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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        IPv6 in 2016  .............................................  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  ......................  8
        FidoNet Software References  ..............................  8
     6. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 13
        Statistics from the Fidoweb  .............................. 13
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 14
     7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 16
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 16
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 18
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     =================================================================
                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
     =================================================================

     Life is not a fairy tale. If you lose your shoe at midnight
     you are probably drunk.

                                          -- anonymous

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

                     IPv6 in 2016
                     By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555


     Another year has passed. When we compare the statistics as published
     by the end of 2015 with those of today, we see that IPv6 in Fidonet
     has grown again. From 39 to 51 nodes.


       50 -|                                         .
           |
          -|
           |
       40 _|  N                                .
           |
          _|
           |
       30 _|
           |
          _|                             .
           |
       20 _|
           |
          _|
           |
       10 _|                       .
           |
          _|                 .
           |           .
        0 _|________.__________________________________
           |     |     |     |     |     |     |     |
          2010  2011  2012  2013  2014  2015  2016  2017


     The exponential growth in the previous five years however did not
     continue. Until the end of 2015, the number almost doubled every year.
     In 2016 we had a mere net increase of 12 nodes. I say "net" because in
     2016, not only did we see new IPv6 nodes, we also saw nodes disappear
     from the list. Three stopped supporting IPv6, two left Fidonet
     altogether.

     Another trend we see continue is the move towards native IPv6. In last
     year's list we saw 18 nodes with native IPv6 and 21 nodes that used a
     tunnel. In today's list we see 33 nodes with native IPv6 and 18 using
     a tunnel. Raising the precentge from 46% to 64%.

     I myself was one of the lucky ones that upgraded to native IPv6. My
     ISP said that they would roll out IPv6 by the end of the year. They
     have been saying that for at least five years and nothing happened,
     but now they finally seem to get moving. To get it though, I had to
     find the one and only model of CPE that they presently support in
     combination with IPv6. Their Native IPv6  support is still not
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     official, so it could be gone again tomorrow. I have not cancelled my
     tunnel accounts with SixXs and he.net yet.

     As for SixXs, they show signs of fatigue. In April 2016 they stopped
     honouring requests for new accounts and for existing accounts they
     stopped honouring requests for new tunnels and subnets. It does not
     look like this is a temporary thing. Their explanation is that it is
     time that ISPs start providing native IPv6 for their customers instead
     of letting tunnel providers do it for them. I can't argue with that,
     but it does leave those depending on their tunnels in the cold. I
     would not be surprised if they close down altogether in the not too
     distant future. They say there are no plans for complete shutdown yet,
     but another writing on the wall is that they refuse to move existing
     tunnels tot another POP, when a POP closes down. Thereby effectively
     closing that tunnel. The main driving force, Jeroen Massar, shows
     signs of getting tired of the project. He is a bit of a personality
     that has antagonised many people. But let's not be too hard on him. He
     provided a valuable - and free - service for almost 15 years.

     The other major tunnel provider - he.net - does not show any signs of
     preparing to close shop yet. But since nothing lasts forever, their
     free services won't last forever either. Not only do they provide free
     tunnels, they also provide an interesting education programme. If you
     succesfully complete all the stages of their course you are awarded
     the rank of "sage" and get a free T-shirt to show off. I got mine on
     the 2nd of July. On my birthday. If I am not mistaken, there are three
     other sysops on the Fidonet IPv6 list that have the T-shirt.

     http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/sage-f.jpg
     http://www.vlist.eu/fotos/sage-b.jpg


     What we did not see in 2016 is the coming of nodes that no longer have
     a public IPv4 address. Many providers, mostly in Europe and
     Australasia are switching to DS-lite. Even in my onw country, The
     Netherlands, my own ISP, Ziggo, is now putting new customers on
     DS-Lite in the area serviced by the company they recently merged with
     and that was formerly known as UPC. DS-Lite means that customers get a
     public routable IPv6 prefix, but for IPv4 they will have to make do
     with an address or adresses in the RFC-1918 or RFC-6598 range.
     Customers not running servers will not be affected very much, but the
     unability to run servers from behind a CGNAT will definitely affect
     Fidonet. There is little doubt we will see that happen in the future.
     Maybe not in 2017, but surely in the years to come.


     Happy IPv6 in 2017.


