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Table Of Contents
Quote of the Day........................2
Editorial...............................3
How to Get Your Files Distributed.......4
Old School Toolbox:
Connecting the Wetware, Part IX.....5
Cooking: 2012 Cooking Echo Picnic:
Date & More Info....................6
Luxembourg FidoCon......................7
FileGate News...........................8
Fidonet SoftWare List...................9
FidoGazette BBS List....................10
Information (How to Submit an Article)..11
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Quote of the Day
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There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or
inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe.
~Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love
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How cool... This year there will be two Fidonet events where
Fidonet SysOps get together in real-time to enjoy each others
company.
We've been discussing the Cooking Echo Picnic in the last
several issues, and this week, Dieter Soltau has announced a
get-together in Luxembourg!
No excuse now for not actually meeting some of those people
you've been only been able to 'meet' in echomail and netmail -
wherever you live :)
Over here, we're hoping to have a good turnout for the Fidonet
Cooking Echo picnic so if you're nearby, or going to be passing
through, stop in and say "hey" :) (We won't MAKE you cook Lol)
If you can, bring something.. if you can't don't worry about it.
=-=-=-
Also in this issue Richard continues his Toolbox series with
Part #9. You'll see terms you may painfully remember or perhaps
if you're really new to Fidonet, have not heard before (lucky
you :) )..CRP (Cost Recovery Plans) were all over the place at
one time in Fidonet, and painfully so. Not willing to give up
our hobby due to insane LATA fees between local yet LD
communities, nets worked out plans where with everyone sharing
in the cost the rates for moving echomail were greatly reduced.
This worked out well for some nets. It also cause great agita
in some :( Pre-Planet Connect Satellite services, you might have
been limited as to what was available in your local network due
to the cost of moving some of the larger echos.. After Planet
Connect, well, there still might have been some limitations as
Richard notes.
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How to Get Your Files Distributed
Joining in file distribution on the sending side is something a
lot of SysOps enjoy.. whether it's sharing their own documents
and/or software, or finding shareware or freeware programs that
people have a use or interest in.
The DOs and DON'Ts:
Historically, there have been few exceptions on the type of
files distributed on the FileGate.. Naturally, no one wants
illegal files on their system - so anything that is illegal is
rejected. No one wants the same software being sent through
more than FDN, so if you know a particular door game, or bbs
program that you've got an update for, you ought to contact the
respective FDN coordinator and have the coordinator release the
file.
Let's say though, you've got PEX files you've written for WC
that you'd like to get out.. Right now there isn't an area like
that on the FileGate, so there would be no problem adding your
FDN.
All you need to do is send me some information about what you'd
like to distribute:
1) Name of your fdn
2) A list of the 8 character Tag names you'd like to use.
These are the file areas you plan on having, with a description
of what you expect to send through.
Take a look at filegate.zxx, which is released in the file echo
FG_WORF for examples like these from the PDN:
PDNAI AI related
PDNASM Assembly Related
3) Allfix and some other file tossing software lets you separate
file areas into "groups", say like Programming Groups or BBS
software groups.. for that reason, we ask you to supply a unique
2 or 3 character 'group identifier' for your fdn.. for example,
the PDN's group identifier is PDN: (again, see filegate.zxx for
more examples).
If you'd like to pick up the IFDC FileGate's info package which
contains our policy and other information, you can get it via
the web at http://www.filegate.net/info/fdninfo.zip or via
file request at 1:261/38 with the Magic name: FDNINFO or
FILEGATE
Before you start to worry , know that the FileGate Policy
document was written by FDN Coordinators and HUBs just like
yourself.. and takes into consideration the problems one might
run into in File Distribution.
You can send the above information to me at janis@filegate.net,
or via fidonet netmail to Janis Kracht @ 1:261/38.
I'll be in touch with you as soon after as I can :)
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The Old School Toolbox
By Richard Webb, 1:116/901
Connecting the Wetware, Part IX.
