Editorial

We have a full Issue for the new year including republishing the ARTicle SPECifications for FidoNews submissions in the NOTICES section. The only change was the addition of the .INT filetype for listing Internet addresses where FidoNet info/ops may be found.

I discovered quite a few more Internet addresses for FidoNet in my surfing last week and got a couple of email contributions to the list. Send the info to me anyway you wish [see Masthead] if you want your listing in the new section. There were also a couple errors in last week's listings. They have been corrected in this Issue.

There are also some new Canadian contributions to the calendar [Future History] section. If you have something for the calendar, send it in.

The ice has been broken on the .BIO submissions but nothing came in for this week's Issue. YooHoo?

My continued thanks to jim barchuk for running the FidoNews HTML site; to Mike Riddle for the flow of .JOK material; Dave Aronson et al for the .CMX art in ASCII; and to the ftp sites for carrying the FidoNews around the world.

Let's hope that 1997 will bring us a new International Coordinator, a new FidoNet Policy that makes sense for the 21st century, a continued spirit of hobby and fun instead of commercial and antagonism, and a complete distribution of FidoNews by ALL ZCs/RCs/NCs to their Nodes!

Anybody know when Chinese New Year begins the Year of the Ox?

Also be sure to adjust your batch files for the NEW Volume letter of E instead of last year's letter of D! [Did you get caught? {grin}]

C.B.