Notices

Future History

17 May 1997

Independence Day, Norway.

6 Jun 1997

National Commemoration Day, Sweden.

11 Jun 1997

Independence Day, Russia.

1 Jul 1997

Canada Day - Happy Birthday Canada.

9 Jul 1997

Independence Day, Argentina.

13 Oct 1997

Thanksgiving Day, Canada.

1 Dec 1997

World AIDS Day.

10 Dec 1997

Nobel Day, Sweden.

12 Jan 1998

HAL 9000 is one year old today.

22 May 1998

Expo '98 World Exposition in Lisbon (Portugal) opens.

1 Dec 1998

Fifteenth Anniversary of release of Fido version 1 by Tom Jennings.

31 Dec 1999

Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.

1 Jan 2000

The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.

15 Sep 2000

Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.

1 Jan 2001

This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.

-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.

--- Following message extracted from MEADOW @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Tue Mar 25 20:39:28 1997

From: Trev Roydhouse
To: All
Date: 24 Mar 97 01:14
Subj: FTP by mail

Thanks to Ronald Bruintjes in the Netherlands, an FTP by mail OpusInfo facility is now available for the current Opus 1.73 files which are available at http://www.suburbia.com.au/~trev/.

Usage: send mail to ftpmail@deimos.nl. In the body of the message include the command GET [filename]. Do not include paths nor wildcards. If the file is available, it will be sent back to you via email in uuencoded form.

A magic filename is available for OPUSINFO. This will send you the Opus 1.79 feature list. When Opus 1.79 is released, OPUS179 will send you the Opus 1.79 release files.

TREV.

Origin: Sentry -- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (3:711/401.0)

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