FidoNews · Vol 29, No 15 · 09 Apr 2012
The F I D O N E W S Volume 29, Number 15 09 Apr 2012
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. FTSC INFORMATION ......................................... 2
3. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 8
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 8
4. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 9
FidoNet Software References .............................. 9
5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 14
6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16
How to Submit an Article ................................. 16
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 18
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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People are fed by the Food Industry,
which pays no attention to health,
and are treated by the Health Industry,
which pays no attention to food.
-- Wendell Berry
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FTSC INFORMATION
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FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE
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Publication: FTS-5003
Revision: 1
Title: Character set definition in Fidonet messages
Author(s): Peter Krefting (born Karlsson)
Stas Degteff
FTSC Administrator
Date: 7 April 2012
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Contents:
1. Introduction
2. Format of the identifier
3. Supported levels
4. Supported character sets
5. Obsolete identifiers
6. Notes
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Status of this document
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This document is a Fidonet Standard (FTS).
This document specifies a Fidonet standard for the Fidonet
community.
This document is released to the public domain, and may be used,
copied or modified for any purpose whatever.
Abstract
--------
This document defines the identifiers that are used to indicate the
character sets and character encodings used within messages that are
distributed in Fidonet.
There have been many attempts on defining a common standard on what
character encodings are used in Fidonet distributed messages. The
only one that has gained widespread use is the "CHRS" specification
described in FSC-0054. This document tries to describe the current
use, as well as standardising the parts of it that were ambiguously
defined.
1. Introduction
---------------
As Fidonet is an international network, one has to consider that
not all people use English to write messages. Many languages have
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alphabets that are either bigger than the standard English alphabet,
or completely different. To keep track of which character set and
character encoding is used for a particular message, this document
describes a way to identify this to message reading software.
1.1 Definition of terms.
A character set is the collection of characters that is used to
display text. Examples of a character set are the ASCII set, the
LATIN 1 set and the universal character set or Unicode character
set.
An encoding scheme is the algorithm to transform characters from
a specific character set into a number or set of numbers that can be
stored and manipulated. An example is UTF-8, an encoding scheme
for the universal character set.
The distinction between character set and character encoding scheme
is only meaningful for character sets that need more than one byte
for representation. 7 and 8 bit character sets are normally
represented by a scalar value up to 255. For Unicode that uses the
universal character set, there is more than one way however to
represent a particular character. There is UTF-8, UTF-16 and UTF-32.
These are different encoding schemes for one and the same character
set, the universal character set.
2. Character set identification line
------------------------------------
The character encoding of a message is specified in the "CHRS"
control line.
The CHRS control line is formatted as follows:
^ACHRS: <identifier> <level>
Where <identifier> is a character string of no more than eight (8)
ASCII characters identifying the character set or character encoding
scheme used, and level is a positive integer value describing what
level of CHRS the message is written in.
For backwards compatibility, "CHARSET" may be treated as a synonym
for "CHRS".
Some implementations do not add the <level> field and some
implementations erroneously present "UTF-8 2" instead of "UTF-8 4".
Well mannered implementations should gracefully handle this
situation
when reading messages. The recommended way of doing this is to
ignore the level parameter and only use the name of the identifier.
In future the level parameter may become obsolete.
Incoming messages without "CHRS" control lines should be considered
as being written in pure ASCII, but may be treated as being written
in some default character set or character encoding scheme. Such as
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IBM codepage 437, IBM codepage 866 or UTF-8. It is recommended that
message readers offer the user the option of manually selecting a
different character set or encoding scheme for these messages on a
per-area, per-message or other basis.
3. Supported levels
-------------------
These levels are the ones that are implemented in current software:
Level 0
-------
This level is for messages containing pure seven bit ASCII only.
Outgoing messages in pure ASCII need not be identified by a "CHRS"
control line, but if they are, they should be indicated as
"ASCII 1" (not "ASCII 0").
Level 1
-------
First level of internationalisation, using seven bit character sets.
Most of these are based on US ASCII, with minor internationalisation
variations.
Level 2
-------
Second level of internationalisation, using eight bit character
sets.
This level adds support for character sets that use "extended
ASCII", i.e codes with the most significant bit set. The character
sets in level two are all based on ASCII (the codes 0-127 coincide
with ASCII).
Level 3
-------
Level 3 is included just for completeness as it was mentioned in the
proposals (FSC-0054 and FSP-1013, now FRL-1020) that this standard
is
based on.
It seems level 3 was originally meant for 16 bit character sets but
there never was an implementation and there may never be. This may
have to do with the NULL byte being reserved in the Fidonet
specifications as a termination character.
