The F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 37 10 Sep 2001

The F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 37 10 Sep 2001
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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
Kind of a sad Fidonews ................................... 2
3. REGIONAL NEWS ............................................ 3
Sadly, from Region 19 .................................... 3
"Egorkin's funeral" ...................................... 3
4. EDITORIAL ................................................ 5
I guess it's about normal? ............................... 5
5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 6
No Bull .................................................. 6
6. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ...................................... 7
The Door ................................................. 7
like, ..... just about every day ......................... 7
What'd he do? ............................................ 7
Pray for me! :) .......................................... 7
7. OTHER STUFF .............................................. 9
This week's Calander ..................................... 9
8. CLASSIFIED ADS ........................................... 10
Rotating Ads ............................................. 10
9. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 11
Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's* .......................... 11
10. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 16
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 16
11. CORRECTIONS ............................................. 22
Corrections to Fidonews Volume 18, Number 36 on 03 Sep ... 22
12. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 23
How to Submit an Article ................................. 23
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 24
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 25
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a
chance to get its pants on."
-- Winston Churchill

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TOP STORIES
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Kind of a sad Fidonews
By Frank Vest
[email protected]

Yes, it's kind of a sad Fidonews.

There are two articles that relate the demise of Fidonet Nodes and
Nets. One relates to a Node that was forced to quit some years back
due to things beyond control. The other is kind of a sad reflection of
the current times in Fidonet.

Let's not lose heart in this. While there are those that leave us,
that is a way of life. Let's be happy for the one's that are still
here and try our best to keep ourselves here. For sure... as sure as
in life... there will be those who leave us. We don't want to see them
go, but they will go just the same.

As is shown by the story of Music Drain BBS, the loss of a BBS and
Fidonet Node can be turned into something positive. A gathering of
Sysops to remember a lost one. A chance to meet and chat, face to
face, with those that we only know from messages. One BBS created a
"family". The loss of that BBS wasn't enough to destroy that "family".
The family still lives and the lost one is rememberd. A sadness, yes,
but a positve as well.

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REGIONAL NEWS
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Sadly, from Region 19
Taken from a message by Steve Quarrella
1:393/9005

Net 380 is gone. I get some disconnects there, one FAX machine, and a
BBS without a mailer. I've got a note out to the sysop of that BBS,
but I admit that I'm not optimistic.

Net 147 may be gone. The NC has a note on his web site that his
system is dead. One other system has a FAX machine online, another is
definitely gone, and another is RNA (Ring No Answer).

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"Egorkin's "funeral"
From : Max Krasnikov
2:5045/57.18
(Tuesday, 28 August 2001)
Minor editing by Frank Vest

Vladivostok. Summer. It's a time, when all the people strive to go as
far as possible to islands, sea, China, Japan... Due to this tendency
a sharp comedown in the trafic is feeling, which resolves itself into
40Kb per day ... e.g. just nothing... However, people don't diverge
the traditions, so 23-th August, by plan, all got around the square
near the sea front (Naberezhnaja) by the "elephants" to celebrate
"Egorkin's "funeral"", to catch those who was not able to be hunt down
by netmail, to solve small net problems, and just to have a bock, meet
in real those who converse by fido... Generally it could be named most
likely fidotap rather then sysopp...

A little bit hystory: 23-th August is a kind of significant date for
us, 4-5 years ago, in the time of modems at 2400, a man with the name
Egor Nikolaev (2:5045/9) worked as administrator at a big Vladivostok'
restaurant-hotel. He had a node with address 2:5045/9. He occupied 3
phone lines for the node, and he was a big distributing node in the
net. He had a BBS named Music Drain, which gathered people from all
over the Vladivostok in the quiet evenings and nights. There people
were picking up each other, rubbing shoulders with each other, making
arrangements... at that time such BBS was a basic source of
information and gossip for computer-modem oriented people, Internet
was not yet online, even fido was not that much common as it's now. So
one fine day a paper from the Phone Central came to the management of
the restaurant. So to say, it was needed to register the units on the
phone line, otherwise - amercement and all in the same vein... the
management, of course, asked Egor to clear away all the modems from
the lines... In fact, it came to close not only the node, but the BBS
also, which was for 3 years a retreat for a lot of fidos and just
users... This was just a killing decision for him, he had to kill his
child with his own hands... And the last days of the stantion's life
he gathered all to the funeral of Music Drain BBS, it was 23-th August
... Since that time year in year out 23-th August is the Commemoration
FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 4 10 Sep 2001

Day of Music Drain BBS... Everything begins as usually by the
"elephants" and ends in the underground club BSB...

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EDITORIAL
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I guess it's about normal?
By Frank Vest
1:124/6308(.1)

Last week was a holiday in the U.S.A. and some other countries as
well. I guess it's just normal that on holidays, most people have
nothing better to do than send articles to the Fidonews. After all,
the lakes and recreation areas are packed and the battle to get to
them is terrible. There's nothing open to go do. Many are on vacation
on these weeks. What else is there to do other than write articles for
the Fidonews and messages in the Fidonet echos?

Last week I was thrilled to have so many articles sent in. It was
great! There was news from all around Fidonet and beyond. Most of the
articles were from you... not me. It was beautiful.

Let's not forget that the Fidonews and Fidonet are here every week.
Not just holidays or vacation time.

I realize as well as anyone that jobs and family come first. There is
always something to do and vacations are important to us all for a
"break in the routine". Let just not forget that Fidonet is part of
our family and the Fidonews is important to Fidonet.

It's understandable when some things come before Fidonet and the
Fidonews, but sad when Fidonet and the Fidonews are put on the bottom
of the list. :(

Thanks to all of you who send in articles. Thanks as well to all of
you who read the articles and write messages in Fidonet.

