pozar@kumr.UUCP (Tim Pozar) (11/26/90)
Volume 7, Number 47 19 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. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
Back from COMDEX ......................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
Should Zone 3 defect? .................................... 2
General Elections in Zone 4: Results! .................... 6
3. COLUMNS .................................................. 8
Talk me through it, Honey ................................ 8
4. LATEST VERSIONS .......................................... 11
Latest Software Versions ................................. 11
5. NOTICES .................................................. 16
PERNnet: Brigadoon Gift Certificate ...................... 16
And more!
FidoNews 7-47 Page 1 19 Nov 1990
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EDITORIAL
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Hi.
I'm really worn out, guys.
I've been to COMDEX. I don't really know what to tell you about
what I saw there. More Taiwanese (and other) crap, lots of 486
motherboards, damn few 486 systems you can buy because the FCC
is still frying eggs on the case -- Windows mania, Bob Denver in
his Gilligan outfit, some poor brave UNIX-loving souls... and
probably the first show where there was enough OS/2 product to
make it seem that you could actually use it in your business.
I think I'm going to wait for some PC rag to tell me What It All
Meant To The Industry. Because I sure can't figure it out. All it
means to me is that my feet don't like me one bit (and that I now
have T-shirts from nearly every modem vendor EXCEPT USR).
While I was gone, someone in Zone 3 sent an interesting article
which you'll be reading in a few minutes. In it, he suggests that
Zone 3 should secede from FidoNet. I have had a similar but
perhaps more grandiose idea myself.
What I would like to see is the breakup of FidoNet into separate
domains, operating independently. The domains should be set up
more or less the same as the Zones are now arranged (such as
EUR.FIDONET.ORG replacing Zone 2, and so on). The passage of
mail from one domain to another would be handled by the ING
Policy that was published recently. My idea goes on and on, and
I'll expound upon it more next week. I just thought it would be
appropriate to put my idea and Garth's on the table at the same
time, to get your creative juices flowing. Are you are up to it?
Back to COMDEX. One of the nicer things that happened was the
get-together on Wednesday night. I met Henry Clark, my most
regular of irregular columnists. I met Ward Christensen. I met
the authors of PCBoard and RBBS-PC. I got together again with
Phil Becker, Scott Hunter, Rick Deming, Chuck Forsberg, Wynn
Wagner, and many other people whose company I had previously
enjoyed. As Henry points out in his column this week, there
were some very DIFFERENT ideas emanating from the dais. I am
going to attempt to get permission to reprint an article from
Telecomputing magazine to give you a feeling for it.
THAT was fascinating. I hope you can read it here soon.
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 2 19 Nov 1990
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ARTICLES
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Garth Kidd
FidoNet 3:680/828
Here I sit, having had far too little sleep in the last week and
a half. Unfortunately, in this tired state I decided that a good
thing to do whilst waiting for the pizza to arrive was to read a
few editions of FidoNews.
Ouch.
Guys, why are you all being so \serious\ about all this? You'd
think the fate of the world rested on the editorial policy of
FidoNews. (I have my own views on this, and I'll mention them
later).
For now, however, a wee question:
_____________________
Should Zone 3 defect?
_____________________
Actually, that should read "Should all zones but Zone 1 defect?",
but since I'm not a member of the other zones, I won't make
comments on their behalf. Come to think of it, a lot of people
are going to be a little irked on my speaking "on behalf" of Zone
3. Don't worry, guys, it's not like I'm in a position of power or
anything. Noting wrong with expressing an opinion, unless you're
in ZONE3_SYSOP. Oops, complete giveaway. :-)
Back to the subject at hand: Zone 1 seems to be largely
irrelevant to the rest of FidoNet, except as:
a) something that acts as a really convenient feed point for
the rest of the Net;
b) something that keeps us supplied with this "wonderful"
FidoNews, which hardly any of us read, and;
c) something that helps coordinate the nodelist for us
And, of course, there are all of the wonderful people in Zone 1
that we talk to every day, swapping choice bits of information
like baseball cards. There are also the people who ask really
silly questions without bothering to read the manual first, but
we can put up with them. Most of the time.
FidoNews 7-47 Page 3 19 Nov 1990
Unfortunately, Zone 1 also acts as something else entirely:
d) a seemingly endless supply of documents like ECHOPOL and
POLICY, none of which seem to have been formed with any
zones apart from Zone 1 in mind.
