• FidoNews 39:10 [00/09]: The Front Page

    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
    The F I D O N E W S Volume 39, Number 10 07 Mar 2022 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
    FTSC Election ............................................ 2
    History repeats itself again and again ................... 3
    3. FTSC INFORMATION ......................................... 6
    2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Call for Votes ...... 6
    4. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 8
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 8
    5. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 11
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 11
    6. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 12
    7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 19
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 19
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 20
    8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 22
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 22
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 24

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
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    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    It takes nothing to join the crowd.

    It takes everything to stand alone.

    -- From the Tank Man on 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
    Now once again seen from an old Ukrainian man standing up against
    Mad Vlad Putin's tanks.


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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
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    GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

    FTSC Election
    Ward Dossche - 2:2/1000

    All RCs in all zones please be advized there is an election going
    on for FTSC Standing Members. Your participation is important.

    All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
    or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
    didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.

    The voting started Sunday, 27 February, 2022 and will conclude
    Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.

    If you were listed as an RC in your zone's version of the world
    nodelist.028 for 2022 then you're good to go.

    These are the nominees.

    Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
    Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
    James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
    Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes

    Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
    cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
    candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
    addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".

    Voters need not vote for all candidates.

    ----------------------------------------------
    | Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
    |----------------------|-------------|----|----|
    | | | | |
    | Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
    | James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
    | Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
    ----------------------------------------------

    Ward Dossche
    IC

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    History repeats itself again and again
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy
    and economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a
    Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of
    WW2.

    War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that
    doesn4t make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.

    In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near
    Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit
    of the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men,
    women and children.

    The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.

    I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers
    also had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were
    aware of the atrocity which they were committing without giving it
    a second thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least
    once in their life ...

    78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent
    civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good
    at obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off
    the brain. Follow the order and do not question.

    It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly
    women and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN
    calls it and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its
    bank-account for these people in need fleeing from ... from "what"
    exactly ... A regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent
    on annihilating a peaceful well organized European-style democracy
    and economy ...

    The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine
    what the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?

    Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime.
    But Russia has already committed war crimes the past week,
    which they know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they
    will not stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been
    raped by Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ...
    propaganda ... but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint
    the actual story.

    Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without
    news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.
    It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or
    you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the
    darkest days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights
    than in ... 2022 ...

    Eventually Russia is going to do exactly as the Chinese did with
    Tibet where the native polution was overwhelmed by an influx of
    Han-Chinese and that way trying to destroy the age-old culture and
    traditions of the Tibetans.

    The same will happen in Ukraine, as a nation ... a people ... a
    civilisation will be wiped-out. The country will be rebuilt by
    ethnic Russians and hundreds of years of culture and civilisation
    will be destroyed by the fire on pyres reminiscent of May 10 1933
    when works of Ernest Hemmingway, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Mann,
    Ernst Glaeser, Erich Kaestner, Erich Maria Remarque and others were
    deemed corrupted and decadent presaging an era of state censorship
    and control of culture.

    In the end the so-called de-Nazification by Putin will be
    carried-out by strictly Nazi methodologies and policies ...

    To stay mentally healthy, you look for rational explanations. But
    some things are inexplicable. Western culture in the decades since
    the Second World War has tried to explain everything, to be tolerant
    and always to understand the other. But sometimes the other is simply
    evil. Pure and simple. We had forgotten the existence of that evil.
    Now we see the outcome of that mistake.

    It is unbearable to see war as a simple product of an insane mind.
    There must be a plan behind it, it must mean something. Who sets up
    a catastrophe with their own hands, just because they can?

    There's an interesting book explaining how Hitler could continue
    his horrible policies against his own population ... "Hitler's
    willing executioners" ... Who will write its sequel "Putin's willing executioners" ?

    Putin has noticed that his number of followers has dwindled in the
    last two years, and does not know how to save his presidency in a
    country that is largely integrated into the Western world. So he
    does something so horrific that the whole world shuts itself off
    from him. Then locks the door from the inside. People are arrested
    for standing on the street with a blank sheet of paper in their
    hands, it is enough to hold it and get beaten. Perhaps Putin will
    soon reach for an Iranian or North Korean scenario. If the
    country is locked down, explicit protest is almost impossible.
    Then every discourse, like the minds of the people, will be
    divided into two versions, as in Soviet times. You stick to the
    official story if they can see and hear you. In addition, there
    is the story that is told within the family.

    We need separate what is happening in Putin's head and what is
    happening in Russia. Russia is not a collective brain. All polls,
    even those of loyalist sociologists, clearly show that the country is
    not united.

    Support for the war varies in a country where people aren't
    exactly open to a man with a microphone asking them what
    they think of Putin or the war.

    Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not
    really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for
    such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power.

    Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after
    being led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story
    last in Russia?

    It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In
    a sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the
    riot-police are already there. Putin is trying
    to drag the people into a dark past and forcing them to think as
    if the ideas and circumstances of eighty years ago still hold
    true today.

    Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can
    paint the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell
    the idea of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state,
    as Putin is trying to do.

    Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to
    avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its
    presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest.

    Sometimes silence is a statement on its own.

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
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    FTSC INFORMATION =================================================================


    2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Call for Votes
    Andrew Leary - 1:1/19@fidonet

    2022 FTSC standing member election, call for votes
    ==================================================

    Voting for FTSC standing members commences on Sunday, 27 February,
    2022, 20:00 UTC.

    All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
    or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
    didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.

    Although not required, voters are encouraged to consult their
    constituency before casting their votes. Debate with the candidates
    is also encouraged. No need to hurry.

    Voting ends on Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.

    The status of RC's will be determined by nodelist.028 of this year
    by the list as issued by the ZC in the zone where they reside.

    This is the list of nominees.

    Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
    Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
    James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
    Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes

    Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
    cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
    candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
    addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".


    Once again, voters need not vote for all candidates.


    ----------------------------------------------
    | Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
    |----------------------|-------------|----|----|
    | | | | |
    | Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
    | James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
    | Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
    ----------------------------------------------

    Regards,

    Andrew
    FTSC Election Coordinator

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
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    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

    Updated 1 March 2022


    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 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
    9 1:154/10 Nicholas Bo‰l Native Spectrum f
    10 2:203/0 Bj”rn Felten T-6in4 he.net
    11 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f INO4
    12 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
    13 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner 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 T-6in4 he.net
    17 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    18 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    19 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline f IO
    20 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    21 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    22 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
    23 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
    24 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    25 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
    26 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
    27 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
    28 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    29 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    30 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    31 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    32 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    33 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
    34 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    35 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    36 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
    37 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    38 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    39 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    40 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    41 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    42 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
    43 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    44 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    45 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    46 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
    47 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    48 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    49 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
    50 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    51 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    52 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
    53 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    54 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
    55 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
    56 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    57 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
    58 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
    59 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
    60 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
    61 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native Oracle f
    62 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    63 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    64 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
    65 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
    66 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
    67 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
    68 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
    69 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
    70 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
    71 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
    72 1:106/633 William Williams Native LINODE-US PM *1
    73 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox
    74 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
    75 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
    76 1:142/103 Brian Rogers T-6in4 he.net
    77 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    78 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
    79 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
    80 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
    81 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
    82 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
    83 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    84 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
    85 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
    86 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
    87 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
    88 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    89 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    90 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    91 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
    92 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
    93 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
    94 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
    95 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
    96 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin T-6in4 he.net
    97 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
    98 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
    99 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
    100 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
    101 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
    102 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
    103 1:142/104 Clive Reuben Native SNETFCC-1
    104 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
    105 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native Widebandnetv6


    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 065

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Mar 7 11:40:40 2022
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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/* 28.4m 17.4m 777 1.1h 3.5h 778
    201/* 1.6m 0.7m 7 0.0h 0.1h 7
    221/* 0.9m 0.6m 857 4.6h 7.7h 858
    280/* 0.8m 2.3m 1429 4.5h 5.7h 1430
    292/* 3.8m 3.8m 56 2.4h 3.4h 55
    301/* 0.8m 0.7m 2 6.0h 0.8h 2
    320/* 3.4m 2.9m 210 2.6h 6.1h 209
    502/* 0.8m 0.4m 7 2.4h 4.0h 7

    Sigma 7.5m 14.4m 3345 3.6h 6.0h 3346

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.063
    size 186.7kb
    date 2022-03-04

    The nodelist has 1013 nodes in it
    and a total of 1483 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    33 regions
    174 hosts
    70 hubs
    admin overhead 281 ( 27.74 %)

    and 113 private nodes
    38 nodes down
    38 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 189 ( 18.66 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 45 ( 4.44 %)
    9600 = 183 ( 18.07 %)
    (HST = 2 or 1.09 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 80 or 43.72 %)
    (V32B = 18 or 9.84 %)
    (V34 = 87 or 47.54 %)
    (V42 = 78 or 42.62 %)
    (V42B = 18 or 9.84 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 784 ( 77.39 %)

    ISDN = 33 ( 3.26 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 812 ( 80.16 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 80 ( 7.90 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 61 ( 6.02 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 169 ( 16.68 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.18 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 4 ( 0.39 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 871 ( 85.98 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 321 ( 31.69 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 23 ( 2.27 %)



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

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