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                              Copy who!
                            By Frank Vest

 With the battle over copyright and if the editor cars about copyright
or not, here's a bit of my take. YMMV and all that stuff.

 Copyright is a funny thing. It varies in each county, nation more.
With the Internet, there are even more battles over such it. For my
part, I don't really care if Bjour... Bjuer... umm... where's my
<alt>key?? :) "Ah ha! There's the little bugger." Gee, I hope I don't
get slapped with a copyright violation from the Harry Potter movie. :)
Umm.. oh yeah! I don't really care if Björn has copyright stuff on his
personal page or tattooed on his... um... anyway... What I do care
about is that he is not allowing copyrighted material in the Fidonews
where it could hurt Fidonet. I know that the argument is towards Björn
being ernest in his reasons, but is that really important? Maybe, but
not as important as protecting the Fidonews.

 For me, I figure that one should write their own stuff. A quote is ok
here and there, but don't get crazy with it and insert a whole bunch
of quotes to make an article. Yes, there are people in Fidonet that
would try that just to see if they can get around the editor. Sad that
these people don't have a life. Someone should mail them one.

And here I thought that I had run out of things to write about. :)

Regards,
Frank


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                        How Do I keep Writing?
                            By Frank Vest

 I wonder at times just how I keep writing articles for the Fidonews?
If I were to look in the Fidonews echo for material, I would be rather
disappointed... or I would end up writing mostly about the sad bigotry
and hate between nations that I keep reading. If I looked in other
echos, I would have nothing to write about or the subject of some
software review. Not that software reviews are bad, mind you, but too
much can lose its appeal. :)

 I guess that I try to find the good in things. In a negative
statement, I look for the good. Yeah, that's hard to do, but if there
is no good there, I move on. The ability of most FTN and echomail
reading software to skip or "next key" to the next message is a big
help.

 There are those subjects that are good or have a good part to them.
When I was asked about what I had been doing while out of the Fidonews
echo, I could have written a response in the echo. Instead, I wrote a
short article for the Fidonews. That seemed the better thing to do. I
took that article and, since it dealt with death, spun another article
off of it. Kinda interesting how that works. :)

Of course, death might not be considered a "good" thing, but is it any
worse that the hate and other stuff in some of the echos? Some might
see the "death" of Fidonet as a release to the "dog" that they grew up
with. A rather positive thing in some ways of looking at it when one
considers the state of Fidonet. Then again, I'm in no hurry for the
"dog" to die.

 However, I am running out of things to write about. I suppose that I
could write an article about my BBS. I wonder if that would be a good
idea? The few Fidonet echos that I carry are sparse in their message
count and the Users seem more interested in the games and other things
than the Fidonet echos. Ah well. It is something to ponder. We shall
see if I continue to write or not.


Regards,
Frank


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                       Het Achterhuis
                  By Björn Felten, 2:203/208

Born on June 12, 1929, Anne Frank was a German-Jewish teenager who was
forced to go into hiding during the Holocaust. She and her family,
along with four others, spent 25 months during World War II in an
annex of rooms above her father's office at Prinsengracht 263 in
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

   After being betrayed to the Nazis, Anne, her family, and the others
living with them, were arrested and deported to Nazi concentration
camps.

   In March of 1945, nine months after she was arrested, and, so very
shortly before the British liberated the camp in April 15, Anne Frank
died of typhus at Bergen-Belsen. She was then fifteen years old.

   Her diary, saved during the war by one of the family's helpers,
Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been
translated into 67 languages and is one of the most widely read books
in the world. Oh, and in case you wondered, the headline is the actual
title of the book, not Anne Frank's Diary as most people probably
think. If my Dutch isn't too rusty, it translates to something like
"the back yard house".

   Even if Anne probably is one of the most famous persons that fell
victim for a snitch during the Nazi regime, she surely was not the
only one. Most likely, hundreds of thousands of those that were
murdered in the Nazi KZs would never have been sent there if a handful
of "helpers" had not snitched on them.

   Maybe this is one of the reasons people, at least in Europe, regard
snitchers to be the lowest of the low lifeforms there is? One society
that took snitching to the extreme, was the former DDR, where the
Stasi terror was almost entirely based on snitching. I guess few
people want to live in such a society, and yet millions of people were
forced to, for almost half a century.

   Sure enough telling the authorities about something that eventually
can prevent a serious crime, such as on-going child abuse, is
perfectly OK, but snitching just for personal gain (greed, revenge,
etc.) will forever be regarded as something that will put you on the
same bandwagon to hell as the rest of the most disgusting people
history has seen.


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