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FidoNews · Vol 24, No 5 · 29 Jan 2007

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 24, Number 05             29 Jan 2007 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        Frustrations of a FidoNet programmer  .....................  2
     3. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................  6
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  6
     4. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 11
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 11
     5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 13
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 13
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 15
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is
     generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

                            -- Johannes A. Gaertner


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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
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                      Frustrations of a FidoNet programmer
                      By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

     Most of us who have at some point in their career had job descriptions
     that included "writing computer programmes" will be familiar with the
     frustrations of having to meet with the demands of customers and
     management. What customers and managers usually have in common is that
     they can not program themselves out of a wet paper bag even if their
     lives depend on it, but who nevertheless have firm perceptions on the
     ease by which their demands can be met. "I am not a programmer myself,
     but this should be easy to add" is heard too often.

     All the more frustrating is that ever so often the customer's wish
     would have been relatively easy to meet, had the customer come up with
     it in an early stage of the project instead of when it is 99%
     finished. Honesty compels me to admit that the opposite also happens:
     a customer coming up with a wish that just needs a few key strokes to
     fulfil, but him/her believing it is major alteration. (And willing to
     pay according to his/her beliefs...)

     When writing as a volunteer for a non profit organisation such as
     FidoNet, one would hope and maybe even expect to be free of such
     frustrations and to just be allowed to program for fun. Unfortunately
     this is not true. Not any more I am afraid. Let me give you an example
     of something I came across while programming for FidoNet.

     When I became R28 pointlist keeper over a decade ago now, I felt the
     need for a programme that could not only assemble pointlists from
     segments, but that would also check things like flags for correct use
     as well. There was MakeNl and there was ERRFLAGS, but the latter would
     not work on pointlists and I found it too limited as well. MakeNl was
     abanonware at the time and I was not satisfied that either. So I
     decided to write my own programme.

     Part of this programme was to be the flag checker. Of course the flags
     that it recognised should not be hard coded, but be configurable. We
     have seen too much problems with hard coding, I did not want to saddle
     the users of my programme with the the burden of having to nag for an
     update every time a new flag was added to the nodelist. Flags should
     be configurable.

     Sounds easy. Just make the user enter in the config, a list of flags
     he would like to have recognised as valid and if the flag is in the
     list, it is ok, and if it is not, generate a warning or an error.
     Something like:

     FLAGS V22,V32,V32B,V90C,V90S,VFC,V34

     But wait, there are userflags and normal flags, so we should have two
     classes of flags:

     FLAGS XA,XB,XC,XP,XR,XW,XX,CM,MO,MN,LO,V42,V42B,MNP,V22,V32,V32B,
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     V32T,ZYX,Z19,HST,H14,H16,MAX,PEP,CSP,VFC,V34,V110L,V110H,
     V120H,V120L,X75,ISDN,X2S,X2C,V90S,V90C

     USERFLAGS NC,REC,NEC,ZEC,ENC,RPK,NPK,CDP,SDS,SMH

     All pretty straightforward. Oh, well, there are the Tyz flags. We do
     not want the user to have to enter all 2256 valid permutations all by
     himself, so we define wildcards for the flags. The Tyz flags are
     added:

     USERFLAGS NC,REC,NEC,ZEC,ENC,RPK,NPK,CDP,SDS,SMH,T$$

     But only a-x and A-X are actually allowed as substitutes for the
     wildcards. And permutations with the same letter in the second and
     third position are also invalid. Ok, no problem, exclude those
     combinations:

     EXCLUDEFLAGS TY$,Ty$,TZ$,Tz$,T$Y,T$y,T$Z,T$z,T$<

     It started to get a little complicated by now, but still pretty
     straightforward. There was one thing still missing though. Flags can
     have parameters. Up until the coming of Fido over IP this was not a
     big issue as although flags can have parameters, this was hardly used
     until the flags for IP and E-mail protocols came into use. The new
     flags however van have one or two optional parameters: an address,
     host name or e-mail address and or a port number. A decent flag
     checker programme should of course check the validity of the
     parameters as well. And not just their validity if present, but also
     if the required information to make a connection is present. A line
     with a lone IBN flag and no hostname or IP address in the system name
     field or another field holding a default value should be flagged as an
     error.

     My first step was to write a subroutine that could determine if a
     strings is:
     1) a valid IP quad or:
     2) a valid fqdn (Fully Qualified Domain Name) or:
     3) a valid IPv6 address or:
     4) A valid e-mail address or:
     5) a valid port number.

     Two more classes of flags entered the scene. IPGLAGS end EMAILFLAGS.
     The syntax for an IPFFLAG is
     FLAG[:<hostname|ip-quad|ipv6address>][:portnumber] and for an
     EMAILFLAG: FLAG[:emailaddress][:portnumber].

