FidoNews · Vol 34, No 20 · 15 May 2017
The F I D O N E W S Volume 34, Number 20 15 May 2017
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
A DS-Lite emulation experiment ........................... 2
3. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 5
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 5
4. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 6
5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 13
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 13
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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I personally stay away from natural foods;
at my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
-- George Burns.
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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A DS-Lite emulation experiment
By Michiel van der Vlist (2:280/5555)
Presently I have a native dual stack connection from my ISP. So I
have both public IPv4 and IPv6 addresses for my binkp server.
This luxury may not last forever. The IPv4 address pool has been
depleted and so ISPs are starting to put new customers on so called
DS-Lite. This means customers will have fully functional IPv6 but
they will not have a public IPv4 address. For IPv4 they will be
behind a Carrier Grade NAT or GCNAT. A CGNAT is basically the same
as the NAT running in your home network, with the difference that it
is run by the ISP, and the customer has no access to the port
forwarding tables. And so they can not accept incoming calls on IPv4.
DS-Lite will not stop at new customers. It is foreseeable that
existing customers will be affected too. I would not be surprised
if my ISP puts me on DS-Lite between now and five years and that the
alternatives will be economically unattractive.
To be prepaired I ran some experiments to test if it would be doable
to run a Fidonet node from a DS-Lite connection. Presently there are
two nodes in the nodelist that carry the INO4 flag, indicating that
they can not accept incoming IPv4 connects. But these are not the only
node of the listed sysop. They have at least one other node listed
that can accept incoming IPv4. I wanted to test if it is doable if the
node is the only listed node of the sysop in question.
With 50+ registered IPv6 capable nodes, I think the Fido IPv6 club
has gained critical mass and so running a DS-Lite node would be doable
But of course the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
So I did two tests. The first test was a seven hour run on Saturday
May 6th 2017 from 11:00 UTC until 18:00 UTC.
I did this:
o I configured my binkp server to only listen on IPv6.
( listen [::] in binkd.cfg )
o I polled every IPv4 only node with whom I had a password protected
link every 30 minutes.
The result of this test was encouraging. Only one sysop asked me why I
polled his system every 30 minutes, the rest of Fidonet did not seem
to have noticed anything at all. I did not seem to have missed any
mail either.
The second test was a 24 hour run from Friday May 12 12:00 UTC until
Saturday May 13 2017, 12:00 UTC. On Tommi Koivula's suggestion I also
removed the A record for my nodelisted host name.
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The result was the same as for test #1. Nobody complained and no mail
was lost. The preliminary conclusion is that running a Fidonet node
from a DS-Lite connection is doable.
There was one thing that was a bit problematic though. When I am on
the move, I run a point system on my laptop to keep in touch with
Fdionet. This won't work when I am on an IPv4 only network since I can
not connect with my IPv6 Boss Node from there. Most public WiFi
networks on campings and hotels are still IPv4 only. And so are nearly
all 3G/4G mobile operators in Europe I am afraid.
Running a SixXs AYIYA tunnel on my laptop would have solved that
problem, but alas, SixXs is closing down in less than four weeks, so
that won't be the solution. Then Tommi Koivula half jokingly suggested
I try Teredo. I thought Microsoft had switched off the Teredo relays
and servers many years ago, but to my suprise they are still there.
It so happened that I spend a few days on a camping in Belgium last
week. The Wifi there was brand new. Excellent coverage and reasonable
speed. Alas, no IPv6. So a perfect opportunity to test if I could
reach my IPv6 binkp server at home using Teredo. So I first enabled
Teredo. From the command line in a window with administrator rights:
(Windows 7)
netsh interface teredo set state client
To make it work properly I also had to disable isatap:
netsh interface isatap set state disabled
The Teredo tunnel was slow and I got lots of timeouts but it was just
good enough for a Fidonet connection between a point and his boss.
Then when I came back home, I tried the same by making a connection
via my FON spot. The FON spot is IPv4 only, so that looked like a good
way to test the connection. It did not work. The diffenerence between
the FON spot and the WiFi on the camping is that the FON spot is a
cascaded NAT. Teredo apparently does not work from beheind a double
NAT.
It is no big deal. I probably have some more time to find a solution
for this and the test was if it is doable to run a DS-Lite node in the
network, not if it can support mobile points or users.
Conclusion: Running a Fidonet node from a DS-Lite connection is doable
It is not perfect, Dual Stack is still preferable, but as the number o
IPv6 capable nodes rises, it will get better and it is not worth to
invest lots of money for additional incoming IPv4 capability.
I hope this will inspire others to do similar tests.
(C) Michiel van der Vlist, all rights reserved.
