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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 1    (02-Jan-1994)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      A new Echo, IM_HELP for discussions re: Intermail, the front  2
      How Can We Get Users To Use The Message Bases?..............  3
      FosNet - The Freedom of Speech Net..........................  3
      MailList - Perform Mailouts to mail lists...................  4
      What Is StormNet?...........................................  4
      Original to: Charlie Munhollon (1:284/7)....................  8
      New Canadian echo........................................... 10
      Tape - Cut Tape Cassetts.................................... 11
      NodeArea - Nodelist Area Code extraction.................... 11
      New Echo: False Memory Syndrome............................. 12
      FIDO Netmail, Why not allow users access?................... 13
      Dear Reverend Visage,....................................... 14
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 16
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 2    (09-Jan-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      An International Aid Campaign for FidoNet!..................  3
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  4
      Finding Message Bases the Users Will Use....................  6
      Subject: Gary Wilkerson.....................................  7
      Subject: FidoNet Hong Kong Goes To The Dogs!................  9
      Backbone Echo Changes [Nov-Dec]............................. 11
      From: tony.seifart@electro.alt.za (Tony Seifart)............ 13
      Reply to Advert of IM_HELP.................................. 14
      Upcoming Area Code changes.................................. 14
      North American Area Code Changes............................ 16
      dr.mdm.em................................................... 24
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 24
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 3    (16-Jan-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Cutting Edge UFO and Science Information....................  2
      Subject: An article.........................................  4
      Subject: Hello, it's me again...............................  4
      subj: Dictatorship in Zone 4................................  5
      New Echo:  U2...............................................  7
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  8
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 4    (23-Jan-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Helping FidoNet in Cuba - an update.........................  2
      Rottenness in the state of Fidonet?.........................  3
      Gardening in North America..................................  5
      THEIST_WATCH Echo now on Backbone!..........................  5
      INTERMAIL changing to IM_USER...............................  6
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  7
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 5    (30-Jan-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: CHAINS - bOING bOING Broken Chain Letter...........  2
      CORELDRAW echo available....................................  4
      New Pink Floyd Echo.........................................  4
      FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.......................................  5
      From: Michael Johnson.......................................  5
      Subject: Dictactorship in Z4 - Update.......................  8
      Let's Bash Politics!!! (New Echo)...........................  9
      Clues sought in Kayla Mayberry murder.......................  9
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 10
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 6    (06-Feb-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  2
      The need for free fax services..............................  4
      False Memory Syndrome on the Backbone.......................  5
      Dear Flesh,.................................................  6
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  7
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 7    (13-Feb-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  4
      Regards,....................................................  4
      Doc Logger..................................................  5
      New Uses of FidoNet or other big network node...............  5
      People experienced in designing databases accessible via the  7
      File 3--Beta-testers : EFF-Austin Law Enforcement Incidence.  7
      LINE QUALITY STANDARDS...................................... 11
      info on bbs in Sumy Ukraine................................. 12
      INTERNET CONFERENCE......................................... 12
      LINE QUALITY STANDARDS...................................... 14
      Need outside help........................................... 14
      CaveNet -- for Cave-Related Conferences..................... 15
      Is Fido becoming atheist-only?.............................. 16
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 17
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 8    (20-Feb-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Advertisements in FidoNews..................................  2
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  3
      MindNet -- A new type of erotic network.....................  5
      ScoutNet - A New Scouting Network...........................  5
      INTERFAITH -- A Better Kind of Religious Echo...............  6
      Subject: File 7--Cu In The News.............................  7
      A response to Mikhail Ramendik..............................  8
      GAMEDEV - The Game Development Echo......................... 10
      Hey everyone,............................................... 10
      Reply to article in Fidonews of 1/5/95 by Pablo Kleinman.... 11
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No. 9    (27-Feb-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Catholic Information Network [1:202/1613.0].................  2
      ** PROTECT THE INTERNET. READ THIS MESSAGE ***..............  2
      EFF SUES TO OVERTURN CRYPTOGRAPHY RESTRICTIONS.............. 14
      No, Not Atheist-Only........................................ 18
      Subject: File 1--Finnish anonymity compromised by Interpol ( 19
