pozar@kumr.UUCP (Tim Pozar) (11/29/90)
Volume 7, Number 48 26 November 1990
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Editor in Chief: Vince Perriello
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell
Chief Procrastinator Emeritus: Tom Jennings
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Table of Contents
1. ARTICLES ................................................. 1
Are all sysops criminals? ................................ 1
Nets, Geography, Rules and Drivel ........................ 7
Call for Zone 1 EC Election .............................. 9
2. COLUMNS .................................................. 10
Talk Me Through It, Honey ................................ 10
3. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 13
Latest Software Versions ................................. 13
4. NOTICES .................................................. 18
The Interrupt Stack ...................................... 18
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ARTICLES
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Tom Jennings
FidoNet 1:125/111
uucp ...uunet!hoptoad!kumr!anomaly!Tom.Jennings
24 Nov 90
The U.S. Constitution does not grant us rights. "Our" government
does not grant us rights. They have nothing to give us, other
than ostensibly services which it provides from our taxes. (I'll
leave that one alone here.)
The Constitution simply admits that, as humans, we have certain
rights, and that the government recognizes this, and promises not
to take them away. THAT was the revolutionary idea behind this
government.
This is an incredibly important difference, and one which our
gov't doesn't like to emphasize. They want it to appear that they
are the defenders of all that is good, when in reality they are
one of the worst offenders.
* * * * *
Tim Pozar & I just got back from the Hackers Conference 6.0. (The
Hackers' Conferences are an invite-only social event for the
creative weirdos who make up at least part of the forces behind
the (mostly) software frontier. When they were started in '84,
the micro software industry was still somewhat laughable in
large-industry terms (though given a lot of credibility (sic) by
the IBM PC a few years before), and "hacker" usually meant more
or less what "ham" did in amateur radio.
I've been to four of them so far, 1, 2, 4 and 6. The first two
were great, the 4th not so, in my peculiar opinion. It was too
... isolated. The whole trickle-down thing revisited. Like this
-- "We're making the tools that will benefit the world" and all
that rot, and if it only cost $500, everyone could buy one.
(Forgetting that they themselves are 1% of 1% and $500 is an
unthinkable figure for *most* US citizens -- and growing.)
But this year was different.
* * * * *
The unix-based usenet network has many corporations that pay for
telecomm costs, unlike us bums who pay for it ourselves, or on
the sly where possible. Until a year or so ago, FidoNet was not
considered a "real" network, whatever that is. Part of it was
simple snootiness, but a big part was simply that we sprung up
from a place no one was expecting, and even when the wilder of
the "traditional network" bunch looked in the right direction,
FidoNews 7-48 Page 2 26 Nov 1990
they weren't sure of exactly what it was they were seeing ... you
have to admit we are a curious bunch.
People don't just "build" networks. They are expensive, take all
that expensive minicomputer hardware, and who takes care of all
those user accounts? What user accounts?! Where's your VAX? Hey
wait a minute ...
* * * * *
Some INTERNET nodes specialize in FTP'able (filereqestable)
files; utilities, documents, that sort of thing, just like
FidoNet nodes do. One specialized in .GIF picture files,
including some of variously erotic content. The (gov't) sponsors
of the net (in keeping with the current censorious trend) ordered
the stuff "off". The Finnish offered to take the files, where
they quickly became 70% of the traffic ... and indication of
their U.S. popularity.
Then the feds (I forget the branch) told the Fins: if you
continue to provide those files to the U.S., we will cut all of
your network connections. The Fins had no choice; survival comes
first.
* * * * *
The Hackers Conference was in a ski-lodge in Tahoe City, starting
Friday afternoon, ending Sunday afternoon. Sleep optional. Dinner
served at midnight. (Us vegetarian types had to sludge through
greasy sauce-laden meat and such. Where "mint tea" is some grim
lipton-clone where I swear they simply held a mint-leaf over the
mixing vat ...)
After the usual preliminaries (beer, M&M's, 10,000 "hello"s,
finding rooms, etc) the fun begins -- a 48 hr long bullshit
session, interrupted with food, sleep and occasional
not-well-organized "sessions".
