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FidoNews · Vol 31, No 47 · 24 Nov 2014

     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 31, Number 47             24 Nov 2014 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. EDITORIAL  ................................................  2
        The NETSTATS program  .....................................  2
     3. FTSC INFORMATION  .........................................  3
        2014 standing member election  ............................  3
     4. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES  ...............................  5
        List of IPv6 nodes  .......................................  5
     5. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST  ....................................  7
        The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project  .......................  7
     6. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ......................  8
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  8
     7. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 13
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 13
     8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 15
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 15
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 17
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
     =================================================================

     Forgiveness

     Anyone can hold a grudge, but it takes a person with character to
     forgive. When you forgive, you release yourself from a painful burden.

     Forgiveness doesn't mean what happened was OK, and it doesn't mean
     that person should still be welcome in your life. It just means you
     have made peace with the pain, and are ready to let it go.

                                  -- Ranchi, India

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                                 EDITORIAL
     =================================================================

                The NETSTATS program

        In the late 1980s Justin Marquez of 1:106/100 wrote a program that
     analysed the nodelist and created quite a lot of statistics. It was
     written in TurboPascal 5 and an unknown number of versions existed
     before the final release to the world, v2.0. It was released at July
     13, 1989.

        In May 28, 2001 the former Fidonews editor, Frank Vest, silently
     published the first output from the program, and since then it's been
     a standing article, now in the Special Interest column.

        Now, as we all know, a lot have happened to Fidonet since 1989, the
     output from the program has become more and more obsolete -- and some-
     times even erroneous, something that has been pointed out to me
     several times, and I've tried to correct it as the reports have been
     made.

        But now I've made a long overdue update of the program. Among other
     things I've replaced the File Freq Flags list (that probably wasn't
     very accurate anyway) with an IP Flags list. Feel free to check it out
     and report anything that you think is wrong with it to me, please.

        Futhermore, if you have ideas about what other statistics you'd
     like to see, I'm open for suggestions. The various modem flags, for
     instance, isn't all that interesting any more, are they?

            -  =  o  =  0  =  o  =  -

        At the same time I discovered that the DAT file that the program
     also writes to as some kind of log file, was complete from September
     12, 1997. Yes, that's right, full nodelist statistics for more than 17
     years! Well, there may be a couple of weeks missing (because the diff
     did not arrive properly) and there may be a couple of dups caused by
     me testing a new version, but all in all it should be a goldmine for
     all you statistics fans out there.

        This file, a comma delimited text file, the first line with a short
     description of each column, can now be downloaded as:

        http://felten.yi.org/files/BBS/NETS_DAT.ZIP

        If there's a big enough interest I might update this file each week
     after the latest run of NETSTATS.

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     =================================================================
                             FTSC INFORMATION
     =================================================================

         2014 standing member election preliminary results

     Voting for FTSC membership has come to end. The results are
     preliminary as there is a one week period for reporting inconsis-
     tencies and filing complaints. If no vote is contested the results
     will become final on Sunday 30 November 2014, 20:00 UTC.


     Twenty RC's from three zones have voted.

     Kurt Weiske             RC10
     RJ Clay                 RC11
     Joe Delahaye            RC12
     Michael Luko            RC13
     Will Du Chene           RC14
     TJ Barlow               RC15
     Andrew Leary            RC16
     Bob Seaborn             RC17
     Ross Cassel             RC18
     Marc Lewis              RC19
     Björn Felten            RC20
     Torbjorn Mohn           RC21
     Torsten Bamberg         RC24
     Vince Coen              RC25
     Michiel van der Vlist   RC28
     Ruedi Kneubuehler       RC30
     Oleg Pevzner            RC46
     Alex Barinov            RC50
     Paul Quinn              RC54
     Paul Hayton             RC57


     There were seven candidates and the votes are as follows:


        ----------------------------------------------
       | Name                 |  Node nr    | Yes| No |
       |----------------------|-------------|----|----|
       | Ivan Agarkov         |  2:5020/848 | 18 | 1  |
       | Stas Degteff         |  2:5080/102 | 18 | 1  |
       | Andrew Leary         |  1:320/119  | 19 |    |
       | mark lewis           |  1:3634/12  | 19 | 1  |
       | Fred Riccio          |  1:132/174  | 20 |    |
       | Carol Shenkenberger  |  1:275/100  | 17 | 2  |
       | Alexey Vissarionov   |  2:5020/545 | 20 |    |
        ----------------------------------------------



     All candidates collected more "yes" than "no" votes and therefore
     all will be accepted into the FTSC unless something drastic happens
     during the next week which allows opportunity to contest the votes.
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     Since the period for contesting the votes ends on Sunday 30 November
     2014, 20:00 UTC, if no vote is contested, the new members will be in-
     stalled on Monday 1 December 2014.


