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FidoNews · Vol 23, No 40 · 02 Oct 2006

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 23, Number 40             02 Oct 2006 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        An open letter from Björn Forsström  ......................  2
        The missing copyright character  ..........................  4
     3. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES  .....................................  5
        Bait  .....................................................  5
     4. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ......................................  6
        Fidonet Related Websites  .................................  6
     5. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................  9
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  9
     6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 14
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 14
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 16
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     The human race divides itself politically into those who want to be
     controlled, and those who have no such desire.

                     -- Robert A. Heinlein

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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
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     An open letter from Björn Forsström 2:203/614.61 to everyone under the
     age of 15 and those of you who are older can stop read here since you
     will never get it anyway.

     When you grow up I hope that Fido has since long gone been put to
     sleep because I wouldn't want you to read about how so called adults
     in the year 2006 are behaving towards each other like I will mention
     below but with the present situation I don't think you have to be too
     much worried. Rabies is a lethal disease and it's spreading like a
     wildfire in here.

     It's free to call anyone you like for a thief without proving a thing.

     It's free to call anyone you like for a liar, also without proving a
     thing.

     It's free to have the worst man ever lived (Adolf Hitler) as your
     Hero. (I hope you are familiar whit the history, otherwise I can
     personally recommend a visit at Dachau or Bergen-Belsen in Germany or
     Stutthof in Poland).

     It's free to talk shit behind everyone's back and the more patronizing
     you is the better.

     Misunderstand everything and everyone, deliberately or not doesn't
     matter.

     Do to others what you don't want them to do to you.

     Show all the disrespect you can towards everyone that doesn't agree
     with you.

     Let someone else do the thinking for you, no matter if it makes sense
     or not.

     Pretend to be a peace-maker in a conflict until you have earned some
     respect and then stab your opponent in the back.

     The older you get the more childish you will be (sad but true).

     When you leave the sandbox, be sure to bring some sand with you,
     preferably full of dogs shit. It's much more fun to toss it then.

     Set as many traps as you can. It' SO fun to watch people walk right
     into them, thinking you was serious.

     Blame everyone else for your own shortcomings.

     Accuse everyone else for everything you don't like and then do exactly
     the same yourself.

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     Have an agenda but never agree to anyone that you have one.

     Don't ever listen to anyone else, you might actually learn something.

     Claim to have a medical education and toss diagnoses around you as you
     see fit without even having met the patient.

     Disagree with everyone just because you can. It's really nice to stir
     things up.

     Don't ever help anyone, even if his clothes have caught fire.

     Don't worry if you break existing rules, those who sees you as their
     Hero will back you up whatever you have done.

     When you run out of arguments you are entitled to sink as low as you
     see fit to discredit your opponent.

     I could go on for hours but I think that you kids understand what I'm
     trying to say.

     If you all follow some or all of those rules you will become a person
     in FidoNet that's respected and the one that others will listen to
     because they will look up to you as their Great Leader and they will
     worship you for coming up with new abuses in every post.

     And there is no copyright or anything attached to this, instead I urge
     you all to make copies of this or better, make posters and put those
     at every kindergarten, every school you know of so that the next
     generation can learn from our mistakes and eventually make a better
     world with respect for others and their opinions.


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                       The missing copyright character
                     By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

     Lately there has been a bit of an uproar in the FidoNews echo about a
     copyright notice. Which made me wonder why we have to make do with the
     three letter string consisting of a letter 'c' encased in parenthesis
     when we write articles for the Snooze and other 7 bit text only media.
     The ASCII character set is the first widely accepted standard for
     character encoding, but like its predecessors it lacks a copyright
     character. It has provisions for the 26 letters of the alphabet -
     upper and lower case -, ten digits, 32 control characters, a space and
     32 special printable characters. Among these we find mathematical
     operators, punctuation marks and the Dollar sign.

     What is missing is a copyright character. As far I have been able to
     tell the first character set to include a copyright character is
     codepage 850.

     Why? Did the designers of the ASCII character set (ca 1960) consider
     it less important than the Dollar sign? Did the mid seventy designers
     of the original extended IBM PC character set - now generally known as
     codepage 437 - think a copyright character was not important enough to
     include?

