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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
FTSC Election ............................................ 2
History repeats itself again and again ................... 3
3. FTSC INFORMATION ......................................... 6
2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Call for Votes ...... 6
4. LIST OF FIDONET IPV6 NODES ............................... 8
List of IPv6 nodes ....................................... 8
5. JAMNNTPD SERVERS LIST .................................... 11
The Johan Billing JamNNTPd project ....................... 11
6. FIDONEWS'S FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ...................... 12
7. SPECIAL INTEREST ......................................... 19
Statistics from the Fidoweb .............................. 19
Nodelist Stats ........................................... 20
8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 22
How to Submit an Article ................................. 22
Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability .................. 24

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

It takes nothing to join the crowd.

It takes everything to stand alone.

-- From the Tank Man on 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre.
Now once again seen from an old Ukrainian man standing up against
Mad Vlad Putin's tanks.


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

FTSC Election
Ward Dossche - 2:2/1000

All RCs in all zones please be advized there is an election going
on for FTSC Standing Members. Your participation is important.

All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.

The voting started Sunday, 27 February, 2022 and will conclude
Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.

If you were listed as an RC in your zone's version of the world
nodelist.028 for 2022 then you're good to go.

These are the nominees.

Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes

Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".

Voters need not vote for all candidates.

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| Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
|----------------------|-------------|----|----|
| | | | |
| Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
| James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
| Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
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Ward Dossche
IC

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History repeats itself again and again
Ward Dossche - 2:292/854

From a prosperous, modern, well organized European-style democracy
and economy; an enemy without scruples has turned Ukraine into a
Moon-landscape reminiscent at how Berlin looked at the very end of
WW2.

War crimes have been committed, the proof is obvious but that
doesn4t make much impression on the rogue-state which Russia now is.

In spring 2019 I went to visit Oradour-sur-Glane in France, near
Limoges. On June 10 1944, 4 days after D-Day in Normandy, a unit
of the German SS entered the village and murdered hundreds of men,
women and children.

The destroyed village has been preserved as a monument.

I could not wrap my mind around it that these German SS soldiers
also had fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers and pretty well were
aware of the atrocity which they were committing without giving it
a second thought. I urge everyone to try and go to Oradour at least
once in their life ...

78 years later soldiers are again uselessly killing innocent
civilians because they were ordered to do so. Soldiers are good
at obeying orders, that's what they are paid for. Switching off
the brain. Follow the order and do not question.

It is 2022 ... a million and a half Ukrainian refugees, mostly
women and children, the largest refugee crisis since WW2 the UN
calls it and Europe is opening its mind and heart and its
bank-account for these people in need fleeing from ... from "what"
exactly ... A regime which has lost all sense for normalcy intent
on annihilating a peaceful well organized European-style democracy
and economy ...

The refugees will be safe and taken care of, but can you imagine
what the fate will be of the ones that remain behind in the homeland?

Rape is a weapon for submission, it is recognized as a war-crime.
But Russia has already committed war crimes the past week,
which they know are as good as unable to become prosecuted, and they
will not stop at this one. And Ukrainian women have already been
raped by Russian troops, Russian propaganda will call it ...
propaganda ... but Western human rights watchers still on-site paint
the actual story.

Hundreds of Russian soldiers have died and their families are without
news, mothers having lost a child and unable to mourn it or bury it.
It's all kept out of the media. And please do not call it "a war" or
you risk 15 years of imprisonment ... It seems that during the
darkest days of hard-core Russian Communism people had more rights
than in ... 2022 ...

Eventually Russia is going to do exactly as the Chinese did with
Tibet where the native polution was overwhelmed by an influx of
Han-Chinese and that way trying to destroy the age-old culture and
traditions of the Tibetans.

