F I D O N E W S -- Vol.13 No. 4 (22-Jan-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 ANIMAL_RIGHTS RULES & GENERAL GUIDELINES (Rev. 11-26-95).... 2 BONERYAN.ART................................................ 2 ** The Free Ride is Over! ***............................... 3 I Am A Blind User Of Fidonet................................ 5 FileFind Blues :-(.......................................... 7 Just Want Something New..................................... 7 Phil Zimmermann Cleared!.................................... 8 Getting a life!............................................. 11 3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 12 ======================================================================== Editorial ======================================================================== FidoNews 13-04 Page: 2 22 Jan 1996 I am embarassed. I found three articles in a file area of the BBS that are *months* old. Please, if you are going to log in and upload articles to a file area, leave me a note telling me. I check the inbound every day, but I do not go through every file area. I see that Phil Zimmerman was aquitted of all charges last week. As well, our internat gate has closed. Good and bad news. ======================================================================== Articles ======================================================================== ANIMAL_RIGHTS RULES & GENERAL GUIDELINES (Rev. 11-26-95) PURPOSE: The purpose of the ANIMAL_RIGHTS conference is to educate and be a forum for the exchange of ALL viewpoints and opinions on the issue of animal rights. All sides of this emotional issue will in all probability be represented. Therefore, all users, whether pro or con on the animal rights issue should feel free to express their opinions. They should also expect to be challenged in their beliefs by those in the oppositon, perhaps quite strongly. =================================================================== After having been removed upon moderator request from the backbone, the ANIMAL_RIGHTS conference has been successfully put back into backbone distribution. At this point I would like to invite anyone who is interested in discussion of this emotional topic to join us once again in the echo. I would like to also invite those who have participated in the past to re-join the echo. Those interested who have participated up until the cutting from the backbone should check through their hubs to make sure the echo is still connected fully to backbone level. All who are interested in discussing this topic are welcome. It is my hope we see a resumption of the kind of spirited discussion we have had in the past. Dale Anderson ANIMAL_RIGHTS Moderator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BONERYAN.ART by: Gord Hannah 1:3405/107 Marsh BBS Unrelated Bone Marrow Donor Lists Our grandson, Ryan, who just turned 16 months old a few days ago has been diagnosed with leukemia, AML the real bad one. To date he has had 25 blood transfusions, 4 sessions of chemo, 5 spinal taps, 4 bone marrow aspirations,and had a bone marrow transplant in October. He at best has a between 30% and 40% chance of survival, 60% and 70% chance of not seeing his 2nd birthday. With a bone FidoNews 13-04 Page: 3 22 Jan 1996 marrow transplant his chances increase about 10%, however there is a 15% loss in the transplant, procedure. He is at present an Out Patient at Alberta Children's Hospital in Calgary, Alberta. Now here's where the Fidonetters can help would you send out a message asking people that are eligible to donate blood, and between the ages of 17 and 50 to please become bone marrow donors. At present there are approximately 27 million people in Canada and only 110,000 people registered on the Unrelated Donors list, I am sure some of you are organ donors, Why wait until you are dead? To donate bone marrow you can stay alive and donate more than once if you match more than one person. Ryan's odds under normal circumstances would stand a chance in 450 to a chance in 750,000 of finding a donor. He has been lucky so far there is a donor, his father. The donor may not come through, for medical or other reasons. There are at present 300 Children on the waiting list in the Province of Alberta, only 1 if he/she is lucky will find a donor the rest will in all likelihood die. There is great shortage of bone marrow donors around the world as well as in Canada. Also please remember that each time you go to the Golden Arches that a small portion of the money you spend goes to Ronald MacDonald House, an excellent place for the parents and grand parents to stay while their little one is in the hospital. I am sure that the FidoNetters will show their typical Big Heart. Thanks in advance. Gord Hannah 1:3405/107 Marsh BBS ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ** The Free Ride is Over! *** ===================== Effective March 1, 1996, the Internet Gateway at 1:1/31 will be *shutting down*. At that point, there will be NO MORE "default" gateway for E-Mail coming INbound from the Internet for Zone-1. The reasons for this termination of service are numerous ... o Most recently, an excommunicated SysOp has gone on a rampage of forging subscription messages to subscribe numerous FidoNet addresses to numerous unwanted Internet mailing-lists in a deliberate attempt to "break" the FidoNet routing structure and the gateway structure. Many of the other gateways have already shut down operations. o Many of the *C routing systems have taken it upon themselves to either "bounce" (many