*The History of Fidonet another progress report The History of Fidonet another progress report By Marge Robbins 1:283/120 or mrobbins@wps.com So many exciting things have happened since last I wrote for the snooze I scarcely know where to begin. Tom Jennings has sent me a whole box of items from Fidonet's past. Some have, compliments of NC283 Keith Sippy, been turned into JPGs and will eventually become available to all interested parties. NC107 Burt Juda has made available diskspace on ftp.fidonet.org as a permanent home for the files I have been accumulating. Some files are there now, available by anonymous FTP, and others are on their way. Once they are approved by TJ I will be uploading some of the JPGs to that site. I would also like to make the collection available via freq from several Fidonet systems around the country. If anyone who has lots of disk space would like to volunteer please contact me. You must be willing to commit at least 30mg to be on the safe side. The snoozes alone are 10. You can keep track of what is new in one of several ways. FTP there of course change to pub/fidonet/history and issue the directory command. OR gopher to ftp.fidonet.org and see what's in my directory. On the Gopher menu the item you want is Fidonet History. Due to Mr. Jenning's generosity and earnest desire to help in any way, I have a more or less permanent account on WPS.COM. This morning I spent a considerable amount of time playing with his mail program and now have a functional fake mailing list set up for this project. Anyone who wants to keep up to date on this project can be added to my mailing list. Just contact me on WPS.COM. I suppose since the Internet tends to be very confusing to most of us it might be a good idea for me to digress and give some basic instructions. If you have an internet address, use it and skip this paragraph. I'm at mrobbins@wps.com. If you are stuck with a Fidonet address and want to receive my progress reports send a netmail message in the following fashion... To: UUCP at 1:1/31. ON THE FIRST LINE in the body of the message put to: mrobbins@wps.com. And yes, I do get mail at 283/120 but am not as likely to act on it in as timely manner as I am something that shows up on WPS.COM. My current project is slogging through a 1 mg+ file of articles I have culled from back issues of the snooze. sorting and indexing. Some are historical, some of just human interest. Here's one of my favorites. Fidonet's first baby. Fido227 8/19/85 ------------------------------------------------------------ The First FidoBaby Ken Kaplan (Fido 51) and his wife Sally now have the first official FidoBaby, named Eric Samuel Kaplan. Sally wants to wait for awhile before she'll let Ken assign him a node number. We'd like to welcome Eric as the newest and youngest member of the growing Fido family, and offer him our best wishes. We'd also like to extend our congratulations to Ken and Sally. _________________________________________________________________ And just as a fire won't burn in a vacuum, this project would be going nowhere fast without lots of good help. All of the folks in the following list have contributed in some way, from helpful suggestions, to donations of files, to sharing of memories to Burt and Tom contributing time, disk space and memories. My thanks to all. If you have helped in any way and are not on this list, please accept my apologies and contact me so I can add you. FIDONET HISTORY PROJECT CONTRIBUTORS Tom Jennings, Burt Juda, Keith Sippy, David Drexler, Dan Buda, Butch Walker, Bob Davis, Bob Morasvik, Jack Winslade, Michale McCabe, Peter Stewart, Terry Mueller, Bert Happel, Joshua Lee and probably many others whose names I neglected to safely store.