      From Russia with love....................................... 20
      Dear Reverend Visage,....................................... 21
      Subject: gii_expression_letter.announce..................... 23
      Reply to the christian fanatic Mikhail Marendik............. 32
      A Canadian reader amazed by ignorance in Russia............. 32
      Subject: Russian objects to atheism in snooze <bleh>........ 34
      I_UFO Forum: When Science Confronts Belief.................. 35
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 41
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.10    (06-Mar-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      Clues, present and absent...................................  3
      Snoop Project - Is anyone interested?.......................  4
      The FREEBONE................................................  5
      Non-official Echos using Fidonet node system................  7
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  8
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.11    (13-Mar-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  3
      Backbone Echo Changes [Jan-Feb].............................  4
      Subject: File 4--Italian BBS Charged with "Subversion"......  6
      WINDOWS 95 WILL HAVE THE COOLEST USERS EVER.................  8
      FIDO/K12Net:................................................  9
      The Parable of the Bulletin Board........................... 12
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 14
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.12    (20-Mar-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Echomail to SYSOP...........................................  2
      WEIRDNEWS Conference Available..............................  3
      PRO_LIFE conference.........................................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  4
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.13    (27-Mar-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      The FIJA Echo...............................................  2
      One Misguided editorial.....................................  3
      OJ_SIMPSON Echo.............................................  5
      Adept Sysops................................................  5
      Subject: Cuba & The Fidonet.................................  6
      A mere peon speaks out about the "Fidogods".................  6
      EFF.........................................................  8
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 15
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.14    (03-Apr-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Freedom, Network, Future World..............................  2
      The Return of the Archons: "You Are NOT of the Body!".......  3
      Legal Briefs: The Judge has no Clothes......................  5
      F.A.C.TNet reports serious censorship attempts..............  6
      Who Owns an Echo?...........................................  9
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 10
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.15    (10-Apr-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Response to "Who Owns an Echo?".............................  2
      STAR TREK CUSTOMIZABLE CARD GAME............................  4
      Moebius Magazine............................................  5
      An Echo a day...............................................  5
      The Neophyte's Guide to FIDO................................  6
      Fantacize if you MUST, but reality is here.................. 10
      New echo for Respiratory Therapy............................ 11
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.16    (17-Apr-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: Control Freaks.....................................  2
      Bellow if you must, but.....................................  3
      The Neophyte's Guide to FIDO................................  4
      "SUMMERCON".................................................  7
      PETITION/STATEMENT:SAVE RAMONA.............................. 10
      "Who Own's an echo"......................................... 12
      The Court Jester Has No Clothes Either...................... 12
      Subject: The ECROC Question................................. 13
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 14
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.17    (24-Apr-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      Terror Strikes in America's Heartland.......................  3
      Subject: Oh how exciting....................................  4
      Random Fido and Internet-related thought....................  4
      Dear Ms. Syvlia,............................................  7
      <ROTFL>.....................................................  7
      Computer Users and the Graphic Age..........................  8
      Response to "Who owns an Echo".............................. 10
      Following is FIDONEWS 1214 :................................ 11
      Comments On ECROC........................................... 12
      PGP Signatures and Forgery.................................. 14
      EFF AABBS Amicus Brief in Support of the Thomases (Appellant 15
      FOXSFTV...Why take half measures?........................... 27
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 28
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.18    (01-May-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject:The Internet........................................  2
      Echo Mail isn't sold by Burger King.........................  3
      Re: Computers and the Graphic Age...........................  4
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  5
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.19    (08-May-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: "How to Manage Your Personal Smurfdoms"............  2
      Backbone Echo Changes [Mar-Apr].............................  4
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  5
                              Editorial
    I have been corresponding with an ex Fidonet sysop from Hong
Kong regarding the doings there, and what "we" should be doing
about them.  Truth is, what CAN we do about them?  Nothing
really.  Ultimately, only the sysops in a particular area can
remedy problems in that area.

