--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DG400003Date: 12/03/96 From: OSCAR SOSA Time: 10:08pm \/To: WILLIAM WILSON (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: WHY IS WINDOWS HARD T Thanks for the clarification. That's certainly the way I interpreted her message. --- Maximus/2 2.02 * Origin: The Fireside, Houston, Texas (713)496-6319 (1:106/114) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DG400004Date: 12/03/96 From: VALERIE COLLICOTT Time: 10:59pm \/To: HENRY KASTEN (Read 2 times) Subj: Potatoes Hi Henry. Thanks for the fantastic recipe. It sounds delicious and i plan to try it. I, like you love to cook; although I'm not a gourmet cook by any means. I do love to try new recipes and invite my friends over as the guinea pigs. I am always on the lookout for new recipes; especially those that don't require some item that you have to buy and then end up throwing away, because you'll never use it again. This one sounds good. If it's a success, you'll hear from me. (grin) --- Maximus 3.01 * Origin: Vision Information Systems (1:163/266) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00000Date: 12/03/96 From: JACK STEIN Time: 11:46pm \/To: ALL (Read 2 times) Subj: Blink Babble Nov 1996 Part 1 The OS/2 REXX BabbloMeter Report Monthly Babble received in BTALK at Jack's Free Lunch BBS November, 1996 57 users babbled 204 Messages Outbound Babble % K Avg K ======================================= 30 ANN SABONAITIS 14.7% 38k 1.3 17 TAMMY KLAUS 8.3% 27k 1.6 16 BILL KOPPELMANN 7.8% 27k 1.7 14 ANNE PAGE 6.9% 33k 2.4 9 WALTER SIREN 4.4% 14k 1.5 8 MIKE FREEMAN 3.9% 13k 1.6 6 WILLIAM WILSON 2.9% 9k 1.6 6 BONNIE AINSWORTH 2.9% 11k 1.8 5 EVERETT HERTENST 2.5% 7k 1.5 5 KATHY NEUFELD 2.5% 6k 1.2 5 HENRY KASTEN 2.5% 15k 2.9 4 WALT CONE 2.0% 7k 1.6 4 CAROLYN JOHNSON 2.0% 5k 1.3 4 DENIS BURKE 2.0% 7k 1.7 4 RON DENIS 2.0% 7k 1.8 4 BRIAN LINGARD 2.0% 6k 1.6 3 ED FOOHEY 1.5% 4k 1.2 3 PHYLLIS CAMPBELL 1.5% 4k 1.4 3 MARK SENK 1.5% 2k 0.8 3 JIM KITCHEN 1.5% 7k 2.3 3 BRYAN HANKS 1.5% 4k 1.2 3 ALAN CONWAY 1.5% 5k 1.6 2 OSCAR SOSA 1.0% 3k 1.5 2 ERIC BOHLMAN 1.0% 4k 2.2 2 JERRY NEUFELD 1.0% 3k 1.3 2 SCOTT HOWELL 1.0% 3k 1.4 2 JOE BUELL 1.0% 2k 1.2 2 JOHN SCHWERY 1.0% 1k 0.7 2 LISA SALINGER 1.0% 2k 1.2 2 LAURA MULRANEY 1.0% 3k 1.6 2 DANA YEOMANS 1.0% 2k 1.2 2 BOB HUMBERT 1.0% 2k 0.8 1 LEE BONNIFIELD 0.5% 4k 4.3 1 KAMAL HAFFAR 0.5% 2k 1.6 1 MARIO LANG 0.5% 1k 1.4 1 JUDY BARRETT 0.5% 1k 1.4 1 MAURICE SHACKELF 0.5% 1k 0.7 1 MAX SWANSON 0.5% 1k 0.6 1 MICHAEL GORMAN 0.5% 2k 2.3 1 JACK STEIN 0.5% 3k 3.3 1 NORMAN DYCK 0.5% 2k 1.6 1 IRENE HAMPTON 0.5% 1k 1.4 1 HARVEY HEAGY 0.5% 1k 1.2 1 REBECCA H. CAROL 0.5% 1k 0.6 1 EDUARDO GOMEZ 0.5% 1k 1.4 1 SCOTT HOOKER 0.5% 2k 1.7 1 DONALD BREDA 0.5% 3k 2.6 1 SERGE CYR 0.5% 1k 1.3 1 DONALD BELEW 0.5% 2k 1.6 1 TERRI MANSFIELD 0.5% 1k 0.6 1 TIM ATTWOOD 0.5% 2k 1.6 1 TOM GERHART 0.5% 1k 0.8 1 TOM STREET 0.5% 2k 1.7 1 DAVID GOLDFIELD 0.5% 1k 1.2 1 DANNY CRONE 0.5% 1k 1.2 1 CAROL ASHLAND 0.5% 1k 1.2 1 BRENDAN SAINT 0.5% 1k 1.3 Jack --- timEd/2-B11 * Origin: Jack's Free Lunch 4OS2 USR16.8 Pgh Pa (412)492-0822 (1:129/171) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00001Date: 12/04/96 From: MARK SENK Time: 07:02pm \/To: LILLIAN ACKLEY (Read 2 times) Subj: Re: Looking for VOC agencies Hi, Well, we've had two meetings with this new board. I hope we can accomplish something to improve services. I was aware of the returned money and can't see how they can justify this. OVR manages to spend all of its money in creative ways. Regards, Mark --- Opus-CBCS 1.73a * Origin: BlinkLink - Perceiving is believing! 412-766-0732 (1:129/89.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00002Date: 12/01/96 From: PHYLLIS CAMPBELL Time: 08:10pm \/To: BRIAN LINGARD (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: DEATH NOTICE Brian, I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Death is somehow harder at this time of the year. I lost my father on the 28 of November, 1966, my sister-in-law on December 17, 1993, and my only brother on December 25, 1994. My thoughts and my prayers are with you and your family. Phyllis PHYLLIS CAMPBELL ... The straw that broke the camel's back, also made bricks. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW23764 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: It's Magic BBS, Stuarts Draft, VA (1:2602/420) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00003Date: 12/01/96 From: PHYLLIS CAMPBELL Time: 08:10pm \/To: MARIO LANG (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: MUSIC ON PC? TOPIC: Re: Music on PC? Hi, Mario ML> I created several techno tunes on the PC with a Tracker called ModEdit ML> v3.01. This is the only tracker I found which supports TextMode 80x25. ML> But he can only manage 4 tracks (4 Instruments at same time). So I ML> thought about using MIDI to create Music. But I found no Sequenzer yet. ML> Is anyone out there who knows one in TextMode ? I am interested in this subject, too, and would be glad to hear your experiences. Also where did you get the program mentioned above? My Internet address if you would prefer to contact me there is: Pcampbel@pen.k12.va.us. PHYLLIS CAMPBELL ... An aquarium is just interactive television for cats. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW23764 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: It's Magic BBS, Stuarts Draft, VA (1:2602/420) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00004Date: 12/01/96 From: PHYLLIS CAMPBELL Time: 08:10pm \/To: ANNE PAGE (Read 2 times) Subj: RE: IN NAME ONLY Thanks for this one, Anne. PHYLLIS CAMPBELL ... Click Click darn forgot to re-fill the tag-line dispenser again. * Silver Xpress V4.3 SW23764 --- GEcho 1.00 * Origin: It's Magic BBS, Stuarts Draft, VA (1:2602/420) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00005Date: 12/02/96 From: MIKE FREEMAN Time: 10:48am \/To: RON DENIS (Read 2 times) Subj: DIRTH OF GOOD COMMENTARY In a message to All <20 Nov 96 21:26> Ron Denis wrote: RD> It saddens me somewhat to see the RD> decline of messaging that has RD> been going through the echo lately. This echo is by no means alone in that department. RD> The controversies, helpful RD> hints, and related stuff has declined RD> significantly since I first RD> began modeming. Well, for myself, I'm rather glad to see the controversies decline. I guess some enjoyed them but the ones involving organizations of the blind seemed to me, for the most part, to generate far, far more heat than light. I suppose that's a matter of opinion and perspective, however. RD> It's hard for me to point the finger RD> at others given how much RD> less I write these days. I am behind RD> on everything including RD> replying to email I've received RD> directly. I suspect many of us RD> have merely become overly involved in RD> other aspects of our lives RD> and have less time to devote to RD> writing one another. I suspect too That may well be. One might also venture the hope -- vein hope -- that a number of the more prolific writers have obtained full-time employment and are now so busy making money for themselves and their loved ones that they haven't time for the more casual pursuits of life . But I think you can put a large share of the blame at the door of the Internet. Fidonet is by no means dead and I think anyone who has read many unmoderated Usenet newsgroups would agree that the tenor of the conversation on Fidonet echos is, on average, more civil than that on Usenet newsgroups. But the proliferation of ISPs and easily-available Internet connects is definitely making a dent here. Which is implied by what you write below. RD> that the proliferation of blindness RD> related echoes, mail lists, and RD> the like have placed a serious dent in RD> the traffic of any one media RD> channel. This is not altogether bad. Certainly there are times in my cluttered life when I am greatful to be able to filter the din a bit and deal more-or-less strictly with the things which grab me. But there are drawbacks, as you say. RD> The unfortunate thing about this is RD> that more and more people RD> are now talking to fewer and fewer RD> others. The federationists have RD> several ways of talking to the RD> federationists. The councilites RD> talk to the councilites. The GUI folk RD> talk to the gooey folk, and RD> each screen reading program probably RD> has its own mail list by now. Given the complexity of the GUI environment, I'm not sure but what this last might be a good thing! Given the number of questions I see about trying to get this or that Windows app to work with thisor that screen reader, there is enough traffic to fill quite a few lists! Also, it is of interest that once the various Federation-sponsored