Original Message Date: 27 Jun 92  09:48:28
From: Mike Reardon on 1:280/6
To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
Subj: Fidonews
^AINTL 1:1/1 1:280/6
Hello Tom!

Below please find a cut-and-paste from the current Fidonews:

My electronic world is deteriorating. I have to call in at 300 baud to
edit this rag (sic) due to problems with the phone line here at my
(new) boyfriends house here in the Pacific NorthWest.

I have to admit that I'm not doing a particularly good job this week;
I've fallen terribly in love with a wonderful punk boy, and won't be
back at the end of the month like I said. Don't worry, I wont inflict
lovey-dovey garbage on FidoNews readers. People in love are sooo
disgusting to be around (just ask his roommate).

==========================================================================

I am glad for you that you are happy with your new lover, however, I have 
absolutely no desire to read about your private life in Fidonews.

I have seen you mention being gay at different times in the editorial.  I 
don't personally care whether you are gay, straight, twisted, asexual, or 
whatever <grin>.  I don't, however, read Fidonews to find out about your 
latest sexual adventures.  I read it to find out about Fidonet, and I 
don't see that being gay or any or sexual preference has anything 
whatsoever to do with running a Fido system.

This is a personal request to leave your private life out of Fidonews.

                                  Thanks,
                                   Mike


Original Message Date: 24 Jun 92  02:21:14
From: Karen Maynor on 1:3640/5
To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
Subj: SDN CD
^AMSGID: 1:3640/5@FidoNet.Org 57964744
Hi Tom,

 The SDN 1 Plus CDROM is now a reality.. Yeah! I have the #0001 framed on 
my wall and your copy was sent Saturday.. Look for it whenever you get 
back from vacation... Hope you enjoy it... I read of all your troubles 
calling to read your mail at 300 baud (ick!), so I won't bother you with 
annoucement about the disc in fnews until you return home and it will be 
easier for ya...

Also, many congrats on your new love.. :) Hope it works out wonderfully 
for you.

 Karen

Original Message Date: 03 Jul 92  13:31:46
From: Al Anderson on 1:377/37
To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
Subj: Backbone Politics
^AMSGID: 1:377/37@fidonet.org 5c8d1825
Dear Sir;

While I have not been around FIDO all that long, I was under the mistaken 
belief that it was an amateur communications network of, for & by the 
people.

Recently the Perot echo completed all previously known requirements to be 
placed on the backbone.  Now, additional previously unpublished rules have 
been formulated which appear to be aimed specifically at delaying backbone 
status to this one particular echo.

I am not a political person, but I am a firm believer in freedom of speech 
and an informed populace.  That is the reason I carry so many echos - 
backbone or not, pro or con anything.  I run a free multi-line FIDO board 
for just that purpose and carry over 110 echos and now the FileBone.  I 
carry everything from AIDS/GENDER/GAY to some of the most right wing stuff 
ever to cross a CRT.

I find this latest twist disgusting, reprehensible and petty as just a few 
adjectives that cross my mind.  I wonder if the AIDS echos fought a 
similar battle.

Just blowing off steam.  I carry the echo as part of my LD effort and will 
continue to carry it regardless of what petty efforts are made by those in 
a position "of authority" to stifle communications.  I believe some people 
do not understand that they are also in a position of "responsibility" - a 
novel concept.

Btw...good luck with your latest love.  I just about died when I read the 
last two news issues.  Openness on Fido?

thank you for your time...
---

Original Message Date: 01 Jul 92 09:00:52
From: Uucp on 1:125/555
To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
Subj: Re: FidoNet Newsletter, Volume 9, # 25
^AINTL 1:125/111 1:125/555
From  kumr!pozar
From: pozar@kumr.lns.com (Tim Pozar)
To:   joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM
Date: Wed, 1 Jul 92 8:41:30 PDT
Cc:   Tom.Jennings@f111.n125.z1.fidonet.org

joeb@hitwr.hauppaugeny.NCR.COM wrote:
> This newsgroup will henceforth be blocked from this system due to 
repeated
> references to what many users have found disgusting (namly the fag and 
his
> boyfriend).
> 
> Sorry ladies..... You're still not accepted on this system.
 
   Nice to see homophobia is alive and well in your community...

                         Tim

-- 
Internet: pozar@kumr.lns.com               FidoNet:  Tim Pozar @ 1:125/555
UUCP:     ...!uunet!kumr.lns.com!pozar
Snail:    Tim Pozar / KKSF / 77 Maiden Lane / San Francisco CA 94108 / USA
Voice:    +1 415 788 2022


Original Message Date: 12 Jul 92 21:53:50
From: George Willard on 1:286/66
To: Tom Jennings on 1:125/111
Subj: boyfriend?
^AFLAGS PVT,CRA,XMA,DIR
 
   Just read your editorial where you mentioned the node/net/whatever that 
decided to quit distributing FidoNews because of "the fag and his new 
boyfriend."
   What a hoot!
   Jeeze, I wonder how many people will freak when/if I decide to announce 
the ZOOPHILE echo in FNEWS?  Maybe you should put me on the FidoNews staff 
so they can gripe about "the pervert and his four-legged wife," thus 
drawing the heat off of you?  Sorry, but I find some folks' attitudes 
absolutely hilarious -- when they aren't downright terrifying!
   Hey, I was glad to see that you found a nice friend and lover.  
Everyone needs love; some of us seek it out or discover it in 
less-than-traditional manners, that's all.  (Some of us in 
MUCH-less-than-etc., grin.)
 
   Oh, about the proposed echo -- I'm dead serious, but am waiting to hear 
from Butch Walker exactly how to set it up so that it will be in 
compliance with backbone policy; i.e., no obscenity, no solicitation or 
sharing of partners, no pornography exchanges and/or sales ... topics held 
to support for individuals, sharing of coping strategies, discussion of 
issues both political and social as applied to "strangelove."  Wonder if I 
can pull it off?
   I haven't yet decided whether to moderate it as "Hossius Anonymous" or 
"Dr. Doolittle."  A local user dubbed me the latter as a flame, but I 
rather like it.
 
 
George Willard, 1:286/66, non-CM, LO, MO
co-moderator of WRITING echo



Original Message Date: 24 Jul 92  01:04:57
From: Josh Burke on 1:343/95
To: Tom Jennings on 1:1/1
Subj: Problems
^AFLAGS DIR
A recent article in fidonews contained the following lines:
"
Well, no scandals, flames, outings, net wars, political conspiracies
this week. Too bad. It's getting quiet around here.
 
Actually, the above reminds me of something Vince Perriello (Josh (my
boyfriend, remember him?) and I had coffee & pizza with Vince in
Seattle) brought up, and I think is so obvious (in hindsight) that I'm
completely amazed I've never heard it before --
"
 
The use of "Josh" without any other form of identification has caused me 
some problems within the network.  I have had a number of flaming 
netmails, insults, and I believe I have lost Zone Coordinator position in 
the network I started.  I believe that you intended no ill towards me, nor 
any other "Josh"'s in Seattle.  I would appreatiate some clarity of what 
you meant by this in a upcoming fidonews.  Please note that I have nothing 
aginst homosexuals...
 
I have been in Austraila for 11 days, to find my BBS crashed (Neighbor did 
not reset the computer, he reset the VCR!), Zone Coordinator position 
lost, Fido feed cut... not the kind of things you like to see after 28 
hours in a airplane.
(I did warn everybody I was going to Australia)


