F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 31 20 Jul 2001

F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 31 20 Jul 2001
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| |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are |
| | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings|
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|(________) (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. TOP STORIES .............................................. 2
This week's Headlines .................................... 2
3. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 3
A day in the life (on fidonet, too) ..................... 3
Frank's New Toy .......................................... 4
4. INTERVIEWS ............................................... 6
Interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs ................ 6
5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 9
Famous Cows .............................................. 9
6. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ...................................... 10
Humor.jok ................................................ 10
Modern Maxims ............................................ 10
7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 11
Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's ........................... 11
8. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 16
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 16
9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 22
How to Submit an Article ................................. 22
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 23
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 24
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Suppose you were an idiot... And suppose you were a member of
Congress.... But I repeat myself.
--Mark Twain

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TOP STORIES
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This week we have an interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs. If
you use Dos Navigator, Argus, The Bat! or SecureBat!, you will
probably recognize the name. On a personal note: I'm looking at the
argus program at this time.

--==--
Jan Andreassen asked me how to send an article to the Fidonews. I
answered and you can read his article in the "General Articles"
section. Thanks Jan!

--==--
Todd Cochrane has now officially taken over the Fidonet Software
Listing for the Fidonews. His update for this week reflects much work
on his part. Bravo, Todd!

Please note that the Fidonet Software Listing in the Fidonews
publication is not always the same as what is shown on the Fidonews
Web Page. The Fidonews Web Page has a search engine type of listing.
However, for those that might not have Web access, the list in the
Fidonews Publication is provided.

--==--
Frank has a "new toy". Read about it in the "General Articles"
section. :-)

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Don't forget the Fidonet by Internet section. If you have any
corrections or additions, please contact Joe Jared.

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Please remember that this is your Fidonews. Articles may be sent to:

Frank Vest
Fidonet 1:124/6308
[email protected]

You can send via file attach or message to either address.

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GENERAL ARTICLES
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A day in the life (on fidonet, too)

In 1988 I was still working. I was driving busses - and I had been
driving cars for a living for the last twenty years since 1968, when
I got my drivers licence. Trucks, tank-trucks, taxis, you name them.

In 1991 a strike broke out where I worked. Peace and order was
a thing of the past - and in fact I haven't been working since.
Today - do I regret it? NO!

I remember I then said to my collegues that I wished I could
find a way to get pensioned - thus not having to work any more.

Maybe the LORD heard me - and then fulfilled my wish HIS way.
Today I don't know whether I should have kept my mouth shut - or not.
Back in 1994 I was brought to the hospital in an ambulance. It turned
out to be a DOUBLE trombosis. The doctors told me later, that I was
lucky I could still speak and understand what other people said.

What I couldn't do anymore was driving cars. My left hand - arm -
leg - they are a little stiff now. My eyes doesn't work like before.
It looks like there is a constant "cloud" in the left field of my
vision. However - what I CAN see is normal enough.

I had started with computers around 1985 - and with BBS's and
fidonet around 1989. It was via fidonet that my life really took a
change. Is there somebody saying, that "romance" doesn't exist in
fidonet? ___ Just read on, then.

In 1997 I saw an echomail in ASIAN_LINK that asked: "How quick goes
fidonet?" - it came from ... let us call her Maria ... in Belgium.
I answered her in an echomail in ASIAN_LINK and in a directly send or
chrashed netmail - in both mails I said when her mail where received
in Roskilde, Denmark.

In those mails - in fact they were CC (carbon copies) - I said if she
could remember when she did send her question, she could figure it
out herself.

That was that - I thought. However humans should NEVER try to
predict the future - that is a prerogative of the LORD. See above.

Maria answered me - also in a netmail - and the chain of
netmails turned into a chain reaction - of more than 1500 -
one-thousand-five-hundred - netmails. in 1998 I was able to move
(thanks to the help of friends of hers) to Lanaken, Belgium.
Her friends later became my friends, too.

