FidoNews · Vol 21, No 26 · 28 Jun 2004
The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 26 28 Jun 2004
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Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Joining Fidonet.net Part2: Using EveryDNS.net ............ 2
3. IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO .............................. 5
POLICY 33.5 - THE FINAL INSULT ........................... 5
4. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 9
FIDONet Software References .............................. 9
5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 14
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16
How to Submit an Article ................................. 16
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 18
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things
they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
-- Andy Rooney
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Joining Fidonet.net Part2: Using EveryDNS.net
By: Viktor Pilpenok, 2:400/567
EveryDNS is a free DNS zone hosting service operated by David Ulevitch
and David Fortunato, in this article i'll explain how to use it to
host Fidonet.net zones, step by step.
NOTE: Currently EveryDNS.net allow only 200 records per zone so if
your net has more IP nodes than thatm you should use some other host.
Creating a zone
===============
1) Register
Go to http://www.everydns.net/, fill in your info in the signup
part, press signup.
2) Create a zone
On the left, in an edit box below "(basic)" write your domain
name eg. n1234.z2.fidonet.net then click ">> (basic)" button.
3) Edit the zone
If everything is ok, you'll see something like:
"Status: Logged in -- n1234.z2.fidonet.net has been added to
the database."
Below the stats on the upper right corner, and your zone should
appear on the left, below "Primary Domains:".
There should be a link "[Go]" near your zone name, click on it.
4) Allowing ZONE-XFER (required by fidonet.net rules)
Below "Axfr Control:" select the last middle ("Allow all") and
click "Change Axfr settings".
You can also set it to allow only ns.fidonet.net, but there is
nothing too secred about a fidonet.net zone :)
5) Delete the un-needed records
There are 2 records like
*.n1234.z2.fidonet.net CNAME parked.everydns.net 86400 [delete]
n1234.z2.fidonet.net CNAME parked.everydns.net 86400 [delete]
that are automatically added, you generally don't need them, so
press "[delete]" on both.
Editing Nodes
=============
Adding a node with static IP:
Below "Add a record:"
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a. type the full address (eg f123.n465.z7.fidonet.net) in the
field named "Fully Qualified Domain Name:".
b. Select "A" in record type.
c. Type ip address the node uses (eg 123.123.123.123) in the
"Record Value:" field.
d. Press "Add Record"
Adding a node with dynamic IP:
Below "Add a record:"
a. type the full address (eg f123.n465.z7.fidonet.net) in the
field named "Fully Qualified Domain Name:".
b. Select "CNAME" in record type.
c. Type hostname that resolves to the host dynamic IP
(eg bdew.dyndns.org) into the "Record Value:" field.
d. Press "Add Record"
Deleting a node:
Below "Current Records:" locate the node's entry, and click
delete on it.
Verifying that it works (Under windows)
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1) Run nslookup.
2) Type ns1.everydns.net
You should get something like:
Default Server: ns1.everydns.net
Address: 64.158.219.3
3) Type "set type=any:
4) Type your net FQDN (eg n1234.z2.fidonet.net)
You should get something like:
Server: ns1.everydns.net
Address: 64.158.219.3
n1234.z2.fidonet.net
primary name server = ns1.everydns.net
responsible mail addr = hostmaster.n1234.z2.fidonet.net
And and other info.
5) Type some node FQDN (eg f123.n1234.z2.fidonet.net)
You should get something like:
Server: ns1.everydns.net
Address: 64.158.219.3
f123.n1234.z2.fidonet.net internet address = 10.0.0.1
And and other info. Note thaht the adress is what you entered
when you added the node. For a dynamic IP node it would be:
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f234.n1234.z2.fidonet.net canonical name = bdew.dyndns.org
6) This will not work if you didn't select "Allow all" in
"Axfr control". Type "ls -d f1234.z2.fidonet.net", you should
get something like:
[ns1.everydns.net]
n1234.z2.fidonet.net. SOA ns1.everydns.net
hostmaster.n1234.z2.fidonet.net.
