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FidoNews · Vol 26, No 15 · 13 Apr 2009

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 26, Number 15             13 Apr 2009 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        Trimming the FidoNet hierarchy  ...........................  2
     3. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ......................  5
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  5
     4. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 10
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 10
     5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 12
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 12
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 14
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
     =================================================================

     A great nation is like a great man:
     When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.
     Having realized it, he admits it.
     Having admitted it, he corrects it.
     He considers those who point out his faults
     as his most benevolent teachers.

                 -- Lao Tzu

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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
     =================================================================

                 Trimming the FidoNet hierarchy
                 By FTSC chairman, Michiel van der Vlist
                 2:2/40

     Summary
     -------

     This is a plea to reduce the FidoNet hierarchy by at least one level.
     Fidonet has shrunk from some 36000 listed nodes in the second half of
     the previous decade to some 4500 listed node per nodelist.100 of last
     Friday. It is anyone's guess how much of these are dead wood, but
     suspicion is that it is considerable. This is a plea to improve the
     situation by reducing the number of hierarchical levels.

     Why reduce the number of levels?
     --------------------------------

     Soon another region will disappear from the nodelist. Possibly even by
     next Friday. Region 31, Austria. It has shrunk way below critical mass
     and so the decision to not continue as a region of its own is a wise
     decision. Keeping up appearances is not compatible with "ensuring the
     smooth operation of the network", which is the job of the
     coordinators.

     This incident once again raises the question of whether FidoNet really
     needs four levels of hierarchy. At ground level, there are the nodes.
     Above that the net, then the regions and at the top the zones.
     Technically there is a fifth level at the bottom: the points. Now that
     FidoNet has shrunk to a fraction of what it ever was, do we need all
     those levels? Did we ever need them? Soon after the creation of
     FidoNet, nets were created for two reasons; One: it became too big for
     one person to maintain the nodelist. Two: to create a default routing.
     I think there is no question that nets are still useful. But do we
     really need two levels of hierarchy above that? I doubt it. There is
     no denying that the nodelist contains a lot of dead wood and that is a
     sign that the coordination hierarchy is not functioning properly, it
     seems to be unable to keep the nodelist clean from dead wood. It might
     function better if the hierarchy were trimmed down. Too many cooks
     spoil the broth.

     What level to do away with?
     ---------------------------

     Perhaps from a political point of view, it might be the best to do
     away with the regions. Coming down from the top, it appears that It is
     at the region level where things start to go wrong. RC's fall asleep
     or just disappear and are not replaced with the result that the
     segment is frozen and degrades into dead wood. However, this article
     is not written from the political point of view, it is wrtten from a
     technical point of view and from the technival point of view it would
     be a good idea do to away with the zones.

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     Why do away with zones?
     -----------------------

     For starers: we never needed them in the first place and the technical
     implementation is shaky at best. When FidoNet went from 1D to 2D, all
     the software was upgraded. No 1D software survived after the
     introduction of nets. But when zones were introduced, Fidonet took a
     halfhearted turn. A system of zonegates was introduced so that nodes
     could continue to use 2D only software. Also they could operate with a
     nodelist of their own zone only. By now 2D only software (stone age
     software) has faded out and disk space is no longer an issue, so that
     "everyone" uses the full nodelist, but remnants of the 2D system still
     remain. PATH and SEEN-BY in echomail are still 2D. And because nets
     numbers are not unique across zones, systems acting as zonegates used
     to strip SEEN+BYs in interzone echomail. This causes dupe prevention
     not to work across zones. As long as only ONE zonegate is used to gate
     echomail from one zone to another this is no problem, but that system
     has long ago been abandoned. Pro posals to make PATH and SEEN-BY zone
     aware were filed (FSC-0052 and others) but never implemented. As a
     result Circular Path Protection does not work across zones and as it
     is unlikely that FSC-0052 will ever be implemented, the only way to
     ever make it work is to dispense with the zones or at lest with the
     interzone duplicates.

     From the non-technical POV, zones have brought us nothing but grief.
     They have divided Fidonet into social islands for which their was
     never a technical need. Add to that, that already one zone (zone 6)
     was disbanded because there was no one left to administer it, and that
     two other zones are unlikely to pass scrutiny for critical mass, there
     is every reason to consider continuing the process of reducing the
     number of zones with the ultimate goal of doing away with them
     altogether.

     How to go about it?
     ------------------

     From the technical point of view there is one problem: Nets are not
     unique across zones. So when doing away with zones, we first have to
     deal with the rpoblem of duplicate nets.

     For starters there is the recommendation that RC's when creating new
     nets they DO NOT ASSIGN NET NUMBERS THAT ARE IN USE IN ANOTHER ZONE.
     For ZC's the recommendation that when RC's go against this
     recommendation, they do not approve it.

