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JANUARY RELAYNET INTERNATIONAL MESSAGE EXCHANGE NEWSLETTER 1993
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RIME Times Staff
Editor.....................................................Curt Akin ->MORE
Editorial Associates:
Copy Editor and Design Consultant............J. Barrett ->SYLLABLES
Security and Safe Computing..................J. Barrett ->SYLLABLES
Jackie's Beanstalk.........................Jackie Jones ->SYLLABLES
ShareWare.....................................Patrick Grote ->SHRPT
The Inner View..............................Inez Harrison ->MOONDOG
Editor of Poetry in Motion distributed by RIME
Plunderings......................................Brian Lee ->THEHUB
Who's Who....................................Patrick Lee ->RUNNINGB
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Table of Contents
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Article# Subject Author
1 Frankly, Curt Curt Akin
Node ID ->MORE
2 Jackie's Beanstalk Jackie Jones
Node ID ->SYLLABLES
3 Writers' Conference Lyn Rust
Node ID ->FILEBANK
4 Virus Triggering in January J. Barrett
Node ID ->SYLLABLES
5 Conference News James Wall
Node ID ->DREAM
6 Who's Who and What's What Patrick Lee
Node ID ->RUNNINGB
7 Notices
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1 - FRANKLY, CURT From your Editor, Node ID ->MORE
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Yup, RIME Times is terribly late this month. And February's issue is
slated for the 13th. Thanks to all who have made inquiries; it's the only
feedback we get that tells us that folk do read what's here. There ARE,
occasionally, other priorities -- this month it has been an issue that has
drained me emotionally, so I have been spending time on restocking.
A few mentions in passing:
Read _Gates_!! You'll find it as a new release at your favorite
bookstore. It's fun, insightful, written with humor, and you'll learn a
great deal about Microsoft and DOS's lineage in the process.
The December issue of ModemNews contains partial results of their
SysOp survey. Jeff has done a fine job with his tabulations, and you'll
get an insight into the folk that make networks and BBSs work.
If you've ever been curious about public key encryption, how it works,
and want to experiment with it big time, find PGP??.ZIP somewhere. The
docs are filled with nice chatty discussions of encryption, social
implications, technical descriptions. Well written. "PGP" stands for
Pretty Good Privacy.
Watch for the text of Telecommunications Authorization Act of 1992.
I'll try to post either the whole or excerpted parts somewhere. Will be
interesting to see what happens when the Feds decide to "target BBSs."
Give Phil Katz a break. Understand that he has run headlong into the
same memory management problems that Kip had with PostLink in the first
releases. PKWARE will release a fixed version of 2.04C.
The first of many Conference Spotlights appears this month. Lyn Rust
is co-host for writers. What she writes will give you a feeling of the folk
who meander in an out of Kent's Place. Put your feet up for this one.
Until next month, when I hope to bring you more ramblings from the
world of RIME...
I remain,
Frankly,
Curt
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2 - JACKIE'S BEANSTALK By Jackie Jones, Node ID ->SYLLABLES
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It's a new year, and what comes to my mind is a tagline I've seen on
the net. January is the Monday of the year....
On this year's Monday, the gala circus of politics has culminated in
the inauguration of the 42nd president of the United States. The mundane
world intrudes as he begins to deal with issues, not fantasies.
"....but I have promises to keep, and miles to go...."
In the world of RIME as in the world of politics and government, we
are examining the past in order to improve on the future. In an effort to
clarify policies and procedures that exist on the net, network
administration has revised and rewritten the rules and regulations that
govern RIME. The revisions have been openly posted on the net in order to
solicit comments from the users of the network. Although it may be next to
impossible to manage a network with the scope of RIME as a full democracy,
the network is making every effort to establish a consensus. I am
enclosing a message from Bonnie Anthony concerning this effort.
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These messages are addressed to all sysops, co-sysops, conference hosts and
users on the RIME network.
Posted in the Relaynet USERS conference, the ADMIN and the HOSTS conference
are five messages containing the revised new rules for conference
management. They are identical in each conference.
We are very interested in whatever feedback you would be interested in
offering about these revised rules. These rules are getting closer to
final form but are not yet set in stone and this is the moment to have your
opinion about the rules of this network heard.
Discussion of the proposed new rules are limited to ONLY the USERS, ADMIN
and HOSTS conferences. No discussion of these proposed new rules are
permitted in any other conference but those three conferences.
Please join us in whichever conference is appropriate for you and help us
hammer out the last details!
