The F I D O N E W S Volume 18, Number 37 10 Sep 2001 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are | | | FidoNet community. | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings| | | | | San Francisco, California, USA | | | A little ____________| | | | |bird told/ __ | Crash Netmail Attach Articles To: | | | Me! / / \ | Editor@1:1/23 (1-972-562-8064) | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | Frank Vest@1:124/6308 | | \_______\(_| /_) | or | | _`@/_ \ _ | flv@texoma.net | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| Editor: Frank Vest | | ||| |__U__| / \// | Deputy-Editor: Lawrence Garvin | | __o-o__ _//|| _\ / | | | / V \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | |(_Fidonet_) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2001 by Frank L. Vest, Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. TOP STORIES .............................................. 2 Kind of a sad Fidonews ................................... 2 3. REGIONAL NEWS ............................................ 3 Sadly, from Region 19 .................................... 3 "Egorkin's funeral" ...................................... 3 4. EDITORIAL ................................................ 5 I guess it's about normal? ............................... 5 5. COMIX IN ASCII ........................................... 6 No Bull .................................................. 6 6. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ...................................... 7 The Door ................................................. 7 like, ..... just about every day ......................... 7 What'd he do? ............................................ 7 Pray for me! :) .......................................... 7 7. OTHER STUFF .............................................. 9 This week's Calander ..................................... 9 8. CLASSIFIED ADS ........................................... 10 Rotating Ads ............................................. 10 9. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 11 Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's* .......................... 11 10. FIDONET BY INTERNET ..................................... 16 Fidonet-related sites .................................... 16 11. CORRECTIONS ............................................. 22 Corrections to Fidonews Volume 18, Number 36 on 03 Sep ... 22 12. FIDONEWS INFORMATION .................................... 23 How to Submit an Article ................................. 23 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 24 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 25 FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 1 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." -- Winston Churchill ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 2 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= TOP STORIES ================================================================= Kind of a sad Fidonews By Frank Vest flv@texoma.net Yes, it's kind of a sad Fidonews. There are two articles that relate the demise of Fidonet Nodes and Nets. One relates to a Node that was forced to quit some years back due to things beyond control. The other is kind of a sad reflection of the current times in Fidonet. Let's not lose heart in this. While there are those that leave us, that is a way of life. Let's be happy for the one's that are still here and try our best to keep ourselves here. For sure... as sure as in life... there will be those who leave us. We don't want to see them go, but they will go just the same. As is shown by the story of Music Drain BBS, the loss of a BBS and Fidonet Node can be turned into something positive. A gathering of Sysops to remember a lost one. A chance to meet and chat, face to face, with those that we only know from messages. One BBS created a "family". The loss of that BBS wasn't enough to destroy that "family". The family still lives and the lost one is rememberd. A sadness, yes, but a positve as well. