F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 14 (6 April 1992) The newsletter of the | FidoNet BBS community | Published by: _ | / \ | "FidoNews" BBS /|oo \ | (415)-863-2739 (_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1 _`@/_ \ _ | Internet: | | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org | (*) | \ )) | |__U__| / \// | Editors: _//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings (_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar (jm) | ----------------------------+--------------------------------------- Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international amateur network. Copyright 1992, Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews. Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $5.00US Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free! For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1 Editorial: Smaller but weirder ................................ 1 2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2 Billing for Echomail .......................................... 2 Dallas Selected for FIDOCON '92 ............................... 5 Zone 2 - what's going on? ..................................... 7 SEAmail 1.10 revision E is now available ...................... 8 3. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 10 Software List ................................................. 10 4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 16 FidoNews 9-14 Page 1 6 Apr 1992 ====================================================================== EDITORIAL ====================================================================== Editorial: Smaller but weirder by Tom Jennings (1:1/1) Smaller, but not very weird at all. Actually, quite quiet and civilized. Which is however unusual. It appears that there will be a FidoCon '92 after all. Since I hadn't heard anything about it until the annoucement in this issue, I was starting to wonder. I promised to do all sorts of fun things this 'Snooze, but alas, I flaked again. Actually, I've been working 70+ hours/week. I had two days off, first free time in three weeks. Of course I didn't work on FidoNews! So did I go to the beach? Lounge in our concrete patio with cultivated weeds (not a joke)? Get plastered and stay out all night? (FidoNet-news hungry readers can skip the rest of this editorial; it is mere blabber.) Nope. I revived some junk computers (IBM XT's, with cassette ports even!), painted them fun colors, to give out to people who don't have any. The more hardware-fetishistic amongst us will whine that giving someone a PC1 is worse than no computer at all; I beg to differ. I think most people grossly *over*estimate their hardware needs. And I can tell you my smart and literate but non-techie friends generating print publications with GEOWORKS are quite happy. I am going to install modems in all of these machines I build ($40 for 2400 baud, from Fry Electronics). I've got a decent manual FidoNet mailer cobbled from my Fido/FidoNet program, and by connecting their box to the phone line they share with their roommates, can poll my system (1:125/111) for mail whenever they get around to it. Some of the mail is internet-gated files and news. Worldnet, here we come... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 9-14 Page 2 6 Apr 1992 ====================================================================== ARTICLES ====================================================================== by Robert Byrd, SysOp of The Byrd's Nest, 1:221/277 A Proposal for Equitable Billing for Long Distance Echomail Preamble: The following document is a draft proposal on setting up a fair, equitable and precise billing system for Fidonet hubs and nodes. I have noticed since joining Fidonet, that there is one problem that keeps rearing its ugly head; the sometimes barbaric infighting that occurs between hubs and the nodes that it feeds mail to. For the context of this document, mail will refer to Netmail and Long Distance Echos. I have seen bitter fighting in my home net (1:221/*) on more than one occasion concerning the billing practices used by some hubs. I am not pointing my finger at anyone in particular here, but this problem is one that will not go away unless comprehensive steps are taken to ensure that *everyone* receives fair and equitable treatment. One practice that has always puzzled me is nodes polling hubs for mail. To me, this seems just a tad silly. I think that is would be far more logical for the person that has the mail to call the person who wants to receive that mail. For example, the person from whom I get my long distance echos (a local call for me) calls long distance to pick-up the mail. He starts his poll at about 3:00 a.m. hoping that the hub he is feeding from has actually managed to get through to his feed by then. His system then proceeds to dial the hub's number in the hope that the line will be available sometime before 8:00 a.m., at which time his system quits trying because the phone rates have gone up. Now, there is to my eye, two things wrong with the above senario. 