      F I D O N E W S         Volume 18, Number 31             20 Jul 2001 
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     | |The newsletter of the | | Fido, Fidonet and dog-with-diskette are |
     | |  FidoNet community.  | | US Registered Trademarks of Tom Jennings|
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     |           | (*) |  \   ))|           Editor: Frank Vest            |
     |           |__U__| /  \// |     Deputy-Editor: Lawrence Garvin      |
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     | /Editor\  (_/(_|(____/   |   Newspapers should have no friends.    |
     |(________)        (jm)    |                    -- JOSEPH PULITZER   |
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         Copyright 2001 by Frank L. Vest, Editor for Fidonews Globally.


                        Table of Contents
     1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT  .........................................  1
     2. TOP STORIES  ..............................................  2
        This week's Headlines  ....................................  2
     3. GENERAL ARTICLES  .........................................  3
        A day in the life  (on fidonet, too)  .....................  3
        Frank's New Toy  ..........................................  4
     4. INTERVIEWS  ...............................................  6
        Interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs  ................  6
     5. COMIX IN ASCII  ...........................................  9
        Famous Cows  ..............................................  9
     6. CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES  ...................................... 10
        Humor.jok  ................................................ 10
        Modern Maxims  ............................................ 10
     7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING  ................................. 11
        Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's  ........................... 11
     8. FIDONET BY INTERNET  ...................................... 16
        Fidonet-related sites  .................................... 16
     9. FIDONEWS INFORMATION  ..................................... 22
        How to Submit an Article  ................................. 22
        Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability  .................. 23
        Nodelist Stats  ........................................... 24
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                             FOOD FOR THOUGHT
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     Suppose you were an idiot...  And suppose you were a member of
     Congress.... But I repeat myself.
      --Mark Twain

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     =================================================================
                                TOP STORIES
     =================================================================

      This week we have an interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs. If
     you use Dos Navigator, Argus, The Bat! or SecureBat!, you will
     probably recognize the name.  On a personal note: I'm looking at the
     argus program at this time.

                                     --==--
      Jan Andreassen asked me how to send an article to the Fidonews. I
     answered and you can read his article in the "General Articles"
     section.  Thanks Jan!

                                     --==--
      Todd Cochrane has now officially taken over the Fidonet Software
     Listing for the Fidonews. His update for this week reflects much work
     on his part. Bravo, Todd!

      Please note that the Fidonet Software Listing in the Fidonews
     publication is not always the same as what is shown on the Fidonews
     Web Page. The Fidonews Web Page has a search engine type of listing.
     However, for those that might not have Web access, the list in the
     Fidonews Publication is provided.

                                     --==--
     Frank has a "new toy". Read about it in the "General Articles"
     section. :-)

                                     --==--
     Don't forget the Fidonet by Internet section. If you have any
     corrections or additions, please contact Joe Jared.

                                     --==--
     Please remember that this is your Fidonews. Articles may be sent to:

     Frank Vest
     Fidonet 1:124/6308
     flv@texoma.net

     You can send via file attach or message to either address.

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     =================================================================
                             GENERAL ARTICLES
     =================================================================

                      A day in the life  (on fidonet, too)

     In 1988 I was still working.  I was driving busses - and I had been
     driving cars for a living for the last twenty years since 1968, when
     I got my drivers licence. Trucks, tank-trucks, taxis, you name them.

     In 1991 a strike broke out where I worked.  Peace and order was
     a thing of the past - and in fact I haven't been working since.
     Today - do I regret it?    NO!

     I remember I then said to my collegues that I wished I could
     find a way to get pensioned - thus not having to work any more.

     Maybe the LORD heard me - and then fulfilled my wish HIS way.
     Today I don't know whether I should have kept my mouth shut - or not.
     Back in 1994 I was brought to the hospital in an ambulance. It turned
     out to be a DOUBLE trombosis.  The doctors told me later, that I was
     lucky I could still speak and understand what other people said.

     What I couldn't do anymore was driving cars.  My left hand - arm -
     leg -   they are a little stiff now. My eyes doesn't work like before.
     It looks like there is a constant "cloud" in the left field of my
     vision.  However - what I CAN see is normal enough.

     I had started with computers around 1985 - and with BBS's and
     fidonet around 1989. It was via fidonet that my life really took a
     change.  Is there somebody saying, that "romance" doesn't exist in
     fidonet?   ___  Just read on, then.