In one of the bigger sessions, someone asked "how many people had
been interviewed recently by the FBI?" Fully 1/4th raised their
hands.
* * * * *
The FidoNet is nothing if not contradictions -- independent,
unpredictable, paranoid, decentralist, self-sufficient, flexible,
reactionary, technically sophisticated ... Some wonder how we get
anything done. I wonder how anyone ELSE gets things done!
What appears to be a liability to the "rest of the world", our
"lack of organization", lack of resources (90's code word for
money) may be our long-term survival and later cause for
rejoicing.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 3 26 Nov 1990
Corporate "resources" don't come without strings, as the usenet
may be about to find out. This past weekend, that bastion of
liberalism (well, liberal capitalism; well, capitalism) Apple
Computer just pulled the plug on the alt.sex.* newsgroups. (Their
equiv. of echo conferences; ".*" means just what you DOS users
might guess; it's a lot of conferences!) (Apple was a very big
"backbone" distribution node.) Why? "Too controversial" or some
such. I'm sure it's a "good reason". And of course they can do
it, just like that. It is not unthinkable it will start a "run"
on plug-pulling.
Before we get too snooty ourselves, we have to keep in mind that
we are just as vulnerable, maybe more so -- we don't have the
resources to defend ourselves, nor the connections (yet) to the
network community (though thanks to Tim Pozar we have ufgate
[And John Galvin, Garry Paxinos, John Gilmore, and a case of
thousands... - Tim]
(usenet/fidonet gateway) and INTERNET status). WE NEED THOSE TO
SURVIVE. And we can do it while maintaining our utter and
complete independence. And, the INTERNET will learn from us.
* * * * *
To a few people, the high number of (ahem) interviewees was not a
surprise. Mitch Kapor and John Barlow both had funny (if it was
fiction) and foreboding (because of the feds power and ignorance)
"interviews". The story is quite interesting, and was available
on The Well and in print. To make a long story short, they have
formed the EFF -- Electronic Frontier Foundation -- to defend
First, (protected speech) and Fourth, (unreasonable
search/seizure) Constitutional Amendments, as well to monitor
ECPA (Electronic Communications Privacy Act) and other
violations, and to work with legislators to work out fair laws.
What was most heartening to me, was the approach -- instead of
defending only the "nice, upstanding", positive-image type cases,
they went for the real issues -- the kids and families getting
busted at gun point by the feds, where literally every piece of
electronics removed from the house, no recourse, no reason, no
charges filed. The Niedorfer case, where the claimed $70K "stolen
file" is found to be a brochure available to anyone for under
$14. (And the press still calls it "stolen 911 software".) Steve
Jackson Games; computers seized because an employee allegedly had
on his home BBS a copy of the E911 doc (they were confused as to
the location of the BBS; they later claimed that S.J's cyberpunk
games (role playing like Dungeons & Dragons) were actually
instructions on how to break into real-life computers!)
In another case, the FBI thought that (1) John Draper (aka Cap'n
Crunch) was CEO of AutoDesk and (2) AutoDesk was involved in Star
Wars research, because they worked with something called
"hyperspace". Yup -- it's hilarious, only they have guns,
secrecy, bureaucracy and the power to evade legal process and
accountability. And, you get hung in the press because their
version of "reality" is so ... heavy.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 4 26 Nov 1990
It is so rare to find someone who acts "from the heart" in their
life, politics and actions, willing to put reputations at stake
and correctly defend the "undefendable" first, not last. I have
nothing but good things to say about EFF and it's supporters.
* * * * *
This years FidoCon should be the best one yet. I'm actually
looking forward to going, a rare event. (I'll drive out in my
propane-powered '63 Rambler.) John Barlow, now of EFF fame, will
be speaking. And you ought to listen -- not only is he an
interesting speaker (and lyricist for the Grateful Dead!), the
subject is Your Personal Future -- our governments actions
against all too ordinary citizens, and what the EFF is doing, and
what you can do as well.
