FidoNews · Vol 21, No 44 · 01 Nov 2004
The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 44 01 Nov 2004
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Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Helmut Hullen and Money .................................. 2
3. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 4
Computer ................................................. 4
4. IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO .............................. 5
THE S.C. ITALIAN FIDOBUST: SIX MONTHS LATER .............. 5
5. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 9
Fidonet Related Websites ................................. 9
6. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 10
FIDONet Software References .............................. 10
7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask
remains a fool forever.
- Chinese proverb
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Helmut Hullen and Money
From: Ward Dossche, 2:292/854
Dear All,
Between late-2000 and mid-2002 the then and now former-sysop Helmut
Hullen waged an international law-suit against me in order to become
re-instated in the Fidonet-nodelist.
On June 14th 2002 the court rejected all of the claims of Helmut
Hullen with the following arguments: <quoted from the ruling>
* Plaintif has not established an error by the defendant nor did he
succeed to demonstrate having suffered any damage;
* Plaintif was not stopped from discussing his perceived situation
with others, hence no error by the defendant was demonstrated in this
field;
* Not-following not yet approved guidelines and internal procedures
[i.e. RegPol24 which was approved only at a later date] by the
defendant is not an error as described by the Civil Law articles
1382-1383.
* The plaintif has not demonstrated in which way he is harmed by the
non-communication of people who do not want to communicate with him;
* Failing to observe the internal rules of the network [i.e. failing
to properly appeal along the *C-chain] and not exhausting the
hierarchical opportunities this offers [prior to addressing a court of
law] voids the possibility of the plaintif to claim his rights were
abused
(square brackets contain clarifications not part of the official
ruling and were added by me for the benefit of the unsuspecting
reader)
As a result Helmut Hullen's technical situation was not changed. He
remains barred from participation in Fidonet.
Some 2-3 months ago Helmut Hullen formally requested to be re-admitted
into Fidonet as a point-operator. A civilised exchange of mails
occured to allow him the courtessy to present his case.
He was informed that through his lawsuit he caused me a cost of 1.403
Euro for my lawyer, this is quite cheap (for our American readers
about $1,700). The full-impact of this expenditure which was caused by
Helmut Hullen's action was softened by an incredible support-campaign
of zone-2 sysops, mainly in region-24, where dozens of people
contributed in solidarity to spread that cost over a large group.
Mr. Hullen was subsequently informed that it is only civilised that he
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undo the damage which he caused so I offered him my bankaccount for
refund of these 1.403 Euros.
On October 20th last these 1.403 Euros indeed made it into my
bank-account.
I now intend to refund the kind contributors from 2002 for their
support in the court-proceedings. I understand the following scenarios
are possible:
* The person who donated money has left Fidonet and wants no part of
it;
* The person who donated money has left Fidonet and appreciates a
refund;
* The person who donated money has left Fidonet and cannot be traced;
* The person who donated money still is in Fidonet and wants no
refund;
* The person who donated money still is in Fidonet and appreciates a
refund.
In the coming weeks I will attempt to contact everybody who is on the
list of donors. This list has been made public way back in time so
there's no secrecy about the identities involved. Some people remained
anonymous but perhaps Udo Zaydowicz, who ran the collection-effort and
also left Fidonet in the meantime, can help there.
As a result from this communication-effort refunds might be made,
though from preliminary contacts I learn that people may also consider
funds originating from Helmut Hullen as "blood money" and want no part
of.
Funds which cannot be returned to their original contributor will
henceforth be donated to a worthy humanitarian charity. Non-partisan
as well as non-denominational initiatives like the Red Cross, Docters
Without Borders, Unicef and others come to mind and will be discussed
with the concerned people.
As for Helmut Hullen's status in Fidonet, it remains unchanged. Any
belief or allegation that a person can buy himself or herself with
real money a spot in the nodelist or as a point-operator is hereby
reduced to zero. Any allegation of real-life corruption is ridiculous.
Thank you everybody for your attention.
