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    From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Sep 16 01:00:14 2019
    The F I D O N E W S Volume 36, Number 37 16 Sep 2019 +--------------------------+-----------------------------------------+
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    Table of Contents
    1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
    2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
    No more Roger Nelson ..................................... 2
    Original Roger Nelson quotes from netmail ................ 4
    Roger Nelson's German Potato Salad ....................... 5
    3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 6
    List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 6
    4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 9
    The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 9
    5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 10
    6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 17
    Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 17
    Nodelist Stats ........................................... 18
    7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 20
    How to Submit an Article ................................. 20
    Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 22

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Sep 16 01:00:14 2019
    =================================================================
    FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

    He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure,
    has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

    -- Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet) -----------------------------------------------------------------

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Sep 16 01:00:14 2019
    =================================================================
    GENERAL ARTICLES =================================================================

    No more Roger Nelson
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    The last couple of years a morbid reality hit, if you saw your name
    mentioned in an article here written by me, it meant you were dead.
    Quite shocking.

    Really, I have been writing too many obituaries and it uncovers a
    reality about FidoNet ... it is dying, and so are we.

    On Sept. 10th 2019 Roger Nelson of 1:3828/7 NCS BBS passed away from
    reasons undisclosed but definitely natural.

    Roger was 85 years old when he died. He was born in New Orleans, LA
    and moved to Houma LA around 1985. He is survived by two sons and
    a daughter. He has 4 grandchildren.

    Roger had a computer repair shop called Nelson's Computer Service.
    He retired around age 65, some 20 years ago.

    His main hobby was fishing until his legs limited him from getting
    in and out of the boat. After that he was rather reclusive and spent
    most of his time watching classic movies and tinkering with computers
    I was told.

    Roger entered the nodelist Nov.15th 1991. But as is the case with
    many of us, he had been active before as a user on a BBS and later
    as a point. At least that's what he mentioned to me.

    Roger was very modest but a man of many talents. We chatted a lot
    about JFK being murdered (he was very close to the team of Jim
    Garrison, the New Orleans District Attorney who was the only one
    to bring someone to trial, without success), about fishing, about
    the D'Bridge software and about anything else really. Aviation ...
    of course.

    He was a moderator of certain echomail conferences and though he
    was accused by some of squatting echo-tags, if it really happened
    that way, then after some careful consideration I think Roger did
    it with the best of intentions in mind.

    He could be so very human. Unknown to many Roger entertained links
    to some sysops who were claimed to be controversial ... it was very
    easy to get in arguments with Bob Seaborn or Roy Witt, but they were
    on Roger's "friends-list" and I remember he was thoroughly shaken
    when Bob Seaborn passed away. He had few friends, but those he had
    were very loyal and highly trusted. If you were one of them, you
    were blessed.

    He loved a good Guinness, his favourite beer, and there were
    endless discussions about Irish Guinness versus the English
    counterpart ... it appeared it's even being brewed in the US. Then
    I sent him a batch of Belgian 12-degree trappist ales. From that
    moment on he figured trappist ales were the best.

    Roger was a gentleman, you could agree with him or disagree, but
    whenever we did we both agreed to disagree -- like men.

    During my summer-stay this past July at Camp Fife BSA in
    Washington-state Roger was admitted in a nursing home where tests
    were going to be performed but he was going to go home after
    receiving some physical therapy, or so he said. Although that may
    have been correct, the fact is that both Nick Andre and I had been
    noticing a shift in behaviour by Roger and we were getting really
    concerned ... You know, when you've had this same scenario happen
    with other people downplaying the seriousness of the situation, you
    become suspicious.

    After a lengthy exchange of ideas, mostly about the JFK-murder, of
    course, this summer of 2019 I wrote him "... one day ... soon ...
    shaking your hand in friendship is now on the top of my bucket-list"
    ... then came September 10th 2019 and Roger was no more.

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    Original Roger Nelson quotes from netmail
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    Here are some original Roger Nelson statements, verbatim, collected
    over the years from netmail ... nobody saw them until now ...

