     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 20, Number 14             7 Apr 2003 
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                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  2
        The People Have A Right To Know  ..........................  2
     3. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES  .....................................  7
        Socrates  .................................................  7
        A classic with a twist  ...................................  9
     4. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................... 10
        FIDONet Software References  .............................. 10
     5. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ...................................... 15
        Fidonet-related sites  .................................... 15
     6. SPECIAL INTEREST  ......................................... 20
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 20
     7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 22
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 22
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 24
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they
     don't want, to impress people they don't like.

                                     -- Will Rogers


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                             GENERAL ARTICLES
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              The People Have A Right To Know, (what we want them to)
                          by Philip Lozier 1:267/169


     (*NOTE* Although a result of the past FidoNews article mentioned here,
     this is in no way a rebutal to that article, as I believe that article
     was based on what were believed to be the facts by the author.  It is
     in fact a result of the disgust I feel towards the newsmedia handling
     of the issue presented in that article. Being close to home for me, I
     was aware of facts that were -not- presented outside my local area.  I
     see it as a wake up call in respects to trusting media content.
     Although based on an USA issue I am sure the jist of it could apply
     almost anywhere.)


     I've gotta tell you, it seems that these days you can't trust a thing
     presented by the media.  In a recent article right here, Shannon
     Talley, a true American hero in every sense of the word, who believes
     firmly in the principles of the great nation we both share, had an
     article published concerning his feelings over what he thought was the
     trampling on of basic civil rights back here in the USA. This was
     absolutely not the case, and Mr. Talley, everybody for that matter,
     should be very careful about trusting facts once they gain attention
     by media from outside the local area.  It wasn't Shannon's fault
     though.  Anybody in his position could be duped by the way our media
     presents, or actually mis-represents, the facts in any given
     sittuation.

     The article was about a man being arrested for wearing a t-shirt that
     read "give peace a chance" in the Crossgates Mall, near Albany, New
     York.  The allegation was that mall security targeted him like
     guestapo thugs for wearing an anti-war slogan, and that he was just
     minding his own business, not "speaking, chanting, raving, nor making
     speaches."  If this was the case, as Mr. Talley was clearly led to
     believe by the CNN slot he saw, I could understand his being
     infuriated! After all HE -IS- fighting overseas to protect the idea of
     freedom and the rights of individuals.  What -IS- he fighting for if
     such injustices are being allowed to occur in his homeland?

     Unfortunately, Mr. Talley was the victim of media hype and blatant
     misreporting of the facts by an irresponsible news community.  Being
     local to where this happened, I had the benefit of seeing the local
     news reports immediately after the incident occured.  The glory about
     local, late-breaking, media coverage is that things are reported right
     after they happen, before they can get twisted, and you get more of
     the real facts. I saw the report on a local television station, WRGB
     Channel 6, (incidently, the first and oldest existing full time
     broadcast television station), and it was reported that indeed the
     gentlman in question -was- aproaching other shoppers, and he and his
     son were engaged in verbal disputes with an entire group of people, of
     a nature that caused at least one patron of the mall to report it to a
     store security person with worries that the verbal dispute would
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     escalate.  At this point, laws were already being broken, such as
     harrasment of the other shoppers, and disorderly conduct.  Hardly a
     little peaceful innocent freedom of speach or expression thing.
     Security became involved, and the guy refused to stop his activities,
     he was asked to leave, refused, so he was, in accordance with New York
     State Law, arrested for tresspassing.

     After some discussion with Shannon on this, and him being convinced I
     was mistaken, I dug for the truth.  I was sickened by the articles and
     reports I saw from outside this area that gave the impression that
     this guy was targeted just because he was wearing a shirt with an
     anti-war saying.  Mostly very short blurbs that would give anybody the
     wrong impression and make the owners of Crossgates Mall look like
     fascist warmongers.  It really boiled my blood, knowing better. I
     guess leaving out a few of the true facts doesn't make it a -real-
     lie, but the image of a poor peaceful guy expressing himself being
     targeted sure makes for better press, huh?