We all went through some internal hell these last few years, of
which the growth and death of IFNA was merely a symptom. Look --
the FidoNet doubled in size every few months for years, and is
still growing at a rate that is completely, bar-none,
unprecedented. How many of you have broad-based communications
skills or experience? How many of you had telecomm. and/or
conferencing experience before FidoNet? Simple experiences of
speaking in a large group of diverse people? And I mean as in
communications with humans, not hacking. Very few of us, I'm
afraid, and while it's been a serious problem, it (1) affords us
a fresh perspective and (2) simply something we have to deal
with. The fun is in the learning.
I think we are heading for the fourth phase of FidoNet growth
(innocent start, echomail, paranoid self-consciousness, ...). The
timing is good -- we have some real work cut out for us.
* * * * *
So this year's Hackers Conference was different. How? Finally
they reached my level of paranoia. There was an edge of stark
reality in the air. A bit more tied to the planet.
Personally, it completed a circle. Now, every single thing I'm
involved in is officially disliked and under investigation and
infiltration by police of one sort or another. I think those that
though "well, you must have somehow brought it on yourself" are
starting to see, it's not like that at all ...
* * * * *
By the way -- you might have heard about the nonsense at Prodigy
-- the idiotic administrators using broadscale censorship
(correct word) to squash dissent. What you probably don't know --
because the reports themselves were self-censored -- was that the
original discussion, purged by Prodigy, was over gay rights and
anything to do with gay people. This is what Prodigy claimed was
"offensive material".
FidoNews 7-48 Page 5 26 Nov 1990
Shame, shame, on the so-called liberal types who in their turn
did not report that. It was not simply not including the gay
angle; it was intentionally removed, a very different thing.
Everyone suffers from that removal.
* * * * *
(1) The usenet is our ally. We need as many interconnections with
it, and other networks, as is reasonably possible. We are all
under attack. Besides, it's technically interesting.
(2) Don't fall for what Pastor Martin Niemoller did; ("In Germany
they first came for the Communists and I didn't speak because I
wasn't a Communist...") We're all "commies" in that sense -- the
brat hackers are simply the thin edge of the wedge. Criminals are
criminals -- which is decided in a court of law, not with a
sealed search warrant and intimidation.
(3) Watch for EFF stuff in the net, or contact them directly. EFF
Inc, 112 Second St, Cambridge MA 02142. voice (617)-864-0665, or
usenet eff@well.sf.ca.us Bug 'em for an echo conference. Tell 'em
you are from the FidoNet.
(4) The First Conference on Computers, Freedom & Privacy will be
held 25 - 28 March 91 at the SFO Marriott. The goal is to open
channels of communication between network and telecomm experts,
info/datacomm providers, law enforcement, prosecutors,
constitutional exports, computer users and civil libertarians.
Attendance will be limited to 600 people. The event is sponsored
by Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, and chaired
by Jim Warren (of West Coast Computer Faire, amongst other
notorieties). CFPconf, 345 Swett Rd, Woodside CA 94062, FAX
(415)-851-2814, or usenet jwarren@well.sf.ca.us
* * * * *
It is of more importance to the community that
innocence should be protected than it is that
guilt should be punished, for guilt and crimes
are so frequent in the world that all of them
cannot be punished, and many times they happen
in such a manner that it is not of much consequence
to the public whether they are punished or not. But
when innocence itself is brought to the bar and
condemned, especially to die, the subject will
exclaim, "It is immaterial to me whether I behave
well or ill, for virtue is no security". And if such
sentiment as this should take place in the mind of
the subject there would be an end to all security
whatsoever.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 6 26 Nov 1990
-- John Adams
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 7 26 Nov 1990
Nets & Geography, Rules, Regulations, and other useless drivel
by Kwityer Bychin
Hi Ho folks, how did you enjoy your Thanksgiving? Have a good
time? That's just wonderful. Now enough of the merriment, its
time to pay attention to our ugly hobby and get all worked up
again.
Did you read last week's Snooze article by that guy named Garth
Somebodyorother from somewhere in Zone 3? Of COURSE you didn't
(still can't unpack the Snooze eh?). Well, go back to Snooze
#747 and read the damn thing. Then come back here.
