F I D O N E W S -- Volume 15, Number 20 18 May 1998 +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-209-251-7529 [1:1/23] | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: | | | (*) | \ )) | Zorch Frezberg 1:205/1701 | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | Submission address: FidoNews Editor 1:1/23 | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | MORE addresses: | | | | submissions=> editor@fidonews.org | | | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of FidoNews or the internet gateway FAQ | | please refer to the end of this file. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ Always Check Your Premises Before... Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 FidoNet European Convention .............................. 3 BURY THE DEAD PLEASE *C's! ............................... 6 3. COLUMNS .................................................. 20 Cabbages and Kings ....................................... 20 4. NOTICES .................................................. 22 Future History ........................................... 22 5. FIDONEWS PUBLIC-KEY ...................................... 23 FidoNews PGP Public-Key Listing .......................... 23 6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 24 7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 26 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 1 18 May 1998 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= I had hoped to present an interview with a fellow FidoNet sysop for this issue, but the meeting didn't quite turn out as anticipated. The notes I did gather were not sufficient to really turn the meeting into an interview, so instead we simply enjoyed a break in the bad weather plaguing the western coast of Zone 1. And I heartily recommend St. Stan's brewpub in Modesto, California, the home of Net 208...on a Sunday afternoon, it is quiet, relaxing and home to some good quality microbrewery production. One point in particular was a current issue over privacy in FidoNet; it would seem that many have the idea that you "must" have something "to hide" if you use encryption in netmail. Few seem willing to understand that encryption is a part of your life everyday...credit cards, account numbers, personal identification... and that the personal use of encryption merely enhances the security of keeping that information confidential. There are many in Zone 2 who can also testify on the usefulness of personal encryption in getting and keeping free minds and spirits. With that, a message of interest was submitted by a sysop in the "Zone 7" area as to the view of FidoNet from within the confines of the former "Iron Curtain" countries. I hope to see this, as well as more news of the rest of FidoNet. One thing that I have noted in several past issues is a call for articles and submissions from other Zones for publication here...and with very mixed results. I do note several Regions have opted to translate issues in the language of the Region...but it helps more to actually _have_ the information to share with others, so it can be published at large to all of FidoNet. Just because it is an event in your area does not mean that no one else is interested. As an example, the FidoNet European convention information is posted in this issue as an example of what can be presented here... And yet...no one on the convention committee posted a copy to the FidoNews for announcement by press time, not even the press agent. This is _your_ FidoNews, this is _your_ FidoNet...if you don't use it, who will? In other news, RanD posts another informational tidbit on the lack of correct information in the Nodelist...which does have a point, even if it does annoy people. Doc Logger returns, of course, and looks to be seeing the light a FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 2 18 May 1998 bit at a time...or, at least, getting close enough to see it is a light after all. And the fun begins in FidoNet once again... -zf- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 3 18 May 1998 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= FidoNet European Convention -------------------------------------------------- ------- FIDONET'S EUROPEAN CONVENTION 1998 ------- -------------------------------------------------- ----------------- THE EUROCON '98 ---------------- -------------------------------------------------- ------------------- - The Place to Be - ------------------- The 1998 EuroCon takes place in Koenigsbrunn, close to AUGSBURG, BAVARIA, GERMANY from 3/7/98 to 5/7/98. We have rented the whole HOTEL ZELLER, which is the premier hotel around. It's ballroom is cool enough for us, it also features three ISDN-ports for the final techno geeks who want to show something off... Parking is free, the bar will be open as long as anyone can stand. ----------------------- - Speakers & Sponsors - ----------------------- We are still looking for speakers for ANY topic, sex-related themes excluded (sorry, folx, there are kids.. :-) ). We are also still grateful for anyone who wants to sponsor or donate any