(1088289852 16384 2048 1048576 2560)
n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns1.everydns.net
n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns2.everydns.net
n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns3.everydns.net
n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns4.everydns.net
f234 CNAME bdew.dyndns.org
f123 A 10.0.0.1
Verifying that it works (Under other OSes)
============================================
There are too many variations of DNS clients and OSes to list them
all, so i'll not elaborate on this, if you are not running windows
you should know what you are doing anyway ;)
Highlites:
Manually set ns1.everydns.net as the nameserver to use, your zone
won't appear on Fidonet.net nameservers until you submit, and if
you won't set a nameserver manually, your client won't know
where to look for it.
Check that your zone and the nodes in it resolve correctly.
Check that AXFR works.
Modifying records afterwards
============================
1) Log in
Go to http://www.everydns.net/, fill in your username and
password and click login.
3) Edit the zone
Your zone should appear on the left, below "Primary Domains:".
There should be a link "[Go]" near your zone name, click on it.
4) Follow the "Editing Nodes" section above.
Submitting
==========
Use the guidelines in my previous article.
Your name servers are "ns1.everydns.net" and "ns2.everydns.net".
You did allow ZONE-XFER in step 4 in the "Creating a zone" section.
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IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO
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POLICY 33.5 - THE FINAL INSULT
Charles Herriot (1:163/110)
(this had to be done, Doc, now where's my Ibogaine?)
1. TITLE: (amateur policymongers probably don't realize the importance
of leading off with at least one "tit"... capture their imaginations
and their hearts and minds will follow)
The title of this document shall be:
"Policy 33.5 - The Final Insult,
otherwise known as:
"Mom! Mom! He/she dissed me and I'm gonna whump his/her sorry ass
with this policy document until he/she either apologizes or else gets
locked in a room and forced to listen to John Denver singin' 'Rocky
Mountain High' until her/his ears bleed."
2. PURPOSE: The purpose of this policy is to create more policy. The
Region has recognized quite clearly that if more policy were created
then, incredibly, we'd have more policy. If we had more policy, then
we would definitely need even more of it to expand upon the previously
created policy. Hell, in no time at all, this policy stuff would be
breeding on its own and provide sustenance to unemployed cod
fisherman.
3. DEFINITIONS:
AcetyleneMail: The polite staple of inter-sysop communication which
must include, at a minimum, at least one demand that the recipient
engage in an act of self-replicating his/herself. It is entirely
appropriate to substitute the preceding with a suggestion to the
recipient that they engage in an act of procreation with anyone having
the surname: "Off."
Cod: Humiliated trout. Not to be confused with the traditionally
refrain of grunt sysops to *C-beings which loosely paraphrases into:
"Who named you Cod?"
Beer: The official sysop monetary unit. Debts can be satisfied upon
payment of these units, and *C-beings are obligated to buy grunt
sysops copious quantities of this particular resource.
CRPs: Mistakenly identified as "Cost Recovery Plans", these are really
guileless attempts to extort money from Grunt Sysops. The money is
expended on fast women and loose cars.
Echomail: A system of distributing the latest gnarly-rad path lines,
and logoff macros, by "K00L D00DZ" which are rivaled by Sea Slugs for
their intrinsic wit. Also, any quote of the preceding is considered
"echomail" and the high fibre content helps to improve echomail
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regularity. Humungous amounts of megabytes of this stuff are
sporadically sent throughout the Region. All of this echomail was
spawned by one message which was entered in 1985 and everyone has been
quoting the shit out of it ever since.
Grunt Sysops: A strange infestation which has plagued Fidonet for
years. No one has figured out what sort of toxic spray would be
effective in eliminating them. The freshly hatched sysop-beings,
shortly before mastering the basic skills of mailers and echomail
distribution, plaster messages all over the known universe announcing
yet another new net.. one that promises some feature so outstanding
that it probably isn't replicated in more than 500 of the existing 600
Fidonet echomail areas.