     So in the config this was added:

     IPGLAGS IBN,IFC,IFT,ITN,IVM,IP
     EMAILFLAGS IMI,ISE,ITX,IUC,IEM,EVY,EMA

     Implementing all this was a major operation that required a complete
     overhaul of the flag check routines. Not only the flag fields
     themselves had to be checked, but also other fields that can contain
     default values for the parameters. To show some initiative I added the
     feature of letting flags inherit parameters from previous flags in the
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     same class.

     So IBN:fido.vlist.eu,IFC,IFT:fido2.vlist.eu would mean the same as
     IBN:fido.vlist,IFC:fido.vlist.eu,IFT:fido2.vlist.eu

     Summarising, I had now defined five classes of flags:

     1) Normal class flags, no parameters used
     2) User class flags, no parameters.
     3) Ip class flags, two optional defaultable inheritable parameters
     4) email class flags, two optional defaultable inheritable parameters.
     5) Flags that are explicitly excluded although defined by implemantion
     by one of the other four.

     Default port number is of course the default port for the protocol in
     question and default parameter # 1 is inherited from the system name
     field, or the telephone number field.

     Then someone who said "I am not a programmer but..." proposed to put
     the default connection information not in the system name field, but
     in the field destined for the location, separated from the location
     itself by a # character. And it found its way into the nodelist.
     Sigh..

     I felt uncomfortable about it - Yet Another Method of listing IP
     nodes- and the use of the '#' character conflicted with a recently
     submitted proposal for listing IPv6 information of the nodelist, but
     alas, it was not too hard, so a few more lines were added to my flag
     checker routines. But I was getting a bit tired of it. Also my
     programme was getting a bit too big for my taste. I was a bit worried
     it would become top heavy...

     But still the concept of different classes of configurable flags that
     each had their own specific syntax and things to check remained. As it
     turned out, my efforts to implement that particular way of listing IP
     nodes was a wasted effort. It is no longer in use. Not an incentive
     really...

     And then someone invented the INA flag. Again a politician, not a
     programmer. The INA flag should hold the default value for the connect
     info for IP flags. It should end all discussion about where to put it
     and appease those who refused to give up the BBS name in field 3.

     I tried to fit it in, but found I could not without almost starting
     all over again and without sacrificing the concept of configurable
     classes of flags. I could not fit it in in any of the existing
     classes. The INA flag requires one and only one parameter. The other
     flags have either none, or two optional parameters. Also, the INA flag
     does not stand on its own, if there is no IBN flag or other IP flag,
     the presence of the INA flag is an error condition. So I would have to
     add a new class just for this flag alone. Adding a class for a single
     case almost boils down to hard coding a flag, something I wanted to
     avoid.

     Top it off with the added complication that there is no requirement
     that the INA flag be listed before any other IP protocol flags, so
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     that in my particular case, I would have to add a separate pass while
     parsing the line to extract info from the INA flag, before parsing the
     other flags. All the more frustrating is that had it been proposed
     five years earlier, I would have started on a different track and
     implemented it without much problems. As it is, it just does not fit
     in with what I already have. That annoys me.

     In the old days, it would go like this: a programmer would write
     something into his programme and when people started to use is, the
     nodelist clerks would enter the flags needed to support it, into the
     nodelist. Programming was fun. It also ensured that by the time a flag
     or another feature reached the nodelist, it was always clearly and
     unambiguously documented what it was supposed to do. Nothing is as
     nitpicking as a computer when it comes to being told what something is
     supposed to do. Any ambiguity will be severely punished.

     Now, it is the other way around: FidoNet has been taken over by the
     politicians. People who by their own admission "are not programmers,
     but..." invent nodelist flags. With no regards whatsoever for the few
     remaining programmers. How the programmers implement it, is their
     problem. No matter how illogical it is or how ill if fits into what
     already exists. Programmers are not consulted. The FTSC is not
     consulted. When programmers speak up to vent their objections, they
     are ignored.  With the result that programmers who have retired from
     programming for a living, and who now do it for the fun of it, find
     themselves in the same position as when they were still paid for it.
     They have to dance to the tune of the customers and the managers. With
     the difference of course that they do not get paid any more.

     People are afraid that with the few participants we have, changes will
     drive people away. If people are forced to change node number, they
     will leave they say. But nobody is concerned about an even smaller
     group: the programmers. What about them? Should it not be an even
     greater concern not to piss off and drive away the programmers by
     political decisions that force them to do major rewrites or just throw
     in the towel?


     (c) 2007, Michiel van der Vlist. All rights reserved.
     Permission to distribute via the Fidonews file echo
     and the FidoNews echomail conference.