giveaway for the big tombola Saturday evening. ------------------------ - Organizing Committee - ------------------------ Master of Disaster: Klaus D. Bader 2:2480/141 or 2:2/1998 Webmaster: Werner Ammon 2:2480/92 Critic: Franz Scherer 2:2480/73 Mistress of Kitchen: Sabina Scherer 2:2480/73 Press: Stefan Trinkwalder 2:2480/100 Graphix: Stefan Hoffmann 2:2480/86 ---------------------- - Prices and Payment - ---------------------- All prices are in DEM (German Marks) All prices are for one person Please do register prior to June 5th. Late registration _can_ carry an additional late-reg-fee of 50 DM. FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 4 18 May 1998 Payment is expected shortly after reception of the registration form. Please do only pay by bank transferral to the bank account mentioned below. Rooms will be given away at a first-come-first-served basis as we do only have a limited number of triple-bed-rooms and also (naturally) only a limited number of rooms altogether. --------------------------------- - Accompanying Person's Program - --------------------------------- There will be an accompanying person's program for those who want to be there, but do not take a bigger interest in the sessions. We will organize some interesting activities, esp. for Saturday (shopping, visit of Augsburg etc.) Please register with the form above and indicate the person you are accompanying. We offer a reduction of 60,- DM to accompanying persons! -------- - Kids - -------- We will also try to organize some activities for the kids, especially some SONY-games. Please ask for our special kids-conference-prices as we try to organize special arrangements for families. Standard arrangements can be seen from the regform which follows: -------------------------------------------------------------------- ==================================================================== EuroCon '98 Registration Form >PLEASE REGISTER BY DIRECT NETMAIL TO >Klaus D. Bader 2:2480/88 (ISDN) OR 2:2/1998 You will receive a routed netmail to validate your registration and another netmail to confirm reception of your money. Name: __________________________________________________ Fido address: __________________________________________________ e-mail address: __________________________________________________ Voice phone: __________________________________________________ Size for T-Shirt: [ ] L [ ] XL [ ] XXL (specific sizes are NOT guaranteed!) I will arrive by [ ] car [ ] train (AUGSBURG HBF) FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 5 18 May 1998 arrival time & date:_________________ from: _______________________________ [ ] plane (MUC) arrival date & time: ________________ flightno: ___________________________ PLEASE NOTE: If you share your room with other people, the others have to register, too! Payment by: [ ] national money order (Ueberweisung) Bank: Raiffeisenbank Augsburg BLZ: 720 601 00 Konto: 78 (kein Tippfehler, ist wirklich so kurz) Inhaber: Klaus D. Bader / KOALA e.V. [ ] SWIFT money order (please add 5,- DM) SWIFT: GENO DE FF 701 Acc.No. 2100 Bank: Raiffeisenbank Augsburg Account: 78 Address: Klaus D. Bader / KOALA e.V. [ ] EuroCheque (foreign currencies please add 10,- DM) Sent to and payable to: Klaus D. Bader c/o KOALA e.V. Karwendelstr. 11 D-86343 Koenigsbrunn Germany Registration packets: (please do only quote the part you need) Full-Blown Packet (Fri afternoon - Sun noon) ----------------- [ ] NO ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee, Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 150,- DM [ ] Single room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee, Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 320,- DM [ ] Double room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee, Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 280,- DM Please indicate the person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ [ ] Triple room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee, Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 255,- DM Please indicate the 1st person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 6 18 May 1998 Please indicate the 2nd person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ Semi-Cool (Saturday morning to Sunday noon) --------- [ ] NO ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 125,- DM [ ] Single room, 1 night, breakfast, convention fee, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 210,- DM [ ] Double room, 1 night, breakfast, convention fee, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 190,- DM Please indicate the person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ [ ] Triple room, 2 nights, breakfast, convention fee, Fri dinner, Sat lunch & dinner, Sun lunch 175,- DM Please indicate the 1st person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ Please indicate the 2nd person you want to share your room with: _______________________________________________________ Essential (Saturday only) --------- [ ] No ROOM, NO BREAKFAST, convention fee, Sat lunch & dinner 100,- DM -------------------------------------------------------------------- ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- BURY THE DEAD PLEASE *C's! The stench in Fidonet is bad enought! by RanD, 1:141/1030 The following nodes have been marked down for at least the following nodelists; nodelist.121, nodelist.128 and nodelist.135. Do you think that our illustrious and glorious *C structure could find the time to do the job they were appointed to do and cull the dead wood into either HOLD piles or failing that perform the ultimate aztec sacrifice and exorcise them from the nodelist. I mean, gimme a break, we mark unpublished nodes as down? Private is already not reachable by the fidonet grunt sysop. These granite tombstone markers etched with the names and nodes of sysops who have fallen in the holy war on the internet deserved FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 7 18 May 1998 an appropriate interment. Are the unpublised ones the tomb of the unknown sysops? These 678 nodes are either gone or on hold. What the *C structure doesn't want to admit, is that their administrative-node-to-grunt-syso-node ratio is soaring as they shore up the nodelist with the dead bodies of former nodes. Fidonet is dying. The *C's should have a heart and bury the bodies as P4 says to, mainly 2 weeks after they are marked down. They need to stop the pattern of self delusion that the nodelist is still big and that one day, like the prodigal child, sysops will return home to the nodelist. Dozens of these nodes have been marked down for many months and a few for years! 102 -=[ Mega BBS #2 ]=- -Unpublished- 25 Megatronics BBS -Unpublished- 28 GrindStone Online Distribuion -Unpublished- 3 Stray Cat -Unpublished- 32 Scout's Honour BBS -Unpublished- 343 The Bird's Nest -Unpublished- 611 Mumbo Jumbo Line I -Unpublished- 740 Mayday Software -Unpublished- 77 Muse Studio BBS -Unpublished- 7777MTB [Down:05-04-98] -Unpublished- 970 Give and Take BBS 1-215-467-1398 201 Bob's Bored BBS 1-215-788-8459 16 Politzania 1-217-359-1081 29 Quest 1-217-875-3259 2000The Jupiter Project 1-219-936-3146 4231The Galactic WarZone BBS 1-281-498-4231 317 AdventureQuest V - The Tower 1-303-280-0205 345 The What Up BBS 1-303-371-3335 286 FISBBS 1-303-429-3513 356 Trantor BBS 1-303-670-7947 605 MICAP(sm) Network 1-303-762-7852 792 Practically Pointless 1-303-838-4681 27 Blue Powder BBS 1-304-727-6733 641 The I.B.S.A. BBS 1-310-204-4205 2 SoCalNet EC 1-310-553-6379 611 Spec-Com 1-319-583-6462 545 MID-NITE REQUESTS BBS 1-319-752-1189 505 SVBBSystem II 1-330-545-0093 90 Brink of Reality 1-352-375-6035 1994Paradise Island 1-352-726-7681 196 Dreadnaught BBS 1-360-891-6756 1023Eric's 1-401-434-6658 1025Dark Empire 1-401-785-2144 25 Southeast CC 1-402-223-2889 2 Paradise Xpress 1-402-228-7392 64 Sky Realm's BBS 1-402-291-1023 22 Wayne State College 1-402-375-7564 27 Central CC 1-402-461-2442 17 Mystic Tower 1-402-464-8196 16 The Peed BBS 1-402-477-2587 23 Columbus CC 1-402-564-3913 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 8 18 May 1998 24 Northeast CC 1-402-644-0685 5013Backbone Hub 5013 1-403-472-8089 1024Layzner SPT-LZ-00X 1-404-762-3050 777 WaterHole No.7 1-405-733-1949 19 Low Clearance BBS 1-407-574-3239 3 Genius At Work 1-407-574-7303 370 The Village 1-408-229-0706 364 NorCal Online 1-408-929-1064 368 Gnome's Guest House 1-408-977-7044 628 The CopShop 1-410-833-8933 314 AWEsome bbs 1-412-734-2129 313 Basement Records BBS 1-412-795-8523 475 Nightingale BBS 1-415-292-7314 1010The Warriors BBS 1-416-491-4969 106 Night BBS 1-418-839-4666 101 SpellBound 1-502-935-3600 180 Louisville Hot House 1-502-969-3806 208 Oregon Trails BBS 1-503-655-4645 108 The LHC BBS 1-509-663-1814 69 Drivel Head BBS 1-512-939-9535 4 After Hour Computer Shop BBS 1-512-993-0763 1 The SeaHorse BBS 1-512-994-9643 140 Blue Moon BBS 1-514-723-3218 125 The Mall BBS 1-520-459-6821 878 House Of Hammer 1-530-878-2239 301 WORMWooD 1-530-878-8927 56 The OWM Jefferson City Node 1-573-634-0393 79 QuestStar! 1-573-634-5364 19 LUCS Board 1-573-681-5493 84 Draconian's Lair 1-573-761-3294 254 The Wizard's Corner 1-602-247-9367 152 Fire! And Ice 1-602-336-8850 19 Construction Net V 1-602-488-0656 121 AMUG Preferred 1-602-553-0721 56 AZ MAC UG 1-602-553-0749 205 Falcon's Nest BBS 1-602-581-7827 110 Kitty's Sandbox 1-602-829-7522 185 The Berlin Connection 1-602-834-4962 323 The Black Stallion BBS 1-602-834-6550 143 Ariseth Keep 1-602-843-0998 260 The Union Jack BBS 1-602-914-4162 2600The Union Jack BBS 1-602-914-4162 502 The Emerald Keep 1-602-930-8247 47 Land Of Nomad 1-602-936-5587 503 INFO Zone 1-602-937-7780 491 The Blue Room 1-602-938-4277 253 The DESERT BBS 1-602-942-1584 27 The Tiger's Den 1-602-992-9879 38 The RoadKill BBS 1-605-331-1023 4070Black Hole BBS 1-612-444-6698 202 CedarCrest 1-613-525-0537 113 Grave Digger BBS 1-613-938-1589 800 Rogers' BBS! 1-614-274-8556 150 Silver Lining 1-614-836-5604 10 Leisure Time 1-618-397-5825 1511Chem-tronics Computer Club BBS 1-619-258-5286 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 9 18 May 1998 314 Pea's Keep 1-619-291-6746 1630Tierra-Miga 1-619-292-0712 