Subj : FidoGazette Volume 18 Issue 5 To : All From : Sean Dennis Date : Mon Mar 07 2022 06:25 pm The FidoGazette Volume 18 Number 5 7 March 2022 +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | The alternative newsletter | THE FIDOGAZETTE | | for the Fidonet community! | | | _ | Compiled, edited, and published by | | / \ | Sean Dennis @ 1:18/200 | | /|oo \ | | | (_| /_) | Published weekly on Mondays | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ )) | "Advertisements contain the only | | |__U__| / \// | truths be relied on in a newspaper." | | _//|| _\ / | -- Thomas Jefferson | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | | | | | +----------------------------+---------------------------------------+ | For information, copyrights, article submissions, | | obtaining copies of the FidoGazette, please refer to the | | FidoGazette mast at the end of this newsletter. | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1 Call For Content ......................................... 1 A Shiny New Issue of the FidoGazette! .................... 1 2. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 History repeats itself again and again ................... 3 Pioneer Introduces New Optical Disc Drive ................ 5 3. COLUMNS .................................................. 7 As I See It: Zone 2's Superstitions ...................... 7 4. COORDINATORS' CORNER ..................................... 9 FTSC Election ............................................ 9 5. THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ...................................... 10 6. FIDOGAZETTE BBS LIST ..................................... 11 7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LIST .................................... 13 8. FIDOGAZETTE INFORMATION .................................. 20 FGAZ 18-05 Page 1 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Call For Content I need your content for the FidoGazette! I am always looking for articles, reviews, technical content, what-have-you for the FidoGazette. I know a lot of you are thinking "I can't write anything" or "I have nothing interesting to say." You're wrong. Everyone has something to say but doesn't know how to say it. That's where I come in: I can help you write an article. Even if you feel your writing skills aren't the best, I can help you with content creation and proofreading if need be. If you're not sure where your content would fit into the FG, drop me a netmail and ask. I am willing to help. Even if you're not a big fan of me personally, I still want your content for the FG (except if it's a flame; those go into the trash). Grab the FidoGazette Submission infopack and give it a read. If you have an idea about a subject but aren't sure, ask me. I'd love to get you published in the FidoGazette. -- Sean ----------------------------------------------------------------- A Shiny New Issue of the FidoGazette! Here's issue 5 of the FG this year. This is our largest issue yet at 20 pages! There's a few new additions to the 'Gazette with this issue: -- The FidoGazette BBS List is back! See the end of the list on how to submit your BBS listing to be included. -- I have started my own opinion column called "As I See It". This column expresses my opinions on all things Fidonet. Note that this column is my personal opinion and does not reflect the opinions of anyone or anything else. -- The FidoGazette is now available via the Web! You can get all of the back issues (starting with volume 18, issue 1) and the current issue at http(s)://outpostbbs.net/fgazette.html. -- I have fixed up some internal issues with the FG's layout to make the table of contents easier to understand. I've updated the 'Gazette's mast to reflect these changes. FGAZ 18-05 Page 2 14 Mar 2022 I hope you enjoy this issue of the FidoGazette and as always, thank you for reading. -- Sean Dennis (1:18/200) FidoGazette Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 3 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= History repeats itself again and again Ward Dossche - 2:292/854 From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy and economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of WW2. War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that doesn't make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is. In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit of the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men, women and children. The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument. I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers also had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were aware of the atrocity which they were committing without giving it a second thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least once in their life ... 78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good at obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off the brain. Follow the order and do not question. It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly women and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN calls it and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its bank-account for these people in need fleeing from ... from "what" exactly ... A regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent on annihilating a peaceful well organized European-style democracy and economy ... The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine what the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland? Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime. But Russia has already committed war crimes the past week, which they know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they will not stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been raped by Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ... propaganda ... but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint the actual story. Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it. It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the darkest days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights than in ... FGAZ 18-05 Page 4 14 Mar 2022 2022 ... Eventually Russia is going to do exactly as the Chinese did with Tibet where the native polution was overwhelmed by an influx of Han-Chinese and that way trying to destroy the age-old culture and traditions of the Tibetans. The same will happen in Ukraine, as a nation ... a people ... a civilisation will be wiped-out. The country will be rebuilt by ethnic Russians and hundreds of years of culture and civilisation will be destroyed by the fire on pyres reminiscent of May 10 1933 when works of Ernest Hemmingway, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Mann, Ernst Glaeser, Erich Kaestner, Erich Maria Remarque and others were deemed corrupted and decadent presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. In the end the so-called de-Nazification by Putin will be carried-out by strictly Nazi methodologies and policies ... To stay mentally healthy, you look for rational explanations. But some things are inexplicable. Western culture in the decades since the Second World War has tried to explain everything, to be tolerant and always to understand the other. But sometimes the other is simply evil. Pure and simple. We had forgotten the existence of that evil. Now we see the outcome of that mistake. It is unbearable to see war as a simple product of an insane mind. There must be a plan behind it, it must mean something. Who sets up a catastrophe with their own hands, just because they can? There's an interesting book explaining how Hitler could continue his horrible policies against his own population ... "Hitler's willing executioners" ... Who will write its sequel "Putin's willing executioners"? Putin has noticed that his number of followers has dwindled in the last two years, and does not know how to save his presidency in a country that is largely integrated into the Western world. So he does something so horrific that the whole world shuts itself off from him. Then locks the door from the inside. People are arrested for standing on the street with a blank sheet of paper in their hands, it is enough to hold it and get beaten. Perhaps Putin will soon reach for an Iranian or North Korean scenario. If the country is locked down, explicit protest is almost impossible. Then every discourse, like the minds of the people, will be divided into two versions, as in Soviet times. You stick to the official story if they can see and hear you. In addition, there is the story that is told within the family. We need separate what is happening in Putin's head and what is happening in Russia. Russia is not a collective brain. All polls, even those of loyalist sociologists, clearly show that the country is not united. Support for the war varies in a country where people aren't exactly open to a man with a microphone asking them what they think of Putin or the war. FGAZ 18-05 Page 5 14 Mar 2022 Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power. Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after being led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story last in Russia? It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In a sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the riot-police are already there. Putin is trying to drag the people into a dark past and forcing them to think as if the ideas and circumstances of eighty years ago still hold true today. Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can paint the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell the idea of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state, as Putin is trying to do. Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest. Sometimes silence is a statement on its own. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Pioneer Introduces New Optical Disc Drive By Sean Dennis 1:18/200 From: https://tinyurl.com/ya24322v (tomshardware.com) Optical Discs Aren't Dead, as Pioneer's New Drive Doubles BD Write Speeds By Mark Tyson published 1 March 2022 Return of the optical drive Physical media is back from the dead, or at least that's the opinion of Pioneer, which just launched a new optical disc drive (ODD) for desktop or media center PCs with a spare 5.25 inch bay. Yes, it's 2022, but there are allegedly still ODD holdouts. For them, the [45]Pioneer BDR-213JBK doubles the maximum write speed on Blu-ray discs and covers the full gamut of reading and writing optical media including CDs, DVDs, and BDs, plus a multitude of sub-variants. Pioneer says it improved both recording quality, and this handsome and not at all over-the-hill device has a textured hairline finish and blue LED on its facade, alongside the classic silver embossed Pioneer logo. In case you don't know what you might use an ODD for in 2022, Pioneer has some helpful suggestions. "With the spread of telework these days, there are increasing opportunities to store large amounts of data such as work data and FGAZ 18-05 Page 6 14 Mar 2022 online conference recordings at home," writes the iconic Japanese Hi-Fi and technology brand. "The demand for optical discs and optical drives is expected to increase," it adds, with some degree of wishful thinking. Highlights of the new drive include its up to 16x speed recording performance on BD-R discs (single-layer 25GB). If you are looking for greater capacity than speed, Pioneer says that the BDR-213JBK can record BD-R (2 layers, 50GB) at 14x speed, BD-R XL (3 layers, 100GB) at 8x speed, and BD-R XL (4 layers, 128GB capacity). For video playback purposes you might want to burn 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray discs, and these can be recorded at 6x speeds. Meanwhile for DVDs the top recording speed is 16x, and for CDs it maxes out at 48x. For audio CD recording, a feature called Pure Read 3 may be attractive. Pioneer says this allows the drive to adjust its reading method if it encounters difficulty due to a scratch or dirt on the ODD surface. Another interesting feature of the Pioneer BDR-213JBK is its high-speed recording capability using M-Discs, which are designed for long-term archival storage. And just in case you need some extra software, besides its own system utilities, Pioneer provides a host of CyberLink software that will help you to edit videos and burn discs. CyberLink? [46]Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time... a long time. [Checks calendar again. Yup, it's still 2022.] Pioneer has a lengthy and multi-layered table to let customers know precisely what ODD formats it supports the reading, playback and writing of. It seems to cover a very wide gamut of formats, but if you are doubtful whether some particular ODD you are interested in using is compatible, then please check out the top linked press release. Some non-format related specs include; the Serial ATA 3.0 interface, the possibility of horizontal or vertical orientation, the drive's 4MB buffer, its 148 x 42.3 x 181mm dimensions, and 740g weight. The Pioneer BDR-213JBK is already up for sale in Japan for the local equivalent of about $150, including sales tax. So if you're looking at your PC and thinking, "What this box really needs in 2022 is an optical drive," Pioneer has got you covered. Links: 45. https://jpn.pioneer/ja/pcperipherals/bdd/products/ bdr-213jbk/?ad=pr 46. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031vKBPk5eA ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 7 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= As I See It: Zone 2's Superstitions An opinion column by Sean Dennis (1:18/200) Welcome to a new opinion column in the FidoGazette! This is where I will express my personal opinions about all things Fidonet. (Please note that the opinions expressed here are of my own and are not representative of anyone or anything else.) So let's start off the column with the latest stupidity: I am being castigated by several sysops in Zone 2 for trying to "usurp power" in echoes simply by elisting them and posting echo rules. Now I know these European sysops operate on feelings rather than facts but let's start off with a few facts: -- I am told that I have a "bad reputation" because of all of the echoes I have elisted and moderate because Zone 2 feels that I am trying to "usurp power" from unknown persons. -- I am also told that in Zone 2, I am seen as a bad person by daring to post echo rules and try to enforce a modicum of civility. -- Echomail is not an official part of Fidonet. This is an oft-overlooked fact. -- I cannot find anywhere in Policy 4 where I have to give credence to Zone 2's silly superstitions about echomail (read EP1 for more). -- All of the echoes I control originate in Zone 1. -- I follow Zone 1's established procedures about elisting echoes. -- The reason I post echo rules and enforce them are because of the actions of these very same hypocritical and pious sysops. -- Policy 4 only means something to these sysops unless it is supposedly in their favor. -- None of these other Zone 2 sysops give a damn until someone in Zone 1 takes action. So, in short, Zone 2 is having puppies about my following my own zone's established procedures when dealing with echoes. Several zone 2 sysops havecastrated themselves on the altar of public embarrassment while flailing their hands and bleating loudly to anyone who will listen. If you stop by WIN95, which I recently elisted, Wilfred van Veltzen (2:280/464)is making a grand ass out of himself in the echo insisting that I am not the moderator. FGAZ 18-05 Page 8 14 Mar 2022 I honestly think that Wilfred and certain others are aching to rekindle the zone wars and trying to find any excuse to do so. Wilfred commented recently in FIDOGAZETTE that he thinks