F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 26 25 Jun 2001

F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 26 25 Jun 2001
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| |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are |
| | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings|
| | | | San Francisco, California, USA |
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| | Lives!( /|oo \ | Frank Vest@1:124/6308 |
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| | (*) | \ ))| Editor: Frank Vest |
| |__U__| / \// | Deputy-Editor: Lawrence Garvin |
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| /Editor\ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. |
|(________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER |
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Copyright 2001 by Frank L. Vest, Editor for Fidonews Globally.

Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 2
DO YOU REALLY CARE? ...................................... 2
3. FIDONET NOTICES .......................................... 3
BFDS FDN-Fidonet Via Internet Hubs ....................... 3
4. EDITOR'S CORNER .......................................... 4
Last Week's Fidonews ..................................... 4
5. HUMOR IN A FIDO VEIN ..................................... 6
The NEW Echomail General ................................. 6
6. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 8
Cownt me in on Fidonet ................................... 8
7. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ...................................... 9
The Pilot, Children's Church Humor ....................... 9
8. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 10
Fidonet Software listing ................................. 10
9. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 14
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 14
10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 20
How to Submit an Article ................................. 20
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 21
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 22
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've
never tried before.

-- Mae West --

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GUEST EDITORIAL
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DO YOU REALLY CARE?
[email protected]

Today the American Stock Market MIRRORS Fidonet.
Gold: $273, most everything else sliding downhill. The value of gold
is holding its own, while Fidonet steadily deflates it's own valued
nodelist.

After 10 fat years, all of a sudden, the Fidonet Nodelist `Nile' has
begun to run dry. Our Z's are on the spot. For unlike Joseph, the Jew
who interpreted Pharaoh's dream. and became Egypt's second-in-command,
they have not accomplished their duty to upgrade the antiquated Policy
known as "P4.07" which is the mortar that holds the bricks of Fidonet
together. The bricks just keep decomposing and disappearing; thus the
Nodelist dries up.

And so, the drought has begun...and the "granaries" are near empty,
and still no rain, crops, or other relief is in sight.. But there is a
promising storm cloud rolling over us as we read this opinion. Dear
reader, I have never been on a first name basis with a deity. I do try
to figure out how his 'invisible hand' works, but it seems
presumptuous to give it a shake.

Perhaps a good BRAIN-STORM............................................
by each of you would cause the down pour of ideas which would make our
Fido Garden grow... by gentle persuasion modest expectations can be
achieved if the C's unite together to get a new or at least a revised
Policy that utilizes the power of this INTERNET STORM.

Ol'wdb

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FIDONET NOTICES
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BFDS FDN-Fidonet Via Internet Hubs
From: Ben Ritchey

396/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c

I noticed the question mark on my entry and thought I should
elaborate.

I offer E-mail feeds for LOW volume data. At present this
includes all of the Fidonet Administrative File Echoes (except the
Echolist) and the BFDS FDN which I coordinate (very low volume & small
sized files). Due to past problems encountered, I do not feed Echomail
or Large Files via E-mail. :)

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EDITOR'S CORNER
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Last Week's Fidonews
By Frank Vest
Fidonet: 1:124/6308(.1)
[email protected]
Unofficial Routed Netmail link for Net124
Web-Idiot for Region 19's Web site
http://bise.tzo.com/r19
http://home.texoma.net/~flv
Fidonews Editor at Fidonet: 1:1/23
[email protected]

In last week's Fidonews I took, what I thought were, some light
hearted and humorous shots at Fidonet, some of the things and groups
in Fidonet and the way things happen in Fidonet in general. I had
hoped that there would be some talk and response to some of the
questions raised by the edition. At least some introductions made.

I hoped that the articles would be taken in a lighthearted and
humorously serious vein. I guess I was mistaken. The Fidonews Echo all
but dried up and the only response I got was a Netmail that arrived no
more than three hours after I hatched the Fidonews.

The Netmail was more concerned with the perceived rules that were
perceived to have been violated than the content of the articles.
Within the Netmail, the main question seemed to be if the rules for
submissions to the Fidonews had changed. This in regards to there not
being a author or an address for the author in the articles.

Now, I'm not the brightest bulb in the package, but I would assume
that an editorial (not under Guest Editorial) would be from the
Editor. I would feel very sure that the "Editor's Corner" was from the
Editor. As for the "Humor in a Fido Vein" area, that comes from many
sources and not all of the articles have specific authors. Many are
from things I find in other media and some are sent to me anonymously.

