     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 19, Number 14             08 Apr 2002 
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            Copyright 2002 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.


                        Table of Contents
     1. INSIDE  ...................................................  1
        The Fidonews at a Glance  .................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        Catcalls from the Cheap Seats  ............................  2
     3. FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN  ..........................  7
        Japanese Fish Balls #1  ...................................  7
     4. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES  ......................................  8
        BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL LIVES!   #11  ..................  8
        Double meanings  ..........................................  9
     5. TODD COCHRANE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................. 11
        Fidonet Software List  .................................... 11
     6. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ...................................... 15
        Fidonet-related Sites  .................................... 15
     7. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 20
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 20
     8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 22
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 22
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 23
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                                  INSIDE
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                     The Fidonews at a Glance

     This is going to be another thin issue. Only our faithful catcaller
     sent in an article this week. As usual it's labeled "Catcalls from the
     cheap seats".

        Then I picked one of a handful of jokes from Ol'WDB, an excercise
     in english you might call it, showing some examples of "Double
     meanings".

        "Bastard operator from hell" is slowly approaching the final
     episode with this week's number 11.

        Carols Japanese cooking is also on the final. This week we learn
     how to make "Japanese fishballs".


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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
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                       Catcalls from the Cheap Seats
                             By Luke Kolin

     I'm touched, Bjorn, that I've managed to elicit so many responses in
     recent weeks. I got a hearty laugh out of Bob Short's piece, until I
     read the last sentence - this comes from 1997. It's amazing to think
     how far the online world has come in just the last five years. Instead
     of netmail that allows me to send a message to another BBS in 48-72
     hours, I get e-mail that sends to everywhere in the world in seconds.
     I can chat with not just the sysop, but 40 million AOL users. I can
     probably find that beating a dead horse is a felony in the state of
     Georgia, after that Tri-State crematorium nonsense. (Note to Bob:
     Anachronists Anonymous meets every second Tuesday at the YMCA down the
     street. "Hi, my name is Bob. I don't believe in the universal
     franchise, I use a horse and buggy, and the Interstate Highway System
     should be replaced by canals. Oh, and I call a BBS regularly.")

     On a less vexatious note, let me thank you for forwarding Peter
     Karlsson's response to me about the motorway system in Scandinavia.
     I've truly learned something.

     It seems, my good editor, that my ranting about the Unified
     Doctrinaire Marxist-Lenninist Revolutionary Party seems to have
     brought at least one of its members out of the proverbial woodwork.
     I'm delighted to take on the opportunity to defend the American system
     of health care, as well as taking a few more shots at my native land
     at the same time. Andrea Santos, to begin with, has missed the main
     thrust of my argument (as do most Canadians) - she remains so
     relentlessly focused on the failings of the US system that she, by her
     own admission, she refuses to deal with the comparison aspect.

     She also refuses to notice the link I'm making to FidoNet's situation.
     In the spirit of true believers everywhere, she promptly proceeds to
     dismiss all other considerations as being secondary to pure,
     unwavering dedication to her pet cause. Despite the homespun
     admonition in these parts against wrestling with a pig (you end up
     covered in crap, and the pig enjoys it) a good columnist never misses
     the opportunity to hoist anchor and sail into battle with his critics.

     Let me begin by stating that I've never questioned the truthfulness of
     my sister's argument, only its relevance. Yes, the 40 million number
     is true. However, the fact that 40 million Americans are uninsured
     cannot excuse the fact that 30 million Canadians are uninsured. I can
     turn around and say that several billion Africans, Indians and Chinese
     don't have adequate health insurance - which is just as irrelevant to
     the Canadian health care system as Andrea's quote. So there - my
     number is bigger than yours!

     What is relevant is that number is trotted out by every apologist for
     the Canadian health care system. No, you can't see a doctor for
     several weeks at a time. If you die waiting for surgery, too bad -
     still, you're doing your fellow suffering citizens a favour by
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     reducing the waiting list. But 40 million Americans are uninsured, so
     our system is better! Let me suggest that the American system does
     have one significant advantage - they're at least honest. If you don't
     have insurance, you know it. In Canada, 35% of your income gets
     swallowed into a pit and you think you have insurance, until you get
     sick.

     As a recent arrival in the US (so new, I'm not even considered an
     'immigrant' yet), I'm somewhat puzzled that Andrea would consider
     Medicare recipients to be lumped into the '1 in 3' Americans [hmmm...
     from 40 million to now 100 million?] with no health insurance
     coverage. Is it because she considers government health insurance to
     be worthless? In such a case, she has no right to criticise me. I've
     just come from a country where I am forced to carry government health
     insurance, and it is a crime for me to purchase private health
     insurance - never mind for a doctor to accept such insurance.