1). If the system my hub is trying to call has not received the mail from from his feed, then my hub has wasted a long distance call. Not only that, he didn't get the mail. Nor is his system going to try again until the next day; he only polls his hub once per twenty-four hour period. The net result is: I don't get my mail for at least another twenty-four hours. I find this to be a messy arangement at best. 2). If the system my hub is trying to call has a busy signal right up till 8:00 a.m., then my hub's system gives up because of the raise in the phone rates. The net result is the same as the above example; I don't get the mail for at least another twenty-four hours. Not only that, the system my hub is trying to call may be nuking packets that are not picked up on time. I am not sure if this is the case in my own hub-hub-node system, but I have heard of such things happening. FidoNews 9-14 Page 3 6 Apr 1992 The Proposal: Part 1: I propose that the systems that have the mail do the calling. This is a pretty simple thing to implement I would think. For example, when 1:12/12 get the mail in from 1:13/13 then 1:12/12 would start calling the hubs that are feeding from him (I am going to use the word him to mean him/her/it/etc.). Notice first off that the problem of timing is eliminated. The hubs that usually poll 1:12/12 do not have to worry about getting a window into 1:12/12. They also do not have to worry about whether or not there is actually anything there to pick up when they do call. Right away we have eliminated the sometimes convulted problem of setting up times for all the systems to call that poll 1:12/12 for mail. Now then, after 1:12/12 has called to the system that feeds my hub, that system will start calling the systems that feed from him. Now my hub does not have to worry about when to call, whether there is mail there to collect, or the ever present busy signal. This is obviously a simplistic example. I think that is does serve to show how this proposal could be put into effect though. Part 2: That hubs and nodes should be charged exactly what it costs to pass the mail to/from them. Presently, in the area I am in, nodes are generally charged a flat rate by their hub for mail service. In some cases, the hub is losing money on this deal. Not only that, some nodes (which carry only a few LD echos) are subsidising other nodes (those who carry *alot* of LD echos). I find this system to be unfair to both the hub and the nodes who carry only a few LD echos. Bu implementing the proposals in Part 1, an accurate billing system could be brought forward. In order for this system to work, a few things will have to taken for granted. 1). That *all* hubs have a least a 9600 v32bis modem. I know that this is asking alot. However, someone who is feeding more than one or two nodes *should* have one. If the hub is not in a position to purchase the modem, then *perhaps* the nodes that are feeding from him should collectivly purchase one. This would mean of course that if the hub should move or stop hubbing that the modem would be transferred to the replacement hub. Also, modem prices are now dropping like the proverbial rock. FidoNews 9-14 Page 4 6 Apr 1992 2). That *all* hubs have AreaFix and Raid working smoothly on their systems. This is a given on most hubs, but not all. 3). Once a month the hub will have to figure out exactly what to charge each hub/node that is feeding from him (based I suppose on what he had to pay to get the mail in that they are getting from him, as well as what he had to pay to send it to them). This may be the hardest part of this proposal to implement. I do however think that there is someone in Fidonet that can come up with a piece of software to aid in this part. Billing would be done on a cost/connect time/transfer rate ratio (or something better if anyone can think of it). This practice will allow hubs/nodes to pay for exactly what they are getting. No longer will the little guy be paying for the excesses of the big guy. Sysops who are echomail fanatics (yes, I am one too) will pay for the pleasure of reading all those LD echos. 4). In order to facilitate an orderly transfer of funds, a monthly budget figure could be arrived at (much like the way Union Gas works their monthly budget plan). Payment would be made in advance for at least three months to the hub you are feeding from. By using the software mentioned in the above section, tri-monthly adjustments to the budget amounts could be initiated. The software could also send a monthly netmail message to the hub/node showing exactly what costs were incurred. I would expect that after a "warm-up" period, hubs/nodes would have a fairly reasonable idea of what costs they can expect to pay. Also, the three month miminum advance payment will discourage those SysOps who are trying to get someting for nothing. Postamble: I realize that this document is very likely to receive alot of negative feedback. If the feedback is constructive critisism, then I welcome it. If however, people dismiss it out of hand, I will have to wonder what their motives are. The only people who are going to be hurt by implementing this proposal are those people who are running systems that are leeching off the good nature of their hubs. These people probably won't be too happy with the prospect of having to pay for all that LD echomail. On the other hand, those people who only get LD echos that they or their users actually read are most likely to welcome this change in billing procedures. FidoNews 9-14 Page 5 6 Apr 1992 Please direct all replies to me: Robert Byrd, SysOp of The Byrd's Nest, 1:221/277 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoCon '92 Selection Results Zone 1 Region Coordinators Zone 1 Zone Coordinator The 1992 FidoCon site selection process has concluded and we are pleased to announce that the Ron Bemis/Dallas Texas proposal garnered the majority of votes. The results were : Bemis/Dallas 7 votes Henderson/New Jersey 3 