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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Fido and totalitarianism ................................. 2
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 3
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 3
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 6
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 6
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 7
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 14
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 14
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 15
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 17
How to Submit an Article ................................. 17
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 19
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

-- Oscar Wilde

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

Fido and totalitarianism
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

It just struck me as odd thinking about China ...

If Fido still would show any presence in China, probably the Chinese
communist party would crack-down on it being in a decades old battle
with free speech.

How would they do that? Where to begin? How to get a hook on things
and tear it apart? Or control it? Controling Fidonet??

It had been tried before ...

In 2002 in Saudi Arabia the royal Al-Saud family appointed a prince
to oversee electronic communications within the kingdom (they have
a lot of princes and they all need a job to justify themselves).
And as the Al-Sauds make money from sand, he decided to slam a
tax on electronic communications. Why? Probably "because he could"
and there was no checks-and-balances system like in a parliament
to control him.

The RC54 could not afford that. So did not pay. One needs to know
that this RC54 had been in an accident and was unable to work, but
Saudi-Arabia is so oil-rich that every citizen gets 100% free
healthcare. Then the prince called the RC and said that if he
didn't pay, he'd lose his health benefits.

RC54 had no other option but to fold the region. He went on a trip
outside the kingdom and I don't recall anymore where he went but he
called me long-distance on a phone 19 years ago explaining the
reasons why R54 needed to fold. The reason for calling from outside
the kingdom was that all voice-traffic, incoming and outgoing, was
monitored ... I had his direct-dial number in Jeddah and he asked me
never to call him anymore as that would get him into trouble.

A nice and friendly guy ... I wonder how he's doing ...

Also astonishing is googling for "Italian police crackdown Fidonet"
... that happened during the night of May 10-11 1994 when the
Italian police raided literally hundreds of BBSs not understanding
what they were about, what they (the police) were looking for nor
understanding what a PC was in many cases ... they grabbed hardware,
modems, CDROMs, diskettes effectively dealing a blow to R33 Italy
from which it really never fully recovered. A lot of nodes folded
immediately deciding not having to deal with a police-force at large.

So the next time you call your favorite *C "a dictator", just remember
there are worse things in life ... 8-)

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

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

Updated 28 November 2021


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 2:5053/54 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 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
24 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
25 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
26 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
27 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
28 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
29 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
30 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
31 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
32 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
33 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
34 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
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
39 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
40 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
41 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
42 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
43 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
44 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
45 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
46 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
47 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
48 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
49 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
50 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
51 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
52 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
53 1:135/367 Antonio Rivera Native RRSW-V6 DOWN
54 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
55 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
56 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
57 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
58 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
59 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
60 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
61 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
62 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
63 2:5053/400 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
64 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Cmmunctns 6DWN
65 2:421/21 Stepan Gabriel Native NETDATACOMM 6DWN
66 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
67 1:220/70 Joseph Werle T-6in4 he.net DOWN
68 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
69 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
70 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
71 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
72 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
73 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
74 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native IT-ALBACOM
75 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
76 2:5020/843 Petr Antonov Native BelCloud 6DWN
77 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
79 1:106/633 William Williams Native LINODE-US PM *1
79 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox
80 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
81 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers
82 1:142/103 Brian Rogers T-6in4 he.net
83 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
84 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
85 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
86 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
87 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
88 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass T-6in4 he.net f
89 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
90 1:218/401 James Downs Native ORG-TT1
91 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
92 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
93 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
94 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
95 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
96 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
97 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
98 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
99 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
100 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
101 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
102 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
103 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin T-6in4 he.net
104 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
105 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native Ziggo
106 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
107 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
108 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
109 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native Oracle f
110 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US



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 332

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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/* 20.3m 17.4m 635 1.1h 4.3h 634
221/* 0.9m 0.5m 728 6.1h 8.3h 728
280/* 0.7m 0.5m 562 5.4h 4.2h 561
292/* 3.3m 1.7m 18 3.3h 3.2h 17
320/* 2.8m 1.6m 163 3.1h 9.0h 163
502/* 0.9m 0.3m 6 6.4h 7.2h 6

