F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 40 6 October 1997 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-904-409-7040 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Christopher Baker 1:18/14 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> cbaker84@digital.net | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ZONE 2 REJOINS NODELIST IN ZONE 1! Film at 11! Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Hey, Zone 2 is BACK! Now, for consistency? ............... 1 2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2 FREE2000 Echo from UK .................................... 2 3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 FidoNet Via Internet Hubs ................................ 3 4. COLUMNS .................................................. 4 Telephone Info ........................................... 4 5. NET HUMOR ................................................ 18 Homer sings? ............................................. 18 6. NOTICES .................................................. 19 Future History ........................................... 19 7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 20 Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 20 8. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 24 FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 24 9. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 25 10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 27 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 1 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= A FULL Zone 2 update appeared in the Nodelist here in Zone 1 on Friday. It was even current with the 276 marker. That's one in a row. If we can just get a diff here with ALL SIX Zones appearing as if FidoNet were a functioning, international, well-managed network, we'd have something to brag about again. Zones 4 and 5 were not represented in the 276 diff, here, at all. I understand Zone 4 is getting a new ZC. No news of this has reached this publication from any official source. YooHoo? This is the place to make such announcements in case you haven't read your FidoNet Policy for awhile. Did RC15 die? I've received no response to questions posed here and in Netmail. YooHoo? For those who inquired, the glass of last week's golf ball disaster while I was editing 1439 has been replaced. It's amazing how far plate glass can go and how small the pieces can be when hit from outside by a golf ball. Even after sweeping twice and vacuuming, I'm still finding little shards here and there a week later. At least it was in the kitchen which is tiled and filled with washable surfaces. What an additional pain it would have been on carpet and furniture! [grin] As for content, remember this is YOUR newsletter. Keep those articles and letters coming! ARTSPEC.DOC is available for file-request and on the various Internet links as indicated in the Masthead. C.B. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 2 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ================================================================= --- Following message extracted from NEWSCHAT @ 1:18/14 --- By Christopher Baker on Tue Sep 30 04:30:29 1997 From: Cliff Hetherington To: Christopher Baker Date: 22 Sep 97 18:14:30 Subj: Re: fidonews.org is now available Quoted From: Christopher Baker To: All Date: 21-Sep-97 Hello Christopher, I thought you and anyone else taking this echo might be interested in another echo recently backboned in the UK, FREE2000 is an echo for those wishing to discus Fidonet and its progress, into the next millennium, and participating posters in that echo have joined together to design and operate a WWW site [not yet up and running]. FREE2000 is open to nodes, points and BBS users equally and everyone is welcome. In order to promote Fidonet on the WWW, providing access to programs and faqs etc to enable new Fidonetters or those more used to the Internet & WWW to access Fidonet as users or points.. It's hoped that establishing a presence on the WWW may encourage Webbers and Internetters to join Fidonet, since all are part of the global communications arena. I'm therefore quite chuffed to see FidoNews is going to be visible on the WWW as well.:-) I don't use either the WWW or Internet myself [apart from e-mail], so can't visit your site, but I will let others know of its existence:-) Cheers, Cliff/2 Origin: The Dragons Lair off TRAK-ONE........ (2:254/60.10) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 3 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= --- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 --- By Christopher Baker on Wed Oct 01 04:32:53 1997 From: C. Ingersoll @ 1:2623/71 To: Editor @ 1:1/23 Date: 01 Oct 97 02:27:20 Subj: Fidonet via Internet Hubs - Fidonet Via Internet Hubs Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate -----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------ 1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo. 1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo. 1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton | FTP,VMoT,TX,F2I| 64k | $20mo. 1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP,TX | T1 | $5/$20 1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo. 1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | F2I | ??? | $2mo. 