Guys, just in case you haven't noticed, Australia isn't the 52nd
state of America yet. (51st? Whatever). And despite the wonderful
things happening in Europe, they have some pretty definite ideas
about being annexed to the USA, and they're not "yes, lets!".
Here in Zone 3, the POLICY we inhereted from you only seems to
get dragged out of the closet in a couple of situations:
a) some stickler for rules and regulations has gone totally
overboard, and is looking for some kind of fight. Usually
combined with righteous indignation at people not agreeing
with him or her, and usually to do with trying to kick
someone else out of the Net, and;
b) trying to get rid of the aforementioned stickler. Otherwise
known as "fighting fire with fire". I personally reckon most
rulebook-bashers are "annoying", often "excessively" so.
Ditto for ECHOPOL, which I seem to remember reading once. I
didn't like it. I'm a moderator of an echo, and I really don't
like the idea of some book-wielding beuracrat being able to take
an echo away from me and my users.
Here in Zone 3, and I guess the situation also holds for zones 2
and 4..infinity, we tend to try and get along without these
hugely officious tomes. Unfortunately, we have our fair share of
rulebook-bashers who just \love\ POLICY, and aren't going to give
up their slice of power for anything.
What I reckon should happen is that each of the Zones get treated
essentially as its own FTN (FidoTechnologyNetwork), and pretty
much IGNORE anyone from Zone 1 trying to tell them how to run
their lives. Heck, we're already largely doing that. Why not make
it official?
WORLDPOL is a great idea, because it makes each Zone largely
responsible for its own actions. We can all adapt the rules to
suit our environment, which is great. It also allows the same
kind of thing to happen at the regional and network levels. Oh,
just one thing, folks:
NOBODY SHOULD HAVE TO JOIN A PARTICULAR
NETWORK IF THEY DON'T WANT TO.
Gosh, that'd mean removing the requirement that networks be
formed on solely geographical boundaries, wouldn't it?
FidoNews 7-47 Page 4 19 Nov 1990
Damn right it would.
This means that if you don't like the rules a particlar network
is using, you are actually allowed to leave it and look for
another more to your liking. Without that little statement, all
the nice "democratic" stuff is pretty useless, because people
don't have the option of voting with their feet. The statement in
caps above should be a part of WORLDPOL that simply can't be
overriden by POLICY at any level.
Back to WORLDPOL: it needs a little more work, mainly to do with
correcting some of the more ambiguous wording. Also, section 6 is
a little strange. What, exactly, are the "western standards" of
democracy?
As far as the Council is concerned with voting: their having to
approve the voting method used to vote for WORLDPOL and the local
POLICY is fine. Them being able to block a Zone from choosing its
own extremely strange, "non western" system of deciding things
from then on is not. Some networks work VERY well with benevolent
dictators, and if people don't like them, they can always vote
with their feet. So long as they're allowed to, of course, and
they should be.
So, support WORLDPOL and suggest changes to it if you like. I'm
sure the authors will appreciate it. :-)
Back to "defecting":
If Zone 1 doesn't approve WORLDPOL or a variant thereof, it
shouldn't be too surprised if the rest of the world sticks a
symbolic finger in the air and approves it without them.
===
On Editorial policy: Cute topic. Very hot. The debate on that
one's going to last nearly as long as the abortion debate, and it
too will suffer from people pushing the limits. I just hope
someone doesn't UUencode bits of the nodelist archive and try to
submit it as an article.
Suggested modifications to the editorial policy:
a) Incitement to violence of any sort should be vigorously
supressed. Let people discuss (say) how evil and thick they
think black people are until the cows come home, but as soon
as they advocate killing them off, put the foot down.
b) Most places have defamation and libel laws. Remember that.
c) Where are all the disclaimers? Lots of people are saying
FidoNews 7-47 Page 5 19 Nov 1990
plenty radical things with \no\ disclaimers. The risks you're
taking, especially in Zone "home of the lawsuit" 1, are
pretty damn obvious.
d) Each Zone should have its own FIDONEWS equivalent.
e) There should be a FIDONEWS equivalent dedicated to \just\ the
operation of the network itself, discussion of rules, and so
forth. This'll be less amusing, but more compact.