doing it improperly addressed) or to FidoNews 13-04 Page: 4 22 Jan 1996 deliberately "bit-bucket" NetMail coming from the gateway. I can no longer deal with the voluminous NetMail being received from End-Nodes querying what has happened to their inbound E-Mail coming thru the gateway. o The gateways systems and the "f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org" address syntax was designed for "casual mail", not for subscribing to massive mailing-lists and such. Many people have found ways to deliberately by-pass the controls at the gateways and subscribe to mailing-lists, forcing the inbound traffic to route in thru the gateways and clogging up the FidoNet routing structures. These days, it is fairly easy and inexpensive to get an account with any of the many Internet Service Providers thoughout the country. Those that really need to subscribe to mailing-lists should go that route. o The original intent of setting up the .fidonet.org domain was to have gateways situated geographically close to the Nodes they serve so that the load would be distributed and routing problems on the FidoNet side would be reduced. As of this writing, there are only 34 Nets out of the 431 Nets in Zone-1 which have their INbound E-Mail coming in via gateways other than the "default" gateway. The existing gateway operators and gateway software authors have always been willing to help a new gateway with their setup. The *Cs at the Net level just haven't done their part to strive for getting local gateways in place in their Nets. It just doesn't seem fair to me to keep relying on ONE gateway and the Backbone routing structure to handle over 90% of the Zone's traffic, does it? o People have been writing software which does NOT conform to proper addressing specs which have severly impacted operations of the gateway without even consulting me or even letting me know that their programs exist. o I find that I no longer have the time nor inclination to keep supporting a gateway where folks continue to break the rules of its use and bypass the controls. FidoNet in general has taken this service for granted for far too long. People seem to feel that Free use of Internet E-Mail is something they get automatically when they are granted a Node Number in FidoNet. o The I.E.E.E., the organization who has been providing the resources and bandwidth for the flow of all this traffic can no longer support the endeavor. Some services *will* CONTINUE to be provided ... o The Domain-Name-Service, which tells the Internet world where to send traffic for destinations within the .fidonet.org domain (and which defines which addresses are 'valid') will continue to be operated. However, the "default MX-record" which sent all undefined traffic for those Nets which did not otherwise have another gateway declared, will be DELETED! FidoNews 13-04 Page: 5 22 Jan 1996 o We will continue to operate the DNS until such time as the InterNIC removes the .fidonet.org domain. Since the InterNIC will expect and annual service fee of $50.00 for the domain in March, it is possible that the .fidonet.org domain may dissappear. I do not plan on paying this fee out of my own pocket. o We will continue to operate the gateway at 1:13/10 (our other gateway address) on a REGISTERED-ONLY basis. This means that there will be a process whereby INDIVIDUAL Zone-1 Nodes will be able to Register to use the gateway and have an Internet address assigned. Incoming E-Mail for all REGISTERED systems will be packed on HOLD and must be picked up by direct Poll. NOTHING will be routed via the Backbone (except Bounces back to UNregistered Nodes). (Please see instructions below for Registering to use 1:13/10) How to Register to use the Gateway at 1:13/10 --------------------------------------------- To register your system to use the gateway services at 1:13/10, simply send a File-Request for REGISTER to 1:13/10. This will pass your Primary address into a function process that will dynamically re-configure the related configuration files and routing during the next hourly update process. After that, you should be able to use the gateway and any E-Mail coming INbound from the Internet will be packed on *HOLD* at 1:13/10 for your system to pickup. Note that your system is assigned a special address, which is NOT in the old 'f###.n###.z#.fidonet.org' syntax. Do NOT advertise that address as it will NOT be valid. Point systems may NOT register and may NOT use this gateway. Burt Juda Postmaster/Hostmaster (Feel free to distribute this as widely as possible) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I Am A Blind User Of Fidonet Rick Hayner 4410-a Lilac Lane Apt. 144 Kalamazoo, MI 49006-5771 phone: (616) 372-1847 Fidonet address: 1:2201/67 I am writing this article to explain how I, a totally blind user of Fidonet use my computer and access bulletin board systems. I am using an IBM compatable computer with speech output. This speech output consists of two parts, a speech synthesizer, and a FidoNews 13-04 Page: 6 22 Jan 1996 screen reader, or screen review software. The synthesizer is an Accent-pc internal card. It has a twenty thousand word pronunciation dictionary programmed into eprom on the card. The card also has it's own built-in clock, so it doesn't care what speed the CPU is running at. The accent can speak at speech rates of from sixty words per minute to over eight hundred fifty words per minute. The screen review program is a TSR, Terminate and stay resident program that controls what is spoken by the synthesizer. The screen