The F I D O N E W S Volume 20, Number 48 01 Dec 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. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2 Thanksgiving in Japan .................................... 2 3. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 3 The Continuing Policy attempt ............................ 3 4. FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ................................. 4 BBS and FidoNet Software News ............................ 4 5. HUMOUR IN A FIDO VEIN .................................... 6 Nimrod ................................................... 6 6. FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN .......................... 8 Xxcarol's Refined Pancit ................................. 8 7. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 10 FIDONet Software References .............................. 10 8. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15 9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17 How to Submit an Article ................................. 17 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19 FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 1 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= I have yet to find the man, however exalted his station, who did not do better work and put forth greater effort under a spirit of approval than under a spirit of criticism. -- Charles Schwab ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 2 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Thanksgiving in Japan By: Carol Shenkenberger, 6:757/1 Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday, which many countries celebrate. The USA version is probably not very different in essence from those of other lands. The date for the USA one is the 3rd Thursday in November. This past Tuesday was a Japanese holiday, not too different although the foods served are not the same. Traditional Thanksgiving in the USA involves a large stuffed turkey, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, dressing, gravey, lots of vegetables, may also involve ham and/or salmon. It's a time when all the families get together, often traveling great distances to a gathering. For those of us living in Japan, traveling back to our stateside families may not always be easy so we band together into our local 'families'. For the Navy people, that would be our 'shipmates'. This year, Don, Charlotte and I, went to my ship for a good meal with all the traditional trimmings. Our MasterChief turned MasterChef for the day and made deep fried turkey, a dish I had not tried before. It looked like a lot of work but the results were worth it! Being my ship is in Sasebo Japan, which is a small town by Japan standards, we all knew each other's kids and wives or husbands. About 20 of us met to give thanks with our families and wish all a good time. I hope your day was as pleasant! Carol Shenkenberger 6:757/1 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 3 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= GUEST EDITORIAL ================================================================= The Continuing Policy attempt By Frank Vest 1:124/6308.1 The "on again, off again" process of modifying Fidonet Policy seems to be on again. Started by Bob Short some time back, many have worked on this effort. Suggestions and discussions were originally made in the "FIDOPOLS" echo and a draft was sent to the IC. It appeared that the IC had "shelved" the idea. However, Ward Dossche has shown renewed interest in the effort and the discussion is now continuing in the "IC" echo. Mr. Short recently suffered a hard drive crash that caused the loss of all his notes and the final proposal. With the help of Dale Shipp, who is a major player in the effort, it appears that Bob will soon have at least the final proposal back on his system. As of this writing, the following RCs and ZCs were present in the "IC" echo; 1:1/0, 1:10, 1:12, 1:13, 1:17, 1:18, 1:19, 2:2/0, 2:26, 2:28, 2:29, 2:30, 2:31, 2:46, 2:50, 2:51, 2:55, 3:75, 4:4/0, 4:80 Current Fidonet Policy was written during the time of the IFNA (International Fido Net Association) and can only be changed by the RCs. With the advent of the Internet and modern communication equipment, much of Fidonet Policy is outdated. If you are interested, and you really should be, please request the "IC" echo from your uplink and at least monitor the effort. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 4 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ================================================================= BBS and FidoNet Software News submitted by: Philip Lozier 1:267/169 Following are a few tid-bits of software development news related to BBSing... I will try and submit any news of interest to BBS SysOps, BBS users, and FidoNet related related software from any sources I may come across them in my travels. I would also encourage anybody reading to find the time to submit anything of interest, no matter how small it may seem, to FidoNews. Let's get this thing rolling again :) *** New Renegade/DOS update! v11-26.3 *** 26-Nov-2003 T.J. McMillen, and Chris Hoppman (aka: Exodus & Bluewolf) have released an update to the classic Renegade BBS for DOS today. They were given the source code on November 14 by the previous developer, Patrick Spence. Corey Snow is still in charge of the java version, which will be a total re-write. New features include: Made NEWUSER Questions Configurable. Only questions that are required are the User Handle, and User Password. Extended FILE_ID.DIZ Description length from 10 lines to 20 lines. Fixed: When a user was downloading or uploading a file, Renegade till showed the user was able to be paged to chat. Fixed: Bug in Renemail which wouldn't allow importing of netmail from a FrontEnd Mailer. Unfortunatly no improvments have been made to its heavy CPU usage under Windows, so it still performs very poorly if more then one node is running. But this is a great start, and hopefully these guys will continue to work on it. telnet://ttb.slyip.com *** Mtelnet beta 12 *** 09-Nov-2003 Dink just released a new version of his Telnet Terminal for Windows and OS/2, known as Mtelnet or Mtel for short.. FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 5 1 Dec 2003 Whats new in beta 12: miscellaneous user reported bugs are fixes fix right alt in Windows32. changes to the upload dialog. http://ozone.eesc.com *** Ambroshia 3.0 Released *** 07-Nov-2003 Tonite Dominic Carretto released version 3.0 of Ambroshia - The Test of Time. This is a total re-write of the fantasy door game that Dominic started from scratch 1 year ago. Previous versions were written in Pascal, but Dominic re-wrote version 3 entirly in C++, allowing it to be easily ported to other operating systems. Ambrosia 3.0 is available in a DOS, Win32, and WinServer versions, and a linux flavor is expected to be released shortly. Ambrosia is a huge game in which you create your own Kingdom and maintain it, from the tax rate to the building of a great military. It includes over 1000 monsters, over 400 Weapons and Armor, and 100 different magic spells. It is shareware, with a $15 registration. http://www.thebbs.org/ambroshia/ *** COM/IP v4 released *** 07-Oct-2003 8:05 COM/IP version 4 is about to be released. The main difference in v4 is support for user authentication, using either the windows credentials, or a unique login/password. This is not needed for BBS sysops, but COM/IP's primary market is the business community. As of version 4, COM/IP is now licensed by the number of COM ports you wish to virtualize. Previous versions of COM/IP allowed up to 256 COM ports to be defined for one low price, but now the (more expensive) base price of $95 will include support for only one COM port! Version 3 users can "upgrade" to a Version 4 license that supports 4 COM ports at no charge. If a user wishes to use additional COM ports under version 4, they will have to pay the difference. Any BBS Sysop that currently owns a COM/IP v2 or v3 license should hang on to it, as they are now worth a small fortune since they support 255 ports. The new price for a 16 port v4 license is $545. http://pcmicro.com/comip ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 6 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= HUMOUR IN A FIDO VEIN ================================================================= Nimrod By Frank Vest 1:124/6308.1 The American language is so unique. It is said that Americans speak English. I'm sure the English people would disagree with that. :-) In fact, American english is a collection of words from all languages. Maybe that's why it's spoken so much around the world and is the language that Fidonet requires documents to be in... I don't know. Anyway: One thing about American english is its ability to take words and give them new meaning. IE: Nimrod Nimrod, as I remember it, is used to describe someone who is a bit... umm... Well... anyway... kinda dim, not too smart and such. Example: "That nimrod can't even tie his shoes right". :-) From the Bible, we learn that Nimrod was a King. At the time of his reign, all the people in the world spoke one language. It seems to me that this was a good thing. No one had to learn a different language to be able to get along in another country and if you happened to meet someone, you could just start talking to them without a thought of them not understanding you. So, Nimrod was king. All the world spoke a single language. Nimrod, in his "wisdom" decided to build a tower to heaven. I guess that's a noble thought. Why not give God an easy way to get to earth, right?? Anyway, the tower is being built. Nimrod climbs the tower to check on the progress, and in a kind of challenge, shoots an arrow towards heaven. Well... God isn't too happy about this. Would you be happy if someone built a tower towards your house and shot an arrow at you?? So God decides to fix this problem right quick. Since all the people in the land speak the same language, it's easy for the people to communicate and get things done. So God goes down and "confounds their speech". IOW, he adds a bunch of languages so that people who once