The F I D O N E W S Volume 20, Number 52 29 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. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2 Christmas, P4, cooking and more .......................... 2 3. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 3 "BBS: The Documentary" - Progress Continues! ............. 3 4. FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ................................. 4 BBS and FidoNet Software News ............................ 4 JamNNTPd - a review ...................................... 6 5. FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST .............................. 7 War, Battles and Circles ................................. 7 6. FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN .......................... 9 Potato soup and bread .................................... 9 7. BEST OF FIDONET .......................................... 11 Education and evolution .................................. 11 8. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 13 FIDONet Software References .............................. 13 9. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 18 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 18 10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 20 How to Submit an Article ................................. 20 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 22 FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 1 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= By the time your face clears up, your brain starts going fuzzy. -- Anonymous ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 2 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Christmas, P4, cooking and more So yet another Christmas is over, and soon the year of 2003 will be as well. I hope everyone had a great holiday and that the next year will be a good one. Maybe it will be a year with no new wars (or whatever the hostilities are being called) but a year when old hostilities will come to an end. But I guess noone is willing to take a bet on that... The 18 month (so far) soap-opera called Changing the Fidonet Policy seems to be going on forever. In the forum where the changes are supposed to be debated, all kinds of discussions seems to be taking place but those over the P4 changes. I was sent a file mirroring the latest achievements, but unfortunately the e-mail was empty, with no paper clip as far as my eye could spy, so this obviously will have to wait until next week. My ongoing attempt to give you all a taste of the Swedish Cuisine will also have to wait until next week, because this week we have a double recipe from Carol, and all contributions from outside will always take precedence over "internal" ones, if you get my drift. Apart from that we've been blessed with a couple of more articles, software reviews and more. Plus I managed to pick up some wonderful writings about education and evolution in the POL_INC echo, that I thought had a given place in the Best of Fidonet section. So hopefully everyone will find at least something readworthy in this the last issue of the year 2003. Finally, please all, keep your fingers crossed that I will manage to find all the places in the configs and bats to change, whenever there's a new year. It's not as easy as y'all may think... :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 3 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= "BBS: The Documentary" - Progress Continues! submitted by: Philip Lozier 1:267/169 For some time now, an individual named Jason Scott has been working on a "BBS Documentary" series aimed at portraying the history of the BBS through the eyes of those who lived it, as well as those who pioneered the technology. It is planned to be a seven episode video series on 2 DVD's, with release planned for some time in 2004. To date, over 202 hours of video have been shot, and 170 interviews, (with 30 more planned), conducted. While there are still some interviews on the schedule, Jason has reported that the editing process has begun at this point. Obviously his documentary is being taken very seriously, as two noteworthy people who have granted him interviews for this project are Ward Christensen (co-inventor of the BBS and original programmer of XMODEM), and Dr. Vinton Cerf (co-engineer of TCP/IP), known to some as the "Father Of The Internet". While I can't currently locate the list of interviews at this visit to his site, I do remember sometime back seeing the list, and there were various software developers, BBS SysOps of past and present, and (as he puts it) the "regular folk" who have had BBSing in some way make an impression on their lives. If this is something you find of interest, I would highly suggest a visit to his site at http://www.bbsdocumentary.com for a look around. Jason has done quite a bit of research in the few years he has been working on this and has put together an interesting timeline of BBS history, as well as the largest database known about every known BBS package ever to exist. I can't wait until the final cut is available :) It is sure to be quite interesting. