FidoNews · Vol 20, No 3 · 20 Jan 2003
The F I D O N E W S Volume 20, Number 03 20 Jan 2003
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Copyright 2003 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. INSIDE ................................................... 1
The Fidonews at a Glance ................................. 1
2. OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER .......................... 2
A Good Friend ............................................ 2
3. FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST .............................. 4
JMHO, but, Fidonet /IS/ needed! .......................... 4
4. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 6
CHECKING MY AGE .......................................... 6
5. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 7
FIDONet Software References .............................. 7
6. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 12
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 12
7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 17
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 17
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 19
How to Submit an Article ................................. 19
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 21
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INSIDE
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The Fidonews at a Glance
A rather thin issue, once again. Actually not a single contribution
for the general articles section. And the collection of Food for
Thoughts are finished too, I'm afraid, so if you happen to stumble
across some nice quotes, don't hesitate to send them in.
We were, however, saved from total emptiness, by two former
editors. Warren Bonner writes about friendship in his column, "A Good
Friend".
Frank Vest explains why he thinks Fidonet is needed. This, of
course, as a rebuttal to Scott Royall's article last week. Frank's
answer is called "JMHO, but, Fidonet /IS/ needed!" and can be found in
his own column.
Finally a joke about what it's like getting old, and how your looks
changes. (Can you really make jokes about this, Warren? :) "CHECKING
MY AGE" is the headline of this anecdote.
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OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER
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A Good Friend
In kindergarten your idea of a good friend was the person who let you
have the red crayon when all that was left was the ugly black one.
In first grade your idea of a good friend was the person who went to
the bathroom with you and held your hand as you walked through the
scary halls.
In second grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped
you stand up to the class bully.
In third grade your idea of a good friend was the person who shared
their lunch with you when you forgot yours on the bus.
In fourth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who was
willing to switch square dancing partners in gym so you wouldn't have
to be stuck do-si-do-ing with Nasty Nick or Smelly Susan.
In fifth grade your idea of a friend was the person who saved a seat
on the back of the bus for you.
In sixth grade your idea of a friend was the person who went up to
Nick or Susan, your new crush, and asked them to dance with you, so
that if they said no you wouldn't have to be embarrassed.
In seventh grade your idea of a friend was the person who let you copy
their social studies homework.
In eighth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped
you pack up your stuffed animals and old baseball but didn't laugh at
you when you finished and broke out into tears.
In ninth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who would go
to a party thrown by a senior so you wouldn't wind up being the only
freshman there.
In tenth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who changed
their schedule so you would have someone to sit with at lunch.
In eleventh grade your idea of a good friend was the person who gave
you rides in their new car, convinced your parents that you shouldn't
be grounded, consoled you when you broke up with Nick or Susan, and
found you a date to the prom.
In twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the person who helped
you pick out a college/university, assured you that you would get into
that college/university, helped you deal with your parents who were
having a hard time adjusting to the idea of letting you go...
At graduation your idea of a good friend was the person who was crying
on the inside but managed the biggest smile one could give as they
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congratulated you.
The summer after twelfth grade your idea of a good friend was the
person who helped you clean up the bottles from that party, helped you
sneak out of the house when you just couldn't deal with your parents,
assured you that now that you and Nick or you and Susan were back
together, you could make it through anything, helped you pack up for
university and just silently hugged you as you looked through blurry
eyes at 18 years of memories you were leaving behind, and finally on
those last days of childhood, went out of their way to give you
reassurance that you would make it in college as well as you had these
past 18 years, and most importantly sent you off to college knowing
you were loved.
Now, your idea of a good friend is still the person who gives you the
better of the two choices, holds your hand when you're scared, helps
you fight off those who try to take advantage of you, thinks of you at
times when you are not there, reminds you of what you have forgotten,
helps you put the past behind you but understands when you need to
hold on to it a little longer, stays with you so that you have
confidence, goes out of their way to make time for you, helps you
clear up your mistakes, helps you deal with pressure from others,
smiles for you when they are sad, helps you become a better person,
and most importantly loves you!
Pass on to those friends of the past, and those of the future...and
those you have met along the way thank you for being a friend. No
matter where we go or who we become, never forget who helped us get
there.
There's never a wrong time to pick up a phone or send a message
telling your friends how much you miss them or how much you love them.
So send this to all your friends and maybe those who aren't but just
watch and see who sends it back.
If you love someone, tell them. Remember always to say what you mean.
Never be afraid to express yourself. Take this opportunity to tell
someone what they mean to you. Seize the day and have no regrets.
Most importantly, stay close to your friends and family, for they have
helped make you the person that you are today, and are what it's all
about anyway.
Pass this along to your friends. Let it make a difference in your day
and theirs.
The difference between expressing love and having regrets is that the
regrets may stay around forever.
Passed by Bob Crown to wdbonner@pacbell.net
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FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST
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JMHO, but, Fidonet /IS/ needed!
