F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 30 24 Jul 2000

F I D O N E W S Volume 17, Number 30 24 Jul 2000
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Table of Contents
1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
The Legend of Sleepy Zone 6 .............................. 1
2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
Region 13 Policy Proposal ................................ 2
3. COLUMNS .................................................. 9
Ol'WDB: Little Known Facts ............................... 9
4. NET HUMOR ................................................ 11
The Price of Gas ......................................... 11
5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 12
Cows ..................................................... 12
6. NOTICES .................................................. 13
FN_SYSOP Election Preliminaries .......................... 13
7. INTERNET INFO ............................................ 14
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 14
8. FIDONEWS INFO ............................................ 18
Masthead ................................................. 18
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EDITORIAL
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The Legend of Sleepy Zone 6
Doug Myers

Fidonews normally attempts to present you with tracible facts and
attributed opinion. Actual information and informed opinion about
Zone 6 is in short supply, however, so this editorial is based on
the gossip floating around. Anyone reading this newsletter who is
better informed is welcome to comment.

In the Sleepy Hollow of Fidonet, reports abound of a headless
horseman rumbling through Zone 6. Rumor has it that the Zone 6
nodelist segment is outdated and that the Zone 6 Coordinator isn't
communicating with the other five zones of Fidonet. Though the Z6C
is reported to exchange echoes and occasional mail with Bob
Seaborn's system, little has been heard of him elsewhere. Most
recently, his lack of presence was fealt in the proposed
International Coordinator election, where he offered no comment
whatsoever.

Now the rumor hits Fidonews that there is a second Zone 6 nodelist
segment being included in the Zone 2 World Nodelist and distributed
to the other ZC's. The alternate zone segment covers 6 of the 7
regions in Zone 6, and is being compiled - not by the Z6C - but by a
Russian Sysop in Viet Nam.

Is it that nodelist information can't be gathered in the jungles of
Hong Kong, and so this task must be relegated to the booming
supermetropolis of Viet Nam? Or is it time for the Regional
Coordinators of Zone 6 to decapitate their resident headless
horseman?

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ARTICLES
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Region 13 Policy Proposal

Region 13 has a new Regional policy proposed for vote. This is the
first update proposed since 1994.

Sysops in region should contact their NC for information. A copy
has been delivered to all NC's in R13 (some routed, most crashed).

Discussion is expected to be in the R13SYSOP echo.

Specifics on the election can be obtained from 1:13/2.
Carol Shenkenberger
xxcarol 1:13/0

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[Editor's Note - Appended to Carol's announcement above is the
policy proposal below distributed to the Network Coordinators in
Region 13]:

Region 13 Election Policy Proposal
Proposed Revision 2.03
January 30, 2000

Heavily modified by David Calafrancesco
superseding Rev 1.04, August 21, 1994

Written in committee by Michael Walsh, R13C, with the assistance and
input of Phillip Dampier, Howie Ducat and Bill Fisch

Changes suggested by various members of the region and incorporated

This proposal is presented to the membership of Region 13 for debate
and modification as is deemed appropriate, and wil be balloted upon
in its final form. If adopted, it will become the first part of a
region-wide operations policy.

A simple majority of the ballots received will be necessary to adopt
this proposal.

--Michael Walsh, R13C

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I. The Election Moderator (EM)

A. The moderator is appointed by the RC at the beginning of the
RC's term, and must be confirmed by a vote of the nodes of the
region. Any node can volunteer to be the election moderator. The
RC will select a candidate from the volunteers. Discussion on the
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selection will take place for as long as necessary in the R13
Sysop's echo with the RC able to call for a confirmation vote after
one week of discussion. A netmail ballot to confirm or reject the
selection is then held, using the procedure outlined later in this
document. The RC will count the votes and post the results in the
R13 sysops echo, and if a simple majority {trunc(ballots/2)+1} vote
is in favor of the selectee, this person is confirmed.

B. The election moderator has complete control over the
electoral process and validates all candidates' nominations, counts
all votes and announces the results. The election moderator may
appoint an assistant with the approval of all nominated candidates
at the end of the nomination process, whose job will be to assist in
counting votes. It is highly recomended that the EM use a robot
vote counter to automate the tally process and post interim results
of whose ballots have been received and validated, but not which
candidate is currently leading.