review program I use is called Flipper. Flipper causes the synthesizer to automatically speak text that is written using the bios routines. However, if the software that I am using writes directly to the screen, there are keystrokes that allow me to do everything from reading the entire screen, to speaking lines and words surrounding the cursor at the time. I can also have the word before, under, and after the cursor spoken or spelled letter by letter. The accent line of speech synthesizers is produced by Aicom Corperation, and Flipper is written by Omnichron of Berkley, California. My communications software is called {Commo}. The braces are part of the name of the software. {Commo} is written by Fred P. Brucker of Columbus, Ohio. Fred has designed {Commo} with the speech user in mind. My modem is an US Robotics Sportster 14400 external modem. I use the Bluewave off-line mail reader written by Cutting Edge Computing. George Hachew has put a lot of work into Bluewave to make it work well with speech. The bulletin board system where i receive my Fidonet mail is The Shadow Castle here in the Kalamazoo area. The sysop, Jeff Harvey has been very helpful to me since I moved here over 10 months ago. Finally I want to thank the entire Fidonet community for their effort in keeping this wonderful network going. I have made many close friendships via Fidonet echos. I hope to continue to be a Fidonet user for many years to come. If anyone has any questions, I will be very pleased to answer them. I am on several Fidonet echos. Some of them are BlinkTalk, BlindTalk, NfbTalk, and the {commo} support echo. I look forward to hearing from anyone who may be interested in speech technology or any other method used by the blind to access computers. FidoNews 13-04 Page: 7 22 Jan 1996 FileFind Blues :-( Mike Wynne (2:250/223.12) FileFind Blues :-( There I am in *desperate* need of some elusive shareware utility when I suddenly remember the "FileFind" echo. I quickly write my request and pack my mail off to my bossnode. A few days later, automated replies start to roll in. I end up with six or seven possiblities and excitedly generate FREQs to get them onto my hard-disk. Out of the six or so systems, I get four automated messages to the effect that these systems do *not* allow FREQs from unlisted nodes. I begin to weep uncontrollably over my Space-bar. Please, please, *please* listen to me, all you fine generous Sysops. If you are going to participate in a FileFind echo, then please allow FREQs for these files from *anybody* (and save all us Points a lot of fruitless ,and often long-distance, calls ....... OR please state clearly in your FileFind replies that you do not allow such calls. Thankyou. A Sore Point ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Just Want Something New by Colin Zimmer, 1:140/62 About a year ago I was looking through the Blue Wave support echo. I read some messages from different people asking when the next version of Blue Wave was coming out. I ask these people what was wrong with the version that they have now and they would tell me one of two things "Nothing" or "I want something new" and sometimes both. And of course when v2.20 came out people talked about how bad it was. (This was before they knew about the bugs that v2.20 had) Again I asked what was wrong with it and they said "Nothing really..." or "It's not enough". I would ask what was not enough and the ones that would reply would only say "I'm not the programmer, they are, they should know what to add." And the other day I was on the Internet and was talking about Hexen. One of the people I was talking to could not wait for the next update for Hexen to come out. He told me of how he went on to the GT interactive site ever day to see if it was out yet. I ask him what was wrong with the version he had and he told me "Nothing, it's a great game". I went on to ask if there was nothing wrong with it, why he wanted the update, and what did he think it would do? He replayed "I don't know, I just want the newest version". FidoNews 13-04 Page: 8 22 Jan 1996 I also saw this in myself. I had Doom v1.666 and I played it off and on for two month until I finish it a couple times. Then for about three months after that I really didn't play it that much. But then one day I heard about the v1.9 patch. So I spent half the night looking for it and when I got it I played Doom all day and night for a week. I really didn't see any difference in it but for some reason because it said 1.9 on the start up I just had to play it. I think it's time for people to stand back and see if what they want is a better product or just the newest. And if all they want is the newest, programmers just might start leaving things out so they can slowly add them in later with never ending patches to try and keep people using there programs. It would be like making a car and selling it with two spark plugs and sending the other six out later at two at a time. Just something to think about. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Phil Zimmermann Cleared! * Copy of message posted via CYPHERPUNKS * Date: 12 Jan 96 22:37:22 * From: dubois@dubois.com @ 1:102/903.100 * To: All From: "Philip L. Dubois" Subject: News Release -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Yesterday morning, I received word from Assistant U.S. Attorney William Keane in San Jose, California, that the government's three-year investigation of Philip Zimmermann is over. Here is the text of Mr. Keane's letter to me: "The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California has decided that your client, Philip Zimmermann, will not be prosecuted in connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy. The investigation is closed." The U.S. Attorney also released this to the press: "Michael J. Yamaguchi, United States Attorney for the Northern District of California, announced today that his office has declined prosecution of any individuals in connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption program known as "Pretty Good Privacy." The investigation has been closed. No further comment will be made by the U.S. Attorney's Office on the reasons for declination. Assistant U.S. Attorney William P. Keane of the U.S. Attorney's Office in San Jose at (408) 535-5053 oversaw the government's investigation of the case." On receiving this news, Mr. Zimmermann posted this to the Cypherpunks list: FidoNews 13-04 Page: 9 22 Jan 1996 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- My lead defense lawyer, Phil Dubois, received a fax this morning from the Assistant US Attorney in Northern District of California, William Keane. The letter informed us that I "will not be prosecuted in connection with the posting to USENET in June 1991 of the encryption program Pretty Good Privacy. The investigation is closed." This brings to a close a criminal investigation that has spanned the last three years. I'd like to thank all the people who helped us in this case, especially all the donors to my legal defense fund. Apparently, the money was well-spent. And I'd like to thank my very capable defense team: Phil Dubois, Ken Bass, Eben Moglen, Curt Karnow, Tom Nolan, and Bob Corn-Revere. Most of the time they spent on the case was pro-bono. I'd also like to thank Joe Burton, counsel for the co- defendant. There are many others I can thank, but I don't have the presence of mind to list them all here at this moment. The medium of email cannot express how I feel about this turn of events. -Philip Zimmermann 11 Jan 96 - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMPDy4WV5hLjHqWbdAQEqYwQAm+o313Cm2ebAsMiPIwmd1WwnkPXEaYe9 pGR5ja8BKSZQi4TAEQOQwQJaghI8QqZFdcctVYLm569I1/8ah0qyJ+4fOfUiAMda Sa2nvJR7pnr6EXrUFe1QoSauCASP/QRYcKgB5vaaOOuxyXnQfdK39AqaKy8lPYbw MfUiYaMREu4= =9CJW - -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- I'd like to add a few words to those of my client. First, I thank Mr. Keane for his professionalism in notifying us of the government's decision. It has become common practice for federal prosecutors to refuse to tell targets of investigations that the government has decided not to prosecute. I appreciate Mr. Keane's courtesy. Let me add my thanks to the other members of the defense team-- Ken Bass in Washington D.C. (kbass@venable.com), Curt Karnow in San Francisco (karnow@cup.portal.com), Eben Moglen in New York (em21@columbia.edu), and Tom Nolan in Palo Alto (74242.2723@compuserve.com). Bob Corn-Revere in D.C. (rcr@dc1.hhlaw.com) was a great help on First Amendment issues. These lawyers are heroes. They donated hundreds of hours of time to this cause. Each is outstanding in his field and made a contribution that nobody else could have made. It has been an honor and a privilege to work with these gentlemen. Mr. Zimmermann mentioned a lawyer named Joe Burton (joebur@aol.com) of San Francisco. Mr. Burton deserves special mention. He represented FidoNews 13-04 Page: 10 22 Jan 1996 another person who was under investigation. To have made this other person publicly known would have been an invasion of privacy, so we didn't. We still won't, but we can finally acknowledge Mr. Burton's enormous contribution. Whether we were getting paid or not, the rest of us at least received some public attention for representing Phil Zimmermann. Mr. Burton labored quietly on behalf of his client. He took the case pro bono and did an extraordinary job. He is a lawyer who exemplifies the finest traditions of the Bar and the highest standard of integrity. I am proud to know Joe Burton. The warriors at the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)-- Marc Rotenberg, David Sobel, and David Banisar-- and at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) provided financial, legal, and moral support and kept the public informed. They continue to do so, and we all owe them thanks for it. Those members of the press who recognized the importance of this story and told the world about it should be commended. Undeterred by the absence of sex and violence, these reporters discussed the real issues and in so doing served the public well. Many other people, lawyers and humans alike, made invaluable contributions. My assistants Alicia Alpenfels, Suzanne Turnbull Paulman, and Denise Douglas and my investigator Eli Nixon kept us organized. Rich Mintz, Tom Feegel, and Nathaniel Borenstein of First Virtual put up a Web site and aggressively supported the Zimmermann Legal Defense Fund. Another site was built by Michael Sattler of San Francisco, and he and Dave Del Torto (also of S.F.) let me stay in their homes. Thanks also to MIT and The MIT Press: Hal Abelson, Jeff Schiller, Brian LaMacchia, Derek Atkins, Jim Bruce, David Litster, Bob Prior, and Terry Ehling. And there were many others. Finally, I offer my thanks to everyone who contributed to the Zimmermann Legal Defense Fund. People all over the world gave their hard-earned money to support not only Phil Zimmermann's defense but also the cause of privacy. It is impossible to be too pessimistic about our future when there are so many of you. Now, some words about