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The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 11 15 Mar 2004
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| |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are |
| | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings|
| | | | San Francisco, California, USA |
| | ____________| | |
| | / __ | Crash netmail articles to: |
| | / / \ | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907) |
| | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | Routed netmail articles to: |
| \_______\(_| /_) | Bjorn Felten @ 2:203/0 |
| _ @/_ \ _ | Email attach to: |
| | | \ \\ | bfelten@telia.com |
| | (*) | \ ))| |
| |__U__| / \// | Editor: Björn Felten |
| ______ _//|| _\ / | |
| / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. |
| (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
+--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 2
Sample letter to the editor .............................. 2
3. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 3
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 3
4. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 5
How to Submit an Article ................................. 5
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 7
FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 1 15 Mar 2004
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EDITORIAL
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Strangely enough, it seems as if the Snooze, for it's soon to be
twenty years of existence, has never had a Letters to the Editor
column. As of now, this oversight is corrected.
So, if any of you have something fido related on your mind, now you
have the opportunity to speak up. As usual in LttE columns you can
remain anonymous, signing it with a handle of any kind, if you wish.
Even one-liners are welcome. So what are you waiting for?
The preferred filename extension can be found at the end of the
Snooze as usual, but not even that is required, only if you want to
keep complete control of your contribution. In this issue you will
find a sample LttE, to give you a hint at what it can look like.
And may I also take the opportunity to remind everyone of the BOF
column. Whenever you see something written, in a fidonet echo, that
makes you think "Hey! This was the best piece of writing I've read in
fidonet for a long time. I sure wish that not only the participants of
this echo had read this..." then it's an obvious candidate for the BOF
column.
Finally, I think most readers of the Snooze also are hooked up to
the official discussion forum for the e-zine, the FIDONEWS echo. If
only a few of all the writers in the FIDONEWS echo would send their
comments to be published in the Snooze, not only would we get a much
richer e-zine, but we would also get rid of all the complaints about
the echo containing stuff that are not in line with the rules.
Of course debating via the Snooze means several days of lag, but
more often than not, that is only an advantage. And we would probably
reduce all the noise caused by echo participants that are not writing
comments that are meant to be remembered, but only to raise h*ll in
the echo.
I'll admit that I could have done much better in this aspect,
wasting lot's of writing efforts in the echo rather than in the
Snooze, as I've done in the past, and I promise I will try to improve
on that matter in the future. Can I get the same promise from the best
of the writers in the FIDONEWS echo as well?
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FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 2 15 Mar 2004
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Sample letter to the editor
Dear Editor,
I think you suck big time! Do us all a favour and Resign Now!
Troy Twit
California
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FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 3 15 Mar 2004
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.072
size 909.8kb
date 2004-03-12
The nodelist has 7717 nodes in it
and a total of 10479 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
56 regions
428 hosts
541 hubs
admin overhead 1031 ( 13.36 %)
and 1065 private nodes
315 nodes down
351 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1731 ( 22.43 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 645 ( 8.36 %)
9600 = 6690 ( 86.69 %)
(HST = 138 or 2.06 %)
(CSP = 1 or 0.01 %)
(PEP = 11 or 0.16 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.01 %)
(V32 = 3502 or 52.35 %)
(V32B = 341 or 5.10 %)
(V34 = 4515 or 67.49 %)
(V42 = 3786 or 56.59 %)
(V42B = 355 or 5.31 %)
2400 = 72 ( 0.93 %)
1200 = 6 ( 0.08 %)
300 = 304 ( 3.94 %)
ISDN = 638 ( 8.27 %)
----------------------------------------------------------
File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
----------------------------------------------------------
XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2524
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 4 15 Mar 2004
XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 12
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 39
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XW Fido >12M 316
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 3473
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1339
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CrashMail capable = 2357 ( 30.54 %)
MailOnly nodes = 4288 ( 55.57 %)
Listed-only nodes = 600 ( 7.78 %)
Other = 472 ( 6.12 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 5 15 Mar 2004
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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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How to Submit an Article
If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here
are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred
method if you want reasonable control over how the published article
will appear in the Fidonews:
a) Plain ASCII text. If you could type it on your keyboard, it's
probably quite OK. No line may be longer than 70 characters.
