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The F I D O N E W S Volume 21, Number 40 04 Oct 2004 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | |The newsletter of the | | | | | FidoNet community. | | Crash netmail articles to: | | | | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-944907 | | | ____________| | | | | / __ | Routed netmail articles to: | | | / / \ | Bjorn Felten @ 2:203/0 | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | | | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: | | _ @/_ \ _ | bfelten @ telia dot com | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ ))| | | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Björn Felten | | ______ _//|| _\ / | | | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. | | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Copyright 2004 by Fidonews Editor for Fidonews Globally. Table of Contents 1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1 2. ANDY'S ANECDOTES ......................................... 2 Mikey's Rehab Believed to be Complete Success ............ 2 3. CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ..................................... 8 Rejection denied ......................................... 8 4. IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO .............................. 9 Swamp Swine Magazine ..................................... 9 5. BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................... 11 FIDONet Software References .............................. 11 6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 16 Nodelist Stats ........................................... 16 7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18 How to Submit an Article ................................. 18 Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 20 FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 1 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= FOOD FOR THOUGHT ================================================================= What I do today is important because I am paying a day of my life for it. What I accomplish must be worthwhile because the price is high. -- anonymous ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 2 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= ANDY'S ANECDOTES ================================================================= Mikey's Rehab Believed to be Complete Success By Andy Alt, 1:14/250 Originally Scripted 11/03/2003 Slightly Modified 09/27/2004 After years of struggling with addiction and rampant criminal activity, officials have declared that Mikey is completely rehabilitated. I managed to contact Mikey through his parents and he granted me an exclusive interview. The majority of what he said will be misquoted and printed out of context. Here's what he had to say: "Yeah... I had some problems," he began. I noticed that Mikey would only speak in between mouthfuls while eating his beloved Life cereal. "When they first gave me a bowl of Life, I thought it was the best thing since... well... since breast milk, because I hated everything. They didn't think I'd really eat it because of my intense hatred of anything I'd ever eaten before. I only did it because I had a side bet going with the kid next to him. It was kind of like a pre-adolescent conspiracy." The expression on Mikey's face became much more sad, and we could tell that painful memories were beginning to surface. Mikey maintained his resilience through great strain, and continued his tale. "I... my only real crime is that I love too much. My parents were real happy at first. I'd never seen them smiling so much when they walked into the room." There was a pause, and I turned to Mikey's parents and asked them what particularly pleased them. After 23 years of silence about the issue, his mother finally spoke candidly on the subject. "His father and I were extremley worried about him. He hadn't eaten solid food for years. The only thing keeping him alive were daily intravenous feedings at the hospital. We were getting ready to leave for another routine trip to the hospital and told him to wait in the kitchen with his friend and our other son. We had no idea..." Mikey's mother had to stop momentarily to reach for a tissue. "The doctors knew that the intravenous feedings couldn't keep him alive forever, but they instilled so much hope in us." She started smiling again as the room brightened with her memory that day. "We came downstairs and we were absolutely astonished! He was eating! It was absolutely beautiful." Mikey's father interjected his thoughts at this point. "I thought the most beautiful thing I'd ever see was my children being born, but to see Mikey eating solid food surpassed my wildest FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 3 4 Oct 2004 fantasies. We decided to have a celebration and invited all of our friends and family. He wouldn't eat the cake though. He just sat there the whole time eating Life." "So where did events take a turn for the