<time passes>
All done? Ok, good.
Now, it seems to me that this guy is on to something. Splitting
off all the zones into independant Kinda-Fido-Related networks.
I like it. Decentralize and all that stuff. Hey, if we did that,
it would take the wind out of guys like MATT WHELAN who like to
foist policies upon people. But that's a story for another
day...
What really piqued my interest, was his comment about trashing
the geography rule for nets. This has potential. Its not such a
bad idea to let someone be in whatever net he wants for whatever
reason. I mean, why the hell not? Costs, you say? Piffle.
See, all you gotta do is make the NCs not responsible to send a
damn thing. As a matter of fact, they ain't responsible to SEND
a damn thing now. All they gotta do is make the mail, diff, and
the Snooze "available". So if some guy in California wants to
join a net in New York, why should the New York net care? Make
the California guy pick up EVERYTHING. I mean, hey, if the
Califonia Dude is crazy enough to wanna call NY all the time for
his stuff, who are WE to save him from himself??
Garth is right about the democracy deal. Rumor has it that
Fidonet is moving toward democracy (which is really horsepucky
since all the "movement" toward it is people moving their lips,
there ain't been one single change to policy instilling one iota
of democracy anywhere) . And if that's REALLY TRUE, what good is
it if a guy who doesn't like the local net's policy can't get
OUT of the net?
I mean if you don't like the town ordinance that prohibits
overnight parking, you can always move the hell out of the town.
Can't move anywhere in Fidonet.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 8 26 Nov 1990
Rules, rules, rules and more rules. Policy 4, Echopol, Gatepol,
Interpol, Yo Mama's Pol, do this, do it my way, because I said
so, I'm a *C, There AIN'T no vote, I make the rules - you keep
your mouth shut, I wanna send mail to Alternet, NO! you can't,
you gotta send it through me, GET THAT NODE NUMBER OUT OF THE
SEEN-BYs, Vote for ME, WAIT! you can't vote!, You're just a
sysop, You ain't a AUTHORIZED GATEWAY, Your mailer isn't
compliant, IT IS SO, *YOURS* isn't, policy complaint....
Ain't this fun? Oh yeah. We all got computers that can send
messages to each other, but in order to do that, we gotta have
six billion pages of rules and piles of "administrators" who
make 'em up and throw 'em at you. And you can't vote THEM *OR*
the rules out.
What's the POINT? I dunno, you tell me. Food for thought. Eat
THAT and save a turkey.
K.B. '90
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 9 26 Nov 1990
To: George Peace, Zone 1 Coordinator
From: Zone 1 Regional Echo Coordinators
Re: Zone 1 Echo Coordinator
Dear George,
We feel it necessary to respectfully request that you hold an
election to replace the existing Zone 1 Echo Coordinator, as
provided for in General Echomail Policy 1.0 (EchoPol).
We recommend that this vote be conducted in at the same time as
the ratification referendum for the revised EchoPol, which is
scheduled to begin on January 15, 1991.
If you desire, we would be happy to assist you in choosing a
slate of qualified candidates.
Sincerely yours,
Norm Henke, Region 11 Echo Coordinator
Ken Wilson, Region 12 Echo Coordinator
Dan Buda, Region 14 Echo Coordinator
John Valentyn, Region 15 Echo Coordinator
Steve Ahola, Region 16 Echo Coordinator
Tony Wagner, Region 17 Echo Coordinator
Amnon Nissan, Region 18 Echo Coordinator
John Souvestre, Region 19 Echo Coordinator
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COLUMNS
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Henry Clark
1:124/6120
Comdex '90 Gaming Dept. --
Vegas sure has changed in the last 5 years. I remember when
you could play blackjack with a single deck and a two dollar
bet. I didn't look REAL hard, but a lot of places had a double
deck, played 3/4 of the way through for three dollars.
I was staying at Bally's and playing five dollar bets. And the
6 deck played 2/3 of the way through. I was unlucky and happy.
Bally's lets you surrender, and they don't mind you bringing a
cheat sheet to the table. I didn't do either, and I won a
little money. I should have won a lot. Later, I'll tell you
my system.
