Volume 5, Number 28 11 July 1988 +---------------------------------------------------------------+ | _ | | / \ | | /|oo \ | | - FidoNews - (_| /_) | | _`@/_ \ _ | | International | | \ \\ | | FidoNet Association | (*) | \ )) | | Newsletter ______ |__U__| / \// | | / FIDO \ _//|| _\ / | | (________) (_/(_|(____/ | | (jm) | +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Editor in Chief Dale Lovell Editor Emeritus: Thom Henderson Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings Contributing Editors: Al Arango FidoNews is published weekly by the International FidoNet Association as its official newsletter. You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission standards are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from node 1:1/1. Copyright 1988 by the International FidoNet Association. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact IFNA at (314) 576-4067. IFNA may also be contacted at PO Box 41143, St. Louis, MO 63141. Fido and FidoNet are registered trademarks of Tom Jennings of Fido Software, 164 Shipley Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94107 and are used with permission. The contents of the articles contained here are not our responsibility, nor do we necessarily agree with them. Everything here is subject to debate. We publish EVERYTHING received. Table of Contents 1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1 Lynx, A new BBS system ................................... 2 SUN Echo Created ......................................... 4 Coping with Rapid Growth ................................. 5 LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE ................. 11 2. NOTICES .................................................. 15 The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 15 Recap of FidoCon'88 Agenda ............................... 15 Latest Software Versions ................................. 16 FidoCon '88 Registration Form ............................ 18 FidoNews 5-28 Page 1 11 Jul 1988 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= Yes Folks FidoCon '88 in Cincinnati is almost here! You have until July 15th to register if you want a chance to win the Delta Airlines ticket and don't forget the conference fee goes up to $75 August 1st. There are also VERY few USR coupons left! Register now if you want to cash in on this terrific discount! Hotel space is going fast! We have reserved a block of rooms at a discounted rate but once they are gone, they're gone! You will not receive the FidoCon room discount if you register at the door, you must make your hotel reservations in advance. If you are planning on attending FidoCon this year register now. We are hard at work putting together what we believe will be the BEST FidoCon ever and from the way that registrations are flowing in, I can see that many of you feel the same way! Watch FidoNews for weekly updates on the conference and for more current updates and information there is a FIDOCON Echo available to all. Just contact Rick Ashworth at 1/88 for more information. If you have any questions about FidoCon'88 contact Rick at 1/88 or myself at 1/88 or 108/62. See you here in August! ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 2 11 Jul 1988 Lynx is a mult-user BBS system that supports 8 com ports, 31000 messages areas, 31000 file areas, has 31000 access levels not including the special bit field flags. Lynx also use the one message file structure for the message bases and all the messages in all the areas go into the same file. This one file structure is also extended to cover the system files as well. The message area and file area control files are contained in one single file instead of a multitude of system control files. So, no matter how many message areas you might have, you'll only have one message area system control file. Lynx Menus Lynx has 3 help levels, much the same as Fido or Opus, but the big difference is the FULL help menu. This menu must be designed by the sysop. It's a simple text file that you can create with any word processor or any ANSI program such a THEDRAW. You can create both an ANSI menus or an ACII menu or combine then into a single file using the LANSI commands for color and Moving ANSI graphic's. You also have the option of turning the default prompt off and adding a customized menu prompt to any menu. The Lynx script processing commands can be used in these menus so you can get as fancy with them as you like. The second and third help levels are much the same as Fido or OPus and you have to accept the default system prompt there. Commands To further allow you total control over your system, the sysop must also select the command keys to activate the associated