The F I D O N E W S Volume 22, Number 13 28 Mar 2005 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Netmail attach to (POTS): | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907) | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Netmail attach to (BinkP): | | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:203/0 | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | | | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: | | _ @/_ \ _ | bfelten @ telia dot com | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2005 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2 Cost Recovery for Expenses Related to your BBS ........... 2 3. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 4 4. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 7 FIDONet Software References .............................. 7 5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 12 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 12 6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 14 How to Submit an Article ................................. 14 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 16 FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 1 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong. -- John G. Diefenbaker ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 2 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Cost Recovery for Expenses Related to your BBS Shannon Talley www.fidotel.com 1:275/311 Cost recovery is not a new idea, nor is it exclusive to businesses. Most charitable organizations have cost recovery business models setup which takes precedence over their charitable cause. This is important because if a charitable organization fails to function as an organization due to lack of funds, then the organization can't assist those entities for which it was designed to begin with. The Red Cross, Salvation Army, PETA are examples of just a few. Each of you reading this article has likely encountered the expense related dilemmas of running your BBS. Software registrations, new hardware, bandwidth, phone lines, and other expenses I haven't mentioned can make this hobby extremely expensive. A typical BBS isn't necessarily a charitable organization. However, the business model of cost recovery can be exploited by the SYSOP to assist with BBS related expenses. One of the items which I initially employed for cost recover is CafePress (www.cafepress.com). This is a really nice idea for a site which allows one to start a store front selling clothing and trinkets with your logo. Your logo could be 'anything' in a JPG. CafePress doesn't require any money to begin. All you need is an internet connection and a JPG. They make their profit by the sale of the merchandise and creating the merchandise as it's purchased. One of my colleagues has taken pictures of his family and created a virtual store front of merchandise with it. He uses it to purchase merchandise for himself and other family members at cost. I have another colleague who is an artist and purchases his own merchandise with his artwork from his CafePress storefront and actually places it in his (real live) store in Virginia Beach. Besides CafePress, there are other methods of cost recovery. One of them is to offer Email services and charge, or charge for games, or perhaps charge for online access to your BBS. However, unless one lives in an area where there is no ISP, charging for access to your BBS won't provide the income potential as it did in the early 1990's. Other avenues still exist. I found a niche with providing web and telnet based collaboration services to Universities. One of the most popular methods of cost recovery appears to be web banner ads. Many BBS's today run web FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 3 28 Mar 2005 versions of their BBS in addition to their Telnet cousins. Synchronet and Wildcat! Winserver are two that provide access to nearly everything their Telnet counterparts provide to include access to Fidonet echos. Because of the web access, one can sell rotating banner ads. In order to sell banner ads, one must have the traffic demographics to support it. If a sysop only receives two visitors per day, they won't have the same revenue potential that one with 20,000 visitors receives. Other potential cost recovery items have included, Auctions (I've seen them on Telnet as well as the Web), programmers have sold utilities (Fidonet and Non-Fidonet) to support their BBS, and I know of a Sysop who attempted (jokily) to sell his ex-wife. In closing, if the cost of bandwidth has you straddled, you need new hardware and software, consider building a small business model for cost recovery. Remember to keep it fun, and when you stop enjoying your hobby, it may be time to leave it. However, if your cost recovery plan starts to make you some decent income, perhaps you might have found a niche to change your lifestyle and leave your office for new personal discovery. Shannon Talley ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 4 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= FIDONET BY INTERNET ================================================================= Fidonet Related Websites Thom LaCosta 1:261/1352 03/14/2005 One approach to tracking and viewing Fidonet related websites is to visit webrings that specialize in Fidonet. A webring is a method where sites having a common theme advertise other websites with simailar themes. The advantage to the webring concept is that in theory, the sites have an interest in maintaining an accuate listing and can modify their own listings on a site by site basis. It appears that there are two fidonet webrings....the long-running system at http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=fidonet and another at http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/ The ring at webring.com is larger, but forces the viewer to look at google ads panels. The smaller ring at fidonet.us does not depend on adverstising revenue from ads. Sysops with Fidonet related websites should consider joining one or both rings. Ring News 03/13/2005 Welcome to the Positronium Repository - Software Repository of mostly free/PD packages