FidoNews · Vol 19, No 47 · 25 Nov 2002
The F I D O N E W S Volume 19, Number 47 25 Nov 2002
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Copyright 2002 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. INSIDE ................................................... 1
The Fidonews at a Glance ................................. 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Promoting your BBS (revisited) ........................... 2
2002 Off Centre Rally - The Big U ........................ 4
3. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 5
FIDONet Software References .............................. 5
4. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 10
Fidonet-related sites .................................... 10
5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19
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INSIDE
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The Fidonews at a Glance
"Promoting your BBS (revisited)" by Frank Vest, well, I guess the
title says it all, plus day nine from "2002 Off Centre Rally - The
Big U", that travel report from Australia, that's about all we have
this week.
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Promoting your BBS (revisited)
By Frank Vest
1:124/6308.1
I've written articles on this before. I think it's important for
those of us that still run a BBS.
You've got your BBS set up. Your Fidonet address is in place. The
mailer is configured. You've areafixed the message echos, set up the
door games and such. The mail is flowing and your mail tosser is
tossing. What's left to do?..... Oh yeah! You need Users on your BBS
to play the games, read and write the mail and stuff like that. :-)
First, let's look at the Fidonet, and "Other Net", BBS ads echos.
These are fine and I'm not saying that you shouldn't place your BBS ad
in them... but really, who sees these ads?
Answer?
Mostly, it is other BBS Users and Sysops. These ads are mainly to
"lure" Users from other BBSs to your BBS. What you need is to get
Users from the "real world" to try your BBS or find out what a BBS is.
Ok. So how can you get your BBS advertised to the "general public"?
The Internet can be our friend here. Many towns, cities and such have
web pages. Some of these pages are operated by individuals, not by the
city or town. Some have "message forums" available to the people that
access the site. They sometimes call them a BBS, but we know better.
:-)
Anyway.... A bit of search engine "finger work" on your part can
locate these sites. Once you find one, or some, of these site(s), look
them over to see if they have a message forum. If they do, check the
message forum out to see if there is a place to advertise. Place your
BBS ad there. Leave an internet method (e-mail or web page) of contact
for those that just can't figure out the "how-to" of accessing a BBS.
You can "hide" your e-mail address with the "name (at) somewhere (dot)
com" method if you want to prevent spamming of your e-mail by the
"bots". Check the site(s) regularly for replies, comments and
questions. You'll probably get a few. :)
Be prepared for questions. I placed such an ad at such a site not too
long ago and was really surprised at one comment. It went something
like this;
`I called your BBS, but I don't want to give my personal information
out. Is there a way to get around this?'
I mean, really!.. These people give all of their personal information
!!PLUS!! their credit card number to a perfect stranger at some ISP
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for the privilege to access the Internet. :) I don't think many of
us ask a User for their credit card for access to our BBS.
Anyway, be prepared for stuff like this. These people are worried,
and rightly so, about illegal use of their information. Many have no
idea of what a BBS is, how it operates or anything else. Inform them
in your ad that you do not give out any of their personal information.
When placing your ad in these message forums, DO NOT use ansi or high
ascii characters. Many of these forums can't handle them and your ad
will look bad. A simple written message telling about your BBS is
enough. Keep it short and to the point without being rude. Make it an
invitation rather than a "sales pitch" or flashy advertisement. People
seem to respond more if they feel you are talking to them rather than
at them, IE: don't try to sell.
Another idea for getting the word out about your BBS is the
aforementioned web pages that /ARE/ operated by the cities and towns.
Some of these have places for links to business, civic and other
organizations. There's generally an e-mail address to the "webmaster"
to request link addition. Send an e-mail asking for a link to be
placed on their site. Give a general description of what your BBS is
for and such. Of course, be sure you live in the town, city, county or
province that the web site represents. :)
I've done this on a few sites in my area. One such site is
"http://mckinney.texoma.net/". There you will find a link to my web
page. Since I am a resident of McKinney, Texas, the Webmaster was
happy to add a link to my web page. ALSO, be sure to keep the url
handy for the sites that you have links on so you can inform the
Webmaster if the url to your page changes. A "dead link" is no good to
you or the page it is on.
