(This is actually 1702, a y2k bobble...  Pate.)
      F I D O N E W S         Volume 18, Number 02             10 Jan 2000 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. EDITORIAL  ................................................  1
        Every Thousand Years  .....................................  1
     2. COLUMNS  ..................................................  2
        Fidonet-related sites  ....................................  2
        Ol'WDB visits NASA Lab for you  ...........................  5
     3. NET HUMOR  ................................................  8
        Monkey Management  ........................................  8
        Frog Noise  ...............................................  8
     4. COMIX IN ASCII  ........................................... 10
        Cow Circus: The Flying Cowlendas  ......................... 10
     5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 11
        Masthead  ................................................. 11
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                                 EDITORIAL
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                             Every Thousand Years
                                  Doug Myers

     Ironically, the Newsletter of the Fidonet Community is being brought
     to you this week by the person most out of touch with the rest of
     Fidonet.  A combination of personal illness and Y2K software
     failures have left my system in sad shape - still running but with
     many bugs still to correct.  Moreover, Net 270 needed to establish
     another path for netmail and echomail when George Peace left Fidonet
     at the millenium rollover.  These connections were working at first,
     but for some reason stopped.  Even now, we're receiving echomail
     sporadically, and I'm not sure of the status of netmail routing.

     Gawd!  I hope we don't have to go through this every thousand years!

     Rather than carp about the failures, though, I'd like to take an
     editorial opportunity to thank the people who are moving mail for
     Fidonet.  I've criticized them in the past for the petty quarrels
     and senseless power plays... but it seems that they are holding Fido
     together right now.  At least I've gotten my share of advice, offers
     for help, netmails, even phone calls... letting me know that Fidonet
     is still pulling together into the next thousand or so years.



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     =================================================================
                                  COLUMNS
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     ! = New entries this week
     ? = not responding
     ?? = unknown content, doesn't look like fidonet

                       . -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
                       |    FIDONET-RELATED SITES    |
                       ` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- '
                          Last update:  Dec 26, 1999

     FidoNet
     Homepage:     http://www.fidonet.org
     FidoNews:     http://www.fidonews.org   [HTML]
                   ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
                   ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
     !Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html
     SDS Files:    http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
     FTSC page:    http://www.ftsc.org/
     General:      http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
     List server:
         http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion

     Zone 1:       http://www.z1.fidonet.org
       Region 10:  http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
                   http://www.tnl-online.com/andy/rgn10.htm
         Net 103:  http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
         Net 203:  http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
       Region 11:  http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
        Net 2410:  http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/
       Region 12:  http://sparkys.dyndns.org
       Region 13:  http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
         Net 264:  http://www.net264.org/
         Net 275:  http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/
       Region 14:
         Net 282:  http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
       Region 17:  http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
       Region 18:  http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
       Region 19:  http://members.home.net/hbh3/r19
         Net 124:  http://www.startext.net/np/net124
                   http://texoma.net/~flv
         Net 130:  http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
         Net 393:  http://www.chatter.com/~wb/
     Zone 1 Elist  http://members.xoom.com/echolist/

     Zone 2:       http://www.z2.fidonet.org
                   ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.)
       Region 20:  http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
       Region 23:  http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

       Region 24:  http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
         Fido-IP:  http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
       Region 25:  http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
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       Region 26:  http://www.nemesis.ie
          REC 26:  http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
       Region 27:  http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
       Region 29:  http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/  (French)
       Region 30:  http://www.fidonet.ch  (German)
     ? Region 33:  http://www.fidoitalia.net  (Italian)
       Region 34:  http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm  (Spanish)
           REC34:  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
       Region 36:  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
       Region 38:  http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
       Region 41:  http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
       Region 42:  http://www.fido.cz
       Region 50:  http://www.fido7.com/  (Russian)
        Net 5010:  http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/  (Russian)
        Net 5015:  http://www.fido.nnov.ru/  (Russian)
        Net 5030:  http://kenga.ru/fido/  (Russian & English)
        Net 5049:  http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org  (English/Russian)
     ??  Net 5085:  http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)

     Zone 3:       http://www.z3.fidonet.org

     Zone 4:
       Region 80:  http://fidobrasil.8m.com  (Portuguese)
       Region 90:
         Net 904:  http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

     Zone 5:       http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/

     Zone 6:       http://www.z6.fidonet.org
       Region 65:  http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html
                   (Chinese)


                          Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

     See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html

     a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
     address. The email is translated as follows
     firstlast@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the
     appropriate individual's email.  Anyone in this list will
     also receive routed notice of this feature.  In my case, it
     would still be joejared@osirusoft.com, but you get the idea.

     Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
     latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
     time between when the message is received, and when it is
     sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
     defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
     immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
     after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.

                v-email flag firstnamelastname@osirusoft.com
                | email address or
     Node#      | Operator          | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
                |                   |                |latency|
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     -----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
     Zone 1     |                   |                |       |
       10/3     @ Brenda Donovan    | FTP,UUE,BinkP  | 384K,30| $??/$10
       10/345   @ Todd Cochrane     | FTP,BinkP      | T1,!  | n/c
       12/12    @ Ken Wilson        | FTP            | T1    | $24mo.
       13/25    @ Jim Balcom        | FTP            | 56k   | $20mo.
      103/5     @ Mark Luetger      | BinkP          | 384k,!| n/c
      103/153   @ Michael Box       | BinkP          | aDSL,!| n/c
      103/301   @ Joe Jared         | BinkP,FTP      | aDSL,!| n/c
      103/401   @ Warren Bonner     | BinkP          | aDSL,!| n/c
      105/8     | Russ Johnson      | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k  | n/c
      105/72    @ Larry James       | FTP            | aDSL  | $5/$15 mo
      106/1     @ Matt Bedynek      | BinkP, FTP     | DS-3,5| $5/$15 mo
      106/6018  | Lawrence Garvin   | FTP, VMoT      | aDSL,60| n/c
      107/453   @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
      140/1     @ Bob Seaborn       | FTP            | T3,30 | $5/$16
      167/133   | Stephen Monteith  | BinkP          | 128k+ | n/c
      211/417   @ Korombos          | BinkP,UUE,FTP  | T1    | n/c
      218/109   @ Matt Munson       | BinkP,UUE      | 33.6k | n/c
      244/2     | Kari Suomela   | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1,!  | $25.00/mo
      246/160   @ Mason Vye         | FTP, UUE       | 56K   | n/c
      271/140   @ Tom Barstow       | UUE,FTP        | T1    | n/c
      280/169   | Brian Greenstreet | FTP            | 33.6  | $2mo.
      342/3     @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP      | 128K+ | n/c
      395/670   | Arthur Stark      | BinkD,FTP      | 128k  | n/c
      396/1     @ John Souvestre    | FTP,VMoT       | T1,10 | $5/mo
      396/45    | Marc Lewis        | UUE            | 33.6  | $26/yr
     2604/104   @ Jim Mclaughlin    | FTP,VMoT,UUE   | 33.6  | $1mo
     2613/404   @ David Moufarrege  | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c
     2624/306   @ David Calafrancesco  | VMoT        | 33.6  | n/c
     3613/2     @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE            | 28.8  | n/c
     3632/84    | Robert Todd    |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
     3639/93    @ Ross Cassell      | FTP, BinkP     |128K+,!| n/c
     3651/9     @ Jerry Gause       | FTP,VMoT       | 33.6  | $3/$6
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 2     |
       20/11    | Henrik Lindhe     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       31/1     | Gabriel Plutzar   | BinkP          | T1+   | n/c
      203/600   | Mikael Karlsson   | UUE            | 64k   | n/c
      221/360   @ Tommi Koivula     | BinkP,UUE      | ???   | n/c
      236/205   @ Michael Kaaber    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      246/2098  | Volker Imre       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      284/800   @ Jeroen VanDeLeur  | FTP,UUE        | 64k   | n/c
      292/626   | Filip Ruymen      | Binkp, UUE     | 128K+ | n/c
      292/2003  | Eric Vaneberck    | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      301/1     | Peter Witschi     | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      332/807   | Roberto Mascolo   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      335/535   @ Mario Mure        | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k   | n/c
      335/610   | Gino Lucrezi      | UUE            | 33.6  | n/c
      344/201   | Julio Garcia      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      346/3     @ Carlos Navarro    | UUE            | ???   | n/c
      382/100   | Sinisa Burina     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      406/555   | Ofir Michaeli &   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      406/555   | Marius Kaizerman  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      423/81    | Milos Bajer       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      464/4077  | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE            | 19.2  | n/c
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      465/204   | Va Milushnikov    | BinkP          | 33.6k | n/c
      469/84    | Max Masyutin      | VMoT           | 256k  | n/c
      480/112   | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k  | n/c
     2411/413   @ Dennis Dittrich   | UUE,BinkP      | 64k   | n/c
     2446/301   | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP  | 64K   | n/c
     2474/275   | Christian Emig    | UUE            | 64k   | unkn
     5030/115   | Andrey Podkolzin  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/1159  | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE          | 33.6  | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 3
      633/260   @ Malcolm Miles     | FTP,BinkP      | 64K   | n/c
      640/954   | Rick Van Ruth     | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
      774/605   @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c