     The facts you ask?  Well... during the course of this disgusting
     search, I finally came across them.  The sworn criminal complaint and
     supporting deposition filed with the local court.

     Anybody who wishes to view the photo copy images of these documents
     can do so at http://thesmokinggun.com/archive/crossgates1.html

     They entirely change the perspective on this incident, show it for
     what it truly was, and absolutely show that the reports all of you saw
     outside this area were a blatant case of misreporting.  They also show
     that the facts in Mr. Talley's article were false.  Those of you who
     are interested, and wonder who is "on the watch", can read them and
     judge for yourself... then wonder where the focus of the watch should
     be.

     The actual criminal complaint clearly states that complaints of this
     guy and his son aproaching and stopping other shoppers were recieved
     by mall security.

     The supporting deposition of an undercover detective in Macy's (The
     store in front of which this occured) states that a woman aproached
     her about a verbal dispute that was occuring between two men in
     anti-war shirts and a crowd of people, and that the woman was
     concerned how the verbal dispute was escalating.

     Another supporting deposition by one of the mall security really
     brings it into focus.  After being notified about the dispute, he
     aproached Mr. Downs (our peaceful innocent guy) and was told that he
     had to stop it.  He was told to leave people alone and to remove the
     shirt (note* there had been an incident in January at the same mall
     involving many people in anti-war shirts causing a nuisance in the
     name of "peaceful protest", so concerns could be justified), Mr. Downs
     refused.  He was then told he would have to leave.  He again refused,
     absolutely refused in fact.  Mr. Downs was informed that Crossgates
     mall was private property, and he could be arrested if he refused to
     comply.  He still refused. The guard got the aid of a police officer
     who tried to talk sense to the guy, to no avail. After a final
     warning, Mr. Downs was brought to a police sub-station within the
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     mall, where he was handed a desk apearance ticket to apear in the
     local court, and released, under the condition that he leave the mall.
     Believe it or not, he refused again!  He was told if he didn't leave,
     he would be re-arrested for tresspassing.  Do you believe that the guy
     STILL refused to leave!  Is it any wonder they finally put the
     handcuffs on him?

     Some innocent peaceful guy just going about his own business!  Yea,
     right.  Creating a disturbance with a crowd of people, then acting in
     a beligerant manner with security and police officials.  Then he has
     the nerve to cry -his- rights were violated.  What about the rights of
     the people he was arguing with?  What about the rights of the people
     who own the mall to have business conducted in their establishment
     without their patrons being disturbed.  Does one think if they walk
     into a restaraunt and start walking up to tables and bothering the
     customers eating their lunch, that they won't be asked to leave, and
     arrested if they don't?  Let's be realistic here, just for the sake of
     common sense!

     He should have been charged with disorderly conduct, and harrasment,
     in addition to the measly tresspass they gave him.  They were -nice-
     to him actually... maybe his position on the judicial review board
     (the guys who investigate cases of misconduct by judges) had something
     to do with that.  Wouldn't -you- want to be the judge hearing -that-
     case?

     I am of the same mind as Shannon Talley to be proud to live in a
     country were we can protest without being shot in the back of our
     heads, and to be able to speak freely.

     The US Constitution is paramount, however, often misinterpreted.
     Freedom of speech does not mean we can walk into private
     establishments and force our oppinions on others, or call them names
     if they disagree with us.  That is called harassment.

     Freedom of expression doesn't mean you can cause disturbances in
     private, or public for that matter, places... that is called
     disorderly conduct.

     Protesting. Come on, that's common sense too...  if one wishes to
     protest the actions taken by a government, who do you protest to?
     Well... I wouldn't think it's a bunch of shoppers who disagree with
     you... what can they do about it anyway?  That's just called dumb, as
     well as looking for trouble.  This brainiac, if he was looking to
     protest, would have been better off at the State Capital for crying
     out loud... only a few miles from the mall, and guess what... he had
     to pass within a few blocks of it to get to the mall, being he came
     from the town of Selkirk... gotta pass it.  He wouldn't have got
     arrested either!