As for the rules?? What rules? Read the "How to Submit an Article".

<quote> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
How to Submit an Article

If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here
are the guidelines:

<unquote> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Do you see anything that says RULES???

It might be nice to set down some "hard" rules and enforce them to the
letter, but that isn't very realistic. The only real thing that I balk
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at is vulgar language... and I've let that slip once or twice, I
think.

As you will notice, there is no doubt as to where this submission came
from. :-)

But just to be sure....

Regards,

Frank Vest
Fidonet: 1:124/6308(.1)
[email protected]
Unofficial Routed Netmail link for Net124
Web-Idiot for Region 19's Web site
http://bise.tzo.com/r19
http://home.texoma.net/~flv
Fidonews Editor at Fidonet: 1:1/23
[email protected]

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HUMOR IN A FIDO VEIN
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The NEW Echomail General
A Fidonet Satire by Michael Grant (1:134/11)

Poor, poor R12...

They all sat there on that cold January day, collectively
contemplating their navels.

They had lost!

They had ranted and raved and hopped up and down about what they
wanted, and they had lost!

They had complained about the process and had tried to make everyone
in Fidonet see things their way, and convince them that everyone who
did not do things their way were part of a great conspiracy, and
they had still lost!

The day seemed dark indeed. A gloom had settled over the Northern
half of the Great Lakes. What could be done? How could R12 have it's
satisfaction? How could they get their way?

Then a voice cut through the gloom. It was the old Salty elf, who
had once been their leader; the self-annointed angel and hero of the
anarchist cause. He started quietly, but his voice then gradually
rose to a hystical crescendo, causing many a R12 elf to swoon on
that day.

"The new Z1C is EVIL!" he said.
"She is EVIL and MUST be DESTROYED!"

"What about those who elected her?" A timid R12 elf asked.

Salty glared at this elf with fire in his eyes, and the elf seemed
to physically shrink.

"The others who elected her are ALSO EVIL!" he shouted.
"If they help the Z1C, they must be DESTROYED as well!"

"How can we accomplish this Salty?" one of the elves asked. "Our
holy REC is gone, and we have to use echomail systems controlled
from the outside."

"Not to worry" said Salty, with a wicked gleam in his eye. "There
is one who moves mail from the hated enemy camp, R18, who is
vulnerable. He has lost his mentor, and now he hates those he
once cooperated with, because he blames them for his mentor leaving.
We will recruit him. We can control him. We will brainwash him so
that he will be unswervingly loyal to the R12 cause."

And so it came to be. The elf they recruited became a good echomail
General for R12, and he immediately consolidated his camp, and took
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the Z1B by force. The R12 elves were *very* happy. They immediately
dropped all connection with the outside world in favor of their new
General's echomail army.

But this was not enough. Salty was still feeling unsatisfied. He
called a meeting with his General.

"You must ATTACK the Z1C!" he told the General. "You must ATTACK
her and ALL of those who serve her! You must ATTACK them on the ERN
front, and on the Nodelist front, and you MUST look for EVERY tiny
mistake to ATTACK them further with!" He shouted.

The new General, in awe of the R12 angel, knelt down and kissed his
feet. "I will do as you wish, my liege"; He said.

And so the new R12 echomail General began his new campaign. But
something went wrong. It was not so easy as the taking of the Z1B
had been. He met with much resistance. Ordinary elves that had not
spoken up before against him suddenly began to speak up; and what
they were saying about him was not nice. Even some of those who had
once rallied to his side now fought against him.

But the General was undeterred. Armed with his hero, Salty, and the
memory of his mentor to push him on, he continued to attack, attack,
attack. Yet still he began to lose ground. He started to get beaten
back. With the conviction borne of his R12 brainwashing, he began to
employ that time-honored R12 tactic, denial. Yet there came a time
when he could no longer deny the facts.

He was under attack. Others were laughing at him. He had made
mistakes in his attack on the Z1C, and it was turned around on him.
He had made mistakes in his ERN attack and it was turned around on
him. He had no choice but to retreat.

Salty continued on with the attacks, emboldened by the assurance
that he is always right, and the self-confidence of his delusional
belief in his own greatness, but once again, a gloom had settled
over the Northern part of the Great Lakes.