     To be honest, I don't believe for a minute that having Medicare isn't
     considered health insurance. If there's one basic truism about
     American politics, it's that the blue rinse crowd votes - every time.
     If there's a runoff in the primary for a special election to elect an
     interim deputy county pest control commissioner, they're out in force
     while my generation is sitting on the porch drinking beer and
     listening to the baseball game. If they didn't have adequate health
     care, every Congressman would hear about it and Medicare would been
     reformed as quickly as the clerks of the House and Senate could pass
     the bill down the corridors of the Capitol.

     Unless, of course, they recognise that cheap health coverage isn't
     always economically feasiable. At that point the odds of reform drop
     to only 50/50. It would be an interesting comparison to see how much
     the average American pays in premiums over the course of a year, and
     how much this coverage costs. My costs, split between myself and my
     employer, for a family of three, are around $8,000 per year. When my
     wife gives birth or requires out-patient in-hospital treatment, the
     costs can easily climb into several hundred dollars a day. Add to this
     approximately a half-dozen doctors' vists per year for my daughter and
     approximately two visits for myself, we're easily ratcheting up over
     $8,000 per year in costs.

     Now how on Earth is any organisation expected to provide $8,000 worth
     of care if they only get $2,000 worth of premiums?

     The conundrum faced in health care is similar to that faced by child
     care workers. There are two entirely incompatible desires in child
     care - there's a shortage of affordable child care, and there aren't
     enough good people in the industry because the pay stinks. I don't
     need to be Milton Friedman to figure out that if you raise wages to
     attract people, the cost goes up and it's no longer affordable. How
     long will it take folks like Andrea to figure out that you need to put
     IN at least as much as gets taken OUT?

     In an effort to bolster my proletarian credentials, let me inform our
     readers that in April of 2001, my position (and the positions of all
     but three Atlanta-based employees at my former employer) was
     terminated, just as my wife was in her eighth month of pregnancy. Not
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     even being a permanent resident, I was ineleigible for any sort of
     government assistance, even things like Unemployment Insurance that
     have been contributed to on my behalf. The horror-mongers among you
     I'm sure would have me losing medical coverage, Lynne giving birth in
     a back-alley, financial bankruptcy, etc. etc.

     Instead, my costs went up $500/month as I paid the premiums myself for
     my existing coverage, as specified by the 1983 COBRA (short for the
     Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, not some funky
     military operation code word). Kept the same doctor, had a flawless
     birth and at the end of the day, I was out $200 for my out-of-pocket
     expenses. Seven weeks after Meghan was born, I found a new job, with a
     new HMO. We were able to keep all our old doctors, each of our
     pre-existing conditions were covered. Life was, and remains, good.

     I cannot speak for Andrea's condition. I can only speak for mine, and
     the condition of all of my friends'. None of us has ever had a
     problem. Some annoying paperwork hassles perhaps, but overall the
     quality of care has not suffered, and is light years ahead of what we
     received in Canada.

     I got my weekly chuckle when Andrea suggested that I was one of the
     corporate drones who's been successfully duped by his employer all
     these years. I expect to be told that I have nothing to lose but my
     chains. I must contend that since I've arrived in the United States,
     my pay went up 60% to its peak, and recently declined 8% in the
     dot-com implosion. I really haven't felt the health care cost
     explosion bite into my pay yet. But let's assume that health care
     keeps growing in expense and cost. What do we do, as a question of
     public policy?

     First off, if health care costs are growing, it's entirely reasonable
     that it's going to come out of my pay. Non-wage and benefit costs for
     employees are a basic cost of doing business. If we want health care
     to remain affordable, we've got to cut costs somehow. And the only way
     to do so is reduce service levels, or artifical means.

     Canada uses artificial means. In 1992, the Ministry of Health
     moroncrats decided that if there were fewer doctors, health care costs
     would decrease. (I will save the obvious dig that health care costs
     could be eliminated altogether if we had no doctors at all - which is
     why health care isn't a drain on the budget in Afghanistan.) Ten years
     later, they're awakening to the fact that, as I mentioned earlier,
     they have large areas in the country without doctors or specialists.
     (So Andrea, what is better - to have doctors but no insurance, or
     insurance but no doctors?) They've also decided to stop paying doctors
     once they bill a certain amount, and threaten to revoke the licenses
     of doctors who decide to stop working once they hit that limit.
     Charming, a "world class" health care that depends on turning doctors
     into indentured servants, forced to work for nothing. As I recall, the
     Thirteenth or Fourteenth Amendments to the US Constitution got rid of
     that sort of thing 140 years ago.

     The only other option you have is to reduce service levels - which
     Canada has already done. It's too expensive to have hospital beds, so
     entire wards are shut down. And then we wonder why patients are lined
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     up in the hallways.

