     The  F I D O N E W S      Volume 20, Number 08             24 Feb 2003 
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            Copyright 2003 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally.


                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. INSIDE  ...................................................  2
        The Fidonews at a Glance  .................................  2
     3. OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER  ..........................  3
        Cruise Ships  .............................................  3
     4. FIDONET NOTICES  ..........................................  5
        International Genealogical conference  ....................  5
     5. FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST  ..............................  7
        How'd you do that!?!  .....................................  7
     6. COMIX IN ASCII  ...........................................  8
        Cownting on us  ...........................................  8
     7. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES  .....................................  9
        Lessons from Mom  .........................................  9
        Nagging Wife  ............................................. 11
     8. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................... 12
        FIDONet Software References  .............................. 12
     9. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ...................................... 17
        Fidonet-related sites  .................................... 17
     10. SPECIAL INTEREST  ........................................ 22
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 22
     11. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  .................................... 24
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 24
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 26
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human
     life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will
     never sit.
                                            -- D. Elton Trueblood


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                                  INSIDE
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                     The Fidonews at a Glance

     Warren Bonner is back from what seems to have been a wonderful
     vacation. Read about it in the "Cruise Ships" article in his column
     this week.

        Some information about the "International Genealogical conference",
     originally posted in the FN_SYSOP echo, now shamelessly cut out from
     there by this editor and published in the Fidonet Notices section. I
     hope Steve Hayes doesn't mind.

        In Frank Vest's column he explains how he makes those nice ASCII
     comix he's been pleasing our readers with the last couple of weeks,
     this in "How'd you do that!?!". And this week's comix is called
     "Cownting on us", another episode from the life of our very own doggy
     Fido.

        As Warren now is back again, we once again have a couple of jokes
     from his endless collections. First out is "Lessons from Mom", one of
     those cute lists. Second is a hillbilly joke, "Nagging Wife", not a
     very nice story, but then hillbilly jokes usually aren't, are they?


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                      OL'WDB'S COLUMN - WARREN BONNER
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                               Cruise Ships
                          wdbonner@pacbell.net

     Hello friends in this and foreign lands!  In the WWII and Korean wars,
     I served my country with pride and honor.  Being in the United States
     Coast Guard/Navy in the north Atlantic and Arctic oceans 1943 to 1946
     on the worlds largest, fastest, newest diesel-electric ice breaker,
     armed like a baby battleship, at that time was very exciting. Our
     homeport was Boston, Mass.  In north Atlantic waters that had 20 to 60
     foot waves most of the time, was very trying on one's ability to walk,
     or even stand without hanging onto a standard or life line, even for a
     teenager!  We were very happy when we entered an ice field, that
     calmed the raging sea, and the ramming of the ice field was easier to
     take.

     You see, ice breakers are "round bottomed" ships so that ice fields
     cannot crush them, they just run a-top of ice field, about one third
     their length, then their thousands of tons of dead weight break the
     ice up to 30 feet thick.  Often that starts a "crack" in the ice field
     called a "lead" that can run a mile or more ahead of the ship. The
     ship uses itself as a wedge to force its way forward to its
     destination.

     The ship has hulls that are skirted with tensile strength steel up to
     two inches thick in places.  It is very strong but its egg shaped
     bottom makes it a very hard ride on water or ice.  The north Atlantic
     is noted for its general stormy attitude.  In heavy seas she would
     roll and pitch thirty to forty-five degrees or more. After nine months
     at sea, one has difficulty walking when the ship makes port, not being
     used to flat solid ground.  One naturally steps out into the air
     expecting the ships deck to rise or fall, and the sidewalk doesn't!
     Leaves one looking like a drunk clown to any passer by.

     In Korea, I was on two "AKA's",  Large cargo/Personnel transports. We
     landed 800 Marines or Army Personnel on alternate nights at Won San or
     Inchon Korea.  These ships carried all the Jeeps, tanks, artillery and
     ammo for the troops, plus eight LCM landing craft to ferry them from
     the ship to the beaches.  Heavy seas would cause a fifteen degree
     roll/pitch of these ships.

     I tell you this so you will appreciate Cruise Ships!  If you have
     never been on one, you may be surprised that they roll or pitch only
     five degrees by design.  At least the ones built from 1998 on.  Two
     hundred thousand tons is like being on the ground most of the time. We
     occasionally experienced one to two degrees roll/pitch on our cruise
     on the "Visions of the Sea" cruise ship last week to the Mexico
     "Riviera".  We had not cruised because my wife was afraid of the
     oceans with respect to any ship.

