The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 20 17 May 2004 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Crash netmail articles to: | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907 | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Routed netmail articles to: | | | / / \ | Bjorn Felten @ 2:203/0 | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | | | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: | | _ @/_ \ _ | bfelten @ telia dot com | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2 3. FROM THE *CS ............................................. 3 ZCC announces Malcolm Miles as International Coordinato .. 3 A formal policy-interpretation by the IC persuant P4.7 ... 4 Motion to replace the IC ................................. 6 Open letter to the nodes of Zone-2 ....................... 7 4. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 9 FIDONet Software References .............................. 9 5. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 14 6. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 16 How to Submit an Article ................................. 16 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 18 FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 1 17 May 2004 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. - Leo Tolstoy ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 2 17 May 2004 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= How typical that this week, when there seems to be a dynamite issue at hand, my internet connection went AWOL. OK, I thought at first, I can manage a day or two, waiting for my ISP to fix the problem. But now it's almost a week and still no sign of a connection. So I decided I had to reinstall the hardware and software for my old dial-up connection, that I thought I wouldn't be using any more. Unfortunately the system now, with the two internet connections installed simultaneously, my system has become very unstable, but at least I managed to get all the pending email, and even sort out the ten or so legit email from 350 spam. Well my spam filter did a fairly good job, but it's not infallible, so I still have to double check all the spam just to be sure. I really wish you guys would use fidonet rather than internet when communicating with the Snooze -- it's much safer. Anyway, here we go, I sure hope I didn't miss anything among those 350 spam... ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 3 17 May 2004 ================================================================= FROM THE *CS ================================================================= ZCC announces Malcolm Miles as International Coordinator Janis Kracht, 1:261/38 (janis@filegate.net) The Fidonet Zone Coordinator Council, persuant to section 7.2 of Policy 4.07, has voted to remove Ward Dossche as International Coordinator, and has elected Malcolm Miles Z3C, as International Coordinator. Votes were cast by 5 of the 6 Zone Coordinators present, with no vote posted by Z2C. The ZCC wishes to thank Ward Dossche for the work he's done, and the time he's devoted to the position of IC over the last 3 and 1/2 years. Janis Kracht Z1C ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 4 17 May 2004 A formal policy-interpretation by the IC persuant P4.7.1.Par.5 By Ward Dossche / International Coordinator 2:292/854 Date: 07 May 04 It has become increasingly clear that the operation and internal management of the ZCC have not been sufficiently defined in Policy to cater for the severe imbalance between the different zones which at present exists where zone-1 occupies some 6-7%, zone-2 at least 91-92% and the remaining zones 1-2% of the nodelist. While technically this imbalance seems unimportant -or even inexistant- when it concerns the moving of mail and files, lately it has become a matter of disturbance in the internal operation of the ZCC where personal motives of several ZCs, not technical motives, seem to dominate the day to day business more and more. As this potentially may have negative consequences to Fidonet as a whole it is necessary for me, as IC, to exercise the provisions of P4.7.1.Paragraph-5 which reads: ************************* QUOTE ************************* In cases not specifically covered by this document, the International Coordinator may issue specific interpretations or extensions to this policy. ************************ UNQUOTE ************************ The way how ZCC-members vote has never been described. Policy mentions the word 'majority' but says nothing on how that majority is composed, reached or interpreted. Therefore, as of immediately on this day May 7th 2004, the following interpretation will become effective: "The votes cast by ZCC-members to reach a majority will be a function of the percentage of listed individual sysops in the weekly nodelist issued by the IC. These individual sysops will not be 'Pvt' 'Hold' 'Down' 'Zone' 'Region' 'Host' 'Hub' nor 'non-conforming ION- nor non-conforming EON-nodes as per IC current policy expressed in the ERRFLAGS-configuration file presently in use at 2:292/854'. Every 1% of the listed sysops will count for 1 vote. If and when one or several zones hold less that 1% of the eligible sysops then the dominant zone's number of votes will be reduced with 01 units to cater for the representation of the small zones. Using this methodology the ZCC votes will as of immediately be