     I think the point is proven on this guy, and the media discredited.
     Read the documents for yourself.

     Every US citizen should be concerned about their civil rights, but,
     along with rights, comes responsibility.  Hmmm... the news media.
     Their famous cry... "THE PEOPLE HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!" hip-hip. Where
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     is -their- responsibility?  Do we have a right to know the facts, or
     just what they want to tell us.  Maybe just what makes the story more
     interesting?  I spit on the media for the coverage on this story.  It
     has to make you wonder just how much we see coming out of Iraq is
     true.  How many little details were left out?  Maybe just that one
     little one that adds a little more controversy to each story and leads
     to follow up talk spots, with those advertisement segments for them
     during each break to draw ratings to a time slot?

     Does the newsmedia really think that it isn't lies just because they
     left something out, no matter how it sways the story?  ..."Only 30
     seconds for that slot, and hey, we told the most important part of
     it!" ... yea, the part -they- felt was important.  Maybe the part that
     causes somebody to go out into a big protest for something that didn't
     really happen.  Maybe the little part that causes somebody to lose
     their job.  Maybe the part that causes people to get into fistfights
     over oppinions.  Maybe the part that causes a business to shut down.
     Maybe the part that causes somebody to lose a lawsuit (yea, tell me
     juries don't get swayed), maybe worse.

     By misrepresenting the facts, the media caused so much fuss, that the
     owners of Crossgates Mall were inclined to drop the charges. Why?
     Because the case had no merit? I think not.  Common sense would tell
     anybody it was to avoid the media frenzy that the case would have
     spurred.

     It also inclined them to fire a security guard... why?  Because he did
     something wrong?  Nope.  PR move, that's all.  I'm sure that made his
     life just wonderful.  Why?  Because of a public nuisance hiding behind
     the pretense of his rights.  Wonder how easy it will be for him to get
     another job.

     We should always be on the watch that our rights are never removed,
     but we should also be on the watch for those who would abuse those
     rights, making the ones who REALLY have their rights stepped on
     discredited and not taken seriously when they should be.

     People should be better educated on what their rights really are, and
     what responsibilities come with them, so they aren't under false
     assumptions and misguided righteousness when they stand up for what
     they -think- their rights are.  Being educated on ones rights will
     also help them see the rebel rousers for what they really are when
     they try to stir things up for their own agenda under a pretense of
     -civil rights-.

     The newsmedia?  Ah... what to do with them.  They cause more trouble
     and stir more people to misguided judgements and actions than I don't
     know what.  What to do with them.  I don't know.  Their credibility is
     almost non-existant in my eyes.  They are truly a menace to society.

     These are my oppinions along with the actual facts of this matter.
     What's the point?  I don't know... maybe that while on the watch, that
     it is important to watch the sources that stir you to actions. Maybe
     to truly know the facts before making conclusions and judgements.
     Maybe that in times such as these, it is ever more important to have
     ones eyes wide open at all times watching for the liars, because it
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     could be a real big lie one day that effects all of our lives forever.
     I myself would have believed the hype as well if not for it being so
     close to home.  It's kind of scary in times like these, not knowing
     what to believe.  Be on the watch.

     My eyes are definately opened a little bit more when it comes to the
     media.

     God bless all of our troops, and may they have a quick and safe
     return.


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                           CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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                                Socrates
                           wdbonner@pacbell.net

     In ancient Greece, Socrates was reputed to hold knowledge in high
     esteem. One day an acquaintance met the great philosopher and said,
     "Socrates, do you know what I just heard about your friend?"

     "Hold on a minute," Socrates replied. "Before telling me anything I'd
     like you to pass a little test. It's called the Triple Filter Test."

     "Triple filter?"