Anyway, on with the show for the time being. Have fun, people.
gk
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 6 19 Nov 1990
General Elections in Zone 4
Elecciones Generales en la Zona 4
Eleicoes Gerais na Zona 4
FidoNet's Zone 4 "Latin America" has just finished it's first
"general elections for all coordinators" process, where all
the coordination positions were democratically elected
simultaneusly.
This text is being publish simultaneously on the LATIN.SYSOP
echo and FidoNews.
The format used to display the results is the following:
<Position>
<Candidates> <Percentage of votes received> <Status>
.
.
.
Here are the results of the election in which all the sysops in
FidoNet were entitled to be candidates and to vote for all the
positions in their area:
Net Coordinator 801, Sao Paulo SP, Brazil
Rodrigo Martinez 100 % ELECTED
Net Coordinator 802, Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brazil
Lauro Henrique 100 % ELECTED
Net Coordinator 806, Brasilia DF, Brazil
Otto Brito 100 % ELECTED
Net Coordinator 808, Recife PE, Brazil
Clovis Lacerda 100 % ELECTED
Net Coordinator 900, Buenos Aires CF/BA, Argentina
Alejandro Hopkins 45 %
Sunchie Yang 55 % ELECTED
Net Coordinator 901, Rosario SF, Argentina
Gonzalo Borracer 100 % ELECTED
Region Coordinator 80, Brazil
Charles Miranda 100 % ELECTED
Region Coordinator 90, Argentina
Billy Coen 72.7 % ELECTED
Gustavo Zacarias 27.3 %
Zone Coordinator 4, Latin America
Pablo Kleinman 100 % ELECTED
FidoNews 7-47 Page 7 19 Nov 1990
The newly elected coordinators will take over their positions
next Friday November 16th, 1990.
Elecciones (4:4/444)
November 11th, 1990
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FidoNews 7-47 Page 8 19 Nov 1990
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COLUMNS
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Henry Clark
1:124/6120
Comdex '90
Due to the special weekly electronic nature of Fidonews, you
are probably reading your first column on Comdex '90.
It was bad... not terrible, but really almost boring.
Sunday : Nice flight into Vegas and then all stop. It took my
sister's husband 1.5 hours to get the car so even though they
were there ahead of me, we waited. Hurry up an wait. I'll
have to find a better time to arrive if I ever go again.
I love to drive onto the strip and see the lights. It's always
amazing. We got to Bally's hotel and joined the madhouse
there. Finally got checked in. It's such a nervous situation
with so many people packed around you, waiting in line, with
only a reservation slip in hand. Pray they have your room.
They did, and we all got rooms together, so slick.
Up in the room, the computer works and the modem works;
I'm set.
Monday : register and badgemaking and another long line. Well
not as bad as I saw later. I failed to receive my badge in
the mail, and rather than fight the Convention Center lines, I
just had a new one made in Bally's with a spare guest pass. I
don't think anyone pays to attend the exhibits. There were
guest passes lying on the floor.
We cruised Bally's two showrooms first. Most interesting was
the real-time video in a Window's window, which will be useful
for our video conferencing product. New Media Graphics has a
$800 board and software to put the video signal into a Windows
window, sizeable and movable. Other companies had video on the
PC screen, but they were pure hardware, not real time or cost
$2000.
Also checked out the ASP - Association of Shareware
Professionals and the Mustang Software Wildcat BBS display.
It's amazing who you find at Comdex. PKWare and Artisoft too.
Then off to the Sands Convention Center. The next biggest
exhibition hall. I looked at 486 boxes, 486 cards ( not
motherboards, there were a ton of those ), rewritable optical
disks, and the Dolch 486 lunchbox portable. The VGA Color
plasma screen on the Dolch was beautiful and 3800 bucks ! I
picked up a lot of junk too, which Kevin will like.
FidoNews 7-47 Page 9 19 Nov 1990
Nobody has synchronous multiport cards ( well, I do, but nobody
else does ).
Worn out feet and brain. Hopped a taxi back to the hotel and
took a nap. Well, except it lasted 12 hours...
Tuesday : Rest of Sands was boring. There's nothing new at
Comdex. I've either heard about it before, or it's the same
old stuff. I am happy to have seen several 486 on a card
vendors for our passive backplane computer setup.
