The F I D O N E W S Volume 20, Number 07 17 Feb 2003 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are | | | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings| | | | | San Francisco, California, USA | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Crash netmail articles to: | | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907) | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | Routed netmail articles to: | | \_______\(_| /_) | Bjorn Felten @ 2:203/0 | | _ @/_ \ _ | Email attach to: | | | | \ \\ | bfelten@telia.com | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2003 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. INSIDE ................................................... 1 The Fidonews at a Glance ................................. 1 2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2 Politics in Fidonews? .................................... 2 3. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 3 The Mother of all Wars is not to be ...................... 3 4. FIDONET CURRENT EVENTS ................................... 5 FTSC-Chair election ...................................... 5 5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 7 Obsolete ................................................. 7 6. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 8 False Alarm .............................................. 8 7. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 9 FIDONet Software References .............................. 9 8. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 14 Fidonet-related sites .................................... 14 9. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 19 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 19 10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 21 How to Submit an Article ................................. 21 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 23 FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 1 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= INSIDE ================================================================= The Fidonews at a Glance In the editorial this week, I ask the question "Politics in Fidonews?" for certain reasons... ... such as this week's guest editorial from Ward Dossche, "The Mother of all Wars is not to be", about the political situation that we probably are all too familiar with now. Also from the keyboard of Ward comes "FTSC-Chair election", another political subject one might say, albeit in a much smaller scale. In yet another wonderful ASCII comix, Frank Vest shows us how he thinks Ol' Fido should handle internet, symbolized by a mouse cursor, this in "Obsolete". Finally, still in the politics spirit, a kiddy joke, "False Alarm", about what can happen if grown-ups take kids too seriously. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 2 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Politics in Fidonews? As you can see, we have something of a political touch in this issue. So, are we going to allow that in the future too? I know some will object to this, but after all, doesn't politics concern us all, and even can have impact on Fidonet? Of course this editor does not believe it will benefit the Snooze to make it an all political medium, but some may very well have it's given place here. Remember all, that, unlike with a commercial magazine, the editor of this ezine does not have the luxury to chose between so many contributions, he can actually listen to what the readers want in it, it's entirely up to the article writers to decide what the Snooze will look like. Ergo, no demands or requests, only article contributions will give the Fidonews it's direction. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 3 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= GUEST EDITORIAL ================================================================= The Mother of all Wars is not to be by Ward Dossche, 2:292/854 Two leading medical publications, "The Lancet" and the "British Medical Journal", are drawing an urgent attention to support resistance against a military intervention in Iraq. Both magazines published an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Blair in which professors, faculty staff and students of the London School of Hygiene argue against a war and in favour of peace, for ethical international government and a just global development. The arguments in the different texts cite three recent reports. First is an internal UN Report, a report of Medact and one of the WHO (World Health Organisation). These publications show that as a consequence of the 1991 Gulf War and the ongoing embargo against Iraq more than a million people have perished. A new war could lead to an immediate 250.000 more casualties, mainly civilians. That number will increase if ever tactical nuclear arms enter the theater of operations. The expected massive flood of refugees will be faced with abominable dangers of hunger and epidemics which could add 200.000 more to the death toll. There will be long-term effects on the health and development, both physical and psychological, of nearly all children in the area. There will be a need to take immediate care of more than 3 million civilians and there will be health problems for at least 500.000. At the same time an armed conflict will largely destroy Iranian healthcare, extreme lack of medical and pharmaceutical supplies will be caused and render the effective treatment of healthproblems an improbability. According to the above cited UN-report, the humanitarian action which is already now being planned will be cynically late and insufficient. The actual reconstruction of the healthcare system will take years. Adequate international relief, even when financed by all confiscated oil-revenues, will be problematic. The WHO-report points out the terrible global consequences of war. This kind of violence during the last decade alone has led to an increase in global poverty and extreme unhealthy living-conditions. A war against Iraq, who could be the first one of a series of armed conflicts, will lead to an accelerated continuation of this trend. The financial repercussions of a military adventure will weigh heavily on the world-household and will be a reason to further reduce social expenditures, also in western countries. High defense-costs