354 OS/2 Connection 1-619-549-4215 1513Buck's Place BBS 1-619-579-8526 112 The Hobby Shop 1-619-596-0821 1631Quantum Interactive Online 1-619-689-0177 902 The Library BBS 1-626-914-0221 222 The Board 1-702-399-6375 310 Underdark BBS 1-704-279-8402 402 Spirit BBS 1-704-297-5973 108 G-2 1-704-324-6164 11 Global Access BBS 1-704-334-9030 48 Shadow Graphics 1-704-532-8392 605 Basement BBS 1-704-628-9908 309 Batcave BBS 1-704-633-9705 114 The Holler BBS 1-704-688-2472 402 Single Modem Line 1-704-788-2929 1200STANLY COUNTY HUB 1-704-982-9223 1201King's Dominion 1-704-982-9223 30 Mostly Country 1-705-253-3120 906 Keymaster's Inferno 1-706-866-6927 7 Covenant Keeper BBS 1-707-987-3022 690 Red Jacket School 1-716-289-3926 150 T. A. B. B. S. 1-716-837-6050 712 Blue Light Special 1-717-957-9230 9 Modems Delight Node 1 1-719-547-0604 237 Vector Time Point BBS 1-719-599-9533 6001Hub 600 EchoMail Coordinator 1-732-324-2617 677 The Nut House 1-732-324-2617 636 Dark Waters 1-732-603-7947 120 The Maven's Roost 1-732-940-8810 15 Utopia's Cookie Jar 1-765-548-0534 50 The Fast Lane BBS 1-765-664-2043 215 Freedom's Choice:CBCS/VETLink #181-781-593-2605 619 The Village BBS 1-802-223-0866 1019The Grinder 1-805-527-1830 1008MODEM ONE BBS 1-805-582-1534 220 Computer God!!! 1-805-946-9832 19 The HamShack BBS 1-816-796-6695 715 The Promise 1-817-295-8571 830 The Wizard of OS/2 1-818-503-7632 919 Sleuth 1-818-727-7658 801 The Fantasy Factory 1-818-768-5153 866 Cross Connection 1-818-786-9233 601 Streamline 1-860-445-8319 33 The Extravaganza BBS 1-864-322-8767 72 Quick's Room 1-901-360-0317 2721Demo Land Online 1-904-278-0453 2717Cheyenne's Reservation 1-904-291-7833 51 DreamScapes 1-904-693-1907 27 The GrindStone BBS Node 1 1-904-734-2916 140 The Game Room 1-904-778-3760 4 CD Mania 1-904-789-4786 9003WVFN-Deltona EDS-3 1-904-789-4786 17 The Night Owl BBS 1-904-789-8452 209 The Psycho BBS 1-905-527-2057 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 10 18 May 1998 108 The HOLO-DECK BBS 1-905-575-9826 614 Compro Systems 1-905-987-3777 7 Freedom of Speech 1-910-691-1121 11 Information Plus 1-910-852-8664 80 Emerald BBS 1-913-776-7359 49 Holiday BBS 1-916-921-9949 515 Encounters BBS 1-920-469-2663 645 Eagles Nest 1-920-729-1157 623 Joe's Place 1-920-734-7144 655 Future Generation 1-920-739-8242 640 Midnight Oil 1-920-832-0686 43 GhostComm BBS 30-31-812104 3 Surfer 30-623-42406 209 EDC 31-10-4184257 309 WestPoint II 31-10-4382548 707 Eddy's Postorder VOF 31-181-327172 451 Gunbiker 31-24-6415029 61 Commodore BBS 31-252-621144 807 THESMI BBS 31-255-516133 163 HCC Forth BBS 31-26-4422164 703 Elcom HUB West II 31-30-2801586 616 End Of Line 31-318-430201 458 Elusive Dream BBS 31-38-3868264 724 ToFra Software BBS 31-475-537027 100 ProgrammaTel 31-512-541943 317 Medusa 31-53-4313082 459 Dragon Lore BBS 31-570-650712 611 EarthQuake BBS 31-79-3290568 634 FibreBridge Services 31-79-3427732 504 CompuMed-BBS *1* 32-3-2395386 2237Musique BBS 32-4-2264949 3221Cryo BBS 32-71-812290 1928Apocalyps 32-9-2322794 9928Apocalyps ISDN 32-9-2324209 16 SGS-THOMSON Micros 33-442291416 22 D.I.E ISDN 33-493122093 21 D.I.E 33-493122155 31 LiM BBX 34-942-542496 5 Irakasle BBS 34-943-714063 9 Deusto BBS 34-944-130397 12 Euskal Amiga 34-944-219718 17 TopSexcret BBX 34-944-316179 21 Quasar 34-948-162628 18 32 Bits BBS 34-965251953 18 Music 351-1-4537461 15 Skylab 351-1-7210045 1100Quark 2 351-1-7510365 31 Circuits 351-1-7579742 17 High Flight 351-2-5511509 19 Ants'Nest 351-39-20203 50 Praxis 351-39-33685 12 Cyber Dreams 351-53-215214 19 WannaBee 351-53-514495 46 Files R Us 351-56-754530 51 Old Timer 351-56-7580162 780 HOOVER 358-6-8314347 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 11 18 May 1998 21 Nus+ 359-2-518306 34 PolyNet 359-52-889421 90 More BBS 371-2573108 26 Rusty Bolt 371-7248115 888 Bane Mailer 372-2479764 777 Crazy BBS 372-6325552 44 Humpy 380-322-426090 73 LLM 380-322-646978 93 Studio Leva's BBS 380-322-729268 63 Integral&Servis 380-322-742459 2 VT Station 380-36-2279797 14 Sail BBS 380-38-22-22222 13 Renesance Station 380-38-22-65762 41 Soft Laboratory BBS 380-432-263082 1 muppet show bbs 380-4337-26122 282 TV-Station 380-44-2294125 243 DrugMan Station 380-44-2432438 43 Dangerous Man bMG 380-44-2454878 111 Trodat Soft 380-44-2455832 1024TechnoDaemon's Station 380-44-2634108 110 Inominatus SyStem 380-44-2778072 4630Site of UPC #1 380-44-4136872 292 Savage 380-44-5135505 161 Tracker's Line 380-44-5156606 196 Technica 380-44-5190462 919 OurHut 380-44-5703268 7 Future Crew 380-4463-66369 2 Tesseract Corner 380-482-280408 27 Restricted Zone 380-482-323225 48 First Angle 380-482-474592 30 TRASH 380-482-680984 14 Big Bug Source 380-482-688149 10 Moonlit Software/2 380-552-274361 7 Seven Winds 380-552-512363 311 Hovard Software 380-562-323688 21 Medicon Service 380-562-461097 11 V-Topol 380-562-762267 327 Agent Private 380-572-262560 109 NightBird Nest 380-572-634851 78 OXO-gen 380-622-220482 101 South Design 380-622-354850 29 Advertizing Center 380-622-921638 76 Television "7x7" 380-622-936733 7 -=Polyglot=- Club 380-6232-43397 97 Fenol 380-6247-33669 134 