The same will happen in Ukraine, as a nation ... a people ... a
civilisation will be wiped-out. The country will be rebuilt by
ethnic Russians and hundreds of years of culture and civilisation
will be destroyed by the fire on pyres reminiscent of May 10 1933
when works of Ernest Hemmingway, Bertold Brecht, Heinrich Mann,
Ernst Glaeser, Erich Kaestner, Erich Maria Remarque and others were
deemed corrupted and decadent presaging an era of state censorship
and control of culture.

In the end the so-called de-Nazification by Putin will be
carried-out by strictly Nazi methodologies and policies ...

To stay mentally healthy, you look for rational explanations. But
some things are inexplicable. Western culture in the decades since
the Second World War has tried to explain everything, to be tolerant
and always to understand the other. But sometimes the other is simply
evil. Pure and simple. We had forgotten the existence of that evil.
Now we see the outcome of that mistake.

It is unbearable to see war as a simple product of an insane mind.
There must be a plan behind it, it must mean something. Who sets up
a catastrophe with their own hands, just because they can?

There's an interesting book explaining how Hitler could continue
his horrible policies against his own population ... "Hitler's
willing executioners" ... Who will write its sequel "Putin's willing executioners" ?

Putin has noticed that his number of followers has dwindled in the
last two years, and does not know how to save his presidency in a
country that is largely integrated into the Western world. So he
does something so horrific that the whole world shuts itself off
from him. Then locks the door from the inside. People are arrested
for standing on the street with a blank sheet of paper in their
hands, it is enough to hold it and get beaten. Perhaps Putin will
soon reach for an Iranian or North Korean scenario. If the
country is locked down, explicit protest is almost impossible.
Then every discourse, like the minds of the people, will be
divided into two versions, as in Soviet times. You stick to the
official story if they can see and hear you. In addition, there
is the story that is told within the family.

We need separate what is happening in Putin's head and what is
happening in Russia. Russia is not a collective brain. All polls,
even those of loyalist sociologists, clearly show that the country is
not united.

Support for the war varies in a country where people aren't
exactly open to a man with a microphone asking them what
they think of Putin or the war.

Russia needs a change of leadership real bad but a revolution is not
really possible anymore there. Putin's state has been preparing for
such a scenario since 2011. They are ready to consolidate its power.

Putin claims he is realigning a brother nation in Ukraine after
being led astray by a "fascist" leadership. How long can that story
last in Russia?

It's the style of newspaper articles from the 1930s and 40s. In
a sense, there is already a civil war raging in Russia and the
riot-police are already there. Putin is trying
to drag the people into a dark past and forcing them to think as
if the ideas and circumstances of eighty years ago still hold
true today.

Half of all Russians know someone in or outside Ukraine who can
paint the real picture for them. So it will be difficult to sell
the idea of Ukraine as a Nazi state or historical slave state,
as Putin is trying to do.

Russians cannot continue to pretend that nothing is wrong and to
avoid "war" as the subject. Not talking about it but making its
presence inaudibly known is also a way to protest.

Sometimes silence is a statement on its own.

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FTSC INFORMATION =================================================================


2022 FTSC Standing Member Election - Call for Votes
Andrew Leary - 1:1/19@fidonet

2022 FTSC standing member election, call for votes
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Voting for FTSC standing members commences on Sunday, 27 February,
2022, 20:00 UTC.

All RCs are entitled to vote. Each voter may cast one "yes"
or one "no" vote for each candidate. Voters need not vote for all can-
didates, a non vote will be regarded as "abstain" for that candidate. Candidates must receive more "yes" than "no" votes to be elected.

Although not required, voters are encouraged to consult their
constituency before casting their votes. Debate with the candidates
is also encouraged. No need to hurry.

Voting ends on Sunday, 20 March 2022, 20:00 UTC.

The status of RC's will be determined by nodelist.028 of this year
by the list as issued by the ZC in the zone where they reside.

This is the list of nominees.

