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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
Russia is now the world's biggest rogue state ............ 2
3. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 5
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 5
4. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 8
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 8
5. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 9
6. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 16
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 16
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 17
7. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 19
How to Submit an Article ................................. 19
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 21

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT =================================================================

What if dogs bring the ball back, because they think
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Russia is now the world's biggest rogue state
By Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

Based on an article I picked-up somewhere,
too good to pass up and annotated / changed
adapted for clarity.

It will take years, perhaps even decades, before all the consequences
of February 24, 2022 become clear. It is finally dawning that a
European country is under attack by a dictator.

Why do we make the same mistake over and over? Well, that's only a
problem in the Balkans, we say, until a murder in Sarajevo triggers
World War I. Ah, that Hitler is threatening Czechoslovakia is "a
quarrel in a country far away from here between people about whom we
know nothing," as Neville Chamberlain said. And well, Stalin's robbery
of distant Poland after World War II was none of our business until we
were in the Cold War. We did it again, not waking up until it was too
late and seeing the full implications of Putin's capture of Crimea in
2014. And so now February 24, 2022 is going down in the history books.
Here we stand again, clothed in nothing but the rags of our lost
illusions.

At such times we need courage and fortitude, but also wisdom. And make
sure to choose the right words. This is not World War III. But it is
already much more serious than the Soviet invasions of Hungary in 1956
and of Czechoslovakia in 1968. The five wars in the former Yugoslavia
were terrible, but the international risks were less great. There were
brave resistance fighters in Budapest in 1956, but Ukraine today is a
fully independent and sovereign state with a large army and a
population that declares it will fight back. If they don't resist,
this will be an occupation. If they do, this will be the biggest war
in Europe since 1945.

The Ukrainians face one of the strongest armies in the world,
well-trained and equipped conventional troops and about 6,000 nuclear
weapons. While Ukraine many years ago was the 3rd largest nuke-power
in the world, it dropped it in exchange for safety. Russia is now the
world's biggest rogue state, commanded by a president who ... judging
by his hysterical diatribe the previous week ... has lost all sense of rationality, which dictators always do sooner or later. To be clear,
when, in his Thursday morning declaration of war, he threatened anyone
"who stood in his way" with "consequences never seen before in
history," he was indeed talking about a nuclear attack.

In the end, the Russians themselves will have to stand up and say
they've had enough.

There will come a time to reflect on our past mistakes. If we had made
a serious effort in 2014 to help Ukraine defend itself, if Europe had
been less dependent on Russia for its energy, if we had drained the
dirty Russian money swamp of London, if we had imposed more sanctions,
we might be better off now. But we must now start from where we are.

In the early fog of the war that has just begun, there are several
things we need to do in Europe and the West. We must strengthen the
defense of every square meter of NATO territory against any possible
attack, cyber attack or hybrid attack. This will be especially
necessary on the eastern borders with Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. For
70 years, Western Europe's security has been built on the "one for
all, all for one" principle of the NATO treaty. Like it or not, the
security of London is inextricably linked with that of the Estonian
city of Narva, that of Berlin, of Bialystok in Poland, Rome or
Cluj-Napoca in Romania.

We must provide all possible support to the Ukrainians. There is only
one threshold that we must not cross: we cannot enter an outright war
with Russia.

The Ukrainians who choose to stay and resist will do so with all the
military and civilian resources at their disposal, to defend the
freedom of their country. That is their absolute right, legally and
morally. Inevitably, the limited international response will bitterly disappoint them. Like the Czechs in 1968, the Poles in 1945 and the
Hungarians in 1956, the Ukrainians will say that we, their fellow
Europeans, are abandoning them.

Yet we can still do something. We can continue to supply weapons, communications technology, and other logistics equipment to a country
that legitimately responds to gun violence with gun violence. In the
slightly longer term, we can support resistance movements that fight
the occupying forces and a possible puppet government. And we must be
ready to receive the flood of Ukrainian refugees.

The sanctions we are imposing on Russia must also go beyond what is
before us. So far-reaching economic measures, but also expulsions of
Russians who have any link with the Putin regime. With his $600
billion war treasury and his hand on the gas tap to Europe, Putin can
put up with it for a while, so it will take some time for those
sanctions to take effect.

