F I D O N E W S -- Volume 14, Number 45 10 November 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. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Have you hugged a Veteran today? Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Chugging along ........................................... 1 2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2 Ah, hindsight ............................................ 2 3. COLUMNS .................................................. 4 Fidonet in Europe ........................................ 4 4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 10 IE for Linux? ............................................ 10 5. NOTICES .................................................. 12 Future History ........................................... 12 6. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 13 Latest Greatest Software Versions ........................ 13 7. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 17 FidoNews PGP public-key listing .......................... 17 8. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 18 9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 20 FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 1 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Not much new in the wacky world of FidoNet this week. I have revamped the FidoNet World Wide Webring page with updated code and instructions. Hopefully, all the conflicts of directions are now removed and it won't confuse any more newbies to webrings. My thanks to Ruth Argust who spotted the conflict when I thought I'd covered all the bases. [grin] The webring now has a built-in 14 day expiration that deletes your Queue entry if you have not gotten your page properly coded in that time-frame. If you get deleted for lack of action, you can try again when you get the automagic email from the ring telling you your site has been dumped. The ring has been growing quite a bit of late and you can still join your webpage[s] to our ever-widening circle by surfing to: http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html and following the directions there. C.B. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 2 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ================================================================= Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 22:13:23 -0800 From: Sari Barnes Organization: Oregon - USA To: webheads@softdisk.com Subject: Say what? Sender: owner-webheads@softdisk.com Reply-To: webheads@softdisk.com "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." --Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." --Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." --The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "But what ... is it good for?" --Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977. "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' "And they said, 'No.' "So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" --Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer. "640K ought to be enough for anybody." -- Bill Gates, 1981. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." --Western Union internal memo, 1876. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urging for investment in the radio in the 1920s. FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 3 10 Nov 1997 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible." --A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express.) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" --H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper." --Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind." "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." --Response to Debbi Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." --Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962. "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." --Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M "Post-It" notepads. "You want to have consistent and uniform muscle development across all of your muscles? It can't be done. It's just a fact of life. You just have to accept inconsistent muscle development as an unalterable condition of weight training." --Response to Arthur Jones, who solved the "unsolvable" problem by inventing Nautilus. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." --Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." --Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." --Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899. -30- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 4 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Fidonet in Europe ----------------- by Dave Meikle (2:258/69.2 , postmaster@rjambo.abel.co.uk) Firstly if any one sent a message to rebeljambo@unforgettable.com could they resubmit it to my eMAIL address above because it went down. AstroWars is taking off now with two people subscribing this week one from USA and one from Europe. I would like to whish them luck. If anyone would like to join here is the info again. This is the last time because it will get annoying. If any one wants it again they will need to send a message to INFOMAIL@2:258/69.69 with the subject Astrowars. Does anyone want a document on INFOMAIL? I can set it up so you can edit it remotely. Just drop me a line. Here is the Astrowar info again for the last time: What is AstroWar? AstroWar is a play-by-email game of space conquest. What's so special about this particular game? From the player's view, it's simple and fun. From the game moderator or sysop's view, it's fully automatic, adaptable, expandable, portable and free! Bear with me while I justify some of these claims... It's simple: The rules and construction of this game are as simple as I could make them. There is just one type of planet, and one type of ship. Each planet just has a single statistic: production, which decides how many ships it produces each turn. Ships are just single faceless, nameless units which are used in greater or lesser numbers in order to overwhelm, hold back or discourage an enemy. It's fun: How can I justify this? Well, I can't really since it's just my opinion, but most of the players in the beta test games find it quite entertaining. Its simplicity means that you won't spend much time learning the rules, and you'll be playing properly and developing your strategies