I slept in Roskilde, Denmark Friday night, woke up saturday morning
at around 03:30 - and went to sleep in Lanaken Belgium on Saturday
evening after a more than 800 kilometers move.
Boy - was I/we tired :-)
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I live now in Lanaken and I intend to do so until the sun grows cold
or I die (whichever comes first) - because I have no more family left
in Denmark - no father or mother - they're gone a long time ago -
and I was their only child.

My pension is sent from Denmark to a bank here in Belgium.
Why in eight storms should I stay in Denmark? ....
Give me just one good reason - huh?

No - I'll stay in Lanaken - because here is "Maria" !!

In between all that I've experienced hard disk crashes - I once saw
a cpU being burned into silicon dust, just because the CPU ventilator
didn't want to function anymore. (damn no-name vent.)
Don't EVER buy cheap no name ventilators.

My very first computer had a 33 MHz 8086 CPU (was it 33 MHz?)
compared to that my present one (Pentium AMD duron 600 MHz) has
turned into warp drive. Booting-up is something like 6 seconds.

Greetings everybody .... Jan Andreassen
CUL8R (on my (SVGA) screen :-)

StarFleet fidonet/virnet HQ Lanaken, Belgium.
2:292/111 V34,V42B,CM,XA,MO
AKA 9:321/308 V34,V42B,CM,XA,MO
e-mail: [email protected]

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Frank's New Toy
By Frank Vest
1:124/6308

It is nice and fast and fun. I like to play with it and see what I
can get it to do.... but, I should start at the beginning.

Some two months ago, my son (stepson, actually) dropped by to pay us
a visit. He wasn't in a good mood and that was part of the reason for
the visit. One of his buddies that he was sharing an apartment with
had decided to move out. There was no warning, just here today, gone
tomorrow. This left both remaining buddies with a real problem since
they couldn't pick up the rent cost left by the third one. Long story
short, Jon needed a place to stay and was wanting to move back in with
mom and dad. Without getting into all the arrangements and gory
details, let's just say that he is now moved back in with us. No
problem.

With the move came another computer in the house and the need to
vacate a room that I had taken over as an office. That has been done
and all worked rather well. Along with the computer, and all that,
came the desire of the son to have the cable modem that he had when he
lived at home. Since he was paying for it, why not.

Along with the cable modem came an offer by the son to share the
connection with the rest of the computers in the house. That was a
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nice gesture and, with the LAN already in place, adding a fourth node
was not a real problem.... a little connection sharing and there we
are. :)

So, now I have access to a cable modem. Of course, it is through a
peer to peer network, but still faster by far than a dial-up account.
I've been playing with the connection and I must say that it is nice.
E-mail has a small problem in that I can receive e-mail through the
cable modem via my ISP (separate ISP from the cable company's), but
can't send unless I dial into my regular ISP (Texoma net). The smtp
server just won't allow outgoing through another server. It's an
aggravation, but livable.

You might wonder when I'll put up a telnet system and start doing all
the mail feeds and such as that via the cable modem.... Answer is, I
won't. This is temporary since as soon as the son gets back on his
feet and pays off some bills (car payment is the main one), he will be
leaving again and the cable modem will probably go as well. I just
can't afford it right now.

I'm looking at DSL, but the money factor is there as well. I'd like
to know how DSL and cable modem compare to each other. I've read the
compares from web pages for companies that offer each service and, of
course, the cable modem company(s) claim that their service is far
better, faster and all that in comparison to the DSL. The DSL
company(s), of course, claim just the opposite. <sigh>

That's what is happening so far. Maybe some day I'll have all these
nice toys that I read about in the echos and I'll be able to "play
with the big dogs". For now, I'll just be;

Frank Vest, Sysop: Collin County Station
1:124/6308(.1)
[email protected]
[email protected]

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INTERVIEWS
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Interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs
By Frank Vest
Edited by Frank Vest

Q: Tell us a little about yourself. Just who are you? :)

I'm the vice president and co-founder of RIT LABS, software company
specializing on communication software. Our flagship products are
Dos Navigator, Argus, The Bat! and SecureBat!

