The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 26 28 Jun 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. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2 Joining Fidonet.net Part2: Using EveryDNS.net ............ 2 3. IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO .............................. 5 POLICY 33.5 - THE FINAL INSULT ........................... 5 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 21-26 Page 1 28 Jun 2004 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. -- Andy Rooney ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 2 28 Jun 2004 ================================================================= GENERAL ARTICLES ================================================================= Joining Fidonet.net Part2: Using EveryDNS.net By: Viktor Pilpenok, 2:400/567 EveryDNS is a free DNS zone hosting service operated by David Ulevitch and David Fortunato, in this article i'll explain how to use it to host Fidonet.net zones, step by step. NOTE: Currently EveryDNS.net allow only 200 records per zone so if your net has more IP nodes than thatm you should use some other host. Creating a zone =============== 1) Register Go to http://www.everydns.net/, fill in your info in the signup part, press signup. 2) Create a zone On the left, in an edit box below "(basic)" write your domain name eg. n1234.z2.fidonet.net then click ">> (basic)" button. 3) Edit the zone If everything is ok, you'll see something like: "Status: Logged in -- n1234.z2.fidonet.net has been added to the database." Below the stats on the upper right corner, and your zone should appear on the left, below "Primary Domains:". There should be a link "[Go]" near your zone name, click on it. 4) Allowing ZONE-XFER (required by fidonet.net rules) Below "Axfr Control:" select the last middle ("Allow all") and click "Change Axfr settings". You can also set it to allow only ns.fidonet.net, but there is nothing too secred about a fidonet.net zone :) 5) Delete the un-needed records There are 2 records like *.n1234.z2.fidonet.net CNAME parked.everydns.net 86400 [delete] n1234.z2.fidonet.net CNAME parked.everydns.net 86400 [delete] that are automatically added, you generally don't need them, so press "[delete]" on both. Editing Nodes ============= Adding a node with static IP: Below "Add a record:" FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 3 28 Jun 2004 a. type the full address (eg f123.n465.z7.fidonet.net) in the field named "Fully Qualified Domain Name:". b. Select "A" in record type. c. Type ip address the node uses (eg 123.123.123.123) in the "Record Value:" field. d. Press "Add Record" Adding a node with dynamic IP: Below "Add a record:" a. type the full address (eg f123.n465.z7.fidonet.net) in the field named "Fully Qualified Domain Name:". b. Select "CNAME" in record type. c. Type hostname that resolves to the host dynamic IP (eg bdew.dyndns.org) into the "Record Value:" field. d. Press "Add Record" Deleting a node: Below "Current Records:" locate the node's entry, and click delete on it. Verifying that it works (Under windows) ======================================= 1) Run nslookup. 2) Type ns1.everydns.net You should get something like: Default Server: ns1.everydns.net Address: 64.158.219.3 3) Type "set type=any: 4) Type your net FQDN (eg n1234.z2.fidonet.net) You should get something like: Server: ns1.everydns.net Address: 64.158.219.3 n1234.z2.fidonet.net primary name server = ns1.everydns.net responsible mail addr = hostmaster.n1234.z2.fidonet.net And and other info. 5) Type some node FQDN (eg f123.n1234.z2.fidonet.net) You should get something like: Server: ns1.everydns.net Address: 64.158.219.3 f123.n1234.z2.fidonet.net internet address = 10.0.0.1 And and other info. Note thaht the adress is what you entered when you added the node. For a dynamic IP node it would be: FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 4 28 Jun 2004 f234.n1234.z2.fidonet.net canonical name = bdew.dyndns.org 6) This will not work if you didn't select "Allow all" in "Axfr control". Type "ls -d f1234.z2.fidonet.net", you should get something like: [ns1.everydns.net] n1234.z2.fidonet.net. SOA ns1.everydns.net hostmaster.n1234.z2.fidonet.net. (1088289852 16384 2048 1048576 2560) n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns1.everydns.net n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns2.everydns.net n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns3.everydns.net n1234.z2.fidonet.net. NS ns4.everydns.net f234 CNAME bdew.dyndns.org f123 A 10.0.0.1 Verifying that it works (Under other OSes) ============================================ There are too many variations of DNS clients and OSes to list them all, so i'll not elaborate on this, if you are not running windows you should know what you are doing anyway ;) Highlites: Manually set ns1.everydns.net as the nameserver to use, your zone won't appear on Fidonet.net nameservers until you submit, and if you won't set a nameserver manually, your client won't know where to look for it. Check that your zone and the nodes in it resolve correctly. Check that AXFR works. Modifying records afterwards ============================ 1) Log in Go to http://www.everydns.net/, fill in your username and password and click login. 