almost immediately. It's hardly worth setting up a practice game. Playing the Game Getting Started AstroWar is a simple game of space conquest, usually played by email. The simplicity of the rules mean that the time taken to learn the game is extremely short. However, it may take just as long to develop a winning strategy as it does for more complex games. FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 5 10 Nov 1997 Let's take a look at the game rules before we go into details of how to play. The map consists of a number of planets spread across a galactic map. The number of planets and the size of the map are defined by the person running the game. There is only one type of planet, although each planet has a production rating. This production rating reflects the number of ships that planet produces each turn, when it is owned by a player. Neutral planets do not produce any ships. Ships are not treated individually in AstroWar. There is only one type of ship, the variation being in the number of ships you send to the planets you are attacking. Ships are sent in fleets of one or more ships, and each fleet's mission is decided by the number of ships sent, and the ownership of the planet the ships are being sent to. Part of the game's attraction lies in the high level of secrecy. In some games, you can see the entire map when you start the game, and sometimes you can see where other empires are. Some games are very open, and allow you to see as much detail about other players' empires as those players can see. This is not the case with AstroWar. When you start playing AstroWar, you only see full details of your homeworld, and the positions of nearby planets. To get more information, you must scout the planets you can see, and you must start to expand before you see planets further away. But I'm getting ahead of myself here, for before any of this becomes apparent you must first join a game. In order to join a game, you must submit a 'join' request. With this join request you give a name which will be used to identify your empire. Your empire name can be up to 15 characters long. Upon successfully joining a game, you will receive confirmation that your request to join has been accepted. With this you will be given the name of your homeworld, that homeworld's details, and a map of nearby planets to get you started. Note that homeworld planets always have a production of 15 ships per turn. There are a few cases in which a join request might fail. Firstly, you might choose an empire name which is already in use. This is unlikely, but possible. Another case in which a request to join might be rejected is when the game is full, i.e. there are no planets which have not already been scouted or taken. In the former case, just try to join again, with a different name. In the latter case there's nothing you can do, except wait for the game to finish and re-start, or find another game. Scouting, Conquering and Redeployment The first thing you will want to do when you start a new game is scout one or more of the planets which were shown on your FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 6 10 Nov 1997 first map. To scout a planet, simply send a single ship to it. When the ship arrives, you will receive details about the production and ownership of that planet, along with the number of ships currently in orbit. The scout ship will then turn around and begin the return journey. Once you have received details about some of the nearby planets, you should start making your attacks. A fleet of 2 or more ships sent to a neutral or enemy planet constitutes and attack force. Generally, you should send more ships than are already in orbit around a planet if you wish to take it. However, you can send your attacks in two or more 'waves' if you don't have enough ships to take the planet straight away. The first arrivals will reduce the enemy's numbers, so that the later fleets have an easier job of taking the planet. If a fleet takes a planet, it is disbanded, and the ships take up orbit around the planet. You can start making attacks before you scout, but this is not always a good idea, particularly if you are joining a game which has already been running for a number of turns. For all you know, an attack fleet sent out 'blind' might be travelling towards a planet belonging to a relatively powerful empire, and this is not a good way to gain allies. Once you have more than one planet, you may want to start redistributing your forces, for more effective attacks or defense. Sending any number of ships from one of your planets to another is a normal fleet movement. When the fleet arrives, it will be disbanded and the ships will join those in orbit around the planet. -A Note About Fleet Movements--------------------------------- A fleet does not start to move towards its destination until the turn after it is launched. So, for instance, if you launch a fleet from one planet to a planet four squares away, it will still be four squares away on its first turn; only in the next turn will it start to move. -------------------------------------------------------------- Requesting Details About Your Empire Although the reports you receive from scouting, attacking and fleet movements tell you everything you need to know about your planets, there are times when you will want reminding about various aspects of your empire. There are a couple of reports which you can request from AstroWar, whenever you need them. The planet list contains a list of all your planets, together with a reminder of the planets' positions, their production ratings and the number of ships in orbit around them. Only your own planets are included in this list; if you want up-to- date information about enemy or neutral planets you must scout them. FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 7 10 Nov 1997 -Turn Phases-------------------------------------------------- There are four phases to each AstroWar turn: Fleet movement, Order processing, Ship production and Victory checking, executed in that order. Bear this order in mind when submitting orders; for example, a planet report (a response to a 'planet list' order) will not take into account the ship production which comes later in that turn. -------------------------------------------------------------- The fleet list contains a list of all your fleets, with a reminder of their planets