The F I D O N E W S Volume 20, Number 09 03 Mar 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. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. INSIDE ................................................... 2 The Fidonews at a Glance ................................. 2 3. FIDONET NET NEWS ......................................... 3 Net382 Meeting ........................................... 3 4. FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ................................. 5 Windows 9x/ME Desktop Wallpaper Changer .................. 5 Free Customized Windows BBS Terminal Program ............. 7 5. OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER .......................... 9 Ramblings of an Old Man .................................. 9 6. FIDONET NOTICES .......................................... 12 FTSC-Chair election / Announcement of candidates ......... 12 7. FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST .............................. 13 Take it up with the management ........................... 13 8. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 14 Fidodog .................................................. 14 9. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 15 Grandparents ............................................. 15 THREE TEXAS SURGEONS ..................................... 16 10. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING .................. 17 FIDONet Software References .............................. 17 11. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 22 Fidonet-related sites .................................... 22 12. SPECIAL INTEREST ........................................ 27 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 27 13. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 29 How to Submit an Article ................................. 29 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 31 FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 1 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. -- Hebrew proverb ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 2 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= INSIDE ================================================================= The Fidonews at a Glance In the net news section there is a "Net382 Meeting" notice. Sorry Frank, but I think I'll have to take a raincheck on that one, but I hope plenty will show up. Some software reviews, rather rare nowadays, and suddenly we got two at the same time. Well, I must admit to a little cheating, since "Windows 9x/ME Desktop Wallpaper Changer" by Ben Ritchey is not really a fidonet software review, but I squeezed it into this section anyway. "Free Customized Windows BBS Terminal Program" by Ed Williams is more along the fidonet vein. Warren Bonner does some "Ramblings of an Old Man", or rather, it seems, ramblings of an old man over ramblings of an old man, in his column this week. I just hope this will not start another round of that 'We helped you out! -- Did not! -- Did too!' that we've seen far too much of around fido echoes. A fidonet notice from Ward Dossche, "FTSC-Chair election / Announcement of candidates". In Frank's column we can read something for those that don't like the contents of the Snooze, among other things. This in "Take it up with the management." Also from Frank, "Fidodog" goes Superman on us in another ASCII comix. A couple of jokes concludes the contributions this week. They are "Grandparents", a kiddy joke from Warren and "THREE TEXAS SURGEONS", a rather nasty one about a certain Texas cowboy, from Ward. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 3 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET NET NEWS ================================================================= Net382 Meeting ==================================================================== *> N O T I C E - N O T I C E - N O T I C E - N O T I C E <* ==================================================================== Hello ALL Net382 Sysops/Co-Sysop's/R19 Sysops, Texans, Russians & Guest What: It is time for the Saturday Mar. 1, 2003 Net382 Meeting! Where: City Market BBQ, E. Davis & Hwy 183, Luling, TX When: First Saturday, at 13:00 (1:00pm) (until whenever we leave) with any Luck, we'll all be sitting at one of the two Long tables, if not their are lots of smaller tables and booths. Who: Net 382 Sysops/Co-Sysop's/Guest (Wives, Sweethearts -- or both) Friends & Relatives, ankle-biters & rug-rats are Optional.. Why: Mass consumption of mass production, conversation, sneaker netting, Q&A. rubbing elbows with Gary Crain,Mike Tripp and sons(maybe),Steve Quarrella (exR19C Emeritus),Frank Vest,Bat Lang and Bill Eastman and many other old timers.. Discuss pecan Blossoms, Power Outages, Sun Spots, Bombing Sadahm, being hit or near miss by Shuttle debrie, maybe we will also Welcome a New Member to Net382... How: Be there or be talked about... :-) Orders: Place your Meal order in the Back room with the BBQ Pits you can order Brisket by the number of slices you want or by weight measure and whether you want inside slices or outside slices, and Pork ribs by the number of ribs you want, by the Rack, or by weight measure, Home made Sausages are sold by the ring, Bread, Pickles, etc.. The Beverages, Beans, Potato Salid etc are sold at the front counter.. as well as Free doggie bags and napkins and knives.. bring you own forks, and calachies.. MAP: Austin to Luling TX HWY 183 south | | | San Marcos=>-Hyw 80------------------| Luling, TX | | FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 4 3 Mar 2003 City Market BBQ --->XX | ----E. Davis St.