3) Edit the zone Your zone should appear on the left, below "Primary Domains:". There should be a link "[Go]" near your zone name, click on it. 4) Follow the "Editing Nodes" section above. Submitting ========== Use the guidelines in my previous article. Your name servers are "ns1.everydns.net" and "ns2.everydns.net". You did allow ZONE-XFER in step 4 in the "Creating a zone" section. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 5 28 Jun 2004 ================================================================= IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO ================================================================= POLICY 33.5 - THE FINAL INSULT Charles Herriot (1:163/110) (this had to be done, Doc, now where's my Ibogaine?) 1. TITLE: (amateur policymongers probably don't realize the importance of leading off with at least one "tit"... capture their imaginations and their hearts and minds will follow) The title of this document shall be: "Policy 33.5 - The Final Insult, otherwise known as: "Mom! Mom! He/she dissed me and I'm gonna whump his/her sorry ass with this policy document until he/she either apologizes or else gets locked in a room and forced to listen to John Denver singin' 'Rocky Mountain High' until her/his ears bleed." 2. PURPOSE: The purpose of this policy is to create more policy. The Region has recognized quite clearly that if more policy were created then, incredibly, we'd have more policy. If we had more policy, then we would definitely need even more of it to expand upon the previously created policy. Hell, in no time at all, this policy stuff would be breeding on its own and provide sustenance to unemployed cod fisherman. 3. DEFINITIONS: AcetyleneMail: The polite staple of inter-sysop communication which must include, at a minimum, at least one demand that the recipient engage in an act of self-replicating his/herself. It is entirely appropriate to substitute the preceding with a suggestion to the recipient that they engage in an act of procreation with anyone having the surname: "Off." Cod: Humiliated trout. Not to be confused with the traditionally refrain of grunt sysops to *C-beings which loosely paraphrases into: "Who named you Cod?" Beer: The official sysop monetary unit. Debts can be satisfied upon payment of these units, and *C-beings are obligated to buy grunt sysops copious quantities of this particular resource. CRPs: Mistakenly identified as "Cost Recovery Plans", these are really guileless attempts to extort money from Grunt Sysops. The money is expended on fast women and loose cars. Echomail: A system of distributing the latest gnarly-rad path lines, and logoff macros, by "K00L D00DZ" which are rivaled by Sea Slugs for their intrinsic wit. Also, any quote of the preceding is considered "echomail" and the high fibre content helps to improve echomail FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 6 28 Jun 2004 regularity. Humungous amounts of megabytes of this stuff are sporadically sent throughout the Region. All of this echomail was spawned by one message which was entered in 1985 and everyone has been quoting the shit out of it ever since. Grunt Sysops: A strange infestation which has plagued Fidonet for years. No one has figured out what sort of toxic spray would be effective in eliminating them. The freshly hatched sysop-beings, shortly before mastering the basic skills of mailers and echomail distribution, plaster messages all over the known universe announcing yet another new net.. one that promises some feature so outstanding that it probably isn't replicated in more than 500 of the existing 600 Fidonet echomail areas. Hubs: Dwarf-like creatures who live in tinfoil lined, darkened caves, where their multi-node, Lan-based, 69 gazillion baud modems, poot forth echomail. Hubs are recognizable from the fact that their plastic pocket pen protector mounted pagers beep whenever they receive an inbound mail packet. Hubs secretly dream about bringing the entire Sports Illustrated Swimsuit modeling group to gaze at the diode arrays winking from every corner of their kleenex-piled rooms. NECs: Pituitary challenged Hubs who can often run a mailer for almost a whole day without having the system crash. NECs spend hours explaining batch files to bored and miserable people everywhere. NECs have LAN work-stations in their bathrooms where they do their best work. Nets: Nets are largish containment devices used to bag various *Cs who have run amok. These are not to be confused with "Network" which is also herein defined. Netwar: An exchange of pleasantries between sysops culminating in at least a dozen threats of policy complaints, filled diapers, and about 20 megs of brainlessly quoted text. Networks: Are collections of nodes who have mastered the incredible mentation powers to remember the same sequence of digits. Networks are loosely centred on geographic areas within easy mortar range of each other. Network Coordinators: (see also "Mazola & Bondage") Network Coordinators are selfless individuals