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    The F I D O N E W S Volume 39, Number 50 12 Dec 2022 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. FTSC INFORMATION ......................................... 2
    FTA-1000 ................................................. 2
    FTA-1003 ................................................. 4
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 7
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 7
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 10
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 10
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 11
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 18
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 18
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 19
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 21
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 21
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 23

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    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance,
    it is the illusion of knowledge.

    -- Boorstin, Hawking et alia

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    FTSC INFORMATION =================================================================


    **********************************************************************
    FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE **********************************************************************

    Publication: FTA-1000
    Revision: 3
    Title: FTSC Charter
    Author: Administrator
    Revision Date: 2022-12-10
    Expiry Date: Permanent Document ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents:
    1. Mission
    2. Structure
    3. Access ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    1. Mission
    ----------

    The Fidonet Technical Standards Committee (FTSC) is responsible for
    providing a thorough technical definition of FidoNet and its
    protocols sufficient to maintain it as a compatible electronic mail
    system, specifically by:

    1. Documenting current practice in technical standards.
    2. Encouraging new technologies in Fidonet software development.
    3. Reassessing and revising FTS documents regularly.
    4. Being publicly accessible to Fidonet sysops.
    5. Distributing Technical Standards and Proposals.
    6. Providing FTS document interpretations on software compatibility.

    The FTSC shall maintain a publication which documents only the
    minimum acceptable protocol for a Fidonet node to receive mail as
    referred to in the current FidoNet Policy Document (Policy 4.07 at
    this writing) The FTSC shall not take upon itself any right to
    increase or decrease this requirement without express direction to
    do so from the International Coordinator (IC).


    2. Structure
    ------------

    2.1 Organization
    ----------------

    1. All members are FidoNet nodes in good standing.
    2. Membership consists of no less than 5 and no more than 30.
    3. Standing members are appointed Fidonet-wide as detailed in
    FTA-1001 (FTSC Operations).
    4. An Administrator is selected by the FTSC standing members.
    5. Working Group Leaders are appointed by the Administrator.
    6. A freely-available list of members and Working Groups is
    maintained.


    2.2 FTSC Administrator
    ----------------------

    Appointed for a specific term, and responsible for coordinating the
    activities of the Working Groups and for the smooth operation of the
    FTSC as detailed in FTA-1001 (FTSC Operations).


    2.3 Standing Members
    --------------------

    Appointed for a specific term to advise and assist the Administrator
    in directing the technical focus of the FTSC.


    2.4 Working Groups
    ------------------

    Formed to develop and update standards. Both standing and short-term
    Working Groups may be formed.


    2.5 Working Group Leader
    ------------------------

    Responsible for forming an assigned Working Group and ensuring that
    its work is completed in a timely manner. Working Groups, and their
    assigned areas of expertise are detailed in FTA-1001 (FTSC
    Operations).


    3. Access
    ---------

    A file distribution echo, and public and private echomail
    conferences are maintained, along with conferences for the various
    Working Groups, as detailed in FTA-1001 (FTSC Operations).


    A. History
    ----------

    Rev.1, 19971009: First non-draft release. Author Adrian Walker.
    Rev.2, 19971229: Reformatted slightly. Author changed to
    Administrator. Revision number added.
    Rev.3, 20221210: Revised minimum number of standing members.

    **********************************************************************

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    FTSC FIDONET TECHNICAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE **********************************************************************

    Publication: FTA-1003
    Revision: 31
    Title: FTSC Membership List
    Author: Administrator
    Date: 2022-12-10 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Contents:
    1. FTSC Administrator
    2. FTSC Standing Members ----------------------------------------------------------------------


    1. FTSC Administrator
    ---------------------

    Andrew Leary, 1:320/219. Term ends 10 December 2026.

    2. FTSC Standing Members
    ------------------------

    Name Node Term ends
    --------------------------------------------------------
    Andrew Leary 1:320/219 29 Mar 2023
    mark lewis 1:3634/12 29 Mar 2023
    Richard Menedetter 2:310/31 29 Mar 2023
    Carol Shenkenberger 1:275/100 29 Mar 2023
    Nick Andre 1:229/426 29 Mar 2023
    Maurice Kinal 1:153/7001 29 Mar 2023
    Dale Barnes 1:106/201 29 Mar 2023
    Rob Swindell 1:103/705 28 Mar 2024
    James Coyle 1:129/215 28 Mar 2024
    Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 28 Mar 2024

    A. History
    ----------

    Rev.1, 1997-10-05
    * First non-draft release.

    Rev.2, 1997-12-04
    * Reformatted document slightly. Working group Y2K added.
    * Working group members added.

    Rev.3, 1997-12-29
    * Year 2000 working group renamed from Y2K to Y.
    * Leaders added for groups C and Y.

    Rev.4, 1998-01-17
    * Group E added.
    * Leaders added for groups A, B, D and E. Updated member list for
    group C.

    Rev.5, 1999-01-09
    * Lists updated to reflect election results and resignations.

    Rev.6, 2000-01-02
    * Lists updated for resignations.

    Rev.7, 2003-03-31
    * Reformatted slightly.
    * Updated header fields.
    * Lists updated to reflect election results.
    * Removed Working Groups

    Rev.8, 2005-07-13
    * Lists updated to reflect election results and resignations.

    Rev.9, 2006-03-10
    * Lists updated to reflect election results.

    Rev 10. 2007-03-17
    * Lists updated to reflect election results and resignations.