1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo. 1:2222/1 | Ed Georgen | FTP,TX | T1 | unkn 1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,TX | T1 | unkn 1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP | ??? | $1mo. 1:2424/3121| Earl Clark | TX | 33.6 | n/c 1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo. 1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VFOS | 33.6 | $15yr. 1:2651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,TX | ??? | unkn 1:330/204 | Patrick Rosenheim | TX | 33.6 | $25yr. 1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,TX | T1 | $10mo. 1:342/1022 | Steve Steffler | TX,UUE,F2I | 33.6 | n/c 1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP | T1 | $25mo. 2:252/358 | Sean Rima | VMoT | T1 | n/c 2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c 2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | TX | 64k | unkn 2:2490/5170| Lenny Murphy | F2I | ??? | n/c 3:774/950 | Craig Box | UUE, F2I | 28.8 | n/c -- * VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various) * F2I = Fido2Int (W95) * UUE = uuencode<->email packet transfers * TX = TransX (Proprietary uuencode<->email packet transfer software) compiled by Cindy Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, fbn@cyberEnet.net Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews. --- Origin: * Fly By Night * (609)814-1978 *(1:2623/71) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 4 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Telephone Info by Leonard Erickson, 1:105/56, shadow@krypton.rain.com First off, I need to correct my last column. I've been informed that the Kyrgyz Republic is now *using* the 996 country code (at least you have to dial them that way from Canada). Also, Tajikistan has been assigned country code 992, but there's no indication of when they'll start using it. That leaves Kazakhstan as the only country sharing country code 7 that *hasn't* been assigned it's own country code (Russia, of course, gets to keep country code 7). Anyway, with no further ado, here's the latest Zone 1 area code list. 200 unassigned "Easy-to-Recognize" code 201 New Jersey 202 District of Columbia 203 Connecticut 204 C Manitoba 205 Alabama 206 Washington 207 Maine 208 Idaho 209 California 210 Texas 211 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code 212 New York 213 California 214 Texas 215 Pennsylvania 216 Ohio 217 Illinois 218 Minnesota 219 Indiana 220 221 222 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 223 224 225 226 227 228 Mississippi (split from 601, full cutover 14 Sep 98) 229 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 230 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 231 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 232 233 234 235 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 236 237 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 238 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 5 6 Oct 1997 239 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 240 Maryland 241 242 I Bahamas 243 244 245 246 I Barbados 247 248 Michigan 249 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 250 C British Columbia 251 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 252 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 253 Washington (split from 206, full cutover 16 Nov 97) 254 Texas 255 256 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 257 258 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 259 260 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 261 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 262 263 264 I Anguilla 265 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 266 267 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 268 I Antigua & Barbuda 269 270 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 271 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 281 Texas 282 283 284 I British Virgin Islands (split from 809, full cutover 30 Sep 98) 285 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 286 287 288 289 29x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 300 unassigned "Easy-to-Recognize" code 301 Maryland 302 Delaware FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 6 6 Oct 1997 303 Colorado 304 West Virginia 305 Florida 306 C Saskatchewan 307 Wyoming 308 Nebraska 309 Illinois 310 California 311 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code Unified non-emergency 312 Illinois 313 Michigan 314 Missouri 315 New York 316 Kansas 317 Indiana 318 Louisiana 319 Iowa 320 Minnesota 321 322 323 California (splits from 213 13 Jun 98, full cutover 16 Jan 99) 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 Ohio full cutover 1 Jul 99 for wireless 331 332 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 333 334 Alabama 335 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 336 337 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 338 339 340 I US Virgin Islands (split from 809, full cutover 30 Jun 98) 341 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 342 343 344 345 I Cayman Islands 346 347 New York (splits from 718 ? ??? ??, full cutover ? ??? ??) 