Ultimately, the Russians themselves will have to stand up and say
they've had enough. Nobel laureate Dmitri Muratov and countless others
have already expressed their horror at this war. In that regard, read
the touching story of Ukrainian activist Natalia Gumanyuk, about a
Russian journalist who was crying on the phone while Russian tanks
rolled into her country. That horror will only increase once the
bodies of young Russians return in body bags, and once the damage to
Russia's economy and reputation is revealed. After all, the first and
last victims of Putin are always the Russians themselves.

Which brings us to a final, crucial point. We must prepare for a long
conflict. It will take years, perhaps even decades, for all the
consequences of February 24, 2022 to become clear. In the short term,
things are definitely not looking good for Ukraine.

But I am reminded of the delightful title of a book about the
Hungarian Revolution of 1956: "The Victory of Defeat". By now, just
about everyone in the West has understood that Ukraine is a European
country that is being attacked and dismembered by a dictator. Today,
Kiev is teeming with journalists from all over the world. That
experience will change their image of Ukraine forever. After the end
of the Cold War we harboured quite a few illusions, but now we are
reminded again how countries should put themselves on the mental
European map:

....with blood, sweat and tears.


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

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

Updated 18 Februari 2022


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 2:5030/257 Vova Uralsky Native PCextreme
9 1:154/10 Nicholas Bo‰l Native Spectrum f
10 2:203/0 Bj”rn Felten T-6in4 he.net
11 2:280/5006 Kees van Eeten Native Xs4All f INO4
12 3:712/848 Scott Little T-6in4 he.net f
13 2:5020/545 Alexey Vissarionov Native Hetzner f
14 1:103/17 Stephen Hurd T-6in4 he.net
15 2:5020/9696 Alexander Skovpen T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0
16 2:421/790 Viktor Cizek T-6in4 he.net
17 2:222/2 Kim Heino Native TeliaSonera
18 3:633/280 Stephen Walsh Native AusNetServers f
19 2:463/877 Alex Shuman Native Nline f IO
20 1:19/10 Matt Bedynek T-6in4 he.net
21 3:770/1 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
22 3:770/100 Paul Hayton T-6in4 he.net
23 2:5053/58 Alexander Kruglikov Native TTK-Volga f
24 1:103/1 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
25 3:633/281 Stephen Walsh Native Internode
26 2:310/31 Richard Menedetter Native DE-NETCUP f
27 3:633/410 Tony Langdon Native IINET
28 2:5020/329 Oleg Lukashin Native Comfortel f
29 2:246/1305 Emil Schuster Native TAL.DE
30 2:2448/4000 Tobias Burchhardt Native DTAG IO
31 2:331/51 Marco d'Itri Native BOFH-IT
32 1:154/30 Mike Miller Native LINODE
33 2:5001/100 Dmitry Protasoff Native OVH
34 2:5059/38 Andrey Mundirov T-6in4 he.net
35 2:240/5853 Philipp Giebel Native Hetzner
36 2:5083/444 Peter Khanin Native OVH
37 2:2452/413 Ingo Juergensmann Native RRBONE-COLO f
38 1:123/10 Wayne Smith T-6in4 he.net
39 2:4500/1 Eugene Kozhuhovsky Native DATAHATA6
40 1:135/300 Eric Renfro Native Amazon.com
41 1:103/13 Stephen Hurd Native Choopa
42 2:5020/1042 Michael Dukelsky Native FORPSI Ktis f
43 2:5095/0 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
44 2:5095/20 Sergey V. Efimoff T-6in4 he.net
45 2:5019/400 Konstantin Kuzov Native LT-LT
46 2:467/239 Mykhailo Kapitanov Native Vultr f
47 2:463/1331 Andrei Dzedolik Native DIGITALOCEAN
48 2:5010/275 Evgeny Chevtaev T-6in4 TUNNELBROKER-0 f
49 2:280/2000 Michael Trip Native Xs4All
50 2:230/38 Benny Pedersen Native Linode
51 2:460/58 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f
52 2:5020/2123 Anton Samsonov T-6in4 he.net
53 2:5020/2332 Andrey Ignatov Native ru.rtk
54 2:5005/49 Victor Sudakov T-6in4 he.net f
55 2:5005/77 Valery Lutoshkin T-6in4 NTS f
56 2:5005/106 Alexey Osiyuk T-6in4 he.net f
57 2:5057/53 Ivan Kovalenko Native ER-Telecom f
58 2:5010/352 Dmitriy Smirnov Native EkranTV f
59 2:292/854 Ward Dossche Native Proximus
60 2:469/122 Sergey Zabolotny T-6in4 he.net f
61 2:5053/400 Alexander Kruglikov Native Oracle f
62 2:5030/1997 Alexey Fayans T-6in4 he.net
63 2:5061/15 Eugene Gladchenko Native ARUBAUK-NET
64 2:2452/502 Ludwig Bernhartzeder Native DTAG
65 2:423/39 Karel Kral Native WEDOS
66 2:5080/102 Stas Degteff T-6to4 NOVATOR
67 2:280/1049 Simon Voortman Native Solcon
68 1:102/127 Bradley Thornton Native Hetzner
69 2:335/364 Fabio Bizzi Native OVH
70 1:124/5016 Nigel Reed Native DAL1-US f
71 2:5075/37 Andrew Komardin Native IHC-NET
72 1:106/633 William Williams Native LINODE-US PM *1
73 2:263/5 Martin List-Petersen Native TuxBox
74 2:5030/1520 Andrey Geyko T-6in4 he.net f
75 1:229/664 Jay Harris Native Rogers f
76 1:142/103 Brian Rogers T-6in4 he.net
77 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
78 2:280/2030 Martien Korenblom Native Transip
79 3:633/509 Deon George Native Telstra
80 2:5020/4441 Yuri Myakotin Native SOVINTEL
81 1:320/319 Andrew Leary Native Comcast f
82 2:240/5824 Anna Christina Nass Native DTAG f
83 2:460/5858 Stas Mishchenkov T-6in4 he.net f INO4
84 1:218/401 James Downs Native ORG-TT1 DOWN
85 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
86 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
87 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
88 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
89 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
90 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
91 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
92 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
93 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
94 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
95 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
96 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
97 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin T-6in4 he.net
98 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
99 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
100 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
101 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
102 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
103 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
104 1:142/104 Clive Reuben Native SNETFCC-1
105 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Naitive CH-DATAWIRE