     In 1997 I saw an echomail in ASIAN_LINK that asked: "How quick goes
     fidonet?" - it came from ... let us call her Maria ... in Belgium.
     I answered her in an echomail in ASIAN_LINK and in a directly send or
     chrashed netmail - in both mails I said when her mail where received
     in Roskilde, Denmark.

     In those mails - in fact they were CC (carbon copies) - I said if she
     could remember when she did send her question, she could figure it
     out herself.

     That was that - I thought.  However humans should NEVER try to
     predict the future - that is a prerogative of the LORD. See above.

     Maria answered me - also in a netmail - and the chain of
     netmails turned into a chain reaction - of more than 1500 -
     one-thousand-five-hundred - netmails. in 1998 I was able to move
     (thanks to the help of friends of hers) to Lanaken, Belgium.
     Her friends later became my friends, too.

     I slept in Roskilde, Denmark Friday night, woke up saturday morning
     at around 03:30  - and went to sleep  in Lanaken Belgium on Saturday
     evening after a more than 800 kilometers move.
     Boy - was I/we tired :-)
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     I live now in Lanaken  and I intend to do so until the sun grows cold
     or I die  (whichever comes first) - because I have no more family left
     in Denmark - no father or mother - they're gone a long time ago -
     and I was their only child.

     My pension is sent from Denmark to a bank here in Belgium.
     Why in eight storms should I stay in Denmark? ....
     Give me just one good reason - huh?

     No - I'll stay in Lanaken - because here is "Maria" !!

     In between all that I've experienced hard disk crashes - I once saw
     a cpU being burned into silicon dust, just because the CPU ventilator
     didn't want to function anymore. (damn no-name vent.)
     Don't EVER buy cheap no name ventilators.

     My very first computer had a 33 MHz 8086 CPU (was it 33 MHz?)
     compared to that my present one (Pentium AMD duron 600 MHz) has
     turned into warp drive. Booting-up is something like 6 seconds.

     Greetings everybody ....    Jan Andreassen
     CUL8R   (on my (SVGA) screen :-)

     StarFleet fidonet/virnet  HQ Lanaken, Belgium.
         2:292/111   V34,V42B,CM,XA,MO
     AKA 9:321/308   V34,V42B,CM,XA,MO
     e-mail:   NCC_1701@vt4.net

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                                Frank's New Toy
                                 By Frank Vest
                                   1:124/6308

      It is nice and fast and fun. I like to play with it and see what I
     can get it to do.... but, I should start at the beginning.

      Some two months ago, my son (stepson, actually) dropped by to pay us
     a visit. He wasn't in a good mood and that was part of the reason for
     the visit. One of his buddies that he was sharing an apartment with
     had decided to move out. There was no warning, just here today, gone
     tomorrow. This left both remaining buddies with a real problem since
     they couldn't pick up the rent cost left by the third one. Long story
     short, Jon needed a place to stay and was wanting to move back in with
     mom and dad. Without getting into all the arrangements and gory
     details, let's just say that he is now moved back in with us. No
     problem.

      With the move came another computer in the house and the need to
     vacate a room that I had taken over as an office. That has been done
     and all worked rather well. Along with the computer, and all that,
     came the desire of the son to have the cable modem that he had when he
     lived at home. Since he was paying for it, why not.

      Along with the cable modem came an offer by the son to share the
     connection with the rest of the computers in the house. That was a
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     nice gesture and, with the LAN already in place, adding a fourth node
     was not a real problem.... a little connection sharing and there we
     are. :)

      So, now I have access to a cable modem. Of course, it is through a
     peer to peer network, but still faster by far than a dial-up account.
     I've been playing with the connection and I must say that it is nice.
     E-mail has a small problem in that I can receive e-mail through the
     cable modem via my ISP (separate ISP from the cable company's), but
     can't send unless I dial into my regular ISP (Texoma net). The smtp
     server just won't allow outgoing through another server. It's an
     aggravation, but livable.

      You might wonder when I'll put up a telnet system and start doing all
     the mail feeds and such as that via the cable modem.... Answer is, I
     won't. This is temporary since as soon as the son gets back on his
     feet and pays off some bills (car payment is the main one), he will be
     leaving again and the cable modem will probably go as well. I just
     can't afford it right now.