    People talk about the "fidogods" as if they have some sort of
power to change things.  I know that personally, about all I can
do is print the articles that come in.  I cannot (and do not
want to) control anything outside my own BBS. It astonishes me
to be included in some mythical group of fidogods.  I have not
even met anyone else that seems to be included in that group,
let alone planned anything with them.  I probably have
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.20    (15-May-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject:World Wide Web browsers (Part 1)....................  2
      Net Voting Issue............................................  3
      Announcing some freeware nodelist utilities.................  4
      Free Listings in the Encyclopedia of Associations...........  5
      EuroCon / DutchCon announcement.............................  6
      Consultants and Consulting Organizations Directory..........  7
      An Alien Looks at FidoNet...................................  7
      Picture this, if you will...................................  9
      A response to "Computer Users and the Graphic Age...........  9
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 11
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.21    (22-May-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Downpour of Media Cliches Threatens To Flood Nation.........  2
      InfoWarCon '95..............................................  4
      Dear Madam Emilia,.......................................... 14
      Message Trackers!........................................... 14
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 15
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.22    (29-May-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      From: Ari Pollak (1:107/302)................................  2
      Proposed VModem Nodelist Flag...............................  3
      DiDoNeT.....................................................  4
      An Alien Looks at FidoNet...................................  6
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  9
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.23    (05-Jun-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Major Changes in FIDO this week.....(sigh)..................  2
      WOW!!! You wrote back!!! :-)))..............................  3
      DEF CON III Convention Update #1.65 (05.26.95)..............  4
      Bob Satti (1:153/6) to All.................................. 18
      Threats of lawsuits & caving in............................. 19
      dear madam emilia........................................... 20
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 20
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.24    (12-Jun-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      THE FIDONET SYSOP MANIFESTO.................................  2
      Infestation of manifests....................................  4
      Subject: Libelous Article In Fidonews.......................  5
      NOT FAMILYNET...............................................  8
      Subject: VModem.............................................  8
      Wagon's Ho!................................................. 10
      Where in the world is Carmen San...errr...George Peace?..... 10
      Callers: don't you love 'em? :-)............................ 13
      Subject: Echoes............................................. 15
      The DEF CON Voice System.................................... 16
      EXON INTERNET BILL.......................................... 16
      Subject:Searching Tools on the Web.......................... 17
      Where is our FIDO going?.................................... 18
      An Editorial on Fidonet and its future...................... 19
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 21
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.25    (19-Jun-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Philosofical research of Germers Message....................  2
      As always, I was and remain utterly correct.................  3
      DogCollar: making PGP safe for FidoNet......................  4
      Madam Emila confessional v.2................................  5
      RanD@f101.n16.z1.fidonet.org................................  5
      Scary future??..............................................  7
      What Fido IS................................................  7
      Just one question...........................................  9
      OS/2 archiver test..........................................  9
      A Solution to the Nodelist Problem.......................... 11
      What Is StormNet?........................................... 21
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 24
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.26    (26-Jun-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: The times, they are not changing at all, apparently  3
      A QUICK RESPONSE TO THE ARTICLE OF IGNORANCE WRITTEN BY BOB   5
      Subject: Russian objects to atheism in snooze <bleh>........ 11
      Subject: A Response to Bob Germer........................... 12
      Subject: Legalities of FidoNet.............................. 13
      Subject: What the hell is going on here?.................... 14
      As always, I was and remain utterly correct................. 16
      Subject: Threats & germer................................... 17
      DEF CON III Convention Update #1.80 (06.20.95).............. 22
      Connecticut Harassment law/what next?....................... 28
      Subject: Libel.............................................. 29
      Subject: Reply to Germer.................................... 30
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 31
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.27    (03-Jul-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Make a Kid Smile!...........................................  3
      Take editorial rights, guys!................................  5
      FIDONET - A QUESTION OF SURVIVAL............................  6
      A PUBLIC REPLY TO BOBBY GERMER..............................  8
      Original to: Mike Bader at 1:120/45.........................  9
      A Solution to the Nodelist Problem..........................  9
      Censorship Laws and the InterNet............................ 19
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 21
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.28    (10-Jul-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Echomod: An Echo Moderator's Utility........................  2
      Don't miss this opportunity ................................  4
      Disney Images...............................................  5
      Backbone Echo Changes [May-Jun].............................  6
      Simple NetwOrk Oversight Protocol...........................  8
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  8
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.29    (17-Jul-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      CyberSmut, the Exon Bill, and Thee:.........................  2
      Request for info on Kimberlin...............................  6
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  6
                              Editorial
   A very quiet week this week with only two articles.  The
Germer incident seems to have gone away, as has the net 150
kafuffal.  Nothing left to fight about ... mmm.