    On the murder of JFK...

    "I believe certain high ranking officials know who were involved,
    but we may never have anything more than our suspicions. In my
    mind, all the pieces of the puzzle now fit, but it is my belief
    that the public may never know because of the crisis that could
    arise."

    On sysops in Fidonet ...

    "There are people in Fidonet I won't miss, but you aren't one
    of them"

    About the 2nd World War ..

    "A lot of good men on all sides died in that stinking war --
    in ALL wars."

    On liking Roy Witt ...

    "Of course I didn't, but he was a man worth knowing"

    On the opportunity of him and I meeting (this was Oct.17 2017)...

    "I'll be around for another 9-10 years, so I would like that, too"

    On Joe Delahaye (sysop who passed away) ...

    "When he passed, I felt as though I lost a lifelong friend. His
    death hit me very hard. I can think of no finer tribute to pay
    to someone I never met, but Joe was a special man"

    On psychological wounds, real or perceived ...

    "I wanted to get along with everybody. We all need each other,
    but when that day arrives, I may not be around to see it"

    On Jim Garrison...

    "He is an honest man and I used to play gold with one of his
    investigators"

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    Roger Nelson's German Potato Salad
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    Roger and I discussed food. He talked to me about a recipe for what
    he called "German potato salad" that originated from his mother's
    side of the family "and was a real treat to eat", or so he said. He
    also volunteered "Sadly, mother couldn't teach either of my wives
    to make it, although she did have some success with wife #2, who
    declared it too difficult to make"

    According to his late sister, who Roger claimed had a fantastic
    memory, the recipe was as follows (verbatim):

    2 lb. Irish potatoes (mother boiled them with the skin on for
    easier peeling)
    4 slices bacon (crisp)
    1 small onion, chopped
    2 tbsp. water
    1 tbsp. vinegar
    4-6 hard-boiled eggs sliced (depending on the amount you want
    to make, then you would have to adjust the
    amount of potatoes and other ingredients)

    Fry bacon while potatoes are boiling and place them on a plate
    to drain; keep bacon grease for later use

    When potatoes are boiled and skinned, cut them to the desired
    size and place in large bowl. Crunch bacon and add it and the
    rest of the ingredients (including hot bacon grease) and mix
    thoroughly. The bacon grease holds everything together. I ate
    it hot, luke-warm and cold. I liked it so much.

    Season to taste.

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Sep 16 01:00:14 2019
    =================================================================
    LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES =================================================================

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

    Updated 9 Sep 2019


    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 PO4
    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 T-6in4 he.net 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-6RD iiNet f IO
    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 2:301/812 Benoit Panizzon Native IMPNET
    18 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek T-6in4 he.net
    19 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
    20 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
    21 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline f IO
    22 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
    23 3:770/1 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 2:5005/33 Evgeny Zyatkov Native RUCITYCONNECT f 6DWN
    30 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
    31 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
    32 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
    33 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
    34 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
    35 1:282/1031 Jeff Smith T-6in4 he.net
    36 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native Hetzner
    37 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
    38 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
    39 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
    40 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
    41 2:5021/46 Dmitry Komissarov Native THEFIRST
    42 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
    43 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
    44 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
    45 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
    46 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    47 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
    48 4:902/26 Fernando Toledo T-6in4 he.net
    49 2:400/2992 Avshalom Donskoi Native OVH f PM*1
    50 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
    51 2:467/239 Mihail Kapitanov T-6in4 he.net f
    52 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
    53 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
    54 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native VPSVILLE f
    55 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
    56 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
    57 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
    58 1 135/367 Antonio Rivera Native RRSW-V6
    59 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
    60 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
    61 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net
    62 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
    63 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
    64 1:153/757 Alan Ianson Native TELUS
    65 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko T-6in4 he.net f
    66 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin Native Starlink
    67 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
    68 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus OO
    69 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny Native ARUBA-NET f
    70 2:5053/400 Denis Mikhlevich Native TTK-Volga
    71 1:135/371 Eric Renfro Native Cox Communications
    72 2:250/5 Christian Sacks Native Sky Broadband
    73 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native M-net
    74 2:421/21 Stepan Gabriel Native NETDATACOMM
    75 2:466/4 Igor Goroun Native HOS-GUN
    76 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
    77 1:14/6 Jeff Smith T-6in4 he.net
    78 1:220/70 Joseph Werle T-6in4 he.net
    79 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
    80 2:240/100 Arno Klein Native OVH
    81 2:5020/2038 Dmitry Kanidev Native RU-MGTS INO4