      I'm looking at DSL, but the money factor is there as well. I'd like
     to know how DSL and cable modem compare to each other. I've read the
     compares from web pages for companies that offer each service and, of
     course, the cable modem company(s) claim that their service is far
     better, faster and all that in comparison to the DSL. The DSL
     company(s), of course, claim just the opposite. <sigh>

      That's what is happening so far. Maybe some day I'll have all these
     nice toys that I read about in the echos and I'll be able to "play
     with the big dogs". For now, I'll just be;

     Frank Vest, Sysop: Collin County Station
     1:124/6308(.1)
     flv@texoma.net
     editor@fidonews.org

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     =================================================================
                                INTERVIEWS
     =================================================================

                   Interview with Maxim Masiutin Of RIT Labs
                                 By Frank Vest
                              Edited by Frank Vest


     Q: Tell us a little about yourself. Just who are you? :)

      I'm the vice president and co-founder of RIT LABS, software company
      specializing on communication software. Our flagship products are
      Dos Navigator, Argus, The Bat! and SecureBat!

      Besides my vice-president functions, I also do a lot of programming.

      I'm 23 years old, married, and we have a 4-month nice daughter!

      I like the communication with people. I also like music :-) In 1996,
      when I started Argus development, I liked rock, mostly so-called
      classic rock ('60s, '70s and '80s), but now it seems that I do not
      like aggressive music any more. Now I like blues, jazz, and new age
      music. My favorite jazz guitarist is Enver Ismailov. I met him on a
      concerto and he is very charming.

      I live in Chisinau, Republic of Moldova. We have a great opera
      theater here and we used to visit operas with my wife.

     Q: What got you first interested in writing Argus and/or other
        software?

      The reason is simple! I am a fidonet fan and I like programming! We
      were running the biggest node in the city! I was astounded by the
      programmers and sysops who were experts in fidonet technology, why
      should I stay and not write a mailer that the people and I would
      like?

     Q: How long have you been programming?

      I'm in programming for ten years. My first computer was a MSX/2, very
      neat computer!

     Q: What do you see as the strong points of your programs? Give us
        a quick review.

      The strongest point is that it works with dial-up and TCP/IP nodes
      simultaneously, and it supports multiple lines in a single process.

      In the past, we ran the biggest node in the city, it has three
      lines, 2CM and one night. The node was operating under OS/2. We had
      three instances of Xenia Mailer for OS/2, one Xenia for each line.
      Then we had connected to the Internet via a leased serial line and
      run some more instances of Xenia to handle VModem (TCP/IP)
      connections. Under OS/2, the mailers could use the awesome Serial
      Input Output driver by Ray Gwinn, that provided VModem, telnet and
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 7                   30 Jul 2001


      raw TCP/IP connections. I asked myself questions: why Xenia, being an
      OS/2 application, couldn't handle multiple connections, modem and
      TCP/IP having only one system process of xenia.exe, one instance of
      the program, running? Why should I have six processes consuming a
      couple of megabytes of RAM for each? We had 16MB of RAM under an
      Intel LX server based on an i486DX2/66 processor. This was a rather
      powerful computer for that time, but the multiple instances of Xenia
      consumed a lot of memory and made this computer slow responding to
      user commands under Presentation Manager.

      When the users of OS/2 had a facility of transferring their mail
      bundles via TCP/IP by means of SIO by Ray Gwinn, there was nothing
      for Windows95.

      We decided to write Argus. My colleague, programmer, Stefan
      Tanurkov, who was working with Intershop Limited on a joint project,
      TERMINATOR 2, the full fido solution for DOS, and he was helping me
      a lot at the beginning of Argus development. There were also a lot of
      experienced sysops around me who were helping me with advice. Argus
      was also influenced by Xenia Mailer.

      First version of Argus was written in October 1996, it only supported
      dial-up connections (no TCP/IP). We used this version internally on
      our node. We left Xenia for TCP/IP only, while Argus was serving
      three dial-up nodes on a separate machine under NT 3.51. Our OS/2
      machine began to work faster, while there was no speed degradation on
      NT machine. Argus was using the same amount of memory for three
      dial-up lines as one instance of Xenia.

      First version of Argus was not a stable version yet, and a couple
      of sysops in our network has started to fight against Argus, but the
      majority of sysops in the network were friendly to the new weak
      mailer, they didn't support those who were against Argus, they even
      started installing Argus to help us, and the project has survived.

      Three month later, in January 1997, Argus has started supporting
      WinSocket, and has supported Raw TCP/IP, Telnet and BinkP protocol.

      As a goal, Argus could serve an almost unlimited number of dial-up
      and TCP/IP connections simultaneously, with small memory footprint.

