FidoNews · Vol 33, No 35 · 29 Aug 2016
The F I D O N E W S Volume 33, Number 35 29 Aug 2016
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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
My road to IPv6 and Fidonet .............................. 2
3. GUEST EDITORIAL .......................................... 6
Stirring the Pot ......................................... 6
4. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 10
list of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 10
5. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 12
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 12
6. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 13
FidoNet Software References .............................. 13
7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 18
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 18
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 19
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 21
How to Submit an Article ................................. 21
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 23
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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Scientists say that the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and
electrons. They forgot to mention morons.
-- anonymous
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GENERAL ARTICLES
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My road to IPv6 and Fidonet
Mattias Larsson, 2:203/210
Once upon a time, many years ago I was a proud member of the Fidonet
community. I was 2:205/208 if memory serves and I was also running a
BBS over the good old phone line with a modem and all. I think I
actually started my Fidonet career on a 2400/300 modem which I soon
upgraded to some Courier modem and my own phone line (parents didn't
like incoming BBS calls :))
Back in the day I ran my BBS and Fidonet on my pride and joy, the
Amiga 3000 I'd seem to remember using CrashMail and Raccoon BBS
software, but that's a story for a different time.
Several times since then I have gotten the urge to check Fidonet and
the BBS scene out again. I have tried setting up a few BBS's during
the years and a good new times Mystic BBS has been my go to. Fidonet
on the other hand was trickier to get into as I had some trouble
finding contacts and most of my research ended in my conclusion that
"fidonet is dead".
Some weeks ago, maybe a couple of months in fact I got this urge to
check out Fidonet again and this time I for some reason looked up the
nodelist too see if I could find someone there to contact. I have no
idea why I didn't consider this on my previous attempts but I managed
to find this Felten guy and a working address to a site. Finally I had
found a possible way in.
With some excellent help from above mentioned contact I managed to get
a new node setup, this time using Mystic BBS with it's integrated
mailer, tosser and reader (the actual BBS). I quickly hooked up some
areas I was interested in and IPv6 has always fascinated me and to my
surprise discussions was happening here and there.
One such discussion was this list of IPv6 enabled nodes and given my
interest in all things computers, programming and Internet I was
instantly hooked. I just had to have a IPv6 enabled node too.
I'm pretty much green when it comes to IPv6, I have read a bit and
given a few spare thoughts to getting myself connected to this new
exciting network but I have never really made an effort. The reason I
have never given it any serious effort is probably because I didn't
know where to start and didn't really see a good reason to do it. To
be honest I still don't see much reason except for maybe the good old
"because I can".
I looked into the software side and found that Mystic BBS was getting
IPv6 support via a new Internet Service front so I knew that was an
option. I had also looked at binkd or argus as potential solutions in
case I needed it.
The next step was to see if I could get the actual IPv6 access from
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somewhere and I knew there were tunnels available but I had no clue
how to get one of those or how to configure such a thing. I took a
chance and tried to use the IPv6 feature that was built into my
current Router, a Netgear Nighthawk R7000.
The R7000 sports an IPv6 page where you can choose a bunch of
different IPv6 options in a drop-down and one of those was "Auto
detect" which sounded perfect for a newbie like myself. It turned out
Bahnhof, my ISP had some kind of support and the router set me up
with a 6to4 tunnel, completely automatic and with no effort on my
part. I made a few posts in IPV6 and helpful Fidonetters quickly
concluded that my new IPv6 address was completely unreachable.
I looked around in my router and I searched the Internet for answers
to why this was not working for me. The router had a IPv6 address and
my computer also had one, none of them answered any pings or connects.
From what I could scrape together online, which was not't much or very
clear was that Netgear has only a very basic support for IPv6 from a
hosting perspective. IPv6 works just fine as a simple client or user
and it handled both external and internal IPv6 assignments pretty
well without to much configuration but it seems it has no options to
configure a firewall or let anything IPv6-related through.