     What Andrea hasn't answered is how you can pay, month in and month
     out, $250/month into the system, and get more than $3000 per year of
     service out of it. In a capitalistic system, if there's money to be
     made in something, a company will have the coverage Andrea wants for a
     price she is willing to pay. Which means that either the regulatory
     regime in her state is too restrictive, or it's a money losing
     proposition to offer full coverage at this price level. So who, pray
     tell, is expected to pay extra money (and get nothing in return) to
     subsidise this?

     If you want the employer to, that's fine. And as you increase non-wage
     costs you reduce take home pay (as you yourself suggested) or reduce
     the number of jobs available for lower income folks. Should the
     government pay? Considering the huge groundswell of support (not) that
     accompanied former Senator Bill Bradley's run for President in 2000, I
     can tell you that this option has been tried and rejected by the
     American populace. The reason for Sen. Bradley's poor showing (against
     Al Gore, who makes Michael Dukakis look charismatic) was simply put,
     most Americans already have adequate health care and have bigger
     issues on their plate. And those 40 million obviously aren't bothered
     enough by their uninsurance to get out and vote to change that
     situation. The ones that do have coverage don't care about the ones
     that don't, as Andrea correctly points out. However, after dismissing
     much of my article about Canadians because it didn't address her pet
     concern, it's a little rich of her to lambas te the majority of
     covered Americans for engaging in that same behavior.

     That last observation flies completely in the face of Andrea's claim
     that no politician has the guts to stand up and fix health care.
     Former Senator Bill Bradley made that universal health care a
     cornerstone of his campaign for President two years ago - I don't
     think he managed to win a single primary. Part of that stems from the
     strong opposition of unions, and if Andrea wants to argue that unions
     don't help the average worker, I'm happy to join her on that front.
     However, the fact remains that Americans have been given the
     opportunity to vote for universal health care in 2000, and chose not
     to.

     Let me also mention to Andrea that Americans had the opportunity to
     vote for universal health care in 1994, when Hillary Clinton's
     Canadian-style plan was being bandied about. They responded by giving
     the Democratic party its worst Congressional decimation since the
     1920s. In 2000, when Hillary ran for the US Senate, did she take the
     opportunity to advance her biggest political cause? Of course not -
     she may be amoral, but she's smart enough to know that doing so would
     have made Rudy Giuliani a controversial and mediocre Senator, instead
     of the public citizen (and minor deity) he is today.

     The reason why Andrea will never get what she wants, is that what she
     wants is to get something, and then have someone else foot the bill. I
     wouldn't for a moment suggest that adequate health care is not a
     social imperative, but I don't believe that people have an inalienable
     right to see any doctor any time for any reason. (Nor do I want to see
     *ANY* doctor, as Andrea seems to insist upon. I just want to see *MY*
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     doctor.) I personally think that no person deserves to live in a US
     public housing complex. That doesn't mean I should be footing the bill
     for a free house for everyone. Everyone has a right to move around the
     country (and mobility rights are far more defined and historic than a
     nebulous "right" to health care), but that doesn't mean that every
     American has the right to a free car or bus fare to anywhere in the
     continental US.

     What gets my goat is that my generation is the one left holding the
     bag for folks like Andrea. I'm already compelled to contribute to
     Social Security, a legalised pyramid scheme - if a private investment
     company offered a retirement package that worked like Social Security,
     they'd be in violation of every securities law on the books - which
     everyone admits will go broke before I ever collect a penny. In the
     name of "fairness" and equality, the Canadian middle class has been
     driven almost out of existence by ruinous taxation and debt - and
     their only political choices are either more of the same, or a tax cut
     that gives them an extra $50/year, but allows a stockbroker to keep so
     much more of his six figure bonus that his wife gets a new Boxster for
     her birthday every third year. Every year Toronto gets more polarised
     between the rich and the poor, and the average folks either get poorer
     or get going. Call me selfish, but my generation has been left on the
     short end of the demographic eq uation so many times I've grown
     cynical. All I want to get out of the system is what I put in.

     If Andrea believes in universal health care, she should move to Canada
     and live there for a few years. She'll never pay a penny in health
     insurance premiums. She'll be able to see any doctor she wants -
     provided the doctor wants to see her. Most don't take new patients.
     She'll be able to go to any hospital she wants for any procedure -
     provided that the doctors capable of providing said procedure haven't
     moved out of the province, and after spending between two and six
     months on the waiting list. Sure hope she doesn't have an agressively
     spreading tumor - of course, if she did she'd be back in the US
     overnight to get the urgent treatment she deserves.

     You see, the United States believes that it's immoral to deny someone
     urgently needed care because they can't afford it. In Canada, it's
     considered immoral to let someone jump the queue for urgently needed
     care because they can afford it - so they deny care until that
     person's number comes up (pardon the pun.)


