The F I D O N E W S Volume 24, Number 21 21 May 2007 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |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. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2 3. FIDONET REGIONAL NEWS .................................... 3 Region 13 Coordinator Election - Time to vote ............ 3 4. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 4 JamNNTPd Frequently Asked Questions ...................... 4 The JamNNTPd HOWTO for Windows ........................... 6 Available JamNNTPd servers ............................... 9 5. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 10 FidoNet Software References .............................. 10 6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15 7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17 How to Submit an Article ................................. 17 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19 FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 1 21 May 2007 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= Gossip is when you must hurry and tell someone before you find out it isn't true. -- Anonymous ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 2 21 May 2007 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= I promised to run some articles about JamNNTPd in this issue of the Snooze, but unfortunately an annoying thing called real life... http://felten.se/PICT0103.JPG (as you can see a lot of work remains to be done there) caught up on me, so it will have to wait until later. But some stuff for you to study while waiting, at least I can give you that. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 3 21 May 2007 ================================================================= FIDONET REGIONAL NEWS ================================================================= Region 13 Coordinator Election - Time to vote Michael Luko, 1:266/512 Last week I submitted my background information and the plans that I will carry out if I were elected to the Region 13 Coordinator position. I hope you have had a chance to read though it. If you agree with my plans to map out and promote growth to region 13 just I have done on the network level with network 266, now is the time to support me by your vote. You heard right! Every system node operator in region 13 has an opportunity to cast a vote and participate in the Region 13 coordinator election. You can support me by netmailing your vote addressed to Robert Wolfe@1:13/2 routed via 1:261/38 (dialup) or 1:261/100 (internet). Robert has a connection with Janis for netmail. His direct internet connection is being worked on at the moment so direct may not work. Your netmail should include your name, node number, password of your choice for confirmation and to remain anonymous in the vote tally, and your vote for Michael Luko. Example: To: Robert Wolfe@1:13/2 Subject: Regional Coordinator Election Vote Body: System Operator: (your name) Node Number: (your node number) Password: (password of your choice) Vote: Michael Luko The voting period started on 5-14-07 and ends on 5-25-07 at 11:59pm. If you have any question regarding my background, plans or the voting process itself just give me a yell. Thank you once again for your time and now for your vote of support. ====> Michael Luko <==== Sysop, Christian Fellowship BBS (856) 933-7096 Telnet: cfbbs.dtdns.net or cfbbs.no-ip.com Netmail: Michael Luko@1:266/512 Email: Michael.Luko@verizon.net ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 4 21 May 2007 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= JamNNTPd Frequently Asked Questions 27-Dec-04 Q. What is JamNNTPd? A. JamNNTPd is a NNTP server for messages stored in messagebases in the JAM format. This means that you can read or write fidonet messages with almost any newsreader such as Thunderbird or Outlook Express. Q. What are the requirements for running JamNNTPd? A. JamNNTPd is currently available for Win32 operating systems (Windows 95, Me, 2k or XP) and Linux. It should be possible to compile JamNNTPd under other Unix-type operating systems with no or minimal changes. Q. Where can I download JamNNTPd? A. http://www.df.lth.se/~billing/jamnntpd.html Q. Why can I read all the messages in the NETMAIL area? A. You have to write an exclamation mark before the name in jamnntpd.groups to let JamNNTPd know that is a netmail area. Q. What is the format of the configuration file for the -config option? A. All command-line options can also be used in the configuration file (the initial dash is optional). You can use "jamnntpd -create jamnntpd.config" to create a configuration file with the default options. Q. Why won't my newsreader download new messagesP A. Your tosser or messagebase maintenance program has probably renumbered the messagebase. "hpt pack" is known to to that, and there may be other programs with