options. For example, at the main menu, the command to go to the file area can be set to F, D, ESC, control-F, etc. It doesn't matter what you want to use, the idea is that you select the key. And, these command keys do NOT have to be the first letter of the command. Not only do you set the command keys, but you also have to set the individual access levels for those keys. Now, the big difference here is in the message and file areas. Each message area has it's own cluster of command keys and associated command key access levels. Message area 1 might use the A to switch areas with an access level of 5 while message area 2 might use C to switch areas with an access level of 3. Doesn't make sense to do it that way but the ability is there if you want to use it. The same thing goes for the file areas. Each message area and each file area has a default access level required to gain access. To further enhance this, each file area and each message area also has a set of 8 flags. You can set any one of the eight flags or a combination of the 8 flags and the caller must have the same set of flags turned on in his user record to gain access to that area no matter what his standard access level is. FidoNews 5-28 Page 3 11 Jul 1988 Lynx also has the supports Tradewar's 1000, RBBSdoors, PCboard programs, Who else is online, CB chat, Baduser, New upload scan, New Mail scan, Last caller to system, caller count, upload/download ratio warning with automatic no Downloading when this ratio is out of wack(setable by the sysop), single file extraction from an archive for downloading with full cleanup, automatic no uploading duplicates on the system, ANYWHERE. All of this is built into the Lynx system plus more. The uploading section supports Ymodem, Ymodem Batch, SEAlink, Zmodem, Hyper-Drive, and finally Xmodem. Callers automatically receive upload credit in the form of the time they spent uploading the file along with an increase in their downloading limits. The files. bbs display is quite attractive and loaded with information. Each file has a 3 line display showing the file name, filesize, times downloaded on the 1st line. The second line shows who uploaded the file and when they uploaded it, and finally the 3rd line is the 80 character description field. All uploads are posted at the TOP of the file instead of at the bottom. For those of you that like to include little area description headers, Lynx also allows for a header.qbs file in each of your downloading areas. If this file exists, its displayed before the files are listed out when a file list is requested. You can include anything in the header.qbs file including script processing commands. Caller's can also set a user record auto-protocol switch so that Lynx will automatically use their protocol when uploading and downloading. Lynx also has a fairly large text file script processing language that includes a set of LANSI commands much the same as those in Opus. You can set any color combination that ANSI supports with these script commands including foregound, background, reverse video, and even video screen modes. Netmail and Echomail? Yes, both are fully supported. Now, I can't tell you EVERYTHING that Lynx is capable of doing unless I wanted to just include the doc's so I'll close this up. If you would like to see Lynx in action, we have the system setup to except human callers between the hours of 8 PM and 10:30 AM CST. The phone number is (314) 334-6359 or for you Binkely / Dutchie people, 100/504 or 1/116. File area 1 also has the lynx doc's available for downloading if you'd like more information. There is also a Lynx echo for anyone that would like to tie into it. Tie in points are 157/505, 157/46, 100/504, 44/504, 46/1, 440/1. Contact the sysops of these nodes for more information as to WHERE you can tie in. Mike Bryeans, 100/504 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 4 11 Jul 1988 Bernard Aboba Fido 204/444 MailCom/SUN City of Palo Alto, CA has started a new conference called SUN, all about SUN Microsystems computers, including the SUN 2,3,4, and 386i series machines. SUN will also discuss development under the OPEN LOOK standard. Boards interested in subscribing should send NETMAIL to 204/444. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 5 11 Jul 1988 Lee Kemp, Communet 1:221/162.14 11 June 1988 C O P I N G W I T H R A P I D G R O W T H Part 1 Last week I put forward some ideas for dealing with Trojan Viruses. I'm hoping to do a regular weekly series. Next week's will be a detailed technical proposal in response to Ben Baker's article about the "Nodelist Crisis" in FidoNews 522. This week's is just an introduction to that proposal. THE NODELIST CRISIS Ben proposed a switch to Region based nodelists because the full international list will soon be just too big for processing. Clearly it WILL get too big, and the problem SHOULD be addressed now. But I believe there are other solutions that CAN preserve Tom Jennings original concept of FidoNet as a "fully coupled network" - where EVERY node has an accurate CURRENT address for EVERY other node that it communicates with. An INTERIM solution is for new XLATLIST type software to process NODEDIFF files that contain full net/node addresses for the lines changed instead of line numbers. This would allow each SysOp to just specify which nets and nodes they want to keep track off, without maintaining full copies of the entire nodelist below net or region level (where they are needed for file request by new nodes etc.) But in the long term, even NODEDIFF files WILL become too big for regular weekly processing, so eventually a more radical change WILL be needed. The technical problem with region based lists is that MANY nodes have regular communications with nodes outside their region or zone for both mail and file requests. FidoNet technology enables cheap and efficient communications between people who have common interests but are NOT in the same geographic region. When one sees a message in an international conference its important to be able to just whip of a private reply, or a file request, without HAVING to go through a Regional OGATE or make special arrangements for processing "foreign" nodelists. The solution I propose is a means for nodes to AUTOMATICALLY obtain continuous current updates of their nodelist entries FOR THOSE NODES THEY COMMUNICATE WITH. Most nodes will have a MUCH smaller list than all the nodes in their Region, let alone all the nodes in the world. But as long as that list can be automatically and continuously updated, it meets ALL the requirements for a "fully coupled" network. FidoNews 5-28 Page 6 11 Jul 1988 The key problem is that as soon as a user enters a message to a new node, not previously communicated with, the current nodelist entries for that node have to be automatically obtained and added to the local nodelist. My solution is simple, and also overcomes the problem of addresses from "foreign" networks like AlterNet appearing in EchoMail conferences where they cannot be easily replied to. SOLUTION Just include the full nodelist lines for each node within EchoMail messages from that node, in addition to the zone:net/node.point address shown on present * Origin lines. If standards for including that information are developed now, then future BBS software can automatically update the local nodelist whenever a user wants to reply to an EchoMail message. (With additional lines for the other nodes inwards routing Hub and Host if necessary). After all, probably 90% of NetMail and file requests are generated in response to EchoMail. (Or FidoNews articles, which can use a similar system). Most of the rest would be in response to NetMail messages received (again as a result of EchoMail or FidoNews articles). These can be handled by automatically extracting nodelist lines from NetMail packets. (For direct mail sessions the Wazoo protocol already exchanges BBS name and SysOp name and could easily add phone number and flags etc. This could result in AUTOMATIC updates to MAKENL by local *Cs who have regular netmail sessions with their nodes. Instead of arguing about whether to elect *Cs, let's automate them!) Nodelist entries initially obtained in this way, can be kept up to date as part of EchoMail importing. It shouldn't be too hard for the EchoMail software to watch for changes in those entries kept locally and update them automatically while importing. A method like the ConfMail dupelists can be used for fast lookup of CRCs to flag when a nodelist entry for a "known" node has changed. For those few cases where CURRENT nodelist lines haven't been obtained from recent NetMail or EchoMail packets or direct NetMail sessions, outgoing messages would have to be delayed, while an automatic request for updated nodelist lines is made to a "directory server". These "directory server" nodes at regional or net level could reply automatically - like MEGALIST or MGMLINK. Their replies would then be automatically incorporated in the local nodelist, like AUTOECHO updating an AREAS.BBS file. A major problem for this proposal is that EchoMail is insecure and fake nodelist lines could be generated by anybody impersonating another node. This can be overcome using "public key digital signature" techniques as described last week for dealing with Trojan viruses. This can also provide additional FidoNews 5-28 Page 7 11 Jul 1988 benefits for secure and authenticated