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 4 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ================================================================= BBS and FidoNet Software News submitted by: Philip Lozier 1:267/169 *** WWIV Version 5.0 Beta Released! *** 17-Dec-2003 WWIV version 5.0 beta1 was finally released yesterday. This is the first 32-bit version of WWIV to be released to the public, now available in both Windows and Linux flavors. WWIV version 5 Alpha has been under development since April 2000, just after version 4.30 for DOS was released. These alpha versions were only available to select registered users. A guy known as Rushfan has been spearheading the development the last few years, while the code is still owned by Dean Nash (aka: Trader Jack) who took it over from the original author in early 1998. Some of the new features in version 5 include: * 32-bit Win32 version. * Compiles and Runs on Linux. * Included GUI Telnet Server. * Internal ZModem * DOOR32.SYS support. * Uses the Synchronet Fossil code from Synchronet BBS. http://wss.wwiv.com/wwiv50/ *** New release of "The Magic Oracle" DoorGame *** 14-Dec-2003 Sean Dennis has announced a new release of his doorgame... following is his announcement: I've released what I hope to be the last version of my door, "The Magic Oracle". It's now at version 7.2. What is it? Well, if you've ever used the Magic 8-Ball(tm), you know what TMO is, but it's completely customizable by the sysop. Some of its features: * No ANSI.SYS needed (has built-in ANSI emulation) * Supports unlimited comports and nodes FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 5 29 Dec 2003 * Supports DOOR.SYS and DORINFO#.DAT * Will run on any system that supports DOS doors * Pipe codes are supported If you'd like to grab it, go to: http://cheepware.midnightshour.org and it's there on the page. Also, you may want to try an email FREQ for TMO72DOS.ZIP at midnite1@mchsi.com. 18-Dec-2003 Further notes from Sean: Well, seems I've made a couple more changes to The Magic Oracle: * Added Mark Lewis's RemoteAccess setup example to the docs * The user can now abort the door by pressing ENTER in the question routine (thanks, Mark!) * Changed LANGUAGE.DAT to reflect the new abort routine Everything else is the same... you can grab the new archive at http://cheepware.midnightshour.org anytime. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 6 29 Dec 2003 JamNNTPd - a review Peter Karlsson <2:204/254.222> Johan Billing, of CrashMail fame, has released JamNNTPd, a piece of software that will serve a set of messages stored in a JAM message base over NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol), the protocol normally used to transmit Usenet groups. This means that any news reader (rn, slrn, Pine, Opera, Thunderbird, Outlook, ...) can now be used to read Fidonet messages in a comfortable manner. Of course, reading Fidonet over NNTP is not something new, it has been done many a time before, but then the focus has always been to convert between Fido and Usenet formats, to be able to gate messages between systems. Not so this time, JamNNTPd is not a gateway, it is simply a Fidonet reader that speaks NNTP. You need a regular tosser (Billing's CrashMail II works fine) to store your messages in JAM message bases, and then you run JamNNTPd on top of that. It can not be used to further propagate the news messages. When you connect to the server with your news reader, JamNNTPd will read messages directly from the JAM message bases, converting them on-the-fly to a RFC-style format (there are no e-mail addresses, though, all addresses are listed in Fido style unless a REPLYADDR kludge is found). When you post a message, it will store the message in the JAM message base, ready to be scanned out by your tosser software. Since JamNNTPd has access to the JAM message base, you do not get the dreaded "To: All" that is symptomatic for NNTP gates (since Usenet news has no recipient field). JamNNTPd will check the message you reply to (from your news reader's References header) and fill in the recipient address from there. The current version as of this writing is 0.5, and it is quite usable. It has some shortcomings, such as very limited character encoding support, but this problem will be lifted in the upcoming 0.6 version, planned to be released sometime after the new year. The software can be downloaded from the author's home page at . It can be compiled for Linux and Win32. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 7 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST ================================================================= War, Battles and Circles By Frank Vest 1:124/6308.1 Disclaimer: There is no rhyme or reason to this. Anything that you might think, do, say or otherwise, is wrong. Do not fold.... umm... Well, you know. :-) Pardon me for being a jerk. I just don't understand the crap about wars. We are supposed to love our neighbor? The Bible says this. Most religions state this. Even those that don't have a belief, God or such seem to feel the same way. War is good. War is great. Without wars, where would the economy be? War produces jobs. Just think. Without war, all those service men would not have a job. All those planes, ships, weapons and stuff, that is built by the lowest bidder, would not be needed and the people that build these things would be without a job. Then you add the cost of human life. All the deaths decrease the surplus population. This is good. Fewer people in the world decreases hunger since there are fewer mouths to feed. The pollution level drops with less people driving cars and using fossil fuels and such. Fewer people means more money to go around. Gee. Who wouldn't like more money? About money. That's what this is all about after all... isn't it? I mean, really? Money to fund a war, less people to need money and all that. And of course, all this is funded by taxes. No matter what country your in, there's some sort of government funding and that government is funded through the people in that country. Call it what you will. It all boils down the same. Even hobbies like Fidonet and BBSs are about money. Ya gotta have the funds to support the hobby. Those with more money have the latest and greatest. In days of old, many BBSs were commercial adventures funded by companies that sold products via the BBS. Sysops and software authors tried to, and sometimes succeeded in, making a living from the BBS