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The issue of government, whether it be of a nation or of a bulletin
board network, is an issue of relationships. Our relationship with those
in authority, as well as their relationship with us, will help an effort to
succeed....or fail. In order to have a voice, you must choose to speak.
Next month brings with it Valentine's day and romance, as well as
thoughts of spring. In keeping with the holiday, I'll toss in another
request for YOUR story, whether it be romantic or just with hope for the
future. The relationships formed on RIME take many paths. How did YOU get
here? What do YOU find here? Where do YOU want to go from that point? We
are a world-wide community, with many diverse interests. Please share your
stories with us!
Talk to you later!
Jackie
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3 - WRITERS' CONFERENCE - RIME CHANNEL #140 By Lyn Rust, Node ID ->FILEBANK
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'Wanna see a pterydactyl fly? Never mind that they're extinct. This one is
mechanical and it's at Kent's Place. There's an old, really, really old,
geezer who comes in every once in a while and sits over in the corner by
himself taking potshots at the flying mechanical pterydactyl with a BB air
rifle. Pay no attention to him--he's written more than 70 non-fiction
books, and that explains why he acts that way.
The tall, wacky looking guy in the tophat and long black cape lined with
red silk is a famous--uh, make that infamous--New York playwright. He
comes in most evenings to get away from crazy actors, he says; why he'd
want to hang around with a bunch of crazy writers is beyond me.
That cute blond chick at the table in the corner over there lives on the
left coast; she recently finished a book about how to be Jewish in Los
Angeles, so everybody in the place is buying her shots of Staggering
Highlander to help her celebrate. The good looking guy with her recently
retired from a long and distinguished career of writing about computers and
he's now in the process of going native on Kauai; that explains that funny
looking grass thing he's wearing around his waist.
The old guy sitting by himself at the bar nursing his twelfth marini of the
evening is known only as The Raincoat Man. We call him that because that's
all he ever wears to Kent's Place--literally. BTW, that's not a typo
there. They don't serve martinis at Kent's Place, they serve marinis.
It's like a "ya had to have been there" kinda thing. Trust me on this.
A couple of stools down at the bar is the Native American guy. He's a
shaman and lives in Georgia. His first name is Doctor; history, I think,
but he writes about it. That's how he got his Ph.D. He's talking to that
guy who just got out of the joint--drugs or something, and he's helping
him to try to write about that. The biker lady standing next to them is
scribbling furiously, taking notes. She's an investigative reporter in
Florida who's got a weekly column now and you never know what she'll come
up with next. Some of it's been pretty wild, like that exposé novel of
Southern politics she did. Rumor has it that she almost got murdered for
doing that one. The woman has no fear.
Don't worry about the guy who keeps trying to hangglide off the balcony in
that homemade contrapion he's got strapped to his back. As long as he
doesn't land on your table, you're safe. He writes about computers, too.
I guess writing about computers 'll do that to you.
The kids helping him up right now from his latest crash landing are
underage, still in school, actually, but Kent only lets them drink Coke.
'Kids say they want to learn to write and figure the best way to do it is
to hang around with a bunch of crazy writers'. Kent's an okay guy, so he
helps the kids out when he's not behind the bar.
Suddenly raised voices are heard from the table near the door. Whoop! It's
those same three guys again--arguing *politics*! All eyes turn to look at
them, staring stern disapproval. Startled, they fall silent, with guilty
looks on their faces. If there's one thing that's not allowed here, it's
politics. Actually, there are two; the other's religion, but thank goodness
nobody's shown much interest in that lately. We're a heathen lot, we are,
at least when we all get together.
The distinguished looking foreign gentleman sitting right down in front is
about the only one in the place bemusedly watching Ruby Begonia, Kent's
featured act of the night, doing her disgusting dime trick center stage.
Every once in a while he smiles broadly to himself and looks down to
scribble something on his drink napkin. This usually turns out to be a
hilarious and dead right on tagline. Ruby pays no attention and just keeps
on clinking those dimes. The woman has no class at all, she's an
outrageous slut, but she fits right in with this crowd.
BTW, it's okay for me to call Ruby Begonia a slut because she isn't
real--except at Kent's Place. Kent's Place isn't real, either, except in
an alternate universe called the RIME Writers' Conference. There were a
couple of snooty types on here who wanted to characterize the Writers'
Conference as a "literary salon," but most of the guys here prefer to think
of it as a "writers' tavern." Hence, Kent's Place.
It's where all literarily inclined RIMEers go when they want to write, talk
about writing, or just read some. And our idea of writing is pretty
broad--everything from diary entries to published fiction. Sometimes it's
even hard to tell it's "writing," but we think everything is writing, even
laundry lists.