FinExpert 380-6272-29109 5 Chaos 380-6452-27718 9 Impuls 380-6452-98149 10 Crimea Island 380-652-250113 33 Roadhouse 380-6561-21187 102 DiamonD WorkGroups BBS 380-692-447586 115 Marx Station 380-692-454349 67 SPI BBS 380-692-590516 138 DurLAN SGI 381-18-713836 186 X-Treme 381-78-56562 177 Kentaur 1 381-81-16614 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 12 18 May 1998 178 Kentaur 2 381-81-44675 109 BUG BBS 385-1-301897 149 Fractal BBS 385-20-813411 156 Peri BBS 385-21-320498 136 Endrigo BBS 385-21-500024 103 GAMA 387-72-27-765 404 BES 95 39-51-389464 106 A-BBS 39-55-225727 121 Essedi BBS 39-55-354577 109 TEL-IN 39-55-432429 125 SystemShock 1 39-55-499038 105 M Link/Macmusic 39-55-599369 130 Isengard BBS 39-55-6812256 609 ValMedical 39-571-242193 134 La Piramide BBS 39-572-70032 103 Utopia 39-573-368164 111 G.a.m.p. BBS 39-573-631233 113 Eclipse 39-574-21882 112 Riders of Lost Carrier 39-574-690855 116 EUROBBS 39-574-950189 119 PAN 39-575-24676 128 PRIMA BBS 39-577-223473 110 Unreal BBS#1 39-577-56105 118 Glass Globe 39-577-959054 332 Mimac 3 SBDI 39-6-35403152 321 Argo 39-6-5191770 358 PNRA Link 39-6-5826841 359 HELL 39-6-6664270 389 Manga 39-6-80687821 394 RomAmigA 39-6-86899687 378 Alfa 2-Italy 39-6-9063562 622 SunStone 39-871-800002 534 Speed Of Life II 39-931-578177 722 BYTE 39-961-31997 305 BIOHAZARD 40-1-250-9630 501 DEATH World/2 line 2 40-1-610-5703 327 CCTI 41-22-7868587 330 HANDY - AMIGALAND #1 41-27-4568131 332 HANDY - AMIGALAND #2 41-27-4568132 367 HANDY - AMIGALAND ISDN 41-27-4568133 764 Wyna-BBS 41-62-7765014 765 Toggline BBS (ISDN X.75) 41-71-9940041 766 Toggline BBS (ISDN V110) 41-71-9940042 705 Toggline BBS (USRobotics) 41-71-9940044 121 Thunder Box 2 41-91-6001222 242 RM II 420-19-224887 61 HS Nymburk 420-325-2752 34 ELO Computers 420-616-25765 72 Villa BBS system 420-634-330583 61 Jezek BBS 420-66-32659 800 The Home of the Lost Clusters 43-1-257377040 114 Amiga LIVE! BBS 43-1-3680102 84 Die Informationszentrale 43-1-3910385 118 the newsroom bbs 43-1-4852575 9 Teddy-Bear-BBS 43-1-5261051 510 VIS 43-1-5815160 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 13 18 May 1998 1001His Master's Voice V [OS/2] 43-1-600993333 107 UNITED NETWORKS 43-1-6044469 6969XANDL's BBS [ISDN] 43-1-8045650 622 Communication Center ONE[1] 43-1-8045753 44 G-System 43-1-9795506 88 Out of the ordinary BBS 43-1-9834505 850 THE WEREWOLF 43-1-9843185 44 The Fright Night BBS 43-2243-313440 23 The Dream Team BBS 43-2628-61299 42 CCCat 43-2742-356266 65 Buffalo BBS 43-3332-61264 99 MultiNet System 43-7223-81172-2 80 Bauernkaff-BBS 43-7227-8949 12 Elminster's Tower 43-7435-52205 444 Inn4tel BBS 43-7754-2992 406 Power Up 44-1207-542437 608 Dragon's Domain 44-1222-627411 701 Black Cat BBS 44-1222-707359 109 Cambridge Classic 44-1223-216118 41 THE SLEEZY LAB BBS 44-1303-253677 404 Mr T's 44-1325-307918 39 Ecosse 44-1387-721477 10 The Dark Hours 44-141-5715475 705 The Club BBs 44-1423-541363 62 Rigel -5- 44-1482-355163 64 Duval City BBS 44-1482-449343 26 These Days 44-1482-573617 413 Hull College DDLG[SNC] 44-1482-586711 63 Dark Knights BBS 44-1482-788389 88 Unicorn 44-1482-790496 69 Techno Nites 44-1482-812017 191 The Empty Slot BBS 44-161-281-2856 600 Scorpion Mail Server [Line 2] 44-171-278-1146 129 The Plymouth Area BBS 44-1752-252366 403 The Bad Lands 44-1968-679725 27 CyberCom BBS 45-38111545 30 The Total Perspective Vortex 45-63120200 51 BC-Soft BBS 45-65312764 205 TopGun BBS 45-75-143370 173 No Limit BBS 45-8618-9992 99 View of Darkness 45-8628-6626 262 Jutlandia BBS 45-8637-6550 60 Pertos Asshole Amiga-PC BBS#1 45-87-340480 20 Flaming Moon BBS 45-87-520103 222 Digisoft BBS 46-11-187217 202 Nordic #2 46-13-214384 203 Nordic #3 46-13-214854 229 Nordic #4 46-13-214854 243 MjolkCentralen 46-141-70579 130 HAL9000 node 3 46-18-501352 124 HAL9000 node 1 46-18-504865 160 The Golder Beer Inn BBS 46-19-127909 152 Looser Inn 46-19-187403 156 Malfunction 46-19-240285 155 Tuben BBS 46-19-291011 163 THA HiDEOUT 46-19-6112313 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 14 18 May 1998 317 Digital Zone 46-226-10232 202 Eriksson's Bbs #4 46-270-427324 265 Eriksson's Bbs #3 46-270-428055 138 TFO 46-40-407284 622 Cold Beer 46-44-126995 629 C.O.O.L 46-44-129070 624 Newmill BBS 46-44-217217 623 Incertus BBS 46-44-229190 621 Absolut BBS 46-44-247248 220 Vasterviks Gymnasium 46-490-88280 643 Shadow Zone BBS 46-54-568007 625 Decades 46-54-831561 617 PC Station 46-552-10427 159 Midnight Sun 46-581-14451 141 Zenith BBS 46-581-30496 620 T.L.L 46-8-324685 449 Xanadu BBS 46-8-918390 508 ELINGE BBS 46-90-138440 516 The CrossWay BBS 46-90-50083 501 Datafiluren 46-930-20911 33 The StarWars BBS [24h] 48-119-46207 52 JR-Mail BBS [2300-0700] 48-22-408770 85 TeRRoRGaRDeN inbound gateway 48-22-6228552 80 TeRRoRGaRDeN 48-22-6485588 105 xAB.oRG [24h] 48-22-6596183 43 The Fanatic BBS [DCF77] 48-22-8261983 39 Alien BBS [24h] 48-54-312977 54 CountDown MO Node [ZMH] 48-91-4357145 50 FX20 BBS [2200-0700] 48-91-4357892 1435Dustin's New Special 49-201-329653 1081STARBASE 108-1 49-201-413095 1436Dustin's New Special ISDN 49-201-8315008 1428Calles