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 3 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= REGIONAL NEWS ================================================================= Sadly, from Region 19 Taken from a message by Steve Quarrella 1:393/9005 Net 380 is gone. I get some disconnects there, one FAX machine, and a BBS without a mailer. I've got a note out to the sysop of that BBS, but I admit that I'm not optimistic. Net 147 may be gone. The NC has a note on his web site that his system is dead. One other system has a FAX machine online, another is definitely gone, and another is RNA (Ring No Answer). ----------------------------------------------------------------- "Egorkin's "funeral" From : Max Krasnikov 2:5045/57.18 (Tuesday, 28 August 2001) Minor editing by Frank Vest Vladivostok. Summer. It's a time, when all the people strive to go as far as possible to islands, sea, China, Japan... Due to this tendency a sharp comedown in the trafic is feeling, which resolves itself into 40Kb per day ... e.g. just nothing... However, people don't diverge the traditions, so 23-th August, by plan, all got around the square near the sea front (Naberezhnaja) by the "elephants" to celebrate "Egorkin's "funeral"", to catch those who was not able to be hunt down by netmail, to solve small net problems, and just to have a bock, meet in real those who converse by fido... Generally it could be named most likely fidotap rather then sysopp... A little bit hystory: 23-th August is a kind of significant date for us, 4-5 years ago, in the time of modems at 2400, a man with the name Egor Nikolaev (2:5045/9) worked as administrator at a big Vladivostok' restaurant-hotel. He had a node with address 2:5045/9. He occupied 3 phone lines for the node, and he was a big distributing node in the net. He had a BBS named Music Drain, which gathered people from all over the Vladivostok in the quiet evenings and nights. There people were picking up each other, rubbing shoulders with each other, making arrangements... at that time such BBS was a basic source of information and gossip for computer-modem oriented people, Internet was not yet online, even fido was not that much common as it's now. So one fine day a paper from the Phone Central came to the management of the restaurant. So to say, it was needed to register the units on the phone line, otherwise - amercement and all in the same vein... the management, of course, asked Egor to clear away all the modems from the lines... In fact, it came to close not only the node, but the BBS also, which was for 3 years a retreat for a lot of fidos and just users... This was just a killing decision for him, he had to kill his child with his own hands... And the last days of the stantion's life he gathered all to the funeral of Music Drain BBS, it was 23-th August ... Since that time year in year out 23-th August is the Commemoration FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 4 10 Sep 2001 Day of Music Drain BBS... Everything begins as usually by the "elephants" and ends in the underground club BSB... ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 5 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= I guess it's about normal? By Frank Vest 1:124/6308(.1) Last week was a holiday in the U.S.A. and some other countries as well. I guess it's just normal that on holidays, most people have nothing better to do than send articles to the Fidonews. After all, the lakes and recreation areas are packed and the battle to get to them is terrible. There's nothing open to go do. Many are on vacation on these weeks. What else is there to do other than write articles for the Fidonews and messages in the Fidonet echos? Last week I was thrilled to have so many articles sent in. It was great! There was news from all around Fidonet and beyond. Most of the articles were from you... not me. It was beautiful. Let's not forget that the Fidonews and Fidonet are here every week. Not just holidays or vacation time. I realize as well as anyone that jobs and family come first. There is always something to do and vacations are important to us all for a "break in the routine". Let just not forget that Fidonet is part of our family and the Fidonews is important to Fidonet. It's understandable when some things come before Fidonet and the Fidonews, but sad when Fidonet and the Fidonews are put on the bottom of the list. :( Thanks to all of you who send in articles. Thanks as well to all of you who read the articles and write messages in Fidonet. Regards, Frank Vest - Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 6 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= COMIX IN ASCII ================================================================= No Bull (___) (___) (o o) (o o) /-------\ / /-------\ / / | ||O / | O~ ||O * ||,---|| * ||,---|| ^^ ^^ ^^ ^^ A Bull A-bomb-in-a-bull No-bull ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 7 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES ================================================================= The Door From: Warren