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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
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      Atlantis Software    |D    |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
                           |     | Last Update: August 2004

      Cheepware            |DU   |http://outpostbbs.net
       Sean Dennis         |     | sean@outpostbbs.net         1:18/200

      DDS (Doorware        |D    |http://www.doorgames.org     1:2404/201
       Distribution System)|     | ruth@doorgames.org
       Ruth Argust         |     |

      DoorMUD              |D    |http://doormud.com
                           |     | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002
                           |     | Website is down after
                           |     | past the splash page.

      Jibben Software      |D    |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
                           |     | scott@jibben.com
                           |     | 1995-99 Release dates

      John Dailey Software |D    |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
                           |     | support@johndaileysoftware.com

      Shining Star         |D    |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
                           |     | nannette@shiningstar.net

      Sunrise Doors:       |D    |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
       Al Lawrence         |     | al@sunrisedoors.com
                           |     | Tel: (404) 256-9518

      The Brainex System   |D    |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/
                           |     | stanley@brainex.com  1994-99 Releases

      Trade Wars           |D    |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
                           |     | jpritch@eisonline.com
                           |     | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002

      Vagabond Software:   |D    |http://www.vbsoft.org        1:124/7013
       Bryan Turner        |     | vagabond@vbsoft.org
                           |     | last update: Jul 17th 2002

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      APoint               |PI   |http://www.apoint-mail.de
                           |     |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
                           |     | (English Version)
                           |     | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
                           |     | v1.25                   2:2426/1210.13
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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.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      GoldEd+              |E    |http://mik.nu/golded-plus/   2:203/6600
                           |     | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003

      SqEd32               |E    |http://www.sqed.de
                           |     | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999

      TimEd                |E    |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet
                           |     | mail@ozzmosis.com            /timed
                           |     | v1.11.a5 in March 2003      3:633/267

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      GiGo                 |UI   |http://www.gigo.com
                           |     | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997

      Internet Rex:        |UI   |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
       Charles Cruden      |     | telnet://xanadubbs.ca       1:342/806
       (Khan Software)     |     | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001

      TransNet             |UI   |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/
                           |     | transnet@ressl.com.ar
                           |     | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998

      TransX: Multiboard   |UI   |http://www.start.ca/software/multiboard
       Communications, Inc.|     | Unsure about support now but Free Keys
                           |     | are now available.  Donations accepted.
                           |     | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program)

      Ifmail               |UI   |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
                           |     | crosser@average.org         2:5020/230
                           |     | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway
                           |     | Program.

      Meltdown-BBS         |UI   |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
                           |     | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan
                           |     |                       @spamgourmet.com
                           |     | Fido:                       2:350/5
                           |     | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
                           |     | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.

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

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      National BBS List    |?    | http://www.usbbs.org

      Hispanic FIDO/BBS's  |?    | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
       (in Spanish only)   |     |  (Extensive software & BBS Listings)

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      File Archives:

       http://archives.thebbs.org             http://www.filegate.net
       http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org         http://www.juge.com
       http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/        http://garbo.uwasa.fi
       http://www.simtel.net                  http://wuarchive.wustl.edu
       http://www.bbsfiles.com                http://hobbes.nmsu.edu

      Note: most also provide FTP access
            (use ftp:// instead of http:// above)

     *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*

      Please send corrections & additions to: Robert Couture, 1:229/2000
                    E-Mail: rpa4email (at) rogers (dot) com
                         Telnet: runekeep.darktech.org
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         Emeritus: Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich

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                             SPECIAL INTEREST
     =================================================================

                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.026
                size  644.7kb
                date  2007-01-26

      The nodelist has   5342 nodes in it
        and a total of   7198 non-comment entries

              including     6 zones
                           45 regions
                          324 hosts
                          364 hubs
         admin overhead   739 ( 13.83 %)

                    and   637 private nodes
                          219 nodes down
                          261 nodes on hold
      off line overhead  1117 ( 20.91 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    450 (  8.42 %)
                9600 =   4144 ( 77.57 %)
                              (HST  =   81 or   1.95 %)
                              (CSP  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (PEP  =    1 or   0.02 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.02 %)
                              (V32  = 2107 or  50.84 %)
                              (V32B =  123 or   2.97 %)
                              (V34  = 2864 or  69.11 %)
                              (V42  = 2384 or  57.53 %)
                              (V42B =  135 or   3.26 %)
                2400 =     37 (  0.69 %)
                1200 =      5 (  0.09 %)
                 300 =    706 ( 13.22 %)

                ISDN =    378 (  7.08 %)

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      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             1599
                      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                      25
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      XW              Fido >12M                     215
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
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      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                2182
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1310
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      CrashMail capable =   1937 ( 36.26 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   2996 ( 56.08 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    439 (  8.22 %)
      Other             =    -30 ( -0.56 %)

      [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
      [        Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]

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