\%/@rd Dossche ZC/2
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COMIX IN ASCII
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Backup System
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IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO
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THE S.C. ITALIAN FIDOBUST: SIX MONTHS LATER
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Pietropaolo Bianchi, 2:331/307
Former NC331 (93-94)
The so called "Italian Fidobust" was not aimed at FidoNet per se after
all. Six months later, we have a better appreciation of the whole
picture. And before anything else is said, rest assured the Fido
community worldwide: Italian Fidonet has NEVER been zeroed, as I read
somewhere on Fidonews. Shocked of course and maybe made wiser, but
always adherent to the old Heinleinian motto that "the routes must
roll". Mailflow never really stopped. We are again some 400 active
nodes now, a cooperative, smoothly running region overall.
Let me recall the facts. On May 11, 1994, 122 patrols of the "Guardia
di Finanza", the financial branch of italian police, knocked at the
door of 122 people, mostly but not exclusively Fido sysops or
cosysops, in execution of a confiscation warrant issued by the until
then unheard-of Chief Prosecutor at Pesaro (nice town of central
Italy), Dr. Gaetano Savoldelli-Pedrocchi.
The police at Pesaro, within an investigation about prostitution, had
observed a heavy going-and-coming of young males from a flat in center
town. They had rushed in, only to discover a full software piracy
business run by some two Mr. Paolorosso and Mr. Cardinali. Thousands
of labeled and properly inventorized floppies in cartons, label
printers, Amigas, PCs, and the like. Among the "like", a modem, a
Telix (unregisterd copy) and alas, a Telix dialing directory.
The Telix dialing directory was the Ariadne's thread that drove
Prosecutor Savoldelli's squads in the homes of 122 hobbyists all over
Italy in search of accomplices. The warrant cited the possibility that
the two pirates acted "together with unknowns" to circulate pirated
software, and it imposed to police to "sequester anything apt to the
purpose" found at the domiciles of the indagated people.
You could have had your BBS called by those two pirates, and
automagically you became a suspect pirate too, you got visited by
Police, and you had your system sealed and taken away. The large scale
of the action forced the police to recruit for the mission any even
vaguely computer-literate agent (i.e., able enough to distinguish a
printer from a stove). As it quickly became evident, the average
knowledgeability of the recuited cop turned out to be not up to the
purpose, giving rise to funny and not-so-funny anecdotes.
Paolo Borghesi, 2:331/204, a well mannered teenager student of
Brescia, had his sleeping room sealed for a few days until the
policemen could make their way ahead of it. All too often Mummy had
told him "Paolo make order in all this mess".
Alfredo Persivale, 2:331/302, the owner of a mechanical factory in
Buccinasco, ran his BBS over a LAN connecting his firm's
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administration computers. The whole information system at his plants
was put under seal and taken away. He purchased a stock of ballpens
and frantically started billing his clients by hand.
Giulio Cipriani, 2:331/344, had everything electronically-looking in
his home sequestered: computer, modems, CDROM reader and CDROMs,
mouse, mousepad, mouse cover, power outlet extension and allegedly, an
answering machine.
Max Berni, 2:332/301, a prepossessing summer beach-beau in Rimini,
whose messages used to be written all guts and nuts, had his system
totally sequestered. Following the shock, as soon as he could lay
hands on a backup system, his messages regained a totally unexpected
logical sense, grammar smoothness and overall readability.
Mario Mure', NC332, ran his host on an Amiga. The cops were reported
as watching puzzled to his system, trying to issue some infruitful
"dir" commands, and eventually taking away everything. His NEC took
over him in polling the other NCs the very same night.
Walter Mascarin, 2:331/323, was among the happy few visited by
knowledgeable policemen. They came, saw, extensively searched, found
nothing, went away leaving him with his system intact and a receipt of
search performed.
Dozens of stories like the above were reported from all corners of the
country, all pointing to policemen generally quite polite but not
quite competent, with a generalized "take away now, control later"
approach.
Fidonet being the major amateur network in Italy, if only for
statistical reasons Fido nodes (about 30-35: a 10% of the italian net)
were the most often struck, thence the popular term "fidobust".
