F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 22 1 June 1998 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-209-251-7529 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> editor@fidonews.org | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Blows Against What Empire? Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 Loggerhead is borirrrrrring .............................. 3 3. COLUMNS .................................................. 4 Pass The Mashed Bananas .................................. 4 4. GETTING TECHNICAL ........................................ 9 Crossposted in FTSC ...................................... 9 5. NOTICES .................................................. 10 Future History ........................................... 10 6. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 11 FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 11 7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12 8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14 FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 1 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= A bit of international news, and then nothing...? Hmmm...I would have suspected much more going on worlwide in FidoNet than just one issue's worth of news. As it is, enough mail has trickled through in the FidoNet Technical Standards Committee to generate the need for a decision, and under the rules of the FTSC, public input is requested, as presented below, and taken from the FTSC_PUBLIC echo. No formal notice was sent to the FidoNews...which seems odd for an intent of soliciting public input. Doc Logger appears yet again, along with an interesting observation of his writing and prose. In general news and information, it appears that more and more people seem to feel that trying matters in the 'court of public opinion' has more weight and value than trying to resolve matters through the very simple process established within FidoNet Policy. Moreso when claims of legal action are bandied about by those with little or no legal experience to assess the validity of these claims. If nothing else, this should be amusing to watch. On another note, the message I received from a node in the former Soviet Union has not been followed up by the writer. It would be most interesting to hear from the "Quiet Giant" in Zone 2 and get a perspective that many in the West do not have available to them. If nothing else, it would be an interesting forum for the discussion of the formation of "Zone 7", and offering both a true and earnest representation of those who had no voice before. Also, it would seem that more people are discovering Adrian Walker's "so long and thanks for all the fish" message, posted on his website. It's interesting to see so many cast blame and accusations over this, but so far only see two people actually propose to do anything about the loss of the EchoList management of tags. For those of you who don't know, Adrian has apparently decided to shut it down without offering the code to run it. Certainly, that is his perogative...after all, it _is_ his code. But my feeble attempt to recall the past remembers that his predecessor, Mike Fuchs, offered to make _his_ code available at the least to his successor, but the offer was refused...am I incorrect in my recollection of this? And, on a last note... I receive a number of commercial E-Mails from various companies and FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 2 1 Jun 1998 corporations around the world, offering 'free trial' software or equipment, or offering 'discounts' on the same... Should I post these in the FidoNews each week, or not? Your input is welcome on the idea...these are not paid advertising, nor is there usually any graphics attached. These are generally press releases from these companies. However, I'm not at all certain if these would be appropriate to include. On the one hand, they are commercial; on the other hand, these often include materials of general interest to sysops. Feel free to contact me at 1:1/23, or at editor@fidonews.org. -zf- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 3 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= Loggerhead is borirrrrrring by Bob "Bobo I" Moravsik Each week the nodes that read Fidonews must mechanically skip over the drival written by Doc (doctor of buffoonery) Loggerhead. Its the same old stuff: Dear Rev Whatever.... Then some bellowing about Satti...Zorch and Kohl. This is followed by a paragraph on "peefour" a document that has words larger then 5 letters. Loggerhead shows he hasn't yet gotten to section 8. Doc...to modify Fidonet's policy one must restate it then get 50%+1 of the RC's to present it to the IC for a *C vote. Sorry but any other way ya got a document that shares one property with you...being a phony, Hey...Satti ain't perfect but he's the IC and ZC1. Kohl ain't perfect but he's the RC10. Loggerhead ain't perfect and he's a buffoon. What these guys do is a lot more constructive then the repititious ravings that Loggerhead stuffs into Fidonews. Maybe we should have two additions: Fidonews I for the regular nodes and Fidonews II with Doc Buffoon's column that will someday line the cages of electronic birds. Give it up Loggerhead....you are like a fire dectector...all noise...no substance. You waste bandwith in the echo and seem to have attracted no allies. I guess when one is a doctor of buffoonery and stuff white powder your his nose all day...your keyboard is your only outlet. Go away...leave Fidonet to normal people. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 4 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Dear Editorbeing, This article is submitted by Doc Logger(163/110) who was awash in mashed bananas which he was gumming in teary-eyed nostalgia about the good old days. Of course, for Logger, the "good old days" are anything that happened before yesterday but that is a minor semantic quibble. Roll da flic, Zorch.... Dear Reverend Visage, This may be longer than my usual bird cage liner because it represents a sort of milestone in my less than sterling pursuit as a Fidonet columnist. There have been miscellaneous articles and letters before I started sequentially numbering them, but this represents the 50th column that I have submitted in the format of letters to you. The fact that you are stuck in a Thai bordello with opium vacuity in your eyes, large lizards trying to eat your spleen, and vicious nightmares involving Henry Kissinger tormenting your every waking hour, are all of small consequence to me. I've already become independently wealthy by selling the future rights to your brain. Surprisingly, the Smithsonian Institute was outbid by a small tribe in Borneo who claimed that it must represent the largest earthly repository of pure Ibogaine. I meant to start off with something sentimentally touching like "Roll da flic, Zorch, Tom, Thom, Dale, Vince, Tim, Sylvia, Donald & Christopher.." In honour of all the Fidonews editors who have seen fit to include my weaselings in the esteemed Snooz organ. It is a great credit to all the people on the list that the Snooz at least withstood the slings and arrows of outrageous elflords and remained true to its purpose. It is not as if there weren't moments when Fidonews was in peril, particularly from elflords like Bonine and the occasional whining from Dallas Hinton. I have just completed reading all the Fidonews that have ever been issued and what a strange and interesting history it represents. I'd would like to roll back a few pages and talk about the Glory Days of Fidonet. (If it isn't too much trouble, you may want to cue up some sentimental music...something that stirs the heart... y'know, music with tubas and all-nude majorette dancing girls.) I have in my study, a faded and yellow print-out of a chat I had with Bert Binary in December, 1985. He had just set up his BBS and we were discussing the concept of creating an echomail conference FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 5 1 Jun 1998 that could be passed between our systems. During the conversation, a spider strolled across Bert's monitor. The spider became a topic of discussion and somehow got named "Spike." The echomail conference became "Spike's Bar" - a sort of semi-fiction, roman au clef, circus, roadshow and irreverent conversation echo. I subsequently discovered that the echomail conference was among the first of what were ultimately called "rogue" echos. It propagated outside the backbone structure reaching Vienna, Montana and occasionally we would get strange and incomprehensible netmail from Australians who had somehow linked into the echo. What made the echo remarkable was the the messages were creative, witty and there were *hundreds* of them every day. I do mean messages, and not the quote-'N- grunt vulture shit that permeates echomail conferences today. One of the Great Themes that emerged in that echo was the delicious pastime of satirizing the various presumptive rulers of Fidonet. In general, we chose local targets but since that represented the era where Tom Kashuba's many personalities reigned, it was a rich environment for poking fun at the morons. Spike's Bar was where you made your echomail debut with the immortal line: "Your lips are like two roses in dung." You brought us Lucie LaFlamme whose short-short skirts and whose Franglais language was a great amusement. Out of Spike's Bar, five full length cheesy electronic novels were spun off. So, at this moment, I'd like to hoist another glass of Ibogaine to Spike, and all his characters and friends who gave me years of enjoyment from Fidonet. It is an acute embarrassment that I have been reduced to an old troll whose message output is almost entirely devoted to poking sticks at dumb, confused Fido elflords. If I were honest about it, which I'm rarely inclined to be, I'd say that a great deal of my disgust with the Fido elflords has to do with the fact that their intrusions led all of us to get lost in the process and to forget that the medium is capable of magic moments. The second nostalgic event is of a savage and ugly nature. I'd read Fido admin echos with detached amusement as the elflords battled with serfs, and as tyrants like Bonine stamped their jackboots across the noble dream that Tom Jennings had created. The only "political" inclinations I had concerned my absolute joy and wonder that a whole network could be created with anarchy as its guiding premise. The militantly public domain status of some of the early software, the lack of commercial domination, and the fact that it joined a world - were all things that caused me to marvel in wide-eyed amazement. The event, which was 10 or 11 years ago, that toppled me from complacency was a netmail message from a friendly local sysop who advised me that I really ought to attend the FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 6 1 Jun 1998 upcoming Net163 sysop meeting because on the agenda was a resolution to remove my nodenumber for "bringing Fidonet into disrepute." I did attend the meeting and was stunned that the issues involved the International propagation