• FidoNews 40:21 [00/08]: The Front Page

    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 22 00:16:14 2023
    The F I D O N E W S Volume 40, Number 21 22 May 2023 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
    | |The newsletter of the | | |
    | | FidoNet community. | | Netmail attach to (POTS): |
    | | Est. 1984 | | Editor @ 2:2/2 (+46-31-960447) |
    | | ____________| | |
    | | / __ | Netmail attach to (BinkP): |
    | | / / \ | Editor @ 2:203/0 |
    | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | |
    | \_______\(_| /_) | Email attach to: |
    | _ @/_ \ _ | b @ felten dot se |
    | | | \ \\ | |
    | | (*) | \ ))| |
    | |__U__| / \// | Editor: Bj”rn Felten |
    | ______ _//|| _\ / | |
    | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. |
    | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+


    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2
    Taking P4 seriously? ..................................... 2
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 4
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 4
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 7
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 7
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 8
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 15
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 15
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 16
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 18
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 20

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 22 00:16:14 2023
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    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    Twelve Food for Thoughts at once:

    Arguing with a fool proves there are two.

    The easiest way to wait for something is to forget it exists.

    Leave, when a promise turns into a sorry.

    The worst type of loneliness is the loneliness you feel when you are
    with people.

    There are no rules of attraction when it comes to meeting your match.

    You don't need to compromise on your standard, the right person will
    come to you.

    The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of
    others.

    A toxic person only changes their victims, never themselves.

    A conversation about how you feel is not supposed to end in an
    argument.

    Someone's effort is a reflection of their interest in you.

    You can be the whole package at the wrong address.

    Facts over feelings. Don’t let your emotions play with your
    intelligence.

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 22 00:16:14 2023
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    EDITORIAL =================================================================

    Taking P4 seriously?

    A recap from five years ago. Problem still not solved.

    Yes I know that I'm violating one of the rules that I myself have been
    adament about during my entire tenure here, but since this issue has
    come up so many times now, I felt it important to make it official by
    posting it in our official channel, and not only in the FIDONEWS echo.

    Ponder this quote from Fidonews Vol. 9 No. 52 (28 December 1992)
    for some time:


    /*********************************************************************
    * IMPORTANT NOTE: The FidoNet address for FidoNews has been changed. *
    * The new address is: *
    * *
    * FidoNews = 1:1/23 *
    * *
    * Starting January 1993 email sent to the old address will not be *
    * forwarded! You were warned! * *********************************************************************/

    It took just two and a half years to start ignoring P4, that says
    that the Fidonews should be at 1:1/1.

    When I became Fidonews Editor in 2002, it became even more obvious
    why hard coding the Fidonews address into P4 was a mistake. By then it
    was unthinkable that anyone but someone from zone 1 could ever be the
    editor. And yes, for a few months there was one, a handful of years
    before me, but he never really acted as one.

    The z:z/1-6 node numbers were previously reserved for Zone Gates.
    If you look at today's Zone 4 entry, you can see how it used to be 20
    years ago.

    Already in 2002 the idea about Zone Gates was rather obsolete, but
    even so, there never was any need for a Zone Gate to the zone itself,
    i.e. z:z/z. The 2:2/2 node number was removed already in November 9
    1988 after less than a year and almost a year before P4 was written,
    so reserving the z:z/z node should never had been any problem.

    With the help from Ward we tried to make the first change to P4 for
    more than a decade, suggesting that the Fidonews should have the ZIN
    node number z:z/z rather than the hard coded 1:1/1.

    Unfortunately a bunch of RCs came out of the woodwork and hijacked
    our policy change attempt, adding all kinds of more or less futile
    changes. Needless to say, it all crashed miserably. Our attempt to
    take it one small step at a time, just to demonstrate that it could be
    done, failed. Leaving us with the present dinosaur in effect still
    today.
    Thanks to the foresight of ZC2, Ward Dossche, in 2002 I got the
    node number 2:2/2 just the same. The nodenumber that Fidonews holds
    still today, almost two decades later, in clear violation of P4...

