• FidoNews 43:29 [00/07]: The Front Page

    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Sun Jul 19 16:44:51 2026
    The F I D O N E W S Volume 43, Number 29 20 Jul 2026 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
    | |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 |
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    | | (*) | \ ))| |
    | |__U__| / \// | Publisher: Bj”rn Felten |
    | ______ _//|| _\ / | |
    | / Fido \ (_/(_|(____/ | Newspapers should have no friends. |
    | (________) (jm) | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+


    Table of Contents
    1. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 1
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 1
    2. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 2
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 2
    3. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 6
    4. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 14
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
    5. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
    Credits, Legal Information, Availability ................. 19
    6. FIDONET WEB PAGE REVIEWS ................................. 20
    A Web Mirror and Search Index for FidoNews ............... 20

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Sun Jul 19 16:44:51 2026
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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

    203/* 1.3m 0.4m 8 0.0h 0.0h 8
    221/* 0.7m 0.4m 22 0.0h 0.0h 22
    280/* 1.1m 3.7m 914 4.7h 9.5h 913
    292/* 3.0m 1.5m 9 0.6h 0.7h 8
    320/* 2.1m 0.9m 639 0.8h 3.2h 639

    Sigma 1.5m 2.9m 1592 3.0h 7.8h 1590

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    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.198
    size 156.8kb
    date 2026-07-17

    The nodelist has 845 nodes in it
    and a total of 1225 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    30 regions
    159 hosts
    56 hubs
    admin overhead 249 ( 29.47 %)

    and 79 private nodes
    17 nodes down
    35 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 131 ( 15.50 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 16 ( 1.89 %)
    9600 = 73 ( 8.64 %)
    (HST = 2 or 2.74 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 45 or 61.64 %)
    (V32B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V34 = 48 or 65.75 %)
    (V42 = 42 or 57.53 %)
    (V42B = 0 or 0.00 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.12 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 755 ( 89.35 %)

    ISDN = 15 ( 1.78 %)

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    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 729 ( 86.27 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 55 ( 6.51 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 30 ( 3.55 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 86 ( 10.18 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 11 ( 1.30 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 1 ( 0.12 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.59 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 770 ( 91.12 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 244 ( 28.88 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 20 ( 2.37 %)



    [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 FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Sun Jul 19 16:44:51 2026
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    FIDONET WEB PAGE REVIEWS =================================================================

    A Web Mirror and Search Index for FidoNews


    For anyone who likes to look something up: a web mirror of
    FidoNews now exists. It gathers the back issues that could be
    found, makes their full text searchable, and keeps each issue's
    original .nws file available to download, at a stable address
    you can link to.

    This changes nothing about FidoNews itself. The newsletter is
    still put together and sent over the network exactly as it
    always has been, by the same process and the same hands. The
    mirror is only a convenience for reading, searching and citing
    the archive off-network. It sits alongside the usual
    distribution; it does not replace it and does not touch it.

    Two small effects may come with that convenience, and both are
    offered as possibilities, not plans. The first is close to home.
    FidoNews has always lived on what its members send it. If it is
    easier to read and to search, some may find it easier to open
    again -- and, for those so inclined, to write for it once more.
    That is for each of us to decide; the mirror only lowers the
    doorstep a little.

    The second looks outward. What is easy to find tends to get
    found. An open, searchable archive may catch the eye of people
    outside FidoNet, and some who wander in may grow curious about
    the network behind it. This is nothing new in kind: FidoNews
    has always been a public, open forum. It may simply be a little
    more visible now. Anyone who arrives with respect for how things
    are done here has always been welcome.

    The mirror takes no position on how FidoNews is or should be
    run. It preserves what has been published, as it was published.
    Every article stays its author's; linking to an issue is always
    fine, and reusing an article beyond reading is for its author or
    the Editor to allow, exactly as before.

    The archive is only as complete as the sources it was built
    from, so it is surely missing issues and carrying the odd wrong
    date. If you kept copies it lacks, or you spot a gap or a
    mistake, a message back will help close it. The archive is not
    finished and is not anyone's to own: it is the network's to
    correct and complete, the same way the newsletter always has
    been.

    There are no ads and no money in it. It is volunteer work,
    offered to the network in the same spirit FidoNews has always
    been written in. You will find it here:

    https://www.fidonews.site/

    -- Enric Lleal Serra, 2:343/107

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