of the Spike's Bar echo. This may sound incredible now, but the theses of the sysop who proposed the resolution was that Fidonet was a medium whereby sysops should be "serious" exchanging technical information or talking about computers or software. In the proponent's mind, there was no place or room for fun in Fidonet and certainly no allowance should be given to an echo which featured a spider who worked as a bartender. Our NC at the time, a fellow named Al Hacker who had all the literate skills of a Bob Kohl and half the brains, took the resolution seriously. I glanced around the room and it occurred to me that the NC, the NEC, and all of the HUBS ran Mail Only systems. Not only did they not have human callers, but the only messages they ever wrote were self-referential commentary of how many kilobytes (it *was* kilobytes in those days) of mail they moved through their systems. Fidonet to them was all form and no substance. It was a mechanism and not a medium. When I asked why the other sysops would care about an echo which went out on my dime when it left the net, or went by non-Hub routed means within the net, their answer was equally amazing. They said that only *they* had the right to move mail and only *they* had the right to determine whether content was appropriate. In fifteen minutes of insane discussion I heard enough proprietary declamations to choke a whale. It was "their net" or "my nodes", or "my mail Hub" etc. etc. on and on. Another social observation became obvious as I looked around the room at the various people who were laying claim to dominion over various aspects of Fidonet. In every case, whatever titles they'd acquired in Fidonet were their highest achievements in life. They were variously unemployed, low level government clerks, janitors, hotel bell hops - but not one of them in real life had either the skills or the education to rise to management. But there they were, infesting Fidonet, and like any long disfranchised class, they were hell-bent on flexing the only power they'd ever acquired in life. Mercifully, the resolution to hoof me from Fidonet was narrowly defeated. The incident caused me to look at the Fidonet elflord structure and I realized that there was a stunning overpopulation of similar real-life failures occupying elflord positions. It is no small wonder that this collection of mutants tried to foist Peefour on what they hoped would be a somnolent populace. These cretins needed rules because they had no shreds of judgment of their own. They needed the lash of policy to inflict their totalist revenge on everyone and everything that they should have recognized was the only prayer for freedom they ever could achieve. A generation of swine, to steal Thompson's phase, FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 7 1 Jun 1998 burrowed like maggots into Fidonet's structure and gave viability to every sniveling, whining, social misfit who had an ax to grind and a keyboard with which to file a policy complaint. If you have the right music on, and you squint your eyes just a tiny bit to catch the contrail, you can see the trajectory from Dodell through Bonine and Peace all the way to Satti. A lineage of wild peccaries who took as their anthem the sanctity of a policy document and who fiddled while Rome was burning. We have Kohl whose pathology is devouring Region10 and we have Bob "noted" Satti with all the management skills of Euglena; telling us that "they are bound by policy." It used to be that humanity was bound by common sense and the civilizing influence of justice. That, I think, was when there were people with the strength of character to make decisions. The third rumination concerns my first letter to Fidonews. I remember sitting at the computer, filled with trepidation about whether I should send it. I feared that Tom Jennings would never publish something from a fido serf, particularly because the tenor of the letter was to swing large broadaxes at a collection of Fido elflords. To my joy and amazement, Tom not only published the letter but sent me a kind netmail suggesting that the whole network could use my kind of irreverence. Tom didn't know it then, but his words were like giving milk to a stray kitten. Whenever I had doubts about whether Fidonet had fallen under a cloak of despair and sycophancy towards the elflords, I merely had to look at the netmail responses to my various articles. To all of those people who wrote, even the ones who wanted to carve out my liver, I thank you. To those whose writings in Fidonet I admired most - it is sad that most of you are gone, even though there was a consensus among you that writing for Fidonews was "proselytizing to gas station attendants." I dearly miss the energy and literacy that a fair number of people devoted to their messages. Anyway, those are my flashbacks from an earlier Fidonet era. I realize that the last worthy windmill to tilt at is in the lack of content of echomail messages. I also know that my opinion represents a very tiny minority. It is infinitely ironic that in one of Fidonet's echo conferences devoted to writing, there are only a couple of people who actually take the care to write as opposed to barf back previous messages while adding their own minor trail of phlegm to the end. I've recently had occasion to read nine doctoral theses of people who were recently blessed with the title "PhD" and I was appalled that not one of them possessed basic communication skills or even knew how to write a coherent sentence. It caused me to muse that knowledge without the means to use it