Besides my vice-president functions, I also do a lot of programming.

I'm 23 years old, married, and we have a 4-month nice daughter!

I like the communication with people. I also like music :-) In 1996,
when I started Argus development, I liked rock, mostly so-called
classic rock ('60s, '70s and '80s), but now it seems that I do not
like aggressive music any more. Now I like blues, jazz, and new age
music. My favorite jazz guitarist is Enver Ismailov. I met him on a
concerto and he is very charming.

I live in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. We have a great opera
theater here and we used to visit operas with my wife.

Q: What got you first interested in writing Argus and/or other
software?

The reason is simple! I am a fidonet fan and I like programming! We
were running the biggest node in the city! I was astounded by the
programmers and sysops who were experts in fidonet technology, why
should I stay and not write a mailer that the people and I would
like?

Q: How long have you been programming?

I'm in programming for ten years. My first computer was a MSX/2, very
neat computer!

Q: What do you see as the strong points of your programs? Give us
a quick review.

The strongest point is that it works with dial-up and TCP/IP nodes
simultaneously, and it supports multiple lines in a single process.

In the past, we ran the biggest node in the city, it has three
lines, 2CM and one night. The node was operating under OS/2. We had
three instances of Xenia Mailer for OS/2, one Xenia for each line.
Then we had connected to the Internet via a leased serial line and
run some more instances of Xenia to handle VModem (TCP/IP)
connections. Under OS/2, the mailers could use the awesome Serial
Input Output driver by Ray Gwinn, that provided VModem, telnet and
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raw TCP/IP connections. I asked myself questions: why Xenia, being an
OS/2 application, couldn't handle multiple connections, modem and
TCP/IP having only one system process of xenia.exe, one instance of
the program, running? Why should I have six processes consuming a
couple of megabytes of RAM for each? We had 16MB of RAM under an
Intel LX server based on an i486DX2/66 processor. This was a rather
powerful computer for that time, but the multiple instances of Xenia
consumed a lot of memory and made this computer slow responding to
user commands under Presentation Manager.

When the users of OS/2 had a facility of transferring their mail
bundles via TCP/IP by means of SIO by Ray Gwinn, there was nothing
for Windows95.

We decided to write Argus. My colleague, programmer, Stefan
Tanurkov, who was working with Intershop Limited on a joint project,
TERMINATOR 2, the full fido solution for DOS, and he was helping me
a lot at the beginning of Argus development. There were also a lot of
experienced sysops around me who were helping me with advice. Argus
was also influenced by Xenia Mailer.

First version of Argus was written in October 1996, it only supported
dial-up connections (no TCP/IP). We used this version internally on
our node. We left Xenia for TCP/IP only, while Argus was serving
three dial-up nodes on a separate machine under NT 3.51. Our OS/2
machine began to work faster, while there was no speed degradation on
NT machine. Argus was using the same amount of memory for three
dial-up lines as one instance of Xenia.

First version of Argus was not a stable version yet, and a couple
of sysops in our network has started to fight against Argus, but the
majority of sysops in the network were friendly to the new weak
mailer, they didn't support those who were against Argus, they even
started installing Argus to help us, and the project has survived.

Three month later, in January 1997, Argus has started supporting
WinSocket, and has supported Raw TCP/IP, Telnet and BinkP protocol.

As a goal, Argus could serve an almost unlimited number of dial-up
and TCP/IP connections simultaneously, with small memory footprint.

