Editorial

I inadvertently stirred up some panic last week with the news that 1:13/10 was down and the FidoNet - Internet gate was closed. Cancel that panic. [grin]

1:13/10 IS down but I have been informed of hundreds of alternates in action as we read. Burt Juda still operates the FidoNet DNS and although those linked to him for such transfers thru 1:13/10 are now traffickless, those linked to one of the other Gates should still be moving mail. I wouldn't have noticed if I hadn't been a registered user of that particular linkage.

There is an article down the pages that applies to the 1:13/10 ops ONLY! It has been updated since it was pre-published in several of the major Sysop Echos. The updated version will likewise appear in those Echos to clear up any excitement and misapprehension.

On FidoNews, there is now a Letters to the Editor Section. It is the first Section that appears after the Editorial info areas. There you may rant or rail or wax poetic to me, as Editor, or the rest of FidoNet if you're not in the mood to send your stuff in as an article [.ART].

The new extension for this area is: .LET and the first one appears in today's Issue at the suggestion of that writer. An updated ARTSPEC has already been hatched into the FIDONEWS and SDS SOFTDIST file echos as well as being copied into the FIDONEWS Echo and placed on the FidoNews webpage.

[Just happened: The addition of the .LET file extension created a conflict for MAKENEWS so the extension for retractions has just been changed to .RTX and the ARTSPEC doc and .ZIP rehatched.]

On another front, any news on the IC election?

C.B.