forums were made available over the Internet as E-mail lists, traffic picked up considerably over what it was earlier in the year. RD> Although I can't name any, I suspect RD> there are numerous news RD> groups out there as well. I expect RD> any day now to run across RD> alt.blind.tritters, or maybe rec.blind.stuff. The only one I look at on a more-or-less regular basis is "alt.comp.blind-users". Before the proliferation of spammers -- something Fidonet is blessned not to have much of -- it was a great group for exchanging computer-related info and wasn't so long-winded as "blind-l". RD> Did you ever wonder how one goes about RD> deciding just which of RD> these things to read? Anybody out RD> there follow things like RD> alt.buddha.short.fat.guy? How about RD> alt.devil.bunnies? I'm not RD> recommending these, mind you, but RD> merely suggesting there's an RD> enormous amount out there, and only RD> some of it has any redeeming RD> value, social or otherwise. I guess one person's purdition is another's redemption. Last time I'll admit to reading "alt.sex.stories" was in 1993. Right about then, I decided the ground hat been pretty thoroughly tilled . I think we, like everyone else, just have to try the newsgroups and mailing lists that tickle our fancies and sift the wheat from the chaf. As in everything else, there's far more of the latter than the former. RD> The glut is reducing the number of us who talk among RD> ourselves about things we share and RD> things we do and the tricks we RD> use to pull them off. What I can't RD> decide is whether it's a good RD> thing we now have so much information and so many opinions RD> available, or a bad thing that they RD> are scattered and generally RD> sandwiched in loaves of junk. Can RD> anyone help me make up my mind? Lest I start a controversy, I will venture no further here than to say that not everything is sandwiched in junk. *Some* of the proliferation of lists, newsgroups, echos and the like have resulted in a distilling of some pretty decent conversations from the chaos. For the average PC-user, though, it is, admittedly, a different world than it was in, say, 1989. RD> Has anyone yet thought up a virus that RD> goes up and eats all the RD> junk on the net leaving only the good stuff? Yeah; it's called subscribing to only the stuff you're interested in . MIke Freeman Internet: mikef@pacifier.com --- PCRR QWK 1.60 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Pacifier Online Data Service (1:105/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00006Date: 12/03/96 From: MIKE FREEMAN Time: 03:38pm \/To: DANA YEOMANS (Read 2 times) Subj: NOTE In a message to All <23 Nov 96 15:14> Dana Yeomans wrote: DY> hello all. can i get this group on the DY> internet? and what is it called? Willie will probably already have answered this, but ... As far as I am aware, there is no direct Internet listserv equivalent of the BlinkTalk conference. However, if you Telnet into "gbx.org", you will find that that BBS carries this conference. Mike Freeman Internet: mikef@pacifier.com --- PCRR QWK 1.60 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Pacifier Online Data Service (1:105/101) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 238 VISUAL DISABILIT Ref: DGA00007Date: 12/03/96 From: MIKE FREEMAN Time: 03:48pm \/To: MARK SENK (Read 2 times) Subj: HAM RADIO In a message to Ann Sabonaitis <24 Nov 96 20:10> Mark Senk wrote: MS> Yes, passing traffic on the Empire MS> Slow Speed net was quite a challenge. Most MS> of all, because I was using an ancient MS> Heath DX 40 with a VF-1 VFO and drifty MS> Hallicrafters receiver. Anyone who MS> remembers this stuff is getting to be quite MS> a fossil. Watch it! I resemble that remark (grin)! Ah yes -- the good old VF-1! I used a DX-100 which used that same VFO circuit. If you got a really mint 6AU6, it worked fairly well but it certainly was capable of max drift! Finally had the circuit converted to grid block keying which helped but, of course, did not altogether eliminate the problem. I was fortunate, though, to have a NC-300 receiver which did not drift appreciably after a good warm-up. I still have the Johnson- Viking Matchbox I used with that set-up! Mike Freeman < K 7 U I J > Internet: mikef@pacifier.com --- PCRR QWK 1.60 --- FLAME v1.1 * Origin: Pacifier Online Data Service (1:105/101)