Whatsoever will R12 do? Will they never have their way?

Let's all hope so.

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COMIX IN ASCII
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Cownt me in on Fidonet

(__) ___________________________
(oo) ______| |
/-------\/ /______ Cownt me in on Fidonet |
/ | || | and the Fidonews |
* ||----|| |___________________________|
^^ ^^

___________________________________
__ | Crash Netmail Attach Articles To: |
/ \ | Editor@1:1/23 (1-972-562-8064) |
/|oo \ ________| [email protected] |
(_| /_) /________ or |
_`@/_ \ _ | Frank Vest@1:124/6308 |
| | \ \\ |___________________________________|
| (*) | \ ))
|__U__| / \//
_//|| _\ /
(_/(_|(____/

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CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
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The Pilot
Children's Church Humor
[email protected]

Terri asked her Sunday School class to draw pictures of their
favorite bible stories. She was puzzled by Kyle's picture, which
showed four people on an airplane, so she asked him which story it
was meant to represent. "The flight to Egypt," said Kyle. "I see
... And that must be Mary, Joseph, and Baby Jesus," Ms. Terri
said. "But who's the fourth person?" "Oh, that's Pontius -- the
Pilot!"

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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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This list is up for adoption. If you are interested in producing,
updating and submitting this list for publication, contact the Editor.

The format of this list is currently;

Name
Internet address (if available)
Fido style address (if available)

This list is in no way complete. Additions and updates are welcome;
mail to; [email protected]

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
BBS Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Buffalo Creek Software - Spitfire BBs
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/index.html

The Elevator Software Productions Web Page
http://www.elebbs.com/

Hermes II Project (Mac)
http://www.hermesii.org/

MBSE BBS for Linux
http://freezer-burn.org/mbse/

The Official Mystic BBs Web Page
http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/9426/index.html

RemoteAcces BBs Software World Wide Sales and Support Site
http://www.rapro.com/

Renegade BBs Software
http://www.egate.net/renegade/

Through a Looking Glass Mirror Telegard Support
http://www.telegard.net/

The Maximus Home page
http://oeonline.com/~garyg/maximus/

BBBS Home Page
http://www.bbbs.net/

Synchronet BBS
http://www.synchro.net

Nexus Bulletin Board System
http://www.nexusbbs.net/
FIDONEWS 18-26 Page 11 25 Jun 2001

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Door Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Shinning Star BBs Doors by Nannette Thacker
http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/

Jibben Software
http://www.jibbensoftware.com/

Sunrise Door Software
http://www.sunrisedoors.com/

Vagabond Software
http://vagabond.virtualave.net/

Legend Of The Red Dragon Reborn (L.O.R.D.)
http://lord.darktech.org/

Trade Wars Door Game
http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/

JNS Software Door Games by Rusty Johnson
http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Mail Tossers
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
FMail Support
http://fmail.nl.eu.org/

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Mailer Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Definite Solutions - FrontDoor, FrontDoor APX, Mailer/Point Software
http://www.defsol.se/

BeeMail Home Page
http://www.bise.tzo.com/beemail/

BinkleyTerm XE Frontend Mailer Software
http://btxe.sourceforge.net/

Santronics Software Inc.
http://www.santronics.com/

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Fidonet via Internet Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Internet Rex (Internet mail software)
http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/

Argus
http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/

Bink D
http://2f.ru/binkd/
FIDONEWS 18-26 Page 12 25 Jun 2001

Fidonet to Internet Mailer
http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm

TransX
http://www.multiboard.com/software/transx.html

Fidogate
http://www.fidogate.org/

Tmail (Russian /w English DL)
http://www.tmail.spb.ru

TransNet
http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/

Watergate
http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/

GiGo Software
http://www.gigo.com/

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Point Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Definite Solutions FrontDoor APX
http://www.defsol.se/

JetSys - Home of JetMail, JetStat and other Atari Fidonet utilities
http://www.jetsys.de/

APoint
http://www.apoint.websale.net/index.htm

CrossPoint
http://www.crosspoint.de

WinPoint95
http://www.schenksmir.de/wp/english

The OpenXP CrossPoint Projekt
http://www.happyarts.de/xp

Terminate Terminal
http://www.terminate.com

PPoint-FTS compatible E-Mail System
http://www.alcuf.ca/ppoint.htm

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Other Software, Utillities and such
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
F-Prot Anti-Virus Home Page
http://www.complex.is/cgi-bin/home_pager