     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 4
      905/100   | Fabian Gervan     | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k  | n/c
      902/18    | Javier Tejedor    | UUE            | 33,6  | n/c

     --
     * FTP   = Internet File Transfer Protocol
     * VMoT  = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
     * UUE   = uuencode<->email type transfers
     * BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks

     ----------------------------------------------
     Fidonet oriented news servers

     news.osirusoft.com
     news.tardis.net

     Fidonet oriented chat rooms.

     room #fidonet  5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays
     irc.isonline.com
     irc.killaz-r-us.com
     irc.korombos.org


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     Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
     Joe Jared, 1:103/301, joejared@osirusoft.com, and
     complaints to jarhead@osirusoft.com .


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      ROCKET SCIENTIST PEEKS INTO THE PHYSICS OF PROPELLANTS
                   Ol'WDB visits NASA's JPL Lab site for you.

      While the term "rocket scientist" gets tossed around rather loosely
      these days, Dr. Josette Bellan, a senior research scientist at
      NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is the genuine article, spending
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      much of her time pondering the mysteries of propellants at high
      pressures and temperatures.

      Dr. Bellan is currently leading research to help better understand
      the intricacies of high-pressure fluid behavior, which could help
      in the eventual use of powerful computers to simulate what goes on
      in combustion chambers.  That could result in significant cost
      savings over the current rocket design standard, which is primarily
      based on hardware testing.

      Dr. Bellan and one of her associates, JPL's Dr. Kenneth Harstad,
      are about to publish a paper in the International Journal of
      Multiphase Flow that may provide researchers with key elements
      needed to unlock the mystery of high-pressure fluid behavior.

      The work, titled "An All-Pressure Fluid Drop Model Applied To a
      Binary Mixture: Heptane in Nitrogen," due to be published this
      spring, documents the accuracy of their model of a single
      hydrocarbon droplet in a high-pressure environment, emulating the
      conditions that propellants endure in combustion chambers.  It also
      pinpoints differences between low- and high-pressure fluid
      behavior.

      The model highlights the importance of a previously neglected
      quantity, the "thermal diffusion factor," describing how a highly
      localized change in temperature within a mixture of fluids can give
      rise to a flow of one ingredient in that mixture compared to the
      rest of the ingredients. Conversely, this factor describes how
      local changes in ingredients can give rise to local changes in
      temperature.

      While typically  playing no role at ordinary atmospheric pressure,
      the thermal diffusion factor becomes important at high pressures.

      "Because this factor is usually unimportant, quantifying it has not
      been a high priority in the past," said Bellan, who holds a Ph.D.
      in aerospace and mechanical sciences  from Princeton University and
      now conducts research in JPL's Thermal and Propulsion Engineering
      Systems section. Reared in France, she earned a master of science
      in applied mathematics from the University of Sciences in Paris.