We hear it all the time from our Fidonet brethren in zone 2.
They tell us that Policy 4.07 doesn't fit in their environment,
and never did. They tell us it was rammed down their throat at
the time, because North America had all the power. IFNA didn't
effectively represent them either they tell us.
If you read Fidonews from the early '90's before Planet systems
came on the scene guys like Jack Decker were trying to tell us
about some bumps in the road to a smoothly running Fidonet and
policy that would work. For whatever reason Jack became as
popular as certain unpleasant medical procedures, and eventually
walked away when low cost dial up internet arrived where he
lived. That was before I joined Fidonet. If you'll recall, I
left you last time preparing to tell you about my adventures in
Fidonet when moving from a metropolitan area with an organized
local net structure that was painless to one where I had to
organize those resources as best I could to serve my system and
others. First, to serve those others, I had to put my
salesman's hat on and sell them on the idea of joining Fidonet,
knowing full well that they'd only come for the echomail. Then,
once I hooked them I had to make it reliable, and preferably
very cheap.
I'd studied the bbs scene in the community where I'd be
relocating and had come to the decision that if Fidonet was
going to come to Burlington, Iowa I was going to have to bring
it there. My next task was to query my RC about whether I
should become a regional independent or not. My RC told me he
would expect me to join eastern Iowa net, which is what I did.
Eastern Iowa net, or net 283 covered some communities of
reasonable size in eastern Iowa. It encompassed the
Waterloo/Cedar Falls metro area; Cedar Rapids; Iowa City;
Dubuque; Davenport/Bettendorf metro area; and anything in the
then 319 area code which covered eastern Iowa from the
Mississippi river to its boundary with the 515 area which was
central, in other words, from the Missouri to the Minnesota
borders.
There were some metropolitan areas of reasonable size
encompassed by net 283. There was no net wide cost recovery
plan. Each metro area had its own distribution system or
systems to handle echomail. The NC was in the Cedar Rapids
metro area, home to Quaker Oats and Collins Radio. He fed from
1:396/1 for awhile, then deployed a dish and used the bird.
Marge Robins was the big hub and file distribution connection,
located in the Waterloo/Cedar Falls area, and I'm not sure how
she fed.
The cities of Davenport and Bettendorf along the river are in a
unique situation. These two communities in Iowa are part of
what is known as the Quad Cities. There are two other sizable
cities on the Illinois side of the river, and they were, and
are, a local call from the Iowa side, although in different area
codes. Hence they had their own local distribution systems, and
cost recovery schemes. In fact, net 283 was covered by a
variety of cost recovery plans depending on where you were
located. Since the net covered the entire eastern third of the
state this was necessary.
There was another difference necessitated by the large area
covered by net 283. NO regular sysop meetings such as were
facilitated by the Central Iowa Computer Users' group which
augmented the quarterly local Fidonet specific meeting with
opportunities to gather on a monthly basis. Net 283 held an
annual picnic in one of its larger communities, and that was
about it. Being that I was a working person I didn't attend,
nor did anybody else from my crp.
In two years of participating in net 283 I couldn't have told
you if our NC was elected or appointed, or whether anybody was
happy or unhappy with the status quo. I knew little about the
rest of net 283, concentrating only on the crp in the local
calling area of Burlington. Yes, we had the net wide chat and
sysop echoes available, plus specific echoes for our
cooperative, some of which were quite active, including a
buy/sell/swap echo and a local chatter echo. The big Fidonet
issue I faced was decreasing costs for my part of Fidonet, which
was any node beginning with 1:283/5xx in the nodelist.
At first we pulled everything from our nc, but soon I began
seeing that an out of state echomail feed would be a real
advantage. it also occurred to me that with a little
cooperation I could combine this out of state echomail feed with
acquiring our routed netmail with little additional cost, and
none to the router really, especially if I were willing to bring
special interest echoes into that distribution system. Heres
what we hit upon as a solution.