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                *Japanese Fish Balls #1

           2 c  Cooked flaked fish (white)
           1 c  Milk
           7 tb Flour
           1 ts Salt
         1/8 ts Wasabi powder
           3 tb Oil
         1/2 ts Worstershire sauce
           3 ts Grated onion
           1 ea Egg
                Bread crumbs or Panko

       Here's one for the 'Something New Jan 2002 theme' from Japan.  It's
     not far off a greek recipe but I learned to make it here.  Call these
     alternatively 'Japanese Meatballs made with Fish'.

       To start, mix the flour, salt, wasabi, and oil in a pan then cook
     over a low heat until it's thickened.  Remove it from the heat and add
     the Worstershire, onion, and flaked pre-cooked (leftover) fish. The
     fish traditionally here would be a stronger flavored one but I adapted
     to 'whitefish' for the masses.

       Let this chill in the fridge.  Beat the egg with 2 TB water.  Shape
     the chilled thick mix into balls then roll into balls (about a TS
     each), then roll in flour.  Dip again in egg wash then in either panko
     or breadcrumbs.

       Cook in a deep fat fryer at 350 degrees until well browned and drain
     on paper towels.  Serve warm with toothpicks.

        Locally, one would add something pickled or sweet (or sweet
     pickled) above it such as:  Sweet pickled watermelon rind, Gingered
     plum bit.

       From the kitchen of:  xxcarol


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                            CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
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                     BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL LIVES!   #11

     The darkness cleared as we got out of the tunnel and it occurred to me
     that I couldn't be all that injured.  Then again, maybe I was. Someone
     was going to p..

     I died.

     Of course, a true BOFH considers this not really as dying, but more of
     going home for the holidays.

     Five seconds later, I'm getting the upside of 15Kv across the nipples.
     (These ambulance guys sure know how to party).

                             BASTARD OPERATOR FROM HELL LIVES!

     Three weeks later I'm back on my backside and feeling rested at
     relaxed behind the console again.  The rest has done me good, I feel
     *great!*.  I catch up on everyone's email then let the students know
     I'm back by performing an impromptu preventative maintenance in the
     middle of lab time by kicking the restart switch (They love it really)

     I flip today's excuse card,  "GLOBAL WARMING"  YES YES YES!  What a
     welcome home!

     It's the end of the month so all those automatic email reminder
     programs will be sending messages all over the place.  I set the
     system clock back 7 days to buy some peace and quiet and swap the
     printer ribbon for the three year old one with holes in it.

         I sort through my snail mail and crack open the BOFH Monthly
     Newsletter, "kill -9" and check out the articles therein.   There's a
     nice peice of making OS2 slow, boring and painful, but it looks
     exactly like the OS2 installation instructions to me...  Ah, who
     knows.  I head straight to the BOFH Wizard section to see if any of my
     articles were published.   All of them!!!  Even the one about the c
     compiler that randomly removes one line from the source code it's
     compiling!

     The phone rings.

     "The Screen on my PC is blank!!!"

     "It's the power cord" I say

     "No, I checked that.  When I switch it on, it does nothing!"

     "It's the power cord" I say

     "No, I checked and it's all plugged in properly.  There's no lights on
     the keyboard or anything"

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     "It's the power cord" I say

     "Oh.  I just noticed, the cord's not plugged in properly!"

     "The power cord?" I ask

     "Yes...  Woopsy"

     "No worries at all" I say "Is it all working well now?"

     "Yes, I think so.  I'm sorry, you WERE right all along"

     "Yes, we're getting a lot of this, it's due to the current Global
     Warming problem.  It causes random thermal expansion and contraction
     resulting in temperature induced movement of friction based holding
     mechanisms.."

     I listen carefully.  Nothing.  In other words, <DUMMY MODE ON...

     "You can fix it permanently tho'" I say

     "Really?  How?"

     "Well it's all to do with lowering salt deposits on the metal
     contacts"

     "Oh!"  (Dummy mode irrevocably engaged)

     "All you need to do is just take the power plug out deposit some
     dilute mineral salts on it.  Do you have some dilute mineral salts on
     you?"

     "Uh, no?"

     "Ok, no worries, just stick it in your mouth drool into it.  But make
     sure you wipe the plug first to get rid of any germs, and TURN THE
     SWITCH OFF ON THE MONITOR before you do - we don't want a nasty
     accident!

     "Oh.  Ok!"

     Fzzzt< >clunk!<

     I hang up as the receiver hits the floor.  Disk space is too good for
     them.


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                         Double meanings...
                         By Warren Bonner


     Two vultures board an airplane, each carrying two dead raccoons. The
     stewardess looks at them and says, "I'm sorry, gentlemen, only one
     carrion allowed per passenger."
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     Two boll weevils grew up in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and
     became a famous actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields
     and never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became known as
     the lesser of two weevils.

     Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire
     in the craft, it sank, proving once again that you can't have your
     kayak and heat it, too.