----------------------- Farmers Market ############################################# Rail road Tracks | | <==============Hwy 90===========================Hwy 90=============> | | | <<=to=Seguin =====IH-10 =====================IH-10 >===to Houston===> ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 5 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ================================================================= Windows 9x/ME Desktop Wallpaper Changer By Ben Ritchey Note: This was in response to a request for free software that allows rotation of the Windows Desktop (Wallpaper) in Win9x/ME ... I use a custom procedure I designed myself plus two utilities (Random Copy to randomly select a new picture each boot, and PV to convert images (RC is Freeware, PV is Free for Personal use only). My PickAPic.Bat procedure is Public Domain Freeware by virtue of this post . Just place all your pictures in thier own sub-directory (I used C:\PICS.RC), move all the files in my archive to this same sub-dir, then read the REM comments in file PICKAPIC.BAT for complete install and configuration instructions. Default re-size for PV/pic is 1024 (1024x768) but is quite easy to change and should match your default screen setting under Windows (X axis). I ONLY re-size the X-axis in order to preserve the aspect ratio (so globes don't get stretched to egg shape, i.e. the Y-axis re-sizes automagically). Additional graphics file types can be added to the RC line, just insert along with existing gif/jpg using the same syntax (" *.tif" for example). After Windows *finishes* booting, file RC-1.LOG contains the name of the current picture displayed (I also keep *.Txt files with a description of each picture). As always, the archive can be requested via my E-mail robot (iRex): To: FIDONet(at)Bellsouth(dot)net Subj: FREQ Body: FREQ PICKAPIC.ZIP This archive is 137kB in size and contains everything you need to implement the PickAPic procedure. If you'd rather not use the FReq 'bot, here's the procedure (includes web page URLs for both utilities) with quick instructions: File: PICKAPIC.BAT === Cut === @Echo Off Rem Rc.Exe at http://www.homepages.ihug.com.au/~babfive/quentisl/rc.h\ tml FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 6 3 Mar 2003 Rem Random Copy archived as RNDCPY14.ZIP (58kB) Rem Pv.exe at http://www.multimediaware.com/pv/ Rem Picture Viewer in PV278E.zip (527kB) Rem Rem Run once initially, then set Windows Desktop Wallpaper Rem to display backgrnd.bmp centered, then run again. Rem *** Create a shortcut to this proc in Startup folder *** Rem Edit the Properties of this Shortcut to: Rem 1) Program tab: Check "Close on exit" Rem 2) Misc tab: Set "Idle sensitivity" to LOWest setting (far le\ ft) Rem 3) Misc tab: UN-Check "Warn if still active" under "Terminati\ on" Rem Rem Mod PV.exe line below for desired X-resolution (use 800 for 800x6\ 00, etc.) Rem Each Boot, the LAST output from PickaPic.bat will display (each Rem run sets up for the Next Boot of Windows) Cls Rem Generate a Random Background/Bitmap Rem (Display rc-1.log for current Filename) del backgrnd.* If exist rc1.log copy rc1.log rc-1.log Rc.exe -d -u32768 -v *.gif *.jpg backgrnd.jpg >rc1.log Rem Converts to .BMP at 1024 X-Resolution (displays 1024x768, centere\ d) Pv.exe backgrnd.jpg . /c9 x1024 Rem Wallpaper is effective *next* boot ... Copy backgrnd.bmp c:\windows === Cut === Save everything between the "cut" lines as PICKAPIC.BAT ... ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 7 3 Mar 2003 Free Customized Windows BBS Terminal Program by Ed Williams, 1:128/148 info@goblinsreach.org PeopleComm Floppy Disk Version 1.01a is finally out of beta testing and is ready to be released. PeopleComm is a freeware program that allows people to call and use BBS's. This program has several wonderful features: FREE!!! Works on Telnet or Dialup! Created for FIDONET BBS's ONLY! Customized for your NET or REGION FOR FREE! Works under Win95+, including XP. Works on Serial or WinModems. The only needed to configure is the phone/telnet numbers! No messy port selections, irq settings, baud rate questions! Supports ZModem download and BBS Ansi graphics. Auto-ZModem Detect! Installs from a SETUP.EXE file! Able to Install/Uninstall from Windows! Supports Restricted Telnet addresses! PeopleComm's EXE Fit's on a FLOPPY! And needs no Setup to run! The Setup program put's an icon on the desktop and in All Programs! This program was written to allow sysop's to easily get users back on their BBS's. This program, requires only ONE file to run, that is the executable file. A setup.exe file will fit on a floppy as well, and leaves about 600K extra space for your own files, plus