I found a willing system in one of the Illinois cities that was
a local call for net 283 systems on the Iowa side of the river.
We arranged session and packet passwords between us, and I
brought in a couple of privately distributed echoes which he
passed through to interested systems within the quad cities.
The plan was for the system which picked up routed netmail from
the Iowa side to pick up all routed netmail for 1;283/5xx
systems, make a local call across the river and drop it off at
the Illinois system where I would pick it up with my once daily
call to exchange echomail. Our NC liked the arrangement, the NC
on the Illinois side had no problem with it. But, we had to
secure the blessing of two regional coordinators, regions 12 and
14. Here's where the hang up occurred. One of the two regional
coordinators objected for some reason.
Having been shot down in flames with the one plan we'd come up
with we decided that our feed in the Illinois quad cities wasn't
quite what we had in mind, but we would have worked with the
deficiencies if we could have made one call do it all for us.
Since that wasn't going to happen I was still stuck with making
an in-state toll call daily to pick up routed netmail. It was
time to go feed shopping again, and I soon joined a ham radio
specific network fed out of southern Illinois and acquired a
zone 73 address as well to facilitate that. That southern
Illinois link supplied us with reliable backbone echomail and
areas off the file bone we wanted. We soon made it cooperative
policy that the hub would be responsible for carrying nodediff
and Fidonews, but members were on their own for other file
distribution echoes. I brought in BFDS for myself, and would
acquire file areas at cost if you really had to have them, but
it just added headaches.
Still, through all of this there was the wrestling match with
dividing up costs fairly, and I'll open that old can of worms
next time, and eventually tie it in with why Fidonet politics
and policy change efforts have been doomed to failure since the
fragmentation of routing and distribution systems.
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Fidonet Cooking Echo Picnic - Dates extended
By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net
The Fidonet Cooking Echo Picnic dates for 2012 are
July 19, 20, 21, 22, 23.
If you are somewhere even close to Ithaca, NY, on that weekend,
and think you might like to join us, you can just stop in for
one day if you like, or get a room at one of the inns nearby if
you'd like to stick around for the entire event :) We can put
some people up here in our new house, but need to know in
advance if you'll be taking us up on that.
While the name of this event is a "Cooking Echo Picnic", it is
so much more than that :) We do typically go outside and party
at times , but we also just go with the flow at the
moment, depending on what people would like to do. There are
excursions to local restaurants (some of them quite famous
nationally, like the Moosewood Restaurant in Ithaca), and other
sites of interest to people.
Another big favorite will most likely be a visit to the Ithaca
Farmers Market, which has been called a "Festival" with over 130
vendors. Plants, vegetables, meals, farmers who sell grass-fed
beef, pork and lamb, and more are typically available.
Craftsmen also bring their artistic wares, like artwork,
jewelry, etc.
At the house, we'll have stocked cupboards and most likely wine,
beer and other beverages.. you can bring anything you want to
share with people, as well.
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Fidonet Luxembourg FidoCon Event
By Dieter Soltau
FidoNet ReCon
How about a BBQ, throwing some hard disks, drinking beer, and
talking about geeky FidoMemories? Only accept if you're
serious, please. Space for campers can be provided.
date: 04/AUG/2012 .. afternoon.
place: 8, Am For, Oetrange, Luxembourg
for further info contact: dieter.soltau@live.com .. or catch us
on facebook..
https://www.facebook.com/dieter.soltau
https://www.facebook.com/daTroll
ps: dont forget to bring beer and food ;)
regards,
tomas and duke
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IFDC FileGate News
Here's the information for Nicholas Boel's SV Net!
% FDN: Survival File Distrobution Network
% Coordinator: Nicholas Boel, 1:154/10 (accessd@pharcyde.org)
%
% Internet: http://www.filegate.net/sv/
% PATH: DIRECT
% HUB: Yes
% ..................................................
% File Echo Description
% ..................................................