Permission to publish in the FIDONEWS file echo, the FIDONEWS dis-
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JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST
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The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project
This is a list of known JamNNTPd servers working. They are essentially
the modern version of Bulletin Board Systems.
You connect to them using the newsreader of your choice and you don't
need any other software installed on your computer -- regardless of
operating system -- but that favourite mail client of yours.
Even smart phones can handle this, giving you the opportunity to get
your daily doses of fidonet on the bus, tram or train on the way to
your job, school or whatever.
Updated 2017-03-06
URL news://felten.yi.org
Join http://fidonews.eu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:203/2
URL news://quinnspost.nodelist.net:60119
Join mailto:eskimo261@bigfoot.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 3:640/384
URL news://rbb.bbs.fi
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/360
URL news://fidonews.mine.nu
Join http://fidonews.mine.nu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/6
URL news://news.wpusa.dynip.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:3634/12
URL nntp://news.bytemuseum.org
nntps://news.bytemuseum.org (secure)
Join Info in group +ACCCESS&SUPPORT+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:19/10
URL nntp://news.pharcyde.org
Join Info in group, +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:154/10
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FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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BBS Software List
Updated 2017-05-14
Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/119)
Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht,
Sean Dennis
M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility #=Info
F=TIC/SRIF Processor
*=Software is available and may be registerable,
but no longer supported or updated.
@=Website is operating but is no longer updated.
?=Software's updating/support status is unknown.
O=Software is open source.
This list contains BBS-related software that is available
for registration (not necessarily supported), open source
software and actively developed/supported software by its
author. Software listed may be available for DOS, Linux,
OS/2 (eComStation), Windows (16 or 32 bit) and OSX.
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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
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==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS
Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products
| | /argus/
| | v3.210 on 2001-03-29
BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net
| | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on 2000-10-22
BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68
| | v.1.0.4
| | v.1.1a-95 (alpha)
| | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft
| | /mailer/binkd/
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| |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/
D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm
|I | 1:1/130
Nick Andre | | v3.99 SR 12 on 2017-02-27
FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280
Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net
| | v2.4 on 2003-09-26
FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330
Definite Solutions |? | sales@defsol.se
| | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX
Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/
|EO? | v1.9 RC2 on 2010-04-20
Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/
(based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm
| | v5.0 on 2006-06-12
| |
T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only)
|? | v2608 on 2001-12-12
AfterShock |MTEI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Asvcorp | | details?id=com.asvcorp.aftershock
Anatoly Vdovichev | | rudi.timmer@gmail.com 1:1/140
Rudi Timmermans | | v1.5 on 2013-11-10
HotDogEd |E |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Sergey Pushkin | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged
| | v2.11 on 2015-06-24
HotDogEd FidoNet |MTI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
Provider | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged.fido
Sergey Pushkin | | v2.11 on 2015-06-24
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==> MAIL TOSSERS
Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/
| | crashmail.html
FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/old/Products
| | /FastEcho/fastecho.html
| | v1.46.1 on 2007-11-13
| | Registration keys are free & available
| | by request from the author
Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org
| | v4.4.10 on 2004-08-27
| |
FMail |TO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
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| | v2.0.1.4 on 2017-04-21
JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de
(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on 2000-01-01
Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v1.11R2 on 2009-01-01
| | Source code available in Maximus BBS
| | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net
WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v1.51 on 2015-05-23
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==> BBS SOFTWARE
BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:22/222
| | b@bbbs.net
| | v4.01 on 2007-01-28
EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on 2002-06-09
Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com 1:250/501
Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 2010-10-14
| | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT
Ezycom BBS |BT* |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v2.15g2 on 2009-11-16
GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/
| | v19.00
Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/
Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com
| | v3.5.10b3
Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v3.03
| | Source code available at:
| | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
MBSE BBS |BMTFI|http://sourceforge.net/projects/mbsebbs
|PO | ajleary@sourceforge.net
| | v1.0.7 on 2017-03-23
Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.0b on 2004-04-26
Mystic BBS |BMTCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com
|IO | v1.12 A32 on 2017-05-04
RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
| | bfmorse@rapro.com
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| | v2.62.2SW
Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305
| | v1.10/DOS on 2009-10-03
Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/
| | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com
| | v3.7 on 2010-01-01
Synchronet BBS |BTIO |http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705
| | v3.16c on 2015-08-15
Telegard BBS |B* |http://www.telegard.net
| | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on 1999-12-19
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | |
Software, Inc. | | v7.0 AUP 454.5 on 2016-06-23