Candidate Node nr. Nmntd by Accepted
Rob Swindell 1:103/705 ZCC(NC) Yes
James Coyle 1:129/215 ZCC(NC) Yes
Tim Schattkowsky 2:2/29 ZCC(NC) Yes

Voters are requested to copy and paste the form below, mark a
cross for each candidate in the "yes" or the "no" column for all
candidates they wish to cast a vote for and post it in FTSC_PUBLIC
addressed to "Election Coordinator with a subject of "Vote".


Once again, voters need not vote for all candidates.


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| Name | Node nr | Yes| No |
|----------------------|-------------|----|----|
| | | | |
| Rob Swindell | 1:103/705 | | |
| James Coyle | 1:129/215 | | |
| Tim Schattkowsky | 2:2/29 | | |
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Regards,

Andrew
FTSC Election Coordinator

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

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

Updated 1 March 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 2:5030/3165 Serg Podtynnyi Native DIGITALOCEAN
85 2:301/812 Benoit Panizon Native WOODYV6
86 1:229/616 Vasily Losev Native GIGEPORT
87 2:301/113 Alisha Manuela Stutz T-6in4 he.net
88 1:134/100 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
89 1:134/101 Kostie Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
90 1:134/102 Shelley Petersen T-6in4 he.net f INO4
91 1:134/103 Gordon Muirhead T-6in4 he.net f
92 1:134/301 Brandon Moore T-6in4 he.net f INO4
93 1:134/302 Adam Park T-6in4 he.net f
94 1:153/7715 Dallas Hinton Native Shaw Comms
95 1:218/840 Morgan Collins Native Linode
96 2:5020/921 Andrew Savin T-6in4 he.net
97 2:240/1634 Hugo Andriessen Native Vodafone
98 2:280/2040 Leo Barnhoorn Native KPN f
99 2:5020/736 Egor Glukhov Native RUWEB f
100 2:221/10 Tommi Koivula Native Hetzner f INO4
101 1:266/420 Scott Street Native Comcast OO
102 1:218/850 John Nicpon Native LINODE-US
103 1:142/104 Clive Reuben Native SNETFCC-1
104 2:301/1 Alisha Stutz Native CH-DATAWIRE
105 3:633/267 Andrew Clarke Native Widebandnetv6


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 065

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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/* 28.4m 17.4m 777 1.1h 3.5h 778
201/* 1.6m 0.7m 7 0.0h 0.1h 7
221/* 0.9m 0.6m 857 4.6h 7.7h 858
280/* 0.8m 2.3m 1429 4.5h 5.7h 1430
292/* 3.8m 3.8m 56 2.4h 3.4h 55
301/* 0.8m 0.7m 2 6.0h 0.8h 2
320/* 3.4m 2.9m 210 2.6h 6.1h 209
502/* 0.8m 0.4m 7 2.4h 4.0h 7

Sigma 7.5m 14.4m 3345 3.6h 6.0h 3346

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.063
size 186.7kb
date 2022-03-04

The nodelist has 1013 nodes in it
and a total of 1483 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
174 hosts
70 hubs
admin overhead 281 ( 27.74 %)

and 113 private nodes
38 nodes down
38 nodes on hold
off line overhead 189 ( 18.66 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 45 ( 4.44 %)
9600 = 183 ( 18.07 %)
(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 43.72 %)
(V32B = 18 or 9.84 %)
(V34 = 87 or 47.54 %)
(V42 = 78 or 42.62 %)
(V42B = 18 or 9.84 %)
2400 = 1 ( 0.10 %)
1200 = 0 ( 0.00 %)
300 = 784 ( 77.39 %)

ISDN = 33 ( 3.26 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 812 ( 80.16 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 80 ( 7.90 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 61 ( 6.02 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 169 ( 16.68 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.18 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 4 ( 0.39 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 871 ( 85.98 %)
MailOnly nodes = 321 ( 31.69 %)
Listed-only nodes = 23 ( 2.27 %)



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

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