Letters to the Editor

• ARGUS Information update
• Election Issues: Candidate Answers
• Candidate questionnaire response tally
• Announcement of FTSC decisions

ARGUS Information update

--- Following message extracted from NETMAIL @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:47:30 1998

From: Oleg Dashevskii @ 2:5000/102
To: Christopher Baker @ 1:18/14
Date: 13 Jan 98 00:02:34
Subj: IP mailer

Hello, Christopher!

In the first FidoNews issue of 1998 (BTW, Happy New Year :) one guy mentioned ARGUS, our russian mailer which can make FTN connections via IP. But he probably doesn't know that Argus uses protocol named 'BINKP' which was implemented first in BinkD mailer. BinkD was developed also in Russia, in Magadan. (it's cold there :) BinkD can carry out FTN sessions only via IP and is available for Win95, WinNT, OS/2 and Unix. Moreover, it is available in sources, one can compile it for anything he wants.

Check http://www.magadan.su/~maloff/binkd

I just can add that BinkD carries 99% of our Russian bone. ;)

Have a good day, Oleg {- [Team OS/2].

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Election Issues: Candidate Answers

--- Following message extracted from Z1_ELECTION @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:51:08 1998

From: ANDREA SANTOS
To: ALL
Date: 18 Jan 98 03:54:56
Subj: Election Issues: Candidate Answers

Subject: Election Issues Candidate Position Summary

The following table is a summary of the election issues and the pro and con positions candidates have towards the issues or questions presented in the Z1_ELECTION echo.

The issues and questions were selected by going through the message base questions posted to the candidates by various participates in the Z1_ELECTION echo. A sampling of 19 key issues or questions were selected.

Obviously, many issues went unanswered by the candidates. If any candidate wishes to "fill in the blanks" for any question marked with an ? , or clarify a "U" response, with only a Y/N answers, please go ahead and do so. In addition, if you wish to make a position change, please do so as well.

Answer Legend:

   Y       Yes/Agrees to question/Issue
   N       No/Disagrees to question/Issue
   U       Undecided, Yes/No wasn't provided
   ?       No answer was received

Candidate Abbreviation:

   JB      Jim Balcom
   DC      David Calafrancesco
   WL      Wayne DeLisle
   JG      John Glinski
   BK      Bob Kohl
   ML      Mike Luther
   JS      Jeff Smith

Election Issues Candidate Position Summary

+===================================================================+
|Questions/Issues                | JB | DC | WL | JG | BK | ML | JS |
|===================================================================|
|Would you continue with other   | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  | N  | N  |
|FTN positions if elected ZEC?   |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support an echomail policy?     | Y  | N  | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support a Z1 Ombudsman?         | N  | N  | U  | N  | N  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Echo Appeal Court for users     | N  | N  | N  | N  | N  | N  | N  |
|abused by Moderators?           |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Prefer elections for echomail   | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  | N  | ?  | Y  |
|positions versus appointments?  |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Experience moving large         | Y  | Y  | Y  | N  | ?  | N  | Y  |
|volumes of mail?                |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Have you ever been an REC?      | Y  | Y  | N  | N  | Y  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Have you ever been a RC?        | N  | N  | N  | N  | Y  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Should # of hats worn be        | N  | Y  | Y  | Y  | ?  | Y  | Y  |
|limited?                        |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Any axes to grind?              | Y  | N  | Y  | N  | ?  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Elimination of *EC chain?       | N  | N  | N  | N  | ?  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Does Zone 1 NEED a ZEC?         | Y  | Y  | ?  | Y  | Y  | Y  | Y  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Do you want an Assistant?       | Y  | U  | U  | N  | ?  | Y  | ?  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support CRP BAN of Software?    | Y  | Y  | ?  | N  | ?  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Support CRP BAN of Sysops?      | Y  | Y  | ?  | N  | ?  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Mail Tampering before export?   | ?  | U  | ?  | ?  | ?  | N  | N  |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Conflict of interest for *C,    | N  | U  | N  | Y  | Y  | ?  | ?  |
|*EC to create, operate          |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|distribution system?            |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Should *C's be involved with    | ?  | Y  | Y  | Y  | ?  | ?  | ?  |
|file distribution?              |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
|--------------------------------+----+----+----+----+----+----+----|
|Does REC/ZEC have control over  | Y  | N  | U  | Y  | ?  | Y  | ?  |
|NEC/REC?                        |    |    |    |    |    |    |    |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+

Andrea Santos
Origin: Xpress Online! * 305-248-7815 (1:135/382)

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Candidate questionnaire response tally

--- Following message extracted from Z1_ELECTION @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:50:41 1998

From: John Souvestre
To: All
Date: 17 Jan 98 06:47:20
Subj: Questionnaires

Hi all.

I kept a rough tally of candidate questionnaires (not individual questions). I saw 9 posted. They were from: Gronke, Hallford, Simmons, Mitchell, Roberts, Whitaker, Santos, Souvestre and Kershew.

Of these 9, I saw this many answered by each of the candidates:

  Jim Balcom             8
  David Calafrancesco    9
  Wayne DeLisle Sr       4  <==  Storm?
  John Glinski           9
  Bob Kohl               2  <==
  Mike Luther            9
  Jeff Smith             6

Not bad, actually. All answered 6 or more except for two candidates. Wayne's link was down part of the time due to the storm so perhaps he is still catching up. Bob Kohl, however, answered only 2.

Thanks to those of you who took the time to respond.

John

Origin: Southern Star - sstar.com - 504-885-5928 - (1:396/1)

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Announcement of FTSC decisions

--- Following message extracted from FTSC_PUBLIC @ 1:18/14 ---
By Christopher Baker on Sun Jan 18 19:52:27 1998

From: Odinn Sorensen
To: All
Date: 17 Jan 98 12:34:00
Subj: Announcement of FTSC decisions

Hello All.

Based on public input and consensus in FTSC_PUBLIC and votes among members in FTSC, the FTSC have decided the following:

1. The numbering scheme for FTS documents will be grouped as in my proposal a while ago, i.e. FTS-XYYY.
2. Standards that are not directly Fidonet Standards (such as msgbase formats), will be collected and maintained by the FTSC, but with a different prefix. This prefix is FRS (Fidonet Related Standard).
3. The prefix for both FTS and FRS proposals will be FSP (Fidonet Standard Proposal), and proposals that don't get accepted will both get the prefix FRL (Fidonet Reference Library).
4. The old FSC documents keep their FSC prefix and will NOT be renamed with the FRL prefix.
5. The "Key words to indicate requirement levels" document has been adopted as FTA-1006. The issue of whether it applies to itself has been clarified in the revision that will be posted later.
6. The Public Domain requirement of FTA-1001 has been replaced with the "Intellectual Property Rights" document, which has been adopted as FTA-1007. This means that the FTSC can now accept both Public Domain and copyrighted documents. For copyrighted documents, the copyright holder (or a representative) must give the FTSC a license to use, distribute and modify it. See the document for details. This is basically the same license as that used by the IESG (Internet Engineering Steering Group, the internet counterpart to the FTSC) to accept documents for RFC's and STD's (RFC2026).

Odinn

--- FTSC Administrator 1.0
* Origin: http://www.goldware.dk/ftsc
* e-mail: odinn@goldware.dk

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