worst?" I quietly asked. Mikey's father continued the discussion. "Well... after a week of eating nothing but Life cereal, we bought some Golden Grahams which he tasted but promptly refused to finish. My wife and I were disappointed but we considered it a minor setback and were grateful that at least he still enjoyed eating Life cereal and didn't hate it, like everything else. We bought - and he rejected - 68 other major cereal brands. We were starting to become more disgruntled, but since we had saved so much money after the intravenous feedings ended, we didn't really care about the money. We then gave him 13 more flavors of cereal to try; this time they were generic in yellow and black bags. Some of these were labelled 'cinnamon cereal,' 'sugared cereal,' 'brown cereal,' 'crunchy cereal,' and just plain old, 'cereal.' That last one clearly stated to 'Add Milk. Refer to a Life cereal box for instructions.' We were positive that Mikey would latch on to 'cereal' as he had latched on to the Life, but no joy. My wife and I decided it was a phase and he'd grow out of it. We made the decision to give it time. That was our biggest mistake." Mikey's mother took over the interview at this point: "Weeks went by, and turned into months. We were spending a fortune on dish-washing liquid, hot water, milk, and toilet paper. I couldn't even go to work anymore because all my extra time was spent doing dishes and going to the grocery store." "One day when Mikey came home from school, I watched in utter fascination as he ate an entire box of Golden Grahams, then sat down in front of the television. That was pretty unusual for him. Usually when he got home, he'd only eat half a box of Life, then sat in the kitchen watching the box of Life on the table. He's very worried that someone could break in and steal his Life. We told him not to worry and he should go organize his baseball card collection. Before Life came along, he was so proud of his Babe Ruth card that he had it framed in solid gold, and kept it hidden inside a jewel-encrusted model of Yankee Stadium, which was originally created by the stadium designers when they made their proposal to build the actual Yankee Stadium. Of course Mikey had the jewels added later." "Mikey had just come back from the kitchen and was ready to talk again. He set his bowl of Life down on the Life table, which was formerly called the coffee table until 4 years ago. He spent 53 months fighting the legal system, and after numerous court battles and appeals, they had granted Mikey's Life table a legal change of name. The only condition was that it would only affect his coffee table, and not any other coffee tables in the nation. Mikey spoke up about the dramatic change in his perplexing eating habits: "I was at school eating Life during studyhall. The teachers and principal never did like me. To this day, I still think they were carrot sympathizers or had a deal with competing cereal brands. They FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 4 4 Oct 2004 sent me to detention where I met a guy... Guy asked me if I wanted to buy some grass. I told him that I wasn't interested. I told him that I hated everything. Guy kept pressuring me. I told him that I wouldn't eat anything but Life cereal. Guy told me that you don't eat grass... he said that you smoke it. I looked at him, not really trusting him all that much; I told him that I'd try anything once, but I'd probably hate it." "After I smoked it, a whole new world opened up for me. I felt like Aladdin must have felt on his magic carpet. I couldn't believe anything could be better than Life cereal. But in reality, all I had on my hands was another addiction. When I was in prison, I realized that Life cereal was a gateway cereal. It only leads to the hard stuff, like Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Chocolate Rice Krispies. It wasn't really about smoking the pot to get high, it was about smoking the pot to intensify the taste of Life cereal" Mikey then told us the events leading to his capture, arrest, and imprisonment. "It didn't take very long before my parents figured out that I was smoking weed. I was eating cereal brands they had never even heard of before, and some weren't even produced by American cereal companies. I was a senior in high school by this time. I was pretty rebellious, even for a teenager. I wouldn't even do the dishes when my parents asked. I know that kids who eat Trix are 9 times more likely to wash dishes when asked, but sometimes kids just don't care about stuff like facts." "I mean... I would wash a bowl and a spoon, but only when I needed some cereal and mom was out grocery shopping. About 3 years, 8 months, 5 days, 29 minutes, and 9 seconds after my Life addiction started, I made an important discovery: In a pinch, Life could be eaten with a fork. Sometimes I'd just have to wash a bowl. If I was opening a new box of Life, I'd pull out the bag and check for holes. If I found zero defects, I would just put the bag back