   I wonder how much of the bickering that goes on in fidonet is
due to simple boredom?  It strikes me that there is very little
new happening in the net.  Perhaps one off the problems with
standards is that they also spell stagnation.  Policies have the
downside of preventing inovation.


 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.30    (24-Jul-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Hugs to 'ya!................................................  2
      AOP.ZIP USRSDL.EXE..........................................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  3
                              Editorial
    Here is the snooze.
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.31    (31-Jul-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: Fidonews viewer....................................  2
      DEF CON III Last Minute changes.............................  3
      DEF CON Announcements.......................................  4
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  5
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.32    (07-Aug-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      A_THEIST Echo on Zone 1 Backbone!...........................  3
      North American Backbone FAQ.................................  4
      DEF  CON  III  Last  Minute changes......................... 10
      New Echo for Those Interested in FLorida_USA!............... 10
      HOLYSMOKE Echo is available on the Zone 1 Backbone!......... 11
      What If Dr. Seuss Did Technical Training Manuals?........... 12
      A QUESTION ABOUT RECs....................................... 13
      MENSANS_ONLY Echo Notice.................................... 13
      PUBLIC_KEYS & PKEY_DROP Echos on Backbone!.................. 14
      The Booke of Balde.......................................... 16
      Silly submission, eh........................................ 18
      SKEPTIC Echo on the Zone 1 Backbone!........................ 19
      THEIST_WATCH Echo on Zone 1 Backbone!....................... 19
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 20
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.33    (14-Aug-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Toys, Tools, and King Ludd..................................  2
      Making Cyberspace Safe......................................  5
      good news and funny for you, too............................  6
      HexOnExon...................................................  6
      Proposal:  Change FidoNet to Enternet.......................  8
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  9
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.34    (21-Aug-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Cartoon Antics and other Standard Foolishness...............  2
      Defcon......................................................  6
      Subject: EDX................................................  8
      The Editors of the Snooze are Not Fascist!..................  9
      Library Proposal............................................ 10
      Dear Editor-Beings,......................................... 11
      Please !  Not in Public..................................... 13
      Requiem to an Ansi Artist................................... 14
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 14
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.35    (28-Aug-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Why Voting Is a Farce in Fidonet............................  2
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  3
                              Editorial
   Only one article this week, not much to say. Here is the
snooze.
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.36    (04-Sep-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Regarding election procedures in FidoNet....................  2
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  2
      PEACE Net advertisement.....................................  4
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  6
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.37    (11-Sep-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Win95.......................................................  3
      GUY KAWASAKI'S TOP 10 REASONS TO BUY WINDOWS 95.............  3
      MULTIMEDIA STYLES...........................................  4
      Backbone Echo Changes [Jul-Aug].............................  4
      99 Best Hangouts Online.....................................  5
      Howdy... Here's my article..................................  9
      Carbon copies sent to: Will Wright (1:2805/0), Tim Pearson ( 10
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.38    (18-Sep-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial:  FISHING IN NEW BRUNSWICK..........................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      New Digit Postal Code (Singapore) !.........................  2
      The Game Development Echo (GAMEDEV).........................  3
      "EXPLORING THE INTERNET"  -  FREE ONLINE WORKSHOP PREVIEWS T  4
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  7
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.39    (25-Sep-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      This and That...............................................  2
      Reenacting & Living History.................................  3
      Simulations & Wargames......................................  3
      99 places to visit, part deux...............................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  7
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.40    (02-Oct-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Hello, out there in the world,..............................  2
      99 places to visit on the inet....the third installment.....  3
      Hullo Snoooooooozers!.......................................  7
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 13
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.41    (09-Oct-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      To All......................................................  2
      Dear Reverend Visage,.......................................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  4
                              Editorial
     A short issue today ... only two articles.  Doc Logger is
back, trouncing us for filling the snooze with internet stuff.
Of course, that is a bit better than sending an empty file ...