     A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up
     to the bar and announces, "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw."

     A woman has twins and gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to
     a family in Egypt and is named "Ahmal." The other goes to a family in
     Spain, they name him "Juan." Years later, Juan sends a picture of
     himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the picture, she tells her
     husband that she wishes she also had a picture of Ahmal. Her husband
     responds, "They're twins! If you've seen Juan, you've seen Ahmal."

     These friars were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a
     small florist shop to raise funds. Since everyone liked to buy flowers
     from the men of God, a rival florist across town thought the
     competition was unfair. He asked the good fathers to close down, but
     they would not.  He went back and begged the friars to close. They
     ignored him. So, the rival florist hired Hugh MacTaggart, the roughest
     and most vicious thug in town to "persuade" them to close. Hugh beat
     up the friars and trashed their store, saying he'd be back if they
     didn't close up shop. Terrified, they did so, thereby proving that
     Hugh, and only Hugh....... can prevent florist friars.

     Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which
     produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet. He also ate very
     little, which made him rather frail and with his odd diet, he suffered
     from bad breath. This made him ....what? (Oh, man, this is so bad,
     it's good) A super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.

     And finally, there was the person who sent ten different puns to
     friends, with the hope that at least one of the puns would make them
     laugh. Unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

     That's All Folks!
     Ol'wdb

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                 TODD COCHRANE'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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     |                       |    | http://www.telegard.net/              |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Wildcat Interactive    |BTMI| sales@santronics.com                  |
     |Net Server             |    | http://www.santronics.com             |
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 12                   8 Apr 2002


     |Plantinum Express      |    |(305)248-3204                          |
     |                       |    | Santronics Inc.                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Bentstone Capabilities |D   | info@stonebenders.com                 |
     |Group                  |    | http://www.srupc.com/mall             |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Jibben Software        |D   | scott@jibben.com                      |
     |                       |    | http://www.jibbensoftware.com/        |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |JNS Software Door Games|D   | Rusty Johnson                         |
     |                       |    | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com            |
     |                       |    | 304-733-0113                          |
     |                       |    | http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/ |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Legend Of The Red      |D   |                                       |
     |Dragon Reborn          |    |                                       |
     |(L.O.R.D.)             |    | http://www.lordlegacy.org/            |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |PC Pursuits            |D   |brucep@pop.kis.net                     |
     |                       |    |(301)240-6653                          |
     |                       |    |http://www.pcpursuits.com/products.htm |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |S and T Software       |D   |Mark Bappe                             |
     |                       |    |mark.bappe@bozax.iainc.net             |
     |                       |    |(770)788-6843                          |
     |                       |    |http://bozax.iainc.net/public/         |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Shinning Star BBS Doors|D   |nannette@shiningstar.net               |
     |                       |    |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/   |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Sunrise Door Software  |D   |Al Lawerence                           |
     |                       |    |al@sunrisedoors.com                    |
     |                       |    |(404)256-9518                          |
     |                       |    |http://www.sunrisedoors.com/           |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |The Brainex System     |D   |info@brainex.com                       |
     |                       |    |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/ |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Trade Wars Door Game   |D   |jpritch@eisonline.com                  |
     |                       |    |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/    |
     |                       |    |1:299/110                              |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Vagabond Software      |D   |Bryan Turner                           |
     |                       |    |vagabond@darktech.org                  |
     |                       |    |http://vagabond.virtualave.net/        |
     |                       |    |1:124/7013                             |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |FMail Support          |T   |wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org               |
     |                       |    |http://fmail.nl.eu.org/                |
     |                       |    |2:280/1076                             |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Squish Tosser          |T   |http://www.lanius.com/squish.htm       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Argus RITLABS          |M   |argus@ritlabs.com                      |
     |                       |    |373-2-246889                           |
     |                       |    |http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/          |
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 13                   8 Apr 2002