     This vacation was the closest one can get to perfection.  A perfect
     way to spend 7 - 10 days. The dining rooms both formal and regular are
     serving an astounding array of foods all the time.  Foods cooked and
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     served in many, many recipes.  Real orchestra and stage shows every
     night.  All performances, dancing, acting, magic, ventriloquists, etc.
     were polished and performed to perfection. Two swimming pools, a
     Casino, four spas, and saunas.  Exercise gym on the eleventh floor has
     all types of exercise machines.  Also has fourteen elevators so smooth
     and quiet... and fast!  Well, I've rattled on enough.  Web pages are:
     https://www.royalcaribbean.com/asp/default.asp?NOSID=1 The ships
     services also include computers in the Library for you to connect via
     satellite to your own computer at home, (if you leave it on 24x7), or
     your ISP.

     All I know for sure is, there is no comparison to a Cruise Liner
     except the newer aircraft carriers like the Carl Vincent.  It is one
     hundred ten feet wide, where my ship in 1943 was only sixty nine feet
     wide. From keel to mast head it measures about two hundred thirty two
     feet, and my ship was one hundred ninety seven feet.  Also it is a
     thousand feet long, about three times longer than the Eastwind W279,
     in '43.  But drafts only 30 feet, where as my ship's draft was 34 feet
     war time equipped.  What a ship the "Visions of the Seas"!

     Take your wife/husband, (if married), and enjoy a real vacation! No
     driving for five to eight hours a day, two or three days to get where
     you want to go, and back, and no $2.00 a gallon for gasoline. No worry
     about parking or available rooms, and no Burger King or McDonalds,
     just a peaceful wonderful vacation.  The cost is about the same! The
     difference is no anxiety about any of the above, or other things that
     may happen to ruin a vacation.  Now back to life and work at home.

     Warm regards,
     Ol'wdb


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                              FIDONET NOTICES
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        THE INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL ECHO (GENEALOGY.EUR)
                  by Steve Hayes, 5:7106/20

     Family history and genealogy are hobbies that are growing in
     popularity in many parts of the world. Genealogy proper is the study
     of people's lines of descent - who their ancestors were. Family
     history is a bit wider - it is concerned not only with who one's
     ancestors were, but with what they did, and how they related to the
     communities they lived in.

     When BBSs started, family historians quickly discovered that they were
     a good way to communicate with others. When BBS networks got going,
     they found it was a good way to make contact with people in other
     places who could help them with their research, or even to discover
     relatives. At a time when most people calling BBSs were interested
     only in the technical side of computing and computer communications,
     family historians provided a growing body of non-techie users.

     Nowadays all the glamour in computer communications is attached to
     "the Internet", and many people have been gloomily (or joyously)
     predicting the death of the BBS and the BBS networks. Family
     Historians have also found uses for the Internet. They have created
     Web pages to show their family trees, and there are several Usenet
     newsgroups and mailing lists for family history. But for those in the
     know, the relatively humble BBS echo remains one of the best methods
     of communication. For one thing, there is now just too much material
     out there. The newsgroups are huge, and because they don't have "TO"
     lines, it is very easy to miss replies to messages one has posted. On
     BBSs, offline readers have developed sophisticated keyword searching
     which are ideal for genealogist, and make it easy to find messages
     with surnames one is interested in.

     HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL GENEALOGICAL ECHO

     The first genealogy echo on Fidonet was in Zone 1, and its echo tag
     was GENEALOGY. In those days of 2400 bps modems, it was too big to
     transport economically outside North America, and most of the messages
     were only of interest to people within North America. That's when
     the International Genealogy Echo (GENEALOGY.EUR) started.

     The International Genealogical Conference started humbly as a local
     conference on Capital ComTech BBS in Pretoria, South Africa in June
     1988 when Steve Hayes persuaded the sysop, Geoff Dellow, to open a
     genealogy message area. In May 1989 Capital ComTech joined Fidonet,
     and the genealogy conference became a national echo on Fidonet within
     South Africa.