%
Area SV_COMM 0 ! SV: Survival Communications & Skills
Area SV_DPOL 0 ! SV: US and Worldwide Drug Policy Files
Area SV_ECON 0 ! SV: Economics in Tough Times
Area SV_FOOD 0 ! SV: Survival Foods, Recipes, & Methods
Area SV_HOWTO 0 ! SV: How to Prepare, Build, & Maintain
Area SV_LEGAL 0 ! SV: Misc Law and Citizen's Rights
Area SV_MED 0 ! SV: Medical Information & Methods
Area SV_MISC 0 ! SV: Survival Miscellaneous Files
Area SV_NCRPT 0 ! SV: Encryption Techniques & Applications
Area SV_POL 0 ! SV: Political Files (NWO, TRC, CFR, etc)
Area SV_QUAKE 0 ! SV: Earthquake Maps & Info from USGS
Area SV_WEAP 0 ! SV: Weapons Tech, Repair, Mods, & Rights
Area SV_2HQ 0 *& SV: New Releases to SVFDN Headquarters
%
%
=-=-=-=-==-=
Coordinator's Notes:
% Key to codes used:
% ..................................................
% FDN: File Distribution Network name.
% Coordinator: Coordinator or Headquarters for this FDN.
% Hatch site: Node which released files for Coordinator.
% Internet: Home page or ftp site for files released
% in this fdn.
% Info: Policy document, area list, information
% for downlinks.
% Backbone: Related Zone 1 Backbone echomail conferences
% PATH: Path to main distribution node via listed
% node, or DIRECT if coordinator links directly
% to 1:261/38
% HUB: IFDC FileGate HUB, carries full feed unless
% noted.
% ..................................................
% Key to flags used in this document:
% 0 Place keeper for RAID, or 255 (limited access
% defined by fdn).
% ! File flow is from FDN -> you.
% *& File flow is from you -> upstream HUB.
% Backchannel Area. This file echo can be used to
% send files upstream to the File Distribution
% Coordinator. If you are feeding others
% this FDN from your system, this one file echo
% should be set to 'Receive from all links/Send
% to upstream HUB _only_'. I.E., your upstream
% HUB is the only link who should receive the
% files in this area.
Please see filegate.zxx, released in file echo FG_WORF for more details.
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FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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BBS Software List
Updated 7 April 2012
Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/119)
Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht,
Sean Dennis
M=Mailer T=Tosser B=BBS D=Door C=Comm/Terminal
P=Points E=Editor I=Internet U=Utility #=Info
F=TIC/SRIF Processor
*=Software is available and may be registerable,
but no longer supported or updated.
@=Website is operating but is no longer updated.
?=Software's updating/support status is unknown.
O=Software is open source.
This list contains BBS-related software that is available
for registration (not necessarily supported), open source
software and actively developed/supported software by its
author. Software listed may be available for DOS, Linux,
OS/2 (eComStation), Windows (16 or 32 bit) and OSX.
.- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -.