votes Travis/Denver 0 votes -------- 10 votes is 100% participation. We congratulate the winners, which include members of Nets 124 and 130, and we really shouldn't consider the others as having lost, as they submitted fine proposals, and in the case of the Travis/IBECC conference, while not flying the FidoCon flag, will certainly be a good event. The Henderson/ New Jersey has lost two years running, but we hope that option returns for next year. We would also like to apologize for the far too optimistic schedule set to select from amoungst the proposals. We took a week's delay to wait for more proposals and an additional two weeks to allow time for more feedback from regional sysops to their respective RCs. We all felt this was necessary. FidoCon tradition has put the selection of next years Fidocon ( which will be Fidocon '93 ) at this years event, so get those proposal pens out and start planning. And without further delay, the winning proposal : ------------------------------------------ The Dallas Fidocon '92 Proposal Ron Bemis 1:124/1113 I would like to propose the Summit Hotel in Dallas Texas as the site of the 1992 FidoCon, to take place on September 4-6. The Summit, located at the intersection of I-635 and I-35 in North Dallas, has earned an enviable reputation for its excellence in quality service, food and hospitality. Just 15 minutes from the Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport and centrally located to all of what Dallas/Fort Worth has to offer, this special hotel provides the perfect combination FidoNews 9-14 Page 6 6 Apr 1992 for both local residents and travelers. Hotel guests can enjoy: * Complimentary transportation to/from Love Field Airport and a special rate of $4.00 each way to/from the DFW airport. * Indoor/outdoor swimming pool, sauna and whirlpool. * Three restaurants. * Two lounges (one providing live entertainment). * Thrifty Car Rental service. * American Airlines desk. * Complimentary use of the on-property fitness center. Rate Schedule: Single occupancy for 2 nights, airport transportation, conference with breaks, lunch each day, Saturday banquet ........... $178 inclusive. Double occupancy for 2 nights, airport transportation, conference with breaks, lunch each day, Saturday banquet ........... $244 inclusive. No sleeping room, conference with breaks, lunch each day, Saturday banquet ............ $64 inclusive Saturday banquet only ............ $30 inclusive. Conference and breaks only ............ $10 inclusive. The hotel catering department will coordinate light lunches (sandwiches, etc.), coffee in the morning and soft drinks in the afternoon. Fine choices will be available for the banquet. Meeting rooms are tentatively reserved for the following: Saturday, September 5 10:00am-5:00pm General Session 200 attendees Lunch Rounds 200 attendees Dinner Banquet Rounds 200 attendees Sunday, September 6 10:00am-5:00pm General Session 200 attendees Lunch Rounds 200 attendees Modular phone jacks are available in 20 sleeping rooms. Nondedicated lines can be made available in the meeting rooms. Dedicated lines can be installed in the meeting rooms by prior arrangement with the phone company. FidoNews 9-14 Page 7 6 Apr 1992 Hospitality suites are available for $100 for the parlor and $49 for the connecting upgraded sleeping room. Other options available: Thursday night early arrival ............... $49.00 Official FidoCon '92 T-Shirt ............... $15.00 Gallerica Mall Day Bus Trip ................ $ 1.00 ------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- by Michael Bravo of 2:5030/2 Hello you out there! The following is a comment triggered by a comment Tom Jennings made in Fnews 912 about Zone 2. Among other words, he wrote: > etc) they'd find themselves *completely* at the mercy of the holders > of the lists. If the worst happens, as it appears is about to in zone > 2, all they have to do is retain the last nodelist they are in, > regenerate the net fragments (if necessary), and generate a new > nodelist. Hopefully displacing the idiots trying for the power play. I understand that there's almost no idea outside Zone 2 about what's going on in there, except muffled rumours. I'd like to clarify the situation, or at least say how _I_ see it from my place. Well, some might wonder why the only defence for the whole zone comes from xUSSR - hmm, I don't know. It's always so in unfair arguments - the right side prefers to be silent, and those wrong are shouting the most. Okay, let's go on with the story. What it all started with, our previous esteemed ZC, Felix Kasza, did resign. The reasons for that is a separate story, so I will not embark on that. Suffice to say, he was good ZC, and we all owe him a lot (literally, too - he has paid out of his own pocket for many, many mails). Then Ron Dwight stepped in. What he had to begin with, there was no Santa Klaus delivering mail to regions on his dime, and many people DID have to do something on their own. The growling began, but invisible as yet. But what really started the thing, it was simple _suggestion_ ZC made in ENET.SYSOP (Zone 2 sysop echo) that nodelist size can be somewhat reduced with _small_ efforts from *Cs doing their job more thoroughly (well, Tom, noone complains about big nodelist, but what if it can _really_ be made less in size without anyone hurt?). Noone was FORCED to do anything or threatened with anything. It was a _suggestion_. Anyone having reading skills above such of 7 age old kid could prove that reading Ron's messages. But the hounds were off the leash. Since that, Ron is receiving such an amount of bashing, kicking, and outright insults, that it's a pain just to read ENET.SYSOP. The story continues, but I don't want to bore you readers with details. If some people will write me and tell they're interested, I can try and make some mor e reports on the Zone 2, if noone of its sysops don't care . FidoNews 9-14 Page 8 6 Apr 1992 So the abstract is: please don't believe when you're being told about Zone 2 tiranny - IT DOESN'T EXIST. What does exist, it is stout ZC, trying to make Fidonet Zone 2 better, looking into the future and not in his pocket or list of political opponents. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- System Enhancement Associates, Inc. 520/519@AlterNet 1:107/519@FidoNet SEAmail 1.10 Revision E Revision E to SEAmail version 1.10 is now available, and incorporates the following changes: * Null modem connections tended to loop thinking that they had an incoming call. This has now been fixed. * A new "Print wide" option has been added to MAIL to allow printing messages on wide (132 column) printer paper. * An error condition (i.e. "bug") in Novell Netware has been detected that would erroeously caused LANMAIL to think that it had a resource deadlock. We have changed LANMAIL to work around this problem. * Non-networked multiline OS/2 systems were operating in a non- optimal fashion due to the lack of datagram support for interprocess communication. We have modified our stub NETAPI.DLL dynalink to correct this situation. * CFGEDIT has been modified to allow for giving a long distance dialing suffix (i.e. a credit card number) as part of the "/D" command line switch. In addition, a selection for "dial 9 for everything" was added, and the "direct outside line" selection was moved to the top of the list. * A condition was corrected that could occasionally cause a "divide by zero" error during a file transfer. * A bug was corrected that could cause numerous GroupMail archives to be sent erroneously in response to a file request. Anyone with SEAmail version 1.10 revision D can upgrade their system free of charge by going into their SEAmail directory and issuing the command: FidoNews 9-14 Page 9 6 Apr 1992 upgrade sm110e Those with the OS/2 version should type: upgrade sm110ep ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 9-14 Page 10 6 Apr 1992 ====================================================================== LATEST VERSIONS ====================================================================== Latest Greatest SoftWare Versions Latest Update: 01/27/92 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MS-DOS Systems -------------- BBS Software NodeList Utilities Compression Name Version Name Version Utilities -------------------- -------------------- Name Version ADTBBS 1.50@ EditNL 4.00 -------------------- Aurora 1.32b FDND 1.10 ARC 7.12 DMG 2.93 MakeNL 2.31 ARJ 2.20 DreamBBS 1.05 Parselst 1.33 LHA 2.13 Fido/FidoNet 12.21 Prune 1.40 PAK 2.51 Genesis Deluxe 3.2 SysNL 3.14 PKPak 3.61 GSBBS 3.02 XlatList 2.90 PKZip 1.10 Kitten 1.01 XlaxNode/Diff 2.53 Lynx 1.30 Maximus-CBCS 2.00 Merlin 1.39n Other Utilities(A-M) Other Utilities(N-Z) Opus 1.73a* Name Version Name Version Oracomm 5.M.6P@ -------------------- -------------------- Oracomm Plus 6.E@ 2DAPoint 1.50* Netsex 2.00b PCBoard 14.5a 4Dog/4DMatrix 1.18 OFFLINE 1.35 Phoenix 1.07* ARCAsim 2.31 Oliver 1.0a ProBoard 1.20* ARCmail 3.00* OSIRIS CBIS 3.02 QuickBBS 2.75 Areafix 1.20 PKInsert 7.10 RBBS 17.3b ConfMail 4.00 PolyXarc 2.1a RemoteAccess 1.11* Crossnet 1.5 QM 1.00a SimplexBBS 1.05 DOMAIN 1.42 QSort 4.04 SLBBS 2.15C* DEMM 1.06 RAD Plus 2.11 Socrates 1.11 DGMM 1.06 Raid 1.00 SuperBBS 1.12* DOMAIN 1.42 RBBSMail 18.0 SuperComm 0.99 EEngine 0.32 ScanToss 1.28 TAG 2.5g EMM 2.11* ScMail 1.00 TBBS 2.1 EZPoint 2.1 ScEdit 1.12 TComm/TCommNet 3.4 FGroup 1.00 Sirius 1.0x Telegard 2.7* FidoPCB 1.0s@ SLMail 2.15C TPBoard 6.1 FNPGate 2.70 SquishMail 1.00 TriTel 2.0* GateWorks 3.06e StarLink 1.01 WildCat! 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It will be taken over by someone else. In the mean time hold onto your hats (and programs). Watch for an announcement within a week or two. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FidoNews 9-14 Page 16 6 Apr 1992 ====================================================================== FIDONEWS INFORMATION ====================================================================== ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------- Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello "FidoNews" BBS FidoNet 1:1/1 Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org BBS (415)-863-2739 (9600 HST/V32) (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews Box 77731 San Francisco CA 94107 USA Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews. FidoNews is copyright 1992 Fido Software. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews (we're easy). OBTAINING COPIES: FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from the FidoNews BBS via manual download or Wazoo FileRequest, or from various sites in the FidoNet and via uucp. PRINTED COPIES mailed may be obtained from Fido Software for $5.00US each PostPaid First Class within North America, or $7.00US elsewhere, mailed Air Mail. (US funds drawn upon a US bank only.) Periodic subscriptions are not available at this time; if enough people request it I will implement it. SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. 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