     I am bored with my board.  Need some new echos that are not
endless sniping of children over petty politics.  The
well run boards never seem to get involved in that nonsense,
they just collect, forward and deliver mail week after week,
month after month.

     Are there any echos where people talk about real things in
sentences that are over three words long?  Where the sentences
that they write are not just punctuation for endless lines of
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.42    (16-Oct-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  3
      Political struggle within Fidonet?..........................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  3
                              Editorial
    There is only one article in the inbound today, and it
appears to be almost a repeat of an article that was in last
week's snooze.  A few revisions, and that is all.  Perhaps the
author got impatient.

    Our local (region 12) sysop echo is full of arguement about
the geographical net boundaries specified in policy.  Again.  Of
all problems in Fidonet, that single issue has probably caused
more problems, arguements and bad feelings than any other issue.

    Remember the German fiasco?  The England fiasco?  The Hong
Kong fiasco?  And locally, the Toronto fiasco? (which never made
the snooze because it is being fought out in the regional arena)

 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.43    (23-Oct-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      To Freedom!.................................................  3
      Ribald Orgy On Harbour Ferry................................  4
      Gentlemen...................................................  6
      Furthuring the Win95 saga,.................................. 10
      Scientology "church" at war with the world.................. 11
      First of all ............................................... 17
      Response to Mr Robert Hoerner............................... 17
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 18
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.44    (30-Oct-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Dr. Mod em i lala...........................................  2
      ACR (Automatic Call Rejection)..............................  2
      Free Quebec! (with every purchase of double poutine)........  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  5
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.45    (06-Nov-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Response to Mr Fredrik Bennisons............................  2
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  3
                              Editorial
I listen to a lot of the sysop echos, even post in a few of
them. It strikes me, lately, that the fights have become almost
ceremonial in nature.  As if the participants know there has to
be a better way, but have not quite figured out how yet.

It strikes me that relationships should have a reset button.  A
big red one that we could press every once in a while, and start
over.  Without the harsh words.  Without dredging up old history
from a previous, and younger life.

I read the wizard of Oz recently.  Maybe declaring a new
variable actually does create it.  Like magic.

Here is my favourite all time poem by Max.  She called it

Quickie Code:
        push
        push
        push
        POP

P.S.   Please forgive such an unbalanced editorial.
                               Articles
Response to Mr Fredrik Bennisons
article in FNews 12/43 (23-Oct-1995)
From: Robert Hoerner (2:2476/7)

Hello Fredrik,

this is a nice chat, isn't it :)

Ok, let's remember: in an article some weeks ago you wrote that
NC_ELECT, a so called policy addentum set in force by Z2C this
year, could be a good example of how to implement some democracy
in FidoNet.

I answered that this NC_ELECT has not been set in force following
the rules in P4, section 8, and therefore, from my point of view,
it is nothing but a paper, at least it is no "democratic policy".

You answered:
"I'd like to point out that P4 section 8 describes how a new
version of FidoNet policy is ratified. NC_ELECT however is no
new FidoNet Policy proposal, it is simply a Zone policy document
as mentioned in section 1 of FidoNet Policy4."