That tends to confuse people who come to the Writers' Conference for the
first time. They'll often say to us, "I've read through the last hundred
messages, and I haven't seen *anything* about 'writing.'" But that's the
charm of the Writers' Conference--it really *is* about writing, because
everything we say to each other *is* writing, because we've written
it--even if only into the electronic ether. Of course, the odd query about
copywrite laws, screenplay formatting, the subjunctive case, how to find an
agent, and so on, are randomly answered, but that's not really what we
spend a whole lot of time on at Kent's Place . . . uh, I mean, the Writers'
Conference.
Examples of what we've said to each other lately include threads on antique
cars, UFO sightings (some of us have seen 'em and others have not, and each
group thinks the other is crazy), Howard's End (no, that's not an allusion
to an anatomical part of one of RIME's most esteemed members, it's about
movie criticism), how to be a good hunter as opposed to how to be a bad
hunter, The Ongoing Adventures of Ruby Begonia (see Ruby's Pearls, an
electronically published online fiction magazine for further details of
this neverending tale of degradation and depravation), weapons and
munitions specs (which, BTW, is not accidentally juxtaposed to the
reference to the infamous Ruby here), child welfare, homonymic antonyms,
sexy music, physical chemistry (no, no, forget the juxtaposition
here--we're talking about a super alien being who has the power to
transmutate molecules into different states of existence to fight her
enemies, something we'd all like to learn about, right?), "suicide doors,"
the welfare state, television comedies, cats, the Civil War, vegetarianism,
obesity, live goldfish worn in lucite high heels as performance art, sexual
harrassment, smoking and antismoking, handicapped access, etc. Well, you
get the idea. If you have something to say on any of these subjects, or
any others that haven't been mentioned here (but chances are, they have
been mentioned on the Writers' Conference), come to the Writers' Conference
and say them--or, more accurately, write them.
If you want your daily BBSing fix to be happy, sad, thrilling, infuriating,
touching, annoying--but never boring--the Writers' Conference is the place
to enjoy (or suffer) that experience.
Oh! We also have strangers, stranglers, stragglers and strugglers. But if
you want to find out who they are--or which one you are--come to the
Writers' Conference. Your first drink's on Kent.
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4 - VIRUS TRIGGERING IN JANUARY By J. Barrett, Node ID ->SYLLABLES
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Activation Date Virus Information
After Dec 31, 1992 OMT
.COM growth, long disk accesses, system
hangs, HD overwritten after 1992.
Jan 1 - Sept 21 Plastique-TSR, .COM and .EXE growth
possible system slowdown or bomb
noises after 9/20
Jan 5 Joshi-BSC, machine hangs and message.
Jan 15 Casino-.COM growth, decrease in
total system and available free
memory, file allocation error, slot
machine game, FAT damage.
Jan 25 Jerusalem (Jan 25)-TSR, .COM and
.EXE growth, system slowdown,
deleted files on Friday 13th, 'black
window'.
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[ Note: The following list will only be in every other issue of RIMETIME.
Most articles are directly from the VSUM??? program. ]
Activation Date/Day of Week Virus Name
Sundays (any) Sunday
Sunday-2
Mondays (any) Carfield
I-B (BadGug)
I-B (BadGuy 2)
I-B (Exterminator)
Mondays the 28ths Crazy (Eddie)
Tuesdays (any) Ah
I-B (Demon)
I-B (Demon-B)
Kamasya
Tuesday the 1st Jerusalem (JVT1)
Tuesday the 13th Jerusalem (Anarkia)
Wednesdays (any) Victor
Thursdays the 12ths CD
Fridays (any) Frere Jacques
Smack
Friday not the 13ths Jerusalem (Payday)
Friday the 13th 1720
Friday the 13th COM
Jerusalem
RAM Virus
Surlv 3.00
Westwood
Friday the 13ths (starting in 1992) Hybryd
Fridays after 15th of Month Jerusalem (Skism)
Jerusalem (Skism-1)
Saturdays (any) Italian Pest (Finger)
Jerusalem (Phenome)
Migram
Saturday the 14ths Saturday The 14th
2nd day of any month Flip
Tormentor-1072 (Nuke)
5th day of any month Frog's Alley
8th day of any month Taiwan
10th day of any month Day10
13th day of any month Monxla
18th day of any month FORM-Virus (Form-18)
20th day of any month Day 10
24th day of any month FORM-Virus
30th day of any month Day 10
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5 - CONFERENCE NEWS By James Wall, Node ID ->DREAM
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New Conferences:
NAME: SILENT PC (SilPC)
NUMBER: 406
DESCRIPTION: A place for the hearing impaired to meet and discuss
computer services which would help solve problems they
may face. In general a place to talk over things that are
common to all.