BinkP by Dima Maloff was the new revolutionary protocol for
transferring fidonet mail bundles over the internet. While VModem,
Raw TCP/IP or Telnet did only provide a TCP/IP layer for old
handshakes and transfer protocols (EMSI, Hydra) that were
implementing their own mechanisms of recovery of errors that could
occur over a serial line, BinkP was relying on error correction
provided by TCP/IP and didn't do unnecessary error protection and
synchronization steps. Such new technique gave a fantastic speed
increase over the TCP/IP connection with delay, e.g. satellite
connections.

I would like to say thank you again to Ray Gwinn and Dima Maloff,
the major contributors of using Internet as a transport for
transferring Fidonet bundles.

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Q: Where do you see BBS systems going in the future.

Fidonet won't die. The transport and the network topology will be
evolving, but the community, the people, and the spirit of the
network of friends will remain. I believe that fidonet is the
network of the friends. I do not agree with those who get upset
when looking on the nodelist that shrinks week after week. Even if
there will remain no fidonet nodes, the people who were at the
beginning of fidonet will remain and will keep communicating with
each other.

Maxim Masiutin
Vice President, Rit labs S.R.L.
http://www.rit labs.com/

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COMIX IN ASCII
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Famous Cows

(__) (__)
[##] (@o)
/-------\/ /-------\/ /------- (__)
/ | || / | || / | || (oo)
* ||----|| * ||----|| * ||----|---\/
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ ^
This cow belonged This cow lived with This cow belonged to
to Flash Gordon the Little Rascals the Headless Horseman

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CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
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IRISH ENGINEER
Submitted by: [email protected]

Young man Murphy applied for an engineering position at an Irish firm
based in Dublin. An American applied for the same job and both
applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test
by the department manager.

Upon completion of the test, both men only missed one of the
questions. The manager went to Murphy and said, "Thank you for your
interest, but we've decided to give the American the job."

Murphy asked, "And why would you be doing that? We both got nine
questions correct. This being Ireland, and me being Irish I should
get the job!"

The manager said, "We have made our decision not on the correct
answers, but rather on the question that you missed."

Murphy then asked, "And just how would one incorrect answer be
better than the other?"

The manager replied, "Simple, the American put down on
question #5, 'I don't know. You put down, "Neither do I..."

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Modern Maxims...

- Home is where you hang your @
- The e-mail of the species is deadlier than the mail
- A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click
- You can't teach a new mouse old clicks
- Speak softly and carry a cellular phone
- C:\ is the root of all directories
- The modem is the message
- Too many clicks spoil the browse
- A chat has nine lives
- The geek shall inherit the earth
- Fax is stranger than fiction
- What boots up must come down
- Virtual reality is its own reward
- A user and his leisure time are soon parted
- Know what to expect before you connect
- Speed thrills

and finally. . .
- Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day;
teach that person to use the Internet and they won't
bother you for weeks.

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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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*Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's*

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
BBS Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
BBBS Home Page
[email protected]
http://www.bbbs.net/

ELEBBS- The Elevator Software Productions Web Page
[email protected]
http://www.elebbs.com/

Hermes II Project (Mac)
[email protected]
http://www.hermesii.org/

Maximus BBS Support Page (Non Official)
[email protected]
http://www.vector11.com/maximus/

Mystic BBS
http://www.mysticbbs.com/mystic/

Nexus Bulletin Board System
[email protected]
http://www.nexusbbs.net/

RemoteAccess BBS
[email protected]
http://www.rapro.com/

Spitfire BBS
Buffalo Creek Software
[email protected]
http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/index.html

Synchronet BBS
[email protected]
http://www.synchro.net

Telegard BBS
[email protected]
http://www.telegard.net/

Wildcat Interactive Net Server (BBS)
Santronics Inc.
[email protected]
(305)248-3204
http://www.santronics.com

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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Door Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Bentstone Capabilities Group
[email protected]
http://www.srupc.com/mall

Jibben Software
[email protected]
http://www.jibbensoftware.com/

JNS Software Door Games
Rusty Johnson
[email protected]
304-733-0113
http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/

