F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 06 8 February 1999

F I D O N E W S Volume 16, Number 06 8 February 1999
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
2. RETRACTIONS .............................................. 2
Grunged Echomail Deleted - Retraction .................... 2
3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3
What's Not Happening - Broken Backbone ................... 3
4. NOTICES .................................................. 6
5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 7
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 11
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EDITORIAL
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Greetings,

Whats happening with the routing of mail within Zone 1? Are the
problems solved? ;-)

Had one heck of a week, with work and more work. It's good for the
pocket I hear you say? Nope, the taxman takes nearly half.

Anyway, there is going to be another very busy week ahead, so please
excuse the once again short note from me. ;-(

Enjoy,

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RETRACTIONS
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Grunged Echomail Deleted - Retraction

Grunged Echomail Deleted
Retraction by Douglas Myers
1:279/720, [email protected]

Last week, I submitted an article in the name of Roy Tellason
entitled "Grunged Echomail Deleted." This was originally sent to me
netmail by Roy, and was intended only for my information, not for
publication. I misread the intent of his netmail: he had asked of
me information on contacting FIDONEWS, and I took this as a request
to submit the article for him. He has since informed me that he
preferred to work out the complaint more quietly, and was chagrined
that I jumped the gun on publication.

I'd like to publicly apologize to Roy, who's confidence I violated,
and to John Souvestre, who has enough trouble right now that he
doesn't need any agitation from this corner. I'd further like to
congratulate these two gentlemen for making the effort to work
things out without a lot of fuss, thus bucking the trend here on
FightOnet.

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ARTICLES
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What's Not Happening - Broken Backbone

.-- -- -- -- -- -- WHAT'S NOT HAPPENING -- -- -- -- -- --.
| There isn't always something happening on Fidonet, but |
| there's always something which isn't happening. This |
| column is dedicated to the lost causes which make Fido |
| what it isn't today. Published semi-occasionally... |
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BROKEN BACKBONE
Douglas Myers, 1:270/720, [email protected]

After George Peace resigned as zone hub and disconnected from John
Souvestre (for echomail, anyway), several participants in the
BACKBONE echo pronounced the North American Backbone "broken." It's
been hard to detect at this node - echomail has been coming in and
going out at a seemingly undiminished rate, and all the echomail
here flows through George's system.

As a confirmed echomail junkie, I've attempted to follow the bloated
BACKBONE echomail conference to get some idea as to what's going on.
It's somewhat like panning for gold in the local Susquehanna River -
I need to push through a lot of mud and debris to uncover a rare
nugget. Some nuggets I've uncovered:

- George is still an ZHUB, but he's no longer a NAB ZHUB. The main
distinction between the two is that a ZHUB merely moves the mail,
but NAB ZHUBS take on other obligations being revealed gradually by
John Souvestre. The only solid information I can offer at this
point is that NAB ZHUBS follow published routing charts (most of the
time) to move netmail.

- Of the major mail movers, George and John don't want to work
together, Bob and John don't want to work together, and Ken wishes
everyone would just get along.

- Up until recently, George retained his connections to Bob Seaborn
and Ken Wilson and continued to supply all his downlinks with
echomail, with no apparant loss of mail. However, dupes started
appearing on John Souvestre's system, caused by the fact that mail
sent through George's system no longer contained John's node number
in the seen-by lines. This caused the tossing software at Bob's and
Ken's system to BOTH pack echomail messages for John. As nearly as
I can tell from the conversation, dupe detectors at John's system
prevented these duplicates from flowing to his downlinks. George
has since relinked echomail to John's system, presumably to prevent
the duplicate generation which results if he doesn't.

The BACBONE isn't broken yet, but it seems like a marriage in
trouble. The trial seperation didn't work out as the partners found
that they have to work together, but they still haven't worked out a
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reconciliation.

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NOTICES
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Future History

16 Feb 1999
13th Anniversary of the introduction of EchoMail by Jeff Rush.

12 May 1999
12th Anniversary of Fido Operations in Zone 4;
10th Anniversary of the creation of FidoNet Zone 4.

24 Jul 1999
XIII Pan American Games [through 8 Aug 99].

9 Jun 1999
Tenth Anniversary of the adoption of FidoNet Policy 4.07.

10 Sep 1999
10th anniversary of Zone 5 operations.

26 Oct 1999
Thirty years from release Abbey Road album by the Beatles.

31 Dec 1999
Hogmanay, Scotland. The New Year that can't be missed.

1 Jan 2000
The 20th Century, C.E., is still taking place thru 31 Dec.

1 Jun 2000
EXPO 2000 World Exposition in Hannover (Germany) opens.

15 Sep 2000
Sydney (Australia) Summer Olympiad opens.

21 Sep 2000
10 years of FidoNet in +7 (xUSSR)

1 Jan 2001
This is the actual start of the new millennium, C.E.

-- If YOU have something which you would like to see in this
Future History, please send a note to the FidoNews Editor.