|Software: Author |Type |URL, Contact, Ver, Notes Help Node|
`- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -'
==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS
Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products/argus/
| | v3.210 on Mar 29 2001
BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net
| | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on Oct 22 2000
BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68
| | v.0.9.11
| | v.1.0.5xx (alpha)
| | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/mailer
| | /binkd/
| |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/
D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm 1:1/130
Nick Andre |I | v3.79 on Apr 6 2012
FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.fido-deluxe.de.vu 2:2432/280
Michael Haase | | m.haase@gmx.net
| | v2.4 on Sep 26 2003
FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se 2:201/330
Definite Solutions |? | sales@defsol.se
| | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX
Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/
|EO? | v1.9 RC2 on Apr 20 2010
Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/
(based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm
| | v5.0 Jun 12 2006
| |
T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only)
|? | v2608 on Dec 12 2001
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==> MAIL TOSSERS
Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/
| | crashmail.html
FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/Products/FastEcho/
| | fastecho.html
| | v1.46.1 on 13 Nov 2007
| | Registration keys are free and available
| | by request from the author
Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org
| | v4.4.10 on Aug 27 2004
| |
FMail |TO |http://fmail.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.60.GPL on Mar 8 2008
| | v1.64.0.17 (Beta) on Sep 27 2011
JetMail: JetSys |TU |http://www.jetsys.de js@jetsys.de
(ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on Jan 1st 2000
Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v1.11R2 on Jan 1 2009
| | Source code available in the Maximus BBS
| | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net
WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v1.50 on 23 May 2011
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==> BBS SOFTWARE
BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:22/222
| | b@bbbs.net
| | v4.01 on January 28 2007
EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com
| | v0.10.RC1 on Jun 9 2002
Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com 1:250/501
Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 14 October 2010
| | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT
Ezycom BBS |BT |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
| | v2.15g2 on Nov 16 2009
GT Power |B |http://www.gtpowerbbs.com/
| | v19.00
Hermes II Project |BT |http://www.hermesbbs.com/
Macintosh-based | | malyn@strangegizmo.com
| | v3.5.10b3
Maximus BBS |BO* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
| | v3.03
| | Source code available at:
| | http://maximus.sourceforge.net/
MBSE BBS |BIO |http://www.mbse.eu/bbsing/mbsebbs 2:280/2802
| | mbroek@mbse.eu
| | v0.95.14 on Dec 14 2011
Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.0b on Apr 26 2004
Mystic BBS |BO* |http://www.mysticbbs.com
| | http://wiki.mysticbbs.com
| | v1.09 on Oct 17 2011
RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
| | bfmorse@rapro.com
| | v2.62.2SW
Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305
| | v1.10/DOS on 3 Oct 2009
Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/
| | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com
| | v3.7 on Jan 1, 2010
Synchronet BBS |BTIO |http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705
| | v3.15b on 8 Oct 2011
Telegard BBS |B* |http://www.telegard.net
| | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on Dec 19 1999
WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
Xpress: Santronics | |
Software, Inc. | | v6.4 AUP 454.1 on Aug 1 2011
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==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF
Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:140/12
Bob Seaborn | | v6.0.22 on 26 January 2011
NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/
| | v2.45b2 on 5 March 2000
TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/tinytic.html
| | 1:120/544
VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/vireq.html
| | 1:120/544
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==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES
Cheepware |DU |http://kd5col.info/cheepware.html
Sean Dennis | | sdennis72@gmail.com 1:18/200
| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org
Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
Ruth Argust | |
Jibben Software |D* |http://www.jibbensoftware.com/
| | bbs-door-games.cfm
| | scott@jibben.com
| | 1995-99 Release dates
John Dailey Software |DU |http://www.johndaileysoftware.com
Shining Star |D* |http://www.shiningstar.net/bbsdoors/
| | nannette@shiningstar.net
| | Doors are still registerable via website
Sunrise Doors: |D |http://www.sunrisedoors.com
Al Lawrence | | al@sunrisedoors.com
| | Tel: (404) 256-9518
T1ny's Software |DU |http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/tsoft/
Shawn Highfield | | shighfield@gmail.com 1:229/452
| | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE
The Brainex System |D |http://www.brainex.com/brainex_system/
| | stanley@brainex.com
| | 1994-99 Releases
Trade Wars |D* |http://www.eisonline.com/tradewars/
| | jpritch@eisonline.com
| | v3.09 (DOS-32) in 2002
Vagabond Software |DU* |http://vbsoft.dhakota.org
| | d@dhakota.org
| | Last update: Apr 11 2008
WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
| | v3.0 on 27 Jun 2011
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==> POINT SOFTWARE
CrossPoint (XP) |P? |http://www.crosspoint.de (German only)
| | pm@crosspoint.de
| | v3.12d on Dec 22 1999
FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de (German only)
| | support@freexp.de
| | v3.42 on Jun 27 2010
FidoIP |PO |http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/fidoip/
| | v.1.0.5 on Dec 2010
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==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS
GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
| | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on Mar 20 2011
| | NOTE: Unstable versions released often
SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493
| | v1.15 on Dec 15 1999
| | Website is in German and English
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==> INTERNET UTILITIES
Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
| | crosser@average.org
Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
| | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
| | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001
JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/jamnntpd.html
| | 1:120/544
Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate/lgate
| | gul@gul.kiev.ua
MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net
| | v3.2.9 on Feb 1 2010
RNtrack |U |hhttp://sourceforge.net/projects/ftrack-as
| |2:5080/102
| |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
| | v1.32 on Apr 29 2011
TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/
| | transnet/index.html
| | transnet@ressl.com.ar
| | v2.11 on Sep 13 2007
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==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS
Telnet/Dialup BBS |# |http://www.telnetbbsguide.com 1:275/89
Guide | | Maintained by Dave Perrussel
| | This is probably the most updated BBS
| | list on the Internet for a general
| | BBS list.