PC Pursuits
[email protected]
(301)240-6653
http://www.pcpursuits.com/products.htm

S and T Software
Mark Bappe
[email protected]
(770)788-6843
http://bozax.iainc.net/public/

Shinning Star BBS Doors
[email protected]
http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/

Sunrise Door Software
Al Lawerence
[email protected]
(404)256-9518
http://www.sunrisedoors.com/

The Brainex System
[email protected]
http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/

Trade Wars Door Game
[email protected]
http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
1:299/110

Vagabond Software
Bryan Turner
[email protected]
http://vagabond.virtualave.net/
1:124/7013

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Mail Tossers
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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FMail Support
[email protected]
http://fmail.nl.eu.org/
2:280/1076

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

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

Plantinum Express for Wildcat
Santronics Inc.
[email protected]
(305)248-3204
http://www.santronics.com

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Fidonet via Internet Software
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Argus
RITLABS
[email protected]
373-2-246889
http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/
2:469/84

BinkD
[email protected]
http://2f.ru/binkd/

Fidogate
[email protected]
http://www.fidogate.org/

Fidonet to Internet Mailer
Bo Bendtsen
[email protected]
http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm

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

Internet Rex
[email protected]
http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/

Tmail (Russian /w English DL)
http://www.tmail.spb.ru/index-19.htm

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TransX
Multiboard Communications Inc.
[email protected]
http://www.multiboard.com/software/transx.html
1:2401/305

TransNet
[email protected]
http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/

Watergate
[email protected]
http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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

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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/

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

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

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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

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Dead Links
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

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

Renegade BBS
http://www.egate.net/renegade/

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

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

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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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Net 109: http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/net109/
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Net 267: http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/net267/
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Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
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Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140
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Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19
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.fidospain.org
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
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appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
also receive routed notice of this feature.

v-email flag [email protected]
| email address or
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
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.
1:134/11 @ Michael Grant | FTP, BinkP, VMoT UUE, IFCICO,TransX
aDSL, 60 | n/c
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 | aDSL | 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
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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
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
--------------------------------------------------------------
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
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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
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
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
--------------------------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------------------------------------
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
--------------------------------------------------------------
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

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

NetStats

INPUT NODELIST FILE : NODELIST.208
File has a Date Stamp of : 7/26/2001
File Size (uncompressed) : 1232.82 KBytes.

The Input Nodelist file has 11369 Nodes in it
and a total of 14503 non-comment entries.

The list has 6 Zones listed.
68 Region Coordinators listed.
505 Network Hosts listed.
794 Hubs listed.
371 DOWN Nodes listed.
826 PRIVATE Nodes listed.
564 HOLD Nodes listed.

Administrative overhead = 1373 ( 12.08 %)
PRIVATE NODES overhead = 826 ( 7.27 %)
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Baud Rate Summary (or, BPS, for the die-hard technocrats):
9600 = 9720 ( 85.50 %)
(HST's = 214 or 2.20 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(CSP's = 2 or 0.02 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(PEP's = 16 or 0.16 % " " " " )
(MAX's = 0 or 0.00 % " " " " )
(HAY's = 3 or 0.03 % " " " " )
(V32's = 5515 or 56.74 % " " " " )
(V32B's = 718 or 7.39 % " " " " )
(V42's = 5178 or 53.27 % " " " " )
(V42B's = 769 or 7.91 % " " " " )
2400 = 114 ( 1.00 %)
1200 = 8 ( 0.07 %)
300 = 533 ( 4.69 %)

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F_Req Flag Applicable Software Number of Systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 4550
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 11
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 14
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 78
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XW Fido >12M 411
Tabby
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 4767
Frontdoor 1.99b,2.01
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CrashMail capable = 4257 ( 37.44 %)
MailOnly Nodes = 5775 ( 50.80 %)
Listed-Only Nodes = 848 ( 7.46 %)

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