F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 36 04 Sep 2000 +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | The newsletter of the | ISSN 1198-4589 Published by: | | FidoNet community | "FidoNews" | | _ | 1-717-732-6820 1:270/720 | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | Editor: Douglas Myers, 1:270/720 | | | (*) | \ )) | DougM@paonline.com | | |__U__| / \// | | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Robot with Attitude! ..................................... 1 2. COLUMNS .................................................. 5 Ol'WDB: Words of Love .................................... 5 3. NET HUMOR ................................................ 7 Democratic Demographics .................................. 7 4. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 9 Cow-asaki ................................................ 9 5. INTERNET INFO ............................................ 10 Fidonet-related sites .................................... 10 6. FIDONEWS INFO ............................................ 14 Masthead ................................................. 14 FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 1 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Robot with Attitude! Doug Myers In the novella, Bicentennial Man (recently rendered as a Robin Williams movie), science fiction Master Robert Heinlan depicted the efforts of a robot to achieve humanity. In the latter half of August, Thom LaCosta announced his own efforts to infuse the ELIST ROBOT with the human feature of judgement: ----- Announcement in the Echo MODERATOR by Thom Lacosta ----- Effective immediately MOD UPD messages from third parties will NOT be processed unless the echolist keeper has personal knowledge and/or netmail/email from moderators that: A. They have authorized a third party to update their listing B. They have the password to the echo in question. This policy has been instituted to insure the accuracy of the echolist and to preserve the rights of the listed moderator. Moderators using the services of third parties are strongly urged to communicate with the echolist keeper that the conditions above apply to their echoes. For purposes of accuracy, all communications should specifically list the echoes that are updated by a third party. ----- In a past guest editorial in FIDONEWS, I defended the right of the elist keeper to correct individual cases of chicanery with echo listings... but I couldn't help but wonder if he'd bit off more than he could chew with this policy. I had two misgivings about this policy: 1. The policy assumes wrongdoing on the part of a third party lister unless proven otherwise. This is a far different strategy than the past policy of intervening when wrongdoing was actually detected. 2. Though the stated purpose of the policy was to ensure accuracy and protect the rights of moderators, it actually seemed like a strategy to discourage or eliminate third party listers. In fact, it brought to mind numerous arguments Thom had had with Bobby Queen, Fidonet's premier echo lister. Could there be something personal in all this? The latter suspicion was confirmed in Thom's echomail response to Ross Cassell... FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 2 4 Sep 2000 ----- Echomail from area MODERATOR ----- Yes Sir! As a matter of fact, a recent series of events was triggered by a change in moderators. I noticed that a third party had been updating the listing for several months, using the original moderator's name. The updater then changed the moderator. I asked both the original moderator and the updater to confirm that the original moderator had transfered the echo. Amazingly, the original moderator said he hadn't, and the updater said that since the echo was his, he could name anyone as moderator. It's apparent that while a third-party may have a password, that does NOT give that person the right or standing to make substantial changes to the content of an echo tag listing. From my viewpoint, it may represent fraud, gross mis-undrstanding of the echolist, general confusion about rules, but none-the-less, it's something that can not be tolerated. ----- Though the above rationale is stated in a generalized manner, subsequent echomail brought out that Bobby Queen was indeed the target of Thom LaCosta's new policy: ----- Echomail from Bobby Queen to Thom LaCosta, MODERATOR ----- TL> I am trying to recontruct what went on with the Hockey Echo. TL> My files indicate the following: TL> The echo listing was deleted on 4/1/2000 due to a lack of an TL> update. Yep TL> On May 7, 1999 you "rescued" the echo, showing Daryl Turner, TL> the previously listed moderator as moderator. True TL> On June 5 and July 10, 2000 you updated the echolisting, still TL> showing Daryl Turner as moderator. All the while trying to contact Daryl via CRASHED NetMail to get the echo turned back over to him. TL> On August 6, 2000 you updated the echo showing Michael Grant TL> as moderator. True TL> Can you supply me with copies of any communmications from Daryl TL> Turner showing that he either gave you control of the echo, or TL> confirmation that he had turned the echo over to Michael Grant? FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 3 4 Sep 2000 If I had any responses from Daryl either to my NetMails or via email he could have kept the echo himself. The problem was I told him via NetMail that someone else had asked to moderate the echo and for 3 months I got no response to any of my messages and Michael CRASHED his system also asking him. So we know his system was accepting the NetMail messages but he was not responding in any way. So I picked a new moderator for an echo I had rescued. TL> If that information is not available, do you have anything that TL> would substantiate that you had the authority to remove Mr. Turner TL> as the listed moderator and substitute Mr. Grant in his place? The authority was that in letting the echo slip Daryl gave up his right to the echo as you yourself has said in various echos including MODERATOR. I kept him listed until after 3 months I could not contact him and the echo was in need of a moderator and was on the low traffic report and in danger of being totally deleted from the Z1B Backbone. Michael had contacted me and I had given Daryl over a month to contact me after I sent him CRASHED NetMail letting him know that Michael wanted to take over the echo. Point is the echo was MINE and I chose a new moderator. PERIOD! ----- I don't suppose that I owe Thom LaCosta either editorial support or editorial opposition. In the past, I was openly supportive of his role in thwarting Zorch Frezberg's attempt to retain the echo FN_SYSOP under the guise of "echo trustee." I was also openly critical of Tom Knowles "echo rescuing" attempts on the suspicion that he and Thom LaCosta were actually the same person. I suppose, in the interest of balance, I should be wishy washy on this particular issue. In this spirit of no firm convictions, I've similarly never formed an image of Bobby Queen. He could be a bottom feeding echo scavenger, as Thom LaCosta and others have portrayed him in the past... or he could be the heroic echo rescuer which he claims to be. The fact is that Bobby mainly traffics in echoes which would have been lost to Fidonet anyway. Certainly, I wouldn't care to expend the effort he does in determining the echoes which are about to expire, and then listing them himself. Whether he restores them to the original moderator, claims them for himself, or acts as an echoGod in determining a new moderator seems only of academic interest. Despite my lack of firmness above, however, I believe the new echolist policy is more an argument between Bobby Queen and Thom LaCosta than a