b) Put a title to the article. Put the title in two times. The first
time, on the first line, with an * before it. The second time, on
the second line, without the * and centered. This will help in the
format since the title with the * is removed and used in the index,
the second line will become the headline. On the third line, put
your name and FidoNet address, present or former. If former, you
may want to add some other address where you can be reached for
personal comments.
c) Deadline for article submission is Sunday, 12:00 UTC.
Help the Editor by following the above guides. Below are some subjects
and the file extension for the article as set in the configuration
file for the making of the Fidonews. Please help by putting the file
extension of the correct subject on the file name if known..
Ideas for Subject areas:
Subject File | Subject File
----------------------------------|----------------------------------
From the *C's *.css | Rebuttals to articles *.reb
Fidonet Regional News *.reg | Fidonet Net News *.net
Retractions *.rtx | General Fidonet Articles *.art
Guest Editorial *.gue | Fidonet Current Events *.cur
Fidonet Interviews *.inv | Fidonet Software Reviews *.rev
Fidonet Web Page Reviews *.web | Fidonet Notices *.not
Getting Fidonet Technical *.ftc | Question Of The Week *.que
Humor in a Fido Vein *.hfv | Comix in ASCII *.cmx
Fidonet's Int. Kitchen *.rec | Poet's Corner *.poe
Clean Humor & Jokes *.jok | Other Stuff *.oth
Fidonet Classified Ads *.ads | Corrections *.cor
Best of Fidonet *.bof | Letters to the Editor *.let
If you don't know or are not sure, send the article anyway. Put a .TXT
on it and I'll try to figure out where it should be in the Fidonews.
If you follow these simple guidelines, there should be little problem
in getting your article published. If your submission is too far out
of specs for the Fidonews, it will be returned to you and/or a message
sent informing you of the problem. This DOES NOT mean that your
article is not accepted. It means that there is something in it that I
can not fix and I need your help on it.
FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 6 15 Mar 2004
Send Articles via E-mail or Netmail, file attach or message to:
Björn Felten
Fidonet 2:2/2
E-Mail bfelten@telia.com
Please include a message, telling me that you have sent an article.
That way I will know to look for it.
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FIDONEWS 21-11 Page 7 15 Mar 2004
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
| |
| Editor: Björn Felten, 2:2/2, editor@fidonews.org |
| Crash mail attached: Editor@2:2/2 |
| E-Mail attached: bfelten@telia.com |
| Webmaster: Jim Barchuk, jb@fidonews.org |
| Columnist: Warren Bonner - Ol'WDB's Corner |
| Columnist: Frank Vest - Frank's Column |
| Columnist: Luke Kolin - Catcalls from the Cheap Seats |
| |
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+ -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - EDITORS EMERITI - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
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| Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince |
| Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees, |
| Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg, Henk Wolsink, |
| Doug Meyers, Warren D. Bonner, Frank L. Vest |
| |
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Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of Fidonet.
Fidonews is Copyright (C) 2004 by Björn Felten, though authors
retain rights to their contributed articles. Opinions expressed
by the authors is strictly their own. Noncommercial duplication
and distribution within Fidonet is encouraged. Authors are
encouraged to send their articles in ASCII text to the Editor
at one of the addresses above.
The weekly edition of Fidonews is distributed through the file
area FIDONEWS, and is published as echomail in the echo FIDONEWS.
These sources are normally available through your Network
Coordinator. The current and past issues are also available from
the following sources:
+ -- -- -- -- -- -- - FIDONEWS AVAILABILITY - -- -- -- -- -- -- +
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| File request from 2:2/2: |
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