     How about existing nets? although the majority of them has
     disappeared, there are still a few duplicate nets. All in Z1 and Z2. I
     counted seven. They are:

     220
     249
     250
     343
     345
     372
     382
     FIDONEWS 26-15               Page 4                   13 Apr 2009


     It seems that the problem has become manageable. Rc's may want to take
     a closer look. Some of these nets could perhaps be easily dealt with.
     Perhaps some of them do not even exist any more. Others consist of
     only one or two sysops that could be transferred to a neighbour net.
     To give just one example: net 2:220. As host it lists someone who is
     already listed as host in another net. There is just one leaf node and
     that is a private node. If that net isn't dead, it is in coma and
     should have been disbanded and have the remaining node transferred to
     a neighbouring net if it is still operational. I leave it to the
     reader to find other examples examples of dead or near dead nets in
     the duplicate list.


     Conclusion
     ----------

     I realise that doing away with the zones will be asking a lot. It will
     demand lots of diplomacy from the ZCs to come to an arrangement, if
     only about who will be the new top level coordinator. Nevertheless I
     feel that reducing the coordinator overhead will benefit the network
     in the long run and doing away with the zones will be a good start.



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                    FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
     =================================================================

                    -=:{ FidoNet Software Reference }:=-

         Type: M=Mailer  T=Tosser  B=BBS  D=Door  C=Comm/Terminal
               P=Points  E=Editor  I=Internet  U=Utility  ?=Info

     .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.
     |Software: Author     |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes      Help Node|
     `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'

      Argus                |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 (Russian) 2:461/70
                           |     |http://www.fidotel.com/taurus (English)
      (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
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      Fidogate             |TUI  |http://www.fidogate.org
                           |     | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net  v4.4.10

     FIDONEWS 26-15               Page 6                   13 Apr 2009


      FMail                |T    |http://fmail.nl.eu.org
                           |     | 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.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
                           |     |Archives back online at:
                           |     |http://maximus.outpostbbs.net/

      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

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      Synchronet BBS       |BT   |http://www.synchro.net
                           |     | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
                           |     | v3.10L Beta

      Telegard BBS         |B    |http://www.telegard.net
                           |     | support@telegard.net
                           |     | v3.09g2 SP4
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      Atlantis Software    |D    |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
                           |     | Last Update: August 2004

      Cheepware            |DU   |http://outpostbbs.net
       Sean Dennis         |     | sean@outpostbbs.net         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

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
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      CrossPoint (XP)      |P    |http://www.crosspoint.de (German Only)
                           |     | pm@crosspoint.de  v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999

      FreeXP               |P    |http://www.freexp.de         2:2433/460
                           |     | support@freexp.de
                           |     | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot)

      OpenXP/32            |PI   |http://www.openxp.com        2:248/2004
                           |     |  (Site is in German Only)
                           |     | mk@openxp.de  v3.8.15 Beta Feb 10th 2004
                           |     | Download Page comes back 404 not found.

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
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                           |     | Fido:                       1:229/2000
                           |     | FidoNet Nodelist Processor

     Turquoise SuperStat   |U    |http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/
                           |     |                     software/turquoise
                           |     | peter@softwolves.pp.se
                           |     | Version: 3.0 on 2008-01-21


     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      National BBS List    |?    | http://www.usbbs.org

      Hispanic FIDO/BBS's  |?    | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/
       (in Spanish only)   |     |  (Extensive software & BBS Listings)

     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      File Archives:

       http://archives.thebbs.org             http://www.filegate.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://www.bbsfiles.com                http://hobbes.nmsu.edu

      Note: most also provide FTP access
            (use ftp:// instead of http:// above)

     *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*

      Please send corrections & additions to: Fidonews Editor

         Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane,
                   Frank Vest, Peter Popovich

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                             SPECIAL INTEREST
     =================================================================

                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.100
                size  515.6kb
                date  2009-04-10

      The nodelist has   4095 nodes in it
        and a total of   5641 non-comment entries

              including     5 zones
                           41 regions
                          283 hosts
                          291 hubs
         admin overhead   620 ( 15.14 %)

                    and   486 private nodes
                          198 nodes down
                          242 nodes on hold
      off line overhead   926 ( 22.61 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    297 (  7.25 %)
                9600 =   3076 ( 75.12 %)
                              (HST  =   63 or   2.05 %)
                              (CSP  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (PEP  =    1 or   0.03 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.03 %)
                              (V32  = 1501 or  48.80 %)
                              (V32B =   92 or   2.99 %)
                              (V34  = 2034 or  66.12 %)
                              (V42  = 1735 or  56.40 %)
                              (V42B =  101 or   3.28 %)
                2400 =     26 (  0.63 %)
                1200 =      5 (  0.12 %)
                 300 =    691 ( 16.87 %)

                ISDN =    273 (  6.67 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             1264
                      Frontdoor  2.02+
                      Dutchie 2.90c
                      Binkleyterm >2.1
                      D'Bridge <1.3
                      TIMS
                      Xenia
     --------------------------------------
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      XB              Binkleyterm 2.0                 6
                      Dutchie 2.90b
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                        2
     --------------------------------------
      XP              Seadog                          1
     --------------------------------------
      XR              Opus 1.03                      19
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     155
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                1483
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1165
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   1612 ( 39.37 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   2228 ( 54.41 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    315 (  7.69 %)
      Other             =    -60 ( -1.47 %)

      [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
      [        Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]

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                           FIDONEWS INFORMATION
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                    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability

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     | Editor:        Björn Felten, 2:2/2                             |
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