      BinkP by Dima Maloff was the new revolutionary protocol for
      transferring fidonet mail bundles over the internet. While VModem,
      Raw TCP/IP or Telnet did only provide a TCP/IP layer for old
      handshakes and transfer protocols (EMSI, Hydra) that were
      implementing their own mechanisms of recovery of errors that could
      occur over a serial line, BinkP was relying on error correction
      provided by TCP/IP and didn't do unnecessary error protection and
      synchronization steps. Such new technique gave a fantastic speed
      increase over the TCP/IP connection with delay, e.g. satellite
      connections.

      I would like to say thank you again to Ray Gwinn and Dima Maloff,
      the major contributors of using Internet as a transport for
      transferring Fidonet bundles.

     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 8                   30 Jul 2001


     Q: Where do you see BBS systems going in the future.

      Fidonet won't die. The transport and the network topology will be
      evolving, but the community, the people, and the spirit of the
      network of friends will remain. I believe that fidonet is the
      network of the friends. I do not agree with those who get upset
      when looking on the nodelist that shrinks week after week. Even if
      there will remain no fidonet nodes, the people who were at the
      beginning of fidonet will remain and will keep communicating with
      each other.


     Maxim Masiutin
     Vice President, Rit labs S.R.L.
     http://www.rit labs.com/

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     =================================================================
                              COMIX IN ASCII
     =================================================================

                                  Famous Cows


                  (__)                   (__)
                  [##]                   (@o)
           /-------\/             /-------\/              /-------  (__)
          / |     ||             / |     ||              / |     || (oo)
         *  ||----||            *  ||----||             *  ||----|---\/
            ^^    ^^               ^^    ^^                ^^    ^
      This cow belonged      This cow lived with      This cow belonged to
       to Flash Gordon       the Little Rascals       the Headless Horseman


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                            CLEAN HUMOR & JOKES
     =================================================================

                                IRISH ENGINEER
                 Submitted by: wdbonner@pacbell.net

     Young man Murphy applied for an engineering position at an Irish firm
     based in Dublin. An American applied for the same job and both
     applicants having the same qualifications were asked to take a test
     by the department manager.

     Upon completion of the test, both men only missed one of the
     questions. The manager went to Murphy and said, "Thank you for your
     interest, but we've decided to give the American the job."

     Murphy asked, "And why would you be doing that? We both got nine
     questions correct. This being Ireland, and me being Irish I should
     get the job!"

     The manager said, "We have made our decision not on the correct
     answers, but rather on the question that you missed."

     Murphy then asked, "And just how would one incorrect answer be
     better than the other?"

     The manager replied, "Simple, the American put down on
     question #5, 'I don't know.  You put down, "Neither do I..."

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                                Modern Maxims...

     - Home is where you hang your @
     - The e-mail of the species is deadlier than the mail
     - A journey of a thousand sites begins with a single click
     - You can't teach a new mouse old clicks
     - Speak softly and carry a cellular phone
     - C:\ is the root of all directories
     - The modem is the message
     - Too many clicks spoil the browse
     - A chat has nine lives
     - The geek shall inherit the earth
     - Fax is stranger than fiction
     - What boots up must come down
     - Virtual reality is its own reward
     - A user and his leisure time are soon parted
     - Know what to expect before you connect
     - Speed thrills

     and finally. . .
     - Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day;
     teach that person to use the Internet and they won't
     bother you for weeks.

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     =================================================================
                         FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
     =================================================================


                          *Fidonet/BBS Software Listing's*

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                  BBS Software
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     BBBS Home Page
     b@bbbs.net
     http://www.bbbs.net/

     ELEBBS- The Elevator Software Productions Web Page
     elebbs@elebbs.com
     http://www.elebbs.com/

     Hermes II Project (Mac)
     info@HermesII.org
     http://www.hermesii.org/

     Maximus BBS Support Page (Non Official)
     sales@lainus.com
     http://www.vector11.com/maximus/

     Mystic BBS
     http://www.mysticbbs.com/mystic/

     Nexus Bulletin Board System
     groberts@nexusbbs.net
     http://www.nexusbbs.net/

     RemoteAccess BBS
     bfmorse@rapro.com
     http://www.rapro.com/

     Spitfire BBS
     Buffalo Creek Software
     MDWoltz@AOL.COM
     http://www.angelfire.com/ia/buffalo/index.html

     Synchronet BBS
     sysop@vert.synchro.net
     http://www.synchro.net

     Telegard BBS
     support@telegard.net
     http://www.telegard.net/

     Wildcat Interactive Net Server (BBS)
     Santronics Inc.
     sales@santronics.com
     (305)248-3204
     http://www.santronics.com

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     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                 Door Software
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     Bentstone Capabilities Group
     info@stonebenders.com
     http://www.srupc.com/mall