HOSTS: Gilbert Pence Node ID ->MERRIBBS #1123
Bobb Waller Node ID ->FIAWOL #977
NAME: SUNRISE DOOR SOFTWARE (Sunrise)
NUMBER: 407
DESCRIPTION: This conference features direct author support of the
Sunrise Door Collection. It will cover problems, ideas,
suggestions and tips for current/future Sunrise Doors,
Sunrise Utilities and Sunrise Standalone games. SsyOps
and USERS are welcome to participate.
HOST: Al Lawrence Node ID ->SUNRISE # 868
NAME: BACK ALLEY (BckAlley)
NUMBER: 408
DESCRIPTION: A place to vent your anger, carry on heated flaming
debates, and generally let-your-hair-down! Rules
are simple and few.
HOST: Rick Welshans Node ID ->WARPED #1875
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New Conference Hosts
Thomas Mahnke ->SMUGR (#790) is the new host of PHONES.
Michael Meacham ->GRAPEVINE (#318) is the new host of Psychology.
Peter Larsen ->CAVE (#334) is the host of Astrology.
The LEGAL Conference #119 has a new host and co-host.
Christina Capurro Node ->HIGHER #41 is the host and
Kelly Keniston Node ->OLDTOWN #203 is the Co-Host.
Michael Solinas ->THECHAIR (#104) is the new host of SPREADSHEETS.
David Groome ->ACTION (#56) is now hosting Laser Printers
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Conference Changes:
The name of the Advertising Conference #361 hosted by Kelly Keniston has
been changed to AD CAMPAIGNS (AdCampaign).
The name of Conference 136 ROOTS has been changed to GENEALOGY.
The Description of LAPTOP COMPUTERS has changed. The new description is as
follows:
This conference discusses portable computers which include
laptop, notebook, palmtop, and handheld computing devices.
Questions and answers with manufacturer representatives and
other users of all levels available. Limited advertising of
related equipment is also allowed.
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6 - WHO'S WHO AND WHAT'S WHAT By Patrick Lee, Node ID ->RUNNINGB
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The following is a list of "Who's Who" in RelayNet:
Steering Committee:
Bonnie Anthony RUNNINGA Rex Hankins IBMNET
Howard Belasco RUNNINGB JThomas Howell MORE
Mike Glenn PARTY
Conference related:
Rick Kingslan OMAHANET Marketing Coordinator (PR)
Patrick Lee RUNNINGB Statistician
James Wall DREAM Conference Manager
Penny Plant BOREALIS Conference Moderator
Lana Fox MODEMZNE COMMON
BBS software that currently has an UTI interface with PostLink
Auntie MajorBBS Remote Access
dBBS Maximus Searchlight
EIS PowerBoard PCBoard/ProDoor
Spitfire GAP RBBS
Executive Host QuickBBS TriBBS
GT Power UltraBBS Wildcat!
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7 - NOTICES
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RIME TIMES is now dispatched to all PostLink nodes in the network. No
AUTOSEND list is required.
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To make life easier for the staff, the following submittal guidelines
are suggested:
1) To be included in the next month's newsletter, articles must be
received by the 15th of the current month.
2) A routed, receiver-only (private) message in the COMMON conference is
acceptable. Please route general material and queries to: Curt Akin
Node ID ->MORE. Submittals to Jackie's Beanstalk should be sent to
Jackie Jones Node ID ->SYLLABLES.
3) When submitting articles or sending other messages to the Staff of
RIME Times, don't assume receipt until you've heard from the
recipient. We will acknowledge your message, and if you don't hear
within 3-4 days, resend it. Don't depend on return receipts.
4) Your name as used on RIME.
5) Your Node ID if you are a RIME SysOp or your "home" board ID if you are
a RIME user.
6) Any special instructions.
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Notice: 1. RIME distribution files which used to be identified with MMYY
in their file names are now identified YYMM. This change makes
RIME files appear in date sequence in sorted listings.
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RIME TIMES is published monthly by the membership of RelayNet
International Message Exchange as its official newsletter. Users and
SysOps are encouraged to contribute.
(c) Copyright 1993, The RelayNet International Message Exchange.
Permission is hereby granted for unlimited distribution and duplication,
provided such distribution and duplication are strictly for non-commercial
purposes and that no alterations are made to any file contained in the
distribution archive. All other rights reserved. RelayNet and RIME are
registered trademarks. PostLink is Copyright 1992 by Kip Compton.