BGFAX Home Page
http://blkbox.com/~bgfax/
FIDONEWS 18-26 Page 13 25 Jun 2001

SIO, Vmodem for OS/2
http://www.gwinn.com

NetModem for Windows
http://www.allensoftware.com

Com/IP
<http://pcmicro.com/comip

Husky - Portable Fido Software
http://husky.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/

cFos Fossil driver
http://www.cfos.com/index_e.htm

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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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. -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
| FIDONET-RELATED SITES |
` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- '
Last update: 9:38 PM 6/19/01

Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
Joe Jared, 1:103/301, [email protected]. All email addresses
here for purpose of corresponding with fidonet members about
obtaining a feed. Please do not list the virtual email addresses
on any web page.

- = slated for removal (Invalid URL)
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FidoNet
Homepage: http://www.fidonet.org
FidoNews: http://www.fidonews.org [HTML]
ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
Echolist: http://www.tlchost.net/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
Parody: http://www.fidonet.ro/
Foti http://www.thelitterbox.net/foti/
http://www.fidonet-on-the-internet.org
History http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/

Zone 1: http://www.z1.fidonet.org
Region 10: http://www.r10.org
Net 102 http://home.earthlink.net/ kayshapero/net102.htm
Net 103: http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
Net 203: <vacant>
Region 11: http://oeonline.com/ garyg/region11/
Region 13: http://www.ispaceonline.org/region13/
Net 109: http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/net109/
Net 261: http://www.baltimorepress.com/ net261/
Net 275: http://www.ispaceonline.org/net275/
Net 267: http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/net267/
Net 275: http://www.ispaceonline.org/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.region17.net
Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/ net140
Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/

Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19
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Net 124: http://www.DallasInet.com/net124/
http://texoma.net/ flv
Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/ wb/

Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org
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: <Vacant>
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)
http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
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.nordnet.ru/
Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English)
?? Net 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian)
Net 5074: http://www.n5074.z2.fidonet.net
?? 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://r65.yeah.net
http://www.cfido.com (Chinese)

Fidonet Via Internet Hubs

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
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also receive routed notice of this feature.