the same behaviour. Q. How can I create empty JAM messagebases? A. If you use CrashMail, you can just type "crashmail scan" to create missing messagebases. If you use another tosser, download the checkgroups.pl perl script from the JamNNTPd homepage and run it with the --fix switch. FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 5 21 May 2007 Q. Why can't JamNNTPd open my messagebases? Other programs have no problems. A. Make sure that the lastread file (*.jlr) file exists for the messagebases. If they is missing, you can create them with the checkgroups.pl script from the JamNNTPd homepage. Q. How can I get non-ascii characters to work in usernames in jamnntpd.users? A. jamnntpd.users must be written in the same character set that messages are posted in. This is normally iso-8859-1 for Western European languages. Q. Why are my netmail messages not sent? I'm using Crashmail, BTW. A. Make sure that NOROUTE is not enabled in crashmail.prefs. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 6 21 May 2007 The JamNNTPd HOWTO for Windows So you finally decided to take a look at that JamNNTPd package you've heard so much about? And after you've unpacked it, you have absolutely no clue about what to do with it? Well, then you've decided to read the right textfile. I did very much the same, half a year ago. It wasn't until I got a permanent connection to the internet that I realized what I could do with this package. If you *don't* have a permanent connection to the internet, you can stop reading here, and just delete the entire package. Well, on second thought maybe not -- a local installation of JamNNTPd and your favourite news reader will probably be a better combination for reading and writing fidonet echoes than most others you will find, so stay with us. What is it? ========== JamNNTPd is for 'news://...' what Apache, IIS &al are for 'http://...', i.e. it's a server program that lets any user from internet reach your JAM message base with any news reader they happen to have installed. So how do you go about making JamNNTPd work? Well, this is a case study from my setup. I use WinXP as front-end against internet, and have (of course!) the built-in firewall enabled. I have several 'mshome.net' workstations connected to the internet via ICS, and on one of these I decided to setup and run JamNNTPd. What do I do first? ================== The first thing you should do, after you've unpacked the zip-file, is to edit the four config files, jamnntpd.groups, *.users, *.allow and *.xlat to suit your setup. The help-texts in those files should be selfexplanatory. Then what? ========= Then you have to open up a port in your firewall to allow outside, as well as inside (usually yourself) callers to reach your JamNNTPd newsserver. The default port for a newsserver is 119, so this is a good choice for incoming from internet, and 5000 is usually a good one for outgoing to your local network. Settings for the WinXP firewall can be reached from right-clicking on your internet connection icon in 'Settings'->'Network and Dial-up Connections' and then click your way to 'Properties'->'Advanced'->'Settings'. Add a new porthole, lets call it JamNNTPd, with 119, 5000, TCP and the local name of the workstation where you installed the JamNNTPd server (localhost will do fine if you installed JamNNTPd on the workstation that your firewall is located on). Now all you have to do is 'Win-R cmd' and do a 'cd' to the proper directory and give the command 'jamnntpd' and you're up and running! FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 7 21 May 2007 Remember that even if your outside callers must use port 119, you yourself, from inside the firewall, must use port 5000 to connect to your own newsserver. So that's it, then? ================== Once you've made sure it's working, you can start finetuning your setup. First of all, Ctrl-C stops the server. :) Then you may remember that the server does not need to be restarted whenever you edit one of the four config files. Thirdly, even if the defaults usually is a good choice, if you want a conservative, fidonettish look&feel from your JamNNTPd newsserver, you might be interested in knowing how I start it: jm.bat ------ @jamnntpd.exe -notearline -smartquote -noreplyaddr -m 10 -echomailjam r:\sem\fdxit6.60 ------ As some of you might guess from the above, I still rely on a FrontDoor node to take care of most of the things, such as tossing and scanning echomail. 