Level 3 is "reserved".
Level 4
-------
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Level 4 is for multi byte character encodings. The only presently
known implementation is UTF-8.
4. Known character set identifiers
----------------------------------
This is a list of character set and character encoding scheme
identifiers that are known to be in use or to have been in use in
Fidonet. This list is not exhaustive and is not meant to be a list
of characters sets or character encoding identifiers that all must
be supported by an implementation. It is perfectly all right for
an implementation to only have partial support.
A common method of implementation is to have a character translation
table for each character set or character encoding identifier. The
user can add or delete these tables to or from his configuration in
order to add or delete support for character set/encoding. The
details are left to the implementation.
Identifier Character set
---------- -------------
Level 1 character sets (seven-bit)
Level 1 is no longer "current practise". The level 1 character
sets are included here for backward compatibility.
ASCII ISO 646-1 (US ASCII)
DUTCH ISO 646 Dutch
FINNISH ISO 646-10 (Swedish/Finnish)
FRENCH ISO 646 French
CANADIAN ISO 646 Canadian
GERMAN ISO 646 German
ITALIAN ISO 646 Italian
NORWEIG ISO 646 Norwegian
PORTU ISO 646 Portuguese
SPANISH ISO 646 Spanish
SWEDISH ISO 646-10 (Swedish/Finnish)
SWISS ISO 646 Swiss
UK ISO 646 UK
ISO-10 ISO 646-10 (Deprecated alias)
Level 2 character sets (eight-bit, ASCII based)
CP437 IBM codepage 437 (DOS Latin US)
CP850 IBM codepage 850 (DOS Latin 1)
CP852 IBM codepage 852 (DOS Latin 2)
CP866 IBM codepage 866 (Cyrillic Russian)
CP848 IBM codepage 848 (Cyrillic Ukrainian)
CP1250 Windows, Eastern Europe
CP1251 Windows, Cyrillic
CP1252 Windows, Western Europe
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CP10000 Macintosh Roman character set
LATIN-1 ISO 8859-1 (Western European)
LATIN-2 ISO 8859-2 (Eastern European)
LATIN-5 ISO 8859-9 (Turkish)
LATIN-9 ISO 8859-15 (Western Europe with EURO sign)
Level 2 obsolete character set identifiers (see note)
IBMPC IBM PC character sets for European
+7_FIDO IBM codepage 866, use CP866 instead
MAC Macintosh character set, use CPxxxxx instead
Level 4
UTF-8 UTF-8 encoding for the Unicode character set
5. Obsolete indentifiers
------------------------
These indentifiers must not be used when creating new messages.
The following only applies to processing messages that were
created using old software.
Since the "IBMPC" identifier, initially used to indicate IBM
codepage 437, eventually evolved into identifying "any IBM
codepage", there exists in some implementations an additional
control line, "CODEPAGE", identifying the messages codepage:
"^ACODEPAGE: xxx
This use is deprecated in favour of the "CPxxx" identifiers
defined above. If found in incoming messages, however, it should
be used as an override of the "CHRS: IBMPC" identifier.
The character set "+7_FIDO" is sometimes used as an identifier for
CP866. This use is deprecated, and "CP866" is recommended instead.
Implementations should treat "+7_FIDO" as a synonym for "CP866".
The character set "MAC" some time ago was used for Macintosh
character set, but now sysops should use CP10000 or another codepage
identifier from international standard: CP10029 for Macintosh
Central Europe languages, CP10007 for Macintosh Cyrillic and
another.
FSC-54 also defined control lines for style changes, "CHRC". These
are not implemented in any software known to the authors, and are
deprecated.
Level 3, as defined by FSC-54, is also considered "not used" since
there currently are no known implementations of them. All levels not
documented here are considered reserved for future use.
6. Notes
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--------
The character set identifier applies to all parts of the message,
including the header information and the control lines like origin
and tear line.
FSC-54 documents file formats for mapping files that could be used
for storing character translation data. These are not documented
here because determined by software implementation.
A. Author contact data
----------------------
Peter Krefting (born Karlsson) Fidonet: 2:203/0.222
E-mail: peter@softwolves.pp.se
Stas Degteff Fidonet: 2:5080/102
FTSC Administrator: 2:2/20, administrator@ftsc.org
B. Acknowledgements
-------------------
This document is largely based on FSP-1013 by Peter Karlsson, which
in turn was based on FSC-0054 by Duncan McNutt.
Peter Karlsson is now known as Peter Krefting and FSP-1013 has been
filed in the FTSC reference library as FRL-1020.
