FidoNews · Vol 22, No 30 · 25 Jul 2005
The F I D O N E W S Volume 22, Number 30 25 Jul 2005
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Copyright 2005 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.
Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2
3. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 3
Article/Information for FidoNews ......................... 3
4. TOP STORIES .............................................. 4
A request to publish an obituary ......................... 4
5. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 6
Free DNS services. Yet another problem ................... 6
6. BEST OF FIDONET .......................................... 7
A parable ................................................ 7
7. FIDONET BY INTERNET ...................................... 9
Fidonet Related Websites ................................. 9
8. ROBERT COUTURE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................ 15
FIDONet Software References .............................. 15
9. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 20
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 20
10. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 22
How to Submit an Article ................................. 22
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 24
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
-- Amelia Burr
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EDITORIAL
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Top news this week, is of course that yet another Fidonet sysop has
passed away, Gordon Lewicky. Unfortunately the information about his
demise has been scarce, all I have to offer is a request to publish an
obituary, which hereby is done. Where ever you are, Gordon, I wish you
the best of luck on your new hunting grounds.
* * * * * * * * * *
In a letter to the editor, we can read about an impressive project,
about documenting the history of the dial-up BBS. From what I've seen
in a Zone 3 echo, it seems this documentary has been sent on
Australian television, please correct me if I'm wrong. Anyway, I hope
this program will eventually reach some European TV channels, it looks
really interesting.
* * * * * * * * * *
Then we have an article about some more problems with the free DNS
services. It seems like this is going to haunt us for as long as we
(in Fidonet) does not do something to finally end the problems. I know
many are offering something similar to the usual, free services
available, but I get the distinct feeling that we still are at the
mercy of other actors.
* * * * * * * * * *
A real gold nugget was re-posted in the ENET.SYSOP echo the other
day. I thought it was a pity if this masterpiece would once again fall
into oblivion, so it is hereby documented in the Best Of Fidonet
section.
* * * * * * * * * *
A small side note. Yesterday (Sunday) was 24 July. This was the day
to have your system up an running, if you wanted to claim that your
system is up and running 24/7. Well, at least for those of you that
are not writing dates in a backward manner.
* * * * * * * * * *
Finally, I'd like to inform all of you, that tried to guess the
make of my wife's car (car.jpg at my site) and failed, that Ralph
Mothes (2:2432/717) managed to spot not only the make, but also the
model. It's a Nissan Sunny, or Nissan Sunny N14 1.6 1992 to be exact.
Kudos, Ralph!
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Article/Information for FidoNews
By: Jason Scott <jason (at) textfiles (dot) com>
Hello!
My name is Jason Scott, and for the last 4 years I've been working on
a pretty involved project: creating a documentary about the history of
the dial-up Bulletin Board System. I finished it this past May. It's
called "BBS: The Documentary", and is a 3-DVD set I'm selling through
my website (http://www.bbsdocumentary.com)
It's got 5 and a half hours of documentary split into eight episodes.
Each episode deals with a specific aspect of BBSes, including the
early days of Ward Christensen and Randy Suess, ANSI art, the BBS
"Industry" of the 1990s, and so one.
What will be of interest to your readers is that there is an entire
episode dedicated to Fidonet. It contains interviews with a number of
figures from Fidonet's past, including:
Tom Jennings, John Madill, Bob Hartman, Ben Baker, Ken Kaplan, Wynn
Wagner III, Thom and Irene Henderson, Rick Siegel, That Old Frog
Himself, Phil Becker, Mark Grennan, David Drexler, Frank Vest, and a
host of others.
I cover the beginning of Fidonet, the restructuring of the network,
IFNA, the ups and downs of the network, and Fidonet's place in
history.
My site also contains a lot of information about BBSes of all types,
including a massive BBS list, software listing, timeline, and
photographs of the 205 interviews I conducted over the 4 years.
The website, again, is http://www.bbsdocumentary.com. I hope you can
stop by.
