FidoNews · Vol 23, No 39 · 25 Sep 2006
The F I D O N E W S Volume 23, Number 39 25 Sep 2006
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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
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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What luck for the rulers that men do not think.
-- Adolf Hitler
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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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.
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* * * * *
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
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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
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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.
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EDITOR'S CORNER
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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 Björn 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 Björn 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.
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CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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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.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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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
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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,
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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
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ROBERT COUTURE'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 |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
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10
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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.
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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://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
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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: 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
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| |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
| | (English Version)
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13
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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.
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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
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
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| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
| | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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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 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 1714
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 2
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XP Seadog 2
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XR Opus 1.03 26
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XW Fido >12M 222
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 2334
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1342
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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]
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