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From: "Frank Vest" <flv@texoma.net>
To: "Warren Bonner" <WDBonner@pacbell.net>
Subject: Announcement
Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2001 3:08 PM

Just a quick announcement for the next Fidonews.

It seems that Fidonet will be losing two John's.

John Woodward, 1:3828/2, former R19EC and many other good things, has announced that he is leaving Fidonet. I can't speak for everyone, but this is a great loss to Fidonet in my humble opinion. John has been a good friend to Fido for the past 12 years. John's projected closing will be April 1, 2001.

John Souvestre has announced that he will be leaving Fidonet. As most know, John Souvestre is the "Southern Star" hub for the Z1Backbone. John has been with Fidonet for some 13 years. His last day will also be April 1, 2001.

You will both be missed.

By: John Souvestre, The Southern Star (396/1)
To: Warren Bonner

Hello Warren.

WB> I am requesting from you a short bio that I can include in my
WB> column for next week.

I hope that you don't make a big thing of it. I'm just one guy. :-)

WB> Age, wife, children, to get to know the person, and description
WB> of system(s), connections, bandwidths, etc.
WB> And a cap of your hobby and the help you have been to so many for
WB> so long.

I'm 49, single, no children. I'm a Design Engineer (embedded systems, software and digital) by trade. I started the BBS 13 years ago. The system grew and spawned an Internet Service Provider business, which is what I do now. In FidoNet, I've served as NC, Net Hub, NEC, Region Hub, REC, Zonegate, Filebone Coord, Filebone Hub, and Zone Hub. I helped start Net 1:396, Backbone, ERN, Filebone, new FTSC and Z1 Backbone.

WB> Sure sorry to see you go, John... another pillar of Fido moves on
WD> to better use of his time and expierence.

I know that there will be times that I miss it, but it's time for me to move on. You can still reach me at johns@sstar.com.

Regards,

John

By: TODD COCHRANE
To: ALL
Re: Bye

*****Brenda Donivan Crossposted John Souvestre's Fido Exit:

BD> On Apr 1 2001 I'm shutting down the BBS and leaving FidoNet. Please arrange to move your feeds elsewhere. Anyone paid ahead will receive a refund. My Internet services will not be affected by this.

*****Todd Cochrane:

For any of you currently getting a feed from John and will be looking for a new home we are available to pick up any nodes or networks that need a feed.

The service is FREE and we can handle the following connection types

BINKP
FTP
Telnet Mailer
PXFIDS (PXW SYSTEMS)

We are a minute mail system and have been moving mail over the Internet for over 5 years. We carry a large majority of the regional echos and have a high speed connection to the net.

My wife and I have purchased a piece of property in Hawaii Kai in Hawaii and we will be co-locating a server farm there. This will allow me to move some of our servers from our Guam business to Hawaii. We will be moving into that facility in late May. Service to that facility will be a T-3 with more bandwidth available upon demand. Currently we have a guaranteed service level of T-1 1.5 MPS

We have vowed to be that last Fido Node whenever that day should c me, so you can count on us to be with you for the long haul.

Todd Cochrane cochrane@bbsnets.com 1:10/345
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