Sigma 6.8m 13.0m 2112 4.2h 6.7h 2109

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.330
size 186.6kb
date 2021-11-26

The nodelist has 1011 nodes in it
and a total of 1480 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
174 hosts
70 hubs
admin overhead 281 ( 27.79 %)

and 113 private nodes
39 nodes down
36 nodes on hold
off line overhead 188 ( 18.60 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 43 ( 4.25 %)
9600 = 189 ( 18.69 %)
(HST = 2 or 1.06 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 80 or 42.33 %)
(V32B = 18 or 9.52 %)
(V34 = 89 or 47.09 %)
(V42 = 80 or 42.33 %)
(V42B = 19 or 10.05 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 778 ( 76.95 %)

ISDN = 33 ( 3.26 %)

-----------------------------------------------------
IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 796 ( 78.73 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 84 ( 8.31 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 59 ( 5.84 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 170 ( 16.82 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 18 ( 1.78 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 4 ( 0.40 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 866 ( 85.66 %)
MailOnly nodes = 317 ( 31.36 %)
Listed-only nodes = 22 ( 2.18 %)



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

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Hello Ward,

GENERAL ARTICLES

Fido and totalitarianism
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

It just struck me as odd thinking about China ...

Taiwan.

If Fido still would show any presence in China, probably the Chinese communist party would crack-down on it being in a decades old battle
with free speech.

Taiwan is democratic.

How would they do that? Where to begin? How to get a hook on things
and tear it apart? Or control it? Controling Fidonet??

If it was not for the people of Taiwan, most people would not be
using computers. So all Fidonetters can thank them for their hobby.

It had been tried before ...

Chinese believe in freedom. At least those in Taiwan.

In 2002 in Saudi Arabia the royal Al-Saud family appointed a prince
to oversee electronic communications within the kingdom (they have
a lot of princes and they all need a job to justify themselves).
And as the Al-Sauds make money from sand, he decided to slam a
tax on electronic communications. Why? Probably "because he could"
and there was no checks-and-balances system like in a parliament
to control him.

The House of Saud is there to protect the holy sites.
And also the black rock. Which got stolen by an overzealous
believer who called himself the Mahdi. After recovering the
black rock, the House of Saud made sure the Mahdi could
never duplicate his feat by chopping off his head.

The RC54 could not afford that. So did not pay. One needs to know
that this RC54 had been in an accident and was unable to work, but Saudi-Arabia is so oil-rich that every citizen gets 100% free
healthcare. Then the prince called the RC and said that if he
didn't pay, he'd lose his health benefits.

It was not his health benefits he was worried about.

RC54 had no other option but to fold the region. He went on a trip
outside the kingdom and I don't recall anymore where he went but he
called me long-distance on a phone 19 years ago explaining the
reasons why R54 needed to fold. The reason for calling from outside
the kingdom was that all voice-traffic, incoming and outgoing, was monitored ... I had his direct-dial number in Jeddah and he asked me
never to call him anymore as that would get him into trouble.

A nice and friendly guy ... I wonder how he's doing ...

Probably lost his head.

Also astonishing is googling for "Italian police crackdown Fidonet"
.. that happened during the night of May 10-11 1994 when the
Italian police raided literally hundreds of BBSs not understanding
what they were about, what they (the police) were looking for nor understanding what a PC was in many cases ... they grabbed hardware, modems, CDROMs, diskettes effectively dealing a blow to R33 Italy
from which it really never fully recovered. A lot of nodes folded immediately deciding not having to deal with a police-force at large.

Fabio is still here. So at least some Italians are still alive.
But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

So the next time you call your favorite *C "a dictator", just remember there are worse things in life ... 8-)

Now if only Bobby Fischer (who once used a BBS in the Philippines)
was still around ...

--Lee

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But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

There is at least one ...

https://international.brest-bs.com/

\%/@rd

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Hello Ward,

But that still does not explain why there are no BBSs in France.

There is at least one ...

https://international.brest-bs.com/

Okay, okay. Missed one small detail. Never said I was perfect.

--Lee

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