I posted a question on Netgear's community forum asking for some
clarification on what kind of support the R7000 has for incoming
traffic and IPv6 firewall settings but I got no response for about a
week. I also sent a mail to Bahnhof asking them what kind of IPv6 they
could deliver to me, just in case they offer more than the 6to4
tunnel. No answer there either.
I had considered a 3rd party firmware to get some better IPv6 support
from the router but I had already tried a year or two ago to run a
alternative firmware called Tomato by Shibby and unfortunately it made
the performance completely tank. I had read about this beforehand and
dd-wrt's site for example claims 20-30% drop due to not being able to
use hardware acceleration. I was not expecting to drop from 500Mbit
down to 250Mbit though, and this was back before I upgraded my
Internet to 1Gbit. The R7000 managed to do 980Mbit with firewall and
nat which is pretty impressive for a consumer grade router but
dropping down to 250-280Mbit on a 1Gbit line is not an option so that
way was out.
It was at this point I started looking at alternatives to the R7000
and the criteria was pretty much handle IPv6, both incoming and
outgoing and keep the performance I have with the R7000. I have a few
friends that runs Ubiquity hardware, both routers and WiFi AP's and
they come highly recommended both for their quality and flexibility.
Said and done, I ordered a Edge Router Lite from Ubiquity and started
reading up on their software and how to configure them. The Edge
Router is just what the name implies and only have 3 LAN ports and no
WiFi I was forced to turn my $200 Netgear router into a simple access
point. I did not't mind much since it didn't really cost me anything
and the Edge Router doesn't cost all that much anyway.
At this point I wandered into completely new and unexplored territory
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since the Edge Router doesn't have any support for IPv6 in the webui
and I was "forced" to do all my IPv6 configuration via the CLI
interface. As luck would have it, it seems the people in the
router-game makes some really nice CLI interfaces and I have on
occasion seen it done at work by the comm-people so I had some grasp
on how it worked. Following some guides and information online it
became clear that setting up a "real" 6in4 tunnel was no more work
than anything else.
After a quick search I choose to register a account with Hurricane
Electric and from there create a tunnel. Following guides on the
Internet I managed to configure the Edge Router with a tunnel and to
be completely honest I'm not 100% sure I fully understand how it
worked and why. The firewall part of the configuration was much easier
and that was soon in place. After this I put my Netgear router in
AP-mode and hooked everything up and too my surprise it seemed to work
for the most part.
And here comes the fun part, I finally got an answer on the Netgear
community forum. Two responses actually, one from a Netgear rep who
directed me to a 5-line guide on how to activate IPv6 in a stock
Netgear router so no useful information there. The other guy asked me
if I had enabled CTF in the Tomato by Shibby firmware, you know, the
firmware from my earlier trials. I had no idea such a option existed
and that it was turned off by default. I guess I only have myself to
blame for not trying out Tomato more and finding this option earlier.
Anyway, I had a working system now already but it still irked me
somewhat that I had a perfectly fine router in the R7000 which was
sitting there acting as a simple AP/switch. I just had to try this new
revelation out so I went home from work that day, switched some cables
around and flashed my R7000 with Tomato again. I made the basic
configurations and ran a new speed test to confirm the lack in
performance and as before 280Mbit. I jumped into the Advanced -> Misc
settings and firmly checked the box labeled CTF (Cut-Through
Forwarding), applied the settings and ran a new speed test...
970Mbit!!
All of this because I didn't investigate the Tomato firmware enough
the first time and assumed the performance drop was the expected one I
had read online in the first place. With the performance solved I went
into the IPv6 settings of Tomato and since I now have a 6in4 tunnel at
Hurricane already I set up up with that instead. This process was
stupidly simple from the webui and even the firewall settings for IPv6
was easy to do from the ui. Finally the hardware works as I wanted
from the beginning.
Now I had to get the software working as it should with IPv6 and for
incoming traffic Mystic's new front-end MIS2 does it's job pretty well
and I was now able to receive incoming bink, telnet and ssh calls over
IPv6 but as for polling nodes it seemed to only use IPv4. I started
looking at binkd instead and found the git-repo from where I could get
a "fresh" version and install to use for binkp instead.
