FidoNews · Vol 32, No 36 · 07 Sep 2015
The F I D O N E W S Volume 32, Number 36 07 Sep 2015
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
A glaring ommision in P4 ................................. 2
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 4
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 4
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
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 12
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 13
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 15
How to Submit an Article ................................. 15
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 17
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Common sense is not very common - and rarely makes sense.
-- David Drummond, August 2015
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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A glaring ommision in P4 that shows P4 is written
by North Americans for North Americans.
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
A long long time ago, I was sitting next to a nurse who was to be
introduced to a piece of medical equipment that I and another
collegue had designed and build. The machine was controled by a
dedicated computer based on the Motorola 6809 processor. I wrote the
manual and I was helping the nurse going through the steps. Mind you,
this was in the time that computers had not yet massively penetrated
our homes.
The first step for the nurse was to type the name of the patient.
This was no problem, but then the manual said "press enter". And so
the nurse pressed the keys for 'E', 'N', 'T','E' and 'R' in that
order.
This goes to show that what for someone embedded in the proces is so
self evident that one never even considers mentioning it in the
manual, can be problematic for someone outside the proces.
I have often stated that P4 was written by North Americans for North
Americans without consideration for the wishes and needs of other
zones. I have often been critised for that and met with denial.
Recently I was asked again what was NA centered about P4 and how it
affected other zones. I am not going to produce an exhaustive list of
what is wrong with P4, but I will focus on one issue that falls in
the category "so self evident that no one in the circle considers
even mentioning it, while it has severe impact on those outside the
circle".
Nowhere in P4 is it mentioned, but when looked at from the POV of
someone outside NA, it is perfectly clear: P4 is written for the
situation that local calls are free. It is not mentioned because
for those who wrote it this is so much a given that no one even
thinks of explicitly mentioning it.
The give-away is a glaring ommission in P4. Only to be seen for
those living in an environment where local calls are not free.
P4 is very keen on avoiding undue cost. Especially when it comes
to imposing undue cost on others. The glaring ommision is that it
says nothing about who bears the cost of getting host routed mail
from the host to the end nodes. The host has an oubligation to see
that it gets delivered, but who pays? Well nobody of course, local
calls are free aren't they?
Yes, local calls are free. In the environment where the founding
fathers lived and wrote the rules. In THAT environent it makes
perfect sense to arange nets so that there is no geographical
overlap and that they coincide with the areas of local free
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calling. New nodes that reside in the area covered by a local net,
are to be listed in that net and nowhere else. New nodes not residing
in an area that is covered by a local net, are to be listed as a RIN
so that it is perfectly clear that extra cost is involved. It all
makes perfect sense in an environment where local calls are free.
Local calls are free in North America. And some other countries. But
- here it comes - not in all countries in the world, especially not
in Europe. Local calls were never free in Europe. Strict geographical
organisation makes sense when local calls are free. But when they are
not free it does not make that much sense. And so what happened
before P4? In Europe many nets were organised around people sharing
a common interest rather than a geographical area. This common
interest usually was a computer club, but it could also be something
non technical like a philosophy or whatever.
Before P4 was imposed on us, Europe had nets that were geographically
organised but there were also many overlapping nets, not geo based,
but based on a common interest. According to P4 the non geo nets had
to go.
Of course many sysops did not want to let go of "their" net and be
forced into a geonet. This was an important reason why many in
Europe were dead set against P4. Of course there were also those in
favour of enforcing regionalisation. The result was years of
fighting. In The Netherlands there was a seven year war between
competing Cost sharing organisations. In Germany there was the split
between "Classic" and "Light". The authors of P4 only looking at
their own situation and not considering the needs and wishes of
others outside North America has done a lot of damage to Fidonet as
a whole and in hindsight it is a miracle that it survived.
Of course it is all water under the bridge. Now with Fidonet over the
Internet, not only local calls are free, but ALL calls are free.
There is no more reason to fight over who carries the cost of the
calls as there isn't any. Also now that we are with so few, there is
no more reason to fight over keeping one's "Own Net". The nets based
on a common interest are long gone by lack of critical mass. Those
who can scrape together enough critical mass to have one net per
country are lucky.
I hope this answers those who asked why I say P4 was written by North
Americans for North Americans.