     "That's right," Socrates continued. "Before you talk to me about my
     friend, it might be a good idea to take a moment and filter what
     you're going to say.

     The first filter is Truth. Have you made absolutely sure that what you
     are about to tell me is true?"

      "No", the man said, "actually I just heard about it and..."

     "All right", said Socrates. "So you don't really know if it's true or
     not. Now let's try the second filter, the filter of Goodness. Is what
     you are about to tell me about my friend something good?"

     "No, on the contrary..."

     "So," Socrates continued, "you want to tell me something bad about
     him, but you're not certain it's true. You may still pass the test
     though, because there's one filter left: the filter of Usefulness. Is
     what you want to tell me about my friend going to be useful to me?"

     "No, not really."

     "Well", concluded Socrates, "if what you want to tell me is neither
     true nor good nor even useful, why tell it to me at all?"

     This is why Socrates was a great philosopher and held in such high
     esteem.

     It also explains why he never found out his best friend was sleeping
     with his wife.

     =======================================

      The Painter

     There was a tradesman, a painter called Wayne, who was very interested
     in making a penny where he could, so he often would thin down paint to
     make it go a wee bit further.


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     As it happened, he got away with this for some time, and eventually
     the Baptist Church decided to do a big restoration job on the painting
     of one of their biggest buildings. Wayne put in a bid, and because his
     price was so low, he got the job.

     And so he set to erecting the trestles and setting up the planks, and
     buying the paint and, yes, I am sorry to say, thinning it down with
     turpentine.

     Well, Wayne was up on the scaffolding, painting away, the job nearly
     completed when suddenly there was a horrendous clap of thunder, and
     the sky opened, the rain poured down, washing the thinned paint from
     all over the church and knocking Wayne clear off the scaffold to land
     on the lawn among the gravestones, surrounded by telltale puddles of
     the thinned and useless paint.

     Wayne was no fool. He knew this was a judgment from the Almighty, so
     he got on his knees and cried: "Oh, God! Forgive me! What should I
     do?"

     And from the thunder, a mighty voice spoke... (you're going to love
     this)

     "Repaint! Repaint!  And thin no more!"

     Ouch ...I'm outta' here! <G>


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                          A classic with a twist
                     Sent in by Holger Granholm, 2:20/228

     An aircraft is about to crash. There are five passengers on board, but
     unfortunately only 4 parachutes.

     The first passenger says "I'm Shaquille O'Neill, the best NBA
     basketball player. The Lakers need me, it would be unfair to them if I
     died". So he takes the first parachute and jumps.

     The second passenger, Hillary Clinton, says "I am the wife of the
     former President of the United States. I am also the most dedicated
     woman in the world, a Senator in New York and America's potential
     future President. She takes one of the parachutes and jumps.

     The third passenger, George W. Bush, says " I am the President of the
     United States of America. I have a huge responsibility in world
     politics. And apart from that, I am the most intelligent President in
     the history of the country and I have a responsibility to my people
     not to die". So he takes a parachute and jumps.

     The fourth passenger, the Pope, says to the fifth passenger, a ten
     year old schoolboy "I am already old. I have already lived my life, as
     a good person and a priest I will give you the last parachute".

     The boy replies "No problem, there is also a parachute for you.
     America's most intelligent President has taken my schoolbag..."


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      Sunrise Doors:       |D    |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
       Al Lawrence         |     | al@sunrisedoors.com
     FIDONEWS 20-14               Page 13                   7 Apr 2003


                           |     | Tel: (404) 256-9518

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

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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
      OpenXP/16            |P    |http://www.openxp16.de       2:2433/460
                           |     | my@openxp16.de v3.40 RC3 Apr 28th 2002
      CrossPoint (XP)      |P    |http://www.crosspoint.de
                           |     | 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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                           |     | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Feb 28th 2003

      SqEd32               |E    |http://www.sqed.de
                           |     | v1.15 on Dec 15th 1999