Point 49-201-8761122 2001KAMPUS ISDN 49-203-752080 6015Lucky BBS 49-2051-989323 310 WARLORD'S BATTLEFIELD 1 49-2052-961023 309 WARLORD'S BATTLEFIELD 2 49-2052-961024 308 WARLORD'S BATTLEFIELD 3+4 (ISDN) 49-2052-961025 368 ginko-bbs 49-208-384001 1412Sunshine BBS 49-208-779879 349 Formel1 BBS Line 1 49-208-865589 354 Formel1 BBS Line 2 49-208-865592 1413Sunshine BBS ISDN-EL310 49-208-9926131 428 Domingo 49-209-375522 770 Pascal Server 49-2151-933220 93 B.E.A.M. 49-2241-343098 1009FireworkerS BBS 49-228-697403 406 CHRONOLOGIE 49-231-525775 1427BoMS 49-2324-971382 1640Byte-Line 1 49-2325-988950 1641Byte-Line 2 49-2325-988951 1642Byte-Line 3 49-2325-988952 416 WINNI 49-2331-65829 450 Cygnus 49-2335-974929 325 Animal Mothers's Home 49-234-680844 628 Souvenir BBS 49-234-9620347 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 15 18 May 1998 135 Weibercafe 49-261-9113757 50 Higli-Box 49-261-9422648 92 Freiheit 49-2632-953414 380 SIEG-BOX ISDN 49-271-71697 311 Imperium BBS 49-2821-74658 402 Thing ISDNServer 49-30-46404273 401 Thing BBS & UUCP 49-30-4642166 7301ESA-BOX 49-3691-29930 7304ESA-BOX 49-3691-743000 7302ESA-BOX ISDN 49-3691-743001 7305ESA-BOX 49-3691-743001 7303ESA-BOX ISDN 49-3691-743002 5171BBS Am Bahnhof LINE 2 49-37209-80160 5170BBS Am Bahnhof LINE 1 49-37209-80170 5130Vogtland I 49-37421-28611 5131Vogtland II 49-37421-28612 9031Strela-Box-ISDN 49-3831-310307 9030Strela-Box 49-3831-390560 9050Ingo's Box 49-38326-65885 9040Oliver's Box 49-38326-65889 9070KIDS-21 49-3981-24750 5781TIGER-BBS #2 49-40-366013 5462Campe Box 49-4154-841648 4018Fun & Pleasure 49-4191-959827 2001on the other line ISDN 49-441-940083 2090The Drugstore 49-4421-998393 2091The Drugstore 49-4421-998394 2340aZMODAN's lair 49-4499-1318 32 DatenBahn BBS 49-5085-6116 43 Datenbahn BBS ISDN 49-5085-955975 306 DiGiTaL NiGHTMARE VI 49-5121-157108 305 DiGiTaL NiGHTMARE V 49-5121-157636 330 Trick or Treat BBS 49-5121-33919 840 PC-ONLiNE Network WHQ 49-5201-849885 870 XTC Line I 49-5231-592758 219 SpieleKiste BBS 49-551-43753 305 M.B.N.I. 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ComputerSystems I (ISDN)49-6102-756493 1369Die Siedlung im Wald 49-6103-947090 1542AERO Flightpoint BBS 49-6196-28534 6628Elektronet HQ 49-6301-33578 231 Chako's BBS II 49-6441-97161 213 Chako's BBS 49-6441-97162 323 GiGa-BaSe Line 1 49-651-80814 317 Grave BBS 28.8 49-651-96260 316 Grave BBS iSDN 49-651-96261 324 GiGa-BaSe Line 2 49-651-9980267 365 Andi's Inn 49-6591-985045 375 Waldy's Datenwueste 49-6599-961039 1280GAGERN BOX 49-69-21237788 1160fts6only 49-69-94430008 6007Vladi's Videohaus 49-7031-760932 6008Vladi's Videohaus [ISDN] 49-7031-760932 1822Camelot OS/2 ISDN 49-7033-537837 1824Camelot OS/2 49-7033-537838 205 AFU-BOX 49-7131-507456 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 16 18 May 1998 1817InfoPool Stuttgart (IPS) 49-7152-997497 1420Oppelsbohmer Dorfbox #2 49-7181-972802 9092[ UNITY III ISDN ] 49-7392-911051 9093[ UNITY IV ISDN ] 49-7392-911052 9090[ UNITY I V.34 ] 49-7392-912213 9091[ UNITY II V.34 ] 49-7392-912214 8211Jeronymo Port 2 49-7424-5461 8230EFFATAH 49-7461-8102 8060Little-FHF 49-7723-50032 3730Little Black Box 1 ISDN 49-8191-971000 3731Little Black Box 2 49-8191-971001 24 crazy 0815 49-8231-91230 1503RA Support 3 Analog 49-911-9975810 1501RA Support 1 ISDN 49-911-9975813 1502RA Support 2 ISDN 49-911-9975814 1970Predator BBS 1 49-9131-710177 1971Predator BBS 2 49-9131-710178 1511ComDas BBS 2 ISDN 49-9132-798064 1510ComDas BBS 1 Analog 49-9132-798065 4002CCB e.V. II 49-921-39814 3333Schweinestall/2 49-9403-7238 315 Free Support-System 49-9405-961022 8005ELECTRIX-SUPPORT BOX 49-9824-93100 2 MegaLink 52-14-16-3194 11 Mercurio BBS 52-28-40-1412 10 Canal-PC 52-29-35-4737 4 Soft Code BBS 52-3-647-5621 5 CARRIER BBS 52-3-679-2017 105 ATA 54-51-25-4874 172 Giudice BBS 55-11-843-0336 56 JM BBS 55-21-264-4923 15 BIOHARDWARE 55-21-267-6944 86 WU! BBS 55-21-286-9743 48 Toca da Raposa 55-21-322-0572 22 ASMail 55-21-372-1385 84 SESP-BBS 55-21-396-7371 52 Undercover BBS 55-21-431-2158 13 Junt Software BBS 55-21-551-7136 72 Scorpion BBS 55-21-552-9478 89 Shout BOARD 55-21-553-8793 92 Techno File Cartel 55-21-571-4752 50 Campos Network 55-247-22-5664 15 Jason Lives BBS 55-41-24-2155 20 Premium BBS 55-41-253-3553 4 Red Baron BBS 55-41-254-4907 7 SnR BBS 55-51-342-7106 404 NetServ 55-61-443-8003 1 Valparaiso On-Line BBS 56-32-91-3067 10 Microtekno BBS 56-32-97-7219 7 The Lost Road 60-3-2530964 416 K.K.K. BBS 61-2-9418-6005 111 The OnLine Tryst 61-2-9601-2232 920 1st Community Network 61-2-9628-3855 617 SCI-FI Haven BBS 61-2-9629-3652 918 MIDI Plus 61-2-9820-7640 921 tHE uNdeRgRoUNd bBs 61-2-9898-0357 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 17 18 May 1998 319 Blue Marlin 61-47-76-1211 120 Cosmic 63-2-245-6879 103 EMail Company 63-2-635-4152 305 Pilipinas Sierra HQ 63-2-715-3807 1 C.E.B.U. BBS * Node 1 63-32-231-3797 20 Eastern Star 63-47-223-5004 300 JayBee's 64-6-836-6229 315 Phoenix 64-6-876-5865 245 AnArchy OnLine BBS 65-2353217 225 MAGIC's 32 65-2421133 806 Every Minutes BBS 65-2805590 811 SuPPort Xentre BBS 65-3377669 807 I-Chi-Ban