for DOS, Wins, OS/2 & Linux. Over 20,000 packages ... Sysop: Ben Ritchey 02/17/2005 Fidonet webring welcomes BGD Consulting and Graphics BBS Sysop : Barry Davis Jr 01/15/2004 Welcome to Fidotel -- Free access to Fidonet via Telnet & the Web. Sysop: Shannon Talley 12/27/2004 Welcome to The Thunderbolt -- A Weather Wonder(Arkansas, US) Sysop: Daryl Stout 12/5/2004 It's a pleasure to welcome two new BBS systems to the fidonet.us webring: Pucela BBS (Valladolid, Spain) Sysop: Komunero The Realm of Darkness BBS Sysop: Ken Bowley The most current version of the list below can be viewed at FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 5 28 Mar 2005 http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/sitelist.html WWW.FIDONET.US - WEBRING PARTICIPANTS BBBS Charlotte and N4RPS.net Home Page Web Page of N4RPS, Rob Sargeant, and Web portal for BBBS Charlotte, a Fidonet BBS located in Charlotte, North Carolina USA (1:379/2). http://www.n4rps.net - 6-November-2003 Fidonet - Net261 - Maryland Fidonet in Maryland - Net261 http://www.fidonet.us/net261/ - 2-March-2003 Rocasa BBS Rocasa BBS is a system accessible as both a traditional Bulletin Board System, via landline or telnet, as well as via the Web for message and file access. It is also the home of the BBBS FDN. http://bbs.rocasa.org - 16-June-2003 Prism BBS Hq of the IFDC FileGate and the Programmers Distribution Network. Prism has been online since 1989. http://www.filegate.net:8080 - 11-February-2003 Fidonet.us The Fidonet Site for all sysops. http://www.fidonet.us - 10-February-2003 The Realm of Darkness BBS A Linux based BBS running in Phoenix, AZ http://www.trod.org/trod.html - 3-December-2004 Pucela BBS (Valladolid, Spain) BBS located in Spain. The web has a lot of information about BBS's and FidoNet in Spain, Argentina, Mexico FidoNet: 2:341/201. Language: Spanish. http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/pucelabbs.htm - 18-November-2004 FTN Gate Fidonet related site; including especially DNS hosting for z1.fidonet.net domains. http://www.ftngate.net - 18-September-2004 Fidonet Region 13 Home page for Fidonet Region 13. http://www.fidonet.us/region13/ - 20-August-2004 FidoNet Primer An introduction to FidoNet: what it is, how it works http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html - 11-February-2003 RuneKeep BBS A great place for new sysops to learn about BBSing and getting help setting things up. A friendly place for people to Play Onlines Games, FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 6 28 Mar 2005 Chat, and participate in International Message Forums. http://runekeep.darktech.org - 10-February-2003 The Elflords' Home Where the FidoMob meets to exercise it's mysterious control over Zone 1 http://www.elflords.net/ - 2-March-2003 Fidonet Parody FidoNet - An Unofficial Page where truth is stranger than fiction, and humor abounds when the Emperor Has No Clothes. http://www.fidonet.ro/ - 2-March-2003 Chowdanet BBS Chowdanet offers mail from several nets, games and a large files base. Dial up and telnet access. http://www.chowdanet.com - 11-February-2003 The Thunderbolt -- A Weather Wonder Arkansas' exclusive GT Power and FIDO BBS, with over 150 message areas, over 5500 files, and over 125 REGISTERED doors. FIDO 1:382/33 GT Power 035/005 http://www.wx1der.com - 26-December-2004 FidoTel Provides free access to Fidonet via Telnet & the Web. Download/upload QWK packets via Telnet or Web, Free Email with every account! Come by and see, Fidotel is Free! http://www.fidotel.com/ Fido 1:275/311 & 100 15-January-2005 BGDCAG BBS has been around since the early 90's. We are always looking for ways to update the BBS. Doors are always being added. Stop by for a visit. http://www.bgdcagbbs.com Fido 1:229/414 17-February-2005 Positronium Repository - Software Repository of mostly free/PD packages for DOS, Wins, OS/2 & Linux. Over 20,000 packages http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/positron.htm 7-March-2005 If you have a Fidonet-related site, join the ring at http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/ Thom 1:261/1352 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 7 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ FIDONet Software Reference }:=- Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' Argus |MI |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84 | | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889 | | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001 BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102 | | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998 BinkD |MI |http://2f.ru/binkd/ | | maloff@corbina.net | | v0.94 on Jul 24th 2000 (Outdated) FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280 Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net | | v2.4 on Sep 26th 2003 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MTPC |http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330 Definite Solutions | | sales@defsol.se 1:1/101 | | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX Husky Project |MTPUI|http://sf.net/projects/husky/ | | v1.4 RC2 on Sep 22nd 2003 Radius |MI |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38 (based on Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463 | | Last Release: v4.010 on Jan 3nd 2005 Taurus |MI |http://taurus.rinet.ru 2:461/701 (based on Radius) | | E-mail: taurus@rinet.ru | | v5.000 alpha on Oct 11th 2004 Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608 | | Website is in Russian only WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 451.1 on April 26th 2004 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org | | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10 FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 8 28 Mar 2005 | | support@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60 JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000 Squish |T |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ | | Lanuis site redirects to above | | Squish is part of Maximus. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net | | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222 ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002 EZYCom BBS |BT |http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dcbbs/ | | dcbbs@tpg.com.au 3:633/104 | | v2.0 on 3 May 2003 Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org | | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final Maximus BBS |B |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ | | v3.03 MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.60.0 on June 5th 2004 Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net | | groberts@nexusbbs.net | | v0.99.41-Beta on Oct 16th 2002 | | [Note: No Longer under active | | development.] Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be | | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002 RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 9 28 Mar 2005 Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/ | | Last Update: August 2004 Cheepware |DU |http://cheepware.midnightshour.org Sean Dennis | | hausmaus@midnightshour.org 1:18/200 DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201 Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | DoorMUD |D |http://doormud.com | | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002 | | Website is down after | | past the splash page. Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com | | support@johndaileysoftware.com Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ | | stanley@brainex.com 1994-99 Releases Trade Wars |D |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ | | jpritch@eisonline.com | | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002 Vagabond Software: |D |http://www.vbsoft.org 1:124/7013 Bryan Turner | | vagabond@vbsoft.org | | last update: Jul 17th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de | |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm | | (English Version) | | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de | | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13 CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only) | | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999 FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 10 28 Mar 2005 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460 | | support@freexp.de | | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot) OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004 | | (Site is in German Only) | | mk@openxp.de v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004 | | Download Page comes back 404 not found. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ GoldEd+ |E |http://mik.nu/golded-plus/ 2:203/6600 | | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003 SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de | | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999 TimEd |E |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet | | mail@ozzmosis.com /timed | | v1.11.a5 in March 2003 3:633/267 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com | | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997 Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 (Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001 TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/ | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998 TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.start.ca/software/multiboard Communications, Inc.| | Unsure about support now but Free Keys | | are now available. Donations accepted. | | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program) Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230 | | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway | | Program. Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan | | @spamgourmet.com | | Fido: 2:350/5 | | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <-> | | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system. MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl | | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com | | Fido: 1:229/2000 | | FidoNet Nodelist Processor FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 11 28 Mar 2005 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/ (in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings) +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu http://maximus.midnightshour.org http://hobbes.nmsu.edu Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// instead of http:// above) *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=* Please send corrections & additions to: Robert Couture, 1:229/2000 E-Mail: rpa4email (at) rogers (dot) com Telnet: runekeep.darktech.org (Leave Feedback as Guest or create an account) Emeritus: Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 12 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.084 size 803.7kb date 2005-03-27 The nodelist has 6558 nodes in it and a total of 9200 non-comment entries including 6 zones 47 regions 376 hosts 475 hubs admin overhead 904 ( 13.78 %) and 1126 private nodes 298 nodes down 314 nodes on hold off line overhead 1738 ( 26.50 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 598 ( 9.12 %) 9600 = 5599 ( 85.38 %) (HST = 115 or 2.05 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.02 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 2906 or 51.90 %) (V32B = 248 or 4.43 %) (V34 = 3835 or 68.49 %) (V42 = 3208 or 57.30 %) (V42B = 247 or 4.41 %) 2400 = 54 ( 0.82 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.11 %) 300 = 300 ( 4.57 %) ISDN = 516 ( 7.87 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2166 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 13 28 Mar 2005 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 7 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 38 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 275 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 2904 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1154 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2036 ( 31.05 %) MailOnly nodes = 3664 ( 55.87 %) Listed-only nodes = 519 ( 7.91 %) Other = 339 ( 5.17 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 22-13 Page 14 28 Mar 2005 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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