     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 19, Number 36             09 Sep 2002 
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            Copyright 2002 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.


                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. INSIDE  ...................................................  2
        The Fidonews at a Glance  .................................  2
     3. FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN  ..........................  3
        Weight Watchers Pot Roast for Two  ........................  3
     4. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES  .....................................  4
        The Practice of Medicine  .................................  4
        The Zanzibar effect  ......................................  5
     5. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ...................  6
        FIDONet Software References  ..............................  6
     6. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ...................................... 11
        Fidonet-related Sites  .................................... 11
     7. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 16
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 16
     8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 18
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 18
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 20
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does
     not want merely because you think it would be good for him."

            -- Robert Heinlein


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                                  INSIDE
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                     The Fidonews at a Glance

     Unfortunately there's not so much to present to our readers this week.
     I do work on a travel report I've received from "down under", but
     haven't really decided yet how to present it; stay tuned.

        At least we have, as usual a dish of the week, from our diligent
     cook, Carol. This week it's "Weight Watchers Pot Roast for Two".

        Then a couple of jokes. "The Practice of Medicine" from Warren
     Bonner about a rather unorthodox way to cure a common disease and "The
     Zanzibar effect", snipped from one of the Fidonet echoes, about the
     classic dilemma of what came first, the hen or the egg.


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                      FIDONET'S INTERNATIONAL KITCHEN
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                 Weight Watchers Pot Roast for Two

           Yield: 2 Servings

         3/4 lb Boneless beef chuck roast
           1 ts Salad oil
         1/2 ts Salt
             ds Black pepper
         3/4 c  Water
           2 ea Carrots, paired and halved
           1 sm Onion, peeled and quartered
           2 md Potatos, pared and quartered

       In heavy skillet, brown meat slowly in oil then season with salt and
     pepper.  Add water and simmer covered for 1 hour.  Add rest of veggies
     and simmer another hour, adding water if needed.  Serve!

       Optional additions:  Leeks, Turnips, Green Beans, Chinese 5 spice.

       From the kitchen of:  xxcarol


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                           CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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                    The Practice of Medicine
                        By Warren Bonner
                      <wdbonner@pacbell.net>


      A woman went to the doctors office, where she was seen by one of the
     new doctors, but after about 4 minutes in the examination room, she
     burst out, screaming as she ran down the hall.

      An older doctor stopped her and asked what the problem was, and she
     told him her story. After listening, he had her sit down and told her
     to go relax in another room.

      The older doctor marched down hallway to the back where the first
     doctor was and demanded,

      "What the Hell's the matter with you? Mrs. Terry is 63 years old, she
     has four grown children and seven grandchildren, and you told her she
     was pregnant?"

      The new doctor continued to write on his clipboard and without
     looking up said,

      "So tell me, does she still have the hiccups?"

     Ol'wdb

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                         The Zanzibar effect
                     Originally posted in FN_SYSOP
                       By Michiel van der Vlist

     On the island of Zanzibar there was an old retired army colonel that
     fired a canon at exactly noon every day.

     One day a novice reporter for the snooze goes to interview the
     colonel about his canon. Sir, how do you know when it is exactly noon?
     he asks the colonel. Well, says the colonel, I have this very good
     watch from my grandfather. Every Friday morning I go to the market in
     town and there is this watchmaker who has all these clocks on display.
     All showing exactly the same time. I calibrate the watch on his
     clocks.

     The young reporter really wants to do a good job, so next day, he goes
     to interview the watch maker. Sir how do you get your clocks to
     accurately display all the same time? Well, says the watch maker,
     there is this old fool on the hills that fires a canon every day at
     noon exactly!

