The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 38 20 Sep 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. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR .................................... 3 FidoNet archive .......................................... 3 4. FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ................................. 4 JamNNTPd - a case study .................................. 4 5. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 7 T.H.E.Y. Declare Democracy ............................... 7 6. IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO .............................. 8 Traffic Violations Bureau ................................ 8 7. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 10 FIDONet Software References .............................. 10 8. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15 9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17 How to Submit an Article ................................. 17 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19 FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 1 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems that we cannot solve at the same level as they were created. -- Albert Einstein, 1946 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 2 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= A letter arrived from a fellow editor, asking, if I've understood it properly, for collections of our special fido jive. I know there are lots of stuff like that hiding in the archives of most BBSs; if you have something you think might be of interest, I hope you are able to interpret the obfuscated email address in the letter head. Also there's kind of a manual for those interested in setting up what must be the best way ever to make fidonet available to users via the internet. JamNNTPd is *not* just another fidogate program, it's much more like the old BBS-programs we used to have in the Good Old Days, only here we use internet rather than a dial-up line, and the user use his/her favourite news reader rather then the built-in editor in the BBS. There's also a support echo, JAMNNTPD, available from your nearby echomail provider, should you have any questions. As for the nostalgia section this week, am I the only one getting associations to Luke "Catcalls" Kolin...? ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 3 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= LETTERS TO THE EDITOR ================================================================= FidoNet archive By Grant Barrett To whom it concerns: This is a long shot, but I'm wondering if there's any sort of archive of FidoNet which traveled over the network. I am particularly interested in those which do not duplicate content already covered by Google Groups or the Internet at large. I'm aware that such an archive would be huge. The reason I ask is that I am a lexicographer specializing in slang. I'm always on the hunt for untapped accidental corpora and FidoNet, if such an archive existed, would be a goldmine. Thanks, in any case. -- Grant Barrett -- Project Editor, "Historical Dictionary of American Slang," Oxford University Press -- Editor, "Hatchet Jobs and Hardball: The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang" (2004) -- Editor, Double-Tongued Word Wrester, http://www.doubletongued.org/ -- Webmaster, American Dialect Society, http://www.americandialect.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 4 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE REVIEWS ================================================================= JamNNTPd - a case study So you finally decided to take a look at that JamNNTPd package you've heard so much about? And after you've unpacked it, you have absolutely no clue about what to do with it? Well, then you've decided to read the right textfile. I did very much the same, half a year ago. It wasn't until I got a permanent connection to the internet that I realized what I could do with this package. If you *don't* have a permanent connection to the internet, you can stop reading here, and just delete the entire package. Well, on second thought maybe not -- a local installation of JamNNTPd and your favourite news reader will probably be a better combination for reading and writing fidonet echoes than most others you will find, so stay with us. What is it? ========== JamNNTPd is for 'news://...' what Apache, IIS & al are for 'http://...', i.e. it's a server program that lets any user from internet reach your JAM message base with any news reader they happen to have installed. So how do you go about making JamNNTPd work? Well, this is a case study from my setup. I use WinXP as front-end against internet, and have (of course!) the built-in firewall enabled. I have several 'mshome.net' workstations connected to the internet via ICS, and on one of these I decided to setup and run JamNNTPd. What do I do first? ================== The first thing you should do, after you've unpacked the zip-file, is to edit the four config files, jamnntpd.groups, *.users, *.allow and *.xlat to suit your setup. The help-texts in those files should be selfexplanatory. Then what? ========= Then you have to open up a port in your firewall to allow outside, as well as inside (usually yourself) callers to reach your JamNNTPd newsserver. The default port for a newsserver is 119, so this is a good choice for incoming from internet, and 5000 is usually a good one for outgoing to your local network. Settings for the WinXP firewall can be reached from right-clicking on your internet connection icon in 'Settings'->'Network and Dial-up Connections' and then click your way to 'Properties'->'Advanced'->'Settings'. Add a new porthole, lets call it JamNNTPd, with 119, 5000, TCP and the local name of the workstation where you installed the JamNNTPd server (localhost will do fine if you installed JamNNTPd on the workstation FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 