      "Our research shows that if we want to understand propellant
      behavior under high pressure, knowing this factor is in fact very
      important," she adds.

      She points out that this model brings scientists a step closer to
      creating realistic computer simulations of rocket, jet and diesel
      engine combustion chambers. Long-term benefits will likely include
      cost savings and greater design accuracy.

      Those simulations may well lead to new estimates of the ideal size
      of combustion chambers, because those simulations will now include
      the thermal diffusion factor, whose importance has been proven by
      this model.

      This research has been supported by the Advanced Subsonic
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      Technology  Program at the NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland,
      OH, and by the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL.

      The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a division of the California
      Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

      This interesting article was sent to me by JPL Newsletter editor.


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     =================================================================
                                 NET HUMOR
     =================================================================

                              Monkey Management
                                    Ol'WDB

      A man walks into a Silicon Valley pet store looking to buy a
      monkey.

      The store owner points towards three identical looking monkeys in
      politically-correct, animal-friendly natural mini-habitats.

      "The one on the left costs $500," says the store owner.

      "Why so much?" asks the customer.

      "Because it can program in C," answers the store owner.

      The customer inquires about the next monkey and is told, "That one
      costs $1500. It knows Visual C++ and Object-Relational technology."

      The startled man then asks about the third monkey. "That one costs
      $3000," answers the store owner.

      "3000 dollars!!" exclaims the man. "What can that one do?"

      To which the owner replies, "To be honest, I've never seen it do a
      single thing, but it calls itself a Consultant."


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                                  Frog Noise
                              Thanks to Roy Reed
                               rcreed@juno.com

       A sister and brother are talking to each other when the little boy
       gets up and walks over to his Grandpa and says, "Grandpa, please
       make a frog noise."

       The Grandpa says, "No."

       The little boy goes on, "Please...please make a frog noise."

       The Grandpa says, "No, now go play."

       The little boy then says to his sister, "Go tell Grandpa to make a
       frog noise." So the little girl goes to her Grandpa and says,
       "Please make a frog noise."

       The Grandpa says, "I just told your brother no and I'm telling you
       no."

       The little girl says, "Please...please Grandpa make a frog noise."
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       The Grandpa says, "Why do you want me to make a frog noise?"

       The little girl replied, "Because mommy said when you croak we can
       go to Disney World!"


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                              COMIX IN ASCII
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                        \ \
                         \ \
                          \ \                  Cow Circus:
                           \ \   (__)          The Flying Cowlendas
                            \ \  (oo)
                         /---\----\/
                        / |   \  ||
                       *  ||---\-\\
                          ~~      ~~
                                  ^^       ^^
                                   \\_____//
                                   ||     |
                                   /\------\
                                  (oo)      \
                                  (--)       *



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                           FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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                                   Masthead

     + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- --  FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
     |                                                                |
     | Editor:     Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, DougM@paonline.com       |
     | Webmaster:  Jim Barchuk, jb@fidonews.org                       |
     | Columnist:  Joe Jared, 1:103/0, jarhead@osirusoft.com          |
     |             (Fido Via Internet Hubs column)                    |
     | Columnist:  Warren D. Bonner, 1:103/401, wdbonner@pacbell.net  |
     |             (Warren uses the pen name "Ol'WDB")                |
     | Humor:      Roy Reed, rcreed@juno.com                          |
     |                                                                |
     + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +

     + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -  EDITORS EMERITI - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- +
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     |       Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince         |
     |       Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees,       |
     |       Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg, Henk Wolsink          |
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     Fidonews is published weekly by and for the members of Fidonet.
     Fidonews is Copyright (C) 1999 by Douglas Myers, though authors
     retain rights to their contributed articles.  Opinion expressed by
     the authors is strictly their own.  Noncommercial duplication and
     distribution within Fidonet is encouraged.  Authors are encouraged
     to send their articles in ASCII text to Douglas Myers at one of his
     addresses above.

     The weekly edition of Fidonews is distributed through the file area
     FIDONEWS, and is published as echomail in the echo FIDONEWS.  These
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