or convey it is a trivial pursuit. When I give business seminars at one of the local high school, I FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 8 1 Jun 1998 give the students a choice of submitting either a ten thousand word essay or four paragraphs of cogent and original thought. I rarely get students choosing to write four paragraphs. In a couple of weeks I shall toss the cameras into my mid-life crisis car and go on a driving adventure. Eventually I'll meet up with a collection of friends who convene once a year to embarrass each other about past proud assertions that we were going to change the world. For some of us, merely surviving in the world is triumph enough. We'll talk about the novels we never got around to writing, or the fact that our art isn't gracing galleries across the country, or the fact that we aren't in politics making some sort of difference, or the fact that we gave up acting careers for something as pedestrian as wanting to be able to pay the rent. As a group, we need to torture ourselves with these failures of nerve and spirit. We also want to wish on our children the old resolve to go out and make a difference in some fashion while suppressing the fear that their generation will be riding the downward side of the asymptote where dreams and reality are implausible partners. I've already written too much. Poor Dallas' lips must be horribly bruised and the batteries must be dead on Kohl's Speak 'N Spell. I must go Visage, and this has nothing at all to do with the fact the car is rumbling ominously with tanks full of nitro-methanol, *serious* driving music racked up in the dash CD player, and a need to get back out there to reset the edge. Regards, Doc Logger Furlang Island, South Pacific ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 9 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= GETTING TECHNICAL ================================================================= Hello All. We currently have a case of a FTSC Standing Member who has decided to become a point instead of staying a node. He is willing to continue as member if allowed. The problem is that FTA-1001 requires members to be nodes. I don't know the background for this requirement, since I was not around when the document was originally drafted. FTA-1001 is only amendable after public input, so I am asking this on behalf of the FTSC: May Standing Members be points as well as nodes? Please give your input during the next three weeks, after which I will summarize and make a decision based on your input. Thank you. Odinn --- FTSC Administrator 1.0 * Origin: http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc * e-mail: odinn@goldware.dk (2:236/77) ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 10 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 3 Jul 1998 FidoNet European Convention (see issue #20 for details). 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 15-22 Page 11 1 Jun 1998 ================================================================= FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ================================================================= FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing [this must be copied out to a file starting at column 1 or it won't process under PGP as a valid public-key] -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: 2.6.2 Comment: Democracy Requires A Free And Uncensored Press. mQENAzUDQfgAAAEH/2cZjrzKxinfyk1NRYy2D78JEU8jFx6fvGyisnN2SX+QwRrA AxBbsMuseM3x60SFhHV7r93CxKWJylPCBJKvDazmWwy+vgBr+ZJvl7Ypj/IB4pWS Apngg8cmDH1h5d0VeYNORsuJ2udHZYRezkZ0eeJlaOsJCj5Xu0QImSp++VU/0oB1 6XRoNPy548xq8Qles1pLC8Kw7HU7Vff1WeaU3mPPQeaGZqn2qSAu5t6Z0Bhm27Pq zNaJ+JWNHaLCHlwrRHV+p9bCdfl3u303OxKPne0cSpxfe+gQBTlVta7B14ssgnzQ mnBFhvKWgM7LT105YD3EcWW9IJE1ByNHwo25a3EABRG0D0ZpZG9OZXdzIEVkaXRv cokAlQMFEDUKMDDrSgiY3KJNQQEB16YD/2tYVRC+dxghA/OwIWNH20GvQXw1zgfv cB6r8gYHcczTCqGu5qbjDOTftoBXY9vI3/CZNsSbvp0ibQinpN6zSgyy2+4wwPbu db/VnjXwBByq7ygTpNwQBMsYjs+iyndwTnR90dH3FewsveBCzeqjmP0Y/PJliElw zEmGKxoFr1SM =G82W -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- File-request FNEWSKEY from 1:1/23 [1:205/1701] or download it from IKVHFoT! 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NOTE: I am looking for a comprehensive list of Telnet, VMODEM, BinkP, Argus and other TCP/IP based nodes operating FidoNet on the InterNet, either by Zone or worldwide, to post here as well. - Ye Editor ============ FidoNet: Homepage http://www.fidonet.org FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML] http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII] WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html FTSC page http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc Echomail [MIA] WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN] General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.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: Region 15: Region 16: http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm Region 17: Region 18: http://techstop.pdn.net/fido/ Region 19: http://www.compconn.net ============ Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org ZEC2: Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/ Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish) FIDONEWS 15-22 Page 13 1 Jun 1998 Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German) Region 25: http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254 Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb 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?) 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