Another method of advertising is through other Fidonet and BBS web
pages. Ask the Sysop, Webmaster or whoever maintains the site to add a
link to your Fidonet/BBS page. Of course, you will want to add a link
to that person's page in return.
Last in this list, but not least, is to send in an advertisement to
the Fidonews Editor for the next edition of the Fidonews. :-) Yes, I
know that the Fidonews is generally not read by the general public,
but... it is placed on the Internet each week and can be accessed by
the general public.
Now you have some ideas. Please feel free to write an article telling
how you advertise your BBS. Maybe you have a unique idea or way to get
the word out. Let the rest of us in on the secret, please. :-)
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2002 Off Centre Rally - The Big U
Submitted by David Drummond, 3:640/305
Day 9 - Monday 12th August (Mt Isa)
Went up to the hospital to see how Rick was. Met Ron Durkin who was
just on his way out. Rick has a compound fracture of the right
collarbone, 4 broken ribs, a broken left thumb and a crushed vertebrae
(T6 - between the shoulder-blades). He is in intensive care. He
looked pretty crook when we saw him - tubes hanging out of him
everywhere, his face was puffed up and his eyes all bloodshot and
sunken in. They had an oxygen mask on him and were a bit concerned
about his lungs. He could talk, but had difficulty as his mouth was
so dry. He was pretty drugged up with Morphine. We didn't stay long.
Went to Mt Isa Motorcycles looking for the oil pressure switch, but
they didn't know anything about it. We then went to the Yamaha shop
looking for a new rear tyre for the PD. They were all out of 17 inch
tyres, but we met Rob Turton and his crazy mates who had experienced a
pretty wild ride the day before. They were now trying to patch up
their bikes which had suffered a bit in the process. The riders were
okay, but the bikes were a bit sad - particularly Rob's which had come
down sideways on a cattle grid.
Rob suggested we should change the front tyre pretty smartly, so we
took his advice and put a new one on - they had 21 inch tyres!
Caught up with Ron again near our caravan park (Copper City) and we
moved to the caravan park he was in (Riverside) a 100m down the road.
Once our camp was set up, we did some shopping for groceries and had
lunch together in a cafe in the shopping centre. I rang Morgan &
Wacker about the oil pressure switch. After a while, they seemed to
think it should be at the post office at 84 Camooweal Street. We went
there, but there was no sign of any parcels for Jill Robinson. By now
it was starting to cost me more in phone calls than the part was
worth, so I refused to ring again. Not impressed, though.
After our late afternoon shower, we visited Rick again. He was much
brighter, but the doctors had put a drain into his lung, with no
anaesthetic, and he wasn't too happy about that! He was now breathing
better and felt slight more comfortable. The doctors had talked about
sending him to Townsville Hospital to do his thumb. We'll see what
happens.
We all went out to dinner at the Town Leagues Club again, pacing
ourselves a little better this time.
Ron had organised for the Urandangie publican to bring in Rick's bike
to the Yamaha shop, who would do a quote on it. We were to meet the
publican tomorrow morning between 8 and 9 at the hospital to collect
Rick's panniers and gear and arrange for it to be shipped by coach to
Brisbane, where Ron would collect it. Ron had to leave early tomorrow
morning to be back at work on Thursday.
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BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info
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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 | |
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?: Nov 11th 2002
InterMail, InterEcho,|MT |http://www.ifido.com 1:1/133
Allfix | | sales@ifido.com
| | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE, v5.13 AF
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
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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
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(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
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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
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
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| | v3.09g2 SP4
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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/
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/
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| | 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/
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13
OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004
| | mk@openxp.de v3.8.7 beta Aug 3rd 2002
OpenXP/16 |P |http://www.openxp16.de 2:2433/460
| | my@openxp16.de v3.40 RC3 Apr 28th 2002
CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de
| | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999
PPoint |P |http://www.alcuf.ca 1:249/114
| | v3.04 on Jan 10th 2000
Terminate |P |http://www.terminate.com
| | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997
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GoldEd+ |E |http://mik.nu/golded-plus/ 2:203/6600
| | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Nov 10th 2002
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de
| | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999
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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
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
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(in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings)
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267/169 | Philip Lozier | FTP TX | ??? | n/c
261/1380 | Joe Davis | UUE TX | ??? | n/c
275/311 | Shannon Talley|FTP,BinkP,FTP,VMoT,QWK| T1 |n/c
280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo.