v-email flag [email protected]
| email address or
Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
| | |latency|
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Zone 1 | | | |
10/3 @ Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c
10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c
18/500 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c
18/600 | Jerry Gause | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c
103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | CABLE | 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 | ???
106/2000 | Bob Juge | BinkP VMoT FTP TX| ??? | n/c
106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c
107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
138/146 | Marc Blakely | BinkP,FTP | ??? | n/c
140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16
142/906 | Chris Griffin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
150/220 | Dave Nemeth | UUE | ??? | n/c
153/7715 | Dallas Hinton | BinkD, FTP | CABLE | ???
167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c
167/166 | Jesse Dooling | POP? UUE TX FTP| ??? | n/c
218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE,TX | 33.6k | n/c
220/10 | [email protected] |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c
229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c
229/2000 | Robert Couture |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ??? |
229/622 | Dave Hamilton | BinkP | ??? | n/c
249/116 | Carl Austin Bennett | FTP, UUE |ADSL,60 | n/c
250/98 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c
250/99 | Brent McLaren | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c
250/102 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
267/169 | Philip Lozier | FTP TX | ??? | n/c
261/1380 | Joe Davis | UUE TX | ??? | n/c
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
297/11 | Michael McCabe | TX | ??? | n/c
323/120 | Craig Healy | VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c
342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
360/5 | Bennie Hutto | FTP VMoT | ??? | n/c
395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | CABLE | n/c
379/1 @ Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c
393/9005 | Steve Quarrella |BinkP TX UUE VMoT| ??? | n/c
395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkP VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c
396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr
396/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c
2320/38 | Janis Kracht | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
2410/400 | Gary Gilmore | FTP BinkP | 384K,60| n/c
2410/213 | Kevin Bentz | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c
2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
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3613/1275 | @ [email protected] | UUE,FTP | 28.8 | n/c
3407/4 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6
3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c
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Zone 2 |
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
22/222 | Kim Heino | BinkP | ??? | n/c
28/1 | Lody Caenen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
37/37 | Gabor Z. Papp | BinkP | ??? | n/c
47/999 | Andrej Kirejev | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c
201/505 | Goran Eriksson | BinkP | ??? | n/c
203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c
211/37 | Torbjorn Mohn | BN IFCICO | ??? | n/c
221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c
236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c
240/6298 | Steve Tell | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c
246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c
252/110 | David Rance | UUE | ??? | n/c
255/90 | Simon Avery | UUE | ??? | n/c
263/950 | Sean Rima | TX UUE | ??? | n/c
280/1027 | Lukas de Groen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
280/1601 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
280/4312 | Jos Huijnen | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ??? | n/c
280/5003 | Kees van Eeten | BinkP ifcico | ??? | n/c
292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 64k | n/c
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | n/c
292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c
292/907 | Bart Verhaeghe | BinkP,VMoT,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
333/0 | M Gianformaggio | BinkP | ??? | n/c
335/534 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c
335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
341/14 | Rafael Suarez | BinkP VMoT | ??? | n/c
344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c
346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c
382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/555 | Ofir Michaeli | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/557 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
400/558 | Vlad Hrusca | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c
406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c
423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/256 | Andrew Rutkas | BinkP | ??? | n/c
461/640 | Alex Semenyaka |BinkP ifcico UUE| ??? | n/c
465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c
469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c
469/128 | Oleg Vasenyoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c
550/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | ----- | n/c
2410/201 | Karsten Ebeling | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c
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2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c
2432/200 | Sven Dueker | BinkP TX UUE | ??? | n/c
2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c
2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn
2476/419 | Tobias Ernst | BinkP | ??? | n/c
2487/3000 | Steffen Gross | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5002/5002 | Victor Belyakov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5014/4 | Alex Bagmanov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/52 | Peter Didenko | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/54 | Serge Wizgounoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/69 | B Chernivetsky | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/238 | Sergey Gubanov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/1251 | K Stepanekov | UUE | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
5049/12 | Amir Shabashvili | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5054/3 | Andrew Popov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5080/80 | Eugene Zorin | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5083/21 | Alexander Uskov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5090/2 | Andrew Titov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | 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
712/311 | Bob James | TX | ??? | n/c
774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
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Zone 4
801/161 @ Renato Zambon | UUE | 33.6 |n/c
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c
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Zone 6
65/3000 | Lawrence Fan | UUE | 33600 | free
653/1009 | Maorong Chen | UUE | ??? | free
654/0 | Bin Li | UUE,BinkP | 33600 | free
654/1501 | Lawrence Fan | UUE,BinkP | 28800 | free

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* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
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* NFS = Linux Networking
* ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer
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Nodelist Stats

INPUT NODELIST FILE : C:\FD\NODELIST\NODELIST.173
File has a Date Stamp of : 6/22/2001
File Size (uncompressed) : 1246.33 KBytes.

The Input Nodelist file has 11524 Nodes in it
and a total of 14662 non-comment entries.

The list has 6 Zones listed.
67 Region Coordinators listed.
508 Network Hosts listed.
799 Hubs listed.
418 DOWN Nodes listed.
808 PRIVATE Nodes listed.
532 HOLD Nodes listed.

Administrative overhead = 1380 ( 11.98 %)
PRIVATE NODES overhead = 808 ( 7.01 %)

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Baud Rate Summary (or, BPS, for the die-hard technocrats):
9600 = 9876 ( 85.70 %)
(HST's = 217 or 2.20 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(CSP's = 2 or 0.02 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(PEP's = 18 or 0.18 % " " " " )
(MAX's = 0 or 0.00 % " " " " )
(HAY's = 3 or 0.03 % " " " " )
(V32's = 5591 or 56.61 % " " " " )
(V32B's = 723 or 7.32 % " " " " )
(V42's = 5195 or 52.60 % " " " " )
(V42B's = 776 or 7.86 % " " " " )
2400 = 120 ( 1.04 %)
1200 = 8 ( 0.07 %)
300 = 545 ( 4.73 %)

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F_Req Flag Applicable Software Number of Systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 4664
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 12
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 13
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 80
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XW Fido >12M 418
Tabby
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 4806
Frontdoor 1.99b,2.01
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CrashMail capable = 4371 ( 37.93 %)
MailOnly Nodes = 5839 ( 50.67 %)
Listed-Only Nodes = 860 ( 7.46 %)

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