FidoNews · Vol 22, No 8 · 21 Feb 2005
The F I D O N E W S Volume 22, Number 08 21 Feb 2005
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Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 2
Uncle Bunion Tours The Brewery ........................... 2
3. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 5
Fidonet Related Websites ................................. 5
4. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 8
FIDONet Software References .............................. 8
5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 13
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 13
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 15
How to Submit an Article ................................. 15
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 17
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since
no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is
going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should
exist.
-- George Orwell (in the book 1984)
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CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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Uncle Bunion Tours The Brewery
Jack Yates, 1:3613/1275
It hasn't been the same down here since Uncle Bunion got his cravat
entangled in the stirring paddle that mixes the mash at the old
American Brewery, makers of Tam O'Shanter <tm> Ale back in the heyday
of the horse-drawn ice wagon and the pushcart full of produce. Howl
for help is what he did and the alarum was struck at the corner
fire-box, which brought two engine companies and a hook-and-ladder
truck screaming down the street to the scene. They assessed the
situation and timed the revolutions of the mixer paddle and the hook-
and-ladder guys opined that they could catch Uncle Bunion by hooking
his sleeve-garters with a pike-pole as he passed by, while the engine
companies fought over which of them was going to get the privilege of
pumping out the vat of beer.
Word soon spread of the dilemma at the brewery, and the scene became
crowded with Batallion Chiefs, off-duty policemen and members of the
press with their credentials and Speed Graphics, not to mention four
old gentlemen who had been playing checkers in the park down the
street and had the foresight to stop at the corner grocery and buy a
pint of ice cream each, then empty the round wax-coated carton in the
gutter so that they would have a proper vessel to help assure that no
spilled beer would be wasted.
As we look in on the affray, we see a half-dozen firemen, their
ladders propped against the side of the vat trying to catch Uncle
Bunion as he passes by at the approximate speed of 24 revolutions per
minute, while more firemen are laying hose across the street to a
waiting water-wagon used by the city to keep the dust down on the dirt
streets, hoping to salvage as much of the liquid as was possible, and
calculating what measure of it they will have to give over to the
foreman of the Department of Public Works in exchange for the
"borrowing" of the wagon, while the brewery's founder and chairman is
standing on the staircase outside his door exhorting Uncle Bunion to
keep his chin above the surface and to not swallow the bubbles for
fear of inviting flatulance, in which case the contents of the vat
would not be salvageable, not even for sale in the poorer parts of
town and would have to be viewed as a loss.
So we now have a dozen firemen in the building and as many and more
outside shouting orders and encouragement, the street crews from that
quadrant of town had gathered, ostensibly to watch over their water
wagon, The precinct captain and his constabulary keeping order in the
street, and four old geezers that had abandoned their checkerboard, as
well as various and sundry citizens who had taken time from their
normal activities to come and offer advice and aid.
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And then the organ-grinder appeared.
The organ-grinder saw the gathering and viewed it as a great
opportunity so he unlsung his instrument, set it on its peg and began
to crank, whence it bellowed forth with renditions of "O Sole Mio",
followed by a procession of tarantellas and Gipsy dance music.
Meanwhile, his trained monkey worked the crowd with a practiced
approach, a tug at the frock or coat, a wistful look upon its
countanance while he raised his little tin cup in supplication for
coins.
The Precinct captain, worried that the crowd had grown beyond the
capacity of the street started shouting for the attendees to move
across the way onto the opposite sidewalk, but as the organ-grinder
had begun to sing in accompaniment to his instrument, the voice of
that minion of the law was drowned out and went unheard. Wishing to
be recognized as the authority in charge and understanding the reason
that he was not, he grabbed the organ-grinder by his weskit and,
indicating the nearby stable-barn, rather rudely propelled him thither
by the toe of his boot. This, however, caused the organ-grinder to
lose his grasp on the monkey's leash, and the monkey, realizing that
he had no allies in the immediate area, slipped under a broken slat in
the brewery gate and into the vat room where he espied a veritable
river of the golden mead being drawn from the vessel that contained
Uncle Bunion.