     |                       |    |2:469/84                               |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |FrontDoor              |MTPC|Definite Solutions                     |
     |FrontDoor APX          |    |sales@defsol.se                        |
     |Mailer/Point Software  |    |http://www.defsol.se/                  |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |BeeMail Home Page      |M   |http://beemail.gexonline.net           |
     |                       |    |Stephen Proffit                        |
     |                       |    |1:211/405                              |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |BinkleyTerm XE         |M   |http://btxe.sourceforge.net/           |
     |Frontend Mailer        |    |                                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |BinkD                  |MI  |maloff@corbina.net                     |
     |                       |    |http://2f.ru/binkd/                    |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Fidogate               |UIT |Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net                |
     |                       |    |http://www.fidogate.org/               |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Fidonet to Internet    |IM  |Bo Bendtsen                            |
     |Mailer                 |    |sales@terminate.com                    |
     |                       |    |http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm  |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |GiGo Software          |UI  |http://www.gigo.com/                   |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Internet Rex           |IM  |cruden@cs.ualberta.ca                  |
     |                       |    |http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/   |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Tmail                  |IM  |http://www.tmail.spb.ru/index-19.htm   |
     |(Russian /w English DL)|    |                                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |TransX Multiboard      |M   |support@multiboard.com                 |
     |Communications Inc.    |    |http://www.multiboard.com/software/    |
     |                       |    |transx.html                            |
     |                       |    |1:2401/305                             |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |TransNet               |I   |transnet@ressl.com.ar                  |
     |                       |    |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/      |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Watergate              |I   |ramon@sbbs.se                          |
     |                       |    |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/          |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |JetSys-Home of JetMail |TU  |http://www.jetsys.de/                  |
     |JetStat and other Atari|    |                                       |
     |Fidonet utilities      |    |                                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |APoint (Author)        |P   |http://www.apoint.websale.net/index.htm|
     |                       |    |http://www.apoint-mail.de (Co-Autho)   |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |CrossPoint             |P   |("Original" version)                   |
     |                       |    |http://www.crosspoint.de               |
     |                       |    |http://www.apoint-mail.de              |
     |                       |    |(OpenXP Projekt)                       |
     |                       |    |http://www.openxp.com (English)        |
     |                       |    |http://www.openxp.de (German)          |
     |                       |    |CrossPoint (XP2 Team)                  |
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 14                   8 Apr 2002


     |                       |    |http://www.xp2.de                      |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |WinPoint95             |P   |http://www.schenksmir.de/wp/english    |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |The OpenXP CrossPoint  |P   |http://www.happyarts.de/xp             |
     |Projekt                |    |                                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |Terminate Terminal     |P   |http://www.terminate.com               |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     |PPoint-FTS compatible  |P   |http://www.alcuf.ca/ppoint.htm         |
     |E-Mail System          |    |                                       |
     |-----------------------|----|---------------------------------------|
     \====================================================================/

     -----------------------------------------------------------------

     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 15                   8 Apr 2002


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     Node#      | Operator          | Facilities (*) | Speed,| Basic Rate
                |                   |                |latency|
     -----------+-------------------+----------------+-------+------------
     Zone 1     |                   |                |       |
       10/3     | Brenda Donovan    | FTP,UUE,BinkP  | 384K,30| n/c
       10/345   | Todd Cochrane     | FTP,BinkP,VMOT | T1,!  | n/c
       18/500   | Ross Cassell      | FTP, BinkP     |128K+,!| n/c
      103/5     | Mark Luetger      | BinkP          | CABLE | n/c
      103/301   | Joe Jared         | BinkP,FTP,NFS  | 384k,!| n/c
      103/401   | Warren Bonner     | BinkP          | aDSL,!| n/c
      105/8     | Russ Johnson      | FTP,BinkP,VMoT | 384k  | n/c
      105/72    | Larry James       | FTP, BinkP     | aDSL  | $50/yr
      106/1     | Steve Loupe       | BinkP, FTP     | 768k  | FREE
      106/2000  | Bob Juge        | BinkP VMoT FTP TX| ???   | n/c
      106/6018  | Lawrence Garvin   | FTP, VMoT      | aDSL,60| n/c
      107/453   | Jeffrey Estevez| FTP,BinkP,VMoT,UUE| 56k,60| $10 mo.
      134/11    | Michael Grant  | FTP, BinkP, VMoT UUE, IFCICO,TransX
                                                    aDSL, 60 | n/c
      138/146   | Marc Blakely      | BinkP,FTP      | ???   | n/c
      140/1     | Bob Seaborn       | FTP,BinkP      | T3,30 | $5/$16
      142/906   | Chris Griffin     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      150/220   | Dave Nemeth       | UUE            | ???   | n/c
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 17                   8 Apr 2002


