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F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 9 No. 28 (13 July 1992)
The newsletter of the |
FidoNet BBS community | Published by:
_ |
/ \ | "FidoNews" BBS
/|oo \ | (415)-863-2739
(_| /_) | FidoNet 1:1/1
_`@/_ \ _ | Internet:
| | \ \\ | fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
| (*) | \ )) |
|__U__| / \// | Editors:
_//|| _\ / | Tom Jennings
(_/(_|(____/ | Tim Pozar
(jm) |
|
| Newspapers should have no friends.
| -- JOSEPH PULITZER
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Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
amateur network. Copyright 1992, Fido Software. All rights reserved.
Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews.
Electronic Price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . free!
Paper price: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.00US
For more information about FidoNews refer to the end of this file.
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ..................................................... 1
Editorial: Remotely yours ..................................... 1
2. ARTICLES ...................................................... 2
So, You wanna be a sysop? ..................................... 2
PreRapture International Message Exchange (PRIME) ............. 3
3. LATEST VERSIONS ............................................... 5
Software Versions List ........................................ 5
4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .......................................... 6
FidoNews 9-28 Page 1 13 Jul 1992
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Remotely yours
by Tom Jennings (1:1/1)
Your intrepid reporter is still (still) at a secret remote location
somewhere in the Specific NorthWest.
This will be the last week that FidoNews is done remotely at this
time. Amazingly enough, when I called in, expecting the usual, weekly
NO CARRIER, it all worked! I started extra early today, assuming
everything would go wrong.
A nice short Snooze today. One article, one echo announcement. The BBS
here answered the phone. Assuming it does a second time (one call I
read mail, move articles around; I hang up, write this gunk; second
call I upload it and produce the FidoSnooze file) I might even get out
of here this afternoon!
It look like the modemectomy that Tim Pozar performed last week on
FidoNews BBS (1:1/1) worked -- the patient survived.
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 2 13 Jul 1992
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ARTICLES
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by Scott Munhollon, 1:128/66@Fidonet
A day in the life of a sysop.
June 30, 1992
I came into work this morning to find my BBS had crashed during
midnight maintenence. This happens about once every two weeks now, I
have a little utility that counts how many times a file has been
downloaded and inserts the number into my FILES.BBS listings, it runs
at midnight, about every 2 weeks I come in to see it staring at me
from the screen. It's been sitting there since midnight. Ususally a
reboot and a re-run of the midnight batchfile clears it up. Not today.
I have removed it from the midnight event and am in desperate search
of a new one that works.
For some unforseen reason there was no backbone echomail
yesterday, this is very unsettling to my users, they are experiencing
withdrawl symptoms without their 24 hour fix of mail, I just answered
3 messages explaining that there would probably be double the mail
today. Since I poll between midnight and 5:00am for national mail
there is none today, the download counter was counting downloads all
night. I'll have to force a poll during daytime fone rates again so my
users don't die from lack of echomail. So I do the poll. It looks like
my new V.32bis modem will only work reliably when it's locked at
19,200bps, it's supposed be able to lock at 57,600, it errors out when
I lock it above 19,200, it won't accept a 16500 UART chip. So much for
trying to save a dime by bying the cheapest one out there. I can't
wait to see the errors when I add a second line and run this modem
under desqview.
A customer is here, she insists that she brought the power cord in
when she dropped her computer off for a hard disk upgrade. I pull a
spare one out of my surge protector that the BBS is plugged into.
WRONG CORD, I just unplugged my BBS. It was tossing 2 megs of national
mail. Shit. Plug it back in, D'Bridge continues tossing the mail, the
second of 2 packets that came in. What happened to the first meg of
mail? It's in the bit bucket, I wonder if my message base is still
intact? Mail tossing is complete, 653 messages, it should have been
3653 messages.
I Undelete the mail bundles that D'Bridge had deleted when it tossed
them, there's only 1, the second one, Where's the first one? The bit
bucket, that's where.
I Run CHKDSK/F, found 956,546 bytes in 1 lost chain, convert it to a
file? YES.
FidoNews 9-28 Page 3 13 Jul 1992
I run PKZIPFIX FILE0000.CHK, then PKUNZIP PKFIXED.ZIP, 2 PKT files
extracted, the third one fails CRC check and PKUNZIP aborts.
I move the packets to my inbound files directory and run D'Bridge.
D'Bridge tosses another 1000 or so messages, I'm still missing about
2500 messages, oh well, I read somewhere that echomail is like
Dorito's, They'll make more, lots more.
My C: drive is making funny noises, sounds like bearings. I loaned my
tape backup to my brother a while back, I don't have a backup of my
hard disk.
