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FidoNews · Vol 29, No 49 · 03 Dec 2012

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 29, Number 49             03 Dec 2012 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. FTSC INFORMATION  .........................................  2
        FTSC Election, call for votes, reminder  ..................  2
     3. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  3
        Another zone down the drain?  .............................  3
     4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST  ....................................  6
        The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project  .......................  6
     5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ......................  7
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  7
     6. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 12
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 12
     7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 14
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 14
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 16
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     =================================================================
                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
     =================================================================

     One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their
     intentions rather than their results.

                                          - Milton Friedman
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     =================================================================
                             FTSC INFORMATION
     =================================================================

                         FTSC Election, call for votes, reminder

     Voting for FTSC membership closes on Sunday 9 December 2012, 20:00 UTC

     All RCs may vote.

     RCs, please complete the form below and post it in a messages in
     FTSC_PUBLIC, addressed to "Election Coordinator" with a subject of
     "vote". Or netmail to 2:2/20.

       ----------------------------------------------
      | Name                 |  Node nr    | Yes| No |
      |----------------------|-------------|----|----|
      | Stas Degteff         | 2:5080/102  |    |    |
      | Andrew Leary         | 1:320/119   |    |    |
      | mark lewis           | 1:3634/12   |    |    |
      | Fred Riccio          | 1:132/174   |    |    |
      | Carol Shenkenberger  | 1:275/100   |    |    |
      | Alexey Vissarionov   | 2:5020/545  |    |    |
       ----------------------------------------------


     One need not cast a vote for all candidates. Marking neither a "yes"
     nor a "no" for a candidate is considered "abstain".

     Michiel van der Vlist
     Election Coordinator

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

     Another zone down the drain?
     By Ward Dossche û 2:292/854

     The many years that I've passed in Fidonet have taught me many things.
     One of these things is that when a person gets vicious, participates
     in character assassination, starts calling you names it is an
     indication that this person is at the end of balanced reasoning and
     finds no other way of action than to insult someone.

     At this point, and prior to proceeding, I would like for everybody to
     leaf through the latest "Fidogazette, one of two newsletters set-up
     and run by Janis Kracht and which aren't catching. It's nearly
     necessary even to understand how low this lady will stoop to please
     her followers.

     First there is a melodramatic text about the former ZONE5 and how
     nodes have been left behind with nobody available to take over the
     segment.

     It's quite easy -- if there's a segment, then there still are nodes
     and if there still are nodes then some people are available to run
     that segment. If they don't want to, then there's no-one else to blame
     except themselves.

     To put it verbatim in Z5C's words as uttered in the ZCC-echo:

       JK> If there are any left in your Zone who want to
       JK> participate in Fidonet, I'm sure we can accomodate
       JK> them in the existing zones,  if they desire
       JK> and are still running viable nodes.

       There are none left, that anyone can reach, i.e. the
       folks on Mango, I had a link to, but the folks running
       it do not want to run a BinkD setup, even if all it does
       is call out, and there is no way for Fidonet to help them,
       they are totally paranoid about security etc. and no amount
       of assurances that there are no known expoilts on BinkD
       have prevailed.

     So there was a single node in Zimbabwe operated by an organization
     called MANGO. They rejected the internet but over the many years that
     I was around, not a single message came from it either.

     Eventually it was ZC5 in a capacity similar to the last of the
     Mohicans who published a zone-segment reflecting the reality of Z5
     with only 1 (one) node in it with a request to drop Z5 from the
     nodelist on or around this past Nov.1st.

     And so it happened, nothing dramatic, no 911-ambush to rescue the ones
     that didn't care about being rescued à there were none.

     Moving into Janis' incoherent jibberish about Z4.
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     I've never had a problem with Z4 as I figured there was a very lively
     communication going on in mostly Spanish and also some Portuguese. So
     I was kind of surprised when several individuals drew the parallel
     between what we noticed in Z6 first and afterwards in Z5 à lots of
     entries in the nodelist but not that many live people.

     Our colleague Z4C Manuel Adorni asked access to our Z2
     sysop-conference as he was concerned and that access was granted
     within minutes so he could argue his case. I've asked to obtain a link
     into the LATIN.SYSOP conference, the Z4-sysop echo, but have now been
     waiting for days for even a basic reply.

     The best I got from another non-Z4 sysop was verbatim: "My link is
     from Janis Krach but no trafic availlable a long time ago."

     Interesting, when someone needs a link into the Z4 sysop-conference
     one needs to ask Janis Kracht, but apparently there's no traffic
     in-there.

     Do the warning bells begin to sound? Yes, they do.

     At that time yours truly figured to investigate this on his own and
     wrote a mail, routed, to all Z4-sysops except the ZC as we entertain
     daily connections so I know he's around.