This leads me to one little question: if policy 4, section 8, is
NOT to be used when implementing a new (here of course: a new local)
FidoNet Policy Document, which guideline has to be used instead?

And another question arises from policy 4, section 2.2:
"You must indicate that you have read, and agree to abide by, this
document and all the current policies of FidoNet."

"All the current policies"? Which policies could be meant?

You continue:
"FidoNet Policy 4 does in no way describe how these local policy
documents are ratified, the only restriction is that they must
have the approval of the IC if they contradict FidoNet Policy 4."

So in your opinion everybody could present his ideas to the IC,
asking him to "appove" it to be a new zone policy? And this is, in
your eyes, only necessary if those ideas "contradict" P4?

Come on, and you are talking about democracy? Democracy, Fredrik,
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.46    (13-Nov-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Backbone Echo Changes [Sep-Oct].............................  2
      Subject: That Coleridge Poem................................  3
      Fidonet in the Future.......................................  6
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  7
                              Editorial
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.47    (20-Nov-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      Subject: Previous Article...................................  2
      Editors note:...............................................  3
3.  Fidonews Information..........................................  3
                              Editorial
    We have a rather dangerous precident this week.  An network
co-ordinator has been told that publishing an article in
Fidonews is grounds for excommunication.

    When Max and I took over the editorship of the snooze, I
made a personal promise to Tom Jennings to run it according to
his ideals, at least as best as we could.  That did not include
a completely blind adherenec to the "we print what we get"
motto, but close to it.  Grounds for not running an article are
left to the discretion of the editors.  They might include
commercialism, or even triviality, but never simple questioning
of authority.

 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.48    (27-Nov-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  2
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      TEEN-AIDS Echo..............................................  2
      Hello Donald (& Sylvia!),...................................  2
      Job Finder Data Base........................................  5
      This About Region 10........................................  5
      The PRIME Network still going strong........................  7
      New Area Code for Upstate...................................  8
      Net241 *sigh*...............................................  8
      A Holiday Warning........................................... 11
      Valid policies/standards.................................... 11
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 12
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.49    (04-Dec-1995)
 
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1.  Articles......................................................  2
      Redundant Nodelist Flags?...................................  2
      Subject: NET2805.342........................................  2
      Seeking Nodelist Archives...................................  3
      The CHAMELEON Echo Lives....................................  3
      Invitation to MirageNet!....................................  4
2.  Fidonews Information..........................................  4
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.50    (11-Dec-1995)
 
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1.  Articles......................................................  2
      The Demise of Net 2805 a rebuttal...........................  2
      What We Stand For...........................................  3
      bbsdoors a better BBS Door echo.............................  4
2.  Fidonews Information..........................................  4
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.51    (18-Dec-1995)
 
                          Table of Contents

1.  Articles......................................................  2
      Preventing Computer Thefts..................................  2
      ATTENTION: CANADIAN LAW ENFORCEMENT SYSOPS..................  3
      SHARING-the FidoNet World Class, Global Communication Echo..  4
      A Silent Cry................................................  7
2.  Fidonews Information..........................................  8
 
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F I D O  N E W S --                   Vol.12  No.52    (25-Dec-1995)
 
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1.  Editorial.....................................................  1
2.  Articles......................................................  2
      ***** END CHAT on Dec-24-95 at 15:54:52 ******..............  2
3.  Fidonews Information.......................................... 19
                              Editorial
    It is the night before Christmas, and the inbound is empty. I
have often wondered what I would do if I had to put out the
snooze, had no articles, and nothing to say in an editorial.

    Well, it is only five, perhaps a miracle will occur.

    Now Six.  I think maybe miracles do occur.  My cat just came
home.  I have a chat log from the BBS handy that will explain
it, and I will run that as the sole article.  I am going to play
Santa Claus.  Have a joyfull christmas.  I am.