     Africa was then part of Fidonet Zone 2, and in August 1989 Niel Uys,
     the South African Regional Echo Coordinator, began sending it to
     Germany, and because the echo was reaching Europe and became the Zone
     genealogy echo for Zone 2, it was called GENEALOGY.EUR to
     distinguish it from GENEALOGY, the North American genealogy echo. A
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     little later the UK was added, and soon afterwards the Europe-South
     Africa link went through the UK. In about September 1990 Zone 1 (USA &
     Canada) was added, and Zone 3 (Australia & New Zealand) joined in
     about the same time, and Africa split from Zone 2 and became Zone 5.
     This makes the GENEALOGY.EUR echo tag something of a misnomer now,
     though the echo tag is not meant for human beings but for electronic
     mailers. It has, however, misled some sysops into labelling this
     conference on their BBSs as "the European Genealogy Conference". This
     is incorrect, and it would be better to call it the "International
     Genealogy Conference", or the "Genealogy and Family History
     Conference" or something like that. In the USA it might be wiser to
     label it the "Foreign Genealogical Conference".

     THE FUTURE

     At the moment GENEALOGY.EUR is distributed in Zones 1, 2, 3 & 5. It
     would be good if it could be distributed in Zones 4 and 6 as well.
     Such an echo should be quite popular in eastern Asia, as many eastern
     Asian people, particularly the Chinese, have traditionally kept good
     records of their ancestors.

     So I hope that Fidonet sysops in all countries, on all continents,
     will consider making the GENEALOGY.EUR echo available to their users.

     Steve Hayes of 5:7106/20
     Moderator of GENEALOGY.EUR
     E-mail: methodius@bigfoot.com
             shayes@dunelm.org.uk
     WWW: http://www.geocities.com/Athens/7783/bbs1.htm


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                        FRANK'S COLUMN - FRANK VEST
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                              How'd you do that!?!
                                 By Frank Vest
                                  1:124/6308.1


      Since no one has asked me how I make the Fidonews Comix, I thought
     I'd tell you anyway. :-)

      Note that most of the Fidonews Comix that appeared when I was Editor
     were simply copied from older Fidonews articles.

      When I was Fidonews Editor, I used a text editor and tried to copy
     the Fidonet dog along with other ascii drawings. Since I didn't really
     try to make a weekly thing or put them in a "comic strip" format, it
     worked. The carriage return and line feeds of the text editor made the
     job of editing the drawing a real pain. When trying to move a drawing
     or copy, I'd end up with a combined drawing and spend a lot of time
     sorting out the two, or more, drawings into their individual drawings.

      For the ones most recent, I found that using "TheDraw" is a good way
     to edit the ascii drawings. You can copy and move stuff a lot easier
     with TheDraw since it doesn't insist on line wraps and carriage
     returns on each line. Just be sure to keep the 72 character limit in
     mind and save your work as "asciI", not "Ansi". It's also a good idea
     to check the finished comix with a plain text editor to be sure you
     haven't left some strange characters in the article. Be sure to use
     only ascii characters that you can type on a regular typewriter. The
     high ascii and such just don't work well.

      I guess that some talent for art is required, but I hardly cownt....
     <ahem!>... I hardly count myself as an artist. Grab some ascii
     pictures and play with them. You might be surprised at what you can
     do.

      The Fidonews needs content. The ascii comix are a means to say
     something or express one's self, ideas, thoughts, beliefs and other
     things in a way that can be humorous and entertaining. Most news
     letters, newspapers and such have some form of comics or cartoons in
     them. Without such "breaks", a newsletter or paper can get real
     "stuffy", IMHO.

      You all try playing with some ascii and see what you come up with. It
     really isn't that hard. :-)

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                              COMIX IN ASCII
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                           CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES
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                           Lessons from Mom
                         wdbonner@pacbell.net

     1. My mother taught me TO APPRECIATE A JOB WELL DONE.
     "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished
     cleaning."

     2. My mother taught me RELIGION.
     "You better pray that will come out of the carpet."

     3. My mother taught me about TIME TRAVEL.
     "If you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of
     next week!"

     4. My mother taught me LOGIC.
     "Because I said so, that's why."

     5. My mother taught me MORE LOGIC.
     "If you fall out of that swing and break your neck, you're not going
     to the store with me."

     6. My mother taught me FORESIGHT.
     "Make sure you wear clean underwear, in case you're in an accident."

     7. My mother taught me IRONY.
     "Keep crying, and I'll give you something to cry about."

     8. My mother taught me about the science of OSMOSIS.
     "Shut your mouth and eat your supper."

     9. My mother taught me about CONTORTIONISM.
     "Will you look at that dirt on the back of your neck!"

     10. My mother taught me about STAMINA.
     "You'll sit there until all that spinach is gone."

     11. My mother taught me about WEATHER.
     "This room of yours looks as if a tornado went through it."

     12. My mother taught me about HYPOCRISY.
     "If I told you once, I've told you a million times. Don't exaggerate!"

     13. My mother taught me the CIRCLE OF LIFE.
     "I brought you into this world, and I can take you out."

     14. My mother taught me about BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION.
     "Stop acting like your father!"