348 349 350 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 351 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 352 Florida 353 354 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 355 356 357 358 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 7 6 Oct 1997 359 360 Washington 361 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 37x reserved consecutive block-of-ten 380 381 382 383 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 384 385 386 387 388 389 39x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 400 unassigned "Easy-to-Recognize" code 401 Rhode Island 402 Nebraska 403 C Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon 404 Georgia 405 Oklahoma 406 Montana 407 Florida 408 California 409 Texas 410 Maryland 411 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code (Directory Assistance) 412 Pennsylvania 413 Massachusetts 414 Wisconsin 415 California 416 C Ontario 417 Missouri 418 C Quebec 419 Ohio 420 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 421 422 423 Tennessee 424 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 425 Washington (split from 206, full cutover 16 Nov 97) 426 427 428 429 430 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 431 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 432 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 8 6 Oct 1997 433 434 435 Utah (split from 801, full cutover 22 Mar 98) 436 437 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 438 439 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 440 Ohio (split from 216, full cutover 4 Apr 98) 441 I Bermuda 442 443 Maryland 444 445 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 446 447 448 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 449 450 C Quebec (splits from 514 13 Jun 98, full cutover 16 Jan 99) 451 452 453 454 455 456 I Special Area Code 'International Inbound' (Switched 56k Data) 457 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 458 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 459 460 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 461 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 462 463 464 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 465 466 467 468 469 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 470 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 471 472 473 I Grenada & Carricou (splits from 809 31 Oct 97, full cutover 31 Oct 98) 474 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 475 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 476 477 478 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 479 480 481 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 482 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 483 484 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 485 486 487 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 9 6 Oct 1997 488 489 49x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 500 I Special Area Code 'Personal Communications (PCS)' 501 Arkansas 502 Kentucky 503 Oregon 504 Louisiana 505 New Mexico 506 C New Brunswick 507 Minnesota 508 Massachusetts 509 Washington 510 California 511 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code 512 Texas 513 Ohio 514 C Quebec 515 Iowa 516 New York 517 Michigan 518 New York 519 C Ontario 520 Arizona 521 522 reserved for expansion of 500 523 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 524 525 526 527 528 529 530 California (splits from 916 1 Nov 97, full cutover 16 May 98) 531 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 532 533 reserved for expansion of 500 534 535 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 536 537 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 538 539 540 Virginia 541 Oregon 542 543 544 reserved for expansion of 500 545 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 546 547 548 549 550 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 551 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 552 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 10 6 Oct 1997 553 554 555 NOT ASSIGNABLE- possible confusion with '555-XXXX' seven-digit numbers 556 557 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 558 559 California (splits from 209 14 Nov 98, full cutover 14 May 98) 560 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 561 Florida 562 California 563 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 564 565 566 reserved for expansion of 500 567 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 568 569 570 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 571 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 572 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 573 Missouri 574 575 576 577 reserved for expansion of 500 578 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 579 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 580 Oklahoma (splits from 405 1 Nov 97, full cutover 1 Apr 98) 581 582 583 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 584 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 585 586 587 588 reserved for expansion of 500 589 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 59x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 600 C Special Area Code- Canadian Special Services 601 Mississippi 602 Arizona 603 New Hampshire 604 C British Columbia 605 South Dakota 606 Kentucky 607 New York 608 Wisconsin 609 New Jersey 610 Pennsylvania 611 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code (Repair Service in many areas) 612 Minnesota 613 C Ontario 614 Ohio 615 Tennessee FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 11 6 Oct 1997 616 Michigan 617 Massachusetts 618 Illinois 619 California 620 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 621 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 622 623 624 625 626 California (split from 818, full cutover 21 Feb 98) 627 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 628 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 629 630 Illinois 631 632 633 634 635 636 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 637 638 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 639 640 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 641 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 642 643 644 645 646 New York (splits from 212 ? ??? ??, full cutover ? ??? ??) 