However, also co-sysops and points were reportedly visited, and to a
lesser degree, non-fido sysops.
The region shivered when rumors ran that this wasn't but the first
wave of the attack, and that from the logs of the inquired nodes a
chain reaction would ensue. A couple of me-too type inquiries soon
after the major Fidobust, hitting half a dozen nodes in Turin and one
in Taranto (the latter action possibly politically biased against the
leftist host of the "Peacelink" Net), strenghtened this impression.
On the other hand, a few truly pirate, alternet boards, were
surprisingly spared by the first hit. They were reported as having
spontaneously "crashed" soon thereafter, though.
The busting of many honest nodes and the sparing of some pirate boards
seemed to somewhat substantiate the early claims of a few radicals,
that behind the attack lay an obscure manoeuvre primarily aimed at
wiping off free amateur telematics, rather than against piracy.
The contemporary announcement by Olivetti, the major computer
manufacturer in Italy, that they would set up a nationwide telematic
service named "Italia Online", and the deepest involvement of Italian
Prime Mininster and television tycoon Mr. Berlusconi in the
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information media market, made such suspicions, exaggerate they might
seem, not theoretically unfounded.
So far however no clue of any kind has been reported to substantiate
such allegations. Six months after its announcement, Italia Online is
still offline, and the roughness of the attack has been definitely
ascribed to a poor choice of objectives and methods by the inquirers,
who even partially admitted them.
A parliament official interrogation on the hit was immediately asked
by some radical MP's. Prosecutor Savoldelli kept a press conference to
explain the operation. Newspapers and magazines reported on the facts.
In this climate, a few sysops definitely pulled the plug. Among them
former R33 Founder and long time RC33, Giorgio Rutigliano, who
declared: by no means whatever pleasure i can draw from amateur
fidonetting balances the risk of being seized by the police. I always
have been fully legal and have promoted the fullest legality in the
net, and don't deserve this. Amateur telematics game has definitely
gone out of control.
But for the few who left, the other sysops held on tighter to the
RC33, Giancarlo Cairella, who had truly hard days acting as a relay of
news and counsels, together with the other *C's and with an attorney
sysop. Routes were redesigned where necessary, and mailflow promptly
resumed everywhere. Alternets, who had always blamed italian Fidonet
as being "obsessive with rules and paranoid about legal issues", got
duly frightened and somewhat looked for reapprochment. An "all
networks' sysops" conference was established.
Over the time, our Region has regained "normality". After examination,
one after another, the sequestered systems are being given back to
their operators, and messages of the latter restart popping out in the
net. Current hot topics have returned to technics, such as V.34
modems, ISDN services and Internet connectivity, about which people
are truly going crazy.
But in the depth something has changed.
We no longer regard ourselves telematicians as a "lucky island" where
real life and outer people won't reach. Legal issues are no longer
perceived as moral obligations and policy agreements of ours own, but
as very material constraints instead. We are fully aware that the
fellow sysops seized by police, though having had their materials
restituted, may still undergo a process whose outcome nobody can
foresee. The law on software and telematics piracy is too recent with
little or no antecedents. The only sure thing, whichever the outcome,
will be the legal expenses every seized sysop will have to sustain, in
the USD 1000 range.
On the broader picture, we have become aware of the need for a good
legislation on BBS. If being listed on a dialing directory is enough
to get inquired, we definitely want a law to back us up. Fido merry
times when we described ourselves as a loosely organized anarchy kept
together by the nodelist were great times, but for us they are over.
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We need to know where our responsibilities begin and where they end,
what to do with users and uploaders, if we are forced to surely
identify them or not, and if so, how. We want to know from law
scholars if not reading in transit mail makes us liable of omitted
vigilance, or if reading it makes us liable of privacy violation. We
ask clearcut criteria for allowing or not allowing crypted messages,
we want to know who's is the final responsibility for echomail
offending messages, and so on.
