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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Training Golded to play UTF-8 Part 2 .................... 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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FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our
banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would
be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

-- Henry Ford


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

Training Golded to play UTF-8 Part 2
By Michiel van der Vlist, 2:280/5555


Golded has limited support for reading and writing messages in UTF-8.
There are two ways. One is using an external editor. The other way
is to use translation tables. Last week was about the first method.
This week is about using translation tables.


Using translation tables.
=========================

Golded uses 8 bit translation tables to convert one character set
into another. Oddly enough Golded ignores the current code page
setting and always uses the code page in effect when the system is
booted up. At least that is how it works in Windows. Linux or OS/2
may be different. So if the systems boots up in CP850 all you will
ever see in the Golded screen are the characters in the CP850 set.
The character encoding scheme in the messages can be different, but
the gliphs are limited to those in the CP850 set.


Add this to your golded.cfg

XLATCHARSET CP850 UTF-8 850_UTF8.CHS
XLATCHARSET UTF-8 CP850 UTF8_850.CHS

GROUP UTF8
xlatimport utf-8
member utf-8
xlatexport utf-8
origin UTF-8 enthousiast
ENDGROUP


If you do not already have 850_UTF8.CHS and UTF8_850.CHS you can get
them from my system by file request or http://www.vlist.eu/downloads/

Oddly enough the Golded translation mechanism allows for translating
one byte into one or more bytes but not the other wat around. As a
result all characaters in CP850 can be corectly translated into
UTF-8 but the translation fom UTF-8 into CP850 is very, very limited.
Actually it only works for characters in the range u+00C0 - u+00FF.

This covers the accents and umlauts but not much more.

If your system's native character set is not CP850 you will need
translation tables to and from that character set.


The pros and cons of both methods.
==================================


External editor Translation tables

Pros

Support for any unicode character Easy installation.
that the external editor and the Editing and formatting text
underlying OS support. works as one is used to.

Cons

External editors normally only The set of usable characters is
support entering text "lines" limited to those in the codepage
separated by a line seperator. installed at startup of the sys-
Fidonet text consists of "para- tem. (CP850 for Western Europe).
graphs" seperated by a CR. The Incoming non ASCII limited to
two methods do not mix well. u+00C0 - u+00FF.




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

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

Updated 28 Apr 2020


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 T-6in4 he.net f
7 2:221/6 Tommi Koivula Native OH f
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 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 1:282/1031 Jeff Smith T-6in4 he.net
34 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Hetzner
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
38 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
40 2:5021/46 Dmitry Komissarov Native THEFIRST
41 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
42 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
43 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
44 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
45 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
46 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
47 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-6in4 he.net
48 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
49 2:467/239 Mihail Kapitanov T-6in4 he.net f
50 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
51 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
52 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
53 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
54 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
55 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
56 1 135/367 Antonio Rivera Native RRSW-V6
57 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
58 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
59 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net
60 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
61 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
62 1:153/757 Alan Ianson Native TELUS
63 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko T-6in4 he.net f
64 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native Starlink
65 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
66 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus OO
67 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny Native ARUBA-NET f
68 2:5053/400 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
69 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Communications
70 2:250/5 Christian Sacks Native Sky Broadband
71 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Unitymedia
72 2:421/21 Stepan Gabriel Native NETDATACOMM
73 2:466/4 Igor Goroun Native HOS-GUN
74 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
75 1:14/6 Jeff Smith T-6in4 he.net
76 1:220/70 Joseph Werle T-6in4 he.net
77 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
78 2:240/100 Arno Klein Native OVH
79 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
80 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
81 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
82 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
83 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
84 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native IT-ALBACOM
85 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US
86 2:5020/843 Peter Antonov Native BelCloud
87 2:5075/35 Eugene Subbotin T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER
88 2:5075/128 Eugene Subbotin T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER f
89 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
90 1:218/820 Ryan Fantus Native DigitalOcean
91 1:153/146 Erich Bublitz Native LINODE-US
92 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox


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
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.
DOWN This node is temporarely down for both IPv4 and IPv6
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.

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 124

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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/* 7.5m 10.5m 368 1.4h 8.8h 368
221/* 0.8m 0.4m 475 5.2h 9.2h 474
280/* 0.9m 3.8m 723 6.1h 4.8h 723
292/* 4.9m 3.7m 15 5.8h 5.3h 15
320/* 1.6m 1.1m 369 1.8h 3.1h 368
502/* 0.6m 0.3m 8 2.0h 2.8h 8

Sigma 2.2m 5.8m 1958 4.2h 7.1h 1956

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.122
size 184.5kb
date 2020-05-01

The nodelist has 998 nodes in it
and a total of 1464 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
31 regions
169 hosts
66 hubs
admin overhead 270 ( 27.05 %)

and 107 private nodes
40 nodes down
49 nodes on hold
off line overhead 196 ( 19.64 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 53 ( 5.31 %)
9600 = 205 ( 20.54 %)
(HST = 8 or 3.90 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 82 or 40.00 %)
(V32B = 18 or 8.78 %)
(V34 = 100 or 48.78 %)
(V42 = 82 or 40.00 %)
(V42B = 20 or 9.76 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 739 ( 74.05 %)

ISDN = 32 ( 3.21 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 756 ( 75.75 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 88 ( 8.82 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 67 ( 6.71 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 161 ( 16.13 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.20 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 5 ( 0.50 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 1 ( 0.10 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 841 ( 84.27 %)
MailOnly nodes = 319 ( 31.96 %)
Listed-only nodes = 26 ( 2.61 %)



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

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