     Michiel van der Vlist
     FTSC Election Coordinator 2:2/20


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                        LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES
     =================================================================

                           List of Ipv6 nodes
                           By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

                           Updated 23 November 2014


          Node Nr.      Sysop                  Type    Provider Remark

       1  2:280/464     Wilfred van Velzen     Native  Xs4All
       2  2:280/5003    Kees van Eeten         Native  Xs4All
       3  2:5019/40     Konstantin Kuzov       T-6in4  he.net   PO4
       4  2:240/1661    Markus Reschke         Native  DTAG
       5  2:280/5555    Michiel van der Vlist  T-AYIY  SixXs
       6  1:320/219     Andrew Leary           T-6in4  he.net
       7  2:221/6       Tommi Koivula          T-6in4  he.net
       8  2:5053/54     Denis Mikhlevich       Native  TTK-Volga
       9  2:5034/16     Alexey Ignatov         T-6in4  he.net
      10  2:5030/257    Vova Uralsky           T-6in4  he.net
      11  1:154/10      Nicholas Boël          T-6in4  he.net
      12  1:154/701     Nicholas Boël          T-6in4  he.net
      13  2:203/0       Björn Felten           T-6in4  SixXs    IO
      14  2:280/5006    Kees van Eeten         Native  Xs4All   INO4
      15  3:712/848     Scott Little           T-6to4           IO
      16  2:5020/545    Alexey Vissarionov     Native  ?
      17  2:331/51      Marco d'Itri           Native? ?
      18  1:103/17      Stephen Hurd           T-6in4  he.net
      19  2:5020/9696   Alexander Skovpen      T-6to4
      20  2:301/812     Benoit Panizzon        Native
      21  2:421/790     Viktor Cizek           Native  T-Mobile
      22  2:222/2       Kim Heino              T-6in4  he.net


     Tunnel type:

     T-6in4             Static 6in4
     T-AYIY             Dynamic AYIYA
     T-6to4             6to4

     Remarks:

     IO    Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
     INO4  No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls)
     PO4   Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
           but is configured to try IPv4 first)

     Notes:

     To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
     one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
     node config).  If the destination address is a 6to4 tunnel address
     (2002::/16) Windows defaults to IPv4 if an IPv4 address is present.

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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.nodelist.net:60119
     Join    mailto:eskimo261@bigfoot.com
     Join    Info in group +GETACCESS+
     NETMAIL Yes, 3:640/384

     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    | v3.99 on Feb 19 2014

      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

      Mystic BBS           |MTBCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com
                           |I    | v1.10 A31 on Apr 13th 2013

      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
                           |     | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net  v4.4.10

      FMail                |T    |http://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
                           |     |   1.66.0.33.gpl   (2013-10-17)

      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

      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

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

      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)
                           |     | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
                           |     | v1.25

      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.

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

      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
                           |     | 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
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                           |     | 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


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

      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.325
                size  265.0kb
                date  2014-11-21

      The nodelist has   1795 nodes in it
        and a total of   2546 non-comment entries

              including     4 zones
                           30 regions
                          202 hosts
                          164 hubs
         admin overhead   400 ( 22.28 %)

                    and   190 private nodes
                           70 nodes down
                           91 nodes on hold
      off line overhead   351 ( 19.55 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    142 (  7.91 %)
                9600 =    922 ( 51.36 %)
                              (HST  =   13 or   1.41 %)
                              (CSP  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (PEP  =    1 or   0.11 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.11 %)
                              (V32  =  465 or  50.43 %)
                              (V32B =   42 or   4.56 %)
                              (V34  =  631 or  68.44 %)
                              (V42  =  522 or  56.62 %)
                              (V42B =   45 or   4.88 %)
                2400 =      4 (  0.22 %)
                1200 =      2 (  0.11 %)
                 300 =    725 ( 40.39 %)

                ISDN =    105 (  5.85 %)

     -----------------------------------------------------
      IP Flags   Protocol                Number of systems
     -----------------------------------------------------
      IBN        Binkp                      824 ( 45.91 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IFC        Raw ifcico                 114 (  6.35 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IFT        FTP                         51 (  2.84 %)
     ----------------------------------
      ITN        Telnet                     136 (  7.58 %)
     ----------------------------------
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      IVM        Vmodem                      12 (  0.67 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IP         Other                        6 (  0.33 %)
     ----------------------------------
      INO4       IPv6 only                    1 (  0.06 %)
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      CrashMail capable =   1033 ( 57.55 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =    849 ( 47.30 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    109 (  6.07 %)



      [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
      [        Revised by B Felten,   2:203/2]
      [           NetStats  3.8    2014-11-23]

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