The benefit of all this clash is that our debates now go beyond the
rather futile "long signature" and "commercial message" issues, and
attain to some more basic rights, and profounder questions. Our story
made noise, and together with other social and political organizations
we are given the opportunity to influence the establishment of a good
law on telematic messaging, and we'll work on this.
The debate is running and we will be glad to share our conclusions
with the rest of fidonet community when we reach consensus or obtain
some favourable legislation.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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Fidonet Related Websites
Thom LaCosta
1:261/1352
One approach to tracking and viewing Fidonet related websites is to
visit webrings that specialize in Fidonet.
A webring is a method where sites having a common theme advertise
other websites with simailar themes. The advantage to the webring
concept is that in theory, the sites have an interest in maintaining
an accuate listing and can modify their own listings on a site by site
basis.
It appears that there are two fidonet webrings....the long-running
system at http://b.webring.com/hub?ring=fidonet and another at
http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/
The ring at webring.com is larger, but forces the viewer to look at
google ads panels. The smaller ring at fidonet.us does not dpend on
adverstising revenue from ads.
Sysops with Fidonet related websites should consider joining one or
both rings.
Thom
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ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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-=:{ FIDONet Software Reference }:=-
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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|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
`- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
Argus |MI |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84
| | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889
| | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001
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 (Outdated)
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
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
Radius |MI |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38
(based on Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
| | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003
Taurus |MI |http://taurus.rinet.ru 2:461/701
(based on Radius) | | E-mail: taurus@rinet.ru
| | v5.000 alpha on Oct 11th 2004
Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608
| | Website is in Russian only
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204
Software, Inc. | | AUP 451.1 on April 26th 2004
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10
FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org
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| | support@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://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | Lanuis site redirects to above
| | Squish is part of Maximus.
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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
EZYCom BBS |BT |http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dcbbs/
| | pjs@optushome.com.au 3:633/104
| | v2.0 on 3 May 2003
Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org
| | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final
Maximus BBS |B |http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
| | v3.03
MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802
Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net
| | v0.60.0 on June 5th 2004
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-Beta on Oct 16th 2002
| | [Note: No Longer under active
| | development.]
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
Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net
| | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
| | v3.10L Beta
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Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net
| | support@telegard.net
| | v3.09g2 SP4
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Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
| | Last Update: August 2004
Cheepware: |D |http://outpostbbs.us/cheepware.html
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://doormud.com
| | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002
| | Website is down after
| | past the splash page.
Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
| | support@johndaileysoftware.com
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
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de
| |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
| | (English Version)
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13
CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999
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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
| | (Site is in German Only)
| | mk@openxp.de v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004
| | Download Page comes back 404 not found.
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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
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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.start.ca/software/multiboard
Communications, Inc.| | Unsure about support now but Free Keys
| | are now available. Donations accepted.
| | v3.5 (Note: KeyGen is a Windows Program)
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National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org
Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
(in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings)
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net
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
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(use ftp:// instead of http:// above)
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.303
size 842.4kb
date 2004-10-29
The nodelist has 7043 nodes in it
and a total of 9672 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
47 regions
389 hosts
490 hubs
admin overhead 932 ( 13.23 %)
and 1090 private nodes
275 nodes down
332 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1697 ( 24.09 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 623 ( 8.85 %)
9600 = 6062 ( 86.07 %)
(HST = 122 or 2.01 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.02 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.02 %)
(V32 = 3192 or 52.66 %)
(V32B = 269 or 4.44 %)
(V34 = 4128 or 68.10 %)
(V42 = 3502 or 57.77 %)
(V42B = 270 or 4.45 %)
2400 = 63 ( 0.89 %)
1200 = 9 ( 0.13 %)
300 = 286 ( 4.06 %)
ISDN = 561 ( 7.97 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2319
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 9
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 8
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XP Seadog 5
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XR Opus 1.03 39
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XW Fido >12M 287
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 3133
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1243
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CrashMail capable = 2153 ( 30.57 %)
MailOnly nodes = 3942 ( 55.97 %)
Listed-only nodes = 552 ( 7.84 %)
Other = 396 ( 5.62 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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