Bonner Phil went to apply for a job. After filling out all of his applications, he waited anxiously for the outcome. The employer read all his applications and said, "We have an opening for people like you." "Oh, great," he said, "What is it?" "It's called the door!" ----------------------------------------------------------------- like, ..... just about every day From: Warren Bonner My wife and I were lunching at a sidewalk cafe in Huntington Beach, CA. Our waitress looked like a real surfer girl - athletic with a great tan and blond hair. Mulling over the menu, my wife asked her if the roast beef was rare. The waitress gave us a long blank look, then replied, "Well, no...... we have it, like, ..... just about every day." ----------------------------------------------------------------- What'd he do? From: Warren Bonner It was the end of the day when a cop parked his police van in front of the station. As he gathered his equipment, his K-9 partner was barking and he saw a little boy staring in at him. "Is that a dog you got back there?" the little boy asked. "It sure is," The cop replied. Puzzled, the boy looked at him and then towards the back of the van. Finally he said, "What'd he do?" ----------------------------------------------------------------- Pray for me! :) One Sunday in a Midwest city, a young child was "acting up" during the morning worship hour. The parents did their best to maintain some sense of order in the pew but were losing the battle. Finally, the father picked the little fellow up and walked sternly up the aisle on his way out. Just before reaching the safety of the foyer, the little called loudly to the congregation, "Pray for me! Pray for me!" FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 8 10 Sep 2001 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 9 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= OTHER STUFF ================================================================= This week's Calander Day Event --------------------------------------------------------------------- 10. Gibraltar National Day in Gibraltar Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau St. George's Caye Day in Belize 11. Anniversary of the Death of Qaid-i-Azam in Pakistan Coptic New Year in Egypt Ethiopian New Year in Ethiopia La Diana Nacional de Catalunya/Catalan Region Bank Holiday in Spain Liberation Day in Micronesia (Kosrae, Pohnpei) 12. Amilcar Cabral's Birthday in Guinea-Bissau Defender's Day in United States (Maryland) National Day in Cape Verde Revolution Day in Ethiopia 13. Barry Day in United States 15. Independence Day in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows in Slovakia Respect for the Aged Day in Japan 16. Independence and Constitution Day in Papua New Guinea Independence Day in Mexico Ordino in Andorra ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 10 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= CLASSIFIED ADS ================================================================= Rotating ads As a service of the Fidonews, I am prepared to offer rotating ads for those that provide services to Fidonet such as Mail Hubs, Gateways, Fidonet via Internet and such. How this works: 1. Create an ad following the guidelines for the Fidonews. 2. Keep it short and to the point. 3. Put contact and other needed information in the ad. 4. Send it to Frank Vest as a file attach. A. E-Mail "flv@texoma.net B. Netmail "Frank Vest - 1:124/6308 I will put the ad in a pool and use a program each week to automatically rotate the ads into the Fidonews. Please! If you stop offering service or need to change your ad, contact me! This is very important to keep the ads current. I'm doing this on a trial basis. If it gets to be a problem, I will have to discontinue the service. I can make no promise of how often your ad will be in the Fidonews. This will depend on how many ads I have to rotate through. As always in Fidonet, I make no guaranties. :) Regards, Frank Vest - Fidonews Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 11 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= *Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BBS Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- BBBS Home Page b@bbbs.net http://www.bbbs.net/ ELEBBS- The Elevator Software Productions Web Page elebbs@elebbs.com http://www.elebbs.com/ Hermes II Project (Mac) info@HermesII.org http://www.hermesii.org/ Maximus BBS Support Page (Non Official) sales@lainus.com http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ Mystic BBS http://www.mysticbbs.com/mystic/ Nexus Bulletin Board System groberts@nexusbbs.net http://www.nexusbbs.net/ RemoteAccess Central Bruce Morse bfmorse@rapro.com http://www.rapro.com/ Spitfire BBS Buffalo Creek Software MDWoltz@AOL.COM http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/index.html Synchronet BBS sysop@vert.synchro.net http://www.synchro.net Telegard BBS support@telegard.net http://www.telegard.net/ Wildcat Interactive Net Server (BBS) Santronics Inc. sales@santronics.com (305)248-3204 http://www.santronics.com FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 12 10 Sep 2001 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Door Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Bentstone Capabilities Group info@stonebenders.com http://www.srupc.com/mall Jibben Software scott@jibben.com http://www.jibbensoftware.com/ JNS Software Door Games Rusty Johnson rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com 304-733-0113 http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/ PC Pursuits brucep@pop.kis.net (301)240-6653 http://www.pcpursuits.com/products.htm S and T Software Mark Bappe mark.bappe@bozax.iainc.net (770)788-6843 http://bozax.iainc.net/public/ Shinning Star BBS Doors nannette@shiningstar.net http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ Sunrise Door Software Al Lawerence al@sunrisedoors.com (404)256-9518 http://www.sunrisedoors.com/ The Brainex System info@brainex.com http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ Trade Wars Door Game jpritch@eisonline.com http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/ 1:299/110 Vagabond Software Bryan Turner vagabond@darktech.org http://vagabond.virtualave.net/ 1:124/7013 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mail Tossers -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 13 10 Sep 2001 FMail Support wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org http://fmail.nl.eu.org/ 2:280/1076 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Mailer Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- FrontDoor, FrontDoor APX, Mailer/Point Software Definite Solutions sales@defsol.se http://www.defsol.se/ BinkleyTerm XE Frontend Mailer Software http://btxe.sourceforge.net/ Plantinum Express for Wildcat Santronics Inc. sales@santronics.com (305)248-3204 http://www.santronics.com -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Fidonet via Internet Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Argus RITLABS argus@ritlabs.com 373-2-246889 http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84 BinkD maloff@corbina.net http://2f.ru/binkd/ Fidogate Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net http://www.fidogate.org/ Fidonet to Internet Mailer Bo Bendtsen sales@terminate.com http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm GiGo Software http://www.gigo.com/ Internet Rex cruden@cs.ualberta.ca http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/ Tmail (Russian /w English DL) http://www.tmail.spb.ru/index-19.htm FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 14 10 Sep 2001 TransX Multiboard Communications Inc. support@multiboard.com http://www.multiboard.com/software/transx.html 1:2401/305 TransNet transnet@ressl.com.ar http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/ Watergate ramon@sbbs.se http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Point Software -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Definite Solutions FrontDoor APX http://www.defsol.se/ JetSys - Home of JetMail, JetStat and other Atari Fidonet utilities http://www.jetsys.de/ APoint http://www.apoint.websale.net/index.htm (Author) http://www.apoint-mail.de (Co-Author) CrossPoint ("Original" version) http://www.crosspoint.de http://www.apoint-mail.de CrossPoint (OpenXP Projekt) http://www.openxp.com (English) http://www.openxp.de (German) CrossPoint (XP2 Team) http://www.xp2.de WinPoint95 http://www.schenksmir.de/wp/english The OpenXP CrossPoint Projekt http://www.happyarts.de/xp Terminate Terminal http://www.terminate.com PPoint-FTS compatible E-Mail System http://www.alcuf.ca/ppoint.htm -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Other Software, Utillities and such -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- F-Prot Anti-Virus Home Page http://www.complex.is/cgi-bin/home_pager FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 15 10 Sep 2001 BGFAX Home Page http://blkbox.com/~bgfax/ SIO, Vmodem for OS/2 http://www.gwinn.com NetModem for Windows http://www.allensoftware.com Com/IP Region 11: http://www.vector11.com/region11/ Net 2410: http://www.vector11.com/net2410/ Region 13: http://www.ispaceonline.org/region13/ Net 109: http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/net109/ Net 261: http://www.baltimorepress.com/~net261/ Net 275: http://www.ispaceonline.org/net275/ Net 267: http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/net267/ Net 275: http://www.ispaceonline.org/net275/ Region 14: http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14 Net 282: http://www.rxn.com/~net282/ Region 15: Region 16: Region 17: http://www.region17.net Net 140: http://www.nwstar.com/~net140 Region 18: http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/ FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 17 10 Sep 2001 Region 19: http://bise.tzo.com/r19 Net 124: http://www.DallasInet.com/net124/ http://texoma.net/~flv Net 393: http://www.chatter.com/~wb/ Zone 2: http://www.z2.fidonet.org Region 20: http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish) Region 23: http://www.fido.dk (in Danish) Region 24: http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German) http://www.was-ist-fido.de/ Fido-IP: http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German) Region 25: Region 26: http://www.nemesis.ie REC 26: http://www.nrgsys.com/orb Region 27: http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm Region 29: http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/ (French) http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/ Region 34: http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm (Spanish) REC34: http://www.fidospain.org Region 36: http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/ Region 38: http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html Region 41: http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English) Region 42: http://www.fido.cz Net422: http://www.fido.sk (Slovak/English) Region 50: http://www.fido7.com/ (Russian) Net 5010: http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/ (Russian) Net 5015: http://www.fido.nnov.ru/ (Russian) Net 5028: HTTP://5028.nordnet.ru/ Net 5030: http://kenga.ru/fido/ (Russian & English) ?? Net 5049: http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org (English/Russian) Net 5074: http://www.n5074.z2.fidonet.net ?? Net 5085: http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian) Zone 3: http://www.z3.fidonet.org Zone 4: Region 80: http://fidobrasil.8m.com (Portuguese) Region 90: Net 904: http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish) Zone 5: http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/ Zone 6: http://www.z6.fidonet.org Region 65: http://r65.yeah.net http://www.cfido.com (Chinese) Fidonet Via Internet Hubs a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email address. The email is translated as follows firstname.lastname@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 18 10 Sep 2001 appropriate individual's email. Anyone in this list will also receive routed notice of this feature. v-email flag firstname.lastname@osirusoft.com | email address or Node# | Operator | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate | | |latency| -----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------ Zone 1 | | | | 10/3 @ Brenda Donovan | FTP,UUE,BinkP | 384K,30| n/c 10/345 @ Todd Cochrane | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,! | n/c 18/500 @ Ross Cassell | FTP, BinkP |128K+,!| n/c 18/600 | Jerry Gause | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c 103/5 @ Mark Luetger | BinkP | CABLE | n/c 103/301 @ Joe Jared | BinkP,FTP,NFS | 384k,!| n/c 103/401 @ Warren Bonner | BinkP | aDSL,!| n/c 105/8 @ Russ Johnson | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k | n/c 105/72 @ Larry James | FTP, BinkP | aDSL | $50/yr 106/1 @ Steve Loupe | BinkP, FTP | 128k | ??? 106/2000 | Bob Juge | BinkP VMoT FTP TX| ??? | n/c 106/6018 | Lawrence Garvin | FTP, VMoT | aDSL,60| n/c 107/453 @ Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo. 1:134/11 @ Michael Grant | FTP, BinkP, VMoT UUE, IFCICO,TransX aDSL, 60 | n/c 138/146 | Marc Blakely | BinkP,FTP | ??? | n/c 140/1 @ Bob Seaborn | FTP,BinkP | T3,30 | $5/$16 142/906 | Chris Griffin | BinkP | ??? | n/c 150/220 | Dave Nemeth | UUE | ??? | n/c 153/7715 | Dallas Hinton | BinkD, FTP | CABLE | ??? 