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    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Monday, November 29, 2021 01:28:11
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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
    Fido and totalitarianism ................................. 2
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 3
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 3
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 6
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 6
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 7
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 14
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19
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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Monday, November 29, 2021 01:28:11
    =================================================================
    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    Life is too important to be taken seriously.

    -- Oscar Wilde

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Monday, November 29, 2021 01:28:11
    =================================================================
    GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

    Fido and totalitarianism
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    It just struck me as odd thinking about China ...

    If Fido still would show any presence in China, probably the Chinese
    communist party would crack-down on it being in a decades old battle
    with free speech.

    How would they do that? Where to begin? How to get a hook on things
    and tear it apart? Or control it? Controling Fidonet??

    It had been tried before ...

    In 2002 in Saudi Arabia the royal Al-Saud family appointed a prince
    to oversee electronic communications within the kingdom (they have
    a lot of princes and they all need a job to justify themselves).
    And as the Al-Sauds make money from sand, he decided to slam a
    tax on electronic communications. Why? Probably "because he could"
    and there was no checks-and-balances system like in a parliament
    to control him.

    The RC54 could not afford that. So did not pay. One needs to know
    that this RC54 had been in an accident and was unable to work, but
    Saudi-Arabia is so oil-rich that every citizen gets 100% free
    healthcare. Then the prince called the RC and said that if he
    didn't pay, he'd lose his health benefits.

    RC54 had no other option but to fold the region. He went on a trip
    outside the kingdom and I don't recall anymore where he went but he
    called me long-distance on a phone 19 years ago explaining the
    reasons why R54 needed to fold. The reason for calling from outside
    the kingdom was that all voice-traffic, incoming and outgoing, was
    monitored ... I had his direct-dial number in Jeddah and he asked me
    never to call him anymore as that would get him into trouble.

    A nice and friendly guy ... I wonder how he's doing ...

    Also astonishing is googling for "Italian police crackdown Fidonet"
    ... that happened during the night of May 10-11 1994 when the
    Italian police raided literally hundreds of BBSs not understanding
    what they were about, what they (the police) were looking for nor
    understanding what a PC was in many cases ... they grabbed hardware,
    modems, CDROMs, diskettes effectively dealing a blow to R33 Italy
    from which it really never fully recovered. A lot of nodes folded
    immediately deciding not having to deal with a police-force at large.

    So the next time you call your favorite *C "a dictator", just remember
    there are worse things in life ... 8-)

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Monday, November 29, 2021 01:28:11
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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

    List of IPv6 nodes
    By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555

    Updated 28 November 2021


    Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

    1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Xs4All f
    2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f
    3 2:5019/40 Konstantin Kuzov T-6in4 he.net f
    4 2:280/5555 Michiel van der Vlist Native Ziggo f
    5 1:320/219 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    6 2:221/1 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f
    7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OVH
    8 2:5053/54 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    9 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
    10 1:154/10 Nicholas Bo‰l Native Spectrum f
    11 2:203/0 Bj”rn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    12 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f INO4
    13 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
    14 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner f
    15 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    16 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
    17 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek T-6in4 he.net
    18 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    19 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    20 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline f IO
    21 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    22 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    23 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    24 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
    25 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    26 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
    27 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
    28 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    29 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    30 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    31 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    32 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    33 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    34 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
    35 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    36 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    37 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    38 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    39 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    40 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    41 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    42 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    43 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
    44 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    45 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    46 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    47 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
    48 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    49 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    50 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
    51 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    52 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    53 1:135/367 Antonio Rivera Native RRSW-V6 DOWN
    54 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
    55 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    56 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
    57 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
    58 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    59 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
    60 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
    61 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
    62 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
    63 2:5053/400 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    64 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Cmmunctns 6DWN
    65 2:421/21 Stepan Gabriel Native NETDATACOMM 6DWN
    66 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    67 1:220/70 Joseph Werle T-6in4 he.net DOWN
    68 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    69 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
    70 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
    71 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
    72 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
    73 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
    74 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native IT-ALBACOM
    75 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
    76 2:5020/843 Petr Antonov Native BelCloud 6DWN
    77 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
    79 1:106/633 William Williams Native LINODE-US PM *1
    79 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox
    80 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
    81 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers
    82 1:142/103 Brian Rogers T-6in4 he.net
    83 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    84 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
    85 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
    86 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
    87 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    88 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass T-6in4 he.net f
    89 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    90 1:218/401 James Downs Native ORG-TT1
    91 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
    92 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
    93 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
    94 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
    95 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    96 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    97 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    98 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    99 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    100 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
    101 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
    102 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
    103 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin T-6in4 he.net
    104 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
    105 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native Ziggo
    106 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
    107 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
    108 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
    109 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native Oracle f
    110 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US