      153/7715  | Dallas Hinton     | BinkD, FTP     | CABLE | ???
      167/133   | Stephen Monteith  | BinkP          | 128k+ | n/c
      167/166   | Jesse Dooling     | POP? UUE TX FTP| ???   | n/c
      218/109   | Matt Munson       | BinkP,UUE,TX   | 33.6k | n/c
      220/10    | groberts|nexusbbs.net |BinkP,FTP,UUE|1.5M+ | n/c
      229/1     | Phil Simpson      | BinkP UUE FTP  | ???   | n/c
      229/2000  | Robert Couture    |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ???   |
      229/622   | Dave Hamilton     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      249/116   | Carl Austin Bennett | FTP, UUE    |ADSL,60 | n/c
      250/98    | Darin McBride     | BinkP FTP TX   | ???   | n/c
      250/99    | Brent McLaren     | FTP BinkP      | ???   | n/c
      250/102   | Darin McBride     | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
      267/169   | Philip Lozier     | FTP TX         | ???   | n/c
      261/1380  | Joe Davis         | UUE TX         | ???   | n/c
      275/311   | Shannon Talley|FTP,BinkP,FTP,VMoT,QWK| T1  |n/c
      280/169   | Brian Greenstreet | FTP            | 33.6  | $2mo.
      297/11    | Michael McCabe    | TX             | ???   | n/c
      323/120   | Craig Healy       | VMoT FTP       | ???   | n/c
      342/3     | Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP      | 128K+ | n/c
      360/5     | Bennie Hutto      | FTP VMoT       | aDSL  | n/c
      379/1     | Dale Ross         | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
      379/1200  | Chris Cranford    | BinkP FTP TX   | ???   | n/c
      395/670   | Arthur Stark      | BinkP VMoT FTP | ???   | n/c
      396/45    | Marc Lewis        |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL  | n/c
      396/48    | Ben Ritchey       | UUE:BFDS?      | 33.6k | n/c
     2215/300   | Dennis Haddox     | UUE,TX         | CABLE | n/c
     2320/38    | Janis Kracht      | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
     2410/400   | Gary Gilmore      | FTP BinkP      | 384K,60| n/c
     2410/213   | Kevin Bentz       | FTP, BinkP, UUE| Cable | n/c
     2604/104   | Jim Mclaughlin    | FTP,VMoT,UUE   | 33.6  | $1mo
     2624/306   | David Calafrancesco  | VMoT        | 33.6  | n/c
     3613/1275  | @ jyates@bsdi.ldl.net | UUE,FTP    | 28.8  | n/c
     3407/4     | Robert Todd    |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
     3632/84    | Robert Todd    |FTP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 57.6k | n/c
     3830/5     | Jeff Schrunk      |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ???   | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 2     |
       20/11    | Henrik Lindhe     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       22/222   | Kim Heino         | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       28/1     | Lody Caenen       | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
       31/1     | Gabriel Plutzar   | BinkP          | T1+   | n/c
       37/37    | Gabor Z. Papp     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       47/999   | Andrej Kirejev    | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
       53/558   |Vladimir Hrusca|POP,VMoT,UUE,BinkP,ifcico|2mbs|??
      201/329   | Mats Wallin       | VMoT TX        | ???   | n/c
      201/505   | Goran Eriksson    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      201/600   | Hkan Andersson   |BinkP,FTP       |512kbps| n/c
      203/600   | Mikael Karlsson   |BinkP,FTP,TX,UUE| 512k  | n/c
      211/37    | Torbjorn Mohn     | BinkP          | 8/2mb | n/c
      221/360   | Tommi Koivula     | BinkP,UUE      | ???   | n/c
      236/205   | Michael Kaaber    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      240/6298  | Steve Tell        | BinkP UUE      | ???   | n/c
      246/2098  | Volker Imre       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      252/110   | David Rance       | UUE            | ???   | n/c
      255/90    | Simon Avery       | UUE            | ???   | n/c
      263/950   | Sean Rima         | TX UUE         | ???   | n/c
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 18                   8 Apr 2002


      280/1027  | Lukas de Groen    | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
      280/1601  | Jeroen VanDeLeur  | FTP,UUE        | 64k   | n/c
      280/4312  | Jos Huijnen   | BinkP ifcico UUE TX| ???   | n/c
      280/5003  | Kees van Eeten    | BinkP ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      292/620   | Eddy Missoul      | VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 64k   | n/c
      292/624   | Steven Leeman     | UUE            | 64k   | n/c
      292/854   | Ward Dossche      | BinkP UUE TX   | ???   | n/c
      292/907   | Bart Verhaeghe    | BinkP,VMoT,UUE | 64K   | n/c
      292/2003  | Eric Vaneberck    | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      301/1     | Peter Witschi     | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      332/807   | Roberto Mascolo   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      333/0     | M Gianformaggio   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      335/534   | Mario Mure        | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k   | n/c
      335/610   | Gino Lucrezi      | UUE            | 33.6  | n/c
      341/14    | Rafael Suarez     | BinkP VMoT     | ???   | n/c
      341/51    | Jose.Maria Tejada | VMoT           |       |
      341/66    | Angel Ripoll      | VMoT           |       |
      343/168   | Jose Casanova     | VMoT           |       |
      344/201   | Julio Garcia      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      346/3     | Carlos Navarro    | UUE            | ???   | n/c
      347/1     | Javi Polo         | UUE            |       |
      348/105   | Alejandro Estraviz| BinkP UUE      |       |
      382/100   | Sinisa Burina     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      400/555   | Ofir Michaeli     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      400/557   | Marius Kaizerman  | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      423/81    | Milos Bajer       | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      461/256   | Andrew Rutkas     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      461/640   | Alex Semenyaka    |BinkP ifcico UUE| ???   | n/c
      465/204   | Va Milushnikov    | BinkP          | 33.6k | n/c
      469/84    | Max Masyutin      | VMoT           | 256k  | n/c
      469/128   | Oleg Vasenyoff    | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      480/112   | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k  | n/c
      550/4077  | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE            | ----- | n/c
     2410/201   | Karsten Ebeling   | BinkP UUE      | ???   | n/c
     2411/413   | Dennis Dittrich   | UUE,BinkP      | 64k   | n/c
     2432/200   | Sven Dueker       | BinkP TX UUE   | ???   | n/c
     2446/301   | Lothar Behet  | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K   | n/c
     2474/275   | Christian Emig    | UUE            | 64k   | unkn
     2487/3000  | Steffen Gross     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5002/5002  | Victor Belyakov   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5014/4     | Alex Bagmanov     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5020/52    | Peter Didenko     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/54    | Serge Wizgounoff  | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5020/69    | B Chernivetsky    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/238   | Sergey Gubanov    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5030/115   | Andrey Podkolzin  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5030/1251  | K Stepanekov      | UUE            | ???   | n/c
     5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/1159  | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE          | 33.6  | n/c
     5049/12    | Amir Shabashvili  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5054/3     | Andrew Popov      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5080/80    | Eugene Zorin      | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5083/21    | Alexander Uskov   | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5090/2     | Andrew Titov      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 19                   8 Apr 2002