By Frank Vest
1:124/6308
This is a response to Scott Royall's article of "Is Fidonet Really
Needed?".
I agree with Scott's assessment of the Internet Newsgroups. I will,
however, point out that some BBS programs offer NNTP access to the
Fidonet echos.
I agree that web BBS, such as what Scott operates, are nice. I'll
also point out that there are BBS programs that offer web access and
work with Fidonet (FTN) style messaging as well. Some of these offer
telnet access as well as PSTN. One that I know of is BBBS. There may
be others that are available or in development.
Yes, Fidonet has it's political, as well as technical, arguments and
flame matches. On that same note, Tom Jennings said something about
disagreement being needed. :-) Many of the arguments in Fidonet are
actually of benefit. Each Sysop is an individual with likes and
dislikes as well as opinions. Seldom (probably never) will two people
agree on everything. There will always be arguments... at the same
time, there will be compromise. That may be a weakness, but it also
makes all of us stronger.
As far as community feel goes, that is a matter of how one defines
"community". A community can be your neighborhood, city, state or
province or country. Community can also be common interests such as
computer programming, model building, politics and more. The BBS fits
into the former with message areas for the cities, states/provinces
and such. Fidonet fits into the latter with topics for hobbies and
such on a world wide basis.
Yes, it would be neat if web forums (BBS), such as Scott has, could
share message bases.... But wait... that's already done. Remember the
"BBBS" program I mentioned? I hope that there are other BBS programs
like that in development.
Back to the politics and arguments. Scott: If you want a BBS that has
no arguments, I'd hope that none of the web forums like you run decide
to share message areas. With the possible cost from ISPs charging for
bandwidth and such, sharing message areas on such forums will be more
political and argumentive than Fidonet has ever been, IMHO.
Yes, I agree that Fidonet is still needed.
Ok, I think I've covered most of what I set out to cover..... Oh
yeah. One question for Scott;
Why did you leave Fidonet? You could have moved to a web BBS program
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that offers FTN networking options and had what you have now plus
Fidonet, or other FTN networks.
Just some different food for thought. :-)
Regards,
Frank
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CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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CHECKING MY AGE
wdbonner@pacbell.net
I have been guilty of looking at others my own age and thinking....
Surely I cannot look that old....I'm sure you've done the same.... You
may enjoy this short story.
While waiting for my first appointment in the reception room of a new
dentist, I noticed his certificate, which bore his full name.
Suddenly, I remembered that a tall, handsome boy with the same name
had been in my high school class some 40 years ago.
Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This
balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was too old to
have been my classmate.
After he had examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended the
local high school.
"Yes," he replied.
"When did you graduate?" I asked.
He answered, "In 1957."
"Why, you were in my class!" I exclaimed.
He looked at me closely and then asked, "What did you teach?
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| | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889
| | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001
BeeMail: |M |http://beemail.gexonline.net 1:105/10
Stephen Proffit | |
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| | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998
BinkD |MI |http://2f.ru/binkd/
| | maloff@corbina.net
| | v0.94 on Jul 24th 2000
Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com
Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com
| | v2.00 on Mar23rd 1997
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://husky.sf.net
| | v1.2.2 on Dec 28th 2002
InterMail, InterEcho,|MT |http://www.ifido.com 1:1/133
Allfix | | sales@ifido.com
| | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE, v5.13 AF
Radius (based on |M |http://fido5012.narod.ru/ 2:5012/38
Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
| | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003
Terminate |MBP |http://www.terminate.com
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Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204
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| | wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60
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(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000
Squish |T |http://www.lanius.com
| | sales@lanius.com v1.11
| |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/
Synchronet BBS |TB |http://www.synchro.net
| | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
| | v3.10i Beta on Apr 30th 2002
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| | jpritch@eisonline.com
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138/146 | Marc Blakely | BinkP,FTP | ??? | n/c
140/1 | Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
142/906 | Chris Griffin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
150/220 | Dave Nemeth | UUE | ??? | n/c
153/7715 | Dallas Hinton | BinkD, FTP | CABLE | ???
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
167/166 | Jesse Dooling | POP? UUE TX FTP| ??? | n/c
218/109 | Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE,TX | 33.6k | n/c
220/10 | groberts|nexusbbs.net |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c
229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c
229/2000 | Robert Couture |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ??? |
229/622 | Dave Hamilton | BinkP | ??? | n/c
250/98 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c
250/99 | Brent McLaren | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c
250/102 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
267/169 | Philip Lozier | FTP TX | ??? | n/c
261/1380 | Joe Davis | UUE TX | ??? | n/c
275/311 | Shannon Talley|FTP,BinkP,FTP,VMoT,QWK| T1 |n/c
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
297/11 | Michael McCabe | TX | ??? | n/c
323/120 | Craig Healy | VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c
342/3 | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
393/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c
379/1 | Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c
396/45 | Marc Lewis |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL | n/c
2215/300 | Dennis Haddox | UUE,TX | CABLE | n/c
2320/38 | Janis Kracht | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
2410/400 | Gary Gilmore | FTP BinkP | 384K,60| n/c
2410/213 | Kevin Bentz | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c
2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
3613/1275 | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE,FTP | 28.8 | n/c
3407/4 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3634/12 | Mark Lewis |FTP,VMoT,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c
3830/9 | Steve Quarrella |BinkP FTP IFCICO VMoT UUE|?|?