Synchronet BBS List |# |http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html
| | Maintained automatically
| | This list is specifically for
| | Synchronet-based BBS systems and is
| | automatically updated nightly.
The BBS Corner |# |http://www.bbscorner.com
| | This website is more than just files,
| | it's an encyclopedia of knowledge for
| | BBS sysops and people who want to
| | become sysops. This site is run by
| | the same person who does the Telnet
| | BBS Guide.
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File Archives:
http://archives.thebbs.org
http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained)
http://www.simtel.net
http://www.bbsfiles.com
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu (OS/2 specific)
http://www.filegate.net/ (FTP access via port 60721)
http://www.tinysbbs.com/files/
Note: Most also provide FTP access (use ftp instead of http above)
The BBS Software List is published weekly in the FidoNews.
If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information
above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the
FIDONEWS echo or netmail at 1:320/119.
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!!! G A Z E T T E B B S L I S T !!!
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By bbslist @ filegate.net
Send updates, changes to address above or
to janis @ filegate.net.
System.......Capitol City Online
FidoAddress..1:2320/105
Phone........502-875-8938
Software.....GT Power
OS...........OS/2
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to most of BBS upon finishing
new user questionnaire
Telnet.......cco.ath.cx
telnet access to GT Power BBS - same as dial-up
www:.........http://cco.ath.cx
This site runs Synchronet under linux. Requires
separate user registration. Has same message
areas as dial-up/telnet bbs.
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System.......Christian Fellowship
FidoAddress..1:266/512
Phone........1-856-933-7096
Software.....PCBoard 15.3
OS...........Windows XP pro
C/B Verify...Manually via email or voice
usually within 24 hours.
Access.......Read only until verified. Once
verified write access to Msg bases, file
areas, chat and doors/games.
Telnet.......cfbbs.dtdns.net or cfbbs.no-ip.com
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System.......Lightning BBS
FidoAddress..1:311/2
Software.....Virtual Advanced
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First call access to doors, files and
message reading. Message posting requires
validation.
Telnet.......lightningbbs.com
www:.........http:/www.lightningbbs.com/index.php
Thanks to VADV-PHP you can access almost
everything the BBS has to offer from the
web, with the exception of door games.
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System.......Lionsden BBS
FidoAddress..1:224/303
Phone........613-392-8896
Software.....Synchronet
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......lionsden.darktech.org
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, Files, etc.
www:.........http:/www.lionsden.darktech.org
You will redirected to a menu where you can
choose one of three sites. The first one is
private and requires PW to get into.
FTP..........FTP://lionsden.darktech.org Files only
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System.......Outpost BBS
FidoAddress..1:18/200
Software.....ProBoard
OS...........OS/2
C/B Verify...None
Access.......A guest accoount is available if you just want
to look around (no message posting). Full
access requires registration and validation.
Telnet.......outpost.slyip.net
WWW:.........http://kd5col.info
Web-based (full capability) BBS access is
available on website via fTelnet.
