Прощальная редакторская статья Тома Дженнингса в FidoNews
FidoNews Vol.10 No.9 (1 March 1993)
F I D O N E W S -- | Vol. 10 No. 9 (1 March 1993)
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|__U__| / \// | Tom Jennings
_//|| _\ / | Tim Pozar
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(jm) | Newspapers should have no friends.
| -- JOSEPH PULITZER
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EDITORIAL
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Editorial: Bye bye!! (boo hoo!)
Well this is it, my final editorial. Next week's will be edited by
Silvia Maxwell and Don Tees. Say hi to them. (Hi!)
Today is a momentous day for me. I'm moving into a new apartment this
very day, tomorrow my phone lines get swapped over. As soon as I
finish this, I have to pack more boxes aand drag 'em over. We're
moving from out in the boonies to the heart of the Mission; 16th St
between Mission and Valencia. The three little holes in my windows
turned out to be bullet holes! (22 or 25 cal.) The glass is
double-paned, and I was able to locate the trajectory. Later, I pull
down the shade, and there's matching holes! Yipes! Oh well, instead of
a 45 minute walk to the cafe, it's about 120 seconds, a vast
improvement. No more do I have to pay $1 for a bus, down on the corner
I can buy a "late nite" (daily bus transfer) for 25 cents! ("I love,
livin' in the city!" -- FEAR)
I digress.
Oh, probably there'll be small mistakes made, but be helpful and nice.
Our new editors have to decipher my 4DOS batch files, and generate a
newsletter that's at least recognizable and somehow get it to 1:13/13.
In a week.
I look forward to seeing what changes they make. I failed to keep one
promise, that of revamping the newsletter format from "line printer"
format to online readable. I really blew the "Ask EFF!" project,
though Shari Steele is hanging in there raring to go.
Think back on all the little wars we've had... Zone 2 hassles... Z1C
"process" or lack of... POLICYx... encryption... I'm begging off just
in time to miss the "Caller ID" wars -- YAY!!! (You know it's time to
leave when...)
It's been fun, really!! Even the hard parts I learned a lot, about
taking my lumps when necessary, and staying the hell out of local
squabbles.
So ta-ta, I'll see you out in the cloud...
My BBS is going to go offline for a while, probably a month or two,
starting this week. I will have an email address however, but it's on
the Internet. It's
tomj@fido.wps.com
My old DOS machine is now running 386BSD and directly connected to the
internet. In itself an interesting story, and one you'll probably see
in these pages and BOARDWATCH magazine.
Anyways -- you can email me from FidoNet, via certain FidoNet nodes
flagged "GUUCP". Those are UFGATE sites, that have one foot each in
FidoNet and Internet. There's a bunch of then. The way it works is
you send a message to one of those FidoNet addresses, with certain
magicwords placed within the message itself, that the UFGATE software
detects. These are: the "to:" field being the single word UUCP. The
VERY FIRST line of the message formatted exactly as:
to: tomj@fido.wps.com
With at least one completely blank line following it. After that, put
your real message. Make sure you have the address (ie. the to: line
embedded in the message body) correct, otherwise your message won't
make it.
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