The F I D O N E W S Volume 23, Number 39 25 Sep 2006 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Netmail attach to (POTS): | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-960447) | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | 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 | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2 Join the family of FON, the search ....................... 2 3. EDITOR'S CORNER .......................................... 6 A public reply to some questions ......................... 6 4. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 7 5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 8 Fidonet Related Websites ................................. 8 6. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 11 FidoNet Software References .............................. 11 7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 16 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 16 8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18 How to Submit an Article ................................. 18 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 20 FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 1 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= What luck for the rulers that men do not think. -- Adolf Hitler ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 2 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Join the family of FON, the search. By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555 Two month ago I wrote about FON, a Spanish initiative to provide members of the FON community with world wide free WiFi access to the InterNet on the basis of reciprocity. This is a sequel, a diary of a trip where as a side issue, I tried to find and use FON access points. August was very wet and so we aborted our previously planned trip into Germany following our stay at the Bad Bentheim international Hamfest. Instead we decided to wait out the bad weather at home and start over when the conditions became better. I decided to take the laptop along with FidoNet point software installed and try to find FON access point to keep in touch. But how to find them? It turned out to be not as easy as it looked at first sight. Fon offers maps based on Googlemaps with the FON points inserted, but these are of little use if you do not have advance knowledge of where exactly you are going. Now this may seem a bit odd for most of you, but for us Dutch trailer/camper owners - we call them caravans here - it is not all that unusual to just hook up the trailer and go without any more than a vague idea of where the trip will go, let alone where it will end. Some of us are true nomads. FON offered - they dropped that recently - the possibility of displaying a list of nearest points around a selected ZIP code, but only the first 30 or so of that list are printable. So I printed a list for two cities I thought I might come near: Middelburg in Zeeland and Antwerp in Belgium. Some 60 FON points in total. Our idea was to eventually go into France, maybe Normandy or even Brittany, but printing lists for all that was just too much, so I gave up. * * * * * Friday Sept 8, 2006. We hooked up the caravan and headed in the direction of Zeeland. We saw some interesting things on the way and arrived at a camping place near Renesse in the evening. No FON points in the neighbourhood, but as a ham I am always on the lookout for antennas. I noticed a small vertical antenna on a flag pole near the shower block. A bit shorter than a 1/4 wave for 2 meters and a bit thicker than a simple rod. Later I also saw the same antenna on the flag pole at the reception and so I asked the receptionist what they were for and my guess was confirmed: WiFi. When I asked how I could get access the man told me that since "the router was broken, the network was all open and access was temporarily free". That did not sound very logical to me - if the router is broken, how can it work at all? - but who am I to argue with a free lunch. And indeed, it was an open network and I succeeded in having my binkp mailer on the laptop make contact with my system at home and I exchanged mail. So far so good. But this story is about FON and not about an accidentally free access point on a camping. FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 3 25 Sep 2006 * * * * * Saturday Sept 9th. Next stop Zoutelande. No Wifi on the camping, no registered Fonero within 15 kilometers. We did some shopping and made a trip to Veere, A very nice old city. Bit of a tourist attraction though. There is a marina there and I noticed a WiFi access point on the Harbour master's office. I guessed this one would not be open and it certainly was not a registered FON point, so I did not take the trouble of going back to the parking (300 meters) to get the laptop and try it out. * * * * * Sunday Sept 10th. The camping place at Zoutelande turned out to be a nice place and there were lots of trips to be made, so we decided to stay there for a few more days. We made a trip to Middelburg and enjoyed ourselves at "little Walcheren". Got plenty of suggestions for things to go see in the real. There are four FON points listed in Middelburg, but frankly we were a bit tired and hungry at the end of the day. I didn't have the drive to go for an access point hunt, so we went back to the camping for a meal. * * * * * Monday Sept 11th. Trip to Vlissingen. Home of the famous Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter (I am named after him). There should have been one Fonero in the city. This time I thought I would give it a try. I had little trouble finding The address and I could even park there for a moment. There was a signal but it was not on the expected channel 11 - the default for the FON social router - and it was protected. No access. So the guy had switched off the social router. Maybe he got tired of it and replaced the FON software in the router with the original Linksys software, or it was the neighbour's router or something else. Anyway, I did not want to stay to investigate, I could not