in the box and pour the milk in. This saved a lot of time and it freed mom up so she had energy to go grocery shopping. The phone bill got really high after I found the number on the box for calling in questions and comments. Actually the bill wasn't expensive at first. But the geniuses who created Life had to temporarily ditch their toll-free number after I began calling them." "I took notes every time I called with questions, and eventually was able to replicate Life to the exact molecule. Or so I thought. I was pretty cocky for a kid. I thought I could take on the whole Life corporation, and I was only 17. I thought that my chemistry set was really paying off. I was pretty devastated when I first tasted it. My synthesized Life was revolting. I hated it." "Using the money I had earned from selling all my gold... Oh, I forget to tell ya, I had accidentally figured out how to turn lead into gold. It's actually not that hard if you have the right combination of milk in your conversion equations. So using all that money, I hired a team of molecular engineers to examine my work. They found that my Life had the exact same chemical and molecular composition, but each atomic particle had one less electron than the kind you buy at the store. The engineers were a little surprised that FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 5 4 Oct 2004 a missing electron would be cause enough for me to vomit when I ate it. They each tried it and found no difference in taste. I tried to explain to them that I hated everything, but they didn't seem to comprehend how that was possible." "I'd like to sidetrack a little here and publicly apologize for what happened to that team of engineers. I later found out that after eating the Life I had created with my chemistry set, they were unable to eat anything else after that. They couldn't even eat the real Life cereal. It's unfortunate that my design notes became ruined when they dropped into a bowl of milk I left by my bed. My results couldn't be duplicated and they eventually starved to death. I was surprised that the same intravenous feedings that helped me as a child couldn't help them and I deeply regret causing any inconvenience to their family." "Wow, I feel a lot better," as he spoons some more Life onto his eagerly awaiting tongue. "It's nice to apologize after carrying that burden of guilt for so long. I feel like I just unloaded a truck full of Life cereal from my shoulders," he declares with a sigh. "Anyway, I was pretty ticked off to find out my attempt to duplicate Life had failed. I guess I lost my temper a little. I threw a box of Lucky Charms at my chemistry set and stormed out of the house after grabbing all the boxes of Life cereal from the kitchen cabinets. It took 6 trips and I had to rent a U-Haul, but it was a damn good thing I managed to salvage them all. I was about 5 blocks away when I heard an explosion and saw a blinding flash of light in my rearview mirror. I didn't notice it right away because I was so focused on the fuzzy Life boxes hanging from the mirror, but after 30 seconds it finally dawned on me what had just happened. I don't buy chemistry sets anymore, they're just too dangerous. Plus I just keep asking myself, 'what good is science if I can't make my own Life cereal.' I also avoid Lucky Charms like the plague; I hate them anyway." I holed up in an abandoned Life cereal warehouse for a few days. Finally I got the courage up to venture out because I needed to go to the post office. I did a lot of mass-mailings back then. They're all just coupons for Life cereal. Since the limit is only one or two boxes per customer, I set up a system and made some important nation-wide contacts. I never understood why the limits were imposed - I thought it was a really bonehead move to put a limit on Life cereal - but I have complete trust in the masterminds at the Life corporation." "The people who received my coupons bought Life cereal for me and shipped it free of charge. In return for that, I sent them my really easy method of turning lead into gold. I didn't really feel as if I was taking advantage of them. Even though they were doing me a big favor and weren't getting any Life cereal in return, they knew what they were getting into when they signed up. Besides... anyone who willingly gives up their Life cereal to ship it to a stranger should be on some kinda medication for mental disorders. One time I saw a shrink for a disorder that was unrelated to giving up Life cereal. He tried giving me Prozac, but I hated it." "I arrived at the post office and saw my picture on the wall! I couldn't believe it, but I was on the Ten Most Wanted list! Apparently not only had my chemistry set caused an explosion, but it took out an FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 6 4 Oct 2004 entire city block! And then I read more of the short article next to my face, and it said there was some kind of unique interaction during the chemical fallout, and almost everyone in the city