F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 43 27 October 1997 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-904-409-7040 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:18/14 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Happy Halloween and other Harvest/Death Festivals! Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Halloween, All Hallows Eve, Day of the Dead? ............. 1 2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2 AOL Hoax letter .......................................... 2 Region 11 has Halloween on their website! ................ 3 3. ARTICLES ................................................. 4 IP Fido Nodes Request .................................... 4 A BBS Story .............................................. 5 4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 8 A joke set in a Saloon ................................... 8 5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 10 Happy Halloween! ......................................... 10 6. ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ........................ 11 Announcing the WRESTLING_CHAT & PRO_WRESTLING Echoes ..... 11 7. NOTICES .................................................. 12 Future History ........................................... 12 8. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 13 Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 13 9. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 17 FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 17 10. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 18 11. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 20 FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 1 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Besides the U.S. and parts of Europe, are there comparable festivals of ghosts and spirits and the dead in the rest of FidoNet? This is the Halloween Issue, so I just thought I'd ask. [grin] A mixed bag this week. Nothing about premature blizzards or leaves changing colors. Somebody sent me an 867K .ART file this week containing rambling excerpts from various Echomail areas, it appears. They pretended to be somebody else when they sent it but even if they'd been honest in the connect, even I draw the line at 867K for publishing or reading. I don't know what the purpose was but it contained several messages marked Confidential up front. Such traffic is not to be reproduced without permission according to FidoNet Policy. I didn't save it or the log containing the sending info but somebody has too much time on their hands. It wasn't worth reading. If it happens again, I'll be running a trace and saving the incoming info. The Marlins are getting ready to win the World Series the hard way in a seventh game. The World Series gets around the world, doesn't it? C.B. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 2 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ================================================================= --- Following message extracted from FIDONEWS @ 1:18/14 --- By Christopher Baker on Tue Oct 21 09:16:23 1997 From: Mike Bilow To: Christopher Baker Date: 19 Oct 97 10:31:57 Subj: AOL "cookie" rumor is a hoax * Forwarded (from: Netmail) by Mike Bilow using BilowMail0.2. * Original dated: Oct 19 '97, 10:25 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Copyright (c) 1997, Mike Bilow. Unlimited royalty-free distribution of the following text is permitted for any purpose and by any means, provided that the text is reproduced unedited and in full (including this copyright notice). You are receiving this message because your address was listed as a prior recipient of a warning message about AOL v4.0 software and "cookies." DO NOT FORWARD THAT MESSAGE ABOUT AOL AND "COOKIES" -- IT IS A HOAX. Anyone who wants the official story about the "cookies" message and similar hoaxes should check: http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/CIACHoaxes.html This is a web site about computer security issues maintained by the Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, operated by the University of California for the U.S. Department of Energy. In reality, a "cookie" is a marketing device, a bit of data that a web site sends you that you then send back to that web site when you visit it again. The real purpose of a "cookie" is to allow web sites to track repeat visits, but they cannot otherwise identify you or get any information because of it unless you specifically give it to them. While "cookies" do raise some legitimate privacy concerns, they are NOT a means of tapping into your computer and reading your hard drive. Netscape publishes a "Cookie FAQ" at: http://search.netscape.com/assist/security/faqs/cookies.html Netscape also publishes the technical specification for "cookies" at: http://search.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html Please remember that the vast majority of warnings about "magical" programs are hoaxes. While destructive or invasive software does FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 3 27 Oct 1997 exist, major public companies such as AOL are obviously not going to take the legal and public relations risks associated with distributing it. -- Mike Bilow, N1BEE -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2 iQCVAwUBNEngLHAUuiZUHY5VAQG3YgP/c0otYDvhC5BHhxtM5K09YwUZ8feBmZ7l /2/QfSZEO2nmp6efmTWxw9DaEdmCA8VCnt2zMN0PFIl4lyintDX+5F7r2bm7b2dE 3lIHJwwSrdKdy+56YAmQeczLHF1METV0jUwZQANijz4Gm7bLiqgQPwdAcKUSC4t6 TezgT+3T7/Y= =p0rs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Origin: N1BEE BBS +1 401 944 8498 .FC/V.32bis/HST16.8 (1:323/107) -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- X-Sender: garyg@mail.oeonline.com Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 14:29:00 -0500 To: cbaker84@digital.net From: gary gilmore Could you drop a blurb in the Fidonews... The Region11 website is decked out for Halloween. Let me know what you think. ;-) http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/ Requirements for "best effect": MSIE 3.x or better Decent sound card that can play MIDI and WAV files. (SB32 or better suggested) The site will remain this way until next week. Enjoy! :-) --gary We are the keepers of the sacred words: Ni, Ping, and Nee-womm! Fidonet: (Yes, fidonet) 1:2410/400 BBS: 1-313-582-0888 The Maximus Home Page: http://www.oeonline.com/~garyg/maximus/ The W32_FDN Home Page: http://www.oeonline.com/~garyg/w32_fdn/ -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 4 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= IP Fido Nodes Request by Zorch Frezberg, 1:205/1701 I'm developing a proposal for the inclusion of FidoNet Technical Standards compatible nodes operating mailers, which are located on the InterNet within Zone 1. To achieve this, I need to gather information from Zone 1 sysops that isn't available anywhere else I've been able to find. For the purposes of this proposal, I must define key provisions that must be met for inclusion in this effort. These are: 1) The node must be operating a normal node, which is identified in the regular FidoNet Nodelist; 2) The normal node must not be a PVT node or Point System, and must be CM (CrashMail) capable; 3) The node located on the InterNet must have a 'static IP' address and be available during a specified time for connections; 4) The InterNet node must be accessible through a mailer front-end which accepts FTN/FTS-0001 standard connections. If you are running such a node, please forward the standard information: 1) Your normal FidoNet nodelist entry, with flags. 2) The city and state where your system is located. 3) The static IP address to be used when contacting your system. 4) The node number, if different from above, assigned to the IP-based mailer. 5) Your hours of operation for netmail and/or files. Any BBS information is optional. 6) The type of connection you support (VMODEM, telnet, BinkP, etc.). 7) The type of front-end mailer software you are using. 8) Any specialized nodelist flags you feel should be included. (NOTE: Inclusion of such flags with your submission does not guarantee that these will be included in the final proposal, though reasonable and useful flags will be catalogued as well.) FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 5 27 Oct 1997 For a variety of reasons relating to the proposal, this listing must be limited to Zone 1 nodes only at this time. I am willing to share the information with other Zones, and exchange lists as well, once the information has been processed and submitted with the proposal. Please forward the above information, or any compiled lists for Zone 1 which you may have (any format) to me at 1:205/1701 or by E-Mail to: zorch@kumr.lns.com. Thank you for your assistance, and let's find out what's out there! ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- A BBS Story Gregg Jennings, 1:331/109 After meeting at Coffee Obsession, the new trendy coffee shop, which they rated an excellent quiet place for two old friends to get together to discuss old times, Pat and John inevitably ended up talking about computers. Old-timers, equipmentwise, after complaining about Windows 95, and speculating about Linux, John had mentioned that he had gotten a hold of an archive of a type he had not heard of. "That damn ZAR program!" Pat laughed. Seeing the quizzical expression on his friend's face Pat went on to explain. "This BBS I hang out at called it that when he first got it. He prefers using LZX and I guess felt bugged by having to make available yet another archiving program. ZAR is actually pretty good. It has menu based interface for viewing archives of most types as well as a command line interface. And although it does produce smaller archives, something related to solid archives where it concatenates files before compressing, it's native format has not caught on too well." "Interesting," John said. "Kind of like a compressed TAR archive." "The so called solid archive feature, yes. But as far as I know it's only DOS based." And so they discussed various pros and cons of compression techniques and interfaces. John asked Pat, who was more of a programmer than he, if he had a copy of this infamous ZAR program. "Gee," Pat grinned, patting his pockets, "Not on me." At John's groan Pat said, "No, I don't think I have it anywhere, but that BBS does. You can get it from there." "What's the number? Is it local?" "Yeah. Just remind me an I'll give it to you before I go." Pat told him. "How 'bout if you come by my place after this," John said. "I haven't called a BBS in a while." "Sure," Pat said and then finished his coffee. "Why not now?" After John's trusty old 486 booted up John started his communications program. "Wow! FidoTerm huh? Where'd you dig that up?" Pat asked. "Someone from work gave it to me a long time ago," John said. FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 6 27 Oct 1997 "Requires a FOSSIL driver but it works quite well. Good enough anyway." Taking the seat before the computer Pat asked, "Do you ever read any FidoNet stuff?" "No," was John's quick reply. "You should check it out. There's a lot of jerks, but hey, you find them everywhere. Check out this BBS." He sat back while the modem chirped away. He entered his login name and password. "It's actually pretty good," he was saying when there came a click and the modem hung up. "Eh?" Pat said turning to the screen. "What's this?" "'Phone number does not match your entry,'" John read. "'If you have any problems, please call back and login as HELP.'" "Damn!" Pat said. "What the heck is that all about?" "Must be caller ID," John said. "Must be," Pat said and re-entered the number. "I'll just turn it off this time." Chirp, chirp, click went the modem. "'Non-caller ID calls are unaccepted,'" Pat read this time. "O, fer crying out loud," John said. "What the..." "How about calling back as HELP?" Pat asked. "But that's not going to do you any good if I can't get access," John said. "I know. Why don't you call and set up a new account?" "Okay," Pat said and took over the seat. When connected he entered his name and chose a password. "Capture the text," John said. "If I recall correctly there are a few screens full of rules." "Already did that," Pat informed him, hitting the return key several times. "Here we go. Blah, blah, blah... 