BBS 65-3388527 414 Nato/2 65-3444937 244 X-Link BBS 65-3452083 403 The Elite Plus Bulletin Board 65-3542825 810 Dark Domains BBS 65-3655162 251 ICE BLUE BBS 65-440-1229 409 SpaceCamp BBS 65-4552157 805 Footprints BBS 65-458-3496 211 Hwa Chong Planet 65-4622508 256 New Alliance 65-4633971 803 Task Force 9000 #1 65-4660097 804 Task Force 9000 #2 65-4666657 412 HourGlass Trinity 1991 65-7412932 255 The Dawn Raiders BBS 65-7535901 9 Hogbens BBS 7-0112-465888 13 Binom Line 2 7-081-266-1336 2 AT Station 7-0855-210503 16 Warlock's Private 7-091-232-5000 26 Servis TV 7-093-223-1323 3 Spika 7-094-2516936 10 Buy Net 7-094-3522484 735 Sunrise 7-095-362-5513 1510SM's Productions 7-095-570-5820 3 Netwanderer's residence 7-0967-634887 24 Rot Kopf 7-321-274-0972 9 Eurasian News 7-327-250-7065 133 ADIS 7-343-2243745 63 MikeSoft 7-343-2560632 89 EHP 7-343-2921233 59 Holiday 7-343-2939814 16 Wanderer I 7-343-9276627 205 BKB 7-34711-51209 200 School System 7-34711-68090 39 Coliseum BBS 7-3472-313-121 47 Link 7-3472-37-5400 160 SBCCD BBS 7-35222-26541 18 PromBANK 7-35222-33202 16 Digital Art 7-35222-56543 31 Corvin 7-3532-775236 3 CTC's Node 7-363-235-0023 66 Auto Mail System 7-363-244-4760 29 Amber Illusion 7-381-256-3747 3 PCB 7-3852-24-8698 8 Die Hard 7-3852-26-2825 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 18 18 May 1998 97 Terrible Perfection 7-395-227-0020 57 Helios 7-395-232-9023 45 Dim Killer's Station 7-395-233-6729 79 Simona 7-395-233-8817 121 Value Point 7-395-234-9631 78 Data Research 7-395-236-8428 9 music drain 7-423-226-7366 31 Larry Laffer II 7-423-228-6237 2 Paradise 7-423-231-2577 1 Far Post War Dream Machine 7-423-232-9418 3 Pskov Beer Club 7-8112-160043 152 Slayer 7-812-105-5955 279 Naked Gun's 7-812-110-1113 574 Transfinit 7-812-112-8674 676 IP HUB Project 7-812-164-1255 605 Aragorn 7-812-235-3339 610 Jane System Station 7-812-238-1097 358 FOSSTIL BBS 7-812-239-6412 119 SWAP drop 7-812-249-8399 201 Night Scorpione BBS 7-812-265-6179 319 Deon Station 7-812-275-5078 360 Shepherd Moons 7-812-279-2856 242 Dragon Station 7-812-310-6713 154 infra 7-812-314-3047 543 Sleeping Station 7-812-325-2306 146 Security Station 7-812-327-8095 31 Night Star 7-812-327-8096 376 AT's Break Point 7-812-347-1830 349 Cambion Station 7-812-351-6771 337 AKWI Computing station 7-812-356-4158 343 Earl Grey Station 7-812-393-4043 225 Compromise 7-812-394-0025 29 Neptun 7-812-422-7012 192 Palmira 7-812-470-4482 354 LIS Station 7-812-541-0131 197 FORMULA-1 7-812-555-6233 558 Aiesec BBS 7-812-580-2329 2 Gymnasium N1 7-816-223-4842 1 Flat Trunk by GZ 7-831-2-318061 6 GAI UVD 7-8332-629317 23 SB 7-8442-936446 11 BestFire Pro BBS Line#1 7-8469-342444 11 Bossic World Station 7-847-2263563 24 Hell Block 7-86344-46116 33 Licey 7-86344-61692 408 Moon Gate Partner 852-2351-5082 32 CityU's BBS 852-2411-5610 692 Avatar BBS 852-2458-7972 322 Po Chi Lam 852-2511-0661 656 < < <> > > 852-2524-1469 827 Game City 852-2539-7092 614 Stealth Fighter Board 852-2559-7106 510 Metamorphose BBS 852-2562-5108 16 ZyXEL Support [Nebula #6] 852-2577-7515 695 Jordan/2 Network 852-2578-9447 155 <>-OS/2-Line2 852-2580-0110 FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 19 18 May 1998 280 PencilPoint 852-2598-4409 329 SFC BBS 852-2606-6161 91 Int'l Compufans Network 852-2609-4087 1 TAIC Maximus-CBCS 852-2631-1994 8 HK PC User Group Software Library852-2631-2540 323 Comics World BBS 852-2637-4873 370 Comics World BBS 852-2637-4873 57 City Connection BBS 852-2657-3381 399 DataZone 852-2667-5889 795 Brave New World 852-2706-6216 758 Paramount BBS 852-2768-8397 320 Tai Hung BBS 852-2773-9933 368 [Spy #4]Spy Arena 852-2785-7076 784 <: Vision Studio :> 852-2858-5826 130 <>-OS/2-Line1 852-2871-0272 94 Back to the Future BBS 852-2886-5904 721 Sirius of Milky Way 852-2887-8587 235 Pearl 852-2898-7297 297 Angel Land 852-2984-1168 26 Federal BBS 86-10-6264-7865 10 CiX The CyberInfo Exchange 91-80-3341137 ### 30 ### ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 20 18 May 1998 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Dear Editorbeing, This article is submitted by Doc Logger(163/110) who was still puzzled over His Zorchness' obtuse references in the previous Snooz. Mostly, Doc was puzzled over why anyone would announce that they read "Atlas Shrugged" in 7 hours. Is this an Olympic event now and will World Records be benchmarked against how long it takes to read Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow"? We should be told. Roll da flic, Zorch.... Dear Reverend Visage, Bad craziness abounds. One of Satti's fartcatchers, a fellow named Bowerman sent a stern message to someone who doesn't post in the ZIC echo suggesting that "they might want to take a two week holiday." I know that were the message addressed to me, I'd have declined the invitation. I'd have to borrow a sampling from His Zorchness' paranoia and speculate that poor Bob Satti was getting miffed at being called a moron in the elflord echo. Naturally, it wouldn't occur to Satti that he might want to deal with the root of the problem with nodes migrating to net163 because they were