and FTN technology. Then came the Internet and a new way to make money. I guess you can blame the Internet for the demise of Fidonet and BBSs, but really, isn't it money? Or, is it something else? In days of old, a pound of corn was worth more than most people made in a year. You go to your neighbor and help him/her out and they come help you out. You get some corn and give them some meat. Then your neighbor decides that his corn is worth more than your meat and demands more meat. You refuse and grab your sword to take the corn. That works and you take more. People follow you because you can provide for them. The next thing you know, you have a kingdom and are FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 8 29 Dec 2003 at war with other kingdoms to gain land to provide for your people who fight and die to be provided for. As this continues, your people learn how to grow their own corn and your enemies learn how to produce meat. Soon enough, you find that the enemy is just as powerful as you. You can no longer win, but neither can the other side. Negotiate for trade. That's the answer. They have more of this and you have more of that. Trade for it. But... Trade what. You start with trading your excess for theirs. Soon, your both run out of excess. You must have something else to trade with. How about a promise to provide goods? You write the promise and the other side accepts. They then write you a promise and you accept. What do we call these promises? I know! Money!! We'll print it up on paper and use it to pay for the goods we need. The other side can, and does, do the same. Hey! Wait a minute! They have more money than I do. That can't happen! I'll stomp them into the ground until I get more money than they have!!! Umm... Weren't we just here a few paragraphs back?? You all have a great war... umm.. I mean... day. :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 9 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN ================================================================= Cheddar Onion Pepper bread By Carol Shenkenberger, 6:757/1 1 1/4 c Milk 1 tb Butter 1 tb Sugar 1 ts Salt 1/8 ts Shichimi (can use paprika) 1/8 ts Dry mustard powder 3 1/2 c Flour, white breadmakers 3/4 c Grated cheddar cheese 1/4 c Grated red onion 2 ts Yeast 1 ts Black pepper SkyHigh bread! Add the ingredients listed to a breadmaker and set to 'french' if you have that setting. Otherwise, 'normal' will do. Shichimi is a very common Japanese spice mix of hot chile powders. You can use a powdered paprika or a hotter powdered chile for nearly the same effect. This one was made to go with a pot of potato soup, of a german base where the potato melts away into the soup and there are minimal bits of carrot and cabbage about. Potato Soup 5 c Chopped potatos 1 c Chopped onion 1 c Chopped cabbage 4 c Beef broth 1 ts Black pepper 1/2 ts Caraway seeds 1/2 ts Nutmeg Ok, so not everything I cook is Japanese! Shoot me (grin). I can think of a million optional additions to this one but the plain version is mightly good! I had some floury potatoes and I happen to want some hot soup, being winter here. This is also very cheap to make and Charlotte has some friends due over tomorrow, so I need lots of food but cant set a schedule for just when I need it to be ready. Crockpot wins again! If you like spiffy looks, peel the potatoes first. Me, I left the skin on 2 of the 6. The potatoes being 'floury types' will just melt into the soup so no blender needed. FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 10 29 Dec 2003 I also used pretty little baby carrots, but you can just cut some up and be fine that way. I didnt use as much onion as it may seem as I used a mild sweet red one. I'm feeding kids and most of the ones I am feeding don't like too much onion. The recipe I used as a base for this used a leek and a hot onion. Optional additions to be added just before serving: Sour cream dollop in each bowl, shredded daikon (a very mild sweet radish). Serving suggestion: With a crusty bread. xxcarol's Cheddar Onion Pepper bread is a match. From the Sasebo Japan kitchen of: xxcarol 26DEC2003 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 11 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= BEST OF FIDONET ================================================================= Education and evolution Originally posted in POL_INC by Don Martin, 1:261/1000 RW> This dumb American asks a question. Was not all known RW> knowledge once a matter of belief only for one class of RW> people. Geometry for mathematicians, Astronomy for RW> astronomers, etc. Or am I imagining the way things have RW> progressed throughout the years? The way your question is phrased tends to jumble a number of issues together. If you don't mind, I shall attempt to deal with the different issues separately. The simplistic answer to your question is "yes", but that "yes" is incrusted with so many caveats as to be very nearly meaningless. Is all knowledge, at least at the moment of its discovery, private knowledge? Insofar as only one person, typically, knows it at that moment, yes. Given the venality of the human race, pressures are strong to keep it private: a trade secret, like the formula for Coca Cola, or a great mystery, like how to keep track of time. Either will make you rich, either as a businessman with a secret marketable commodity or as a priest with a collection plate filled by grateful farmers who can sow in safety now that you have told them your god has lifted the Time of Frost. Many people make such money or acquire such power from knowledge: we call these activities commerce and religion, and both are regarded as necessary to civilization. Some people, however, cannot keep their mouths shut, and blab their discoveries to anyone willing to listen. The