WWIV BBS |B |http://www.wwivbbs.org
| | v5.00 on 2015-12-14
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==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF
Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:140/12
Bob Seaborn | | v6.0.22 on 2011-01-26
NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/
| | v2.45b2 on 2000-03-05
TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /tinytic.html
| | 1:120/544
VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /vireq.html
| | 1:120/544
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==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES
Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html
Sean Dennis | | sysop@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200
| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/
| | bbs-door-games.cfm
| | scott@jibben.com
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| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |DU |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
| | nannette@shiningstar.net
| | Doors are registerable via website
Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com
| | Tel: (404) 256-9518
T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/
Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452
| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
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 |DU* |http://vbsoft.dhakota.org
| | d@dhakota.org
| | Last update: 2008-04-11
WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v3.0 on 2011-06-27
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==> POINT SOFTWARE
CrossPoint (XP) |P? |http://www.crosspoint.de (German only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de
| | v3.12d on 1999-12-22
FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de (German only)
| | support@freexp.de
| | v3.42 on 2010-06-27
FidoIP |PO |http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki
| | /fidoip/
| | v.1.0.5 on 2010-12
OpenXP |PIO |https://sourceforge.net/projects
| | /openxp5/ 2:240/2188.31
| |http://openxp.uk Windows/Linux
| | dev@openxp.uk English/German
| | v5.0.28 on 2016-09-10
WinPoint |P? |http://www.winpoint.org
| | English/German/Spanish
| | v5 (Beta Release) on 2017-03-17
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==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS
GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on 2015-11-30
| | NOTE: Unstable versions released often
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493
| | v1.15 on 1999-12-15
| | Website is in German and English
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==> INTERNET UTILITIES
Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org
Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
| | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
| | v2.29 on 2001-10-21
JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
| | /jamnntpd.html
| | 1:120/544
Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate
| | /lgate
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua
MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net
| | v3.4.6 on 2016-12-01
RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects
| | /ftrack-as 2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.32 on 2011-04-29
TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/
| | transnet/index.html
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on 2007-09-13
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==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS
Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89
Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel
| | This is probably the most updated BBS
| | list on the Internet for a general
| | BBS list.
Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html
| | Maintained automatically
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| | This list is specifically for
| | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is
| | automatically updated nightly.
The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com
| | This website is more than just files,
| | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for
| | BBS sysops and people who want to
| | become sysops. This site is run by
| | the same person who does the Telnet
| | BBS Guide.
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org
http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained)
http://www.simtel.net
http://www.bbsfiles.com
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (OS/2 specific)
http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721)
http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/
Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above)
The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoNews.
If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information
above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the
FIDONEWS echo or netmail at 1:320/219.
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
By EchoTime, 2:203/0
(Some nets may have lost their last
digit for technical reasons)
pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
nodes mean dev no mean dev no
154/* 11.1m 16.0m 219 1.2h 3.5h 219
221/* 17.8m 25.3m 267 6.3h 6.9h 267
240/* 13.9m 14.8m 4 7.9h 10.7h 4
249/* 16.0m 23.7m 254 2.7h 6.9h 254
266/* 4.8m 10.3m 299 2.7h 11.4h 299
280/* 15.8m 24.3m 207 3.0h 4.1h 207
292/* 4.5m 1.7m 20 0.0h 0.1h 14
320/* 20.9m 26.8m 145 3.1h 8.5h 145
423/* 13.8m 25.4m 5 6.7h 0.3h 5
502/* 20.6m 29.6m 6 0.1h 0.0h 6
640/* 10.8m 19.9m 98 12.0h 7.2h 98
Sigma 13.4m 21.6m 1524 3.8h 8.0h 1518
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.132
size 217.8kb
date 2017-05-12
The nodelist has 1331 nodes in it
and a total of 1937 non-comment entries
including 4 zones
29 regions
174 hosts
108 hubs
admin overhead 315 ( 23.67 %)
and 127 private nodes
67 nodes down
97 nodes on hold
off line overhead 291 ( 21.86 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 76 ( 5.71 %)
9600 = 531 ( 39.89 %)
(HST = 8 or 1.51 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.19 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 278 or 52.35 %)
(V32B = 38 or 7.16 %)
(V34 = 356 or 67.04 %)
(V42 = 285 or 53.67 %)
(V42B = 40 or 7.53 %)
2400 = 4 ( 0.30 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 720 ( 54.09 %)
ISDN = 63 ( 4.73 %)
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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems
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IBN Binkp 777 ( 58.38 %)
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IFC Raw ifcico 103 ( 7.74 %)
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IFT FTP 58 ( 4.36 %)
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ITN Telnet 156 ( 11.72 %)
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IVM Vmodem 14 ( 1.05 %)
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IP Other 6 ( 0.45 %)
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INO4 IPv6 only 2 ( 0.15 %)
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CrashMail capable = 914 ( 68.67 %)
MailOnly nodes = 525 ( 39.44 %)
Listed-only nodes = 52 ( 3.91 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]
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