      TimEd                |E    |http://blizzard.dnsalias.org/fidonet
                           |     | mail@ozzmosis.com            /timed
                           |     | v1.11.a5 in March 2003       3:633/267
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      GiGo                 |UI   |http://www.gigo.com
                           |     | v0109 on Jan 9th 1997

      Internet Rex:        |UI   |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
       Charles Cruden      |     | telnet://xanadubbs.ca        1:342/806
       (Khan Software)     |     | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001

      PeopleComm Terminal  |CUI  |http://www.peoplecomm.org     1:128/148
       (BBS & Telnet w/    |     | edward.williams@adelphia.net
        ZModem)            |     | v1.01a on Feb 11th 2003

      TransNet             |UI   |http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/
                           |     | transnet@ressl.com.ar
                           |     | v2.11 on Jul 18th 1998
     FIDONEWS 20-14               Page 14                   7 Apr 2003


      TransX: Multiboard   |UI   |http://www.multiboard.com/software/
       Communications, Inc.|     | support@multiboard.com      1:2401/305
                           |     | v3.5
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      National BBS List    |?    | http://www.usbbs.org

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       http://www.simtel.net                  http://wuarchive.wustl.edu

      Note: most also provide FTP access (use ftp:// vice http:// above)

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               Fidonet Via Internet Hubs provided by FidoTel.com
     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     | fido@thunderdome.ws| BinkP,FTP,UUE | 10mbps | 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
      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
     FIDONEWS 20-14               Page 17                   7 Apr 2003


      229/1     | Phil Simpson      | BinkP UUE FTP  | ???   | n/c
      229/2000  | Robert Couture    |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ???   |
      229/622   | Dave Hamilton     | BinkP          | ???   | 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
      379/1     | Dale Ross         | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
      379/1200  | Chris Cranford    | BinkP FTP TX   | ???   | n/c
      393/68    | Ben Ritchey       | UUE:BFDS?      | 33.6k | n/c
      396/45    | Marc Lewis        |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ADSL  | 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
     3634/12    | Mark Lewis         |FTP,VMoT,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
      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
      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
     FIDONEWS 20-14               Page 18                   7 Apr 2003


      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
      2800/14   | Aleksandr Galiyev | BinkP,ifcico,VMoT| T1  | 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
      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
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      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

     nntp://news.fidotel.com (provides user access to Z1B & WWB)
     nntp://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.094
                size  996.0kb
                date  2003-04-04

      The nodelist has   8785 nodes in it
        and a total of  11532 non-comment entries

              including     6 zones
                           59 regions
                          441 hosts
                          600 hubs
         admin overhead  1106 ( 12.59 %)

                    and   984 private nodes
                          313 nodes down
                          344 nodes on hold
      off line overhead  1641 ( 18.68 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    679 (  7.73 %)
                9600 =   7662 ( 87.22 %)
                              (HST  =  165 or   2.15 %)
                              (CSP  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (PEP  =   11 or   0.14 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (V32  = 4143 or  54.07 %)
                              (V32B =  412 or   5.38 %)
                              (V34  = 5082 or  66.33 %)
                              (V42  = 4208 or  54.92 %)
                              (V42B =  436 or   5.69 %)
                2400 =     88 (  1.00 %)
                1200 =      6 (  0.07 %)
                 300 =    350 (  3.98 %)

                ISDN =    788 (  8.97 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             2993
                      Frontdoor  2.02+
                      Dutchie 2.90c
                      Binkleyterm >2.1
                      D'Bridge <1.3
                      TIMS
                      Xenia
     --------------------------------------
     FIDONEWS 20-14               Page 21                   7 Apr 2003


      XB              Binkleyterm 2.0                 7
                      Dutchie 2.90b
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                       11
     --------------------------------------
      XP              Seadog                          6
     --------------------------------------
      XR              Opus 1.03                      43
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     344
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                3969
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1412
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   2704 ( 30.78 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   4851 ( 55.22 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    702 (  7.99 %)
      Other             =    528 (  6.01 %)

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

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