     15. My mother taught me about ENVY.
     "There are millions of less fortunate children in this world who don't
     have wonderful parents like you do."

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     16. My mother taught me about ANTICIPATION.
     "Just wait until we get home."

     17. My mother taught me about RECEIVING.
     "You are going to get it when you get home!"

     18. My mother taught me MEDICAL SCIENCE.
     "If you don't stop crossing your eyes, They are going to freeze that
     way."

     19. My mother taught me ESP.
     "Put your sweater on; don't you think I know when you are cold?"

     20. My mother taught me HUMOR.
     "When that lawn mower cuts off your toes, don't come running to me."

     21. My mother taught me HOW TO BECOME AN ADULT.
     "If you don't eat your vegetables, you'll never grow up."

     22. My mother taught me GENETICS.
     "You're just like your father."

     23. My mother taught me about my ROOTS.
     "Shut that door behind you. Do you think you were born in a barn?"

     24. My mother taught me WISDOM.
     "When you get to be my age, you'll understand."

     25. And my favorite: my mother taught me about JUSTICE.
     "One day you'll have kids, and I hope they turn out just like you!"

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                             Nagging Wife
                       wdbonner@pacbell.net

     An old hillbilly farmer had a wife who nagged him unmercifully. From
     morning till night (and sometimes later), she was always complaining
     about something. The only time he got any relief was when he was out
     plowing with his old mule. He tried to plow a lot. One day, when he
     was out plowing, his wife brought him lunch in the field. He drove the
     old mule into the shade, sat down on a stump, and began to eat his
     lunch. Immediately, his wife began haranguing him again. Complain,
     nag, nag; it just went on and on.

     All of a sudden, the old mule lashed out with both hind feet; caught
     her smack in the back of the head. Killed her dead on the spot.

     At the funeral several days later, the minister noticed something
     rather odd. When a woman mourner would approach the old farmer, he
     would listen for a minute, then nod his head in agreement; but when a
     man mourner approached him, he would listen for a minute, then shake
     his head in disagreement This was so consistent, the minister decided
     to ask the old farmer about it.

     So after the funeral, the minister spoke to the old farmer, and asked
     him why he nodded his head and agreed with the women, but always shook
     his head and disagreed with all the men.

     The old farmer said: "Well, the women would come up and say something
     about how nice my wife looked, or how pretty her dress was, so I'd nod
     my head in agreement."

     "And what about the men?",  the minister asked.

     Farmer replied, "They wanted to know if the mule was for sale."


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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     |     | beemail@gexonline.net

      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
                           |     | v1.2.2 on Dec 28th 2002

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

      Radius (based on     |M    |http://fido5012.narod.ru/     2:5012/38
               Argus)      |     | fido5012@zaural.net Tel: 7-3522-469463
                           |     | v4.009 on Jan 2nd 2003

      Terminate            |MBP  |http://www.terminate.com
                           |     | v5.00 on Aug 7th 1997

      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
       (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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      BBBS                 |BI   |http://www.bbbs.net  b@bbbs.net
                           |     | v4.00MP on Oct 25th 1999      2:22/222

      ELEBBS: The Elevator |B    |http://www.elebbs.com
       Software Production |     | elebbs@elebbs.com
                           |     | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9th 2002

      Falken BBS           |B    |http://falkenbbs.com
                           |     | 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

      Mystic BBS           |B    |http://www.mysticbbs.com
                           |     | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001

      Nexus BBS            |B    |http://www.nexusbbs.net
                           |     | groberts@nexusbbs.net
                           |     | v0.99.41.001 beta on Jun 10th 2001

      Proboard BBS         |B    |http://www.proboard.be
                           |     | v2.17 on Jun 9th 2002

      RemoteAccess BBS:    |B    |http://www.rapro.com            1:1/120
       Bruce Morse         |     | bfmorse@rapro.com
                           |     | v2.62.2SW
     FIDONEWS 20-08               Page 14                  24 Feb 2003


      Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B    |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/
       Creek Software      |     | MDWoltz@aol.com                1:1/150
                           |     | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999