I fill another cup of coffee and look at my printer, it's buried under
a mountain of tractor feed paper, why? When the download counter
locked up it apparently started the printer, it printed the screen
continuosly until it ran out of paper, about 500 sheets, probably
printed for hours. I look for my cigarette lighter, my cigarette is
already lit, I'm going to burn that mountain of paper along with the
printer.
Two nodes in our net lost hardware due to lightning this week. Our NEC
lost everything but his HST modem, this was our nets HUB for national
echomail, luckily he had spare hardware to bring it back online by the
next day. He is praying to the good hands people that the insurance
will cover it. I don't have insurance. I have a 2 year old surge
protector. My modem is not protected. Our NC lost 2 HST modems
yesterday, probably lightning. I have worse thunderstorms in my area
than they do.
It's 10am, I light my 6th cigarette this hour, I smoke non-filters,
I'm 28 years old, I feel like I'm 50.
Well, it's time to read my daily mail...
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Steve Winter
98:98/1
Please spread this info around. Thanks!!
'The sun never sets on the PRIME network'
-={ PreRapture(tm) International Message Exchange }=-
USA, HONG KONG, SINGAPORE, BELGIUM, RUSSIA, BULGARIA, and growing.
* Both Religious (Christian) and non-religious conferences. *
A wholesome, family oriented network with a strict policy
against profanity, lewdness, obscenity etc..
Features echos on educational and technical topics.
* Elaborate Bible Discussion and Debate * False Preachers Exposed *
FidoNews 9-28 Page 4 13 Jul 1992
919-286-3962 * 919-286-3606 * 919-286-3266
Using USRobotics Dual Standard Modems HST 16800 / V.32bis 14400
* FREQ PRIME.ZIP from 98:98/1 or 1:227/150@FidoNet for network kit *
This should work as a private nodelist (PreRapture BBS was illegally
dropped from the FidoNet nodelist by corrupt FidoNet officials) :
Zone,98,PRIME_IC,USA,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,HST,V32b,UIC
,1,PreRapture_BBS,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3962,9600,CM,HST,V32b
,2,PreRapture_BBS_2,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3606,9600,CM,HST,V32b
,3,PreRapture_BBS_3,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-3266,9600,CM,HST,V32b
,4,PreRapture_BBS_4,Durham,Steve_Winter,1-919-286-4617,9600,CM,HST,V32b
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 5 13 Jul 1992
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LATEST VERSIONS
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Software Versions List
Please refer to the article in this issue...
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FidoNews 9-28 Page 6 13 Jul 1992
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION ----------------
Editors: Tom Jennings, Tim Pozar
Editors Emeritii: Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince Perriello
"FidoNews" BBS
FidoNet 1:1/1
Internet fidonews@fidonews.fidonet.org
BBS (415)-863-2739 (9600 HST/V32)
(Postal Service mailing address)
FidoNews
Box 77731
San Francisco
CA 94107 USA
Published weekly by and for the Members of the FidoNet international
amateur electronic mail system. It is a compilation of individual
articles contributed by their authors or their authorized agents. The
contribution of articles to this compilation does not diminish the
rights of the authors. Opinions expressed in these articles are those
of the authors and not necessarily those of FidoNews.
FidoNews is copyright 1992 Fido Software. All rights reserved.
Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes
only. For use in other circumstances, please contact FidoNews (we're
easy).
OBTAINING COPIES: FidoNews in electronic form may be obtained from
the FidoNews BBS via manual download or Wazoo FileRequest, or from
various sites in the FidoNet and via uucp. PRINTED COPIES mailed
may be obtained from Fido Software for $5.00US each PostPaid First
Class within North America, or $7.00US elsewhere, mailed Air Mail.
(US funds drawn upon a US bank only.)
BACK ISSUES: Available from the following sources (and possibly
others), via filerequest or download (consult a recent nodelist for
phone numbers). Back issues are *NOT* available from FidoNews 1:1/1.
FidoNet 1:102/138 (All issues)
FidoNet 1:216/21 (All but 18 issues)
Internet ftp.ieee.org, in directory ~ftp/pub/fidonew/fidonews
SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in
FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file
ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews BBS, or Wazoo filerequestable
from 1:1/1 as file "ARTSPEC.DOC".
FidoNews 9-28 Page 7 13 Jul 1992
"Fido", "FidoNet" and the dog-with-diskette are U.S. registered
trademarks of Tom Jennings of Fido Software, Box 77731, San Francisco
CA 94107, USA and are used with permission.
Asked what he thought of Western civilization,
M.K. Gandhi said, "I think it would be an excellent idea".
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