it does all the stuff users expect from windows programs (install/uninstall). It's so easy to run it's scary! After startup, simply select Telephone or Telnet connection and check the Phone Number or Telnet Numbers and you're online! BUT, as it's a FIDONET ONLY BBS Dialer, there is no way to add any BBS's to the list it comes with. That ability will come with a future and much more enhanced (but it won't fit on a floppy) version of PeopleComm. SO What do you do to get your BBS Listed??? Simple! Any RC or NC can request a customized copy for their regions free of charge. Information will be sent to them upon request as to what information is needed on the BBS's to be added for your area. Once that information is received, it will be added and a customized version will be sent to your RC/NC. The standards for this program were that it be all contained in one executable file, and that it fit on a floppy. That a setup.exe be created that would allow for easy installation into windows. That it allow for the user to change/modify Download/Upload directories, telnet addresses, and phone numbers to their liking. That it provide some information about that BBS within the program itself. It has met these requirements. As the author of this version of PeopleComm, I want to assure you that the ONLY reason I'm doing this is because I loved doing it, and that I FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 8 3 Mar 2003 love and support Fidonet. I believe in getting programmers back into Fidonet, and I believe that we can do so much more than we're doing now. By encouraging Nets and Regions to work together to make their own version I feel we will grow as a Net. By restricting the program to Fidonet BBS's, I feel we will encourage growth within fidonet, and hopefully a return to actual BBS's being in the nodelist. And lastly, by making it customizeable by geography, I feel it will engender a sense of community among Sysops, as well as callers. If you're interested in programming, are good at creating standards, enjoy doing artwork, and would like to contribute to the CD/Downloadable version of PeopleComm, please check out www.peoplecomm.org or write info@goblinsreach.org You may freq a Region 15 version of this program from here with the magic name PCOMM at 1:128/148, or IREX request at goblinsreach.dnsalias.org. You may also download it off the Internet at www.peoplecomm.org Enjoy! Ed Williams ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 9 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER ================================================================= Ramblings of an Old Man wdbonner@pacbell.net If you aren't interested in the ramblings of an old man, please delete now. If you're still there, pull up a chair and listen. Lately Americans have been mud balled by every country we have assisted in the last hundred years. Even in Fidonews the IC has denounced America, which was good enough for him when he lived in the state of Montana in his childhood according to netmail I enjoyed from him when I was Fidonews editor. Many other Euro voices have acquired the same attitude. As an American I am very surprised at this as I thought we were allies, great friends, ready to help each other in times of need. I found this item in my email box, and thought it appropriate to remind my Euro-friends of America's generosity, not our occupation of their countries. Ramblings of An Old Man Is there anyone else out there who's sick and tired of all the polls being taken in foreign countries as to whether or not they "like" us? The last time I looked, the word "like" had nothing to do with foreign policy. I prefer 'respect' or 'fear' They worked for Rome, which civilized and kept the peace in the known world a hell of a lot longer than our puny two centuries-plus. I see a left-wing German got elected to office recently by campaigning against the foreign policy of the United States. Yeah, hat's what I want, to be lectured about war and being a "good neighbor" by a German. Their head honcho said they wouldn't take part in a war against Iraq. Kind of nice to see them taking a pass on a war once in while. Perhaps we needed to have the word "World" in front of War. I think it's time to bring our boys home from Germany. Outside of the money we'd save, we'd make the Germans "like" us a lot more, after they started paying the bills for their own defense. Last time I checked, France isn't too fond of us either. They sort of liked us back on June 6th, 1944, though, didn't they? If you don't think so, see how nicely they take care of the enormous American cemeteries up above the Normandy beaches. For those of you who've studied history, we also have a few cemeteries in places like Belleau Woods and Chateau Thierry also. For those of you who haven't studied it that was from World War One the first time Europe screwed up and we bailed out the French. That's where the US Marines got the title 'Devil Dogs' or, if you still care about what the Germans think, Teufelhunde." I hope I spelled that right; sure wouldn't want to offend anyone, least of all a German. Come to think of it, when Europe couldn't take