F I D O N E W S -- Vol.12 No.36 (04-Sep-1995) +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | A newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet BBS community | "FidoNews" BBS | | _ | +1-519-570-4176 | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editors: | | | (*) | \ )) | Donald Tees 1:221/192 | | |__U__| / \// | Sylvia 1:221/194 | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: editors 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> editor@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca | | Don -- don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca | | Sylvia max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of fidonews or the internet gateway faq | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ======================================================================== Table of Contents ======================================================================== 1. Editorial..................................................... 1 2. Articles...................................................... 2 Regarding election procedures in FidoNet.................... 2 Dear Reverend Visage,....................................... 2 PEACE Net advertisement..................................... 4 3. Fidonews Information.......................................... 6 ======================================================================== Editorial ======================================================================== FidoNews 12-36 Page: 2 04 Sep 1995 I have a note from Chris Baker in my inbound that the policy wars are about to start again. Look for a mail buldge as the next few issues of the snooze come through. ======================================================================== Articles ======================================================================== Regarding election procedures in FidoNet. by Fredrik Bennison 2:205/300, fredrik.bennison@rosebay.ct.se In response to Bob Germer's article in FidoNews 1235, I'd like to point out the need for rules and guidelines concerning these types of elections. They are apparently needed to prevent bickering and discussions on whether a Coordinator has been correctly anointed or approved or whatever. In Z2, we recently adopted a Policy addition called NC_ELECT.ZIP which defines the correct procedure when electing a new Net Coordinator. The rules therein can just as easily be applied to a regional election, as we did in Sweden (R20) earlier this summer. Perhaps the time has come to adopt such a document in Z1 as well, to safeguard those who _do_ care about democracy and fair play at Net and Region level. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Dear Editor-Beings, The following is submitted by Charles Herriot(1:163/110) who managed to get off a lucky shot with the tranq gun and brought Doc Logger to ground...or at least near enough out of low earth orbit for him to lash together another Snoozlood. Like, roll da' flic, Sylvia.... Dear Reverend Visage, It has been another savage and ugly week in the realm of electronic madness. I think that I have been suffering from the ravages of another Cape Buffalo hunt where my only armament was a nerf bat. Troll-baiting just isn't what it used to be, Visage, and I am sure that you can appreciate that we need to release more vats of NoPlotz into the waterways of the world. I thought that I would be real friendly-like and civilized by posting a message that would make me at one with 99.999% of Fidonet. So I posted the following message: "Hi" (shuffles feet nervously and looks around the room) "My name's Doc and I'm a Quotaholic." FidoNews 12-36 Page: 3 04 Sep 1995 (polite, but scattered applause) "It has been 4,075 days since my last Quote." (murmurs of "Praise da Lard and pass the ketchup.") "Sure, I was probably like the rest of you. Thinking, just one more Quote... I don't *really* need it. Just one little Quote, a little pick-me-up so that I could feel that I was really writing a message when I appended a one line grunt at the end." (nervous, delirium tremens shuffling from the back seats.) "Oh yeah, I told myself. Those days when I went on a bender and quoted 63 consecutive messages while only adding 75 lines of original text... those were just exceptions. I had it under control. I could quit any time... easy. Piece of cake. Hell, just a coupla swiped Emoticons, and a signature macro giving all of Fidonet the incredibly useless esoterica about my Internet address... they made me feel whole, almost literate. Was I kidding myself? Was I fooling anyone?" (an unsettled buzz emerges from the front rows) "Sure, all of my friends, whacked out of Quotes, they all saw nothing wrong. 'No problem >No Problem >Like, what it is' they wheezed in delirium, not realizing that the cerebral atrophy was reducing them to Neanderthalic oozings. Damned right that all of my messages were such a confusing array of quote symbols and misaligned text that they looked like Antfarms. I had nothing to say, so I said it with Quotes. I quoted pathlines and $eenbys, I quoted myself being quoted... sometimes I quoted whole blank screens just to get a fix." (cross-eyed glares from the middle pews) "And when that wasn't enough. When I just couldn't get lost in a flotsam of Quotes, I turned to "cutisms." Oh yeah, I see a few nods of recognition. 