Setting up binkd was a pretty straight forward process and the example
config is easy to understand so all I really had to do was configure
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the addresses and make sure the paths lined up with Mystic's since I
still use mystic for tossing.
In conclusion, is was a long journey but very interesting and I think
I learned a lot from it. This is by no means the end, I feel like I
have much more tinkering to do both regarding Fidonet and IPv6.
PS. Anyone interested in buying a Edge Router Lite? ;)
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GUEST EDITORIAL
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Stirring the Pot
First off, this article has been very difficult for me to write as
I am recovering from a brain injury. I'm sorry if I'm not the most
eloquent writer, or the best at choosing words. Please read it
knowing that I care deeply about FidoNet. I will not hurl stones
or flame people by name. If you feel guilty keep reading on, it's
really not all about you. But I'm sure there will be some that will
think it is.
I have read the well written editorial that Frank Vest wrote in the
previous edition of fidonews. Yes there once were BBS systems out
there that had many users. My BBS, in it's heyday, had over 2000
users that called in from all over the world. My phone lines were
supported by user donations. I would always receive kind notes in
the mail with a dollar or two cash in them. There was always a
spirit of appreciation for what I did. Amazingly there were few
months that the donations did not pay for the multiple POTS lines.
I felt that the users respected me and were grateful for the service
that I provided. Upon my return to Fidonet in 2016 I find that there
are few echos left where "topical" discussion is maintained. There
are a hand full of echos that still maintain topics. The fidonet
cooking, recipes, memories (nostalgia), asian chat and automotive
are a few that come immediately to mind.
In last weeks article it seemed to blame the sysops for the decline
of fidonet... yes there is plenty of fighting and arguing to go
around, but unfortunately, it's not always the sysops that are doing
it. I am not naming names because that is not an avenue I want to
go down. Those who are guilty will surely be the first ones to stir
the pot and raise a stink for where I am about to go.
There are a core group of users (and a few sysops) that want to stir
the pot (an old Southern saying) and get an argument going. There is
no respect or regard to the main topic of an echo. Their goal is to
disrupt and cause discord among the networks.
Some think that the FN_SYSOP echo should be open to everyone... but
the echo is a sysops only admin echo. It is a place where we can
discuss the forest... and the forests infrastructure. It is a place
where we can gather and work things out. It is a place where we can
plan and discuss new things to delight the users. We deserve an echo
where we can discuss, chat, and decompress amongst ourselves.
Unfortunately, there are a few that sit on the sidelines and take
every opportunity that they can to hurl stones and stifle progress.
Many echos have shut down and become abandoned because of abusive
users who do not respect topics. It seems that all that's left that
has any movement in Fidonet is a few echos.
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The users who are hurling stones know that this behavior would not be
tolerated in the Asian Chat echo, or the cooking echo as there are
enough people active in there that would not tolerate this behavior.
Yes folks... this handful of users takes great delight in their bad
behavior. Even when there are some that are willing to help them at
every turn.
You want to know what is killing fidonet and making the good sysops
shut down... it is because some have crossed over from being USERS to
becoming ABUSERS. Their behavior is ABUSE plain and simple, and much
is unwarranted.
Again there's another cancer that's running rampant in fidonet it is
called APATHY.
Apathy NOUN pronounced App-ah-thee
1. lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern:
"widespread apathy among students"
synonyms: indifference ╖ lack of interest
lack of enthusiasm
How can an sysop be interested in maintaining and building a good BBS
and creating echos with topics that would interest people when there
are a handful of malcontents, Debbie downers, and troublemakers. A
deep cloud of Apathy falls over the BBS and the Sysop says why am I
doing this? Why should I continue to do this? Ultimately the lack
of appreciation causes the sysop to shut things down. Many of the
sysops of the 1980's and 1990's are now up there in years and they
just don't feel the joy that is returned for their efforts.