'fdxit6.60' is a semaphore file that tells my FrontDoor node 6 to exit with errorlevel 60. That is my major toss&scan event. I use CrashMail II (from the JamNNTPd author) to toss&scan my JAM areas, since my old squishmail can't handle JAM. Can I let anybody in? ==================== In fidonet, we have a very strict policy about real-names and proper authentication of users, before they are allowed to write anything in any of our echoes. So, if you setup fidonet echoes, you must make sure your users are authenticated before they are allowed to write anything. Reading is, of course, perfectly OK even for anonymous visitors. Proper authenticating is also handled by JamNNTPd, based on how you setup your *.users and *.allow files. Normally you probably will have a *.allow that only has one line: '* ABCDE A' ... meaning you let everybody read in your A, B, C, D and E groups but only write in A (for anonymous). In *.users you can add more groups, that only authenticated users may read or write: # Syntax: # # # sysop password ABISTX ABISTX # FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 8 21 May 2007 # I=international # S=Swedish # T=beta-test # X=private # user1 password1 AIST AIST user2 password2 ABIST ABIST user3 password3 ABIST ABIS user4 password4 AIST ABST user5 password5 AIST AI guest guest AIST A Well, sysop could just as well have used * for both groups. Poor user 4 is not allowed to read B groups but can write (probably not a very good idea), and user5 is not trusted with writing in Swedish-only echoes. Furthermore, you can add a real-name for any user listed here (more about that in the main doc). Then all you have to do, is inform your users to set up their news reader to "always request authentication to this server" and to have configured it with the proper nick, true-name and password. It may interest them to know, that what they enter in the "Organisation:" field ends up in the origin line, unless you use one of the options, described in the main doc, to use a fixed origin line of your choice. ----- Bj”rn Felten, news://felten.yi.org or fidonet 2:203/2 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 9 21 May 2007 Available JamNNTPd servers URL news://felten.yi.org Join http://felten.yi.org/join.html NETMAIL Yes, 2:203/2 URL news://the-estar.com:1119 Join http://www.easternstar.info/fidovianews.html NETMAIL Yes, 1:123/789 URL news://vtdl.net Join Info in group +GETACCESS+ NETMAIL No URL news://fido.thunderdome.us:1119 Join mailto:matt@thunderdome.us NETMAIL No URL news://fido.jabberwocky.com.au Join http://www.jabberwocky.com.au/register.php NETMAIL Yes, 3:640/305 URL news://pucelabbs.dyndns.org Join Info in group REGISTRATE_AQUI-REGISTER_HERE NETMAIL No URL news://quinnspost.dyndns.org:60119 Join mailto:eskimo261@bigfoot.com NETMAIL No Existing but not yet fully operational: URL news://bbs.bdew.yi.org Join mailto:bdew@bdew.yi.org or ICQ# 2666606 NETMAIL No URL news://hub2000.darktech.org:10119 Join Info in group +GETACCESS+ NETMAIL No URL news://nntp.rbb.bbs.fi Join Info in group +GETACCESS+ NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/361 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 10 21 May 2007 ================================================================= 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 24-21 Page 11 21 May 2007 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 24-21 Page 12 21 May 2007 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 24-21 Page 13 21 May 2007 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 24-21 Page 14 21 May 2007 | | 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 24-21 Page 15 21 May 2007 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.138 size 627.9kb date 2007-05-18 The nodelist has 5176 nodes in it and a total of 6991 non-comment entries including 6 zones 43 regions 316 hosts 349 hubs admin overhead 714 ( 13.79 %) and 643 private nodes 222 nodes down 236 nodes on hold off line overhead 1101 ( 21.27 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 429 ( 8.29 %) 9600 = 3992 ( 77.13 %) (HST = 79 or 1.98 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.03 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.03 %) (V32 = 2011 or 50.38 %) (V32B = 111 or 2.78 %) (V34 = 2758 or 69.09 %) (V42 = 2301 or 57.64 %) (V42B = 119 or 2.98 %) 2400 = 36 ( 0.70 %) 1200 = 5 ( 0.10 %) 300 = 714 ( 13.79 %) ISDN = 353 ( 6.82 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 1552 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 16 21 May 2007 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 2 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 2 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 24 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 210 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 2066 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1312 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 1882 ( 36.36 %) MailOnly nodes = 2907 ( 56.16 %) Listed-only nodes = 430 ( 8.31 %) Other = -43 ( -0.83 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 24-21 Page 17 21 May 2007 ================================================================= 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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