647 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 648 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 649 I Turks & Caicos Islands (split from 809, full cutover 30 Jun 98) 650 California (split from 415, full cutover 31 Jan 98) 651 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 652 653 654 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 655 656 657 658 659 660 Missouri (splits from 816 12 Oct 97, full cutover 19 Apr 98) 661 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 662 663 664 I Montserrat 665 666 667 668 669 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 670 I Marianna Islands (CNMI) (full cutover 1 Jul 98) FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 12 6 Oct 1997 671 I Guam (full cutover 1 Jul 98) 672 673 674 675 676 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 677 678 Georgia (overlaid on 770 ? ??? ??) 679 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 680 681 682 683 684 I American Samoa (joins NANP ? ??? ??, full cutover ? ??? ??) 685 686 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 687 688 689 69x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 700 I Special Area Code- Carrier Services 701 North Dakota 702 Nevada 703 Virginia 704 North Carolina 705 C Ontario 706 Georgia 707 California 708 Illinois 709 C Newfoundland & Labrador 710 Special Area Code- U.S. Federal Government services (e.g. NCS' GETS) 711 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code 712 Iowa 713 Texas 714 California 715 Wisconsin 716 New York 717 Pennsylvania 718 New York 719 Colorado 720 Colorado (overlaid on 303 1 Feb 98) 721 722 723 724 Pennsylvania (splits from 412 1 Feb 98, full cutover 30 Apr 98) 725 726 727 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 728 729 730 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 731 732 New Jersey (split from 908, full cutover 6 Dec 97) 733 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 13 6 Oct 1997 734 Michigan (splits from 313 13 Dec 97, full cutover 25 Jul 98) 735 736 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 737 738 739 740 Ohio (splits from 614 8 Nov 97, full cutover 6 Jun 98) 741 742 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 743 744 745 746 747 748 749 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 750 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 751 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 752 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 753 754 755 756 757 Virginia 758 I St. Lucia 759 760 California 761 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 762 763 764 765 Indiana 766 767 I Dominica (split from 809, full cutover 30 Sep 98) 768 769 770 Georgia 771 772 773 Illinois 774 775 776 777 778 779 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 780 C Alberta (splits from 403 25 Jan 99, full cutover 12 Jul 99) 781 Massachusetts (split from 617, full cutover 1 Dec 97) 782 783 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 784 I St. Vincent & the Grenadines (splits from 809 ? ??? ??, full cutover ? ??? ??) 785 Kansas (split from 913, full cutover 3 Oct 98) 786 787 I Puerto Rico 788 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 14 6 Oct 1997 789 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 79x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 800 I Special Area Code- TOLL FREE 801 Utah 802 Vermont 803 South Carolina 804 Virginia 805 California 806 Texas 807 C Ontario 808 Hawaii 809 I Dominican Republic (and other Caribbean Islands) 810 Michigan 811 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code (Business Office in many areas) 812 Indiana 813 Florida 814 Pennsylvania 815 Illinois 816 Missouri 817 Texas 818 California 819 C Quebec 820 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 821 822 reserved for 800 expansion 823 824 825 826 827 828 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 829 830 Texas (split from 210, full cutover 6 Oct 97) 831 California (splits from 408 11 Jul 98, full cutover 22 Feb 99) 832 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 833 reserved for 800 expansion 834 835 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 836 837 838 839 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 840 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 841 842 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 843 South Carolina (splits from 803 22 Mar 98, full cutover 27 Sep 98) 844 reserved for 800 expansion 845 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 846 847 Illinois 848 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 849 850 Florida (split from 904, full