297/11 | Michael McCabe | TX | ??? | n/c
323/120 | Craig Healy | VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c
342/3 | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c
393/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c
379/1 | Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c
396/45 | Marc Lewis |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL | n/c
2215/300 | Dennis Haddox | UUE,TX | CABLE | n/c
2320/38 | Janis Kracht | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
2410/400 | Gary Gilmore | FTP BinkP | 384K,60| n/c
2410/213 | Kevin Bentz | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c
2604/104 | Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo
2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c
3613/1275 | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE,FTP | 28.8 | n/c
3407/4 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3634/12 | Mark Lewis |FTP,VMoT,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c
3830/9 | Steve Quarrella |BinkP FTP IFCICO VMoT UUE|?|?
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Zone 2 |
20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c
22/222 | Kim Heino | BinkP | ??? | n/c
28/1 | Lody Caenen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c
37/37 | Gabor Z. Papp | BinkP | ??? | n/c
47/999 | Andrej Kirejev | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
53/558 |Vladimir Hrusca|POP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP,ifcico|2mbs|??
201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c
201/505 | Göran 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
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252/110 | David Rance | UUE | ??? | n/c
255/90 | Simon Avery | UUE | ??? | n/c
263/950 | Sean Rima | TX UUE | ??? | n/c
280/1027 | Lukas de Groen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c
280/1601 | Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c
280/4312 | Jos Huijnen | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ??? | n/c
280/5003 | Kees van Eeten | BinkP ifcico | ??? | n/c
292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE, BinkP | 128k | n/c
292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c
292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c
301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c
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
5002/5002 | Victor Belyakov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5014/4 | Alex Bagmanov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/52 | Peter Didenko | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/54 | Serge Wizgounoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5020/69 | B Chernivetsky | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/238 | Sergey Gubanov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5030/1251 | K Stepanekov | UUE | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c
5049/12 | Amir Shabashvili | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5054/3 | Andrew Popov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5080/80 | Eugene Zorin | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5083/21 | Alexander Uskov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c
5090/2 | Andrew Titov | BinkP | ??? | n/c
5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c
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Zone 3
633/260 | Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c
640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
712/311 | Bob James | TX | ??? | n/c
774/605 | Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
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Zone 4
801/161 | Renato Zambon | UUE | 33.6 |n/c
902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c
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Zone 6
65/3000 | Lawrence Fan | UUE | 33600 | free
653/1009 | Maorong Chen | UUE | ??? | free
654/0 | Bin Li | UUE,BinkP | 33600 | free
654/1501 | Lawrence Fan | UUE,BinkP | 28800 | free
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* FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol
* VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
* UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers
* BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
* TX = TransX
* NFS = Linux Networking
* ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer
* QWK = Quick Packets/Offline mailer "networking" capable
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news.osirusoft.com
news.tardis.net
nntp://fido.bitsoft.ro
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Fidonet oriented chat rooms.
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.326
size 1040.3kb
date 2002-11-22
The nodelist has 9270 nodes in it
and a total of 12042 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
59 regions
450 hosts
638 hubs
admin overhead 1153 ( 12.44 %)
and 939 private nodes
322 nodes down
358 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1619 ( 17.46 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 720 ( 7.77 %)
9600 = 8054 ( 86.88 %)
(HST = 174 or 2.16 %)
(CSP = 1 or 0.01 %)
(PEP = 12 or 0.15 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.01 %)
(V32 = 4377 or 54.35 %)
(V32B = 452 or 5.61 %)
(V34 = 5320 or 66.05 %)
(V42 = 4391 or 54.52 %)
(V42B = 477 or 5.92 %)
2400 = 93 ( 1.00 %)
1200 = 8 ( 0.09 %)
300 = 395 ( 4.26 %)
ISDN = 922 ( 9.95 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 3263
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 7
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 11
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 50
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XW Fido >12M 375
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 4111
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1447
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CrashMail capable = 2940 ( 31.72 %)
MailOnly nodes = 5026 ( 54.22 %)
Listed-only nodes = 726 ( 7.83 %)
Other = 578 ( 6.24 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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