of origin and their destinations. The list also contains the number of ships in the fleets, and their distances from their objectives. You can use the distance figure to work out how long it will be before a fleet arrives. As your empire expands, you will want to be able to see more of the map. This information isn't given to you automatically, you must request it using the map order. When you submit a map order, you must give the name of a planet around which the map will be centred. You can only centre a map around a planet you own, so in order to begin mapping the entire galaxy you must start expanding your empire. The Message System In order that you can communicate with other empires, to form alliances, make threats or gloat over victories, there is a message system which passes free-form messages between players. To write to another empire, simply submit a 'write' order, along with the name of the empire you wish to send to, and the text of the message. Next turn, that empire will receive that message with the your empire name identified as the writer (in order that he or she can reply). It is also possible to write a general announcement to all empires. This is not always a good idea. Usually your empire will be unknown to others until they see your planets, or receive a message from you. Secrecy itself may often be a useful weapon, but writing a message to all will immediately reveal your existence to everyone else in the game. Later on in the game, if your empire becomes powerful, you could perhaps use this facility as a propaganda tool. Finally, it is also possible to write messages to the system, and receive messages from the system. Although this has no use in the standard game, it is there as a way of communicating with add-ons. Add-ons can scan for messages to the system and interpret their contents as extended orders to access features in that add-on. Similarly, replies or information generated by add-ons will be addressed as coming from 'the system'. FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 8 10 Nov 1997 Winning the Game The standard victory conditions dictate that the empire who owns everybody else's homeworlds wins the game. This is a change from the usual condition of conquering all of everyone else's planets, since that condition usually results in a tedious end game where the eventual victor has to mop up the remains of defeated empires. One problem is that enemy homeworlds are not identified. You can assume that, in a normal game, all the homeworlds will have a production of 15 ships per turn. However, not all planets with this production are homeworlds. You just have to hunt out all the non-neutral planets with 15 production until you are awarded victory. When victory is awarded to a player, a report is sent out to everyone saying who the winner is. However, the game must be manually stopped and restarted by the person running the game, so it is possible that a few turns may go by with the 'victory' message being sent out. It is quite possible that victory conditions in a game have been disabled, making it 'open-ended'. This means that the game will continue indefinitely. Our Games is Open-Ended. Resigning Your Position Once your position has become unworkable, or you want to quit the game for some other reason like lack of time, there is a 'resign' command you can use. Resigning from a game will cause all your planets to revert to neutral status, and will make all in-transit fleets wink out of existence. If you are going to have to stop playing a game, it's polite to resign properly. If you just let your fleets build up uselessly, it will get in the way of legitimate players and ruin their enjoyment of the game. Orders This section gives a list of orders understood by the order processing phase of turn processing. To send an order send a netmail TO: Astrowar@2:258/69.69 with the SUBJECT:GAME1 and in the main body type one off the commands: join A join order, or join request, asking that a player be added to the game with the empire name . send A send order. Orders a launch of ships from planet to planet , where is owned by this empire and there are at least ships in orbit. planets Requests a list of the planets owned FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 9 10 Nov 1997 by this empire. fleets Requests a list of fleets belonging to this empire. map Requests a map of the area around , showing the names and positions of all planets within 7 squares of this centre planet. write Write a message to empire , containing the text . may be an empire name, All ("*") or The System (""), and may be up to 64k of text spread across multiple lines. resign Requests that this empire is removed from the game. All planets revert to neutral ownership (with ships in orbit remaining), and all fleets will magically disappear. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 10 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= NET HUMOR ================================================================= From: "Mike Riddle" To: "Baker, Christopher" Subject: Fwd: IE for Linux? ==================BEGIN FORWARDED MESSAGE================== From: robbie@tomservo.eng.mindspring.net Message-ID: <19971027233102.9058.qmail@tomservo.eng.mindspring.net> Subject: IE for Linux? Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 18:31:02 -0500 (EST) With rumors about the impending doom release of Microsoft Internet Exploder for Linux, I decided to get a jump on things and create a man page for IE. IE has been such a security problem for Windoze users, that it stands to reason that Microsoft won't deprive the Linux/UNIX community of such quality work. (I was going to save this and release it as an April Fools joke for 98, but I couldn't wait that long.. :-) Robbie --------------------------- IE(1) IE(1) NAME ie - Microsoft Internet Explorer SYNOPSIS ie [ -acfghkp ] [ -m alternate-passwd-file ] [ -length of time ] DESCRIPTION Ie is the web browser. The only web browser. Netscape is irrelevant. Opera is irrelevant. Ie is your master. Kneel. There are two ways to use ie: non-executed binary and insecure mode. The non-executed binary is the mode ie ships in. There are no flags or directions for use in this mode. Options are: -a -c Clear filesystem. Ie will delete all files for which it has write permission on all mounted filesystems. After the first pass, Ie will begin attempts