╕ Michiel van der Vlist, all rights reserved.
Permission to publish in the FIDONEWS file echo and the FIDONEWS
discussion echo as originating from 2:2/2
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LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES
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List of Ipv6 nodes
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555
Updated 6 September 2015
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 Native Comcast
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
14 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All INO4
15 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6RD iiNet
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
23 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh T-6in4 he.net
24 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
25 1:266/404 Bill McGarrity Native Comcast
26 1:135/371 Eric Renfro T-6RD ATT OO
27 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-AYIY SixXs
28 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
29 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4
30 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Choopa
31 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
32 1:120/545 RJ Clay Native Liquid Web
33 1:249/303 Joe Delahaye Native Teksavvy OO
Tunnel type:
T-6in4 Static 6in4
T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
T-6to4 6to4
T-6RD 6RD
Remarks:
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IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming 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)
6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
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
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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 newsreader 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 2015-08-04
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://rbb.bbs.fi
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/361
URL news://fidonews.mine.nu
Join http://fidonews.mine.nu
NETMAIL Yes, 2:221/6
URL news://news.wpusa.dynip.com
Join Info in group +GETACCESS+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:3634/12
URL nntp://news.bytemuseum.org
nntps://news.bytemuseum.org (secure)
Join Info in group +ACCCESS&SUPPORT+
NETMAIL Yes, 1:19/10
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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 | 3.99/SR7 released August 16th 2015
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.
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BBBS |BI |http://www.bbbs.net b@bbbs.net
| | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999 2:22/222
ELEBBS: The Elevator |B |http://www.elebbs.com
Software Production | | elebbs@elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002
Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v3.00 on 25 Apr 2015
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
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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
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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)
| | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
| | v1.25
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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.
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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
| | Meltdown-BBS is an FTN <->
| | Web/PHP/MySQL BBS forum system.
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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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Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
By EchoTime, 2:203/0
(Some nets may have lost their last
digit for technical reasons)
pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
nodes mean dev no mean dev no
154/* 2.0m 2.7m 302 2.8h 15.8h 299
201/* 0.8m 0.3m 8 29.4h 10.3h 8
211/* 8.2m 10.1m 6 0.1h 0.2h 6
221/* 0.7m 2.2m 724 6.2h 5.6h 722
249/* 5.3m 16.9m 196 3.7h 14.4h 194
266/* 17.8m 12.1m 410 1.9h 6.6h 407
280/* 0.5m 0.4m 349 4.0h 6.1h 349
292/* 6.1m 14.5m 15 0.4h 0.8h 6
320/* 1.3m 1.1m 202 2.9h 5.4h 202
423/* 1.0m 0.4m 3 1.2h 0.3h 3
502/* 0.1m 0.3m 11 0.1h 0.1h 11
640/* 0.8m 0.4m 187 12.3h 6.7h 187
Sigma 4.2m 9.6m 2413 4.7h 9.3h 2394
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.247
size 260.9kb
date 2015-09-04
The nodelist has 1750 nodes in it
and a total of 2498 non-comment entries
including 4 zones
29 regions
201 hosts
153 hubs
admin overhead 387 ( 22.11 %)
and 183 private nodes
88 nodes down
90 nodes on hold
off line overhead 361 ( 20.63 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 132 ( 7.54 %)
9600 = 876 ( 50.06 %)
(HST = 13 or 1.48 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.11 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.11 %)
(V32 = 443 or 50.57 %)
(V32B = 44 or 5.02 %)
(V34 = 604 or 68.95 %)
(V42 = 505 or 57.65 %)
(V42B = 47 or 5.37 %)
2400 = 4 ( 0.23 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.11 %)
300 = 736 ( 42.06 %)
ISDN = 100 ( 5.71 %)
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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems
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IBN Binkp 819 ( 46.80 %)
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IFC Raw ifcico 118 ( 6.74 %)
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IFT FTP 55 ( 3.14 %)
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ITN Telnet 140 ( 8.00 %)
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IVM Vmodem 13 ( 0.74 %)
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IP Other 7 ( 0.40 %)
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INO4 IPv6 only 2 ( 0.11 %)
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CrashMail capable = 1024 ( 58.51 %)
MailOnly nodes = 828 ( 47.31 %)
Listed-only nodes = 105 ( 6.00 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]
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