C. In order to easily identify the election moderator to members
of the region, s/he will receive the nodelist designation of 1:13/2,
and will be added to the segment upon confirmation. (I. A.)

D. The election moderator serves in the appointed position for
the entire term of the sitting RC, but may be replaced by the RC
using this same process.

II. Election Details

A. The Election Moderator (EM) has sole discretion to select the
working echo for the election. It is suggested that declerations be
accepted in any of the three major R13 echos but the EM may restrict
to a single echo which meets the needs of the election (accessable
to all R13 nodes) as necessary. The Primary R13 echos will be
defined as those listed in an available echolist database as being
the R13 sysops echo, the R13 election echo and the R13 coordinators
echo and being listed in such database by the current RC and/or REC.
Any echo of a similar name listed by one or more other members of
the region will be considered an unofficial echo and the EM may use
it or ignore it at their sole discretion. At the time of this
writing those echo tags are currently R13SYSOP, R13_ELECTION and
R13COORD.

B. The final election schedule is set by the election moderator
(EM) but should adhere to the following norms. All schedules start
at 00:01 hours and end at 24:00 hours. Schedules can be stretched
as necessary to ensure that all nodes in the region are dealt with
fairly. In the past schedules have been delayed to accomodate
storms and other network problems.

1. Announcement of the election: 7 days.

a. The EM will cause sufficient notices to be made in all
three of the above referenced R13 echos (sysop, election and
coordinators) echos so that everyone in the region has the same
opportunity to participate. The election moderator will also cause a
netmail to be sent to each NC in the region as well as an article to
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be submitted to FIDONEWS. This only requires a best effort attempt
to route to each NC and does not require the EM to crash mail direct
to any NCs. We also recognize that we can't control the editorial
policies of FIDONEWS and only can require a submission, not
publication.

b. The announcement describes what position will be elected,
whether RC or REC or other.

c. The announcements are to be posted at least three times
in a one-week period in the above echos. Netmail notification is
done at least once, as is the FidoNews announcement though the EM
can always undertake more if they so choose.

2. Declarations of Candidacy: 2 weeks.

a. Any member of the region may declare their own candidacy.

b. Any member of the region may nominate any other member.

c. A nominee will only become a candidate if they notify the
EM of their acceptance of the nomination within the time alloted for
declarations.

d. Declarations should be allowed in any of the above R13
echos as well as netmail or email sent to the EM. At the EMs
discression they may select one R13 echo as the primary election
business echo and the EM may restrict declarations and nominations
to that single echo.

e. The message header/timestamp will be used to determine
whether a declaration was received in time, but no more than two
days after the end of the declaration period.

3. Questions to the Candidates: 3 weeks

a. The candidates will state, briefly, their platforms in
the designated election business echomail area.

b. Members of the region may question the candidates on any
issues that they may feel are important to them or the region.

c. Debate between candidates should be limited; it is the
membership that must be answered, and the election moderator may
halt debate at any time if it is clear that the membership is not
benefiting from the debate. This does not apply to clarification of
position; i.e., if a candidate states a position and it isn't clear,
any other candidate may request clarification and present their
position. This is not intended to prevent opposing points of view
from being discussed, but rather is intended to prevent the
candidates from focusing on each other and ignoring the members of
the region.

4. Vote: Two weeks are allowed for all members of the region to
vote.

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5. Announcement of the results: within three days of the end of
the vote.

C. Elections are held once every two years for each of the RC
and REC positions. The elections are staggered, such that in one
calendar year an RC election will be held, and the next calendar
year an REC election will be held. The purpose of this is to
maintain continuity in the operation of the region.

III. Recall Elections

1. Recalls are started by a referendum, in which 20% of the
nodes or 20% of the NCs of the region request the recall action;
this request for a recall must be filed with the election moderator.

2. The recall election is held as a regular election would be,
with the sitting *C running as a candidate while still in office.

3. A recall election does not upset the regular schedule of
elections; if a recall election is held, and results in the
replacement of a *C, that replacement will only serve until the next
regularly scheduled election at which time s/he may run as a
candidate.