cutover 23 Mar 98) 851 FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 15 6 Oct 1997 852 853 854 855 reserved for 800 expansion 856 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 857 858 859 860 Connecticut 861 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 862 863 864 South Carolina 865 866 reserved for 800 expansion 867 C Yukon & Northwest Territories (splits from 403/819 21 Oct 97, full cutover 26 Apr 98) 868 I Trinidad & Tobago (split from 809, full cutover 31 May 98) 869 I St. Kitts & Nevis 870 Arkansas (split from 501, full cutover 6 Oct 97) 871 872 873 874 875 876 I Jamaica (split from 809, full cutover 30 Apr 98) 877 I Special Area Code- TOLL FREE (joins NANP 4 Apr 98) 878 879 880 I 'Caller-Pays' 800 881 I 'Caller-Pays' 888 882 883 884 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 885 886 887 888 I Toll Free 889 89x reserved for NANP digit length expansion 900 I Special Area Code- PAY-per-call 901 Tennessee 902 C Nova Scotia and Prince Edward 903 Texas 904 Florida 905 C Ontario 906 Michigan 907 Alaska 908 New Jersey 909 California 910 North Carolina 911 NOT ASSIGNABLE- local service code EMERGENCY 912 Georgia 913 Kansas 914 New York 915 Texas FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 16 6 Oct 1997 916 California 917 New York 918 Oklahoma 919 North Carolina 920 Wisconsin (split from 414, full cutover 25 Oct 97) 921 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 922 923 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 924 925 California (splits from 510 14 Mar 98, full cutover 12 Sep 98) 926 927 928 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 929 930 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 931 Tennessee (split from 615, full cutover 19 Jan 98) 932 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 933 934 935 936 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 937 Ohio 938 939 940 Texas 941 Florida 942 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 943 944 945 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 946 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 947 948 949 California (splits from 714 18 Apr 98, full cutover 17 Oct 98) 950 NOT ASSIGNABLE- possible confusion with 950-XXXX access numbers 951 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 952 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 953 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 954 Florida 955 956 Texas (split from 210, full cutover 6 Oct 97) 957 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 958 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 959 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 96x reserved consecutive block-of-ten 970 Colorado 971 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 972 Texas 973 New Jersey (split from 201, full cutover 6 Dec 97) 974 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 975 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 976 977 978 Massachusetts (split from 508, full cutover 1 Dec 97) 979 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 17 6 Oct 1997 980 981 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 982 983 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 984 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 985 986 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 987 988 989 reserved for specific future geographic split/overlay 99x reserved for NANP digit length expansion ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 18 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= NET HUMOR ================================================================= From: "Mike Riddle" To: "Baker, Christopher" Subject: Fwd: Spam: Drimking Humor ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== /X \ _------_ / \ DO RE MI DRINK, by Homer J. Simpson. | | | | *ahem* La la la la.... *ahem* LAAAAAAA!! | __ __) | / \/ \ DO...... the stuff... that buys me beer... /\/\ (o )o ) RAY..... the guy that sells me beer... /c \__/ --. ME...... the guy... who drinks the beer, ( ) FAR..... a long way to get beer... \_ _-------' SO...... I'll have another beer... | / \ LA...... I'll have another beer... | | '\_______) TEA..... no thanks, I'm drinking beer... | \_____) That will bring us back to... |_____ | (Looks into an empty glass) |_____/\/\ / \ D'OH! ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 19 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 13 Oct 1997 Thanksgiving Day, Canada. 1 Dec 1997 World AIDS Day. 10 Dec 1997 Nobel Day, Sweden. 12 Jan 1998 HAL 9000 is one year old today. 30 Apr 1998 Queens Day, Holland. 22 May 1998 Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens. 14 Sep 1998 Start of International BBS Week [thru 20 Sep 98]. 22 Sep 1998 First anniversary of the FidoNews domain of www.fidonews.org. 1 Dec 1998 Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by Tom Jennings. 24 Jul 1999 XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99]. 