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

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

                           Updated 26 December 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  he.net         IO
      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  Ausnetworks
      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  1:19/10      Matt Bedynek           T-6in4  he.net
      27  1:249/303    Joe Delahaye           Native  Teksavvy
      28  2:280/1043   Michel van Osenbruggen Native  BIT
      29  3:770/1      Paul Hayton            T-AYIY  SixXs
      30  2:5053/58    Alexandr Kruglikov     Native  CJSC The First
      31  1:103/1      Stephen Hurd           Native  Choopa
      32  3:633/281    Stephen Walsh          T-6in4  he.net
      33  2:310/31     Richard Menedetter     T-6in4  he.net
      34  3:633/410    Tony Langdon           Native  IINET
      35  2:5005/33    Evgeny Zyatkov         T-6in4  he.net         PO4
      36  2:5020/329   Oleg Lukashin          Native  Comfortel
      37  2:246/1305   Emil Schuster          Native  TAL.DE
      38  2:2443/1313  Dirk Astrath           Native  VOLMARNET
      39  2:2448/4000  Tobias Burchhardt      Native  DTAG           IO
      40  2:331/51     Marco d'Itri           Native  BOFH-IT
      41  2:203/210    Mattias Larsson        T-6in4  he.net
      42  1:2320/100   Allen Prunty           Native  AT&T           OO
      43  1:214/22     Ray Quinn              Native  AT&T           OO
      44  1:154/30     Mike Miller            Native  LINODE
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      45  1:282/1031   Jeff Smith             Native  Qwest
      46  2:5075/35    Eugene Subbotin        T-6in4  he.net
      47  2:5075/37    Andrew Komardin        T-6in4  he.net
      48  1:135/371    Eric Renfro            Native  Cox
      49  2:5083/444   Peter Khanin           Native  OVH
      50  2:467/239    Mihail Kapitanov       Native  Choopa
      51  2:5001/100   Dmitry Protasoff       Native  Hetzner


     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 the 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
     =================================================================

                 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 2016-12-19


     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

     URL     nntp://news.pharcyde.org
     Join    Info in group, +GETACCESS+
     NETMAIL Yes, 1:154/10

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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|
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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/
                           |     |  1.72.0.0  (2016-09-18)

      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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                             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/*        1.0m    0.5m     68        0.9h    0.7h     69
     132/*        5.5m    0.6m      4       31.5h   61.8h      4
     154/*        5.1m    5.7m    463        0.9h    3.7h    464
     201/*        1.1m    0.4m      4       21.1h    1.2h      4
     221/*        2.6m   10.5m    307        6.5h   10.2h    304
     232/*        1.5m    5.0m    413        2.4h   11.6h    410
     249/*        1.5m    5.1m    395        2.4h   10.2h    394
     266/*        5.1m    0.6m    295        2.8h   11.6h    294
     280/*        2.4m    9.9m    345        4.1h    6.2h    345
     292/*        3.9m    1.4m     10        6.5h   10.8h      3
     320/*       55.3m    1.3m    312        2.4h   11.2h    311
     423/*        1.3m    0.3m      8        5.2h    0.5h      8
     502/*       58.2m    0.2m     21        0.0h    0.1h     21
     640/*        1.1m    0.6m     98       11.3h    7.9h     98

     Sigma        9.3m   18.3m   2743        3.2h    9.8h   2729

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                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.365
                size  234.6kb
                date  2016-12-30

      The nodelist has   1436 nodes in it
        and a total of   2104 non-comment entries

              including     4 zones
                           29 regions
                          181 hosts
                          126 hubs
         admin overhead   340 ( 23.68 %)

                    and   156 private nodes
                           88 nodes down
                           84 nodes on hold
      off line overhead   328 ( 22.84 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =     77 (  5.36 %)
                9600 =    607 ( 42.27 %)
                              (HST  =    9 or   1.48 %)
                              (CSP  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (PEP  =    1 or   0.16 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (V32  =  311 or  51.24 %)
                              (V32B =   37 or   6.10 %)
                              (V34  =  406 or  66.89 %)
                              (V42  =  322 or  53.05 %)
                              (V42B =   39 or   6.43 %)
                2400 =      4 (  0.28 %)
                1200 =      0 (  0.00 %)
                 300 =    748 ( 52.09 %)

                ISDN =     81 (  5.64 %)

     -----------------------------------------------------
      IP Flags   Protocol                Number of systems
     -----------------------------------------------------
      IBN        Binkp                      813 ( 56.62 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IFC        Raw ifcico                 111 (  7.73 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IFT        FTP                         59 (  4.11 %)
     ----------------------------------
      ITN        Telnet                     158 ( 11.00 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IVM        Vmodem                      15 (  1.04 %)
     ----------------------------------
      IP         Other                        6 (  0.42 %)
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      INO4       IPv6 only                    1 (  0.07 %)
     ----------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =    971 ( 67.62 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =    597 ( 41.57 %)
      Listed-only nodes =     61 (  4.25 %)



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

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