matter of principle. At the very least, it seems the wrong example on which to base policy. It seems that Bobby is being chastised more on a technicality than on any actual wrongdoing. It seems that Bobby had the authority to list Daryl Turner as moderator of the HOCKEY echo when Daryl left it expire through his own inaction, but doesn't have the authority to list Michael Grant as moderator as Daryl continues his inaction. The technicality is FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 4 4 Sep 2000 that Bobby didn't list himself as moderator when he listed the expired echo, and thus placed himself in the dreaded category of "third party lister" when he attempted to nominate an active moderator. I don't know Daryl and I don't read the HOCKEY echo... but the echomail quoted seems to indicate that Daryl couldn't be bothered with the echo for six months during which the echo expired, and three months thereafter. I'm not sure that the "accuracy" of the elist is being preserved by perpetuating the "rights" of a moderator who, in fact, didn't moderate for nine months. I'm not sure the "rights" are worth preserving. Above all, I'm not sure I want a policy which establishes a "big brother" to monitor all elist submissions for such technical violations. This is nothing personal against Thom LaCosta... I suppose he'd make as good a "big brother" as anyone else... but "big brothers" have been known to slow the growth of the little guys. If there's been an actual violation of the rights of Daryl Turner which isn't evidenced by the echomail so far, then let Thom do what he sees as right to correct the problem. But the self-promotion to "big brother" seems like overkill here. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 5 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= Ol'WDB's Column wdbonner@pacbell.net My good friend's daughter writes these words of love to her Dad, which with pride, he shares with all of us: Elusive As The Wind by Martha Crowninshield O'Brien Love is a powerful thing. Elusive as the wind, as magical as Christmas Eve and songs that make you cry... Its touch is such that nothing can begin to describe or do justice to it. Love leaves us seeking more, like crisp autumn leaves afire with color, and that one last glimpse of setting summer sun... When it's lost or wounded, as a bird struck from the sky in midflight, it's as though the rain will never end, and the world seems dark and lonely; door braced shut against wicked winter wind, our hearts as icy as late February snow... We are sad waiting for the sun, and too often believe we will never love again... Always though, against all odds, there remains a tiny spark, not unlike a firefly fluttering lazily through a steamy August evening, ready to ignite perhaps, a future flame, a lasting love... Thank you for the time spent sharing your heart and opening mine to the sweet possibility that I might love again... Sad to leave a special future to begin a distant past, but I have loved you as best I could, as you did me, and I wish you Love, wonder and starlight, always.... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Abstract Thinking by Martha Jean Crowninshield Windswept sand hills looking up to sun-kissed skies of powder blue, shifting calmly day to day with constant footprints trudging through. As waves, in sequence, pound the shore FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 6 4 Sep 2000 and distant seagulls cry above, shy wind whirls tumble through the haze, a pleasant, tickling type of shove. Distinction ends though at the sea, and as if caught within some bond, I notice with a startling thought that it goes on and on.....and on! Copyright 1999 Martha Crowninshield O'Brien Used by Permission, Ol'WDB ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 7 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= NET HUMOR ================================================================= Democratic Demographics Thanks to Roy Reed Virtually anyone can be a Democrat. Just simply quit thinking and vote that way. But if you want to be a GOOD Democrat, there are some prerequisites you must have first. Compare the below and see how you rate. 1. You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by a lack of federal funding. 2. You have to believe that the same teacher who can't teach 4th graders how to read is somehow qualified to teach those same kids about sex. 3. You have to believe that guns, in the hands of law-abiding Americans, are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology, in the hands of Chinese communists. 4. You have to believe that there was no art before Federal funding. 5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by yuppies driving SUVs. 6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial but being homosexual is natural. 7. You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand. 8. You have to believe that businesses create oppression and governments create prosperity. 9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists from Seattle do. 10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it. 11. You have to believe the military, not corrupt politicians, start wars. 12. You have to believe the NRA is bad, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good, because it supports certain parts of the Constitution. 13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high. 14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinmen are FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 8 4 Sep 2000 more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee or Thomas Edison. 15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides aren't. 16. You have to believe Hillary Clinton is really a lady. 17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in charge. 18. You have to believe Republicans telling the truth belong in jail, but a liar and sex offender belongs in the White House. 19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites and bestiality should be constitutionally protected and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal. 20. You have to believe that illegal Democratic party funding by the Chinese is somehow in the best interest of the United States. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 9 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= (__) (oo) ______ ______\/ __|______\__/____/\\[} / --- \\ --- |[] / \ \ / / \ | @ | \____/ | @ | \ / \ / --- --- COW-ASAKI ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 10 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= INTERNET INFO ================================================================= . -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- . | FIDONET-RELATED SITES | ` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- ' Last update: July 16, 2000 FidoNet Homepage: http://www.fidonet.org FidoNews: http://www.fidonews.org [HTML] ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/ ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/ Echolist: http://www.baltimoremd.com/echolist/ Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html SDS Files: http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS) FTSC page: http://www.ftsc.org/ General: http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org Region 10: http://www.r10.org http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/ Net 203: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/ Net 2410: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/ Region 12: http://sparkys.dyndns.org Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm Net 264: http://www.net264.org/ Net 275: http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/ Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14 Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/ Region 15: Region 16: Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/ Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140 Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/ Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19 Net 124: http://www.startext.net/np/net124 http://texoma.net/~flv Net 130: http://www.startext.net/homes/net130 Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/ Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.) Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish) Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German) http://www.was-ist-fido.de/ Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German) Region 25: http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/ Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 11 4 Sep 2000 REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French) http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/ Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German) ? 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Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian) Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org Zone 4: Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese) Region 90: Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish) Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/ Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese) Fidonet Via Internet Hubs See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email address. The email is translated as follows firstlast@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will also receive routed notice of this feature. In my case, it would still be joejared@osirusoft.com, but you get the idea. Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum time between when the message is received, and when it is sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward, defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were. v-email flag firstnamelastname@osirusoft.com | email address or FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 12 4 Sep 2000 Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate | | |latency| -----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------ Zone 1 | | | | 10/3 @ Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c 10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c 12/12 @ Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo. 13/25 @ Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo. 103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | 384k,!| n/c 103/153 @ Michael Box | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c 103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c 103/401 @ Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c 105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c 105/72 @ Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr 106/1 @ Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 128k | ??? 106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c 107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo. 140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16 167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c 211/417 @ Korombos | BinkP,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c 218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE | 33.6k | n/c 244/2 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1,! | $25.00/mo 246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c 280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo. 342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c 395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | 128k | n/c 396/1 @ John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1,10 | $5/mo 396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr 2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo 2613/404 @ David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c 2624/306 @ David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c 3613/2 @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE | 28.8 | n/c 3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3639/93 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c 3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6 -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 2 | 20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c 31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c 203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c 221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c 236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c 246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c 284/800 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c 292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE | 64k |N/C 292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | N/C 292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c 301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c 332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c 335/535 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c 335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c 344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c 346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c 382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c 406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c 406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 13 4 Sep 2000 423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c 464/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | 19.2 | n/c 465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c 469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c 480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c 2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c 2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c 2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn 5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 3 633/260 @ Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c 640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c 774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 4 905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c 902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c -- * FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol * VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various) * UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers * BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks * NFS = Linux Networking ---------------------------------------------- Fidonet oriented news servers news.osirusoft.com news.tardis.net Fidonet oriented chat rooms. room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted) ---------------------------------------------- Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to Joe Jared, 1:103/301, joejared@osirusoft.com. All email addresses here for purpose of corresponding with fidonet members about obtaining a feed. Improper use of the virtual email addresses, and most especially, email addressed to blockme@relays.osirusoft.com will be considered a request to be blocked by my open relay spam stopper at http://relays.osirusoft.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 17-36 Page 14 4 Sep 2000 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFO ================================================================= Masthead + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + | | | Editor: Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, DougM@paonline.com | | Webmaster: Jim Barchuk, jb@fidonews.org | | Columnist: Joe Jared, 1:103/0, jarhead@osirusoft.com | | (Fido Via Internet Hubs column) | | Columnist: Warren D. 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