Significant modifications were submitted by Stas Degteff. Other
FTSC members also provided valuable input.
C. Revision History
-------------------
Rev.1, 20120407: First release..
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JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST
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The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project
This is a list of known JamNNTPd servers working. They are essentially
the modern version of Bulletin Board Systems.
You connect to them using the email client of your choice and you
don't need any other software installed on your computer -- regardless
of operating system -- but that favourite mail client of yours.
Even smart phones can handle this, giving you the opportunity to get
your daily doses of fidonet on the bus, tram or train on the way to
your job, school or whatever.
Updated 2012-03-11
URL news://felten.yi.org
Join http://felten.yi.org/join.html
NETMAIL Yes, 2:203/2
URL news://the-estar.com:1119
Join http://www.easternstar.info
NETMAIL Yes, 1:123/789
URL news://quinnspost.dyndns.org:60119
Join mailto:eskimo261@bigfoot.com
NETMAIL No
URL news://nntp.rbb.bbs.fi
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/361
URL news://news.wpusa.dynip.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:3634/12
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FIDONEWS'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://binkd.grumbler.org/ 2:463/69
| | v0.9.10 on Oct 2nd 2008
D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm 1:1/130
Nick Andre |I | v3.64 on June 4 2011
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 RC5 on Apr 24th 2006
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
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Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org
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| | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.10
FMail |T |http://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
| | v1.60.GPL
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://www.ezycom-bbs.com
| | ezycom@amnet.net.au or
| | ezycom_hq@ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v2.15g2 on 16 Nov 2009
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
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| | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999
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
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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
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APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de 2:2426/1210.13
| |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
| | (English Version)
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| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25
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.
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GoldEd+ |E |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | 2:5080/102
| | stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | 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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FidoIP |MTPEIU|http://sourceforge.net/projects/fidoip
| | Maxim Sokolsky 2:5020/828.777
| | v.0.5_1 on Jan 11 2010
GiGo |UI |http://www.gigo.com
| | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997
Ifmail |UI |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org 2:5020/230
| | Ifmail is a FTN <-> E-Mail/News Gateway
| | Program.
Internet Rex: |UI |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
Charles Cruden | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
(Khan Software) | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001
MakeNL |U | http://hub2000.darktech.org/makenl
| | fidonet.hub2000 [at] gmail [dot] com
| | Fido: 1:229/2000
| | FidoNet Nodelist Processor
Meltdown-BBS |UI |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | meltdown-bbs.project.petkan
| | @spamgourmet.com
| | Fido: 2:350/5
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| | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as
| |2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.1.4 Snapshot on Oct 09 2009
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)
Turquoise SuperStat |U |http://www.softwolves.pp.se/sw/
| | software/turquoise
| | peter@softwolves.pp.se
| | Version: 3.0 on 2008-01-21
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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://www.bbsfiles.com 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: Fidonews Editor
Emeritus: Robert Couture, Ben Ritchey, Todd Cochrane,
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SPECIAL INTEREST
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.097
size 353.0kb
date 2012-04-06
The nodelist has 2525 nodes in it
and a total of 3661 non-comment entries
including 5 zones
36 regions
244 hosts
211 hubs
admin overhead 496 ( 19.64 %)
and 338 private nodes
138 nodes down
164 nodes on hold
off line overhead 640 ( 25.35 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 207 ( 8.20 %)
9600 = 1622 ( 64.24 %)
(HST = 21 or 1.29 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.06 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.06 %)
(V32 = 766 or 47.23 %)
(V32B = 61 or 3.76 %)
(V34 = 1094 or 67.45 %)
(V42 = 918 or 56.60 %)
(V42B = 65 or 4.01 %)
2400 = 11 ( 0.44 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.08 %)
300 = 683 ( 27.05 %)
ISDN = 225 ( 8.91 %)
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File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems
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XA Frontdoor <1.99b 747
Frontdoor 2.02+
Dutchie 2.90c
Binkleyterm >2.1
D'Bridge <1.3
TIMS
Xenia
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XB Binkleyterm 2.0 0
Dutchie 2.90b
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XC Opus 1.1 1
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XP Seadog 0
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XR Opus 1.03 16
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XW Fido >12M 69
Tabby
KittenMail
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XX D'Bridge 1.30 798
Frontdoor 1.99b
Intermail 2.01
T-Mail
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None QMM 894
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CrashMail capable = 1261 ( 49.94 %)
MailOnly nodes = 1269 ( 50.26 %)
Listed-only nodes = 191 ( 7.56 %)
Other = -196 ( -7.76 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]
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