who are reluctantly railroaded into wearing a large bullseye on their foreheads for the amusement of grunt sysops who are bored and have already painted the cat. Region: The region shall encompass that area in Canada lying to the east of the Manitoba border (unless they lower their taxes and sell cheaper beer) and continuing past the welfare states in the Atlantic provinces to whichever dead cod happen to wash up on the beaches of Sable Island. The Region shall also include the Free Republic of Quebec, but only insofar as it does not impinge upon their God-given right to rant endlessly about their contused and paranoid cultural identity. Regional Coordinators: The larval stage of Small Animal Psychologists. FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 7 28 Jun 2004 These beings are to be humoured and indulged since their are obligated to buy rounds of beer for all sysops at social gatherings. Regional Coordinators can be identified by the horrible sucking noises they make while applying Vulcan lip-locks to the ZC's nether bits. After weeks of sheep and sleep deprivation, these poor souls can be spotted, buck naked in the moonlight, howling for more policy. Technical Standards: A basepoint for launching into some sort of penis-envy type message comparing baud rates, how many terrabytes of online GIFS can be shot through the phone lines, or how some moron has pissed away a small fortune on a Pentium chip so that they can display messages at 14 million times their visual comprehension rate. I mean, let's face it, if you happen to have cute blossooms, nobody is going to give a damn whether your mailer works... in an ideal world, your mail would get hand-delivered. Users: Like, get serious wouldja? Screw 'em if they can't take a joke. 4. Official Titles: In this Region, a group of sick minds will choose some relatively innocent soul and propel the poor sucker into the job of Regional Co-ordinator. The Regional Coordinator shall have all the powers biologically granted to bread mold, but otherwise can be safely ignored. The Region shall be hacked up into small fiefdoms, called "Networks" which shall elect mascots, order pizza in bulk quantities, and participate in the annual Node Draft to choose the players for the upcoming Netwar season. Nets will dragoon someone into being the Network Coordinator who will be obliged to either undergo spontaneous human combustion before a full term is served, or else stand for re-election to the particular purgatory for which they are ideally maladapted. Network Coordinators will not be surprised to discover that they commune directly with either God or if they want to go right to the top; to Luke Kolin. Network Coordinators are entitled to screech that "they need a really big net." Judging from their post electoral behaviour, most grunt sysops would agree with their appraisal, and might further suggest a cell of the padded variety as well. Any grunt sysop who has stood in the blinding white light of their own ego too long is entitled to pile nine or ten listings of their own number into the nodelist and appoint themselves as Net Coordinator. They will be entitled to exhibit multiple-personality disorderly conduct and pontificate about "what their net wants." Spray misting these lost souls with regular doses of crystal-meth is advised. 5. Elections: Anyone who actually wants a title in Fidonet should be put in a bottle and sent out into the Japanese current. If their lives are so incomplete without the fame of a Fidonet title, then they should be encouraged to get their pictures on milk cartons, but don't elect the poor bastards because they'll inflict bad grammar on you FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 8 28 Jun 2004 until you lie in a pool of drool, clutching your "I Adore My 64" button, babbling about the good old days when men were men and sheep were not particular. 6. The Netwar Season: The netwar season shall commence nanoseconds after the election of each new Regional Coordinator. A season can be kick-started to a promising beginning by any Regional Coordinator who campaigns on some sort of "peace" platform. Like, nudge nudge, wink wink, we all *deplore* the fights in hockey games, so we'll be sure to take these kind of lame promises just as seriously. (snicker) (Incidentally, don't trust any candidate who quotes Arlo Guthrie in "Alices Restaraunt" and says "I wanna kill. I wanna kill. I mean, I wanna see blood and guts and veins in my teeth. I wanna kill. KILL! KILL!" because these are the kind of milquetoasts that probably brake for whales and will screw up a perfectly good netwar season with their puerile sniveling for calm. C'mon, fess up... you tryna tell me that you forked out five grand for a BBS system that was just gonna bring in the DOGTALK echo? At the beginning of each season, grunt sysops will make irrational decisions about who they hate at the moment, and will bounce up and down in their cribs, asking to be picked by their most favoured Network Coordinator. Top draft choices will always be those sysops who are prepared to nitpick the hell out of issue that occurred way back in the late fifties. Network Coordinators should not ignore the "specialty teams" that make netwars so fascinating. Getting one of those tight-assed weenies who quotes every obscenity that comes down the turnpike and then appends some cloacally-challenged moralizing, should be counted as almost as important as the wankers who brag that they are the very first to be running the "new" Fido Version 1.01 software. The latter can be be guaranteed to smoke out some peckerwood who counter-brags that he/she has been running that version for three nanoseconds longer.... under Windows, no less. A truly successful Netwar season can be measured by the logarithmic expansion of new nets, and the number of excitable, intrigue-filled, phone calls that Lesley-Dee makes. 