31 Dec 1999 Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed. 1 Jan 2000 The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec. 1 Jun 2000 EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens. 15 Sep 2000 Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens. 1 Jan 2001 This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E. -- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 20 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= [from 1439. Ed.] Latest Greatest Software Versions by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264 Websites of interest: BinkleyTerm-XE - http://www.cc86.org/~btxe/ Searchlight BBS - http://www.searchlight.com -=- Snip -=- Submission form for the Latest Greatest Software Versions column OS Platform : Software package name : Version : Function(s) - BBS, Mailer, Tosser, etc. : Freeware / Shareware / Commercial? : Author / Support staff contact name : Author / Support staff contact node : Magic name (at the above-listed node) : Please include a sentence describing what the package does. Please send updates and suggestions to: Peter Popovich, 1:363/264 -=- Snip -=- MS-DOS: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Act-Up 4.6 G D Chris Gunn 1:15/55 ACT-UP ALLFIX 4.40 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 ALLFIX Announcer 1.11 O S Peter Karlsson 2:206/221 ANNOUNCE BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. Guillot 1:106/400 BGFAX Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOS_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_DOS CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR CheckPnt 1.0a O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 CHECKPNT FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FASTECHO FastEcho/16 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE16 FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLSTD FidoBBS (tm) 12u B S Ray Brown 1:1/117 FILES FrontDoor 2.12 M S JoHo 2:201/330 FD FrontDoor 2.20c M C JoHo 2:201/330 FDINFO GEcho 1.00 T S Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GEcho/Plus 1.11 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GEcho/Pro 1.20 T C Bob Seaborn 1:140/12 GECHO GIGO 07-14-96 G S Jason Fesler 1:1/141 INFO GoldED 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GED FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 21 6 Oct 1997 GoldED/386 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEX GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN Imail 1.75 T S Michael McCabe 1:1/121 IMAIL ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT InfoMail/86 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFOMAIL InfoMail/386 1.21 O F Damian Walker 2:2502/666 INFO386 InterEcho 1.19 T C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IEDEMO InterMail 2.29k M C Peter Stewart 1:369/35 IMDEMO InterPCB 1.52 O S Peter Stewart 1:369/35 INTERPCB IPNet 1.11 O S Michele Stewart 1:369/21 IPNET JD's CBV 1.4 O S John Dailey 1:363/277 CBV Jelly-Bean 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY Jelly-Bean/386 1.01 T S Rowan Crowe 3:635/727 JELLY386 JMail-Hudson 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-H JMail-Goldbase 2.81 T S Jason Steck 1:285/424 JMAIL-G MakePl 1.9 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MAKEPL Marena 1.1 beta O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 MARENA Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAX Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUE McMail 1.0 M S Michael McCabe 1:1/148 MCMAIL MDNDP 1.18 N S Bill Doyle 1:388/7 MDNDP Msged 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41D.ZIP Msged/386 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41X.ZIP NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEFD NorthStar 3.31.29 B S A&B Darin 1:285/82 NSTAR Opus CBCS 1.79 B P Christopher Baker 1:374/14 OPUS O/T-Track 2.66 O S Peter Hampf 2:241/1090 OT PcMerge 2.8 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE PlatinumXpress 1.3 M C Gary Petersen 1:290/111 PX13TD.ZIP QuickBBS 2.81 B S Ben Schollnick 1:2613/477 QUICKBBS RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR RemoteAccess 2.50 B S Mark Lewis 1:3634/12 RA Searchlight 4.5 B S Paul Casey 1:343/117 DEMO450.ZIP Searchlight 5.02 B C Paul Casey 1:343/117 SLBBS50.TXT Silver Xpress Door 5.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 FILES Reader 4.4 O S Gary Petersen 1:290/111 SXR44.ZIP Spitfire 3.51 B S Mike Weaver 1:3670/3 SPITFIRE Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISH StealTag UK 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_UK StealTag NL 1.c... O F Fred Schenk 2:284/412 STEAL_NL T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL Telegard 3.02 B F Tim Strike 1:259/423 TELEGARD Terminate 5.00 O S Bo Bendtsen 2:254/261 TERMINATE Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK TosScan 1.01 T C JoHo 2:201/330 TSINFO TransNet 1.00 G S Marc S. Ressl 4:904/72 TN100ALL.ZIP TriBBS 11.0 B S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIBBS TriDog 11.0 T F Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRIDOG TriToss 11.0 T S Gary Price 1:3607/26 TRITOSS WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE WWIV 4.24a B S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIV WWIVTOSS 1.36 T S Craig Dooley 1:376/126 WWIVTOSS xMail 2.00 T S Thorsten Franke 2:2448/53 XMAIL XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XRDOS FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 22 6 Oct 1997 OS/2: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLFIX/2 1.10 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2 BGFAX 1.60 O S B.J. 