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Zone 2 |
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
22/222 | Kim Heino | BinkP | ??? | n/c
28/1 | Lody Caenen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
37/37 | Gabor Z. Papp | BinkP | ??? | n/c
47/999 | Andrej Kirejev | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
53/558 |Vladimir Hrusca|POP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP,ifcico|2mbs|??
201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c
201/505 | Göran Eriksson | BinkP | ??? | n/c
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson |BinkP,FTP,TX,UUE| 512k | n/c
211/37 | Torbjorn Mohn | BinkP | 8/2mb | n/c
221/360 | Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
236/205 | Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
240/6298 | Steve Tell | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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252/110 | David Rance | UUE | ??? | n/c
255/90 | Simon Avery | UUE | ??? | n/c
263/950 | Sean Rima | TX UUE | ??? | n/c
280/1027 | Lukas de Groen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
280/1601 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
280/4312 | Jos Huijnen | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ??? | n/c
280/5003 | Kees van Eeten | BinkP ifcico | ??? | n/c
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE, BinkP | 128k | n/c
292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
333/0 | M Gianformaggio | BinkP | ??? | n/c
335/534 | Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
341/14 | Rafael Suarez | BinkP VMoT | ??? | n/c
341/51 | Jose.Maria Tejada | VMoT | |
341/66 | Angel Ripoll | VMoT | |
343/168 | Jose Casanova | VMoT | |
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
346/3 | Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
347/1 | Javi Polo | UUE | |
348/105 | Alejandro Estraviz| BinkP UUE | |
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/555 | Ofir Michaeli | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/557 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/256 | Andrew Rutkas | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/640 | Alex Semenyaka |BinkP ifcico UUE| ??? | n/c
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
469/128 | Oleg Vasenyoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
550/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | ----- | n/c
2410/201 | Karsten Ebeling | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c
2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
2432/200 | Sven Dueker | BinkP TX UUE | ??? | n/c
2446/301 | Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
2487/3000 | Steffen Gross | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5002/5002 | Victor Belyakov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5014/4 | Alex Bagmanov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/52 | Peter Didenko | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/54 | Serge Wizgounoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/69 | B Chernivetsky | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/238 | Sergey Gubanov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/1251 | K Stepanekov | UUE | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
5049/12 | Amir Shabashvili | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5054/3 | Andrew Popov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5080/80 | Eugene Zorin | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5083/21 | Alexander Uskov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5090/2 | Andrew Titov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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Zone 3
633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
712/311 | Bob James | TX | ??? | n/c
774/605 | Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
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Zone 4
801/161 | Renato Zambon | UUE | 33.6 |n/c
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
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Zone 6
65/3000 | Lawrence Fan | UUE | 33600 | free
653/1009 | Maorong Chen | UUE | ??? | free
654/0 | Bin Li | UUE,BinkP | 33600 | free
654/1501 | Lawrence Fan | UUE,BinkP | 28800 | free
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
* TX = TransX
* NFS = Linux Networking
* ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer
* QWK = Quick Packets/Offline mailer "networking" capable
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news.fidotel.com (provides user access to Z1B & WWB)
news.osirusoft.com
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Fidonet oriented chat rooms.
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.017
size 1023.7kb
date 2003-01-17
The nodelist has 9093 nodes in it
and a total of 11853 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
60 regions
442 hosts
630 hubs
admin overhead 1138 ( 12.52 %)
and 971 private nodes
310 nodes down
341 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1622 ( 17.84 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 717 ( 7.89 %)
9600 = 7899 ( 86.87 %)
(HST = 171 or 2.16 %)
(CSP = 1 or 0.01 %)
(PEP = 11 or 0.14 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.01 %)
(V32 = 4268 or 54.03 %)
(V32B = 436 or 5.52 %)
(V34 = 5204 or 65.88 %)
(V42 = 4311 or 54.58 %)
(V42B = 456 or 5.77 %)
2400 = 91 ( 1.00 %)
1200 = 7 ( 0.08 %)
300 = 379 ( 4.17 %)
ISDN = 884 ( 9.72 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3178
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 11
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 48
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XW Fido >12M 364
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 4057
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1422
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CrashMail capable = 2863 ( 31.49 %)
MailOnly nodes = 4948 ( 54.42 %)
Listed-only nodes = 715 ( 7.86 %)
Other = 567 ( 6.24 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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