abused by their NCs. Bob "noted" Satti, being a genius, chose the path where he figured that he could browbeat net163 into sharing his totalist nightmare. Hint for Blonde Bobs Again: Go away, get lost, leave net163 alone and go play with your peer, Bob Kohl. Peefour isn't now and never was the law in Fidonet. No matter how many times Satti snivels that he is bound by policy it still doesn't give it any greater jurisprudent weight. Satti wasted his entire week's worth of 46 words by whining that if people stopped insulting him, that he could actually answer questions instead of using his lame "noted" macro. He's been asked several times a week by nodes in Region10 to do something about Kohl's excesses and incompetence by hasn't yet mustered enough working neurons to come up with a solution. It strikes me as a real simple issue: ask Kohl to seek an electoral mandate from the sysops in Region10. While that is happening, get Belcke to obtain a sysop level mandate from his region as well. For my Chautauqua this week I've chosen a quote from Francois Mauriac's "Viper's Tangle" which should give me a good running start to answer some of the questions which have been posed to me in email concerning last week's offering in the Snooz: FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 21 18 May 1998 "Is it possible for us...to observe only one side of a person who shares our life? Can it be that, out of habit, we pick and choose among the things they say and the things they do, retaining only that which nurtures our grievances and perpetuates our resentment? Have we a fatal tendency to simplify other people - to eliminate all those features which might be regarded as extenuating, which might render more human the caricature of them which our hatred needs for its justification?" My simple answer is yes. I do indeed selectively choose those things that offend me and give them more stature than simple context would normally allow. This becomes for me an ends justifies the means sort of argument. My premise begins where Fidonet began - as a truly noble experiment in communication that was unfettered by anything other than minimal levels of cooperation with respect to technical connectivity. This may seem trite, but Fidonet represented a great hope that communication couldn't be shackled by bureaucracy or regulatory intrusion, or commercial conquest. Fidonet represented in practice the concept that people are free to associate with whom they choose, on the terms that are mutually agreeable. The transformation from that noble dream into the current nightmare is tragic. It offends me deeply as it ought to offend anyone who has the presence of mind to give credence to the worth of their freedom. It is a long, long way from that noble dream to where we have cretins asserting that nodes must conform to geographic boxes where they can be tormented by local despots. It is an equally distant remove from the original concept to have a small coterie of elflords presuming to "rule" Fidonet from positions where owe more to positional heredity than merit. I must go Visage, my netmail runneth over, and for a pleasant change it isn't entirely composed on insane speculations about His Zorchness. Regards, Doc Logger Furlang Island, South Pacific ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 22 18 May 1998 ================================================================= NOTICES ================================================================= Future History 22 May 1998 Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens. 3 Jul 1998 FidoNet European Convention (see this issue for details). 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. 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NOTE: I am looking for a comprehensive list of Telnet, VMODEM, BinkP, Argus and other TCP/IP based nodes operating FidoNet on the InterNet, either by Zone or worldwide, to post here as well. - Ye Editor ============ FidoNet: Homepage http://www.fidonet.org FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML] http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII] WWW sources http://www.scms.rgu.ac.uk/students/cs_yr94/lk/fido.html FTSC page http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc Echomail [MIA] WebRing http://ddi.digital.net/~cbaker84/fnetring.html [TFN] General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.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: Region 15: Region 16: http://www.tiac.net/users/satins/region16.htm Region 17: Region 18: http://techstop.pdn.net/fido/ Region 19: http://www.compconn.net ============ Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org ZEC2: Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/z2_elist/ Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish) FIDONEWS 15-20 Page 25 18 May 1998 Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (in German) Region 25: http://www.trak-one.co.uk/net254 Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb 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?) 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