park there for long so we moved on. * * * * * Tuesday Sept 12th. We hookup up the trailer again and went for Goes. There should be four Fonero in Goes. With the caravan hooked up, going into the city was a bit of an adventure. I had little trOuble finding the first address, but I ran into a dead end street and it took a bit of effort to turn the combination around without unhooking the trailer but I managed. Luck was with me this time, I got a signal on channel 11. It looked promising. I got access and exchanged mail. what I had expected did not happen however: I was not asked for a user Name and password. This appeared to be an open access point. I was not sure because my experience with FON access point was very limited. Maybe a cookie did the login for me. Who knows? Later when I had an opportunity to consult the travel log, I saw that it had indeed not been a FON access point. If it were, it would have appeared in the log. I had just stumbled on an open access point. Maybe operated by the Fonero, maybe his neighbOur. I did not stay around to investigate, I was parked a bit awkward and Rosa felt uncomfortable and became impatient. So we FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 4 25 Sep 2006 moved on and settled down at a camping at Wemeldinge. * * * * * Wednesday Sept 13th. The camping at Wemeldinge offered no WiFi and there were no FON access points within 10 km. The place was presented as a diver's Walhalla and maybe it was, there were plenty of wet suits to be seen. But as diving is not our thing and it had little else to offer, we hooked up the caravan again and moved on. We took the Zeeland tunnel across the Wester Schelde and settled down at Groede near Breskens, Zeeuws Vlaanderen. No Wifi on the camping there and no Fonero in range. We planned to go south along the Belgian and French coast next day. * * * * * Thursday Sept 14th. The weather turned bad, so we decided to abort the plan of going down the coast and turned east at Brugge instead. We expected better weather away from the coast. We landed on a place called Oteppe in the French speaking part of Belgium. I had driven off the Fonero maps I prepared, so no chance of finding a Fonero. No Wifi signal on the camping but the flyer said they had InterNet capability. So I enquired and it turned out that I could use The computer of the "Internet Cafe" at the reception. No good of course, that one does not have binkp installed. When I asked if I could plug my RJ45 into a free port of the router I got a blank stare and when I explained, the lady at the desk almost got a hearth attack. So I gave up. The weather was nice though and there was a lot to see so we stayed a bit longer. * * * * * Friday Sept 15th. We made a trip to Huy and visited the fortress. Very impressive. By then I had given up hope of finding FON access points. They are too sparsely spread to make the chance of accidentally bumping into them next to zero and I had no FON map of the area. * * * * * Saturday Sept 16th. We saw a variety of impressive castles, but - this is getting boring - no FON access points. * * * * * Sunday Sept 17th. The weather turned bad again and we had a problem with the car. No way to get it repaired on a Sunday, so we decided to call it quits and drive home while we still could. We took our time and made a few stops on the way. We were home just after sunset. My FON point at home was still up and running. Nobody seemed to have used it. * * * * * We had an interesting trip. Bit shorter than we planned but we enjoyed ourselves. As a FON expedition I can hardly call it a success. On a ten day trip with 1000 km on the meter, I did not contact a single FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 5 25 Sep 2006 Fonero. I realize that FON is just starting but for it to become a success as a first priority something will have to be done to make them easier to find. There are too few of them, they are too far apart and they are too hard to find when on the move. Plus that not all the registered ones are on-line. When we are on holiday, we do not want to spend the better part of the day dragging the laptop along, trying to find an active access point do we? They should be as easy to find as a gas station. A weak point of FON is that most access points are where the Foneros live: in build up residential areas. The nomad - to whom it would potentially be most useful - is in a motel or a camping place. That is a bad match. I do not know if these problems can be overcome. Fon has recently changed their web interface with the Google maps. The new interface is much more flashy, but unfortunately it is also harder to find the Foneros than with the old interface. Not an improvement IMNSHO. We will just have to exert some patience and see how it works out. The more people who join, the more chance of success. So Join The Family of FON: http://www.fon.com (c) 2006, Michiel van der Vlist. All rights reserved. Permission granted to distribute by means of the FidoNews echomail conference and the FidoNews file echo only. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 6 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= EDITOR'S CORNER ================================================================= A public reply to some questions. Once again the debate about moderating, editing and who knows what, has raged in the FidoNews echo. Since I over and over again have asked people to take their issues to an article rather than in the echo, I thought that I, for once, should comment on a message in the Snooze. Unfortunately this means that I, for this once only, have to abandon my policy of staying unbiased in my editorial work, but I'm really getting fed up with all this "you're damned if you do and you're damned if you don't", so here goes. > When was the last time you saw Bj”rn post in this echo as a > moderator? I very rarely post moderating messages in the echo. That's simply not how we do things in Z2. We don't think that the echo participants should have to put up with things like that; that's not why they (well, most of them) join an echo. It