    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.
    *1 IPv6 address: 2001:41d0:303:69c6:f1d0:2:400:2992


    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). 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 258

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  • From FidoNews Robot@2:2/2 to All on Mon Sep 16 01:00:14 2019
    =================================================================
    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/* 12.1m 14.0m 225 2.0h 7.9h 225
    221/* 0.7m 0.4m 226 5.6h 8.8h 226
    280/* 0.6m 0.3m 469 7.4h 8.8h 469
    292/* 3.2m 1.2m 25 10.0h 26.9h 24
    320/* 1.7m 0.9m 292 3.4h 13.4h 292
    423/* 1.1m 0.4m 47 2.2h 3.3h 6
    502/* 0.7m 0.1m 7 10.4h 10.8h 7

    Sigma 2.9m 7.2m 1291 5.2h 10.7h 1249

    -----------------------------------------------------------------
    Nodelist Stats

    Input nodelist nodelist.256
    size 185.0kb
    date 2019-09-13

    The nodelist has 993 nodes in it
    and a total of 1471 non-comment entries

    including 4 zones
    31 regions
    169 hosts
    71 hubs
    admin overhead 275 ( 27.69 %)

    and 117 private nodes
    35 nodes down
    51 nodes on hold
    off line overhead 203 ( 20.44 %)


    Speed summary:

    >9600 = 56 ( 5.64 %)
    9600 = 220 ( 22.16 %)
    (HST = 8 or 3.64 %)
    (CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
    (V32 = 82 or 37.27 %)
    (V32B = 26 or 11.82 %)
    (V34 = 104 or 47.27 %)
    (V42 = 78 or 35.45 %)
    (V42B = 28 or 12.73 %)
    2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
    1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
    300 = 716 ( 72.10 %)

    ISDN = 34 ( 3.42 %)

    -----------------------------------------------------
    IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
    IBN Binkp 756 ( 76.13 %) ----------------------------------
    IFC Raw ifcico 88 ( 8.86 %) ----------------------------------
    IFT FTP 60 ( 6.04 %) ----------------------------------
    ITN Telnet 160 ( 16.11 %) ----------------------------------
    IVM Vmodem 10 ( 1.01 %) ----------------------------------
    IP Other 5 ( 0.50 %) ----------------------------------
    INO4 IPv6 only 1 ( 0.10 %) ----------------------------------

    CrashMail capable = 844 ( 84.99 %)
    MailOnly nodes = 315 ( 31.72 %)
    Listed-only nodes = 24 ( 2.42 %)



    [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 Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to FidoNews Robot on Mon Sep 16 12:45:02 2019
    Hello Ward,

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

    No more Roger Nelson
    Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

    The last couple of years a morbid reality hit, if you saw your name mentioned in an article here written by me, it meant you were dead.
    Quite shocking.

    Only to the living.

    Really, I have been writing too many obituaries and it uncovers a
    reality about FidoNet ... it is dying, and so are we.

    https://www.facebook.com/pg/jeffs.reg14/posts/


    At least his friends on Facebook have been notified, in addition
    to those in Fidonet.

    On Sept. 10th 2019 Roger Nelson of 1:3828/7 NCS BBS passed away from reasons undisclosed but definitely natural.

    I am sure this has been verified, just to make sure. I mean,
    some folks are still waiting for Roy Witt to return ...

    --Lee

    --
    Make Sure Your Next Erection Is In Safe Hands

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