5 20 Sep 2004 that your firewall is located on). Now all you have to do is 'Win-R cmd' and do a 'cd' to the proper directory and give the command 'jamnntpd' and you're up and running! Remember that even if your outside callers must use port 119, you yourself, from inside the firewall, must use port 5000 to connect to your own newsserver. So that's it, then? ================== Once you've made sure it's working, you can start finetuning your setup. First of all, Ctrl-C stops the server. :) Then you may remember that the server does not need to be restarted whenever you edit one of the four config files. Thirdly, even if the defaults usually is a good choice, if you want a conservative, fidonettish look&feel from your JamNNTPd newsserver, you might be interested in knowing how I start it: jm.bat ------ @jamnntpd.exe -notearline -smartquote -noreplyaddr -m 10 \ -echomailjam r:\sem\fdxit6.60 ------ As some of you might guess from the above, I still rely on a FrontDoor node to take care of most of the things, such as tossing and scanning echomail. 'fdxit6.60' is a semaphore file that tells my FrontDoor node 6 to exit with errorlevel 60. That is my major toss&scan event. I use CrashMail II (from the JamNNTPd author) to toss&scan my JAM areas, since my old squishmail can't handle JAM. Can I let anybody in? ==================== In fidonet, we have a very strict policy about real-names and proper authentication of users, before they are allowed to write anything in any of our echoes. So, if you setup fidonet echoes, you must make sure your users are authenticated before they are allowed to write anything. Reading is, of course, perfectly OK even for anonymous visitors. Proper authenticating is also handled by JamNNTPd, based on how you setup your *.users and *.allow files. Normally you probably will have a *.allow that only has one line: '* ABCDE A' ... meaning you let everybody read in your A, B, C, D and E groups but only write in A (for anonymous). In *.users you can add more groups, that only authenticated users may read or write: # Syntax: # FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 6 20 Sep 2004 # # sysop password ABISTX ABISTX # # I=international # S=Swedish # T=beta-test # X=private # user1 password1 AIST AIST user2 password2 ABIST ABIST user3 password3 ABIST ABIS user4 password4 AIST ABST user5 password5 AIST AI guest guest AIST A Well, sysop could just as well have used * for both groups. Poor user 4 is not allowed to read B groups but can write (probably not a very good idea), and user5 is not trusted with writing in Swedish-only echoes. Furthermore, you can add a real-name for any user listed here (more about that in the main doc). Then all you have to do, is inform your users to set up their news reader to "always request authentication to this server" and to have configured it with the proper nick, true-name and password. It may interest them to know, that what they enter in the "Organisation:" field ends up in the origin line, unless you use one of the options, described in the main doc, to use a fixed origin line of your choice. ----- Bj”rn Felten, news://felten.dyndns.org or fidonet 2:203/208 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 7 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ================================================================= T.H.E.Y. Declare Democracy By Andy Alt Originally Scripted on 09/27/2003 Power to the People! At a press conference yesterday which shocked mankind on a Global scale, The well-known T.H.E.Y. Commission stated clearly and without question, "All members of our world-famous council have unanimously decided to accept ideas and facts from the the common man. Women are included in this equation." If someone says to you one month from today, "T.H.E.Y. say that's bad for you," or "T.H.E.Y. said that it couldn't be done," you can rest assured that the information obtained will have been thoroughly researched by not only _The_ High_Establishment_Yarns_Commission, but also by people as common as you or I. This unprecedented change is mostly for the benefit of anyone who has ever declared, "I can't believe T.H.E.Y. said that!" The change will also aid in alleviating a lot of paranoid citizens; the ones that ask, "T.H.E.Y. said that about me?" As I conclude and re-read this article, I recall a particular statement made by _The_High_Establishment_Yarns_Commission: T.H.E.Y. said, "After September 11, news reporting will never be the same." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 8 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO ================================================================= Traffic Violations Bureau Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada My Dear Doctor Logger, What a surprise to have arrived here in Winnipeg on the one day a year that people actually go out of doors. This city almost certainly possesses a climate that is overly mean even for this country, and has reacted by burrowing underground. I'm certain that there is no other burg on the planet that actually prohibits pedestrians from crossing the street at its busiest intersection. Here in Winnipeg, they've actually built earthworks that resemble an 18th century fortress around the intersection, just in case someone would be foolish enough to both be outside and attempt to cross the street. Obviously, the city fathers were unaware that, once every 20 years or so, there is an exception from the usual two weather options, being: 40 below zero, or; huge swarms of insects. Needless to say, Ms. LaBamba created something of a stir by insisting upon crossing the street, and doing so while clad in her leopard-skin Lambada dancing outfit. Please advise Sylvia that there may be some correspondence forthcoming from the Winnipeg Traffic Violations Bureau. Some people just have no sense of humour. Did I mention that I could use a small sum of money to bail out Ms. Labamba? Ten thousand or so, preferably in small, unmarked