'You have read-only access to the new user's forum only until you are validated.' What the...?" "Strange," John said. "I don't remember that. Try accessing the filesbase anyway." "How do I do that?" "Type files." "Okay," Pat said. After hitting return he read, "'Files access denied.'" "Crap!" John said. "I could have sworn I got access when I first called." "When was that?" "Couple of years ago." "Well," Pat said. "Things change I guess." "I'll say," John said. "Well, it looks like I can't get you that program unless you want to come over to my place and I call from there. Man, I can't believe this." "Well, it can wait I guess," Pat sighed. "It was only a game archive that I had." "But that's not the point. I should be able to get this. Hold on. Look. Log off. I got a friend who lives nearby. I'll call him." Putting down the receiver John turned slowly to his friend. "He says that you should just get an Internet account. You can find anything you need there without questions. Get into the 20th century he said." "Gee. Can I get it tonight?" Pat asked sarcastically. "Really," John said. FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 7 27 Oct 1997 They both shook their heads and sighed. "Hey," Pat said. "I've got this cool CD with a game called Shadow Warrior. It's excellent. Want to check it out?" "Sure," John said. "Got nothing else to do." "O yeah," he added. "My friend said that ZAR is shareware and that you'll have to register it. But that's another story." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 8 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= NET HUMOR ================================================================= A joke set in a Saloon Forwarded by Barry Salter, 2:254/301 Other contact details in .sig Hi everyone , Apologies for the title but I couldn't think of anything more descriptive that wouldn't give the punchline away. I got the following joke from a mailing list that I subscribe to. The original author forgot to put his/her name on it so I can't tell you who wrote it. Anyway, enough of my rabbiting ;) Here's the joke: -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8----- A very small, sickly-looking man was hired as a bartender. The saloon owner gave him a word of warning: "Drop everything and run for your life if ever you hear that Big John is on his way to town." The man worked several months without any problems. Then one day a cowhand rushed in shouting, "Big John is a'comin'," and knocked the small bartender on the floor in his hurry to get out. Before the bartender had a chance to recover, a giant of a man with a black bushy beard rode into the saloon through the swinging doors on the back of a buffalo, and using a rattlesnake for a whip. The man tore the doors off their hinges, knocked over tables, and flung the snake into the corner. He then took his massive fist and split the bar in half as he asked for a drink. The bartender nervously pushed a bottle at the man. He bit off the top of the bottle with his teeth and downed the contents in one gulp, and turned to leave. Seeing that he wasn't hurting anyone, the bartender asked the man if he would like another drink. "I ain't got no time," the man roared. "Big John is a'comin' to town." -----8<-----C-U-T--H-E-R-E----->8----- Cya, Barry -- Barry Salter, Production Director, Businesses On-Line Limited E-mail: barrykas@vvaultbbs.uk.eu.org (<30k), barry.salter@pemail.net ICQ: 809009, Page me! http://wwp.mirabilis.com/809009 FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 9 27 Oct 1997 Download ICQ now: http://www.mirabilis.com/ -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 10 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= --- Following message extracted from ASCII_ART @ 1:18/14 --- By Christopher Baker on Fri Oct 17 02:19:00 1997 From: Miss Kitty To: All Date: 12 Oct 97 21:14:00 Subj: More Halloween , ^V^ / \ __ __ (`\ / \ |__| /\ |__)|__)\ / `\`\ / \ | |/^^\| | | `\`\ / \ _ __ __ `\`\ _/ \_ |__| /\ | | / \| ||_ |_ |\ | `\`\ (_____________) | |/^^\|__|__\_/|/\||__ |__ | \| `\`\ >>>>"""""""<<<< `\`\<<<< (o) (o) >>>> `\>>>> ,/ <<<< .'``'. __.. <<<<< {__, >>>>> :o o `....' ; >>>>>\ ___ /<<<<< `. O :' ^V^ <<<<<< \ / >>>>>> `': `. _ >>>>>>>`U--' <<<<<< `:. `. / ) <<<<<<<<< >>>>>>>>> : `. `. / / >>>>>>>>> <<<<<<<<< `..'`... `. / / /\ `\`\ `... `. / / .-```-. / ^`-. `\`\ ``... `. \ \ / \_/ (|) `o `\`\ `````. \ \ / .-. \\ _ ,--' `\`\___ \ \/ / ) \( `^^^ `\_/ `\\, \ \/ ( ) | .\`/\\ ^V^ \ ) ) / \\`\\//\\\ ) /__ | (__ jgs `\--'/\`\\ (___))) (__))) \^^\`\\`\ `\\`\\`\` Origin: Kitty's Keep BBS * 714-871-2227 * Fullerton, CA * (1:103/441.0) -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 11 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= ADVERTISE YOUR FREE SERVICE/EVENT ================================================================= Emanuel Edwards 1:348/963 emanuel@pangea.ca IMPORTANT NOTICE TO ALL SYSOPS!!!!!! Hello all Sysops and Co_Sysops: If you are looking for all the latest wrestling news both in the WCW and the WWF I suggest you request these two echoes on your BBS. PRO_WRESTLING News from the WCW & WWF WRESTLING_CHAT Wrestling News straight from the Internet. There are great wrestling fans on both echoes and those echoes should be a great addition to your message bases. Thank you Emanuel Moderator for the wrestling_chat Co_moderator for the Pro_wrestling Internet emanuel@pangea.ca Fidonet 1:348/963 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 12 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 1 Dec 1997 World AIDS Day. 10 Dec 1997 Nobel Day, Sweden. 12 Jan 1998 HAL 9000 is one year old today. 30 Apr 1998 Queens Day, Holland. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 13 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= [from 1441 - Ed.] Latest Greatest Software Versions by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264 Hmm. Not much to say. -=- Snip -=- Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column OS Platform : Software package name : Version : Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. : Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? : Author / Support staff contact name : Author / Support staff contact node : Magic name (at the above-listed node) : Please include a sentence describing what the package does. Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264 -=- Snip -=- MS-DOS: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP ALLFIX 4.40 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX Announcer 1.11 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO FastEcho/16 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE16 FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 14 27 Oct 1997 Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386 InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386 JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD NorthStar 3.31.29 B S A&B Darin 1:285/82 NSTAR Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA Searchlight 4.5 B S Paul Casey 1:343/117 DEMO450.ZIP Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT Silver Xpress Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD Terminate 5.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS OS/2: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 15 27 Oct 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLFIX/2 1.10 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2 BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BOS2_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2 CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2 FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST FleetStreet 1.20 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET FP-OS/2 97-03-21 O F Mike Bilow 323/107 FPOS2 GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEO GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2 Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2 Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2 Windows (16-bit apps): Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW Windows (32-bit apps): Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_W32 CFRoute 0.92 O G C. 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BBS at 1-904-409-7040 anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone 1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32B. The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 18 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET BY INTERNET ================================================================= This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as of this appearance. ============ FidoNet: Homepage http://www.fidonet.org FidoNews http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html HTML FNews http://www.fidonews.org WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html FTSC page http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc/ftscmirr.htm Echomail http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html ============ 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 ============ 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) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German) Region 25: http://members.aol.com/Net254/ FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 19 27 Oct 1997 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 ============ Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org ============ Zone 4: (not yet listed) Region 90: Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish) ============ Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm ============ Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China) ============ ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 20 27 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ------- Editor: Christopher Baker Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees "FidoNews Editor" FidoNet 1:1/23 BBS 1-904-409-7040, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds) more addresses: Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14, cbaker84@digital.net cbaker84@fidonews.org cbaker84@aol.com cbaker84@msn.com (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews Editor P.O. Box 471 Edgewater, FL 32132-0471 U.S.A. voice: 1-904-409-3040 [1400-2100 ET only, please] [1800-0100 UTC/GMT] ------------------------------------------------------ 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 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 1997 Christopher Baker. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the Editor. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet. PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 21 27 Oct 1997 back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSEnn.ZIP] for a particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the current year [7], i.e., FNWSAUG7.ZIP for all the Issues from Aug 97. Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number 1 - 14 for 1984 - 1997, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in size from 48K to 1.4M. INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via: http://www.fidonews.org http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/ ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/fido/ *=*=* You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to: jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no message to the same address above. * You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail by sending email to: ftpmail@fidonews.org with a Subject line of: help and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will respond in three stages. You find a link for this process on www.fidonews.org. *=*=* You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at: http://www.fidonews.org STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request - Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from: ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/ Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 11 Megs. FIDONEWS 14-43 Page 22 27 Oct 1997 =*=*=*= The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also available almost immediately after publication on the Editor's new homepage on the World Wide Web at: http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18. It is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the Zone 1 Echomail Backbone. *=*=*=*=* 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 Editor, or file-requestable from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators also have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it. "Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141, and are used with permission. "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 -30- -----------------------------------------------------------------