7. The Stirring Conclusion: Just as this policy document was about to end. Just as Luke in his X-wing fighter was about to drop the Neutron bomb down the exhaust shaft and put this puppy out of it's misery. Just as the Bikersluts were about to perform peculiar ablutions in the lap of the good Rev. Visage. Just as your RETURN button was begging for mercy like some spaghetti flogged, Jesse Hollington-type combination fax machine and gratification device... just at that moment... a rock fungus will burst it's spore pod and some flatlined-on-the-EEG sysop will suggest that "we really oughta have lots more policy." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 9 28 Jun 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 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 Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Tel: (305) 248-3204 Software, Inc. | | AUP 450.2 on Jul 9th 2002 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 10 28 Jun 2004 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 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 | | 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 FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 11 28 Jun 2004 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ Atlantis Software |D |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/ | | last update: Jun 2002 BBS Central |D |http://www.rpcomputers.com Bentstone |D |http://www.srupc.com/mall Capabilities Group | | info@stonebenders.com Cheepware: |D |http://www.midnightshour.org/cheepware/ Sean Dennis | | hausmaus@midnightshour.org 1:11/200 DDS (Doorware |D |http://www.doorgames.org 1:2404/201 Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | DoorMUD |D |http://www.dmud.thebbs.org | | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002 Elysium Software |D |http://www.elysoft.com | | mpreslar@mailcity.com Jibben Software |D |http://www.jibbensoftware.com | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates JNS Software: |D |http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/ Rusty Johnson | | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com | | Tel: (304) 733-0113 John Dailey Software |D |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com | | support@johndaileysoftware.com LORD (Legend of the |D |http://www.lordlegacy.org Red Dragon) Reborn | | mike@lordlegacy.org | | v4.06 on Feb 5th 2001 Lord-II IGMs |D |http://www.shelby.net/wizards/lord2igm/ PC Pursuits |D |http://www.pcpursuits.com | | brucep@pop.kis.net | | Tel: (301) 240-6653 Shining Star |D |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 12 28 Jun 2004 | | 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 (various) |D |http://www.webnexus.com/users/etow/ +- - 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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 21-26 Page 14 28 Jun 2004 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.177 size 885.2kb date 2004-06-25 The nodelist has 7439 nodes in it and a total of 10183 non-comment entries including 6 zones 56 regions 423 hosts 525 hubs admin overhead 1010 ( 13.58 %) and 1098 private nodes 304 nodes down 332 nodes on hold off line overhead 1734 ( 23.31 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 625 ( 8.40 %) 9600 = 6447 ( 86.66 %) (HST = 131 or 2.03 %) (CSP = 1 or 0.02 %) (PEP = 11 or 0.17 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 3371 or 52.29 %) (V32B = 307 or 4.76 %) (V34 = 4351 or 67.49 %) (V42 = 3675 or 57.00 %) (V42B = 307 or 4.76 %) 2400 = 69 ( 0.93 %) 1200 = 6 ( 0.08 %) 300 = 292 ( 3.93 %) ISDN = 601 ( 8.08 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2448 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 15 28 Jun 2004 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 8 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 10 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 39 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 297 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3320 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1311 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2282 ( 30.68 %) MailOnly nodes = 4149 ( 55.77 %) Listed-only nodes = 577 ( 7.76 %) Other = 431 ( 5.79 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-26 Page 16 28 Jun 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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