Hubs: Dwarf-like creatures who live in tinfoil lined, darkened caves,
where their multi-node, Lan-based, 69 gazillion baud modems, poot
forth echomail. Hubs are recognizable from the fact that their plastic
pocket pen protector mounted pagers beep whenever they receive an
inbound mail packet. Hubs secretly dream about bringing the entire
Sports Illustrated Swimsuit modeling group to gaze at the diode arrays
winking from every corner of their kleenex-piled rooms.
NECs: Pituitary challenged Hubs who can often run a mailer for almost
a whole day without having the system crash. NECs spend hours
explaining batch files to bored and miserable people everywhere. NECs
have LAN work-stations in their bathrooms where they do their best
work.
Nets: Nets are largish containment devices used to bag various *Cs who
have run amok. These are not to be confused with "Network" which is
also herein defined.
Netwar: An exchange of pleasantries between sysops culminating in at
least a dozen threats of policy complaints, filled diapers, and about
20 megs of brainlessly quoted text.
Networks: Are collections of nodes who have mastered the incredible
mentation powers to remember the same sequence of digits. Networks are
loosely centred on geographic areas within easy mortar range of each
other.
Network Coordinators: (see also "Mazola & Bondage") Network
Coordinators are selfless individuals who are reluctantly railroaded
into wearing a large bullseye on their foreheads for the amusement of
grunt sysops who are bored and have already painted the cat.
Region: The region shall encompass that area in Canada lying to the
east of the Manitoba border (unless they lower their taxes and sell
cheaper beer) and continuing past the welfare states in the Atlantic
provinces to whichever dead cod happen to wash up on the beaches of
Sable Island. The Region shall also include the Free Republic of
Quebec, but only insofar as it does not impinge upon their God-given
right to rant endlessly about their contused and paranoid cultural
identity.
Regional Coordinators: The larval stage of Small Animal Psychologists.
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These beings are to be humoured and indulged since their are obligated
to buy rounds of beer for all sysops at social gatherings. Regional
Coordinators can be identified by the horrible sucking noises they
make while applying Vulcan lip-locks to the ZC's nether bits. After
weeks of sheep and sleep deprivation, these poor souls can be spotted,
buck naked in the moonlight, howling for more policy.
Technical Standards: A basepoint for launching into some sort of
penis-envy type message comparing baud rates, how many terrabytes of
online GIFS can be shot through the phone lines, or how some moron has
pissed away a small fortune on a Pentium chip so that they can display
messages at 14 million times their visual comprehension rate. I mean,
let's face it, if you happen to have cute blossooms, nobody is going
to give a damn whether your mailer works... in an ideal world, your
mail would get hand-delivered.
Users: Like, get serious wouldja? Screw 'em if they can't take a joke.
4. Official Titles:
In this Region, a group of sick minds will choose some relatively
innocent soul and propel the poor sucker into the job of Regional
Co-ordinator. The Regional Coordinator shall have all the powers
biologically granted to bread mold, but otherwise can be safely
ignored.
The Region shall be hacked up into small fiefdoms, called "Networks"
which shall elect mascots, order pizza in bulk quantities, and
participate in the annual Node Draft to choose the players for the
upcoming Netwar season. Nets will dragoon someone into being the
Network Coordinator who will be obliged to either undergo spontaneous
human combustion before a full term is served, or else stand for
re-election to the particular purgatory for which they are ideally
maladapted.
Network Coordinators will not be surprised to discover that they
commune directly with either God or if they want to go right to the
top; to Luke Kolin.
Network Coordinators are entitled to screech that "they need a really
big net." Judging from their post electoral behaviour, most grunt
sysops would agree with their appraisal, and might further suggest a
cell of the padded variety as well.