typical reaction on the part of the listeners is "oh yeah?", after which they might look for themselves. When this sort of thing is done systematically, we call it science. Make and measure enough circles of different sizes, and you can be pretty sure that the ratio of the diameter to the circumference is 3.1416... It makes no difference what units of measurement you employ, so long as you use the same consistently throughout, and it makes no difference who does the measuring -- the more the merrier, in fact, for that is the way this stuff gets confirmed. Now, was there some "hunch" or matter of belief involved? Probably, but at a greater level of generality. I doubt that anybody would have had a hunch that 3.1416... was the magic number: more likely somebody would have had a hunch that circumferences bore a regular relationship to diameters and decided to look into the matter more specifically. Has knowledge been kept and employed for the power and enrichment of particular classes of persons? Of course. Go far enough back in time (or deal with sufficiently primitive people -- it amounts to the FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 12 29 Dec 2003 same thing), and you'll find that the only educated class is very likely the priesthood, whose livelihood absolutely depends upon keeping all knowledge within their closely held corporation. I find it hilarious that today, biologists and other experts are astonished to find that rather scruffy shamans in the wilds of the Amazon know the medicinal virtues of just about every plant and animal part within their tribe's territory. We have never paid much attention to such "inferior" people before, but damned if they don't have the same priestly education system found around the globe to pass on, from generation to generation, the knowledge they need to stay important to their tribes. I would imagine that the first guy who got the hunch about circles was probably a priest, since back then priests were about the only class of persons who had enough knowledge to build upon. Look at the roots of all of the sciences, and you can trace a "family tree" back to the solid trunk of the queen of sciences, theology, 6-700 years ago. But to cut all this short (and it threatens to go on and on) people have choices about what they do with knowledge. Those of a scientific bent tend to groove on it for its own sake: I would guess that the guy who demonstrated the feasibility of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) probably went on to explore it in greater depth or to explore other ways in which energy and matter interact. I do not know him, but I am pretty sure that the hospitals and radiologists who apply his discovery to patients make a whole lot more money each year than he has done altogether. Given any single thing that becomes known, the commercial man will try to make money from it, the religious man will try to induce worship with it, and the scientific man will try to confirm it. People are different, with different interests and goals. That is the basic flaw of your question, which tends to assume that all people are alike, and lumps them all together on our lowest impulses. Science ain't pure as the driven snow -- scientists differ as much as people in other fields -- but it at least tries to examine knowledge closely to determine whether it is real or a fraud. For that reason, I reaffirm that teaching stuff that is known is more appropriate to a science class than is teaching stuff that is a matter of belief for one segment of the population. Matters of belief are never so examined; indeed the very attempt to do so is often classed by the believers as a sin. If religionists want Genesis taught as biology, they had better be prepared to have Genesis looked into with some rigor. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 13 29 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 20-52 Page 14 29 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 20-52 Page 15 29 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 20-52 Page 16 29 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 20-52 Page 17 29 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 20-52 Page 18 29 Dec 2003 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.360 size 928.1kb date 2003-12-26 The nodelist has 7909 nodes in it and a total of 10682 non-comment entries including 6 zones 58 regions 437 hosts 560 hubs admin overhead 1061 ( 13.42 %) and 1032 private nodes 311 nodes down 369 nodes on hold off line overhead 1712 ( 21.65 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 653 ( 8.26 %) 9600 = 6864 ( 86.79 %) (HST = 141 or 2.05 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.01 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.16 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.01 %) (V32 = 3620 or 52.74 %) (V32B = 354 or 5.16 %) (V34 = 4606 or 67.10 %) (V42 = 3879 or 56.51 %) (V42B = 369 or 5.38 %) 2400 = 72 ( 0.91 %) 1200 = 6 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 314 ( 3.97 %) ISDN = 666 ( 8.42 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2609 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 19 29 Dec 2003 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 11 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 40 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 314 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3564 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1357 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2432 ( 30.75 %) MailOnly nodes = 4370 ( 55.25 %) Listed-only nodes = 615 ( 7.78 %) Other = 492 ( 6.22 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 20-52 Page 20 29 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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