Now, everyone knows that an organ-grinder's monkey carries a tin cup,
we expect it, we could not conceive of an organ-grinder's monkey
without a tin cup; however, as this primate had acquired a taste for
the nectar of the hops, he had no need or purpose for coinage, so he
removed the government's hard specie from the cup and flung it in the
air in the way of freeing the cup for other, more important tasks.
The monkey set about scooping up cups of beer and quaffing them on the
spot, but, whilst he had been engaged in begging the gathered
assemblage to part with their coins, one of the old checker-playing
geezers, being nearly sightless, had mistakenly placed his steel,
nickel-sized slug to which had been soldered a length of piano wire so
that it could be withdrawn from a pay telephone after making a call,
into the beggar's cup. This interesting piece had flown through the
air and fallen into the cog-works that drove the shaft that turned the
paddles that were caught in Uncle Bunion's cravat.
As the shaft turned 'round, one of the cogs kept striking the piece of
piano wire, which made a twanging sound, which aroused the monkey's
curiosity. He went to the open gear-works to see the source of this
amusing sound, and was mesmerised by the slowly-rotating bits therein,
his head began to rotate in unison with the biggest of gears, his eyes
became foggy and he might have lost his balance and fallen into the
works except that his stomach was much disturbed by the motion of the
gears and he regurgitated, expelling all that he had eaten and drunk
that day.
The force of this stream of vomit fell sqarely on the metal slug and
piano wire which became dislodged and plunged further into the cog-
works where it lodged and brought the machine to a halt.
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Seizing the opportunity, the firemen reached in unison and grabbed
Uncle Bunion by his sleeve-garters and pulled him from the vat, half
of which contents had been pumped away for future forensic
investigation by the Constabulary, the firemen and the Head of the
Department of Public Works. Uncle Bunion was soaked in every manner
of use of the word, The founder and chairman of the board was pleased
to learn that the balance of the contents of the vat were unsullied
and the reporters gathered 'round to make glass-plate photographs of
the primate who saved the day, the first known instance of a machine
being stopped by a monkey's retch in the works.
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FIDONET BY INTERNET
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Fidonet Related Websites
Thom LaCosta
1:261/1352
02/17/2005
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 depend on
adverstising revenue from ads.
Sysops with Fidonet related websites should consider joining one or
both rings.
Ring News
02/17/2005
Fidonet webring welcomes BGD Consulting and Graphics BBS
Sysop : Barry Davis Jr
01/15/2004
Welcome to Fidotel -- Free access to Fidonet via Telnet & the Web.
Sysop: Shannon Talley
12/27/2004
Welcome to The Thunderbolt -- A Weather Wonder(Arkansas, US)
Sysop: Daryl Stout
12/5/2004
It's a pleasure to welcome two new BBS systems to the
fidonet.us webring:
Pucela BBS (Valladolid, Spain) Sysop: Komunero
The Realm of Darkness BBS Sysop: Ken Bowley
The most current version of the list below can be viewed at
http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/sitelist.html
WWW.FIDONET.US - WEBRING PARTICIPANTS
BBBS Charlotte and N4RPS.net Home Page
Web Page of N4RPS, Rob Sargeant, and Web portal for BBBS Charlotte,
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a Fidonet BBS located in Charlotte, North Carolina USA (1:379/2).
http://www.n4rps.net - 6-November-2003
Fidonet - Net261 - Maryland
Fidonet in Maryland - Net261
http://www.fidonet.us/net261/ - 2-March-2003
Rocasa BBS
Rocasa BBS is a system accessible as both a traditional Bulletin
Board System, via landline or telnet, as well as via the Web for
message and file access. It is also the home of the BBBS FDN.
http://bbs.rocasa.org - 16-June-2003
<<Prism BBS
Hq of the IFDC FileGate and the Programmers Distribution Network.
<<Prism has been online since 1989.
http://www.filegate.net:8080 - 11-February-2003
Fidonet.us
The Fidonet Site for all sysops.
http://www.fidonet.us - 10-February-2003
The Realm of Darkness BBS
A Linux based BBS running in Phoenix, AZ
http://www.trod.org/trod.html - 3-December-2004
Pucela BBS (Valladolid, Spain)
BBS located in Spain. The web has a lot of information about
BBS's and FidoNet in Spain, Argentina, Mexico
FidoNet: 2:341/201.