Any grunt sysop who has stood in the blinding white light of their own
ego too long is entitled to pile nine or ten listings of their own
number into the nodelist and appoint themselves as Net Coordinator.
They will be entitled to exhibit multiple-personality disorderly
conduct and pontificate about "what their net wants." Spray misting
these lost souls with regular doses of crystal-meth is advised.
5. Elections: Anyone who actually wants a title in Fidonet should be
put in a bottle and sent out into the Japanese current. If their lives
are so incomplete without the fame of a Fidonet title, then they
should be encouraged to get their pictures on milk cartons, but don't
elect the poor bastards because they'll inflict bad grammar on you
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until you lie in a pool of drool, clutching your "I Adore My 64"
button, babbling about the good old days when men were men and sheep
were not particular.
6. The Netwar Season: The netwar season shall commence nanoseconds
after the election of each new Regional Coordinator. A season can be
kick-started to a promising beginning by any Regional Coordinator who
campaigns on some sort of "peace" platform. Like, nudge nudge, wink
wink, we all *deplore* the fights in hockey games, so we'll be sure to
take these kind of lame promises just as seriously. (snicker)
(Incidentally, don't trust any candidate who quotes Arlo Guthrie in
"Alices Restaraunt" and says "I wanna kill. I wanna kill. I mean, I
wanna see blood and guts and veins in my teeth. I wanna kill. KILL!
KILL!" because these are the kind of milquetoasts that probably brake
for whales and will screw up a perfectly good netwar season with their
puerile sniveling for calm. C'mon, fess up... you tryna tell me that
you forked out five grand for a BBS system that was just gonna bring
in the DOGTALK echo?
At the beginning of each season, grunt sysops will make irrational
decisions about who they hate at the moment, and will bounce up and
down in their cribs, asking to be picked by their most favoured
Network Coordinator. Top draft choices will always be those sysops who
are prepared to nitpick the hell out of issue that occurred way back
in the late fifties.
Network Coordinators should not ignore the "specialty teams" that make
netwars so fascinating. Getting one of those tight-assed weenies who
quotes every obscenity that comes down the turnpike and then appends
some cloacally-challenged moralizing, should be counted as almost as
important as the wankers who brag that they are the very first to be
running the "new" Fido Version 1.01 software. The latter can be be
guaranteed to smoke out some peckerwood who counter-brags that he/she
has been running that version for three nanoseconds longer.... under
Windows, no less.
A truly successful Netwar season can be measured by the logarithmic
expansion of new nets, and the number of excitable, intrigue-filled,
phone calls that Lesley-Dee makes.
7. The Stirring Conclusion: Just as this policy document was about to
end. Just as Luke in his X-wing fighter was about to drop the Neutron
bomb down the exhaust shaft and put this puppy out of it's misery.
Just as the Bikersluts were about to perform peculiar ablutions in the
lap of the good Rev. Visage. Just as your RETURN button was begging
for mercy like some spaghetti flogged, Jesse Hollington-type
combination fax machine and gratification device... just at that
moment... a rock fungus will burst it's spore pod and some
flatlined-on-the-EEG sysop will suggest that "we really oughta have
lots more policy."