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The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 25 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET BY INTERNET ================================================================= This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the Editor as of this appearance. ============ FidoNet: Homepage http://www.fidonet.org FidoNews http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html HTML FNews http://www.fidonews.org WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html FTSC page http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/ftsc/ftscmirr.htm Echomail http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/index.html WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html ============ Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/ Region 13: http://www.smalltalkband.com/st01000.htm Region 14: [disappeared?] Region 15: [disappeared?] Region 16: http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm Region 17: http://www.portal.ca/~awalker/region17.htm REC17: http://www.westsound.com/ptmudge/ Region 18: http://www.citicom.com/fido.html Region 19: http://www.compconn.net ============ Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org ZEC2: http://www.proteus.demon.co.uk/zec.htm Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/ Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German) Region 25: http://members.aol.com/Net254/ FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 26 6 Oct 1997 Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (in French) Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (in Swiss) Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (in Italian) Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (in Spanish) REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/ Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (in Greek and English) Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl ============ Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org ============ Zone 4: (not yet listed) Region 90: Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (in Spanish) ============ Zone 5: http://w3.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm ============ Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (China) ============ ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 27 6 Oct 1997 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= ------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ------- Editor: Christopher Baker Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees "FidoNews Editor" FidoNet 1:1/23 BBS 1-904-409-7040, 300/1200/2400/14400/V.32bis/HST(ds) more addresses: Christopher Baker -- 1:18/14, cbaker84@digital.net cbaker84@fidonews.org cbaker84@aol.com cbaker84@msn.com (Postal Service mailing address) FidoNews Editor P.O. Box 471 Edgewater, FL 32132-0471 U.S.A. voice: 1-904-409-3040 [1400-2100 ET only, please] [1800-0100 UTC/GMT] ------------------------------------------------------ FidoNews is published weekly by and for the members of the FIDONET INTERNATIONAL AMATEUR ELECTRONIC MAIL system. It is a compilation of individual articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the rights of the authors. OPINIONS EXPRESSED in these articles ARE THOSE OF THE AUTHORS and not necessarily those of FidoNews. Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is Copyright 1997 Christopher Baker. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the Editor. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= OBTAINING COPIES: The most recent issue of FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from the FidoNews Editor via manual download or file-request, or from various sites in the FidoNet and Internet. PRINTED COPIES may be obtained by sending SASE to the above postal address. File-request FIDONEWS for the current Issue. File-request FNEWS for the current month in one archive. Or file-request specific FIDONEWS 14-40 Page 28 6 Oct 1997 back Issue filenames in distribution format [FNEWSEnn.ZIP] for a particular Issue. Monthly Volumes are available as FNWSmmmy.ZIP where mmm = three letter month [JAN - DEC] and y = last digit of the current year [7], i.e., FNWSAUG7.ZIP for all the Issues from Aug 97. Annual volumes are available as FNEWSn.ZIP where n = the Volume number 1 - 14 for 1984 - 1997, respectively. Annual Volume archives range in size from 48K to 1.4M. INTERNET USERS: FidoNews is available via: http://www.fidonews.org http://www.fidonet.org/fidonews.htm ftp://ftp.fidonet.org/pub/fidonet/fidonews/ ftp://ftp.aminet.org/pub/aminet/comm/fido/ *=*=* You may obtain an email subscription to FidoNews by sending email to: jbarchuk@worldnet.att.net with a Subject line of: subscribe fnews-edist and no message in the message body. To remove your name from the email distribution use a Subject line of: unsubscribe fnews-edist with no message to the same address above. * You may retrieve current and previous Issues of FidoNews via FTPMail by sending email to: ftpmail@fidonews.org with a Subject line of: help and FTPMail will immediately send a reply containing details and instructions. When you actually make a file request, FTPMail will respond in three stages. 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"Disagreement is actually necessary, or we'd all have to get in fights or something to amuse ourselves and create the requisite chaos." -Tom Jennings -30- -----------------------------------------------------------------