    Rev 11. 2007-10-18
    * Lists updated to reflect administrator election results.

    Rev 12. 2008-04-13
    * Lists updated to reflect election results.

    Rev 13. 2009-11-18
    * Lists updated to reflect election results and resignation
    * of Scott Little after accepting ZC3 hat.

    Rev 14. 2010-12-08
    * Lists updated to reflect election results.

    Rev 15, 2011-08-30
    * List updated to reflect resignation of Sean Dennis.

    Rev 16, 2011-12-20
    * List updated to reflect new term of administrator and
    2011 standing member election results.

    Rev 17, 2012-01-22
    * List updated to reflect node number change of R.J. Clay.

    Rev 18, 2012-12-17
    * List updated to reflect election results.

    Rev 19, 2013-12-9
    * List updated to reflect election results and resignations.

    Rev.20, 2014-12-01: Updated to reflect election results.

    Rev.21. 2015-12-08: Updated to reflect election results
    and new term of administrator.

    Rev.22. 2016-12-18 Updated to reflect election results.
    Rev.23. 2017-12-04 Updated to reflect election results
    Node nr of Andrew Leary updated.

    Rev.24 2017-12-05 Corrected spelling of "Torsten"
    Added Sean Dennis.

    Rev.25 2018-10-31 Updated to reflect resignation of
    Michiel van der Vlist as administrator.

    Rev.26 2018-12-27 Updated to reflect the results of the
    FTSC Administrator election and the
    resignation of Markus Reschke.

    Rev.27 2019-03-11 Updated to reflect election results.

    Rev.28 2020-01-24 Updated to reflect election results.

    Rev.29 2021-03-29 Updated to reflect election results.

    Rev.30 2022-03-28 Updated to reflect election results.

    Rev.31 2022-12-10 Updated to reflect new term of administrator.

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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

    Updated 4 December 2022


    Node Nr. Sysop Type Provider Remark

    1 2:280/464 Wilfred van Velzen Native Freedom f
    2 2:280/5003 Kees van Eeten Native KPN 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 Elisa f
    7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OVH
    8 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
    9 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
    10 2:203/0 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    11 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
    12 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
    13 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov T-6in4 he.net f
    14 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    15 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
    16 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native CZ-IJC-20071015
    17 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    18 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    19 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    20 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    21 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    22 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
    23 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    24 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
    25 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
    26 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    27 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    28 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    29 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    30 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    31 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    32 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
    33 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    34 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    35 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    36 2:240/5413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    37 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    38 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    39 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    40 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    41 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FirstByte
    42 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    43 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    44 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    45 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
    46 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    47 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    48 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native KPN
    49 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    50 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    51 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 TUNNEL-BROKER-NET-0
    52 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    53 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
    54 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
    55 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    56 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
    57 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native SAGE-SU-V6
    58 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
    59 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
    60 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native FirstVDS f
    61 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    62 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    63 2:240/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
    64 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
    65 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR 6DWN
    66 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
    67 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
    68 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
    69 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
    70 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
    71 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox
    72 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
    73 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
    74 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    75 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
    76 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
    77 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
    78 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    79 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
    80 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    81 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
    82 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
    83 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
    84 2:301/113 Alisha Stutz T-6in4 he.net
    85 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    86 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    87 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    88 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    89 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    90 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
    91 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
    92 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
    93 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native HURRICANE-IPV6-24
    94 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
    95 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
    96 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
    97 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
    98 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
    99 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
    100 1:142/104 Clive Reuben Native SNETFCC-1
    101 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
    102 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native Widebandnetv6
    103 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
    104 2:5010/252 Dmitry Smirnov T-6in4 TUNNEL-BROKER-NET-1
    105 2:5020/290 Andrew Kolchoogin T-6in4 he.net
    106 1:218/401 James Downs Native Scaleway PM *1
    107 1:214/22 Ray Quinn t-6in4 he.net
    108 2:5030/49 Sergey Myasoedov Native FR-VIRTUA-SYSTEMS
    109 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DIGITALOCEAN
    110 1:135/395 Charles Blackburn Native BHN-CPE PM *2 HOLD


    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 lounge.egontech.com
    PM *2 bbs.thefbo.us

    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 345

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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

    221/* 0.9m 0.5m 602 4.6h 7.6h 596
    280/* 0.8m 1.9m 675 5.2h 10.0h 673
    292/* 2.5m 1.6m 9 3.9h 4.5h 8
    320/* 2.1m 1.2m 218 3.8h 9.0h 218

    Sigma 1.0m 1.5m 1504 4.8h 8.9h 1495

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.343
    size 168.3kb
    date 2022-12-09

    The nodelist has 913 nodes in it
    and a total of 1340 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    33 regions
    166 hosts
    58 hubs
    admin overhead 261 ( 28.59 %)

    and 94 private nodes
    41 nodes down
    31 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 166 ( 18.18 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 25 ( 2.74 %)
    9600 = 152 ( 16.65 %)
    (HST = 2 or 1.32 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 69 or 45.39 %)
    (V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V34 = 67 or 44.08 %)
    (V42 = 66 or 43.42 %)
    (V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.11 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 735 ( 80.50 %)

    ISDN = 21 ( 2.30 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 772 ( 84.56 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 74 ( 8.11 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 59 ( 6.46 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 165 ( 18.07 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 14 ( 1.53 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 2 ( 0.22 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.55 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 832 ( 91.13 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 265 ( 29.03 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 18 ( 1.97 %)



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

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