NetMail and EchoMail. A minor problem is that SEEN-BYs etc already add too much to each message sent, and we don't want more superflous information in every packet. There is a technical solution to that too. Details in part 2, next week. WHY IT MATTERS Over the next few weeks I'll also be explaining why I think these technical issues have important policy implications. Its based on our experiences over the past year since Communet joined the Australian Region of FidoNet, where all netmail and EchoMail has ALREADY been routed through a single regional OGATE, controlled by the Australian Regional Coordinator, John Blackett-Smith. Our experiences show that a political problem can arise if the network does not remain "fully coupled". FidoNet internationally COULD cease to be a network dedicated to the "free exchange of information", as has ALREADY happened in Australia, where we are rather less "fully coupled" than most US Regions. Two weeks after we joined FidoNet, we were summarily kicked out, because the then Regional Coordinator, who was also our net host, did not like the "Political Overtones" of files in our internal file areas. (He did not actually READ any of the files, but he logged in and objected to the NAMES of files called "DONTVOTE.*" relating to current Australian elections.) The *C decided we were a "nest" of "commies" and because of this political prejudice, we found ourselves suddenly totally isolated from the net, as he was killing incoming NetMail. We appealed against that and were promptly removed from the nodelist by John Blackett-Smith for "ideas beyond the acceptable limits of the normal political spectrum". We appealed against that, and Australian SysOps discussed our "case" WITHOUT US BEING ABLE TO TAKE PART. Not being in the nodelist makes it rather difficult to answer accusations! June 23 will be the first anniversary of our excommunication from the Australian Region of FidoNet and we will start publishing full details. Unbelievable as it may sound, NOTHING has been done to put us back in the Australian Region nodelist in the entire 12 months. It has proved impossible for us to communicate freely with Australian Region FidoNet nodes, and impossible to get either the Zone 3 administraton or the International Coordinator to do anything about it. Hence my interest in the problems that can arise from splitting FidoNet into regions that cannot easily communicate with each other except through regional OGATEs. That's the political background to my proposals for a nodelist FidoNews 5-28 Page 8 11 Jul 1988 structure that is not subject to the arbitrary whims of megalomaniac *Cs. Meanwhile, a few days ago was the first anniversary of our announcing ourselves in FidoNews 424. As background to who is making these proposals I am republishing an article from Communet's President, written a week or two after we first joined. vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv * Hello from Communet Peter Green Communet, 631/326 H E L L O F R O M C O M M U N E T June 7, 1987 Communet ("Communications Network for the Community") was setup six months ago by several non-profit community groups in Melbourne Australia, including the Community Interest Computer Consultancy, the Working Women's Centre and the Coalition Against Poverty and Unemployment. As we are new to FidoNet, this article is to explain who we are and seek contacts with other nodes anywhere in the world that may have similar interests. We are particularly anxious to join any international Echomail conferences discussing social and political topics likely to be of interest to our members, as well as technical topics relevant to establishing our network facilities or assisting community groups to make the best possible use of computers. TECHNICAL PLANS Due to very limited budgets, we need to establish communications facilities as cheaply as possible, yet with greater technical sophistication than typical mainframe systems, so they can be easily used by our non-computer literate constituency. We will therefore be generating lots of technical questions about the best way to do different things. Hopefully we will also be able to contribute some answers when we have gained more experience. Our primary aim is to establish a national computer network to link micro-computers currently used simply for wordprocessing by various non-profit community groups and other organisations. We are working jointly with ASYNC ("Australian Students Information Network Committee"), which is planning a similar service, primarily to exchange material between student newspapers. When funding is available, multi-user AT or 386 based Unix conferencing systems with large fixed disks will be established