the zone wars are still going on. Sorry, Wilfred...you can cry, whine, act pedantic, use your best histrionics...but the fact won't change that your opinion does not matter about echoes that originate in Zone 1...even if you've been participating in them for decades. Fidonet will finally move on once these people leave the network but until then, the rest of us are stuck changing these wizened old men's adult diapers. And there you have it as I see it. Constructive criticism and comments are welcomed. Letters to the editor are also welcomed. Netmail is welcomed also but I prefer the other methods first (I accept crashmail via BinkD). Leave your flamethrower and vulgarities at the door or I will just delete your message. -- Sean 1:18/200 ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 9 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= COORDINATORS' CORNER ================================================================= FTSC Election Ward Dossche - 2:2/1000 All RCs in all zones please be advized there is an election going on for FTSC Standing Members. Your participation is important. All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes" or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can- didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected. The voting started Sunday, 27 February, 2022 and will conclude Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC. If you were listed as an RC in your zone's version of the world nodelist.028 for 2022 then you're good to go. These are the nominees. Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote". Voters need not vote for all candidates. ---------------------------------------------- | Name | Node nr | Yes| No | |----------------------|-------------|----|----| | | | | | | Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | | | James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | | | Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | | ---------------------------------------------- Ward Dossche IC ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 10 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ================================================================= "Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 11 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= FIDOGAZETTE BBS LIST ================================================================= The FidoGazette BBS List Maintained by Sean Dennis (1:18/200) Total systems listed: 9 BBSes are listed in alphabetical order. ----------------------------------------------------------------- BBS Name: Central Ontario Remote Sysop name: Mick Manning Fidonet AKA: 1:229/307 BBS Software: Mystic Telnet address/Phone #: centralontarioremote.com:2323 Website: http://centralontarioremote.com:8080 Desc: Home of the musician's network, BluesNET. BBS Name: Imzadi Box Sysop name: Anna Christina Nass Fidonet AKA: 2:240/5824 BBS Software: Synchronet Telnet address/Phone #: box.imzadi.de Website: http://box.imzadi.de/ Desc: Small BBS with several games and message networks. FTN hub of WeedNet (Zone 420) BBS Name: Outpost BBS Sysop name: Sean Dennis (digimaus/KS4TD) Fidonet AKA: 1:18/200 BBS Software: MBSE BBS Telnet: bbs.outpostbbs.net ports 23 or 10123 Website: outpostbbs.net Desc: The home of Cheepware, The Micronet Information Network, the FidoGazette, and the Ham Distribution Network SDS. BBS Name: Palantir BBS Sysop name: Dan Clough (AKA Gamgee) Fidonet AKA: 1:123/115 BBS Software: Synchronet Telnet address: palantirbbs.ddns.net Desc: Multiple echomail networks, old-school filebase and several CDROMs online. Lots of Doom/Quake/Duke stuff. Many local and BBSLink doors. New callers welcome! BBS Name: PiBBS Sysop name: Shaun Buzza Fidonet AKA: McDoob BBS Software: Mystic Telnet address/Phone #: pibbs.sytes.net:23 Website: pibbs.sytes.net (not enabled) Desc: When you build a BBS on a Pi, you have a PiBBS! FGAZ 18-05 Page 12 14 Mar 2022 BBS Name: Star Collision BBS Sysop name: Bjorn Wiberg Fidonet AKA: 2:201/137 BBS Software: Mystic BBS Telnet address/Phone #: scbbs.nsupdate.info:50023 Website: https://scbbs.nsupdate.info/ Desc: Star Collision BBS was founded in 1993, closed in 1997, and re-opened in 2019. It will focus on echomail conferences and file echos for the time being, with more to come in the future. BBS Name: Roon's BBS Sysop name: Daniel Path Fidonet AKA: 2:371/52 BBS Software: Maximus/2 Telnet address/Phone #: bbs.roonsbbs.hu:1212 +36-1-4454412 Website: http://bbs.roonsbbs.hu Desc: pure retro 90s bbs, original hardware and software :) BBS Name: The Rusty MailBox Sysop name: Alan Ianson Fidonet AKA: 1:153/757 BBS Software: BBBS Telnet address/Phone #: trmb.ca:2030 Website: trmb.ca Desc: An old school BBS. File and message areas including Fidonet, fsxNet, Metronet and Cybernet. BBS Name: The Thunderbolt BBS Sysop name: Daryl Stout Fidonet AKA: 1:2320/33 BBS Software: Synchronet Telnet address/Phone #: tbolt.synchro.net Website: tbolt.synchro.net Desc: Arkansas' longest running Ham Radio/Weather BBS. Note that the BBS is offline during maintenance, or when thunderstorms are in the area. Over 350 doors, over 700 message areas, and over 10,000 files. Free Usage, G/PG content. Christian Related material is online for those who want it. ----------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like your BBS to be listed, just use the template below and send it to me in a message in the FIDOGAZETTE echo or via netmail. BBS Name: Sysop name: Fidonet AKA: BBS Software: Telnet address/Phone #: Website: Desc: If you don't have a website, just leave that field blank. Please make your description less than 200 characters. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FGAZ 18-05 Page 13 14 Mar 2022 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LIST ================================================================= BBS Software List Updated 2022-02-13 Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/219) Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht, Sean Dennis M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility #=Info F=TIC/SRIF Processor *=Software is available and may be registerable, but no longer supported or updated. @=Website is operating but is no longer updated. ?=Software's updating/support status is unknown. O=Software is open source. This list contains BBS-related software that is available for registration (not necessarily supported), open source software and actively developed/supported software by its author. Software listed may be available for DOS, Linux, OS/2 (eComStation), Windows (16 or 32 bit) and OSX. .- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -. |Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' ==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products | | /argus/ | | v3.210 on 2001-03-29 BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net | | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on 2000-10-22 BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org | | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68 | | v.1.0.4 | | v.1.1a-113 (alpha) | | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft | | /mailer/binkd/ | |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/ D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.dbridgemailer.com |I | support@dbridgemailer.com 1:1/130 Nick Andre | | v4.00 on 2022-02-12 FGAZ 18-05 Page 14 14 Mar 2022 FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.datenbahn.dd-dns.de/ | | cdp/fp_deluxe/ | | v2.4 on 2003-09-26 FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se Definite Solutions |E | sales@defsol.se | | FD v2.33ml, FD/APX v1.15 InterMail |MCPE |http://www.Intermail.net 1:106/201 Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net | | IM v2.60 on 2017-08-28 Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/ |EO? | v1.9 RC2 on 2010-04-20 Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/ (based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm | | v5.0 on 2006-06-12 | | T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only) |? | v2608 on 2001-12-12 AfterShock |MTEI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Asvcorp | | details?id=com.asvcorp.aftershock Anatoly Vdovichev | | rudi.timmer@gmx.com 2:292/140 Rudi Timmermans | | v1.6.7 on 2017-11-19 HotDogEd |E |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Sergey Pushkin | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141 HotDogEd FidoNet |MTI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/ Provider | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged.fido Sergey Pushkin | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> MAIL TOSSERS Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | crashmail.html FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/old/Products | | /FastEcho/fastecho.html | | v1.46.1 on 2007-11-13 | | Registration keys are free & available | | by request from the author Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org | | v4.4.10 on 2004-08-27 | | FMail |TO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/ | | v2.0.1.4 on 2017-04-21 FGAZ 18-05 Page 15 14 Mar 2022 InterEcho |T |http://www.Intermail.net 1:220/60 Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net | | IE 1.20 on 2017-08-28 JetMail: JetSys |TU | (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on 2000-01-01 Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v1.11R2 on 2009-01-01 | | Source code available in Maximus BBS | | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/ | | v1.51 on 2015-05-23 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS SOFTWARE BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:222/2 | | b@bbbs.net | | v4.01 on 2007-01-28 EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com | | v0.10.RC1 on 2002-06-09 Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 2010-10-14 | | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT Ezycom BBS |BT* |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682 | | v2.15g2 on 2009-11-16 GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/ | | v19.00 Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/ Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com | | v3.5.10b3 Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/ | | v3.03 | | Source code available at: | | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/ MBSE BBS |BMTFI|https://sourceforge.net 1:1/119 |PO | /projects/mbsebbs | | ajleary@sourceforge.net | | v1.0.7.24 on 2022-01-06 Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.0b