    T-6in4 Static 6in4
    T-AYIY Dynamic AYIYA
    T-6to4 6to4
    T-6RD 6RD

    Remarks:

    f Has a ::f1d0:<zone>:<net>:<node> style host address.
    (zone, net, node in decimal notation)
    IO Incoming only (Node can not make outgoing IPv6 calls)
    OO Outgoing only (Node can not accept incoming IPv6 calls).
    INO4 No IPv4 (Node can not accept incoming IPv4 calls).
    PO4 Prefers Out on 4 (Node can make outgoing IPv6 calls,
    but is configured to try IPv4 first)
    6DWN The IPv6 connectivity of this node is temporarely down.
    NO6 The node no longer presents an IPv6 address in the nodelist
    and will soon be removed from this list.
    HOLD The node is temporarely off-line. Mail may be routed.
    DOWN This node is Down for both IPv4 and IPv6 and will be
    removed from this list if the condition pertains.
    PM Prospective Member. The node has demonstrated IPv6
    capability but is not listed or does not advertise an
    IPv6 address in the Fidonet nodelist yet.

    PM *1 [2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fe2b:c319]

    Notes:

    To make an IPv6 connection to a node connected via 6to4 tunneling
    one may have to force the mailer into IPv6 (-6 option in binkd's
    node config for binkd up to 1.1a-96, -64 option for binkd 1.1a-97
    and up when compiled with AF_FORCE=1). If the destination address
    is a 6to4 tunnel address (2002::/16) many OSs default to IPv4 if
    an IPv4 address is present.


    Submitted on day 332

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Monday, November 29, 2021 01:28:11
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    SPECIAL INTEREST =================================================================

    Last week's statistics from the Fidoweb
    By EchoTime, 2:203/0

    (Some nets may have lost their last
    digit for technical reasons)

    pkt (toss-toss) msg (write-toss)
    nodes mean dev no mean dev no

    154/* 20.3m 17.4m 635 1.1h 4.3h 634
    221/* 0.9m 0.5m 728 6.1h 8.3h 728
    280/* 0.7m 0.5m 562 5.4h 4.2h 561
    292/* 3.3m 1.7m 18 3.3h 3.2h 17
    320/* 2.8m 1.6m 163 3.1h 9.0h 163
    502/* 0.9m 0.3m 6 6.4h 7.2h 6

    Sigma 6.8m 13.0m 2112 4.2h 6.7h 2109

    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.330
    size 186.6kb
    date 2021-11-26

    The nodelist has 1011 nodes in it
    and a total of 1480 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    33 regions
    174 hosts
    70 hubs
    admin overhead 281 ( 27.79 %)

    and 113 private nodes
    39 nodes down
    36 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 188 ( 18.60 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 43 ( 4.25 %)
    9600 = 189 ( 18.69 %)
    (HST = 2 or 1.06 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 80 or 42.33 %)
    (V32B = 18 or 9.52 %)
    (V34 = 89 or 47.09 %)
    (V42 = 80 or 42.33 %)
    (V42B = 19 or 10.05 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 778 ( 76.95 %)