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BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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-=:{ FIDONet Software Reference }:=-
Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info
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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
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Argus |M |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84
| | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889
| | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001
BeeMail: |M |http://beemail.gexonline.net 1:105/10
Stephen Proffit | | beemail@gexonline.net
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
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
Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com
Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com
| | v2.00 on Mar 23rd 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://sf.net/projects/husky/
| | v1.4 RC2 on Sep 22nd 2003
Radius (based on |M |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38
Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
| | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003
Terminate |MBP |http://www.terminate.com
| | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997
Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204
Software, Inc. | | AUP 450.2 on Jul 9th 2002
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.4
FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org 2:280/1076
| | wijnstra@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://www.lanius.com
| | sales@lanius.com v1.11
| |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/
Watergate |TUI |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/
| | ramon@sbbs.se
| | v0.93p9 on Dec 14th 1998
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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/
| | pjs@optushome.com.au 3:633/104
| | v2.0 on 3 May 2003
Falken BBS |B |http://falkenbbs.com
| | v12.0 on Feb 2nd 2002
Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org
| | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final
Maximus BBS |B |http://www.lanius.com
| | sales@lanius.com v3.01
| |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/
MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802
Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net
| | v0.33.21 on Jun 4th 2002
Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com
| | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001
Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net
| | groberts@nexusbbs.net
| | v0.99.41.001 beta on Jun 10th 2001
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
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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
Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net
| | support@telegard.net
| | v3.09g2 SP4
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Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
| | last update: Jun 2002
BBS Central |D |http://www.rpcomputers.com
Bentstone |D |http://www.srupc.com/mall
Capabilities Group | | info@stonebenders.com
Cheepware: |D |http://www.midnightshour.org/cheepware/
Sean Dennis | | hausmaus@midnightshour.org 1:11/200
DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
DoorMUD |D |http://www.dmud.thebbs.org
| | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002
Elysium Software |D |http://www.elysoft.com
| | mpreslar@mailcity.com
Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
JNS Software: |D |http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/
Rusty Johnson | | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com
| | Tel: (304) 733-0113
John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
| | support@johndaileysoftware.com
LORD (Legend of the |D |http://www.lordlegacy.org
Red Dragon) Reborn | | mike@lordlegacy.org
| | v4.06 on Feb 5th 2001
Lord-II IGMs |D |http://www.shelby.net/wizards/lord2igm/
PC Pursuits |D |http://www.pcpursuits.com
| | brucep@pop.kis.net
| | Tel: (301) 240-6653
Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
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| | 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
(various) |D |http://www.webnexus.com/users/etow/
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13
CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de
| | 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
| | mk@openxp.de v3.8.7 beta Aug 3rd 2002
PPoint |P |http://www.alcuf.ca 1:249/114
| | v3.04 on Jan 10th 2000
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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
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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
PeopleComm Terminal |CUI |http://www.peoplecomm.org 1:128/148
(BBS & Telnet w/ | | edward.williams@adelphia.net
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ZModem) | | v1.01a on Feb 11th 2003
TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998
TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.multiboard.com/software/
Communications, Inc.| | support@multiboard.com 1:2401/305
| | v3.5
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National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org
Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
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http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi
http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// vice http:// above)
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Note: Please send corrections & additions to: Ben Ritchey, 1:393/68
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WildCat! BBS at +1-337-232-4155 24/7 33.6kBps,8,N,1
Internet: http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/fidosoft.txt
Emeritus: Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.177
size 885.2kb
date 2004-06-25
The nodelist has 7439 nodes in it
and a total of 10183 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
56 regions
423 hosts
525 hubs
admin overhead 1010 ( 13.58 %)
and 1098 private nodes
304 nodes down
332 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1734 ( 23.31 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 625 ( 8.40 %)
9600 = 6447 ( 86.66 %)
(HST = 131 or 2.03 %)
(CSP = 1 or 0.02 %)
(PEP = 11 or 0.17 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.02 %)
(V32 = 3371 or 52.29 %)
(V32B = 307 or 4.76 %)
(V34 = 4351 or 67.49 %)
(V42 = 3675 or 57.00 %)
(V42B = 307 or 4.76 %)
2400 = 69 ( 0.93 %)
1200 = 6 ( 0.08 %)
300 = 292 ( 3.93 %)
ISDN = 601 ( 8.08 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2448
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 10
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 39
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XW Fido >12M 297
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 3320
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1311
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CrashMail capable = 2282 ( 30.68 %)
MailOnly nodes = 4149 ( 55.77 %)
Listed-only nodes = 577 ( 7.76 %)
Other = 431 ( 5.79 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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