care of their Bosnian problem recently, guess who had to help out there also. Last time I checked, our kids are still there. I sort of remember they said they would be out in a year. Gee, how time flies when you're having fun. FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 10 3 Mar 2003 Now we hear that the South Koreans aren't too happy with us either. They "liked" us a lot better, of course, in June 1950. It took more than 50,000 Americans killed in Korea to help give them the lifestyle they currently enjoy, but then who's counting? I think it's also time to bring the boys home from there. There are about 37,000 young Americans on the DMZ separating the South Koreans from their "brothers" up north. Maybe if we leave, they can begin to participate in the "good life" that North Korea currently enjoys. Uh huh. Sure. I also understand that a good portion of the Arab/Moslem world now doesn't "like" us either. Did anyone ever sit down and determine what we would have to do to get them to like us? Ask them what they would like us to do. Die? Commit ritual suicide? Bend over? Maybe we should follow the advice of our dimwitted, dullest knife in the drawer, Senator Patty Murray, and build more roads, hospitals, day care centers, and orphanages like Osama bin Laden does. What with all the orphans Osama has created, the least he can do is build some places to put them. Senator Stupid says if we would only "emulate" Osama, the Arab world would love us. Sorry Patty, in addition to the fact that we already do all of those things around the world and have been doing them for over sixty years, I don't take public transportation, and I certainly wouldn't take it with a bomb strapped to the guy next to me. Don't get me wrong: I'm not in favor of going to war. Been there, done that. Several times, in fact. But I think we ought to have some polls in this country about other countries, and see if we "like" THEM. Problem is, if you listed the countries, not only wouldn't the average American know if he liked them or not, he wouldn't be able to find them. If we're supposed to worry about them, how about them worrying about us? We were nice to the North Koreans in 1994, as we followed the policies of Neville Clinton. And it seemed to work; they didn't restart nuclear weapons program for a whole year or so. In the meantime, we fed them when they were starving, and put oil in their stoves when they were freezing. In a recent visit to Norway, I engaged in a really fun debate with my cousin's son, a student at a Norwegian University. I was lectured to by this thankless squirt about the American "Empire," and scolded about dropping the atomic bomb on the Japanese. I reminded him that empires usually keep the stuff they take; we don't, and back in 1945 most Norwegians thought dropping ANY kind of bomb on Germany or Japan was a good idea. I also reminded him that my uncle, his grandfather, and others in our family spent a significant time in Sachsenhausen concentration camp, courtesy of the Germans, and they didn't all survive. I further reminded him that if it weren't for the "American Empire" he would probably be speaking German or Russian. Sorry about the rambling. Provided by Joe Galloway, author of "We Were Soldiers". FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 11 3 Mar 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 12 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET NOTICES ================================================================= FTSC-Chair election / Announcement of candidates By Ward Dossche - 2:292/854 The period of nominations in the election of the FTSC-chair has come to an end. No new nominations were received. There is only 1 candidate: Scott Little. Since there are no provisions in the election-procedure of how to proceed if there is only one candidate, the voting has now commenced. I need to point out that: 1) Only standing FTSC-members are entitled to vote; 2) A successful candidate must receive approval by at least a plurality of votes, so please those entitled to vote: do so! For a definition of "plurality" read FTA1001. I will accept votes via netmail but also via email at 'wd@skynet.be' which is my personal email-address. All votes will be checked for confirmation; unconfirmed votes will be rejected. Deadline for voting: March 10th 2003 at 00h01am my time. The outcome of the election will be announced in FTSC_PUBLIC, Fidonews and every other usefull 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 independant processing. Appointment of the FTSC-administrator will then occur on March 30th 2003. This appointment will expire on March 30th 2007. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 13 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST ================================================================= Take it up with the management. By Frank Vest 1:124/6308.1 I'd like to be "up beat" and tell tales of happiness. That, however, is hard to do these days. The world is simply not a happy place. As I look around, I see wars, rumors of war, people that argue for the sake of arguing. There's currently an argument in the Fidonews echo about what nation did what to who and how much dislike, envy, hatred and grief each feels for the other. Maybe this doesn't, or shouldn't, belong in the Fidonews echo.... on the other hand, if one looks around Fidonet these days, one finds the same thing in other echos. It might not be about different countries, nations, powers or such, but the arguments are the same. It seems that there is always some person, group or some such that is arguing about something in, about, or to do with Fidonet. As I sit here typing this column, I think back on articles from past Fidonews editions. I realize that this arguing is not new. Many of the past editions have the same arguments in them. What does strike me as new is that these arguments seem to be the norm now. I'm wondering if this is because of the condition of the world or the condition of Fidonet only? Perhaps a bit of both?? What has happened to Fidonet? Is it simply that the dwindling numbers in Fidonet has left us with only combatants. That is; Is there no one left that is producing new software or working on other advancements for Fidonet? I'd like to take this opportunity in my column to challenge the Fidonet software authors that are still active to write an article on any advancements that they are making on their Fidonet software. I'd like to also challenge the remaining Sysops and Users to write articles about something other than war, arguments and fighting. As I said as Fidonews Editor, and as the current Fidonews Editor says: "The Fidonews is what /YOU/ make of it!". This applies to the Fidonews echo as well as the Fidonews publication. Are you up to the challenge?? ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 14 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= Fidodog _____________________________________________________________________ _______________________ | | |Look! Up on the screen!|| .--._.--. | | ______________________|| ( O O ) A FROG!?!! | || It's a bird!| | / . . \ | || ____________|_ | .`._______.'. | ||| It's a plane!| | /( )\ | ||||_____________|______ | _/ \ \ / / \_ | |||| |It's a frog!|| .~ ` \ \ / / ' ~. | |||| \___________|| { -. \ V / .- } | |||| / |_ _`. \ | | | / .'_ _ | \/// _ _ # / |>_ _} | | | {_ _< | _ _| || || _ / | /. - ~ ,_-' .^. `-_, ~ - .\ | | | | || ||| | _ | '-'|/ \|`-` | _|_|_|_||_|||_|_|_|______|___________________________________________| ____________ __ |_____ ____________ __ | Not bird nor| / \ _ |___ | |It's just | / \ _ | plane nor __\ /|oo \ \\ | | | |little 'ol __\ /|oo \ \\ | even frog!| (_| /_) )) |t | | |me.... | (_| /_) )) | _________/ ))____@/_____// | | | |_________/ ))____@/_____// | \_____ \__((|___| | \_____ \__((| \___________/|_____| \___________/| |___|___ | _ _ # | ____ | | _ _| || || _ | |20MG|| | _|_|_|_||_|||_|_______________|_______|______________________________| ______________ __ | ______________ |Fidodog!|| ((| __________ | / \ | | __________ | __/_________|| | | | | /|** \ | | | \ / |/ / \ | ((| | SPLAT!!! | ((_| /_) | | | F d*net | /|OO \ | | | | ____@/ | | | / \ | (_| /_) | ((| |__________|(___/ | _ | | |__/___\___|\ _`@/_ \ _ | |______________( / | \\ | |______________| | | \ \\ | ((__|__________|___( | )) | ___\__________\___ | (*) | \ )) | ( XT ____ ______| |// |/ XT ____ _____/ |__U__| / \// | |640K ||--|| |20(______/ ||640K ||--|| \20M/ _//|| _\ / | (__________________| |\________________\ (_/(_|(____/ | ______________________________|______________________________________| ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 15 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ================================================================= Grandparents (Retirement in the eyes of a child) wdbonner@pacbell.net After Christmas, a teacher asked her young pupils how they spent their holiday away from school. One child wrote the following: We always used to spend the holidays with Grandma and Grandpa. They used to live in a big brick house but Grandpa got retarded and they moved to Arizona. Now they live in a tin box and have rocks painted green to look like grass. They ride around on their bicycles and wear name tags because they don't know who they are anymore. They go to a building called a wrecked center, but they must have got it fixed because it is all okay now. They play games and do exercises there, but they don't do them very well. There is a swimming pool too, but in it, they all jump up and down with hats on, while they talk to each other. I guess they don't know how to swim. At their gate, there is a doll house with a little old man sitting in it. He watches all day so nobody can escape. Sometimes they sneak out. in their golf carts. Nobody there cooks, they just eat out. And, they eat the same thing every night---"early birds". Some of the people can't get out past the man in the doll house. The ones who do get out, bring food back to the wrecked center and call it pot luck. My Grandma says that Grandpa worked all his life to earn his retardment and says I should work hard so I can be retarded someday too. When I earn my retardment, I want to be the man in the doll house. Then I will let people out so they can visit their