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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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This is a list of all FidoNet-related sites reported to the
FidoNews Editor as of this issue; see the notice at the end.

FidoNet:

Homepage http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
http://209.77.228.66/fidonews.html [ASCII]
WWW sources http://travel.to/fidonet/
FTSC page http://www.ftsc.org/
Echomail [pending]
General http://owls.com/~jerrys/fidonet.html
http://www.nrgsys.com/orb/foti
List servers:
http://www.onelist.com/subscribe.cgi/fidonet-discussion

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Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org

Region 10: http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html

Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/

Region 13:

Net 264: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm

Region 14:

Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/

Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/

Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/

Region 19: http://www.compconn.net/r19

Zone 1 Elist http://www.baltimoremd.com/elist/

Not sure where the following should be placed:

http://www.angelfire.com/biz/snwvlly/fido.html

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Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org

ZEC2:
Zone 2 Elist: http://www.fbone.ch/echolist/

Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
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Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/~lbehet/fido (English/German)

Region 25: http://www.bsnet.co.uk/net2502/net/

Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb

Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm

Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)

Region 30: http://www.fidonet.ch (German)

Region 33: http://www.fidoitalia.net (Italian)

Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish)
REC34: http://pobox.com/~chr

Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/

Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html

Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)

Region 42: http://www.fido.cz

Region 48: http://www.fidonet.org.pl

Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian)
Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian)
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
Net 5073: http://people.weekend.ru/soa/ (Russian)

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Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org

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Zone 4:

Region 90: http://visitweb.com/fidonet
Net 903: http://www.playagrande.com/refugio
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

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Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/index.htm

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Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org
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Region 65: http://www.cfido.com/fidonet/cfidochina.html (Chinese)

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Pages listed above are as submitted to the FidoNews Editor,
and generally reflect Zone and Regional Web Page sites. If
no Regional site is submitted, the first Network page from
that Region is used in its place. Generally, Regional pages
should list access points to all Networks within the Region.

TCP/IP accessible node access information should be submitted
to the FidoNews Editor for inclusion in their Region or Zone.

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Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed | Basic Rate
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
1:12/12 | Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
1:13/25 | Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
1:106/1 | Matt Bedynek | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $5/$15mo.
1:106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP,VMoT | 64k | $5/mo.
1:107/451 | Andy Knifel | FTP, VMoT, UUE | 33.6 | n/c
1:124/7008 | Ben Hamilton | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 64k | $10/$20mo.
1:140/12 | Bob Seaborn | FTP | T1 | $5/$20
1:270/101 | George Peace | FTP | T1 | $30mo.
1:271/140 | Tom Barstow | UUE | T1 | n/c
1:275/1 | Joshua Ecklund | UUE | 28.8 | $10/yr.
1:280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
1:2401/305 | Peter Rocca | FTP,UUE | T1 | unkn
1:2424/10 | Alec Grynspan | FTP,UUE | T1 | n/c
1:2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo.
1:2624/306 | D. Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | $15yr.
1:345/0 | Todd Cochrane | FTP | T1 | n/c
1:346/250 | Aran Spence | FTP,UUE | T1 | $10mo.
1:396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr.
1:3651/9 | Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
1:396/1 | John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1 | $15mo.
2:33/505 | Mario Mure | VMoT,UUE | 64k | n/c
2:254/175 | Alex Kemp | UUE | 56k | n/c
2:284/800 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
2:335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
2:469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
2:2411/413 | Dennis Dittrich | UUE | 64k | n/c
2:2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
3:633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP | 33.6 | n/c
4:905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT, UUE | ??? | n/c
5:7104/2 | Henk Wolsink | FTP | 28.8 | n/c
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
[I'm only cataloging transfer methods, eg, ftp, email, telnet.
Specific programs using these protocols are no longer being listed.
Contact the system operators for details of which programs they have
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available.]

Compiled by C. Ingersoll, 1:2623/71, (609)814-1978, [email protected]
Posted on the 1st of every month in FN_SYSOP, R13SYSOP and Fidonews.

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FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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------- FIDONEWS MASTHEAD AND CONTACT INFORMATION -------

Editor: Henk Wolsink

Editors Emeritii: Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell,
Vince Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell,
Donald Tees, Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg

"FidoNews Editor"
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more addresses:
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