Check out the poker room. The low exposure poker table is less
expensive than blackjack; you can buy in for 20 bucks and play
for hours. I didn't have much luck and lost money overall at
the poker table. I had only one winning session there. One
evening, Redd Foxx walks in. I didn't see his show, but he got
some of my money anyway. "You big dummy".
I had mixed feelings about craps. I usually never play the
game, but on the advice of my brother-in-law, played his system
for a while. His system is to play 5 on the pass line, 10
behind the line odds, and put 6 bucks each on the 6 and 8 odds
bets. The '27' dollar system. It sort of made sense, but I
lost money just the same.
I also played the slot machine with the 77 thousand dollar
jackpot. Dropped a bunch of quarters in that, won nothing. I
figured that a real long shot bet was something you had to try
once.
1 Iron Dept. --
Out at The Legacy : 18 hole golf course cut in STONE.
Literally. If you got very far off the fairway, you entered
the rough, which is usually about 1/8 inch of grass and dirt,
then a gravel sand mixture which scratched my new irons. That
and the idiots they let play in front of us; or maybe hack in
front of us. We putted the last green in the dark. I shot 90
but had 6 out of bounds penalties. We played from the blue
tees.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 11 26 Nov 1990
The second time, I thought I played much better, but had a 93.
We played from the black tees, the way back markers. My new
clubs were playing great. Again it was slow play, which I hate,
but at least we finished in daylight. I'm so used to bermuda
greens, and to get onto a bent grass course, like a pool table,
was quite a new experience. Actually I did quite well putting.
From the Horse's Mouth Dept. --
Vince "Bink" Perriello assured me that Bink 2.50 will be out
before the new year. I have several changes of my own planned
for this release, beyond those for 2.40 which Vince doesn't
include :
1. rid keyboard buffer clearing in b_initva.c at shutdown,
2. expand outbound queue display down the page by narrowing the
recent status and transfer status windows,
3. separate the screen blank timer from the modem reset timer,
in mailer.c/others, add screen blank timer config,
4. add file size transmits, other counters to statistic screen.
The System --
Believe it or not, I got my college degree in math and I'm
perfectly capable of calculating the odds of card appearance.
However, playing into a 4 deck shoe is just a bit much : "I'm
not an excellent driver." So I used " The System ". I only
won a little, so " The System " let me down.
The first rule : always double down when you should. You cannot
overcome the house's advantage unless you double your bet at the
appropriate time. The house advantage is that when both you and
the dealer go over 21 ( bust ), you did it first, so you lose.
Odds of player or dealer busting are about 28%, and both busting
( remember you lose ) is about 8%. Odds of a tie ( push ) is
about 8% which leaves your win/loss percentage at 42/50. You
make up some of this by getting 2.5 times your money on a
blackjack ( two card 21 ). You make up the rest by doubling
your bet.
The second rule : when 'ten' cards are in the shoe, your odds
of winning are increased. The simple reason is that the dealer
is more likely to bust. For every 13 cards, there are 4 tens,
about 1 in 3. For every hand, there are about 3 cards played
per player, so we compare the number of 'seen' tens per deal to
the number of players. If there are a lot fewer tens, increase
your bet. I wait until after the third deal, and divide tens
seen by the number of hands. Double your bet when that ratio
is less than 4 for 7 players.
FidoNews 7-48 Page 12 26 Nov 1990
I liked " The System " so much, I wrote a simulator that plays
blackjack as fast as it can, while keeping statistics. You can
file request that program, with C source code from 1:124/6120,
the name is S21.ZIP. According to the simulator, I should have
a bunch of money. Oh, well, maybe next time. Have fun.