bills would be most convenient. Back to business. I must confess to having spent the last week convinced that our beloved RC had passed on to his reward. Not a sign of him anywhere, and believe me, I have searched in every massage parlour, table-dance emporium, and cheesy watering hole on the prairies. It hasn't been pretty. I even detoured through a place called Gimli, which has a unique blend of Icelandic, Ukrainian and Cree inhabitants, after hearing a strange report of a huge windsurfing competition being held there. Naturally, I went there because I felt it would have been a perfect place for an RC to hide, and not to witness svelt, wet young ladies with butt-floss bikinis riding windsurfers. But, sadly, there was no sign of the RC there either. I did, however, partake in the cultural oddity of eating perogies, served by a thick ankled, near-albino woman dressed in feathers, in the "Valhalla" restaurant, which is tastefully decorated in native mandallas. And they say Quebec is distinct. Go figure. But finally, after all the searching and waiting, the RC appeared in the most unlikely place - the regional echo which he 'moderates.' Needless to say, it was heartening to see evidence that Rick "Weekend at Bernies" Johnston was, in fact, alive. It was somewhat less than heartening to see that his first message to his adoring grunt sysops was a protracted paranoid whine that seemed to insinuate that dark, FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 9 20 Sep 2004 evil forces are at work in preventing him from performing those highly technical duties of distributing the nodelist and the 'snooze. I think he must be right. In fact, I think the reasons for his many, many absences, the erratic gunboat diplomacy that has led him to defrock elected NCs, and now the inability to promulgate the regional nodelists can only be explained by one thing -- The CIA. I don't think that it's any coincidence that the Excited States of Murrica is about to invade Haiti at the same time Region 12 is undermined from within. If you don't believe me, do you think its a coincidence that Mark Skaff has now returned to Net163 AND that it's been proven that Elvis' body was actually a large, sweaty wax replica? I didn't think so. I'll get to the bottom of this, Logger, I'm off to Washington D.C. as soon as I rescue Ms. LaBamba and Sylvia resolves the little matter of my Calgary travel expenses. (Honestly, as if I was the first person to ever hire naked country line dancers. I needed to witness the Western ambiance firsthand. So to speak.) I also understand that net250's squabbles grow deeper, and, in order to receive mail, various factions have now purchased satellite dishes, which they waggle menacingly at one another. The Almighty has already expressed His opinion of this occurence, by spiking a few zillion volts into one of them via a Thor-like lightning bolt. As your spiritual advisor, I'd offer up this incident as proof of divine justice, and would suggest that you keep your inbounds land-lined. Mind you, given the right weather, one can roast a chicken extremely quickly with one of those dishes. I'll report in from Washington posthaste. Religiously Yours, Rev. Richard Visage Spiritual Advisor, Region 12 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 10 20 Sep 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 21-38 Page 11 20 Sep 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 21-38 Page 12 20 Sep 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 +- - 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- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ National BBS List |? | http://www.usbbs.org Hispanic FIDO/BBS's |? | http://www.conecta2.org/pucela_bbs/ (in Spanish only) | | (Extensive software & BBS Listings) +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://www.filegate.org http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org http://www.juge.com http://www.dmine.com/bbscorner/ http://garbo.uwasa.fi http://www.simtel.net http://wuarchive.wustl.edu http://hobbes.nmsu.edu Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// vice http:// above) *=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=*=.=*=-=* Note: Please send corrections & additions to: Ben Ritchey, 1:393/68 ( or FReq Magic INFO direct for E-mail address ) WildCat! 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 21-38 Page 15 20 Sep 2004 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.261 size 861.7kb date 2004-09-17 The nodelist has 7190 nodes in it and a total of 9906 non-comment entries including 6 zones 47 regions 392 hosts 499 hubs admin overhead 944 ( 13.13 %) and 1092 private nodes 325 nodes down 355 nodes on hold off line overhead 1772 ( 24.65 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 616 ( 8.57 %) 9600 = 6213 ( 86.41 %) (HST = 126 or 2.03 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.02 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 3256 or 52.41 %) (V32B = 269 or 4.33 %) (V34 = 4222 or 67.95 %) (V42 = 3573 or 57.51 %) (V42B = 268 or 4.31 %) 2400 = 64 ( 0.89 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.10 %) 300 = 290 ( 4.03 %) ISDN = 572 ( 7.96 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2367 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 16 20 Sep 2004 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 9 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 8 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 37 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 290 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3203 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1270 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2188 ( 30.43 %) MailOnly nodes = 4030 ( 56.05 %) Listed-only nodes = 555 ( 7.72 %) Other = 417 ( 5.80 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-38 Page 17 20 Sep 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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