will be the excuse for new and drastic cuts in healthcare and social security, people not marching on the same tune will be unpatriotic and become outcasts. FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 4 17 Feb 2003 Healthcare workers also have a preventive task, certainly when the threat of war is imminent. A military intervention in Iraq will harm its population seriously, massively and fundamentally. It will destroy the local healthcare system and indirectly influence health on a global level. For the sake of the ordinary people of Iraq in particular and all human beings globally people ought to oppose this war, and all other wars with it. We need to call upon the governments of the world to ensure that "the mother of all wars" will never be. -o=0=o- ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 5 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET CURRENT EVENTS ================================================================= FTSC-Chair election to take a start By Ward Dossche, 2:292/854 I have been invited to administer the election of a new FTSC-chair. This election will start on February 17th 2003. The procedure for this election has been described in the document FTA1001 which you can retrieve on the internet via: http://ftsc.org/~yeppe/docs/fetch.php?doc=fta1001 and will be adhered to. It means that candidates are needed. I quote from FTA1001: ************************* QUOTE ************************* To be eligible for appointment, an individual must be a Fidonet node, be actively involved in Fidonet, though not necessarily in a programming context, and should have proven organizational skills. A candidate need not be a member of the FTSC. It is recommended that a successful candidate not carry any *C or *EC responsibilities during the term of office. A candidate for FTSC Administrator may be nominated by any Standing Member. ************************ UNQUOTE ************************ One candidacy so far has been received, Scott Little. To formally allow everybody to exercise his/her rights to become a candidate there will be a further nomination-period ending Monday morning Feb.24th at 00h01am "my time". Nominations will be announced in FTSC_PUBLIC, Fidonews and other available means on Feb.24th 2003 at 00h001am. On Feb.24 2003 at 00h01 the election will start and run for 14 days until March 10th 00h01am. I quote again from FTA1001: ************************* QUOTE ************************* The FTSC Administrator is appointed on the basis of a vote by all Standing Members who are defined by the then-current edition of FTA-1003 (FTSC Membership List). A successful candidate must receive approval by at least a plurality of votes. Publication of the nominations and the voting procedure shall take place openly in the FTSC_PUBLIC echo, and voting shall close three weeks after publication of the vote. Votes shall be by netmail ballot to an independent enumerator. ************************ UNQUOTE ************************ I will accept votes via netmail but also via email at 'wd@skynet.be' FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 6 17 Feb 2003 which is my personal email-address. All votes will be checked for confirmation; unconfirmed votes will be rejected. The outcome of the election will be announced in FTSC_PUBLIC, Fidonews and every other useful means on March 10th 2003. There will be a period of three weeks to enter complaints. If complaints are formulated they will be collected by an overseer, for independent processing, whom I will appoint prior to commencement of voting. Appointment of the FTSC-administrator will then occur on March 30th 2003. This appointment will expire on March 30th 2007. Take care, \%/@rd ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 7 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= Obsolete _____________________________________________________________________ ________ __ | ___________________________________ | |Who are_\ / \ | /\ /__ I'm a moose cussor. Peopel no || |you? | /|oo \ | / \ |longer has to laarn to spiel or || |______| (_| /_) | || |use proper grammere. With me an || _`@/_ \ _ | || |the enternet, people just points|| /\ | | \ \\ | |and clicks. Me and the enternet || / \ | (*) | \ ))| |can do anything better than you.|| || |__U__| / \// | __ |________________________________|| || _//|| _\ / | / \ | (_/(_|(____/ | /|oo \ | _________________________|___________________________________________| _________ | __ ________________ | |With me | __ _____ | / \ /___ Have a great| | |and the | / \ /_ Oh?| | /|oo \ _ |day. :) | | |enternet,| /|oo \ |___| | (_| /_) \\ |____________| | |you are | (_| /_) | _`@/_ )) | |obsolete | _`@/_ \ _ | | |_//__(( | |_____ __| | | \ \\ | | (*) | ___/ | /\ / / | (*) | \ )) | |__U__|_/|\ /\ | / \ / |__U__| / \// | _//_||(_| ;/ \ | || _//|| _\ / | (_/(__| ; || | || (_/(_|(____/ | _;||__ | ______________________________|______________________________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 8 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ================================================================= False Alarm WASHINGTON (Feb. 14) - A senior government official said Friday the administration now believes some of the information which led to upgrading the nation's terror threat level last week to orange, or high, was likely fabricated. Authorities drew that conclusion based on wiretaps of terrorist suspects Alan and Jimmy, both second graders at Madison Elementary School in northern New Jersey. The chain of events began when Alan mentioned to Jimmy that "we should dig a fort in the woods and fill it up with bazookas and hand bernades." Department of Homeland Security officials immediately obtained a court order permitting the wiretap and presented the following transcript to President Bush: ALAN: And no girls allowed. JIMMY: Except Suzy. ALAN: AWWW haw. Bet you're in LOVE with Suzy! JIMMY: I am NOT! ALAN: SUZEE AND JIMMEE SITTING IN A TREE! KAY EYE ESS ESS EYE EN...[Connection terminated] "It was sort of a disappointing transcript," admitted a senior DHS spokesman, adding, "Better safe than sorry." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 9 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ FIDONet Software Reference }:=- Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info .- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' Argus |M |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84 | | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889 | | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001 BeeMail: |M |http://beemail.gexonline.net 1:105/10 Stephen Proffit | | beemail@gexonline.net BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102 | | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998 BinkD |MI |http://2f.ru/binkd/ | | maloff@corbina.net | | v0.94 on Jul 24th 2000 Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com | | v2.00 on Mar23rd 1997 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MTPC |http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330 Definite Solutions | | sales@defsol.se 1:1/101 | | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sf.net | | v1.2.2 on Dec 28th 2002 InterMail, InterEcho,|MT |http://www.ifido.com 1:1/133 Allfix | | sales@ifido.com | | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE, v5.13 AF Radius (based on |M |http://fido5012.narod.ru/ 2:5012/38 Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463 | | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003 Terminate |MBP |http://www.terminate.com | | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997 Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608 WildCat! 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UUE TX FTP| ??? | n/c 218/109 | Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE,TX | 33.6k | n/c 220/10 | groberts|nexusbbs.net |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c 229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 16 17 Feb 2003 229/2000 | Robert Couture |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ??? | 229/622 | Dave Hamilton | BinkP | ??? | 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 275/311 | Shannon Talley|FTP,BinkP,FTP,VMoT,QWK| T1 |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 393/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c 379/1 | Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c 379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 396/45 | Marc Lewis |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL | n/c 2215/300 | Dennis Haddox | UUE,TX | CABLE | 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 3613/1275 | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | 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 3634/12 | Mark Lewis |FTP,VMoT,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c 3830/9 | Steve Quarrella |BinkP FTP IFCICO VMoT UUE|?|? -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 53/558 |Vladimir Hrusca|POP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP,ifcico|2mbs|?? 201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c 201/505 | G”ran Eriksson | BinkP | ??? | n/c 203/600 | Mikael Karlsson |BinkP,FTP,TX,UUE| 512k | n/c 211/37 | Torbjorn Mohn | BinkP | 8/2mb | 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 292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE, BinkP | 128k | n/c 292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c 292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c 301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 17 17 Feb 2003 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 341/51 | Jose.Maria Tejada | VMoT | | 341/66 | Angel Ripoll | VMoT | | 343/168 | Jose Casanova | VMoT | | 344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c 346/3 | Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c 347/1 | Javi Polo | UUE | | 348/105 | Alejandro Estraviz| BinkP UUE | | 382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 400/555 | Ofir Michaeli | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 400/557 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | 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 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 2800/14 | Aleksandr Galiyev | BinkP,ifcico,VMoT| T1 | 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 FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 18 17 Feb 2003 -------------------------------------------------------------- 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 * QWK = Quick Packets/Offline mailer "networking" capable ---------------------------------------------- Fidonet oriented news servers nntp://news.fidotel.com (provides user access to Z1B & WWB) nntp://news.osirusoft.com news.tardis.net nntp://fido.bitsoft.ro nntp://bbs.bitsoft.ro Fidonet oriented chat rooms. room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted) irc.sinoptix.ro : malay, chinesse, english, #fido, #fidonet, #wwb irc.bitsoft.ro : 6667 russian, english, hebrew, #fido, #wwb irc.tsua.net : 6668 russian, english #fido ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 19 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.045 size 1017.8kb date 2003-02-14 The nodelist has 9033 nodes in it and a total of 11779 non-comment entries including 6 zones 59 regions 446 hosts 622 hubs admin overhead 1133 ( 12.54 %) and 985 private nodes 286 nodes down 342 nodes on hold off line overhead 1613 ( 17.86 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 719 ( 7.96 %) 9600 = 7841 ( 86.80 %) (HST = 167 or 2.13 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.01 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.14 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.01 %) (V32 = 4257 or 54.29 %) (V32B = 424 or 5.41 %) (V34 = 5198 or 66.29 %) (V42 = 4314 or 55.02 %) (V42B = 447 or 5.70 %) 2400 = 88 ( 0.97 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 378 ( 4.18 %) ISDN = 862 ( 9.54 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3140 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 20 17 Feb 2003 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 11 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 47 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 358 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 4037 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1427 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2835 ( 31.38 %) MailOnly nodes = 4920 ( 54.47 %) Listed-only nodes = 715 ( 7.92 %) Other = 563 ( 6.23 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-07 Page 21 17 Feb 2003 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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