167/133 | Stephen Monteith | BinkP | 128k+ | n/c 167/166 | Jesse Dooling | POP? UUE TX FTP| ??? | n/c 218/109 @ Matt Munson | BinkP,UUE,TX | 33.6k | n/c 220/10 | groberts@nexusbbs.net |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c 229/1 | Phil Simpson | BinkP UUE FTP | ??? | n/c 229/2000 | Robert Couture |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ??? | 229/622 | Dave Hamilton | BinkP | ??? | n/c 249/116 | Carl Austin Bennett | FTP, UUE |ADSL,60 | n/c 250/98 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 250/99 | Brent McLaren | FTP BinkP | ??? | n/c 250/102 | Darin McBride | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 267/169 | Philip Lozier | FTP TX | ??? | n/c 261/1380 | Joe Davis | UUE TX | ??? | n/c 280/169 | Brian Greenstreet | FTP | 33.6 | $2mo. 297/11 | Michael McCabe | TX | ??? | n/c 323/120 | Craig Healy | VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c 342/3 @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP | 128K+ | n/c 360/5 | Bennie Hutto | FTP VMoT | aDSL | n/c 395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkD,FTP | CABLE | n/c 379/1 @ Dale Ross | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c 379/1200 | Chris Cranford | BinkP FTP TX | ??? | n/c 393/9005 | Steve Quarrella |BinkP TX UUE VMoT| ??? | n/c 395/670 | Arthur Stark | BinkP VMoT FTP | ??? | n/c 396/45 | Marc Lewis | UUE | 33.6 | $26/yr 396/48 | Ben Ritchey | UUE:BFDS? | 33.6k | n/c 2320/38 | Janis Kracht | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 2410/400 | Gary Gilmore | FTP BinkP | 384K,60| n/c FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 19 10 Sep 2001 2410/213 | Kevin Bentz | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c 2604/104 @ Jim Mclaughlin | FTP,VMoT,UUE | 33.6 | $1mo 2624/306 | David Calafrancesco | VMoT | 33.6 | n/c 3613/1275 | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE,FTP | 28.8 | n/c 3407/4 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3632/84 | Robert Todd |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c 3651/9 @ Jerry Gause | FTP,VMoT | 33.6 | $3/$6 3830/5 | Jeff Schrunk |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ??? | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 2 | 20/11 | Henrik Lindhe | BinkP | ??? | n/c 22/222 | Kim Heino | BinkP | ??? | n/c 28/1 | Lody Caenen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 31/1 | Gabriel Plutzar | BinkP | T1+ | n/c 37/37 | Gabor Z. Papp | BinkP | ??? | n/c 47/999 | Andrej Kirejev | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 201/329 | Mats Wallin | VMoT TX | ??? | n/c 201/505 | Goran Eriksson | BinkP | ??? | n/c 203/600 | Mikael Karlsson | UUE | 64k | n/c 211/37 | Torbjorn Mohn | BN IFCICO | ??? | n/c 221/360 @ Tommi Koivula | BinkP,UUE | ??? | n/c 236/205 @ Michael Kaaber | BinkP | ??? | n/c 240/6298 | Steve Tell | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c 246/2098 | Volker Imre | BinkP | ??? | n/c 252/110 | David Rance | UUE | ??? | n/c 255/90 | Simon Avery | UUE | ??? | n/c 263/950 | Sean Rima | TX UUE | ??? | n/c 280/1027 | Lukas de Groen | BinkP FTP | ??? | n/c 280/1601 @ Jeroen VanDeLeur | FTP,UUE | 64k | n/c 280/4312 | Jos Huijnen | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ??? | n/c 280/5003 | Kees van Eeten | BinkP ifcico | ??? | n/c 292/620 | Eddy Missoul | VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 64k | n/c 292/624 | Steven Leeman | UUE | 64k | n/c 292/854 | Ward Dossche | BinkP UUE TX | ??? | n/c 292/907 | Bart Verhaeghe | BinkP,VMoT,UUE | 64K | n/c 292/2003 | Eric Vaneberck | BinkP | 768k | n/c 301/1 | Peter Witschi | BinkP | 768k | n/c 332/807 | Roberto Mascolo | BinkP | ??? | n/c 333/0 | M Gianformaggio | BinkP | ??? | n/c 335/534 @ Mario Mure | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k | n/c 335/610 | Gino Lucrezi | UUE | 33.6 | n/c 341/14 | Rafael Suarez | BinkP VMoT | ??? | n/c 344/201 | Julio Garcia | BinkP | ??? | n/c 346/3 @ Carlos Navarro | UUE | ??? | n/c 382/100 | Sinisa Burina | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 400/555 | Ofir Michaeli | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 400/557 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 400/558 | Vlad Hrusca | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 406/555 | Ofir Michaeli & | BinkP | ??? | n/c 406/555 | Marius Kaizerman | BinkP | ??? | n/c 423/81 | Milos Bajer | BinkP | ??? | n/c 461/256 | Andrew Rutkas | BinkP | ??? | n/c 461/640 | Alex Semenyaka |BinkP ifcico UUE| ??? | n/c 465/204 | Va Milushnikov | BinkP | 33.6k | n/c 469/84 | Max Masyutin | VMoT | 256k | n/c 469/128 | Oleg Vasenyoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 20 10 Sep 2001 480/112 | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k | n/c 550/4077 | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE | ----- | n/c 