IV. Voting Procedure

A. Each nodelisted operator is entitled to one vote; if more
than one person shares responsibility for a system, and also share
a nodelist entry, then only one vote is allowed between them. By
the same definition, a system with more than one node address is
still a single system and is only entitled to a single vote.

B. Ballots are counted only when received by the election
moderator. The EM may accept nodes sent by netmail (direct or
routed), email or even public posting in the election business
echo. The EM may restrict the method of receiving ballots to only
netmail at their discretion. Voice or proxy ballots are NOT
COUNTED. All ballots must be addressed in such a way that they
will be received by the EM and identify the note as a ballot (eg
being addressed to 1:13/2).

C. Ballots should probably be sent DIRECT to avoid the
possibility of tampering, but in recognition of the fact that not
all members of the region are able/willing to make a long-distance
call to deliver their vote and that the EM might not have a POTS
line to receive crashed mail, it may be routed. As always, ballots
which are routed are not guaranteed to be delivered, and as such,
no responsibility can be placed on any systems who may route such
mail.

D. Each ballot must contain:

1. The name and node address of the operator casting the
ballot,

2. The ballot identifying who the sysop is voting for.
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3. A password to be used in announcing and validating the
vote.

4. Example ballot:

John Doe, sysop of 1:2634/567
candidate_name
{ballot_password}

E. The election moderator will tally and summarize the ballots,
listing each vote by password in the announcement, i.e. if John Doe
and Jane Doe are candidates, the announcement of the results would
look like this:

John Doe Jane Doe
-------------------- --------------------
Beeswax Whatchamacallit
Zaphod Zoos
Viper Kitchen
Wrangler
Hunter
-------------------- --------------------
3 votes (37.5%) 5 votes (62.5%)

A second announcement will follow this, listing in numerical
order, all node addresses from which a ballot was received and
counted. These two messages will serve as the record of vote, and
by the nature of their content, will allow all members of the region
to see that their ballots were counted and counted correctly while
maintaining the confidentiality of the votes. Under no
circumstances will the Election Moderator (or assistant) release any
information concerning the nature of specific ballots -- absolute
confidentiality of the ballots must and will be maintained.

F. A candidate must receive a simple majority of the votes in
order to be elected. If there is a clear understanding of the
leading candidates (combined 75% of ballots) then a runoff between
the top two candidates can commence, otherwise supplementary runoffs
to determine the top two candidates may be necessary.

For example:

If four candidates are running, and the vote is:

A: 91 votes B: 37 votes C: 69 votes D: 12 votes

Candidates "A" and "C" will face each other in a runoff to
determine the winner of the election. A runoff election is
held between the two candidates receiving the most votes,
and is handled as described above except:

1. One week for further questions to the remaining
candidates, not three, and;

2. All results from the general election are discarded and a
new ballot is taken, with the results of the new ballot alone being
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counted.

3. One week for voting instead of two as above.

Second example:

Same four candidates above but the breakdown is

A: 35 votes B: 35 votes C: 35 votes D: 15 votes

An intermediate runoff between the top three candidates will
commence. In general, the runoff will be amongst the candidates
that recived 75% of the vote.

G. In any case, if the election results in a tie, the ZC or RC
will choose the RC or REC from amongst the two tied candidates.

H. The elected person will take office one week following the
announcement of the results, and in the case of the RC election,
with the approval of the ZC (in recognition of FidoNet Policy.) The
outgoing coordinator will make available all materials necessary to
ensure a smooth transition, and will support the coordinator-elect
for as long as is possible or needed.

V. Dispute Resolution

A. Any dispute of the election results, whether a miscounted
ballot or a ballot not counted that a node claims should have been
etc... must be filed, via netmail, to the election moderator within
the one week time frame before the electee takes office. This
dispute notice should be carbon-copied to at least two other members
of the region (RC and REC for example) to ensure fairness and action
on the part of the election moderator.

B. The election moderator will announce the dispute, and request a
Judge of Elections be named. The Judge of Elections will be the ZC,
or if s/he is unavailable, another region's RC or a member of the
region acceptable to all of the candidates.

C. The Judge of Elections will receive from the election moderator
all votes cast, without the summaries.

D. The Judge of Elections will recount the votes and create a new
summary which will be forwarded to the election moderator and posted
accordingly. This will be the final count in cases of dispute.