Language: Spanish.
http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/pucelabbs.htm -
18-November-2004
FTN Gate
Fidonet related site; including especially DNS hosting for
z1.fidonet.net domains.
http://www.ftngate.net - 18-September-2004
Fidonet Region 13
Home page for Fidonet Region 13.
http://www.fidonet.us/region13/ - 20-August-2004
FidoNet Primer
An introduction to FidoNet: what it is, how it works
http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html - 11-February-2003
RuneKeep BBS
A great place for new sysops to learn about BBSing and getting help
setting things up. A friendly place for people to Play Onlines Games,
Chat, and participate in International Message Forums.
http://runekeep.darktech.org - 10-February-2003
The Elflords' Home
Where the FidoMob meets to exercise it's mysterious control over
Zone 1
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http://www.elflords.net/ - 2-March-2003
Fidonet Parody
FidoNet - An Unofficial Page where truth is stranger than fiction,
and humor abounds when the Emperor Has No Clothes.
http://www.fidonet.ro/ - 2-March-2003
Chowdanet BBS
Chowdanet offers mail from several nets, games and a large files
base. Dial up and telnet access.
http://www.chowdanet.com - 11-February-2003
The Thunderbolt -- A Weather Wonder
Arkansas' exclusive GT Power and FIDO BBS, with over 150 message
areas, over 5500 files, and over 125 REGISTERED doors.
FIDO 1:382/33 GT Power 035/005
http://www.wx1der.com - 26-December-2004
FidoTel Provides free access to Fidonet via Telnet & the Web.
Download/upload QWK packets via Telnet or Web,
Free Email with every account! Come by and see, Fidotel is Free!
http://www.fidotel.com/ Fido 1:275/311 & 100 15-January-2005
Description: BGDCAG BBS has been around since the early 90's.
We are always looking for ways to update the BBS. Doors are always
being added. Stop by for a visit.
http://www.bgdcagbbs.com Fido 1:229/414 17-February-2005
Thom
1:261/1352
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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|
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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
| | Last Release: v4.010 on Jan 3nd 2005
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/
| | dcbbs@tpg.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 |DU |http://cheepware.midnightshour.org
Sean Dennis | | hausmaus@midnightshour.org 1:18/200
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)
Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230
| | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway
| | Program.
Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan
| | @spamgourmet.com
| | Fido: 2:350/5
| | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
| | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
| | Fido: 1:229/2000
| | FidoNet Nodelist Processor
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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://maximus.midnightshour.org http://hobbes.nmsu.edu
Note: most also provide FTP access
(use ftp:// instead of http:// above)
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Please send corrections & additions to: Robert Couture, 1:229/2000
E-Mail: rpa4email (at) rogers (dot) com
Telnet: runekeep.darktech.org
(Leave Feedback as Guest or create an account)
Emeritus: Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.049
size 814.3kb
date 2005-02-18
The nodelist has 6677 nodes in it
and a total of 9328 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
47 regions
380 hosts
477 hubs
admin overhead 910 ( 13.63 %)
and 1115 private nodes
308 nodes down
318 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1741 ( 26.07 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 596 ( 8.93 %)
9600 = 5724 ( 85.73 %)
(HST = 116 or 2.03 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.02 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.02 %)
(V32 = 2970 or 51.89 %)
(V32B = 247 or 4.32 %)
(V34 = 3900 or 68.13 %)
(V42 = 3274 or 57.20 %)
(V42B = 247 or 4.32 %)
2400 = 55 ( 0.82 %)
1200 = 7 ( 0.10 %)
300 = 295 ( 4.42 %)
ISDN = 530 ( 7.94 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2196
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 7
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 39
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XW Fido >12M 280
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 2960
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1181
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CrashMail capable = 2068 ( 30.97 %)
MailOnly nodes = 3739 ( 56.00 %)
Listed-only nodes = 519 ( 7.77 %)
Other = 351 ( 5.26 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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