      Telegard BBS         |B    |http://www.telegard.net
                           |     | support@telegard.net
                           |     | v3.09g2 SP4
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      Atlantis Software    |D    |http://www.jimmyrose.com/atlantis/
                           |     | last update: Jun 2002

      BBS Central          |D    |http://www.rpcomputers.com

      Bentstone            |D    |http://www.srupc.com/mall
       Capabilities Group  |     | info@stonebenders.com

      Cheepware:           |D    |http://www.midnightshour.org/cheepware/
       Sean Dennis         |     | hausmaus@midnightshour.org    1:11/200

      DDS (Doorware        |D    |http://www.doorgames.org     1:2404/201
       Distribution System)|     | ruth@doorgames.org
       Ruth Argust         |     |

      DoorMUD              |D    |http://www.dmud.thebbs.org
                           |     | v0.98 Jun 1st 2002

      Elysium Software     |D    |http://www.elysoft.com
                           |     | mpreslar@mailcity.com

      Jibben Software      |D    |http://www.jibbensoftware.com
                           |     | scott@jibben.com
                           |     | 1995-99 Release dates

      JNS Software:        |D    |http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/
       Rusty Johnson       |     | rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com
                           |     | Tel: (304) 733-0113

      John Dailey Software |D    |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
                           |     | support@johndaileysoftware.com

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

      Lord-II IGMs         |D    |http://www.shelby.net/wizards/lord2igm/

      PC Pursuits          |D    |http://www.pcpursuits.com
                           |     | brucep@pop.kis.net
                           |     | Tel: (301) 240-6653

      Shining Star         |D    |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
                           |     | nannette@shiningstar.net

      Sunrise Doors:       |D    |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
       Al Lawrence         |     | al@sunrisedoors.com
     FIDONEWS 20-08               Page 15                  24 Feb 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

      (various)            |D    |http://www.webnexus.com/users/etow/
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      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
     +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+

      GoldEd+              |E    |http://mik.nu/golded-plus/   2:203/6600
                           |     | v1.1.5 Snapshot on Jan 4th 2003

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

      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

      TransX: Multiboard   |UI   |http://www.multiboard.com/software/
       Communications, Inc.|     | support@multiboard.com      1:2401/305
                           |     | v3.5
     FIDONEWS 20-08               Page 16                  24 Feb 2003


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      Internet: http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/fidosoft.txt

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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     | 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
      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 20-08               Page 19                  24 Feb 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 20-08               Page 20                  24 Feb 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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                         Nodelist Stats

      Input nodelist  nodelist.052
                size  1016.6kb
                date  2003-02-21

      The nodelist has   9010 nodes in it
        and a total of  11768 non-comment entries

              including     6 zones
                           60 regions
                          446 hosts
                          620 hubs
         admin overhead  1132 ( 12.56 %)

                    and   984 private nodes
                          293 nodes down
                          349 nodes on hold
      off line overhead  1626 ( 18.05 %)


      Speed summary:

               >9600 =    720 (  7.99 %)
                9600 =   7820 ( 86.79 %)
                              (HST  =  168 or   2.15 %)
                              (CSP  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (PEP  =   11 or   0.14 %)
                              (MAX  =    0 or   0.00 %)
                              (HAY  =    1 or   0.01 %)
                              (V32  = 4234 or  54.14 %)
                              (V32B =  423 or   5.41 %)
                              (V34  = 5191 or  66.38 %)
                              (V42  = 4287 or  54.82 %)
                              (V42B =  446 or   5.70 %)
                2400 =     88 (  0.98 %)
                1200 =      7 (  0.08 %)
                 300 =    375 (  4.16 %)

                ISDN =    874 (  9.70 %)

     ----------------------------------------------------------
      File Req Flag   Applicable software     Number of systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             3142
                      Frontdoor  2.02+
                      Dutchie 2.90c
                      Binkleyterm >2.1
                      D'Bridge <1.3
                      TIMS
                      Xenia
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      XB              Binkleyterm 2.0                 7
                      Dutchie 2.90b
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                       11
     --------------------------------------
      XP              Seadog                          6
     --------------------------------------
      XR              Opus 1.03                      45
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     355
                      Tabby
                      KittenMail
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30                4022
                      Frontdoor 1.99b
                      Intermail 2.01
                      T-Mail
     --------------------------------------
      None            QMM                          1422
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   2838 ( 31.50 %)
      MailOnly nodes    =   4902 ( 54.41 %)
      Listed-only nodes =    713 (  7.91 %)
      Other             =    557 (  6.18 %)

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

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