VI. Amendments to Election Policy

A. Any member of the region may propose an amendment to this
election policy, but no amendment may be proposed during an
election.

B. Such a proposal must be sent to the RC and the election
moderator. The RC will cause it to be distributed to all NCs in the
region, and direct that the NCs distribute it to all members of the
region.
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C. Debate on any amendment may be held in any of the above listed
echos.

D. The process for voting on the amendment will be as follows:

1. The proposal will require a simple majority of the votes to
be adopted.

2. The ballots will be counted as in a regular election, with
the results posted similarly.

3. The time frame for debate is open, but the voting period
will still take place in one week's time.

4. The election moderator will schedule the vote at least one
week in advance to allow all members of the region to have time to
consider their vote.

5. The vote can be forced to occur by referrendum of either
20% of the nodes or 20% of the NCs; if 20% of the nodes or NCs
request the vote be scheduled, the election moderator has no choice
but to schedule the vote.

VII. Continutity and Successive Administrations

It is recommended to the members of the region that any
candidates who may run for the RC position be clearly asked to abide
the terms and conditions of the approved regional policy, such that
no future RC may throw out policy to suit his/her whim. If a
candidate does not clearly state that they will abide the terms and
conditions of approved regional policy, you are advised that you
should cast your vote in favor of a candidate who will abide it so
that it can be maintained in perpetuity for the benefit of the
members of the region.

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COLUMNS
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Ol'WDB's Column
[email protected]
Some little known fcts

The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; "7" was selected because
the original containers were 7 ounces. "UP" indicated the direction
of the bubbles.

Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks
the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.

Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet
away from a toilet to avoid airborne particles resulting from the
flush.

The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood
plasma.

American car horns beep in the tone of F.

No piece of paper can be folded more than 7 times.

Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.

1 in every 4 Americans has appeared on television.

You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching television.

Oak trees do not produce acorns until they are fifty years of age or
older.

The first product to have a bar code was Wrigley's gum.

The king of hearts is the only king without a mustache.

A Boeing 747s wingspan is longer than the Wright brother's first
flight.

American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive
from each salad served in first-class.

Venus is the only planet that rotates clockwise.

The first CD pressed in the US was Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the
USA."

Apples, not caffeine, are more efficient at waking you up in the
morning.

The 57 on the Heinz ketchup bottle represents the number of
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varieties of pickles the company once had.

The plastic things on the end of shoelaces are called aglets.

Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.

The first owner of the Marlboro company died of lung cancer.

Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Betsy Ross is the only real person to ever have been the head on a
Pez dispenser.

Michael Jordan makes more money from Nike annually than all of the
Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined.

Adolf Hitler's mother seriously considered having an abortion but
was talked out of it by her doctor.

Marilyn Monroe had six toes.

All US Presidents have worn glasses. Some just didn't like being
seen wearing them in public.

Walt Disney was afraid of mice.

The sound of E.T. walking was made by someone squishing her hands in
jelly.

More little known facts later... <Laugh>

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NET HUMOR
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The Price of Gas
Thanks to Lynn Gipson
[email protected]

You think a gallon of gasoline is expensive?

Diet Snapple 16oz for $1.29 equals $10.32 per gallon

Lipton Ice Tea 16oz for $1.19 equals $9.52 per gallon

Gatorade 20oz for $1.59 equals $10.17 per gallon

Ocean Spray 16oz for $1.25 equals $10.00 per gallon

Pint of milk 16oz for $1.59 equals $12.72 per gallon

STP Brake Fluid 12oz for $3.15 equals $33.60 per gallon

Vick's Nyquil 6oz for $8.35 equals $178.13 per gallon

Pepto Bismol 4oz for $3.85 equals $123.20 per gallon

Whiteout .6oz for $1.39 equals $296.53 per gallon

Scope 1.5oz for $0.99 equals $84.48 per gallon

And this is the REAL KICKER......
Evian water 9oz for $1.49 equals $21.19 per gallon
.....$21.19 FOR WATER!!

You get the idea?? So next time you're at the pump, be glad your
car doesn't run on Nyquil, or Scope, or Whiteout!!!!