Regards,

Frank Vest - Editor

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COMIX IN ASCII
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No Bull

(___) (___)
(o o) (o o)
/-------\ / /-------\ /
/ | ||O / | O~ ||O
* ||,---|| * ||,---||
^^ ^^ ^^ ^^
A Bull A-bomb-in-a-bull No-bull

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CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
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The Door
From: Warren Bonner <[email protected]>

Phil went to apply for a job. After filling out all of his
applications, he waited anxiously for the outcome. The
employer read all his applications and said,
"We have an opening for people like you."

"Oh, great," he said, "What is it?"

"It's called the door!"

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like, ..... just about every day
From: Warren Bonner <[email protected]>

My wife and I were lunching at a sidewalk cafe in Huntington Beach,
CA.

Our waitress looked like a real surfer girl - athletic with a great
tan and blond hair. Mulling over the menu, my wife asked her if the
roast beef was rare. The waitress gave us a long blank look, then
replied, "Well, no...... we have it, like, ..... just about every
day."

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What'd he do?
From: Warren Bonner <[email protected]>

It was the end of the day when a cop parked his police van in front
of the station. As he gathered his equipment, his K-9 partner was
barking and he saw a little boy staring in at him.

"Is that a dog you got back there?" the little boy asked.

"It sure is," The cop replied.

Puzzled, the boy looked at him and then towards the back of the van.
Finally he said, "What'd he do?"

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Pray for me! :)

One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up" during the
morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some
sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the
father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle
on his way out. Just before reaching the safety of the foyer, the
little called loudly to the congregation, "Pray for me! Pray for me!"
FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 8 10 Sep 2001

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OTHER STUFF
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This week's Calander
Day Event
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10.
Gibraltar National Day in Gibraltar
Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau
St. George's Caye Day in Belize
11.
Anniversary of the Death of Qaid-i-Azam in Pakistan
Coptic New Year in Egypt
Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia
La Diana Nacional de Catalunya/Catalan Region Bank Holiday in
Spain
Liberation Day in Micronesia (Kosrae, Pohnpei)
12.
Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau
Defender's Day in United States (Maryland)
National Day in Cape Verde
Revolution Day in Ethiopia
13.
Barry Day in United States
15.
Independence Day in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras
and Nicaragua
Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in Slovakia
Respect for the Aged Day in Japan
16.
Independence and Constitution Day in Papua New Guinea
Independence Day in Mexico
Ordino in Andorra

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CLASSIFIED ADS
=================================================================

Rotating ads

As a service of the Fidonews, I am prepared to offer rotating ads for
those that provide services to Fidonet such as Mail Hubs, Gateways,
Fidonet via Internet and such.

How this works:

1. Create an ad following the guidelines for the Fidonews.
2. Keep it short and to the point.
3. Put contact and other needed information in the ad.
4. Send it to Frank Vest as a file attach.
A. E-Mail "[email protected]
B. Netmail "Frank Vest - 1:124/6308

I will put the ad in a pool and use a program each week to
automatically rotate the ads into the Fidonews.

Please! If you stop offering service or need to change your ad,
contact me! This is very important to keep the ads current.

I'm doing this on a trial basis. If it gets to be a problem, I will
have to discontinue the service. I can make no promise of how often
your ad will be in the Fidonews. This will depend on how many ads I
have to rotate through.

As always in Fidonet, I make no guaranties. :)

Regards,

Frank Vest - Fidonews Editor

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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 Central
Bruce Morse
[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

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

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

FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 14 10 Sep 2001

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 (Author)
http://www.apoint-mail.de (Co-Author)

CrossPoint ("Original" version)
http://www.crosspoint.de
http://www.apoint-mail.de

CrossPoint (OpenXP Projekt)
http://www.openxp.com (English)
http://www.openxp.de (German)

CrossPoint (XP2 Team)
http://www.xp2.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

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BGFAX Home Page
http://blkbox.com/~bgfax/

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

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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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appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will
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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
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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
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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
3830/10 | Matt Bedynek | FTP, BinkP | 100Mb | 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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* 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

INPUT NODELIST FILE : NODELIST.250
File has a Date Stamp of : 9/7/2001
File Size (uncompressed) : 1215.43 KBytes.

The Input Nodelist file has 11217 Nodes in it
and a total of 14303 non-comment entries.

The list has 6 Zones listed.
68 Region Coordinators listed.
505 Network Hosts listed.
773 Hubs listed.
373 DOWN Nodes listed.
838 PRIVATE Nodes listed.
523 HOLD Nodes listed.

Administrative overhead = 1352 ( 12.05 %)
PRIVATE NODES overhead = 838 ( 7.47 %)

Baud Rate Summary (or, BPS, for the die-hard technocrats):
9600 = 9616 ( 85.73 %)
(HST's = 210 or 2.18 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(CSP's = 2 or 0.02 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
(PEP's = 16 or 0.17 % " " " " )
(MAX's = 0 or 0.00 % " " " " )
(HAY's = 3 or 0.03 % " " " " )
(V32's = 5444 or 56.61 % " " " " )
(V32B's = 698 or 7.26 % " " " " )
(V42's = 5153 or 53.59 % " " " " )
(V42B's = 755 or 7.85 % " " " " )
2400 = 113 ( 1.01 %)
1200 = 8 ( 0.07 %)
300 = 505 ( 4.50 %)

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F_Req Flag Applicable Software Number of Systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 4412
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 13
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XP Seadog 7
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XR Opus 1.03 78
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XW Fido >12M 414
Tabby
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 4747
Frontdoor 1.99b,2.01
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CrashMail capable = 4112 ( 36.66 %)
MailOnly Nodes = 5749 ( 51.25 %)
Listed-Only Nodes = 851 ( 7.59 %)

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