at obtaining root access so that the remaining files can FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 11 10 Nov 1997 be removed. -f Same as -c, except that ie will immediately begin attempting root access, and will newfs all mounted filesystems. -h Hack. Lets you link to other systems running ie and obtain their passwd files. -k Randomly coredump. If you specify a valid mailbox name in parens, ie will mail the coredump to them. -p Post /etc/passwd to alt.2600. -m [alternate] Gives you the opportunity to specify an alternate passwd file to post. -length How long should ie run crack on the passwd file before attempting to post? AUTHOR The usual gang of idiots. BUGS See printed ie documentation: "Problems with IE", volumes 1-14, availible in hardcover from Microsoft Press. The -g option is not implemented. FILES /etc/passwd System password file. /usr/local/bin/crack crack binary. /usr/local/bin/ie IE binary. DIAGNOSTICS If ie crashes, simply reboot system to restore stability. BUG REPORTS TO /dev/null COPYRIGHTS Microsoft Corporation. Don't even THINK about crossing us. (This disclaimer does not apply to Ms. Janet Reno). ===================END FORWARDED MESSAGE=================== ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 12 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 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 14-45 Page 13 10 Nov 1997 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= [from 1441 - Ed.] Latest Greatest Software Versions by Peter E. Popovich, 1:363/264 Hmm. Not much to say. -=- 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 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 FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 14 10 Nov 1997 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 OS/2: Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 15 10 Nov 1997 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ALLFIX/2 1.10 T S Harald Harms 2:281/415 AFIXOS2 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 BOS2_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_OS2 CFRoute 0.92 O G C. Fernandez Sanz 2:341/70 CFR FastEcho 1.45a T S Tobias Burchhardt 2:2448/400 FE2 FastLst 1.36 N S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 FASTLST FleetStreet 1.20 O S Michael Hohner 2:2490/2520 FLEET FP-OS/2 97-03-21 O F Mike Bilow 323/107 FPOS2 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 GEO GoldED Docs 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEM GoldNODE 2.50 O S Len Morgan 1:203/730 GEN ImCrypt 1.04 O G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 IMCRYPT Maximus 3.01 B P Tech 1:249/106 MAXP Max User Ed. 0.18 O F Larry Cooke 1:300/53 MUEP Msged/2 4.10 O G Andrew Clarke 3:635/728 MSGED41O.ZIP NEF 2.38 O S Alberto Pasquale 2:332/504 NEF PcMerge 2.3 N G Michiel vd Vlist 2:500/9 PCMERGE RAR 2.01 C S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 RAR2 Squish 1.11 T P Tech 1:249/106 SQUISHP T-Mail 2.600 M S Ron Dwight 2:220/22 TMAIL2 Tobruk 0.33 T G Paul Edwards 3:711/934 TOBRUK WaterGate 0.93 G S Robert Szarka 1:320/42 WTRGATE XRobot 3.01 O S JoHo 2:201/330 XROS2 Windows (16-bit apps): Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL FrontDoor APX 1.12 P S Mats Wallin 2:201/329 FDAPXW Windows (32-bit apps): Program Name Version F C Contact Name Node Magic Name ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Argus 95/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 A9I Argus NT/IP 2.704 M S Max Masyutin 2:469/77 ANI BeeMail 1.0 M C Andrius Cepaitis 2:470/1 BEEMAIL Binkley Docs 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BDOC_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm 2.60 M F Bob Juge 1:1/102 BW32_260.ZIP BinkleyTerm-XE XR5 M F Thomas Waldmann 2:2474/400 BTXE_W32 CFRoute 0.92 O G C. 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BBS at 1-904-409-7040 anytime except 0100-0130 ET and Zone 1 ZMH at 1200-9600+ HST/V32B. The FidoNews key is also available on the FidoNews homepage listed in the Masthead information. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 18 10 Nov 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://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254 FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 19 10 Nov 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 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html 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 14-45 Page 20 10 Nov 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 14-45 Page 21 10 Nov 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. You find a link for this process on www.fidonews.org. *=*=* You can read the current FidoNews Issue in HTML format at: http://www.fidonews.org STAR SOURCE for ALL Past Issues via FTP and file-request - Available for FReq from 1:396/1 or by anonymous FTP from: ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/ Each yearly archive also contains a listing of the Table-of-Contents for that year's issues. The total set is currently about 11 Megs. FIDONEWS 14-45 Page 22 10 Nov 1997 =*=*=*= The current week's FidoNews and the FidoNews public-key are now also available almost immediately after publication on the Editor's new homepage on the World Wide Web at: http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fidonews.html There are also links there to jim barchuk's HTML FidoNews source and to John Souvestre's FTP site for the archives. There is also an email link for sending in an article as message text. Drop on over. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= A PGP generated public-key is available for the FidoNews Editor from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] by file-request for FNEWSKEY or by download from Rights On! BBS at 1-904-409-7040 as FIDONEWS.ASC in File Area 18. It is also posted twice a month into the PKEY_DROP Echo available on the Zone 1 Echomail Backbone. *=*=*=*=* SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable from 1:1/23 [1:18/14] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators also have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it. "Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered trademarks of Tom Jennings, P.O. Box 410923, San Francisco, CA 94141, and are used with permission. "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- -----------------------------------------------------------------