died from food poisoning during breakfast the morning after I had my run-in with that box of Lucky Charms.. The only lives spared were people who ate Life cereal for breakfast that day. The authorities thought it was a pre-meditated Life attack. In the photograph, I noticed that next to my left cheek, a box of Life had been superimposed on the photograph of my face. The caption read, 'Have you seen this man?' I really started panicking because as I was reading the article, I had been holding a box of Life cereal, and had been rubbing it lovingly across my right cheek." "I was so freaked out that I dropped my box of Life and ran out the door. Right after the fresh air hit me, I realized my mistake almost immediately and ran back in to get the box so I could escape and not worry so much about losing my Life. After that, everything gets really blurry when I try to remember. I pretty much had to live on the street, sleeping in a carboard box, which was basically a bunch of Life cereal boxes glued together. I never threw away the boxes of Life that I ate. I didn't have to worry about shelter and I had a new house every week. Every time the law caught up with me, I would duck into the nearest grocery store and head to the Life cereal aisle. The cops never thought to look for me there; I guess they didn't expect me to make such an obvious mistake." "I got my basic needs met by lying, cheating, and stealing. I pretty much gave up weed at that point. I didn't have enough connections to get both Life and weed. I chose Life cereal. One time a religious organization offered me food and and a place to stay. The only condition was that I couldn't eat meat or other animal flesh while I stayed there. I agreed to that, and told them that I hated animal flesh and meat anyway. My time with those religious folks was pretty short-term. I was thrown out after a week because they felt my Life cereal habit violated five of the 'Seven Deadly Sins.'" "That's really about all I remember from my time on the street. The Law caught up to me finally when they were looking for the Trix Rabbit (who was not only in disguise, but under an assumed name), and I was arrested and given no Life. They declared me not guilty by reason of insanity, but sentenced me to community service where I had to pick up cereal boxes off all the highways. I hated that job. Except for when I found a Life box and it made it all worthwhile." "It was after my community service ended when I began my lengthy legal battle to rename my Life table. My parents had moved into a new house, and were willing to forget about the old one. The problem I had at that time was mostly financial. I didn't have enough for any Life cereal and my parents wouldn't buy it for me anymore. I guess I went a little crazy. I used to do impressions and accents when I was a kid, so I felt it was time to put those talents to the ultimate test. After trying out my Irish accent with an old connection of mine, he loaned me a handgun and I stole a leprechaun costume. Well... you've probably heard this story a million times before, so I'll just skip the gory details." FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 7 4 Oct 2004 "While in prison, I was repeatedly beaten by the guards for not eating. I think deep down they really empathized with me when I told them I wouldn't eat jail or prison food because I hated it. I managed to make some connections while in the joint, and scored enough Life cereal to last me until I got out. I was eventually released into my parents' custody and given probation." There was a burning question on my mind that I had to ask. "Mikey, if you hate everything, how is it that you have milk with every bowl of Life?" "Well, as I mentioned in the beginning of this interview, before I discovered Life cereal, which I usually refer to as my 'Pre-Life' era, I only had breast milk or was fed intravenously. It doesn't even have to be my mom's. It seems strange because I hate... y'know... I've been thinking... Even though I hate a lot of things - mostly food - I don't hate everything. That statement is kind of an over-generalization." "I think I understand. Now, Mikey," I asked him, "You've already eaten two boxes of Life in the two hours that I've been here. Could you define exactly how you have been rehabilitated?" "That's just something the public was told to make them feel safe again after I was put back into mainstream society. The truth is that I'm perfectly safe; my basic needs are being met. In exchange for that thing about making gold from lead, The Life corporation pretty much told me that I wouldn't have to worry about acquiring Life cereal anymore. They implanted a microchip inside my skull which simulates the taste of Life on any food I eat. It's great because I have a wider variety of milk to choose from; and I just keep eating Life cereal anyway. I accidentally found out that if you have that chip in your skull while you eat Life cereal that Life tastes twice as good! By the way, you can call me Michael now." ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 8 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= CLEAN HUMOUR & JOKES ================================================================= Rejection denied N N, The Boston Consulting Group Kristofer Felten N.N@bcg.com kfelten@xxx.xxx Säve, September 28, 2004 Dear Ms. N, Thank you for your mail, dated September 27! After carefully considering your rejection, I regret to inform you that I cannot accept the fact that I was not invited for an interview. This year, I have been fortunate enough to receive an unusual amount of rejected applications. With so many well-merited candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all rejections. Although I find your rejection most interesting, and despite your company's unique qualifications and prior experience in rejecting applications, I feel that the rejection does not match my needs in this case. That is why I intend to meet with you for an interview, at The Boston Consulting Group, next week. I look forward to seeing you then. I wish you the best of luck, in your future work, rejecting applications! Yours sincerely, Kristofer Felten Soon-to-be-your-employee ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 9 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= IN THE SNOOZE TEN YEARS AGO ================================================================= Swamp Swine Magazine, Shuckmagosh, Ohio Dear Reverend Visage, I am sorry to hear that you have been detained by passport control at the Quebec border. I suggest that you explain that you are merely returning to Ottawa to courier another $34 million dollars worth of federal swag to our culturally paranoid brethren in the burgeoning republic of poutine. After much research I have discovered the reason why our ZC, Bob Satti (cue the plague of locusts), has remained singularly uncommunicative during his term. It seems that he has been locked in a conclave of cardinals with the other ZCs where they have been sacrificing goats and divining the entrails in an effort to choose a new IC. Their deliberations were made more complicated due to the fact that they had to find an appropriately weaselly exception to their beloved Bible: PeeFour; before they could boot George Peace upstairs into the position. Our prayers and our edible underwear should go out to them for having attained Divine revelations. In region 12 we are reminded that the ghost of Bob MacKay will hover over George Peace as a result of Peace's Thomas a Becket, "Would that he were gone" efforts which occurred when our region was slowly emerging from the malign ministration of Fidodespots. I advise caution, Visage, in using your various hard-earned Fido titles appended to messages. It seems that the contused minds in Net250 have determined that messages calling for the RC, Rick "Cocoon" Johnston's nether bits on a platter, when signed using a Fidotitle, are grounds for a policy complaint. Of course, in the socially arrested environment of Net250, *everything* is grounds for policy complaints and it has become such a happy hunting ground for the litigious. They have perfected a means of file attaching lawyers to each other in their efforts to "prove" points. The most recent dwarf-like concern arises over their net's purchase of a satellite dish. As an aside, Visage, I fear they may be less than amused when they discover that we have sold them the left cup of Mitsou's bustier but with the planetoid beings' abysmal technical standards, it'll take them months to notice. The only good news arising this week is the meltdown of the NHL player/owner trough-wars. I am outraged, as would any average citizen, that a rookie player should be compelled to accept a paltry $270,000 for chasing a small black rubber object over frozen surfaces, and that journeymen players should be asked to put a freeze on the mere $47,340 per game that they have been offered. The news of the lock-out is excellent because, in a moment of weakness, I had purchased season's tickets to the games of the women's broomball team which the Ottawa elflords had erroneously identified as the NHL hockey team: The Senators. Watching their playing style has been about as exciting as FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 10 4 Oct 2004 watching squid mate. (Note, I said "watching", and I realize that your participatory endeavours in such activities may have added more interest.) I must go, Visage, your secretary has an evil snarl on her face and is threatening to phone Bill Clinton to tell him that our office is the next easily conquered Third World country. Her distemper has nothing at all to do with the fact that I have spent her entire pension on Glenlivet quality control testing. As a good and decent gesture, Visage, I suggest that we offer her an all-expense paid vacation on a Swedish ferry. Regards, Doc Logger, Trout-on-Trent, FlinFlon, Manitoba ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 11 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= BEN RITCHEY'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= -=:{ 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| `- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -' 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 FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280 Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net | | v2.4 on Sep 26th 2003 Fidonet to Internet: |MI |http://www.terminate.com Bo Bendtsen | | sales@terminate.com | | v2.00 on Mar 23rd 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://sf.net/projects/husky/ | | v1.4 RC2 on Sep 22nd 2003 Radius (based on |M |http://radius.pp.