simply is regarded as being off topic on this side of the pond. > When was the last time Bj”rn sent a moderating netmail to the people > that are accused of being the troublemakers in this echo? How the h*ck do you think anyone else could know that? Why not ask me? I could have told you that I gave up about three years ago, when all I got in return for my efforts was insults and f*ck-you-messages. The last straw was probably when one of the most notorious troublemakers in all of FidoNet openly lied about never having received a single moderating netmail from me. Not even after I made public his reply to the last one did he admit that he was lying. Fortunately I had discovered that it was enough to send a netmail to those "on the other side" of a discussion going wild. From them I always got a very polite answer assuring me that they would comply, and they always have. So obviously I stopped wasting my bandwidth on people that seemingly got a hard-on from violating the rules -- just because they could. What would *you* have done in my situation? And, as Ward pointed out, just look at the path line from any of the worst offenders, and you will be able to get the big picture, those are the ones that are really responsible for some echoes being turned into flame fests. Those, together with some of the Z1 coordinators, are the ones that don't give a damn about the state of any echo, as long as they can continue to play Big Guys of Fidonet. They are the ones that could easily put a stop to all the pollution of some echoes -- but obviously that's not in their best interest, it's not something that can be found on their agenda. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 7 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ================================================================= John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called "pullets", and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs (for you city folks). The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fill out an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was Ole Butch, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on one particular morning, John noticed Ole Butch's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, Ole Butch had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of Ole Butch, he entered him in the Comal County (TX) Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result... The judges not only awarded Ole Butch the No Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well. Clearly Ole Butch was a politician in the making: Who else but a politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 8 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= 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 23-39 Page 9 25 Sep 2006 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 23-39 Page 10 25 Sep 2006 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 23-39 Page 11 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= 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 (Russian) 2:461/70 | |http://www.fidotel.com/taurus (English) (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 FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 12 25 Sep 2006 FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org | | 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://ezycom.sytes.net | |http://members.westnet.com.au/centuryp/ | | ezycom@westnet.com.au 3:690/682 | | 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 | |Archives back online at: | |http://maximus.outpostbbs.net/ 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 FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 13 25 Sep 2006 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta 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://outpostbbs.net Sean Dennis | | sean@outpostbbs.net 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 FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 14 25 Sep 2006 CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only) | | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999 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 FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 15 25 Sep 2006 | | Fido: 1:229/2000 | | FidoNet Nodelist Processor +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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://www.bbsfiles.com 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 23-39 Page 16 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.258 size 681.1kb date 2006-09-22 The nodelist has 5649 nodes in it and a total of 7627 non-comment entries including 6 zones 46 regions 345 hosts 384 hubs admin overhead 781 ( 13.83 %) and 688 private nodes 238 nodes down 271 nodes on hold off line overhead 1197 ( 21.19 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 463 ( 8.20 %) 9600 = 4441 ( 78.62 %) (HST = 84 or 1.89 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.02 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 2271 or 51.14 %) (V32B = 127 or 2.86 %) (V34 = 3057 or 68.84 %) (V42 = 2566 or 57.78 %) (V42B = 135 or 3.04 %) 2400 = 43 ( 0.76 %) 1200 = 5 ( 0.09 %) 300 = 697 ( 12.34 %) ISDN = 384 ( 6.80 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 1714 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 17 25 Sep 2006 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 2 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 2 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 26 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 222 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 2334 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1342 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2017 ( 35.71 %) MailOnly nodes = 3132 ( 55.44 %) Listed-only nodes = 468 ( 8.28 %) Other = 32 ( 0.57 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 23-39 Page 18 25 Sep 2006 ================================================================= 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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