     Jibben Software
     scott@jibben.com
     http://www.jibbensoftware.com/

     JNS Software Door Games
     Rusty Johnson
     rustyjohnson57@hotmail.com
     304-733-0113
     http://www.geocities.com/jnssoftware/

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

     S and T Software
     Mark Bappe
     mark.bappe@bozax.iainc.net
     (770)788-6843
     http://bozax.iainc.net/public/

     Shinning Star BBS Doors
     nannette@shiningstar.net
     http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/

     Sunrise Door Software
     Al Lawerence
     al@sunrisedoors.com
     (404)256-9518
     http://www.sunrisedoors.com/

     The Brainex System
     info@brainex.com
     http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/

     Trade Wars Door Game
     jpritch@eisonline.com
     http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
     1:299/110

     Vagabond Software
     Bryan Turner
     vagabond@darktech.org
     http://vagabond.virtualave.net/
     1:124/7013

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                  Mail Tossers
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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     FMail Support
     wijnstra@fmail.nl.eu.org
     http://fmail.nl.eu.org/
     2:280/1076

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                Mailer Software
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     FrontDoor, FrontDoor APX, Mailer/Point Software
     Definite Solutions
     sales@defsol.se
     http://www.defsol.se/


     BinkleyTerm XE Frontend Mailer Software
     http://btxe.sourceforge.net/

     Plantinum Express for Wildcat
     Santronics Inc.
     sales@santronics.com
     (305)248-3204
     http://www.santronics.com

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                         Fidonet via Internet Software
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     Argus
     RITLABS
     argus@ritlabs.com
     373-2-246889
     http://www.ritlabs.com/argus/
     2:469/84

     BinkD
     maloff@corbina.net
     http://2f.ru/binkd/

     Fidogate
     Martin_Junius@m-j-s.net
     http://www.fidogate.org/

     Fidonet to Internet Mailer
     Bo Bendtsen
     sales@terminate.com
     http://www.terminate.com/fido2int.htm

     GiGo Software
     http://www.gigo.com/

     Internet Rex
     cruden@cs.ualberta.ca
     http://plaza.v-wave.com/InternetRex/

     Tmail (Russian /w English DL)
     http://www.tmail.spb.ru/index-19.htm

     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 14                  30 Jul 2001


     TransX
     Multiboard Communications Inc.
     support@multiboard.com
     http://www.multiboard.com/software/transx.html
     1:2401/305

     TransNet
     transnet@ressl.com.ar
     http://www.ressl.com.ar/transnet/

     Watergate
     ramon@sbbs.se
     http://www2.sbbs.se/hp/ramon/

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                 Point Software
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     Definite Solutions FrontDoor APX
     http://www.defsol.se/

     JetSys - Home of JetMail, JetStat and other Atari Fidonet utilities
     http://www.jetsys.de/

     APoint
     http://www.apoint.websale.net/index.htm

     CrossPoint
     http://www.crosspoint.de

     WinPoint95
     http://www.schenksmir.de/wp/english

     The OpenXP CrossPoint Projekt
     http://www.happyarts.de/xp

     Terminate Terminal
     http://www.terminate.com

     PPoint-FTS compatible E-Mail System
     http://www.alcuf.ca/ppoint.htm

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                      Other Software, Utillities and such
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
     F-Prot Anti-Virus Home Page
     http://www.complex.is/cgi-bin/home_pager

     BGFAX Home Page
     http://blkbox.com/~bgfax/

     SIO, Vmodem for OS/2
     http://www.gwinn.com

     NetModem for Windows
     http://www.allensoftware.com

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     Com/IP
     <http://pcmicro.com/comip

     Husky - Portable Fido Software
     http://husky.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/

     cFos Fossil driver
     http://www.cfos.com/index_e.htm

     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
                                 Dead Links
     -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-

     MBSE BBS for Linux
     http://freezer-burn.org/mbse/

     Renegade BBS
     http://www.egate.net/renegade/

     Legend Of The Red Dragon Reborn (L.O.R.D.)
     http://lord.darktech.org/

     BeeMail Home Page
     http://www.bise.tzo.com/beemail/

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     Contact E-mail
     Contact Telephone
     Internet address (if available)
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                       . -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- .
                       |    FIDONET-RELATED SITES    |
                       ` -- -- -- -- --- -- -- -- -- '
                          Last update:  7:32 AM 7/21/01

     Please send updates, corrections and suggestions to
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     on any web page.