    About the history of 1:1/1, here's some interesting reading. Notice
    the futile attempts to hijack Fidonews using the nodelist between 2011
    and 2015.

    http://tinyurl.com/y3c64efr

    Special thanks to Pavel Gulchouck (2:463/68) from Kiev, Ukraine,
    who gave us the above amazing service and who has served Fidonet
    well for more than 25 years.

    Go there and find out a lot about yourself and those around you.



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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 22 00:16:14 2023
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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

    Updated 21 May 2023


    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 1:154/10 Nicholas Boel Native Spectrum f
    9 2:203/0 Bjorn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    10 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native KPN f INO4
    11 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
    12 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov T-6in4 he.net f
    13 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
    14 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
    15 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek Native CZ-IJC-20071015
    16 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    17 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    18 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    19 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    20 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    21 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native JSC IOT f
    22 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    23 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
    24 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
    25 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    26 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    27 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    28 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    29 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    30 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
    31 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    32 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    33 2:240/5413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    34 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net 6DWN
    35 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    36 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    37 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    38 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FirstByte
    39 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    40 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    41 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    42 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    43 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    44 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native KPN
    45 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    46 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    47 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    48 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
    49 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f 6DWN
    50 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    51 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
    52 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native SAGE-SU-V6
    53 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
    54 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
    55 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native FirstVDS f
    56 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    57 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    58 2:240/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
    59 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
    60 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
    61 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
    62 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
    63 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
    64 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
    65 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
    66 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
    67 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
    68 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    69 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
    70 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    71 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
    72 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
    73 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
    74 2:301/113 Alisha Stutz T-6in4 he.ne
    75 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
    76 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
    77 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native HURRICANE-IPV6-24
    78 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
    79 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
    80 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
    81 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
    82 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
    83 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
    84 1:134/0 Kostie Muirhead Native LINODE-US INO4 f
    85 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead Native LINODE-US INO4 f
    86 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET
    87 2:5020/290 Andrew Kolchoogin T-6in4 he.net
    88 1:218/401 James Downs Native Scaleway PM *1
    89 1:214/22 Ray Quinn T-6in4 he.net
    90 2:5030/49 Sergey Myasoedov Native FR-VIRTUA-SYSTEMS
    91 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DIGITALOCEAN
    92 1:103/705 Rob Swindell Native Spectrum f
    93 2:5020/5858 Alexander Kruglikov T-6in4 Tunnel-Brkr-Net1 f
    94 2:292/789 Niels Joncheere T-6in4 he.net
    95 1:135/395 Charles Blackburn Native Charter Comms


    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

    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 141

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon May 22 00:16:14 2023
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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 0.4m 568 4.3h 4.6h 572
    280/* 0.7m 0.4m 719 3.8h 6.9h 718
    292/* 4.3m 4.6m 13 3.2h 3.9h 12
    320/* 3.3m 5.2m 195 2.3h 6.2h 195
    423/* 3.9m 0.1m 2 6.2h 0.0h 2

    Sigma 1.1m 2.2m 1497 3.8h 6.0h 1499

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.139
    size 166.2kb
    date 2023-05-19

    The nodelist has 912 nodes in it
    and a total of 1318 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    33 regions
    167 hosts
    60 hubs
    admin overhead 264 ( 28.95 %)

    and 92 private nodes
    25 nodes down
    25 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 142 ( 15.57 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 24 ( 2.63 %)
    9600 = 155 ( 17.00 %)
    (HST = 2 or 1.29 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 69 or 44.52 %)
    (V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V34 = 66 or 42.58 %)
    (V42 = 62 or 40.00 %)
    (V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.11 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 732 ( 80.26 %)

    ISDN = 21 ( 2.30 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 772 ( 84.65 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 77 ( 8.44 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 57 ( 6.25 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 142 ( 15.57 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 15 ( 1.64 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 1 ( 0.11 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.55 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 831 ( 91.12 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 265 ( 29.06 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 17 ( 1.86 %)



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

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