     One might be tempted to believe so. I forward a more technical
     explanation. When the ASCII character set was designed, we also saw
     the advent of dot matrix based displays. The first generation of these
     displays had a 5x7 matrix. And there is no way that you can cram a
     recognisable copyright character in a 5x7 matrix. The best you can do
     with a 5 dots wide matrix is to resolve four changes in intensity on a
     horizontal cross section. That will accommodate a Dollar sign if one
     compromises by having it only one vertical bar instead of the
     classical two that one usually sees in print, but a copyright sign
     requires at least six intensity changes. And so the copyright sign did
     not emerge until the next generation of dot matrix displays came in
     wide spread use: the 7x9.

     (C) 2006, Michiel van der Vlist, All rights reserved. Permission to
     distribute via the FidoNews file echo and the Fidonews echomail
     conference.


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                           CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
     =================================================================

                           Bait

     Boudreaux been fish'n down by de bayou all day and he done run outa
     night crawlers.  He be bout reddy to leave when he seen a snake wif a
     big frog in his mouf.  He knowed dat dem big bass fish like dem frogs,
     so he decided to steal dat froggie.

     Dat snake, he be a cotton mouf water moccasin, so he had to be real
     careful or he'd git bit.  He snuk up behin' dat snake and grabbed him
     roun de haid. Dat ole snake din't lak dat one bit.  He squirmed and
     wrap hisself roun' Boudreaux's arm try'n to git hisself free.  But
     Boudreaux, he had a real good grip on his haid, yeh.

     Well, Boudreaux pried his mouf open and got de frog and puts it in his
     bait can. Now, Boudreaux knows dat he cain't let go dat snake or he's
     g onna bite him good, but he had a plan.  He reach into de back pocket
     of his bibs and pulls out a pint a moonshine likker.  He pour some
     drops into de snake's mouf.

     Well, dat snake's eyeballs kinda roll back in his haid and his body go
     limp. Wit dat, Boudreaux toss dat snake into de bayou. Den he goes
     back to fishin'.

     A while later Boudreaux dun feel sumpin' tappin' on his barefoot toe.
     He slowly look down and dare wuz dat water moccasin . . . wif two more
     frogs.


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                            FIDONET BY INTERNET
     =================================================================

     Fidonet Related Websites
     Thom LaCosta
     1:261/1352
     03/14/2005

     One approach to tracking and viewing Fidonet related websites is to
     visit webrings that specialize in Fidonet.

     A webring is a method where sites having a common theme advertise
     other websites with simailar themes.  The advantage to the webring
     concept is that in theory, the sites have an interest in maintaining
     an accuate listing and can modify their own listings on a site by
     site basis.

     It appears that there are two fidonet webrings....the long-running
     system at http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=fidonet and another at
     http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/

     The ring at webring.com is larger, but forces the viewer to look at
     google ads panels. The smaller ring at fidonet.us does not depend on
     adverstising revenue from ads.

     Sysops with Fidonet related websites should consider joining one or
     both rings.

     Ring News

     03/13/2005
     Welcome to the Positronium Repository - Software Repository of mostly
     free/PD packages for DOS, Wins, OS/2 & Linux. Over 20,000 packages ...
     Sysop:  Ben Ritchey

     02/17/2005
     Fidonet webring welcomes BGD Consulting and Graphics BBS
     Sysop :  Barry Davis Jr

     01/15/2004
     Welcome to Fidotel -- Free access to Fidonet via Telnet & the Web.
     Sysop:  Shannon Talley

     12/27/2004
     Welcome to The Thunderbolt -- A Weather Wonder(Arkansas, US)
     Sysop:  Daryl Stout

     12/5/2004
     It's a pleasure to welcome two new BBS systems to the
     fidonet.us webring:

     Pucela BBS (Valladolid, Spain) Sysop: Komunero
     The Realm of Darkness BBS  Sysop: Ken Bowley

     The most current version of the list below can be viewed at
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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
     =================================================================

                    -=:{ 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
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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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      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
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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
                           |     | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
                           |     | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.

      MakeNL               |U    | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
                           |     | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
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                           |     | Fido:                       1:229/2000
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