- Jason Scott
Director, BBS: The Documentary
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TOP STORIES
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A request to publish an obituary
By: Joe Delahaye <1:249/303>
Bjorn
I would ask that you publish the following and attribute it to the
person who actually wrote it. Patrick Vittori. I have been told
that there would be no problem having this published in the snooze.
Thanks
Joe
Gordon Lewincky
May he rest in peace
* Original message by: Patrick Vittori on 15-Jul-2005
to: All
re: Gonna be missed
in: Ezycom BBS Support for Sysop's
I've tried to start this about 4 times, but... How -does- someone
write a eulogy for a friend?
I never met him face-to-face, but the info passed between us made that
seem trivial. You ask Gordy a question and you'd *better* plan on an
hour or two to read the reply. <soft smiles>
Thats one part that going to be missed on our team.
I logged on his system for a while in the past and the atmosphere
there was like being part of a big family. Nobody was sacred, heh..
least not Gordon.
You'd better have your kevlar monitor hooked up cause if'n you poked
one at Pdk, he'd sear one -back- at you. :-)
Gordon came to my rescue in many ways, I lost a mail feed and he had
me set up to link to his system within a couple of hours. I'd be
having a prob with a piece of software, and the answer via email had
the solution and a few things to watch for that I hadn't come across
at the time. Knowledge and a helping hand like that comes close to you
only a few times in your life.
I don't know where else to go with this except to echo the comments
posted elsewhere in FIDO land,
Gordon, you were a crusty ol' fart, but we're going to miss you
dearly.
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Patrick
Ezycom Beta/Support Team
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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Free DNS services. Yet another problem.
By Michiel van der Vlist 2:280/5555
Fidonet sysops that do not have a static IP number often make use of
the services of a DNS provider. Many of these are free for non
commercial use. The most popular seems to be dyndns, but there are
others. Like fidosoft.de. Or was...
Friday a week ago, fidosoft.de went belly up. Just like that, no
warning, no tell tale signs, no nothing. What happened exactly is
unclear. Rumour has it that it was hijacked by a bunch of spammers and
that the owner pulled the plug. Whatever happened xxx.fidosoft.de now
points to a site owned by Sedoparking. A mob specializing in grabbing
domains and selling them.
Luckily the damage to FidoNet is limited. Only eight nodelisted sysops
made use of the free fidosoft.de DNS service. Half of them seem to
have found an alternative by now. That includes me.
But it has made me think. The use of FOIP has freed us from the
dependence of mail distributors. But we seem the have traded that for
a dependence on DNS providers.
The impact on me is limited. I have a static IP and I can just as well
use that for my entry in the nodelist. OTOH, I also have a web server
running and I used fidosoft.de to let the world access it. I use the
web server to share things with my friends and family and many of them
go into panic mode when a url does not start with "www", let alone
that they know what an IP address is.
What annoys me most is that with fidosoft.de all the pointers in the
Google database are gone too. I scored pretty high on some keywords.
"Fido gallery of fame" f.e. directly led you to a picture of David
Rance and me. It is gone and I have not yet seen the Google crawler
bot come by.
Maybe I should just pay for my DNS service.
In the meantime here is where I found shelter:
http://www.vlist.nodelist.org/
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BEST OF FIDONET
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A parable
By: David Rance <2:252/110.1>
* Forwarded from ENET.SYSOP by David Rance
* Original message from David Rance to Steven Leeman
* Date: 25 May 99 08:59
You don't see my point, do you? All you folks can talk about is the
technical specifications of all that we are doing.
A parable:
Fred Fidonet is interested in cars. He has a car. He talks about the
car. He knows the technical specification of the car. He spends all
his spare time tinkering with the car and tuning the car. Fred loves
his car and would be completely lost if he had to sell his car.
However he never goes out in the car. Fred has two sons who are every
bit as enthusiatic about the car as Fred is. The trouble is that they
are always arguing about how to make the car work better. In fact
their conversation is always about the technical side of the car, and
sometimes their arguments get quite bitter. Sometimes they can't even
talk to one another because of the bad feeling when they can't get
their own way.