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     FidoNews:     http://www.fidonews.org   [HTML]
                   ftp://ftp.nwstar.com/fidonet/fidonews/
     Echolist:     http://www.tlchost.net/echolist/
     Echomail links: http://www.osirusoft.com/fidonet/fidoip.html
     SDS Files:    http://fidobbs.dk/download (Web Access to SDS)
     FTSC page:    http://www.ftsc.org/
     General:      http://www.writebynight.com/fidonet.html
     Parody:       http://www.fidonet.ro/
     Foti          http://www.thelitterbox.net/foti/
                   http://www.fidonet-on-the-internet.org
     History       http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/

     Zone 1:       http://www.z1.fidonet.org
       Region 10:  http://www.r10.org
         Net 102   http://home.earthlink.net/~kayshapero/net102.htm
         Net 103:  http://www.webworldinc.com/club103/
         Net 203:  <vacant>
       Region 11:  http://www.vector11.com/region11/
                   http://oeonline.com/~garyg/region11/
        Net 2410:  http://www.vector11.com/net2410/
       Region 13:  http://www.ispaceonline.org/region13/
         Net 109:  http://www.thelitterbox.net/fido/net109/
         Net 261:  http://www.baltimorepress.com/~net261/
         Net 275:  http://www.ispaceonline.org/net275/
         Net 267:  http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/net267/
         Net 275:  http://www.ispaceonline.org/net275/

       Region 14:  http://www.ouijabrd.com/region14
         Net 282:  http://www.rxn.com/~net282/
       Region 15:  <vacant>
       Region 16:  <vacant>
       Region 17:  http://www.region17.net
         Net 140:  http://www.nwstar.com/~net140
       Region 18:  http://techshop.pdn.net/fido/
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 17                  30 Jul 2001


       Region 19:  http://bise.tzo.com/r19
         Net 124:  http://www.DallasInet.com/net124/
                   http://texoma.net/~flv
         Net 393:  http://www.chatter.com/~wb/

     Zone 2:       http://www.z2.fidonet.org
       Region 20:  http://www.fidonet.pp.se (in Swedish)
       Region 23:  http://www.fido.dk (in Danish)

       Region 24:  http://www.swb.de/personal/flop/gatebau.html (German)
                   http://www.was-ist-fido.de/
         Fido-IP:  http://home.nrh.de/fido/ (English/German)
       Region 25:  <Vacant>
       Region 26:  http://www.nemesis.ie
          REC 26:  http://www.nrgsys.com/orb
       Region 27:  http://telematique.org/ft/r27.htm
       Region 29:  http://www.rtfm.be/fidonet/  (French)
                   http://Welcome.to/skynetbbs/
       Region 34:  http://www.pobox.com/cnb/r34.htm  (Spanish)
           REC34:  http://www.fidospain.org
       Region 36:  http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/7207/
       Region 38:  http://public.st.carnet.hr/~blagi/bbs/adriam.html
       Region 41:  http://www.fidonet.gr (Greek/English)
       Region 42:  http://www.fido.cz
          Net422:  http://www.fido.sk (Slovak/English)
       Region 50:  http://www.fido7.com/  (Russian)
        Net 5010:  http://fido.tu-chel.ac.ru/  (Russian)
        Net 5015:  http://www.fido.nnov.ru/  (Russian)
        Net 5028:  HTTP://5028.nordnet.ru/
        Net 5030:  http://kenga.ru/fido/  (Russian & English)
     ?? Net 5049:  http://www.n5049.z2.fidonet.org  (English/Russian)
        Net 5074:  http://www.n5074.z2.fidonet.net
     ?? Net 5085:  http://www.fidonet.uz/ (Russian)

     Zone 3:       http://www.z3.fidonet.org

     Zone 4:
       Region 80:  http://fidobrasil.8m.com  (Portuguese)
       Region 90:
         Net 904:  http://members.tripod.com/~net904 (Spanish)

     Zone 5:       http://www.eastcape.co.za/fidonet/

     Zone 6:       http://www.z6.fidonet.org
       Region 65:  http://r65.yeah.net
                   http://www.cfido.com (Chinese)




                          Fidonet Via Internet Hubs


     a @ preceding an individual's name implies a virtual email
     address. The email is translated as follows
     firstname.lastname@osirusoft.com will automatically route to the
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 18                  30 Jul 2001


     appropriate individual's email.  Anyone in this list will
     also receive routed notice of this feature.