the case and the future. Nobody should conclude that it is now legal to export cryptographic software. It isn't. The law may change, but for now, you'll probably be prosecuted if you break it. People wonder why the government declined prosecution, especially since the government isn't saying. One perfectly good reason might be that Mr. Zimmermann did not break the law. (This is not always a deterrent to indictment. Sometimes the government isn't sure whether someone's conduct is illegal and so prosecutes that person to find out.) Another might be that the government did not want to risk a judicial finding that posting cryptographic software on a site in the U.S., even if it's an Internet site, is not an "export". There was also the risk that the export-control law would be declared unconstitutional. Perhaps the government did not want to get into a public argument about some important policy issues: should it be illegal to export cryptographic software? Should U.S. citizens have access to technology that permits private communication? And ultimately, do U.S. citizens have the right FidoNews 13-04 Page: 11 22 Jan 1996 to communicate in absolute privacy? There are forces at work that will, if unresisted, take from us our liberties. There always will be. But at least in the United States, our rights are not so much stolen from us as they are simply lost by us. The price of freedom is not only vigilance but also participation. Those folks I mention in this message have participated and no doubt will continue. My thanks, and the thanks of Philip Zimmermann, to each of you. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBMPdHw7Z7C+AHeDONAQFR+QP/SJFD1DsIqUZhl5s8dtnUfe8l5a0YAWsa jOGvaK6gNpi1L4McEkb8Y4hOlI4n+X8HuRnzHai0UmSjAT6zHQmfN9UVbP27fYBR xKw1nTzEziHsbmHTua+fDvsWrsWa+A5hBxS7UAQkepDWtlc2EUCB1v5aOyGwnuco ppXLLSDHh1g= =N8iF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Getting a life! By Mike Labellarte 1:2235/110 "The Soul of Cyberspace" In recent days I felt the need to review my BBS life style. (again!) I guess we all do this once in a while. I was finding that my system was overwhelmed with the ussual smattering of half open ZIP files. Oh yeah! RAR (not another) or just your average "crap on the drive" kinda stuff. I had the illusion that this junk was important for one reason or another. "To whom?" is the question. The effort I put forth for the "Hobby" is way more than any would do for a good crusade. (Gesh! where is this going?) I care for my Very Disabled wife so the time spent BBSin' is with purpose. A laptop and some voice activated software can be more of a life than some of us would beleive. A time killer! Should this matter? I am tring to find a place, in Cyberspace. See, it is my only way to have a life, the constant demand you know! I have many a "Newbie" or "PRO" calling me for reviews or whatever hand-holding maybe needed. Why? Because they know I'm here. I honestly have had it with ALL the BS in BBSin', but inside I do really like the chase it offers. An education that I missed, comoradary that is much needed or a kin-ship with those who travel at 28.8K or better. (Stand By for Mental Wavering...) FidoNews 13-04 Page: 12 22 Jan 1996 So I reach for that GOLD Plated connection at the end of my I/O and find my life. My New life as... "The Soul of Cyberspace" It is mine! All Mine! No one person place or thing with take it from me. No Zeliot, Bigot or General Malcontent will really ever succeed. Don't like what I say? Change the conference, don't carry it or worse leave this place called Cyberspace. (Oh Gawd! I can't stop the spew...) I'm tired of the "W's", "S's", "B's and "G's" telling me "How, Where and When" to sneeze. So therfore I take to the Snooze I have nothing more to loose. (sorry for the poetry) Mike Labellarte, AKA "The Soul of Cyberspace" Hey, There wasn't anything to read this week! ASTA! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ======================================================================== 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: Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews 154 Victoria St. S. Kitchener, Ontario Canada N2H 2b5 voice: (519) 570-4899 Fidonews is 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 FidoNews 13-04 Page: 13 22 Jan 1996 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. Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is Copyright 1996 Donald Tees. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the eds. OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of 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 Internet. PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above paper-mail address. INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via FTP from ftp.fidonet.org, in directory ~ftp/pub/fidonet/fidonews. Anyone interested in getting a copy of the INTERNET GATEWAY FAQ may freq GISFAQ.ZIP from 1:133/411.0, or send an internet message to fidofaq@gisatl.fidonet.org. No message or text or subject is necessary. The address is a keyword that will trigger the automated response. People wishing to send inquiries directly to David Deitch should now mail to fidonet@gisatl.fidonet.org rather than the previously listed address. SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable from 1:1/23 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". Please read it. "Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered trademarks of Tom Jennings, and are used with permission. ' ' 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------