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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 12 4 Oct 2004 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/ Watergate |TUI |http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/ | | ramon@sbbs.se | | v0.93p9 on Dec 14th 1998 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 EZYCom BBS |BT |http://homepages.ihug.com.au/~dcbbs/ | | pjs@optushome.com.au 3:633/104 | | v2.0 on 3 May 2003 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 21-40 Page 13 4 Oct 2004 Spitfire BBS: Buffalo|B |http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/ Creek Software | | MDWoltz@aol.com 1:1/150 | | v3.6 on Aug 20th 1999 Synchronet BBS |BT |http://www.synchro.net | | sysop(at)vert(dot)synchro(dot)net | | v3.10L Beta Telegard BBS |B |http://www.telegard.net | | support@telegard.net | | v3.09g2 SP4 +- - 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- - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ APoint |PI |http://www.apoint-mail.de | | dirk.pokorny@apoint-mail.de | | v1.25 2:2426/1210.13 CrossPoint (XP) |P |http://www.crosspoint.de | | pm@crosspoint.de v3.12d Dec 22nd 1999 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de 2:2433/460 | | support@freexp.de | | v3.40 RC3 Aug 31st 2003 (Snapshot) OpenXP/32 |PI |http://www.openxp.com 2:248/2004 | | mk@openxp.de v3.8.7 beta Aug 3rd 2002 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 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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 FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 15 4 Oct 2004 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 +- - 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BBS at +1-337-232-4155 24/7 33.6kBps,8,N,1 Internet: http://bellsouthpwp.net/c/m/cmech617/fidosoft.txt Emeritus: Todd Cochrane, Frank Vest, Peter Popovich ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 16 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= SPECIAL INTEREST ================================================================= Nodelist Stats Input nodelist nodelist.275 size 850.7kb date 2004-10-01 The nodelist has 7118 nodes in it and a total of 9775 non-comment entries including 6 zones 47 regions 386 hosts 495 hubs admin overhead 934 ( 13.12 %) and 1075 private nodes 303 nodes down 345 nodes on hold off line overhead 1723 ( 24.21 %) Speed summary: >9600 = 620 ( 8.71 %) 9600 = 6136 ( 86.20 %) (HST = 124 or 2.02 %) (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %) (PEP = 1 or 0.02 %) (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %) (HAY = 1 or 0.02 %) (V32 = 3215 or 52.40 %) (V32B = 268 or 4.37 %) (V34 = 4171 or 67.98 %) (V42 = 3534 or 57.59 %) (V42B = 269 or 4.38 %) 2400 = 65 ( 0.91 %) 1200 = 7 ( 0.10 %) 300 = 290 ( 4.07 %) ISDN = 570 ( 8.01 %) ---------------------------------------------------------- File Req Flag Applicable software Number of systems ---------------------------------------------------------- XA Frontdoor <1.99b 2341 Frontdoor 2.02+ Dutchie 2.90c Binkleyterm >2.1 D'Bridge <1.3 TIMS Xenia -------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 17 4 Oct 2004 XB Binkleyterm 2.0 9 Dutchie 2.90b -------------------------------------- XC Opus 1.1 8 -------------------------------------- XP Seadog 6 -------------------------------------- XR Opus 1.03 38 -------------------------------------- XW Fido >12M 285 Tabby KittenMail -------------------------------------- XX D'Bridge 1.30 3181 Frontdoor 1.99b Intermail 2.01 T-Mail -------------------------------------- None QMM 1250 -------------------------------------- CrashMail capable = 2164 ( 30.40 %) MailOnly nodes = 3995 ( 56.13 %) Listed-only nodes = 556 ( 7.81 %) Other = 403 ( 5.66 %) [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm available from 1:106/100] [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/208] ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 21-40 Page 18 4 Oct 2004 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= How to Submit an Article If you wish to submit an article for inclusion in the Fidonews, here are some guidelines, if you send it as an attached file; the preferred method if you want reasonable control over how the published article will appear in the Fidonews: a) Plain ASCII text. 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