Subj : two weather FDNs?
To   : mark lewis
From : Janis Kracht
Date : Mon Jul 08 2019 22:54:30

Hi Mark,

> what's the difference between NASA: Weather and EA: Weather?
> was the NASA one dropped in favor of the other one?

Yes, the NASA Weather area was dropped so now we are getting them under the EARTH fdn's weather.  Ben had trouble getting files for that file echo quite a
while ago.. The last weather file Ben hatched was on Sep 24  2018..

It is sort of a split of the old nasa FDN.. one for "space" (APOD pics in
/nasa/) hatched by Alan Ianson, and one for "earth" (new weather
files and also MODIS files) hatched by Dan Richter.

> i'm thinking about redoing my whole files areas setup... i think i'm going to
> split each FDN into a separate group of areas instead of having all FDN areas
> in one huge group... there's almost 300 areas available in 38 or so FDNs...

> BTW: in filegate.zxx, the FDN line for the legion FDN is missing the ":"...

Ok, thanks.. I fixed that tonight.  I will wait a day to get the new one out (not that I've hatched a couple or ten recently <g>)

The following will have to wait until tomorrow for me to take a look at it. Long day...  Thanks for pulling the list together though :)

>here's the unsorted grep list below... the first one is in the "key codes used
> in this list" and the last one is from the "list of participating file
> distribution networks" toward the end of the file...

> $ egrep -e "^% FDN" filegate.zxx

> % FDN:          File Distribution Network name.
> % FDN:          Fidonet Administrative files
> % FDN:          Echolist
> % FDN:          FidoNews
> % FDN:          FTSC: FidoNet Technical Standards Committee
> % FDN:          APPLEMAC FDN
> % FDN:          BBS-SCENE FDN
> % FDN:          BBBS File Distribution Network  (BBBS FDN)
> % FDN:          BFDS - Batch File Distribution System
> % FDN:          CHEEPWARE FDN
> % FDN:          DB - D'Bridge Email software
> % FDN:           EARTH
> % FDN:          FidoGazette
> % FDN:          FW - Fernwood
> % FDN:          GED WIN Fdn
> % FDN:          Ham Distribution Network
> % FDN:          I-Nodelist FDN
> % FDN:             INTERMAIL Mailer FDN
> % FDN            Legion File Distribution Network
> % FDN:          LNX4 Various Linux file echo FDN
> % FDN:          NASA FDN
> % FDN:          MBSE BBS for Unix
> % FDN:           MYSTIC FDN
> % FDN:          OddBall FDN
> % FDN:          Oredson Software
> % FDN:          Pascal-Net
> % FDN:          PDN - Programmers Distribution Network
> % FDN:          Perl File Distribution Network (PerlNet)
> % FDN:          R50 File Distribution Network
> % FDN:          RAR-FDN
> % FDN:  SFDS- Script Files Distribution System
> % FDN:          SDS - Software Distribution System
> % FDN:          STN: SysOps Tech Net
> % FDN:          Tablets FDN
> % FDN:          Taurus FDN
> % FDN:          UtilNet -  Utilities for Everyone
> % FDN:          WCF: Wildcat!
> % FDN:          W32BINKD - The Windows BinkD FDN
> % FDN:          WIN_FDN - The Windows File Distribution Network
> % FDN Name                          Path to FileGate


> )\/(ark

> And to this end they built themselves a stupendous super-computer which was
> so amazingly intelligent that even before its data banks had been connected
> up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as far as deducing
> the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to turn
> it off.
> ... Everything has an end but the sausage which has two. -Danish proverb

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