortening each flag individually. o phone number translations may not work outside of Zone 1, a problem which will be corrected later o Pvt nodes were left in, with the flag shortened to P o Down nodes were left in, with the flag shortened to D o An error in the program converted Hold nodes to NC listings o Fields were left in the same order as in the St. Louis nodelist, so as to make the programmer's job easier o Except for comments, lines end with an LF instead of a CR/LF pair. This will be corrected. Before I present size savings, I need to indicate how I arrived at the numbers I got. These numbers are based on NODELIST.249. It was converted into NODELIST.FW. These two files were then archived into SEA ARC v6.00, PKWare PKZip v1.10, and ARJ v2.20 archives using default compression techniques (no command line switches). On the table three numbers are given: Size Bytes Saved Saved Over Raw FidoNews 8-36 Page 17 9 Sep 1991 Size is the actual size of the file, in bytes. Bytes saved was figured as follows: For NODELIST.249 in archived format, the size of the archive was subtracted from the size of the raw nodelist: raw_nodelist - archive = bytes saved For NODELIST.FW in arvhived format, the size of the archive was subtracted from the size of NODELIST.?49: nodearc1 - nodearc2 = bytes saved Saved Over Raw was figured as follows: For NODELIST.249 in archived format, the size of the archive was subtracted from the size of the raw nodelist: nodelist - archive = saved over raw For NODELIST.FW in archived format, the size of the archive was subtracted from the size of the raw nodelist: nodelist - FWarchive = saved over raw Here are the sizes: Filename Format Size Bytes Saved Saved Over Raw ----------------------------------------------------------- NODELIST.249 raw 1039916 - - NODELIST.FW raw 693351 346565 346565 NODELIST.A49 ARC 542748 497168 497168 NODELIST.AFW ARC 419553 123195 620363 NODELIST.Z49 ZIP 404049 635867 635867 NODELIST.ZFW ZIP 332400 71649 707516 NODELIST.J49 ARJ 382454 651462 651462 NODELIST.FW ARJ 313347 69107 726569 These numbers show a signifigant size savings over the St. Louis format nodelist. These savings should grow larger as the format changes and things get squashed even more. Feedback is welcome. If you sent me netmail after the second release of the article (way back in July) and didn't get a response it's because I went on vacation for six weeks, and the mail may have gotten deleted at my bossnode's system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fredric L. Rice 1:102/901.0 This notice is for the Mayhem sites, really, as non-Mayhem system will find no useful information here. Well, I got a call from Eric Carr (FidoNet 1:365/47) and was reminded that we had an agreement several years ago for him to take over the Universal Mayhem project when I got tired of it. Of course I forget things that happen yesterday let alone things that happened four _years_ ago yet Eric, being ever mindful of my memory, brought out several messages I'd sent him and reminded me that I had sent him the source code to FidoNews 8-36 Page 18 9 Sep 1991 Mayhem several years ago and showed them to me. Eric had been involved in the project at the start, along with Kevin Higgins, and had helped to get the project multi- national in scope (as did so many others, of course). He has also helped me with a couple of other non-FidoNet-related projects (believe it or not, FidoNet isn't the whole world). Eric will be 'project manager' for the Mayhem project. He is prepared for a couple of hundred SysOps and Users to get set- up through his system to carry the MAYHEM conference and get the export/import facilities set-up again. Eric will also be finishing the RA/QBBS message-base support and will be looking into the 'extended' landing parties and boarding parties. Of course he'll be testing and fixing problems as a primary goal. I doubt, however, that Eric will poll as many sites -- indeed, as many countries -- as I did to carry the conference. If Eric needs the Australian connection, it will be through my system to Jackson Hardings site in Australia called Lemons & Oranges, if he agrees. (Link problems might have me going to The Fourth Dimension, Scott Neville, in Australia). I also doubt that Eric will provide his voice phone number to discuss software bugs. That might be a bit too much. Any way, the source code to the project is being assembled from a co-workers back-up tapes and so no code will have been lost due to my hasty dumping of the project. Eric will acquire this software and will provide the support that I'm no longer able to provide; hopefully I'm not making firm enemies to the guys who had asked for the source code and were told I had destroyed it all: Tape back-ups over the years _were_ made and even though I had asked the holders to destroy them, they, knowing my moods, told me they were in fact destroyed. I'll have to find me some more trustworthy friends, I suspect. Regardless, since I'll be providing the Australia-Eric link to the MAYHEM conference, I'll be keeping an eye open for any thing that Eric might not be able to handle. This is doubtful as Eric is a long-time C programmer with more experience years than I've got. Eric will get this thing done and knows what is required of him. We who enjoy Mayhem will take care, I think, to make sure that he's not discouraged as easily as I was. He's much more mature than I apparently am. It's interesting that he should call me _now_ as just yesterday, I was staying at a hotel about sixty miles from his systems site and could have transferred the project over in person. As it is, if my company gives me a couple of days off, I'll drop in on Eric and we'll hold a meeting about the thing. FidoNews 8-36 Page 19 9 Sep 1991 We now need to get all of the sites that didn't throw the project away in anger to get in touch with Eric's system and let him know that you're still in. Eric? Do you have any comments? [Stepping up the microphone] When I heard that Fredric was doing away with the project, I remembered our agreement (which in itself was amazing that I remembered something from so long ago) and crashed a message off to his system. The two of us then had a long conversation discussing the future of the Mayhem Project. After adding a several more dollars to Ma Bell's bank account the Mayhem Project was revived. As Fredric has said I am new 'keeper of the code' and I will do my best to make sure Universal Mayhem stays alive and well. I have been a player of Mayhem for many years now and have enjoyed the game thoroughly. Although Mayhem is changing authors, the basic ideas behind it won't be changing. The game will continue to remain free of charge (as in the Opus license) and it will continue to be improved upon. Within the next couple of months a new version of Mayhem will be released that will fix problems with the RA/QBBS message bases. The other announced additions will be worked on as well. After that you will just have to wait and see what will be added. I am always open to suggestions and comments on any program that I create, whether it is Mayhem or EN (my other major release in the FidoNet world.. a newsletter generator that improved on MakeNews). My system runs 24 hours a day and is available as 1:365/47 or 50:5020/47. I am not going to be able to offer the same level of international support that Fredric did, but the Australia link will remain operational via Fredric's system. Two Universal Mayhem echos have been created to support this great game. The first conference (MAYHEM_TECH) is a SysOp only conference dealing with the setup and operation of the game. This is where the "serious" talk about the game will be done. The second conference is a revival of the MAYHEM echo. It is for the messages generated by UM and by the players of the game. I am the moderator for both echos and for the moment the sole site of distribution. If you are currently running Mayhem (or just want to join in to see what the game is about), please contact me at 1:365/47. 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Area 301 will include southern and western parts of the state, including the areas around Washington DC. Area 410 phones will answer to calls to area 301 until November, 1992. 1 Feb 1992 Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport, West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and Montebello) will retain area code 213. 3 May 1992 The areacode for northern and central Georgia will change from 404 to 1 Dec 1993 Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release. 5 Jun 1997 David Dodell's 40th Birthday If you have something which you would like to see on this calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Fredric L. Rice FidoNet 1:102/901.0 Just a quick note to see if there are sites that would like to participate in the Sick Of George Bush Echo Conference (Tag Name SOB). Since our boy George has fucked over the educational budget to the extreme these past years, I suspect that systems that are dedicated to education might wish to keep up with what he's been up to. FidoNews 8-36 Page 24 9 Sep 1991 "The preservation of the means of knowledge among the lowest ranks is of more importance to the public than all the property of all the rich men in the country." - John Adams, second president of America ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 8-36 Page 25 9 Sep 1991 ====================================================================== LATEST VERSIONS ====================================================================== Latest Greatest Software Versions Last Update: 09/05/91 MS-DOS Systems -------------- BBS Software Network Mailers Other Utilities Name Version Name Version Name Version -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- DMG 2.93 BinkleyTerm 2.40 2DAPoint 1.10* Fido/FidoNet 12.21+ D'Bridge 1.30 ARCAsim 2.30 Genesis Deluxe 3.1* Dutchie 2.90c ARCmail 2.07 GSBBS 3.02 FrontDoor 2.01* ConfMail 4.00 Kitten 2.16 InterMail 2.01 Crossnet 1.5 Lynx 1.30 PRENM 1.47 DOMAIN 1.42 Maximus 1.02 SEAdog 4.60* EEngine 0.30* Opus 1.71* TIMS 1.0(Mod8) EMM 2.02 PCBoard 14.5a 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 Phoenix 1.3 FNPGate 2.70 QuickBBS 2.66 GateWorks 3.06c*@ RBBS 17.3b NodeList Utilities Gmail 2.05 RBBSmail 17.3b Name Version GMD 2.00 RemoteAccess 1.01 -------------------- GROUP 2.16 SimplexBBS 1.04.02*+ EditNL 4.00 GUS 1.30 SLBBS 2.15b* FDND 1.10*@ HeadEdit 1.18 Socrates 1.10 MakeNL 2.31 IMAIL 1.10 SuperBBS 1.10 Parselst 1.30 InterPCB 1.31 TAG 2.5g Prune 1.40 MSG 4.1 TBBS 2.1 SysNL 3.14 MSGED 2.06 TComm/TCommNet 3.4 XlatList 2.90 MsgMstr 1.21* Telegard 2.5 XlaxNode/Diff 2.52* MSGTOSS 1.3 TPBoard 6.1 Oliver 1.0a TriTel 1.11*@ PolyXarc 2.1a* Wildcat! 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Note: It is not our intent to list all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity. If you want it updated in the next FidoNews, get it to me by Thursday evening. --David French, 1:103/950 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 8-36 Page 30 9 Sep 1991 ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------- Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Periello Special thanks to Ken Kaplan, 1:100/22, aka Fido #22 "FidoNews" BBS FidoNet 1:1/1 Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org BBS (415)-863-2739 (9600 HST/V32) (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews Box 77731 San Francisco CA 94107 USA Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews. FidoNews is copyright 1991 Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews (we're easy). OBTAINING COPIES: FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and via uucp. PRINTED COPIES mailed may be obtained from Fido Software for $5.00US each PostPaid First Class within North America, or $7.00US elsewhere, mailed Air Mail. (US funds drawn upon a US bank only.) Periodic subscriptions are not available at this time; if enough people request it I will implement it. SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. 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