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COMIX IN ASCII
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vv====>----=\/====vv (oo)
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COWTOW / | ||
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^^ ^^ ( )
Portable Cow Japanese model
(very handy) portable COW Cow on Ice

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NOTICES
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FN_SYSOP Election Preliminaries

The international echo for Fidonet Sysops elects a moderator each
year. Although this election isn't scheduled until October, the
preliminaries are underway. Douglas Myers, the current moderator
(also serving as editor of this publication) has asked echo
participants to comment on his proposed selection of Carol
Shenkenberger to coordinate the election again this year. Douglas
noted that Election Coordinator selection should be made by early
August to allow sufficient time for organizing the election.
Douglas further announced that he will not be seeking a third term
as FN_SYSOP moderator, though he plans to remain an active
participant in the echo.

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INTERNET INFO
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. -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
| FIDONET-RELATED SITES |
` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- '
Last update: July 16, 2000

FidoNet
Homepage: http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews: http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/fnews/
Echolist: http://www.baltimoremd.com/echolist/
Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html
SDS Files: http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
FTSC page: http://www.ftsc.org/
General: http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html

Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10: http://www.r10.org
http://www.psnw.com/~net205/region10.html
Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
Net 203: http://www.geocities.com/Area51/8687/net203index.html
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
Net 2410: http://oeonline.com/~garyg/net2410/
Region 12: http://sparkys.dyndns.org
Region 13: http://www.net264.org/r13.htm
Net 264: http://www.net264.org/
Net 275: http://www.homershut.net/~mahoover/net275/
Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
Region 15: <vacant>
Region 16: <vacant>
Region 17: http://www.nwstar.com/~region17/
Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/

Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19
Net 124: http://www.startext.net/np/net124
http://texoma.net/~flv
Net 130: http://www.startext.net/homes/net130
Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/

Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
ftp://ftp.sstar.com/fidonet/zone2 (Z2 nodelists etc.)
Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
http://www.was-ist-fido.de/
Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
Region 25: http://www.literary.freeserve.co.uk/net2502/
Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie
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REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French)
http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
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://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/4552/
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
! Net422: http://www.fido.sk (Slovak/English)
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 5028: http://5028.yaroslavl.ru/
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
Net 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian)
?? Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)

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

Zone 4:
Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese)
Region 90:
Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

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

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

Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

See also: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidoip.html

a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
address. The email is translated as follows
[email protected] will automatically route to the
appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
also receive routed notice of this feature. In my case, it
would still be [email protected], but you get the idea.

Also, as information is provided to me, I will be adding a
latency field to each node, which is defined as the maximum
time between when the message is received, and when it is
sent on to other nodes, or available to be sent onward,
defined in minutes. A latency of ! implies that there is an
immediate response, and an attempt to deliver immediately
after processing, or a "MinuteMail System", as it were.

v-email flag [email protected]
| email address or
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Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
| | |latency|
-----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
Zone 1 | | | |
10/3 @ Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c
10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c
12/12 @ Ken Wilson | FTP | T1 | $24mo.
13/25 @ Jim Balcom | FTP | 56k | $20mo.
103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | 384k,!| n/c
103/153 @ Michael Box | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c
103/401 @ Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c
105/8 | Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c
105/72 @ Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr
106/1 @ Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 128k | ???
106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
211/417 @ Korombos | BinkP,UUE,FTP | T1 | n/c
218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE | 33.6k | n/c
244/2 | Kari Suomela | FTP,VMoT,BinkP,UUE| T1,! | $25.00/mo
246/160 @ Mason Vye | FTP, UUE | 56K | n/c
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | 128k | n/c
396/1 @ John Souvestre | FTP,VMoT | T1,10 | $5/mo
396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
2613/404 @ David Moufarrege | BinkP,FTP,VMoT | 128k+,!| n/c
2624/306 @ David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
3613/2 @ [email protected] | UUE | 28.8 | n/c
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3639/93 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c
3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
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Zone 2 |
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
284/800 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE | 64k |N/C
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | N/C
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c
335/535 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP | ??? | n/c
406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
464/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | 19.2 | n/c
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
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Zone 3
633/260 @ Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c

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Zone 4
905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c

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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
* NFS = Linux Networking
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