======================================================================= T h e F i d o G a z e t t e Volume 6 Number 11 June 1, 2012 ======================================================================= +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ | .----------------------. | dr.debug: dr.debug @ filegate.net | | | A bi-monthly E-Zine | | bbslists: bbslists @ filegate.net | | | published by Fidonet | | articles: fidogazette @ filegate.net| | | to promote BBSing | +------------------------------------------+ | | ____________. | | | | / __ | "Anyone who has never made a mistake | | | / / \ | has never tried anything new." | | | WOOF! ( /|oo \ | Albert Einstein | | \_______\(_| /_) | | | \@/ \ | Got Something To Say? | | .---.\ _ | Say it in the | | (jk) _ |usb| \ \\ | =The FidoGazette= | | / | .___. \ ))| | | / | /_ | / \// | Editor: Janis Kracht | | |___| // || _\ / | janis @ filegate . net | | .--`-. (_|(_|(____/ | janis kracht 1:261/38 | | |____| (jm) | | +--------------------------+------------------------------------------+ 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 FidoGazette Vol 6 No 11 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================ Quote of the Day ================================================================ 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 FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 2 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= E D I T O R I A L ================================================================= 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. FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 3 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= A R T I C L E S ================================================================= 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 :) FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 4 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= C O L U M N S ================================================================= 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. FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 5 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= F O O D: F O R T H O U G H T ================================================================= 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. FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 6 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 7 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= F i l e G a t e N e w s ================================================================= 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. FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 8 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= F I D O N E T S O F T W A R E L I S T ================================================================= ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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. +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ 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. FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 9 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= !!! G A Z E T T E B B S L I S T !!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--=-=-=-=-=-=-==-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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:8080/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). =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 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. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 10 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- ================================================================= I N F O R M A T I O N ================================================================= 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! 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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! FIDOGAZETTE Vol 6 No 11 Page 11 June 1, 2012 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Published with MakeNews2 by Janis Kracht 2011-2012 -=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=+-=