                v-email flag firstname.lastname@osirusoft.com
                | email address or
     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
       18/600   | Jerry Gause       | FTP BinkP      | ???   | 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     | 128k  | ???
      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.
      1:134/11  @ 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
      229/1     | Phil Simpson      | BinkP UUE FTP  | ???   | n/c
      229/2000  | Robert Couture    |BinkP FTP UUE TX| ???   |
      229/622   | Dave Hamilton     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      249/116   | Carl Austin Bennett | FTP, UUE    |ADSL,60 | n/c
      250/98    | Darin McBride     | BinkP FTP TX   | ???   | n/c
      250/99    | Brent McLaren     | FTP BinkP      | ???   | n/c
      250/102   | Darin McBride     | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
      267/169   | Philip Lozier     | FTP TX         | ???   | n/c
      261/1380  | Joe Davis         | UUE TX         | ???   | n/c
      280/169   | Brian Greenstreet | FTP            | 33.6  | $2mo.
      297/11    | Michael McCabe    | TX             | ???   | n/c
      323/120   | Craig Healy       | VMoT FTP       | ???   | n/c
      342/3     @ Richard Dodsworth | BinkP,FTP      | 128K+ | n/c
      360/5     | Bennie Hutto      | FTP VMoT       | aDSL  | n/c
      395/670   | Arthur Stark      | BinkD,FTP      | CABLE | n/c
      379/1     @ Dale Ross         | FTP, BinkP,UUE | 256K+,! n/c
      379/1200  | Chris Cranford    | BinkP FTP TX   | ???   | n/c
      393/9005  | Steve Quarrella  |BinkP TX UUE VMoT| ???   | n/c
      395/670   | Arthur Stark      | BinkP VMoT FTP | ???   | n/c
      396/45    | Marc Lewis        | UUE            | 33.6  | $26/yr
      396/48    | Ben Ritchey       | UUE:BFDS?      | 33.6k | n/c
     2320/38    | Janis Kracht      | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
     2410/400   | Gary Gilmore      | FTP BinkP      | 384K,60| n/c
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 19                  30 Jul 2001


     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
     3651/9     @ Jerry Gause       | FTP,VMoT       | 33.6  | $3/$6
     3830/5     | Jeff Schrunk      |BinkP FTP TX UUE| ???   | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 2     |
       20/11    | Henrik Lindhe     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       22/222   | Kim Heino         | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       28/1     | Lody Caenen       | BinkP FTP      | ???   | n/c
       31/1     | Gabriel Plutzar   | BinkP          | T1+   | n/c
       37/37    | Gabor Z. Papp     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
       47/999   | Andrej Kirejev    | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      201/329   | Mats Wallin       | VMoT TX        | ???   | n/c
      201/505   | Goran Eriksson    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      203/600   | Mikael Karlsson   | UUE            | 64k   | n/c
      211/37    | Torbjorn Mohn     | BN IFCICO      | ???   | 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
      292/620   | Eddy Missoul      | VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 64k   | n/c
      292/624   | Steven Leeman     | UUE            | 64k   | n/c
      292/854   | Ward Dossche      | BinkP UUE TX   | ???   | n/c
      292/907   | Bart Verhaeghe    | BinkP,VMoT,UUE | 64K   | n/c
      292/2003  | Eric Vaneberck    | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      301/1     | Peter Witschi     | BinkP          | 768k  | n/c
      332/807   | Roberto Mascolo   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      333/0     | M Gianformaggio   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      335/534   @ Mario Mure        | BinkP,VMot,UUE | 64k   | n/c
      335/610   | Gino Lucrezi      | UUE            | 33.6  | n/c
      341/14    | Rafael Suarez     | BinkP VMoT     | ???   | n/c
      344/201   | Julio Garcia      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      346/3     @ Carlos Navarro    | UUE            | ???   | n/c
      382/100   | Sinisa Burina     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      400/555   | Ofir Michaeli     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      400/557   | Marius Kaizerman  | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      400/558   | Vlad Hrusca       | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
      406/555   | Ofir Michaeli &   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
      406/555   | Marius Kaizerman  | BinkP          | ???   | 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
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 20                  30 Jul 2001