While they are all busy arguing, Fred's wife, Angela, would love to go
out touring, to see some of the countryside and visit friends. After
all, she thought, that's what they got the car for. It should improve
the quality of their lives by enabling them to visit people they
wouldn't otherwise be able to visit. Fred doesn't want to do that.
Fred's world revolves around making the car work better and better.
Yes, he sometimes goes out to visit a car mechanic who will help him
with the car, but he's forgotten all about what his poor wife wants.
After a while, Angela gets SO bored that she decides to accept an
invitation from her neighbour, Ian Internet, to go for a trip in his
car. Ian isn't so much interested in HOW the car works, but loves to
travel and meet people. And Angela enjoys her trip so much that she
accepts further invitations. In the end, Angela (you've guessed it)
decides to leave Fred and go to live with Ian, because he, like
Angela, is so much more interested in meeting people and finds Ian's
attitude to the car so much more sensible. It's not an end in itself,
it helps people to get to where they want to go.
And, do you know, Fred didn't even understand why Angela had left him!
Fred asked his sons how to get Angela to come back. He came to the
conclusion that she would come back if he got a bigger, flashy, car.
So he did. But Angela didn't come back. So Fred thought that an even
bigger, flashier car, would attract Angela back, but he couldn't agree
with his sons as to which car to get.
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And all this time Angela is getting more and more hooked on Ian's
lifestyle and is now planning to divorce Fred and marry Ian.
And Fred is STILL wondering what to do to make his car more attractive
to Angela!!! Of course, Fred is quite right to take an interest in how
the car works. But he has missed the point that, however big and
flashy his car is, Angela is interested only it what it can DO to help
her get out and meet people.
Poor Fred! Do you think he will ever get Angela back?
* Any resemblance between the characters above and the readers of this
echo is purely intentional!
Best wishes, David
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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 depend on
adverstising revenue from ads.
Sysops with Fidonet related websites should consider joining one or
both rings.
Ring News
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,
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
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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
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
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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
Thom
1:261/1352
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Fidonet Related Websites
Thom LaCosta
1:261/1352
03/14/2005
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
03/13/2005
Welcome to the Positronium Repository - Software Repository of mostly
free/PD packages for DOS, Wins, OS/2 & Linux. Over 20,000 packages ...
Sysop: Ben Ritchey
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
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BBBS Charlotte and N4RPS.net Home Page
Web Page of N4RPS, Rob Sargeant, and Web portal for BBBS Charlotte,
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
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Where the FidoMob meets to exercise it's mysterious control over
Zone 1
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
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
Positronium Repository - Software Repository of mostly free/PD
packages for DOS, Wins, OS/2 & Linux. Over 20,000 packages
http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/positron.htm 7-March-2005
If you have a Fidonet-related site, join the ring at
http://www.fidonet.us/fidoring/
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|
`- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
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://ezycom.sytes.net
| |http://members.westnet.com.au/centuryp/
| | ezycom@westnet.com.au 3:690/682
| | 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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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.203
size 778.3kb
date 2005-07-22
The nodelist has 6298 nodes in it
and a total of 8877 non-comment entries
including 6 zones
47 regions
372 hosts
466 hubs
admin overhead 891 ( 14.15 %)
and 1094 private nodes
273 nodes down
321 nodes on hold
off line overhead 1688 ( 26.80 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 578 ( 9.18 %)
9600 = 5343 ( 84.84 %)
(HST = 108 or 2.02 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.02 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.02 %)
(V32 = 2751 or 51.49 %)
(V32B = 210 or 3.93 %)
(V34 = 3674 or 68.76 %)
(V42 = 3094 or 57.91 %)
(V42B = 208 or 3.89 %)
2400 = 51 ( 0.81 %)
1200 = 6 ( 0.10 %)
300 = 320 ( 5.08 %)
ISDN = 484 ( 7.68 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2066
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 5
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XP Seadog 6
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XR Opus 1.03 36
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XW Fido >12M 268
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 2771
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 1138
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CrashMail capable = 1981 ( 31.45 %)
MailOnly nodes = 3516 ( 55.83 %)
Listed-only nodes = 497 ( 7.89 %)
Other = 304 ( 4.83 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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