2410/201 | Karsten Ebeling | BinkP UUE | ??? | n/c 2411/413 @ Dennis Dittrich | UUE,BinkP | 64k | n/c 2432/200 | Sven Dueker | BinkP TX UUE | ??? | n/c 2446/301 @ Lothar Behet | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K | n/c 2474/275 | Christian Emig | UUE | 64k | unkn 2487/3000 | Steffen Gross | BinkP | ??? | n/c 3830/10 | Matt Bedynek | FTP, BinkP | 100Mb | n/c 5002/5002 | Victor Belyakov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5014/4 | Alex Bagmanov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5020/52 | Peter Didenko | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/54 | Serge Wizgounoff | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5020/69 | B Chernivetsky | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/238 | Sergey Gubanov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5030/115 | Andrey Podkolzin | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5030/1251 | K Stepanekov | UUE | ??? | n/c 5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5020/1159 | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE | 33.6 | n/c 5049/12 | Amir Shabashvili | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5054/3 | Andrew Popov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5080/80 | Eugene Zorin | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5083/21 | Alexander Uskov | BinkP,ifcico | ??? | n/c 5090/2 | Andrew Titov | BinkP | ??? | n/c 5100/8 | Egons Bush | BinkP | ??? | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 3 633/260 @ Malcolm Miles | FTP,BinkP | 64K | n/c 640/954 | Rick Van Ruth | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c 712/311 | Bob James | TX | ??? | n/c 774/605 @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 4 801/161 @ Renato Zambon | UUE | 33.6 |n/c 902/18 | Javier Tejedor | UUE | 33,6 | n/c 905/100 | Fabian Gervan | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k | n/c -------------------------------------------------------------- Zone 6 65/3000 | Lawrence Fan | UUE | 33600 | free 653/1009 | Maorong Chen | UUE | ??? | free 654/0 | Bin Li | UUE,BinkP | 33600 | free 654/1501 | Lawrence Fan | UUE,BinkP | 28800 | free -- * FTP = Internet File Transfer Protocol * VMoT = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various) * UUE = uuencode<->email type transfers * BinkP = front end mailer for TCPIP networks * TX = TransX * NFS = Linux Networking * ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer ---------------------------------------------- Fidonet oriented news servers news.osirusoft.com news.tardis.net FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 21 10 Sep 2001 Fidonet oriented chat rooms. room #fidonet 5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays irc.osirusoft.com (Peers wanted) ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 22 10 Sep 2001 ================================================================= CORRECTIONS ================================================================= Corrections to Fidonews Volume 18, Number 36 on 03 Sep 2001 The article "TOP 10 REASONS" indicates that it was from From Lesley-Dee Dylan. 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Administrative overhead = 1352 ( 12.05 %) PRIVATE NODES overhead = 838 ( 7.47 %) Baud Rate Summary (or, BPS, for the die-hard technocrats): 9600 = 9616 ( 85.73 %) (HST's = 210 or 2.18 % of the 9600 baud modems.) (CSP's = 2 or 0.02 % of the 9600 baud modems.) (PEP's = 16 or 0.17 % " " " " ) (MAX's = 0 or 0.00 % " " " " ) (HAY's = 3 or 0.03 % " " " " ) (V32's = 5444 or 56.61 % " " " " ) (V32B's = 698 or 7.26 % " " " " ) (V42's = 5153 or 53.59 % " " " " ) (V42B's = 755 or 7.85 % " " " " ) 2400 = 113 ( 1.01 %) 1200 = 8 ( 0.07 %) 300 = 505 ( 4.50 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- F_Req Flag Applicable Software Number of Systems FIDONEWS 18-37 Page 26 10 Sep 2001 ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 4412 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS -------------------------------------- XB Binkleyterm 2.0 11 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 13 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 7 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 78 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 414 Tabby -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 4747 Frontdoor 1.99b,2.01 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 4112 ( 36.66 %) MailOnly Nodes = 5749 ( 51.25 %) Listed-Only Nodes = 851 ( 7.59 %) -----------------------------------------------------------------