grandchildren. Warm Regards, Ol'wdb ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 16 3 Mar 2003 THREE TEXAS SURGEONS Ward Dossche / 2:292/854 Three Texas surgeons were arguing as to which had the greatest skill. The first began: "Three years ago, I reattached seven fingers on a pianist. He went on to give a recital for the Queen of England." The second replied: "That's nothing. I attended a man in a car accident.. All his arms and legs were severed from his body. Two years after I reattached them, he won three gold medals for field events in the Olympics." The third said: "A few years back, I attended to a cowboy. He was high on cocaine and alcohol when he rode his horse head-on into a Santa Fe freight train traveling at 100 miles per hour. All I had to work with was the horse's ass and a ten gallon hat. Two years ago he became president of the United States." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 17 3 Mar 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! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 450.2 on Jul 9th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 18 3 Mar 2003 Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org | | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.4 FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org 2:280/1076 | | wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60 JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000 Squish |T |http://www.lanius.com | | sales@lanius.com v1.11 | |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ Synchronet BBS |TB |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10i Beta on Apr 30th 2002 Watergate |TUI |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ | | ramon@sbbs.se | | v0.93p9 on Dec 14th 1998 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net | | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222 ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002 Falken BBS |B |http://falkenbbs.com | | v12.0 on Feb 2nd 2002 Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org | | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final Maximus BBS |B |http://www.lanius.com | | sales@lanius.com v3.01 | |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.33.21 on Jun 4th 2002 Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net | | groberts@nexusbbs.net | | v0.99.41.001 beta on Jun 10th 2001 Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be | | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002 RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 19 3 Mar 2003 Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - 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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 FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 24 3 Mar 2003 229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c 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 379/1 | Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c 379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 393/68 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | 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 FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 25 3 Mar 2003 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 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 FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 26 3 Mar 2003 902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | 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 * 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 20-09 Page 27 3 Mar 2003 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.059 size 1012.8kb date 2003-02-28 The nodelist has 8968 nodes in it and a total of 11725 non-comment entries including 6 zones 60 regions 446 hosts 618 hubs admin overhead 1130 ( 12.60 %) and 987 private nodes 296 nodes down 344 nodes on hold off line overhead 1627 ( 18.14 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 720 ( 8.03 %) 9600 = 7781 ( 86.76 %) (HST = 168 or 2.16 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.01 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.14 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.01 %) (V32 = 4218 or 54.21 %) (V32B = 424 or 5.45 %) (V34 = 5176 or 66.52 %) (V42 = 4264 or 54.80 %) (V42B = 446 or 5.73 %) 2400 = 88 ( 0.98 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 372 ( 4.15 %) ISDN = 855 ( 9.53 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3116 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 28 3 Mar 2003 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 11 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 45 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 354 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 4009 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1420 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2812 ( 31.36 %) MailOnly nodes = 4885 ( 54.47 %) Listed-only nodes = 707 ( 7.88 %) Other = 564 ( 6.29 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-09 Page 29 3 Mar 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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