weighted as follows: ZC1 : 07 votes ZC2 : 89 votes ZC3 : 01 votes ZC4 : 01 votes ZC5 : 01 votes ZC6 : 01 votes FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 5 17 May 2004 Making a total of 100 votes." This IC-interpretation which is now in force can be overruled by a majority vote of the ZCC. However, since this interpretation stands until overruled it also applies to a ZCC-overruling of this IC policy-interpretation requiring an absolute majority of these 100 votes as well. Take care, Ward Dossche International Coordinator ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 6 17 May 2004 Motion to replace the IC By Ward Dossche / International Coordinator 2:292/854 Date: 16 May 04 16:09:59 Some 2-3 weeks ago Z1C Janis Kracht filed a motion to replace the current IC by Malcolm Miles, current Z3C. All ZCs have voted in the meantime and following the rules per IC-interpretation of relevant portions of P4 to determine how the ZCC reaches a majority the following result has been tabled: Z1C: YES 07 votes Z2C: NO 89 votes Z3C: YES 01 votes Z4C: YES 01 votes Z5C: YES 01 votes Z6C: YES 01 votes Tally: ====== YES : 11 votes NO : 89 votes The motion is denied. It must equally be noted that Z1C Janis Kracht when filing the above mentioned motion bypassed the formal procedures as laid-down in P4 how the ZCC conducts its business by ignoring certain portions regarding the prerogatives of the IC. The motion in itself therefore was a policy-violation and void. Take care, Ward Dossche International Coordinator ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 7 17 May 2004 Open letter to the nodes of Zone-2 By Ward Dossche / IC & Z2C 2:292/854 Date: 15 May 04 Colleagues, ZC1 Janis Kracht has called for a replacement of the current IC and, those of you who have followed certain developments will understand that she was quickly seconded by some people whom traditionally remain absent from ZCC-operation except to vote against me. There is an imbalance in the nodelist and the sheer numbers of our zone, way over 90% of the total, have made the critical mass in Fidonet shift from zone-1 to zone-2. This has been a very tough nut to crack for specific individuals in zone-1 and it never went down. Your zone-2 coordinator has played a strong role both as IC and ZC/2 and since it often went against current accepted zone-1 practices he became contested, deliberately misquoted, selectively quoted, verbally abused and unspoken words have been put in his mouth. There often are calls for democracy and in order to restore that democracy in the ZCC, or install something that at least resembles it, I have made an IC-ruling that majorities in ZCC-votes will be determined by the weight of the individual zones where zone-1 will get 7 votes (it has 7% of the nodelist), etc... This ruling is perfectly compliant with policy 7.1.par-5. The intention is not, of course, to impose an autocratic rule, people who have dealt with me over the years very well know this. Ruling outside one's zone has effectively become impossible anyway and has reduced the role of the IC to something very shadowy. The intention however of my IC-ruling is to bring some balance back and ensure that the concerns of zone-2 are adequately addressed. As concerns there are the extremely foul and abusive language which seems permitted in zone-1 which with few exceptions is targetted exclusively at individuals in zone-2, there are the constant Third Reich references which are permitted by the First Ammendment of the US Constitution it seems, there is the very visual ASCII-art which is often being released by some nodes with a sexual innuendo or Nazi-themes, etc... I've had it, I hope you have had your fill too. ZC1, ZC3, ZC5 and ZC6 effectively make it impossible to deal with these matters. Since they have now been confronted with a strong ZC2/IC the only way to continue that type of hegemony is not to outvote the current IC but to simply try to replace him. That attempt has now failed. Do not doubt that there will be a roar of messages coming from zone-1, we all know the names of those that will be writing and how insignificant it all is. We all know the comments to expect, the accusations, the threats, the ... well, we've seen and lived it for years. Zone-2 knows that none of what we are about to receive the coming days is actually true and/or correct, Fidonet here has always FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 8 17 May 2004 been broadminded and will continue to be broad- minded ... people know they can dissagree with me publicly and need not fear for their nodenumber. Z1C Janis Kracht has already in the ZCC-conference accused yours truly of disrespectful intentions of wanting to harm individual zone-1 nodes; zone-2 nodes know how futile such an accusation is. Then again, we have somewhat become used to that style of verbal assault. Many of you have been RCs for very long, in some case even longer than I've been ZC. I've had the good pleasure to share a beer, a coffee or a meal with some of you so I hope you know what kind of service you can continue to expect from me in the future and how free Fidonet will remain. If however you from zone-2 think it is going too far and indeed there is a need for another IC/ZC2 then please voice that concern. Although our zone-1 brethren fuel a different idea you all know that I've never held a person's opinion against him/her if it conflicted with mine as long as we can stay polite. The choice, I'm affraid, is yours to decide on the future of zone-2 and with a great probability of Fidonet as a whole. Because of its size the critical mass of Fidonet lies in this zone, do never forget you do have a voice and be assured that it counts and matters. I am awaiting your counsel. Thank you, Ward Dossche IC & Z2C ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 9 17 May 2004 ================================================================= BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ FIDONet Software Reference }:=- Type: M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility ?=Info .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' Argus |M |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/ 2:469/84 | | argus@ritlabs.com Tel: 373-2-246889 | | v3.210 on Mar 20th 2001 BeeMail: |M |http://beemail.gexonline.net 1:105/10 Stephen Proffit | | beemail@gexonline.net BinkleyTerm XE |M |http://btxe.sourceforge.net 1:1/102 | | v2.60XE/Gamma-6 on Nov 11th 1998 BinkD |MI |http://2f.ru/binkd/ | | maloff@corbina.net | | v0.94 on Jul 24th 2000 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 Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com | | v2.00 on Mar 23rd 1997 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 RC2 on Sep 22nd 2003 InterMail, InterEcho |MT |http://www.ifido.com 1:1/133 | | bob@nwstar.com | | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE Radius (based on |M |http://radius.pp.ru 2:5012/38 Argus) | | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463 | | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003 Terminate |MBP |http://www.terminate.com | | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997 Tmail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru v2608 WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 10 17 May 2004 Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 450.2 on Jul 9th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Fidogate |TUI |http://www.fidogate.org | | Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net v4.4.4 FMail |T |http://fmail.nl.eu.org 2:280/1076 | | wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org v1.60 GEcho |T |ftp://ftp.nwstar.com 1:140/12 | | bob@nwstar.com JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000 Squish |T |http://www.lanius.com | | sales@lanius.com v1.11 | |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ Watergate |TUI |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ | | ramon@sbbs.se | | v0.93p9 on Dec 14th 1998 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dcbbs/ | | pjs@optushome.com.au 3:633/104 | | v2.0 on 3 May 2003 Falken BBS |B |http://falkenbbs.com | | v12.0 on Feb 2nd 2002 Hermes II Project |B |http://www.hermesii.org | | info@HermesII.org v3.5.9 Beta Final Maximus BBS |B |http://www.lanius.com | | sales@lanius.com v3.01 | |http://www.vector11.com/maximus/ MBSE BBS: |BI |http://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 Michiel Broek | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.33.21 on Jun 4th 2002 Mystic BBS |B |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 Nexus BBS |B |http://www.nexusbbs.net | | groberts@nexusbbs.net FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 11 17 May 2004 | | v0.99.41.001 beta on Jun 10th 2001 Proboard BBS |B |http://www.proboard.be | | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002 RemoteAccess BBS: |B |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 Bruce Morse | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - 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BBS at +1-337-232-4155 24/7 33.6kBps,8,N,1 Internet: http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/fidosoft.txt Emeritus: Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 14 17 May 2004 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.135 size 893.8kb date 2004-05-14 The nodelist has 7538 nodes in it and a total of 10292 non-comment entries including 6 zones 56 regions 424 hosts 531 hubs admin overhead 1017 ( 13.49 %) and 1083 private nodes 325 nodes down 329 nodes on hold off line overhead 1737 ( 23.04 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 629 ( 8.34 %) 9600 = 6536 ( 86.71 %) (HST = 135 or 2.07 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.02 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.17 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 3407 or 52.13 %) (V32B = 326 or 4.99 %) (V34 = 4418 or 67.59 %) (V42 = 3697 or 56.56 %) (V42B = 335 or 5.13 %) 2400 = 69 ( 0.92 %) 1200 = 6 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 298 ( 3.95 %) ISDN = 620 ( 8.22 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2467 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 15 17 May 2004 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 12 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 39 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 305 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3378 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1323 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2303 ( 30.55 %) MailOnly nodes = 4199 ( 55.70 %) Listed-only nodes = 588 ( 7.80 %) Other = 448 ( 5.94 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-20 Page 16 17 May 2004 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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