     Cheers, Michiel


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                  BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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                    -=:{ 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|
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      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

      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

      Fidonet to Internet: |MI   |http://www.terminate.com
       Bo Bendtsen               | sales@terminate.com
                                 | v2.00 on Mar23rd 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://husky.sf.net

      InterMail, InterEcho,|MT   |http://www.ifido.com            1:1/133
       Allfix                    | sales@ifido.com
                                 | v2.50 IM, v1.19 IE, v5.13 AF

      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
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      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
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       (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/

      Synchronet BBS       |TB   |http://www.synchro.net
                                 | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net
                                 | v3.10i Beta on Apr 30th 2002

      Watergate            |TUI  |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/
                                 | ramon@sbbs.se
                                 | v0.93p9 on Dec 14th 1998
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                                 | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999      2:22/222

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       Software Production       | elebbs@elebbs.com
                                 | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002

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                                 | 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

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                                 | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001

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                                 | groberts@nexusbbs.net
                                 | v0.99.41.001 beta on Jun 10th 2001

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                                 | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002

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       Bruce Morse               | bfmorse@rapro.com
                                 | v2.62.2SW

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       Creek Software            | MDWoltz@aol.com                1:1/150
                                 | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999

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                                 | support@telegard.net
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                                 | v3.09g2 SP4
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       Ruth Argust

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                                 | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002

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                                 | mpreslar@mailcity.com

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                                 | support@johndaileysoftware.com

      LORD (Legend of the  |D    |http://www.lordlegacy.org
       Red Dragon) Reborn        | mike@lordlegacy.org
                                 | v4.06 on Feb 5th 2001

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                                 | jpritch@eisonline.com
                                 | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002

      Vagabond Software:   |D    |http://www.vbsoft.org        1:124/7013
       Bryan Turner              | vagabond@vbsoft.org
                                 | last update: Jul 17th 2002

      (various)            |D    |http://www.webnexus.com/users/etow/
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      APoint               |PI   |http://www.apoint-mail.de
                                 | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de
                                 | v1.25                   2:2426/1210.13

      OpenXP/32            |PI   |http://www.openxp.com        2:248/2004
                                 | mk@openxp.de  v3.8.7 beta Aug 3rd 2002
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                                 | my@openxp16.de v3.40 RC3 Apr 28th 2002
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                                 | pm@crosspoint.de  v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999

      PPoint               |P    |http://www.alcuf.ca           1:249/114
                                 | v3.04 on Jan 10th 2000

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                                 | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997
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      SqEd32               |E    |http://www.sqed.de
                                 | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999
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                                 | transnet@ressl.com.ar
                                 | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998

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     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
     3830/9     | Steve Quarrella   |BinkP FTP IFCICO VMoT UUE|?|?
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     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   | Gran 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
      280/1027  | Lukas de Groen    | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
     FIDONEWS 19-36               Page 14                   9 Sep 2002


      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
      292/624   | Steven Leeman     | UUE, BinkP     | 128k  | n/c
      292/854   | Ward Dossche      | BinkP UUE TX   | ???   | 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
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 3
      633/260   | Malcolm Miles     | FTP,BinkP      | 64K   | n/c
      640/954   | Rick Van Ruth     | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
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      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)
     news.osirusoft.com
     news.tardis.net
     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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                             SPECIAL INTEREST
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                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.249
                size  1066.7kb
                date  2002-09-06

      The nodelist has   9414 nodes in it
        and a total of  12337 non-comment entries

              including     6 zones
                           60 regions
                          456 hosts
                          655 hubs
         admin overhead  1177 ( 12.50 %)

                    and   950 private nodes
                          454 nodes down
                          342 nodes on hold
      off line overhead  1746 ( 18.55 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    732 (  7.78 %)
                9600 =   8210 ( 87.21 %)
                              (HST  =  173 or   2.11 %)
                              (CSP  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (PEP  =   12 or   0.15 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (V32  = 4483 or  54.60 %)
                              (V32B =  469 or   5.71 %)
                              (V34  = 5406 or  65.85 %)
                              (V42  = 4452 or  54.23 %)
                              (V42B =  488 or   5.94 %)
                2400 =     98 (  1.04 %)
                1200 =      8 (  0.08 %)
                 300 =    366 (  3.89 %)

                ISDN =    941 ( 10.00 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             3343
                      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                      56
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     386
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                4176
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1429
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   3005 ( 31.92 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   5099 ( 54.16 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    726 (  7.71 %)
      Other             =    584 (  6.20 %)

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

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