on 2004-04-26 Mystic BBS |BMTCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com |I | v1.12 A46 on 2020-08-26 FGAZ 18-05 Page 16 14 Mar 2022 NiKom BBS (Amiga) |BO |http://www.nikom.org | | v2.3.1 on 2017-07-01 RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120 | | bfmorse@rapro.com | | v2.62.2SW on 2000-10-25 Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305 | | v1.25/DOS on 2021-05-16 Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/ | | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com | | v3.7 on 2010-01-01 Synchronet BBS |BMTIO|http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705 | | v3.19b on 2022-01-02 Telegard BBS |B* | | | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on 1999-12-19 WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com Xpress: Santronics | | Software, Inc. | | v8.0 AUP 454.12 on 2021-05-14 WWIV BBS |B |http://www.wwivbbs.org | | v5.6.1 on 2021-04-23 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:218/720 Ken Johnson | | v6.1.0 on 2019-02-02 NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/ | | v2.45b2 on 2000-03-05 TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /tinytic.html VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /vireq.html +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html Sean Dennis | | sysop@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org Ruth Argust | | FGAZ 18-05 Page 17 14 Mar 2022 Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/ | | bbs-door-games.cfm | | scott@jibben.com | | 1995-99 Release dates John Dailey Software |DU |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/ | | nannette@shiningstar.net | | Doors are registerable via website Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com | | Tel: (404) 256-9518 T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/ Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452 | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE 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 |DU* |http://vbsoft.dhakota.org | | d@dhakota.org | | Last update: 2008-04-11 WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/ | | v3.0 on 2011-06-27 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ +- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> POINT SOFTWARE APoint |PI |https://stargate.org.uk/apoint/ | | v1.25 on 2001-12-12 (Win32) | | Needs the binkD Toolkit for Fido-over-IP | | which is available from the above URL. CrossPoint |P |http://www.crosspoint.de | | pm@crosspoint.de | | v3.12d on 1999-12-22 (DOS, Shareware) FreeXP |PO |http://www.freexp.de | | support@freexp.de | | v3.42 on 2020-09-25 (DOS) OpenXP |PIO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/ | |https://openxp.uk/ | | dev@openxp.uk FGAZ 18-05 Page 18 14 Mar 2022 | | v5.0.51 on 2021-12-26 | | (Win32, Linux(64-Bit}) WinPoint |PI |http://www.winpoint.org/ | | Tim Schattkowsky 2:240/1120.29 | | v398.2 on 2022-02-06 (Win32) +- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on 2015-11-30 | | NOTE: Unstable versions released often SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493 | | v1.15 on 1999-12-15 | | Website is in German and English +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INTERNET UTILITIES Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 | | v2.29 on 2001-10-21 JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net | | /jamnntpd.html | | 1:120/544 Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate | | /lgate | | gul@gul.kiev.ua MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net | | v3.5.0 on 2019-05-06 RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects | | /ftrack-as 2:5080/102 | |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net | | v1.32 on 2011-04-29 TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/ | | transnet/index.html | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on 2007-09-13 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS FGAZ 18-05 Page 19 14 Mar 2022 Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89 Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel | | This is probably the most updated BBS | | list on the Internet for a general | | BBS list. Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html | | Maintained automatically | | This list is specifically for | | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is | | automatically updated nightly. The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com | | This website is more than just files, | | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for | | BBS sysops and people who want to | | become sysops. This site is run by | | the same person who does the Telnet | | BBS Guide. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - + File Archives: http://archives.thebbs.org http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained) http://www.bbsfiles.com http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (OS/2 specific) http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721) http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/ Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above) The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoGazette. 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