And apathy is CONTAGIOUS... yes it spreads. Indifferent and
apathetic sysops have contributed as much to the decline of fidonet
as the negative, disruptive posters. Apathy will spread fast in any
organization when there's no return for our efforts. You can just
feel it take hold... the unmotivated, donÆt-care folks just suck the
energy and life right out. You can sense mediocrity settling in like
a dense fog or wet blanket. You reach a point where you don't care
about maintaining your system anymore and it just becomes a place
where negativity will abound.
The BBS just isn't fun anymore... and isn't time to make it FUN again
like it once was back in the day. The strange thing is those who are
raising the most hell are also some of the most intelligent and good
writers on the net. They -are- creative people... even though they
are destructive in their creativity they are generating traffic and
sometimes something that is very interesting comes by.
There was some very useful information on Statins, and other health
matters shared in between the arguments. Even when the "trouble-
makers" disappear for a time those who disagree with them ask if they
are alright. After all, when tornados kokomo, fires, earthquakes,
floods in North Carolina and Louisiana happen we ask where the people
are. FidoNet still is a very caring place at times and when a user
or sysop disappears, people ask what happened to them.
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And then there's another cancer that has settled in to FidoNet.
Some have become very close minded, they don't want to think about
new innovations or ways to do things. There are great programmers
out there, but no one is motivated to make something new. As the
new computers become faster, bigger, and better... the software we
have has become incompatible with a lot of new equipment.
But there's no innovation because collectively we have become rigid
and inflexible with trying new things... looking at better ways to
do things... if it wasn't for someone getting inspired in Russia,
we would not have the Bink-P protocol... perhaps fidonet would have
met it's demise if the Bink-P protocol was not developed. There is
still development out there in the open source scene and much of it
is coming from outside of Zone 1.
Then we have the developers of Mystic and Syncrhonet who have done
so much to bring life back into the BBS scene. I sometimes find
myself guilty of not appreciating the gift that they have given us.
I know the developer of Mystic has taken a much needed break away
from it's development and I pray he comes back with a renewed and
creative spark. Unfortunately nothing will extinguish the creative
spark of an individual than being surrounded by a crowd of those
who criticise, those who do not appreciate your efforts, or worse
the apathetic few who just don't give a shit
If we truly want to see FidoNet grow again we have to remember
what brought joy to us in the past. We have to have respect for
those who volunteer to bring the service to one another. We have
to let go of all the baggage from the great Z1-Z2/Z3 feud and
realize that we all need to cooperate to bring it all back.
We also have to think of what brought people to fidonet... right
now all that's moving is cooking, and policies with a mixture of
chat that does not apply to the echo's topical name. We need to
return to a time when FIDONEWS contained discussion of the articles
that were written in FIDONEWS and chat went on in the CHAT echo.
(I'ts still around but nobody uses it.) The echo topics need to
be respected. The COOKING echo mostly has discussions about cooking
in it... the ASIAN LINK echo is a darn good chat echo, unfortunately
there are no Asians left in there to link to. Perhaps it should
become the official chat echo. POLITICS should stay in the
politico echos and the [ADM] Sysops echos need to remain a place
where we can discuss new ideas and approaches to build the network
all of the backchannel negativity needs to be contained and it has
come to the point where we need to have a return of respect and
reciprocity between the users and the sysops once again.
The madness needs to stop... old wounds need to heal... we have
to realize that we are ONE fidonet... not a handfull of Zones who
feel the need to compete for control.