    ISDN = 33 ( 3.26 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 796 ( 78.73 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 84 ( 8.31 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 59 ( 5.84 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 170 ( 16.82 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 18 ( 1.78 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 4 ( 0.40 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 866 ( 85.66 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 317 ( 31.36 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 22 ( 2.18 %)



    [Report produced by NETSTATS - A PD pgm]
    [ Revised by B Felten, 2:203/2]
    [ NetStats 3.8 2014-11-23]

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to FidoNews Robot on Monday, November 29, 2021 20:54:14
    Hello Ward,

    GENERAL ARTICLES

    Fido and totalitarianism
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    It just struck me as odd thinking about China ...

    Taiwan.

    If Fido still would show any presence in China, probably the Chinese communist party would crack-down on it being in a decades old battle
    with free speech.

    Taiwan is democratic.

    How would they do that? Where to begin? How to get a hook on things
    and tear it apart? Or control it? Controling Fidonet??

    If it was not for the people of Taiwan, most people would not be
    using computers. So all Fidonetters can thank them for their hobby.

    It had been tried before ...

    Chinese believe in freedom. At least those in Taiwan.

    In 2002 in Saudi Arabia the royal Al-Saud family appointed a prince
    to oversee electronic communications within the kingdom (they have
    a lot of princes and they all need a job to justify themselves).
    And as the Al-Sauds make money from sand, he decided to slam a
    tax on electronic communications. Why? Probably "because he could"
    and there was no checks-and-balances system like in a parliament
    to control him.

    The House of Saud is there to protect the holy sites.
    And also the black rock. Which got stolen by an overzealous
    believer who called himself the Mahdi. After recovering the
    black rock, the House of Saud made sure the Mahdi could
    never duplicate his feat by chopping off his head.

    The RC54 could not afford that. So did not pay. One needs to know
    that this RC54 had been in an accident and was unable to work, but Saudi-Arabia is so oil-rich that every citizen gets 100% free
    healthcare. Then the prince called the RC and said that if he
    didn't pay, he'd lose his health benefits.

    It was not his health benefits he was worried about.

    RC54 had no other option but to fold the region. He went on a trip
    outside the kingdom and I don't recall anymore where he went but he
    called me long-distance on a phone 19 years ago explaining the
    reasons why R54 needed to fold. The reason for calling from outside
    the kingdom was that all voice-traffic, incoming and outgoing, was monitored ... I had his direct-dial number in Jeddah and he asked me
    never to call him anymore as that would get him into trouble.

    A nice and friendly guy ... I wonder how he's doing ...

    Probably lost his head.

    Also astonishing is googling for "Italian police crackdown Fidonet"
    .. that happened during the night of May 10-11 1994 when the
    Italian police raided literally hundreds of BBSs not understanding
    what they were about, what they (the police) were looking for nor understanding what a PC was in many cases ... they grabbed hardware, modems, CDROMs, diskettes effectively dealing a blow to R33 Italy
    from which it really never fully recovered. A lot of nodes folded immediately deciding not having to deal with a police-force at large.

    Fabio is still here. So at least some Italians are still alive.
    But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

    So the next time you call your favorite *C "a dictator", just remember there are worse things in life ... 8-)

    Now if only Bobby Fischer (who once used a BBS in the Philippines)
    was still around ...

    --Lee

    --
    Popular vote!

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  • From Ward Dossche@2:292/854 to Lee Lofaso on Tuesday, November 30, 2021 11:32:20
    But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

    There is at least one ...

    https://international.brest-bs.com/

    \%/@rd

    --- DB4 - Nov 27 2021
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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Ward Dossche on Thursday, December 02, 2021 11:53:00
    Hello Ward,

    But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

    There is at least one ...

    https://international.brest-bs.com/


    Okay, okay. Missed one small detail. Never said I was perfect.

    --Lee

    --
    Be Stupid

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