     Zone 3
      633/260   | Malcolm Miles     | FTP,BinkP      | 64K   | n/c
      640/954   | Rick Van Ruth     | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
      712/311   | Bob James         | TX             | ???   | n/c
      774/605   | Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 4
      801/161   | Renato Zambon     | UUE            | 33.6  |n/c
      902/18    | Javier Tejedor    | UUE            | 33,6  | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 6
       65/3000  | Lawrence Fan      | UUE            | 33600 | free
      653/1009  | Maorong Chen      | UUE            | ???   | free
      654/0     | Bin Li            | UUE,BinkP      | 33600 | free
      654/1501  | Lawrence Fan      | UUE,BinkP      | 28800 | free

     --
     * FTP    = Internet File Transfer Protocol
     * VMoT   = Virtual Mailer over Telnet (various)
     * UUE    = uuencode<->email type transfers
     * BinkP  = front end mailer for TCPIP networks
     * TX     = TransX
     * NFS    = Linux Networking
     * ifcico = ifcico-compatible virtual mailer
     * QWK    = Quick Packets/Offline mailer "networking" capable
     ----------------------------------------------
     Fidonet oriented news servers

     news.fidotel.com (currently offline)
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     nntp://fido.bitsoft.ro
     nntp://bbs.bitsoft.ro

     Fidonet oriented chat rooms.

     room #fidonet  5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays
     irc.osirusoft.com  (Peers wanted)
     irc.sinoptix.ro : malay, chinesse, english, #fido, #fidonet, #wwb
     irc.bitsoft.ro : 6667 russian, english, hebrew, #fido, #wwb
     irc.tsua.net : 6668 russian, english #fido


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     FIDONEWS 19-14               Page 20                   8 Apr 2002


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                             SPECIAL INTEREST
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                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.095
                size  1117.2kb
                date  2002-04-05

      The nodelist has  10046 nodes in it
        and a total of  12950 non-comment entries

              including     6 zones
                           63 regions
                          470 hosts
                          691 hubs
         admin overhead  1230 ( 12.24 %)

                    and   908 private nodes
                          357 nodes down
                          409 nodes on hold
      off line overhead  1674 ( 16.66 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    929 (  9.25 %)
                9600 =   8599 ( 85.60 %)
                              (HST  =  185 or   2.15 %)
                              (CSP  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (PEP  =   13 or   0.15 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (V32  = 4826 or  56.12 %)
                              (V32B =  509 or   5.92 %)
                              (V34  = 5734 or  66.68 %)
                              (V42  = 4713 or  54.81 %)
                              (V42B =  532 or   6.19 %)
                2400 =    108 (  1.08 %)
                1200 =      6 (  0.06 %)
                 300 =    404 (  4.02 %)

                ISDN =   1052 ( 10.47 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             3658
                      Frontdoor  2.02+
                      Dutchie 2.90c
                      Binkleyterm >2.1
                      D'Bridge <1.3
                      TIMS
                      Xenia
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      XB              Binkleyterm 2.0                 8
                      Dutchie 2.90b
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                       10
     --------------------------------------
      XP              Seadog                          6
     --------------------------------------
      XR              Opus 1.03                      62
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     397
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                4465
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1440
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   3282 ( 32.67 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   5429 ( 54.04 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    784 (  7.80 %)
      Other             =    551 (  5.48 %)

      [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100]
      [                                 Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208]

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