Editorial

What can I say, other than this has been one heck of a week?

With this issue, and an hour later than I planned, I am assuming the role of Editor of one of FidoNet's oldest traditions, and will turn the FidoNews into a "sewer of feces and lies", as one Region Echomail Coordinator claims my appointment has caused.

And I haven't even *published* an issue until now.

Of course, this fails to note that the FidoNews is made from the submissions of other sysops...all the Editor does is to bring these together, uncensored, into a coherent form.

As long as the submission follows the ARTSPEC.DOC parameters (see the masthead at the end of the FidoNews for details), what is submitted is going to be printed.

I would suggest, however, that the use of profanity unnecessarily doesn't always build up your audience to sympathize with you.

There may be some changes in the format of the Snooze, interms of placement of articles and information, and alternate distributions are being discussed in the FIDONEWS echo. Join us as the "de facto" FidoNews Editorial Board if you have input. If you want to discuss an article you see here, connect to the NEWSCHAT echo, where each issue is posted each week.

Beyond that, well...let's not give *everything* away at once, right?

In this issue, we ignore the last two issues and pretend that they never happened, and continue with Ward Dossche's "Countdown to Destruction", two articles, and a plea for help from a person in Zone 2 who needs to know the routing set-up for a Fido<>InterNet Gateway.

And, of course, the Zone 1 Echomail Coordinator Election results.

-zf-

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