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• A Star is Born
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A Star is Born

While the shepherds of Fido abide their flocks, wise men watched the star in the East... and the one in the South, and the one in the North. But Lisa Gronke was watching the signs, and found a new star in the Northwest. She noted it in the scriptures with these very words:

'My, my.....
'My nerd instincts ask "Why does it [the backbone] do that [make a fourth ZHub]?"
'.....and with so little fanfare....'

Lisa refers, of course, to the North American Backbone, the major distribution system in Fidonet Zone 1. The new Star is Bob Seaborn, announced with a quiet "ahem" by John Souvestre at the end of his stirring weekly summary of echomail changes, BACKSTAT.NA. The list of Zone Hubs has previously only included three:

Zone Hubs:

Eastern Star   George Peace   1:270/101 george@paonline.com
Southern Star  John Souvestre 1:396/1   johns@sstar.com
North Star     Ken Wilson     1:12/12   kwilson@ccai.com
NorthWest Star Bob Seaborn    1:140/1   bob@nwstar.com

Perhaps the lack of fanfare which Lisa noted was because Bob Seaborn is hardly a stranger to echomail distribution. He's long flown the "NorthWest Star" origin line in his outspoken postings in administrative echoes, and has long been the key player in that "other" major distribution system, the FidoSpine. In fact, he was already connected to George Peace and Ken Wilson, though only recently in a "fully connected triangle topology" (a connection which aids in the prevention of duplicates, which Lisa has patiently explained in the echoes).

This star-watcher would like to welcome Bob's ascendancy, and anxiously awaits Lisa Gronke's analysis of the new topology. Perhaps she'll dub it a "superimposed triangles topology" or perhaps it can now be known as a "tetrahedron topology with two open and two closed corners."

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QEDIT Echo has a new name.
By Stu Turk, 1:129/26, sturk@telerama.com

QEDIT, the support Echo for SemWare Corporation's popular text editor, has been renamed to SEMWARE. This was due to SemWare's loss of the trademark and their request that the name be removed from the EchoList. The editor itself has been renamed to The Semware Editor Jr (TSE Jr for short.) The current shareware demo version can be found on many FidoNet boards as TSEJR40C.ZIP and ftp from semware.com.

The new name reflects the fact that SEMWARE is also the support Echo for SemWare's other text editors, including the larger and more powerful The Semware Editor Pro (TSE Pro, TSE Pro/32 for Win95) and other products.

Information on SemWare editors can be found at http://www.semware.com.

If you followed the QEDIT Echo in the past, turn on the new SEMWARE Echo. The SemWare mailing list is being gated into the Echo and SemWare's Technical Support staff participate.