could communicate easily could no longer do so. That made it impossible for the work on this massive tower to continue and also caused King Nimrod to loose his power over the people. So you're wondering what the point is and what it has to do with Fidonet? Well... We have this dog named Fido. The default language that Fido speaks is english, but there are people from all nations and languages that use Fido to communicate. This works, but there are problems. People don't always understand each other. Arguments arise because of the "language barrier" and other such things that people speaking different languages run up against. FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 7 1 Dec 2003 I'm thinking that it would be nice if the whole world spoke one language. We could all communicate and not have to worry if what we said would be understood or not..... Naw... Some nimrod would climb a tower, shoot an arrow in the air and we'd be right back to square one! :-)) Regards, Frank ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 8 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN ================================================================= Xxcarol's Refined Pancit By: Carol Shenkenberger, 6:757/1 Yield: 6 Servings 1/2 c Chopped cabbage, bok choy 1/2 c Baby carrots 1/2 c Chopped green bell pepper 1/2 c Chopped brocolli bits 4 c Water 1 ea Pack Pancit seasoning 8 oz Dry pancit noodles (wheat) 6 ea Large shrimp, shelled Oh my! I make pancit all the time. This rendition is one that is easy to make in the average American/Canadian kitchen. To me, this is 'outastuff cooking' if you know what I mean. It uses just a bit of everything. Chop up all the veggies (feel free to add more!). The cabbage is more authentic if Bok Choy but it can be Nappa or just normal 'head cabbage'. b The bell pepper doesnt have to be green. In fact, a yellow or red would look better. The carrots do not have to be baby, just chop them up small if not using whole baby carrots. Cant find Pancit seasoning? Its a mix of garlic salt, black pepper, a bit of a mild chile powder, and soy sauce. Take about 1/3 cup soy sauce and add about 1 teaspoon of the other spices each, and you will be close enough. When I make my own, I add some oyster sauce but that isnt essential. The noodles are those hard dry brown thickish looking ones as opposed to the thin white ones that look like (and are sometimes labeled as) 'angel hair' or 'glass noodles'. These are the more substantial ones. The recipe will not work right with the glass type as they do not absorb enough water. A side note, the noodle pack will tell you to soak them first. Do not bother with this version. Put all but the noodles into a pan that is low and wide and flat. A big cast iron skillet will do. This is a big recipe so cut down the size to fit the pan if you have only a little 9 inch skillet with a 2 inch high rim. Set this to boil for about 5 mins, then add the dry noodles and turn the heat off. About 5 mins later, stir it then add 1-2 TB oil if desired. Optional additions: Pancit is like soup. Anything can go in there! From the Sasebo kitchen of: xxcarol 23NOV2003 FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 9 1 Dec 2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 10 1 Dec 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 FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280 Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net | | v2.4 on Sep 26th 2003 Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com | | v2.00 on Mar 23rd 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://sf.net/projects/husky/ | | v1.4 RC2 on Sep 22nd 2003 InterMail, InterEcho |MT |http://www.ifido.com 1:1/133 | | bob@nwstar.com | | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE Radius (based on |M |http://radius.pp.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 FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 11 1 Dec 2003 Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 450.2 on Jul 9th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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/ 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 EZYCom BBS |BT |http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dcbbs/ | | pjs@optushome.com.au 3:633/104 | | v2.0 on 3 May 2003 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 FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 12 1 Dec 2003 | | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002 RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/ | | last update: Jun 2002 BBS Central |D |http://www.rpcomputers.com Bentstone |D |http://www.srupc.com/mall Capabilities Group | | info@stonebenders.com Cheepware: |D |http://www.midnightshour.org/cheepware/ Sean Dennis | | hausmaus@midnightshour.org 1:11/200 DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201 Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | DoorMUD |D |http://www.dmud.thebbs.org | | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002 Elysium Software |D |http://www.elysoft.com | | mpreslar@mailcity.com Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates JNS Software: |D |http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/ Rusty Johnson | | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com | | Tel: (304) 733-0113 John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com | | support@johndaileysoftware.com LORD (Legend of the |D |http://www.lordlegacy.org Red Dragon) Reborn | | mike@lordlegacy.org | | v4.06 on Feb 5th 2001 Lord-II IGMs |D |http://www.shelby.net/wizards/lord2igm/ FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 13 1 Dec 2003 PC Pursuits |D |http://www.pcpursuits.com | | brucep@pop.kis.net | | Tel: (301) 240-6653 Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ | | stanley@brainex.com 1994-99 Releases Trade Wars |D |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ | | jpritch@eisonline.com | | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002 Vagabond Software: |D |http://www.vbsoft.org 1:124/7013 Bryan Turner | | vagabond@vbsoft.org | | last update: Jul 17th 2002 (various) |D |http://www.webnexus.com/users/etow/ +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de | | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de | | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13 CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de | | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460 | | support@freexp.de | | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot) OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004 | | mk@openxp.de v3.8.7 beta Aug 3rd 2002 PPoint |P |http://www.alcuf.ca 1:249/114 | | v3.04 on Jan 10th 2000 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ GoldEd+ |E |http://mik.nu/golded-plus/ 2:203/6600 | | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003 SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de | | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999 TimEd |E |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet | | mail@ozzmosis.com /timed | | v1.11.a5 in March 2003 3:633/267 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Allfix |U |ftp://ftp.nwstar.com 1:140/12 | | bob@nwstar.com | | v5.13 (v6?) FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 14 1 Dec 2003 GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com | | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997 Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 (Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001 PeopleComm Terminal |CUI |http://www.peoplecomm.org 1:128/148 (BBS & Telnet w/ | | edward.williams@adelphia.net ZModem) | | v1.01a on Feb 11th 2003 TransNet |UI |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/ | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998 TransX: Multiboard |UI |http://www.multiboard.com/software/ Communications, Inc.| | support@multiboard.com 1:2401/305 | | v3.5 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/ (in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings) +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.org http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu http://hobbes.nmsu.edu Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// vice http:// above) *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=* Note: Please send corrections & additions to: Ben Ritchey, 1:393/68 ( or FReq Magic INFO direct for E-mail address ) WildCat! BBS at +1-337-232-4155 24/7 33.6kBps,8,N,1 Internet: http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/fidosoft.txt Emeritus: Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 15 1 Dec 2003 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.332 size 937.3kb date 2003-11-28 The nodelist has 8005 nodes in it and a total of 10805 non-comment entries including 6 zones 59 regions 436 hosts 571 hubs admin overhead 1072 ( 13.39 %) and 1021 private nodes 297 nodes down 410 nodes on hold off line overhead 1728 ( 21.59 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 660 ( 8.24 %) 9600 = 6953 ( 86.86 %) (HST = 139 or 2.00 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.01 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.16 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.01 %) (V32 = 3675 or 52.85 %) (V32B = 365 or 5.25 %) (V34 = 4658 or 66.99 %) (V42 = 3927 or 56.48 %) (V42B = 387 or 5.57 %) 2400 = 74 ( 0.92 %) 1200 = 6 ( 0.07 %) 300 = 312 ( 3.90 %) ISDN = 676 ( 8.44 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2649 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 16 1 Dec 2003 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 11 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 42 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 322 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3605 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1362 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2473 ( 30.89 %) MailOnly nodes = 4423 ( 55.25 %) Listed-only nodes = 619 ( 7.73 %) Other = 490 ( 6.12 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-48 Page 17 1 Dec 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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