      480/112   | Adam Sarapata| FTP, VMoT, UUE,BinkP| 128k  | n/c
      550/4077  | Serguei Trouchelle| UUE            | ----- | n/c
     2410/201   | Karsten Ebeling   | BinkP UUE      | ???   | n/c
     2411/413   @ Dennis Dittrich   | UUE,BinkP      | 64k   | n/c
     2432/200   | Sven Dueker       | BinkP TX UUE   | ???   | n/c
     2446/301   @ Lothar Behet  | BinkP,VMoT,UUE,FTP | 64K   | n/c
     2474/275   | Christian Emig    | UUE            | 64k   | unkn
     2487/3000  | Steffen Gross     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5002/5002  | Victor Belyakov   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5014/4     | Alex Bagmanov     | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5020/52    | Peter Didenko     | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/54    | Serge Wizgounoff  | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5020/69    | B Chernivetsky    | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/238    | Sergey Gubanov   | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5030/115   | Andrey Podkolzin  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5030/1251  | K Stepanekov      | UUE            | ???   | n/c
     5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5020/1159  | Gennady Kudryashoff | UUE          | 33.6  | n/c
     5049/12    | Amir Shabashvili  | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5054/3     | Andrew Popov      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5080/80    | Eugene Zorin      | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5083/21    | Alexander Uskov   | BinkP,ifcico   | ???   | n/c
     5090/2     | Andrew Titov      | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     5100/8     | Egons Bush        | BinkP          | ???   | n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 3
      633/260   @ Malcolm Miles     | FTP,BinkP      | 64K   | n/c
      640/954   | Rick Van Ruth     | FTP,VMot,UUE,BinkP| 56K| n/c
      712/311   | Bob James         | TX             | ???   | n/c
      774/605   @ Barry Blackford|BinkP,VMoT:10023,ifcico,FTP |33.6| n/c
     --------------------------------------------------------------
     Zone 4
      801/161   @ Renato Zambon     | UUE            | 33.6  |n/c
      902/18    | Javier Tejedor    | UUE            | 33,6  | n/c
      905/100   | Fabian Gervan     | VMoT,UUE,BinkP | 128k  | 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
     ----------------------------------------------
     Fidonet oriented news servers

     news.osirusoft.com
     news.tardis.net
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 21                  30 Jul 2001


     Fidonet oriented chat rooms.

     room #fidonet  5PM (PDT 11AM GMT) Sundays
     irc.osirusoft.com  (Peers wanted)

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     Nodelist Stats

                                    NetStats

      INPUT NODELIST FILE      : NODELIST.208
      File has a Date Stamp of :  7/26/2001
      File Size (uncompressed) :   1232.82 KBytes.

      The Input Nodelist file  has 11369 Nodes in it
      and a total of  14503 non-comment entries.

      The list has     6 Zones listed.
                      68 Region Coordinators listed.
                     505 Network Hosts listed.
                     794 Hubs listed.
                     371 DOWN Nodes listed.
                     826 PRIVATE Nodes listed.
                     564 HOLD Nodes listed.

      Administrative overhead = 1373 ( 12.08 %)
      PRIVATE NODES overhead  = 826 (  7.27 %)
     FIDONEWS 18-31               Page 25                  30 Jul 2001


      Baud Rate Summary (or, BPS, for the die-hard technocrats):
                  9600 =   9720 (  85.50 %)
                        (HST's =  214 or   2.20 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
                        (CSP's =    2 or   0.02 % of the 9600 baud modems.)
                        (PEP's =   16 or   0.16 % "        "    "     "   )
                        (MAX's =    0 or   0.00 % "        "    "     "   )
                        (HAY's =    3 or   0.03 % "        "    "     "   )
                        (V32's = 5515 or  56.74 % "        "    "     "   )
                        (V32B's =  718 or   7.39 % "       "    "     "   )
                        (V42's = 5178 or  53.27 % "        "    "     "   )
                        (V42B's =  769 or   7.91 % "       "    "     "   )
                  2400 =    114 (  1.00 %)
                  1200 =      8 (  0.07 %)
                   300 =    533 (  4.69 %)

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      F_Req Flag      Applicable Software     Number of Systems
     ----------------------------------------------------------
      XA              Frontdoor <1.99b             4550
                      Frontdoor  2.02+
                      Dutchie 2.90c
                      Binkleyterm >2.1
                      D'Bridge <1.3
                      TIMS
     --------------------------------------
      XB              Binkleyterm 2.0                11
                      Dutchie 2.90b
     --------------------------------------
      XC              Opus 1.1                       14
     --------------------------------------
      XP              Seadog                          6
     --------------------------------------
      XR              Opus 1.03                      78
     --------------------------------------
      XW              Fido >12M                     411
                      Tabby
     --------------------------------------
      XX              D'Bridge 1.30               4767
                      Frontdoor 1.99b,2.01
     --------------------------------------

      CrashMail capable =   4257 ( 37.44 %)
      MailOnly Nodes    =   5775 ( 50.80 %)
      Listed-Only Nodes =    848 (  7.46 %)

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