'Fess up, we've all used 'em, chickapee. We've used 'em, we've abused 'em, and we've contused them, chickapee. 'Cause they're *cute*, chickapee... no, I mean CUTE, chickapee...Cute in the way that when you pronounce the word it starts out like the "COY" in coyote, chickapee. I've been there... down there in the hog's wallow of degradation and despair. It ain't pretty." ( a bead of perspiration dangles from the upper lip area of the fourth row, fifth barstool, inhabitant.) FidoNews 12-36 Page: 4 04 Sep 1995 "And then, like a vision it came to me. All lit up like a '57 Chevy with red pompoms all around the windshield, with purple running lights, and Gerry Jeff Walker beltin' out "Pissin' In The Wind" on the 8-track... it spoke to me... it called to me. And this friends, was what that vision was: It was the key. And it was singin' out to me in a voice so sweet and compelling that Reba McEntire couldn't have done it any better. And this is what it said friends; it said: 'Lean on me.' 'Lean on me' it said... and it spoke in a subtle language that told me that if I just listened, and acted, I could lean on that button and watch 279 messages of complete and utter gibberish scroll by and I wouldn't have missed a single sentient thought. The bush by the road at Damascus never burned so bright, nor spoke so clearly. So... so friends, I got right down there on my knees and I thanked the Lard (and Bill Gates, just in case), and I gave up my sinnin' life of Quoting. I can write whole sentences now... whole paragraphs, without Quotin'. I is saved.. SAVED I say, saved and salvationed and I jus' wanna thank ya'll for listenin'. (deadly silence) * * * * Visage, half my stuffed armadillo collection says that the incredibly subtle point of my message will be missed. This will depress me and I may have to go out on the ice floes to club a few baby seals to regain my good humour. I must go Visage, your secretary is screeching at me in her usual buzz-saw tones. Her irate state has really nothing at all to do with the fact that something called a "Gumbie Cat" relieved itself in her cornflakes. As the good and decent people that we are, Visage, I suggest that we send her to Texas. Regards, Doc Logger, Giant Clam School Of Ballet, Furlang Island, South Pacific ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PEACE Net advertisement by Kevin Bush FIDO 1:326/217 BBS, ACTS 29: Online, Lyman Maine, 207-499-0165 Yet another new FTS/QWK mail network. PEACE Net FidoNews 12-36 Page: 5 04 Sep 1995 "to promote peaceful coexistence through understanding" I am pleased to announce the formation of PEACE Net. Peace Net is a new, small, QWK/FTS network. our aim is to promote peaceful coexistance through understanding. Everyone is welcome. Peace net is a network where people of diverse Spiritual, Political, and cultural differences may gather for intelligent, friendly discussion, and have a little fun while we are at it. We believe that it *IS* possible for people with deeply held convictions to gather, exchange ideas, and even form friendships. We also believe that it is healthy to do so. If you agree, consider joining us. What is on the net ? ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ There are conferences with a Spiritual flavor, others are political, some are a place to find help & support, and some are just a place to gab and get to know one another. There are two conferences dedicated to Children and Teens. Administration ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ The network will be run by consensus by the participating Sysops. The conferences will be run by the appointed moderators. There are a few common sense rules. The main rule, strictly enforced is.... "Absolutely no Flaming or Bashing, this includes People, Political Parties, Religions, Software, whatever. There will be no brow beating on Peace Net". How to Join ÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍÍ If you would like more information on peace net.. FREQ magic name PEACENET at; FIDO 1:326/217 or Download PEACE*.* at ACTS 29: Online, 207-499-0165 Megalopolis BBS (801) 489-1946/1947/7910 FidoNews 12-36 Page: 6 04 Sep 1995 ======================================================================== Fidonews Information ======================================================================== ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ---------------- Editors: Donald Tees, Sylvia Maxwell Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar Tom Jennings "FidoNews" BBS FidoNet 1:1/23 BBS +1-519-570-4176, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(DS) more addresses: Don -- 1:221/192, don@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca Sylvia- 1:221/194, max@exlibris.tdkcs.waterloo.on.ca (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews 128 Church St. Kitchener, Ontario Canada N2H 2S4 voice: (519) 570-3137 sylvia: (519) 579-8029 Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. 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' ' disgreement is actually necessary, or we'd all have to get in fights or semethin to amuse ourselves,, and create the requisite chaos." -Tom Jennings -- END ---------------------------------ooh----------------------------------