     Something odd happened à only 1 Z4-sysop responded, someone with no
     connection-data in the nodelist, basically a point. To conserve the
     "couleur locale" in this report, henceforth we will be calling the
     Latin points "pointinos" à it has a special ring to it.

     When I wanted to explore the former reliable link in Z4, Ioram Sete,
     the news I got first hand from someone who used to link to him was:
     "Ioran Sete, Brasil (4:801/189)? No links availlables from october
     12".

     This was reported to the ZCs as I figured something serious was
     occurring -- Janis, of course, had to blast me again and try to
     ridicule me in the closed ZCC-echo

        "Not true here.. I don't know WHAT your problem is, Ward:
        <snip loglines>
        Ioram is connecting here just fine!"

     So let's try to connect to Ioram myself direct I figured and see what
     happens. And indeed, "nothing" happens because each and every poll is
     rejected for the past day. A poll per minute for the past 14 hours.
     Best proof of another system who is listed in the nodelist with full
     connection data but when you try to crash, it doesn't work. Such
     connectivity we call "a point", or in this case "a pointino".

     Very odd to see this happening because when a person is listed as CM,
     there should be "something".

     Even more odd, this has happened in the past as well.

     There was this ZC of Z6 by the name of Bin Li that no-one really
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     managed to connect toand who was listed as CM but when you dialed his
     number, there was "always" a voice-reply. The whole Fido-world noticed
     it, but Janis Kracht aggressively maintained Bin Li was a fully
     fledged node. What a joke, he had the accessability of a point as well
     but his presence to fill the numbers of the ZC-voting-booth in the ZCC
     was required to reach certain majorities.

     Or there's the case of Anatoli Tung (sp) whom no-one ever got to see
     but Carol claimed he displayed regular presence though no-one ever
     noticed it.

     Or what about the case of the African nodes none of whom responded for
     years or showed availability according to how they were listed? Even
     the Z5C the last years never was online and only called-out at 4 in
     the morning or so. He merely displayed point-presence too.

     What's the use of *Cs when you can't reach them?

     And now when several of us try to call the Z4 nodes there hardly is
     any success, none of the *C's other than the ZC show an on-line
     status.

     The only conclusion after a week of trying is that Z4 consists of one
     real node and then a number of individuals (for the moment at least 2)
     showing pointino-access.

     Do I want the death of Z4? Of course not but my blood starts to boil
     when I have to notice for the third time the game Z1C is playing by
     again discarding all the warning signs and whatever that she does
     always sees it as a war against Z2 in general and against me in
     particular.

     The figures and the logs don't lie, Janis ... for 14hrs "nothing", no
     matter how well you gift-wrap it:

        + 02 Dec 10:48:41 [4044] call to 4:801/189@fidonet
          02 Dec 10:48:41 [4044] trying 23.21.54.139...
        ? 02 Dec 10:49:02 [4044] unable to connect: {60}...
                                                ...Connection timed out

     Ward Dossche


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     =================================================================
                           JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST
     =================================================================

                 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&#64;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
     =================================================================

                    -=:{ 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://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    | v3.8 on July 10 2012

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

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

      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  2:2426/1210.13
                           |     |http://www.apoint-mail.de/indexe.htm
                           |     | (English Version)
     FIDONEWS 29-49               Page 10                   3 Dec 2012


                           |     | 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.

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

      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

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

      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)

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

      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.335
                size  338.8kb
                date  2012-11-30

      The nodelist has   2389 nodes in it
        and a total of   3482 non-comment entries

              including     4 zones
                           35 regions
                          237 hosts
                          202 hubs
         admin overhead   478 ( 20.01 %)

                    and   323 private nodes
                          131 nodes down
                          161 nodes on hold
      off line overhead   615 ( 25.74 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    195 (  8.16 %)
                9600 =   1531 ( 64.09 %)
                              (HST  =   21 or   1.37 %)
                              (CSP  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (PEP  =    1 or   0.07 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.07 %)
                              (V32  =  734 or  47.94 %)
                              (V32B =   50 or   3.27 %)
                              (V34  = 1020 or  66.62 %)
                              (V42  =  874 or  57.09 %)
                              (V42B =   53 or   3.46 %)
                2400 =     11 (  0.46 %)
                1200 =      2 (  0.08 %)
                 300 =    650 ( 27.21 %)

                ISDN =    165 (  6.91 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b              686
                      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
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                        1
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      XP              Seadog                          0
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      XR              Opus 1.03                      15
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      XW              Fido >12M                      66
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                 761
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                           860
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      CrashMail capable =   1168 ( 48.89 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   1192 ( 49.90 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    185 (  7.74 %)
      Other             =   -156 ( -6.53 %)

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

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