in each major city, linked by packet network channels for continuous parallel updating of all conferences in all cities. A FidoNews 5-28 Page 9 11 Jul 1988 gateway will be maintained to FidoNet, both for general access purposes and to transfer messages, files and Echomail to users operating "Dutchie" point software. The main services Communet will offer are Computer Conferencing and Email and file exchange for remote typesetting and Desktop Publishing of text files uploaded from wordprocessor software. But we are also interested in chatlines, multi-player role playing games and just about anything else that will encourage non-computer oriented people to get a modem and hook up! Initially, we have established a single line private FidoNet node, currently running Opus 0.0 under SEAdog 4.00, as a preliminary test system. This is accessed regularly by members and associates of Communet to become familiar with various aspects of communications networks and to provide some initial services. As our orientation is towards non-computer literates and we lack technical knowledge, especially with Unix and communications networks, we hope to learn a lot from other FidoNet users. But we also hope to eventually contribute some ideas of our own. PHONE NUMBER Although we are not yet open to the general public, and therefore do not want our phone number listed in the nodelist where it could encourage calls from numerous BBS users, we would welcome direct file transfers and crashmail from other FidoNet nodes around the world. This can be achieved by simply including the following line in XLATLIST.CTL or equivalent: PHONE 631/326 61-3-482-1718 PLANNED SERVICES Two Communet services almost operational are: 1) 'Community Calendar' - a continuously updated list of activities and dates for public meetings and other events. 2) 'Public Radio News' - a professionally edited daily news feed for Public Broadcast stations around Australia. This will have associated with it a discussion area for feedback on news stories and comments on current events. We anticipate that users with a wide range of different political and philosophical outlooks will find this a useful way to debate and exchange views, and that it will spawn separate discussion areas on particular topics. Other groups that have expressed an interest in setting up conference topics and interstate hook-ups include the Community Arts Network and Community Youth Support Schemes. They are keen to learn how to use Opus boards, and will be seeking funding to obtain the necessary hardware. FidoNews 5-28 Page 10 11 Jul 1988 Aims of Communet are: 1. Establish a network to link computers used by computer groups and their members at minimal cost and maximum performance. 2. Promote computer conferencing in Australia, by encouraging and assisting the setting up and running of such conferences and by providing access to international conferences and databases. 3. Provide computer communications services to the community sector comparable to those available in corporate networks, and to promote the the use of computer communication between community groups. 4. Establish an influential position for the community sector in exploiting computer conferencing and build this up as a counter to the press and TV monopolies. As Australia's mass media are dominated by a very small group of large owners, we see the potential for computer conferencing to provide an alternative media that is far more democratic and interactive - allowing users to participate in the media rather than merely consuming it. We also see computer conferencing as having great potential for breaking down international barriers. At present these potentials are mainly being used by people with a technical interest in computing. But as the cost of hardware keeps falling and the quality of software keeps improving, more and more non-computer oriented people will join in. THANKYOU We would like to thank everyone involved in FidoNet and public domain and shareware software development (especially Opus and related utilities) for the help and inspiration already received. We look forward to meeting lots of new friends in the matrix. Peter Green, for Communet 631/326 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Note: We aren't 3:631/326 any more, we're now a CANADIAN "point" - 1:221/162.14 But our Australian phone number remains the same. A few days after that was written, we were thrown out. A year is long enough. The FULL story of how the Zone and International Coordinator's dealt with the abuse of power over the nodelist by *Cs in Australia will now be told. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 11 11 Jul 1988 Leonard Mednick Fido 345/1 LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE I love America! Where else could the son of immigrant parents run for a seat, on the republican ticket, in the senior house of the United States Congress. As a matter of fact, even for the presidency this year. Therefore I am privileged to now announce my candidacy for the United States Senate to you, my fellow sysops. Later in this article, you will read my position on major issues, and also my resume. Two major points of my program are to extend the peace initiative President Reagan began in Moscow, recently; and to wrench our disgraceful federal deficit into control! I am also concerned by the many attempts of government to interfere with the joyful fulfillment our electronic hobby affords us. Now government wants us to be responsible for ALL postings on our boards even when many of us are handling hundreds, even thousands of messages a day. There is a nagging in my brain that if we do not band together to stop these incursions, it will not be long before the FBI, or some other agency will be knocking on our doors. This situation cannot be tolerated and it must not be ignored. Senator Goldwater (R-AZ) has long championed the amateur radio operator (ham) community. We, in the amateur computer communications community have no such champion. I promise that when I am elected, I will always carry our message to my fellow senators. Now the nitty gritty. Unless you are a registered voter in the state of Hawaii, you cannot vote for me. But modern elections are won, sad to say, by those with the most money, all too often. That is where you can help me, and help us all. If you know members of any Political Action Committees (PACs), please bring my name to their attention. Show them my position and resume. Ask them to send me money, NOW! That is what they are in business for. Post this article onto your bulletin boards. Disseminate it as widely as you can. Even with non-FidoNet sysops! Senators are elected by their individual state electorates but campaign contributions come to them from all over the world! Check with your employers, your professional or trade associations and your friends. They can help in our campaign to protect rights of sysops by sending their contributions to: Leonard Mednick for United States Senate 700 Bishop Street Suite 1014 Honolulu, HI 96813-4112 345/1 FidoNews 5-28 Page 12 11 Jul 1988 Day Voice: 808/526-0666 P.M. Voice: 808/531-6603 BBS: 808/533-0190 Thanks and I will see you at FidoCon88, soon! LEONARD MEDNICK Resume PERSONAL: - Born June 13, 1934 (Chicago) - Divorced - Three adult children: David Kelimia Max - Moved to Los Angeles, 1953 - Moved to San Francisco, 1959 - Moved to Honolulu, 1961 EDUCATION: - Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State College (BA) - Master's Degree in Business Administration, University of Hawaii (MBA) - Certified Public Accountant (CPA) - Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU) EXPERIENCE: - Owns and operates CPA firm since 1967 - Specializes in representing taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service (The IRS Dehassler ) - Veteran, entered Army as Private; honorably discharged as Captain in the U.S. Special Forces Group Reserve (Green Beret) - Instructor in "Practices and Procedures Before the IRS" for CPA societies in Hawaii, Colorado, Nevada and Utah - Lecturer at the College of Business, University of Hawaii - Completed 3 1/2 year TV series on KITV Channel 4 on tax tips - Frequent guest speaker and media "quote" resource - Radio Talk Show Host; KTRG, KNDI, KORL COMMITTEES (PAST AND PRESENT): - Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, State Legislation Sub-Committee - Member of the Hawaii Society of Certified Public Accountants - Board liaison to Taxation Committee, HSCPA - Board liaison to Peer Review Committee, HSCPA - Director, HSCPA - Chairman of Legislative Committee, HSCPA POLITICAL & COMMUNITY SERVICE (PAST AND PRESENT): - Commissioner, Planning Commission, City and County of Honolulu - Chairman, Downtown Neighborhood Board #13 - Member, Advisory Committee on Tax Simplification and Reform to Congressman Cecil Heftel (Ways and Means Committee) - Treasurer and Director, International FidoNet Association (IFNA) FidoNews 5-28 Page 13 11 Jul 1988 - District Chairman, Republican Party - Republican Candidate State House 1984 general election - Director of Habilitat - Member of Waikiki Jaycees - Member of Toastmasters Club - Member of Rotary Club LEONARD MEDNICK for UNITED STATES SENATE Position Statement As your representative to the United States Senate from Hawaii, I believe our government must: PEACE Assure peace and tranquility within our borders. NATIONAL DEFENSE Maintain an appropriate national defense. FINANCE Operate within a balanced budget. TAXES Administer the tax system fairly. CRIME Assure criminals pay the price of their crimes. HEALTH, SAFETY AND WELFARE Assist those who cannot help themselves. NATURAL ENVIRONMENT Preserve our natural environment so that it may be enjoyed. TRANSPORTATION Encourage a balanced transportation system. COMMERCE Stay out of the business of business, except where inequitable. SMALL BUSINESS Encourage small business opportunity. AGRICULTURE Support the small family farmer. EDUCATION Assure a quality education opportunity for all. ENERGY Encourage a safe, economical and steady source of energy. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY Assure equal opportunity for social and economic fulfillment. FidoNews 5-28 Page 14 11 Jul 1988 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 15 11 Jul 1988 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= The Interrupt Stack 16 Jul 1988 A new areacode, 508, will form in eastern Massachusetts and will be effective on this date. The new area code will be formed from the current areacode 617. Greater Boston will remain areacode 617 while the rest of eastern Massachusetts will form the new areacode 508. 25 Aug 1988 Start of the Fifth International FidoNet Conference, to be held at the Drawbridge Inn in Cincinnati, OH. Contact Tim Sullivan at 108/62 for more information. This is FidoNet's big annual get-together, and is your chance to meet all the people you've been talking with all this time. We're hoping to see you there! 24 Aug 1989 Voyager 2 passes Neptune. If you have something which you would like to see on this calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoCon'88 is taking shape. Come August, Cincinnati will be full of BBSers and their families ready to soak up fun, friendship and knowledge. We have an exciting agenda taking shape and I will keep you informed here as things move along. Here is a quick look at some of our speakers and what they will be talking about. George Stanislov Opus George Stanislov Avatar Tim Pozar UUCP->FidoNet Gateway Henk Wevers Dutchie & Region 2 report Tom Jennings & Ken Kaplan History of Fidonet Michael Connick Tabby and Tabby point Phil Becker TBBS Decker Doggett Lessons in echomail Mike Bader FidoNet technology in the Work-place Julia Stockreef New online information system Chris Irwin D'Bridge Bob Hartman/Vince Periello Binkleyterm Bob Hartman FTSC Thom Henderson SeaDog & AXE Ben Baker History of FidoNet Calendar FidoNews 5-28 Page 16 11 Jul 1988 Ben Baker Living with FidoNet Calendar Marshall Presnell ANS Jonathon Wallace Legal ramifications of BBS'es Randy Van de Loo Hard Drives and ARLL technology David Dodell Policy 4 Harry Lee GS point, Glu fwd and others Mike Bryeans Dutchie and Brinkers Joaquim Homrighausen Front Door Butch Walker Echo Policy Linda Thompson BBS & Privacy - A question of Liability We are also expecting presentations from some of our favorite vendors such as: US Robotics, Borland, Apple and Compuserve. Also on the slate are panel discussions dealing with IFNA, Echomail, FidoNet of the future and much more! And a very special guest will be here to address us at the Friday night banquet! Make plans now to be here this August. For more information contact Rick Ashworth at 1/88 or Tim Sullivan at 108/62. Just a few more days left before the Delta Airlines ticket is given away! Don't miss out! Register before July 15th. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Latest Software Versions BBS Systems Node List Other & Mailers Version Utilities Version Utilities Version Dutchie 2.90* EditNL 4.00* ARC 5.21 Fido 12h MakeNL 2.12* ARCmail 1.1 Opus 1.03b Prune 1.40 ConfMail 3.31 SEAdog 4.10 XlatList 2.86 EchoMail 1.31 TBBS 2.0M XlaxNode 1.02 MGM 1.1 BinkleyTerm 1.50 XlaxDiff 1.02 QuickBBS 2.01 ParseList 1.10 * Recently changed Utility authors: Please help keep this list up to date by reporting new versions to 1:1/1. It is not our intent to list all utilities here, only those which verge on necessity. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 17 11 Jul 1988 OFFICERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION Ken Kaplan 100/22 Chairman of the Board Don Daniels 107/210 President Mark Grennan 147/1 Vice President Dave Dodell 114/15 Vice President - Technical Coordinator David Garrett 103/501 Secretary Leonard Mednick 345/1 Treasurer IFNA BOARD OF DIRECTORS DIVISION AT-LARGE 10 Steve Jordan 102/2871 Don Daniels 107/210 11 Bill Allbritten 11/301 Hal DuPrie 101/106 12 Leonard Mednick 345/1 Mark Grennan 147/1 13 Rick Siegel 107/27 Brad Hicks 100/523 14 Ken Kaplan 100/22 Ted Polczyinski 154/5 15 Jim Cannell 128/13 Kurt Reisler 109/74 16 Vince Perriello 141/491 Robert Rudolph 261/628 17 Rob Barker 138/34 Greg Small 148/122 18 Christopher Baker 135/14 Bob Swift 140/24 19 Vernon Six 19/0 Larry Wall 15/18 2 Henk Wevers 2:500/1 Gee Wong 107/312 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 18 11 Jul 1988 FidoCon '88 - Cincinnati, Ohio At The Drawbridge Inn and Convention Center August 25-28, 1988 Attendee Registration Form Name: ____________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ Address: ____________________________________________________ City: _______________________ State: ____ Zip: ___________ Country: ____________________________________________________ Phone Numbers: Day: ____________________________________________________ Evening: ____________________________________________________ Data: ____________________________________________________ Zone:Net/ Node.Point: _______________________________________________ Your BBS Name: _______________________________________________ BBS Software: _____________________ Mailer: _________________ Modem Brand: _____________________ Speed: _________________ What Hotel will you be Staying at: ____________________________ Do you want to share a room? ______ Are you a non-smoker? ______ Do you want an in room point? ______ (Tower rooms at Drawbridge only) Do you need special accommodations? ______ (If so, please explain) ____________________________ ____________________________ FidoNews 5-28 Page 19 11 Jul 1988 Are you a non-Sysop? ______ Are you an IFNA Member? ______ If so, will you be attending the Sunday IFNA brunch/BoD meeting? ______ Additional Guests: ______ (not attending conferences) Comments: ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Costs How Many? Cost --------------------------- -------- ------- Conference fee $60..................... ________ _______ ($75.00 after 7/31) Thursday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______ Thursday Dinner $18.95 .............. ________ _______ Friday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______ Friday Banquet $24.95 .............. ________ _______ Saturday Lunch $10.95 .............. ________ _______ ======== ======= Totals ................................ ________ _______ You may pay by Check, Money Order or Visa/MC Please send no cash. All monies must be in U.S. Funds. Checks should be made out to: "FidoCon '88" This form should be completed and mailed to: FidoCon '88 Registration P.O. Box 9294 Cincinnati, OH 45209 If you pay by Credit Card you may also register by Netmailing this completed form to 108/62 or 1/88 for processing. Please complete the information below and be sure to include a voice phone number above so that we can contact you for Credit Card FidoNews 5-28 Page 20 11 Jul 1988 verification. Rename this file ZNNNXXXX.REG where Z is your Zone number, N is your Net number, and X is your Node number. [ ] Visa [ ] MasterCard Name as it appears on credit card: ___________________________________________ Credit Card Number: ___________________________________________ Expiration Date: ___________________________________________ Signature: ___________________________________________ (If you mail in registration) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 5-28 Page 21 11 Jul 1988 INTERNATIONAL FIDONET ASSOCIATION ORDER FORM Publications The IFNA publications can be obtained by downloading from Fido 1:1/10 or other FidoNet compatible systems, or by purchasing them directly from IFNA. We ask that all our IFNA Committee Chairmen provide us with the latest versions of each publication, but we can make no written guarantees. Hardcopy prices as of October 1, 1986 IFNA Fido BBS listing $15.00 _____ IFNA Administrative Policy DOCs $10.00 _____ IFNA FidoNet Standards Committee DOCs $10.00 _____ SUBTOTAL _____ IFNA Member ONLY Special Offers System Enhancement Associates SEAdog $60.00 _____ SEAdog price as of March 1, 1987 ONLY 1 copy SEAdog per IFNA Member Fido Software's Fido/FidoNet $100.00 _____ Fido/FidoNet price as of November 1, 1987 ONLY 1 copy Fido/FidoNet per IFNA Member International orders include $10.00 for surface shipping or $20.00 for air shipping _____ SUBTOTAL _____ HI. Residents add 4.0 % Sales tax _____ TOTAL _____ SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER IN US FUNDS: International FidoNet Association c/o Leonard Mednick, MBA, CPA 700 Bishop Street, #1014 Honolulu, HI. 96813-4112 USA Name________________________________ Zone:Net/Node____:____/____ Company_____________________________ Address_____________________________ City____________________ State____________ Zip_____ Voice Phone_________________________ Signature___________________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------