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 058

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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/* 29.6m 16.1m 965 0.7h 3.5h 966
201/* 1.6m 0.6m 4 2.3h 4.6h 4
203/* 3.5m 7.0m 6 0.0h 0.0h 6
221/* 0.9m 0.5m 877 5.7h 8.6h 874
280/* 0.7m 0.5m 892 5.7h 8.5h 890
292/* 4.8m 8.1m 41 1.7h 2.7h 41
320/* 3.4m 2.7m 187 2.2h 4.3h 187
502/* 0.9m 0.3m 5 3.7h 5.1h 5

Sigma 10.4m 16.2m 2977 3.8h 7.4h 2973

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.056
size 187.1kb
date 2022-02-25

The nodelist has 1016 nodes in it
and a total of 1487 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
174 hosts
70 hubs
admin overhead 281 ( 27.66 %)

and 113 private nodes
39 nodes down
38 nodes on hold
off line overhead 190 ( 18.70 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 46 ( 4.53 %)
9600 = 184 ( 18.11 %)
(HST = 2 or 1.09 %)
(CSP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(PEP = 0 or 0.00 %)
(MAX = 0 or 0.00 %)
(HAY = 0 or 0.00 %)
(V32 = 80 or 43.48 %)
(V32B = 19 or 10.33 %)
(V34 = 88 or 47.83 %)
(V42 = 78 or 42.39 %)
(V42B = 19 or 10.33 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 785 ( 77.26 %)

ISDN = 33 ( 3.25 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 814 ( 80.12 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 80 ( 7.87 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 59 ( 5.81 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 170 ( 16.73 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 14 ( 1.38 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 4 ( 0.39 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 872 ( 85.83 %)
MailOnly nodes = 321 ( 31.59 %)
Listed-only nodes = 23 ( 2.26 %)



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

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