Wednesday : Did the Hilton. Very interesting talk with a
surface mounting company, who talked about board manufacturers
and costs, etc. This is the good stuff. Saw the Quarterdeck
X-Windows running, I thought it was ugly. A real-time video
product called the Video Toaster looked like the hottest
display at the show. Real-time manipulation of video,
including colorization and lots of effects. Unfortunately, (
for me ) it ran on an Amiga.
Next the Convention Center proper. Big companies, shows and
lots of interesting convention items, but again, no new PC
stuff. I did make a point of picking up the PC-Mag and PC-Week
benchmark diskettes.
Stopped in at the Oracle meeting room. Many VARs showing
Oracle and DB related tools and apps. I felt like I could have
shown an Oracle app or two there. Spoke at length with the
people from JAM, which makes a forms tool. Too bad their demo
was kind of ugly, I guess they go overboard showing features.
Also checked in with the Oracle VAR program people, got signed
up for some info to do that.
I now have little regard for Comdex '90. I know this was my
first trip, and I really am not doing business here, but 95% of
this stuff represents money better spent on support or new
products. I'm convinced that multimedia simply means you have
more than 12 chairs for your presentation.
All the PC distributors begin to sound the same. A 386 box
here for $695. A big hard drive there for $195. In quantity of
course. I'm just not interested in power supplys and
motherboards. Nor is there much point in watching the
Wordperfect/Word/Wordstart type presentations. For an
end-user, a good magazine subscription would be much better.
Across the street at the Dunes, the Telecomputing party was a
highlight. There were keynote speakers and door prizes. In
one room in one hour I shook hands with Vince Perriello, Wynn
Wagner, Chuck Forsberg and Phil Katz. I guess I won't wash my
hand for a couple of weeks. For a BBS Sysop, it was quite an
experience. The latest Telecomputing magazine had an article
which was expounded upon several times by speakers : democracy
thru modems. What a crock. These guys may write the software,
but they certainly haven't tried to use it. [Editor's note:
None of the folk Henry just mentioned had anything to say along
FidoNews 7-47 Page 10 19 Nov 1990
those lines. We were trying very hard to be polite...]
It was a good experience to end the week on. Oh, I stayed in
Vegas for another day, I just didn't fool with the convention.
Next week, I'll give you the low down on the 'vacation' part of
my trip.
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NOTICES
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=========== >>> PERNnet: Brigadoon Weyr <<< ==========
*********** >>> Gift Certificate <<< **********
Welcome to the planet PERN where one can play Pernese style of
life. With this Certificate you may get ONE link into PERNnet
regardless of the originating system's origin and network.
Brigadoon Weyr is devoted to the weirder things in life -- fringe
groups, nonstandard religions, Elvis searchers, cult movies, bad
audio and video, and certified maniacs and politicians. It is
the goal of The Brigadoon Weyr to allow the weird, the odd, the
huddled masses yearning to be free an electronic playpen in
which to espouse their varied belief systems. It is a network
of losers, winners, dreamers, screamers.
In time the Pernese conference where one will play out the roll
of a Pernese name and also be able to have (a) Fire Lazard(s) or
be a dragon rider to defend the planet Pern againsts the Red
Planet that visits every 400 years.
In closing, I point out that we are all of us doing this as a
hobby, and will tolerate no politics or powerplays. We make no
distinctions as to age, background, religion, sex, gender, et
cetera. We are an Equal Opportunity Network, limited solely by
the ability to move echomail around in a reasonably good manner.
Problems with offending nodes will be dealt with via the path
structure of the network until it reaches The Brigadoon Weyr
Central (1:325/101@FidoNet) where we will deal with it as need
be.
For your free information package you may file requet the magick
name of BRIGADOON from 1:325/101 @FidoNet, 9:1010/11 @ParaNet,
69:2700/1 @KinkNet(AdultLinks) and this will get you the file
BRIGADON.ZIP. If by chance you can not deal with ZIP type
ARChives...FREQ the name BRIGADON.ARC. You may also FREQ
BRIGADON.ZIP from Carl Finkeldey at 1:363/71 @FidoNet.
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The Interrupt Stack
1 Jan 1991
Implementation of 7% Goods and Services Tax in Canada. Contact
FidoNews 7-47 Page 17 19 Nov 1990
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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