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FidoNews 7-48 Page 13 26 Nov 1990
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Latest Software Versions
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Fido 12s+ QuickBBS 2.66 TBBS 2.1
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Lynx 1.30 RBBSmail 17.3B Telegard 2.5
Kitten 2.16 RemoteAccess 0.04a TPBoard 6.1
Maximus 1.02 SLBBS 1.77A Wildcat! 2.50
Opus 1.13+ Socrates 1.10 WWIV 4.12
PCBoard 14.5 XBBS 1.15
Network Node List Other
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D'Bridge 1.30 MakeNL 2.31 ARCAsim 2.30
Dutchie 2.90C ParseList 1.30 ARCmail 2.07
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PRENM 1.47 SysNL 3.14 Crossnet v1.5
SEAdog 4.51b XlatList 2.90 EMM 2.02
TIMS 1.0(Mod8) XlaxDiff 2.35 Gmail 2.05
XlaxNode 2.35 GROUP 2.16
GUS 1.30
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TagMail 2.41
TCOMMail 2.2
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TMail 1.15
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UFGATE 1.03
XRS 3.40
XST 2.2
ZmailQ 1.12
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LH2 0.50
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ARC2 6.00
PolyXARC 2.00
Qsort 2.1
Raid 1.0
Remapper 1.2
Tick 2.0
VPurge 2.07
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Zoo 2.01
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Timestamp 1.6
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WelMat 0.42 booz 1.01
ConfMail 1.10
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Zoo 2.01
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QuickBBS/ST 1.02 ARC 6.02
GS Point 0.61 FiFo 2.0b
LHARC 0.60
LED ST 0.10
BYE 0.25
PKUNZIP 1.10
MSGED 1.96S
SRENUM 6.2
Trenum 0.10
OMMM 1.40
Archimedes
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NOTICES
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The Interrupt Stack
1 Jan 1991
Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
Joe Lindstrom at 1:134/55 for a more colorful description.
16 Feb 1991
Fifth anniversary of the introduction of Echomail, by Jeff Rush.
31 Mar 1991
Jim Grubs (W8GRT) was issued his first ham radio license forty
years ago today. His first station was made from an ARC-5
"Command Set" removed from a B-17 bomber.
12 May 1991
Fourth anniversary of FidoNet operations in Latin America and
second anniversary of the creation of Zone-4.
8 Sep 1991
25th anniversary of first airing of Star Trek on NBC!
7 Oct 1991
Area code 415 fragments. Alameda and Contra Costa Counties
will begin using area code 510. This includes Oakland,
Concord, Berkeley and Hayward. San Francisco, San Mateo,
Marin, parts of Santa Clara County, and the San Francisco Bay
Islands will retain area code 415.
1 Feb 1992
Area code 213 fragments. Western, coastal, southern and
eastern portions of Los Angeles County will begin using area
code 310. This includes Los Angeles International Airport,
West Los Angeles, San Pedro and Whittier. Downtown Los
Angeles and surrounding communities (such as Hollywood and
Montebello) will retain area code 213.
1 Dec 1993
Tenth anniversary of Fido Version 1 release.
5 Jun 1997
David Dodell's 40th Birthday
If you have something which you would like to see on this
calendar, please send a message to FidoNet node 1:1/1.
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Remember Campers!!!
To send mail from an Internet site or smart UUCP Site TO a user
that calls a Fido-Net system.
You need to know the name of the person and node number of the
Fido-Net system that the person uses.
The address of a FidoNode looks like this: 1:105/302.0. Usually
the 1: and .0 are left off, but they are there by default. (In
Europe it is 2: and in the Pacific Basin it is 3:.) That
address can be translated as "Zone 1, Net 105, FidoNode 302,
Point 0." or p0.f302.n105.z1. Add the FidoNet domain of
.fidonet.org to the end of that, chop off the p0 (it is again,
a default) and you have f302.n105.z1.fidonet.org - the "Fully
Qualified Domain Name" of a FidoNode. Another example is
1:105/4.3 which would be written as p3.f4.n105.z1.fidonet.org
(since there is a point number other than 0, we have to specify
it). Note also that we are only using zone 1. This will also
work for zones 2 and 3, just use z2 or z3 as appropriate.
FidoNet uses full names of the callers. Multi-part name folks
(eg. First Last, ie. "Dale Weber") will have a period '.'
seperating their names. So, lets say you wanted to send mail
to Dale Weber at 1:105/55.0, you would address your letter to:
Dale.Weber@f55.n105.z1.fidonet.org.
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