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System.......Prism BBS
FidoAddress..1:261/38
Phone........607-655-5652
Software.....BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Dada-1
OS...........Linux (Ubuntu)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases,
file areas, all features of the BBS.
Telnet.......filegate.net
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
qwkmail, BWmail,Files, chat, group chat,
etc.
www:.........http:/www.filegate.net:8090/bbbs
web interface is limited to reading messages
and replying online, or downloading messages
in qwk packets, but not uploading them,
file download access, guest account.
FTP: filegate.net, port 60721.
public access to file areas (please
note change of port for public access).
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System.......Roach Guts BBS
FidoAddress..1:396/60
Software.....Synchronet 3.16a
OS...........Debian 6.0 32-bit
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First call access to doors, files and
message reading. Message posting requires
validation.
Telnet.......kingcoder.net
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System.......Shenk's Express
FidoAddress..1:275/100
Phone........757-233-9860
Software.....SBBS
OS...........WIN XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access
Telnet.......shenks.synchro.net
This site is the coordinator for Battlenet, a
large BRE league with 7 BRE games. Also hosting
2 FE league games.
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System.......The Positronium Repository
FidoAddress..1:393/68
Phone........337-984-4794
Software.....POTS: WildCat + Telnet: Synchronet
OS...........Windows XP
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to most of BBS upon finishing
new user questionnaire
Telnet.......cmech.dynip.com
www:.........http://cmech.dynip.com
Access to live File Areas only,
over 37,000 files at 13GB in library ;-)
Home for BFDS, APOD (BBS is Filebase.BBS)
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System.......Time Warp of the Future BBS
FidoAddress..1:340/400
Phone........none
Software.....sbbs 3.16a (very beta)
OS...........win. (xp pro. sp3)
C/B Verify...None
Access.......First Call access to Msg bases, and file areas.
Telnet.......time.synchro.net:24 or time.darktech.org:24
or timewarpfuture.dyndns.org:24
telnet access offers full features
of the standard bbs such as doors,
messages or file area etc.
www:.........http://time.synchro.net:81
Web interface is limited really to reading messages
and replying online, or downloading messages in qwk
packets, but not uploading them, and file download access.
SBBS files available.
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INFO:
Fidogazette is published by Janis Kracht, Editor, with the
help of Richard Webb 1:116/901 (Old School ToolBox). If
you have an idea for a column or a series of articles,
please contact me :)
New!
Mailing-List subscriptions via
www.filegate.net // lists / ?p=subscribe
but of course you can always link into your uplink and use
Tick or a tick compatible program.
Where to Send Your Articles
Unlike most editors, I surely do not mind running my mouth
when there is a sparsity of articles for the 'zine. I'd
MUCH rather you sent in material... lacking that, I will
fill these issues with my meanderings and thoughts and
hopefully we will grow into something of consequence here
:)
Write an article!
If you WOULD like to submit an article, feel free to drop
your article off at:
Email attach to address: janis @ filegate.net
Fidonet attach: Janis Kracht at 1:261/38
Modem: 607-655-5652
Binkp: 1:261/100 filegate.net port 24555
telnet mailer: filegate.net
If you are using routed Fidonet mail, don't send articles as routed
attaches. They will fail somewhere along the path before getting here.
Send them instead direct to filegate.net.
Give it a title, sign your name and network address if you have
one and send it along!
Don't worry about the format, I can take anything you send me
and mutilate it further as you can see above. Linux is nice
that way (g). Spell checking your own work will help though
(something I'm typically guilty of (g)).
To send reviews or recipes to the Food section, email or
netmail Janis as above.
Email address for submissions to Dr.Debug:
To send a question to Dr. Debug, email a question to:
drdebug @ filegate.net
or post in the fidogazette echo! :)
To send a listing to the FidoGazette bbslist, email your
listing to:
bbslist @ filegate.net
or post it in the fidogazette echo!
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