Allen Prunty
1:2320/100 NC Net 2320/100
But a member of the -GLOBAL- Fidonet
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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 23 August 2016
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 Native Ziggo
6 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast
7 2:221/0 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
8 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
9 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula T-6in4 he.net
10 2:5053/54 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
11 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky T-6in4 he.net
12 1:154/10 Nicholas Boël Native TWC
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 Hetzner
17 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
18 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6to4 he.net
19 2:301/812 Benoit Panizzon Native IMPNET
20 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native T-Mobile
21 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
22 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native Ransom IT
23 1:266/404 Bill McGarrity Native Comcast
24 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-AYIY SixXs
25 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline IO
26 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Choopa
27 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
28 1:249/303 Joe Delahaye Native Teksavvy
29 2:280/1043 Michel van Osenbruggen Native Bit
39 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-AYIY SixXs
31 2:5053/58 Alexandr Kruglikov Native CJSC The First
32 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
33 1:120/545 RJ Clay Native DC74L
34 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh T-6in4 he.net
35 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter T-6in4 SixXs
36 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
37 2:5005/33 Evgeny Zyatkov T-6in4 he.net PO4
38 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel
39 3:772/100 James Kelly Native 2degrees
40 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
41 2:2443/1313 Dirk Astrath Native VOLMARNET
42 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
43 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
44 2:203/210 Mattias Larsson T-6in4 he.net
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45 1:2320/100 Allen Prunty Native AT&T OO
46 1:214/22 Ray Quinn Native AT&T OO
47 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE PM
T-6in4 Static 6in4
T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
T-6to4 6to4
T-6RD 6RD
Remarks:
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.
DOWN This node is temporarely down for both IPv4 and IPv6
PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
capability but is not yet listed in de Fidonet nodelist.
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 2015-09-10
URL news://felten.yi.org
Join http://fidonews.eu
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|
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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/SR9, released November 8 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 on Feb 20th 2015
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
Raptor |MTPE |Free d/l from Jolla Store 2:292/624.50
Rudi Timmermans | | For the Sailfish OS only
| | rudi.timmer@gmx.us
| | v2.0 on Dec 18th 2015
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
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| | 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 |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
| | 1.69.25.189 (2016-08-16)
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
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| | 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
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
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/
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| | 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
| | 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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http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.net
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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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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
123/* 1.2m 0.6m 95 1.3h 1.4h 95
201/* 1.2m 0.7m 6 20.9h 1.5h 6
221/* 0.7m 0.3m 460 7.9h 14.1h 457
249/* 0.6m 0.5m 175 2.6h 6.8h 174
266/* 4.5m 0.8m 296 2.3h 9.0h 296
280/* 0.9m 0.4m 356 5.7h 16.7h 354
292/* 6.8m 8.7m 4 2.3h 4.0h 4
320/* 55.1m 1.8m 314 2.6h 9.5h 314
502/* 58.2m 0.6m 20 0.0h 0.1h 20
640/* 1.4m 1.4m 100 12.1h 13.2h 100
Sigma 11.4m 20.8m 1826 5.0h 12.5h 1820
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Nodelist Stats
Input nodelist nodelist.239
size 248.1kb
date 2016-08-27
The nodelist has 1647 nodes in it
and a total of 2356 non-comment entries
including 4 zones
29 regions
197 hosts
146 hubs
admin overhead 376 ( 22.83 %)
and 168 private nodes
68 nodes down
97 nodes on hold
off line overhead 333 ( 20.22 %)
Speed summary:
>9600 = 123 ( 7.47 %)
9600 = 771 ( 46.81 %)
(HST = 12 or 1.56 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 1 or 0.13 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 1 or 0.13 %)
(V32 = 393 or 50.97 %)
(V32B = 36 or 4.67 %)
(V34 = 528 or 68.48 %)
(V42 = 452 or 58.63 %)
(V42B = 38 or 4.93 %)
2400 = 4 ( 0.24 %)
1200 = 2 ( 0.12 %)
300 = 747 ( 45.36 %)
ISDN = 82 ( 4.98 %)
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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems
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IBN Binkp 840 ( 51.00 %)
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IFC Raw ifcico 117 ( 7.10 %)
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IFT FTP 59 ( 3.58 %)
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ITN Telnet 153 ( 9.29 %)
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IVM Vmodem 15 ( 0.91 %)
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IP Other 6 ( 0.36 %)
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INO4 IPv6 only 1 ( 0.06 %)
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CrashMail capable = 1007 ( 61.14 %)
MailOnly nodes = 741 ( 44.99 %)
Listed-only nodes = 86 ( 5.22 %)
[Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
[ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
[ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]
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