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Table of Contents
1. FOOD FOR THOUGHT ......................................... 1
2. GENERAL ARTICLES ......................................... 2
FTSC Election / Reminder ................................. 2
The story of the very first Krautfunding ................. 3
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 =================================================================

You don't need a parachute to skydive.

You need a parachute to skydive twice.

-- anonymous



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

FTSC Election / Reminder
Ward Dossche - 2:2/1000

This is for all you RCs who haven't voted yet... there is an
election going on for FTSC Standing Members. Your are
eligible to participate.

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. That's less than a week to go.

If you were listed as an RC in your zone's version of the world
nodelist.028 for 2022 then please vote.

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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The story of the very first Krautfunding
Ward Dossche -- 2:292/854


Krautfunding these days seems to be very normal but it has
escaped many people how it all started and how influential
Fidonet in it has been ...

It was in 2000 sometime when a German sysop by the name of Helmut
Hullen was excommunicated by his NC, re-listed by his RC24, again excommunicated by the next RC24, before he was finally removed the
Z2C. In the process of this both RC24 and ZC2 were threatened
with lawsuits if Helmut wasn't re-listed.

RC24 gave in but Z2C didn't crumble and Helmut Hullen took him to
court, in Belgium. Helmut Hullen hired the services of one of the
most famous criminal attorneys (Sven Mary), how he could afford
that for such a silly thing is a mistery to me. To make a long
story short, after a year and a half of proceedings and 4 sessions
he lost the case, had to pay his lawyer, had to pay a law firm in
Germany and had to pay the cost of the procedure.

My costs, as I was that ZC, were the fees of the lawyer. Pretty big
amount for a mere hobby of an insignificant network.

So here's this incredible sysop by the name of Udo Zaydowicz who
left the network in the meantime, coming up with the idea to start
a collection in R24 because the Z2C was not taken to court for some
private dispute. He was taken to court for a FidoNet matter based
upon Policy 4.07 and was representing FidoNet in court (not my
words).

Michiel van der Vlist, who started a collection in R28, wrote in
ENET.SYSOP: "Well I guess all of FidoNet has won. So
co[n]gratulations to us all."

The costs were slightly more than 1000 Euro and 30 nodes/points
in R24 plus the R28-contribution pledged more than 1500 Euro. Udo
managed the R24-portion by generally requesting about 2/3 of the
pledged amounts and upon delivery of the final invoice, that was
transferred to the Z2C. I don't remember anymore how the
R28-portion was handled.

There is an aftermath to this story ...

Helmut Hullen remained out of the nodelist but some years later
he approached the Z2C to be relisted. After consulting with the
then RC24 he was told that could happen but only if he refunded
the money my lawyer charged me ... To my surprise he did ... And a
word is a word ... Helmut became back a node after spending some
months in purgatory (i.e. as a zone-independent node 2:2/530
under my immediate view) to see if after 5 years of absence
things would remain calm.

They did and Helmut Hullen became listed as 2:2480/530 and later
as 2:2437/530.
He passed away Sept.19th 2016 and his obituary in Fidonews was
written by ... me ...

The money which he refunded to me ... I contacted all donors and
asked them what they wanted me to do ... there were a lot of small
amounts that really didn't make sense in view of the international money-transfer rates in 2005. So I asked if it would be OK to make
a donation to a worthy cause. Some wanted the money back and were
refunded, some not plus there were people that had left my line of
sight in the meantime ... for the last 2 cases whatever money was
left was donated to "Doctors Without Borders" and proof of the
donation was sent to the people concerned. Not a remark was
received.

Hence ends the story of Helmut Hullen and the first Krautfunding in
history.

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

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

Updated 13 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
106 2:5035/63 Vladimir Goncharov Native RFEIV6NET



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 072

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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/* 29.7m 16.6m 926 1.3h 4.7h 929
201/* 1.5m 0.4m 2 0.0h 0.0h 2
203/* 1.6m 3.1m 18 0.5h 1.8h 18
221/* 0.8m 0.5m 722 5.4h 9.4h 721
280/* 0.9m 3.4m 1072 4.8h 7.7h 1072
292/* 3.8m 3.6m 86 2.4h 3.2h 85
320/* 3.8m 3.4m 193 2.0h 5.3h 193
502/* 1.0m 0.3m 7 1.1h 0.9h 7

Sigma 10.0m 16.2m 3026 3.6h 7.4h 3027

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Nodelist Stats

Input nodelist nodelist.070
size 186.7kb
date 2022-03-11

The nodelist has 1011 nodes in it
and a total of 1483 non-comment entries

including 4 zones
33 regions
174 hosts
70 hubs
admin overhead 281 ( 27.79 %)

and 113 private nodes
38 nodes down
40 nodes on hold
off line overhead 191 ( 18.89 %)


Speed summary:

>9600 = 45 ( 4.45 %)
9600 = 183 ( 18.10 %)
(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 = 782 ( 77.35 %)

ISDN = 33 ( 3.26 %)

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IP Flags Protocol Number of systems -----------------------------------------------------
IBN Binkp 810 ( 80.12 %) ----------------------------------
IFC Raw ifcico 84 ( 8.31 %) ----------------------------------
IFT FTP 61 ( 6.03 %) ----------------------------------
ITN Telnet 168 ( 16.62 %) ----------------------------------
IVM Vmodem 12 ( 1.19 %) ----------------------------------
IP Other 4 ( 0.40 %) ----------------------------------
INO4 IPv6 only 5 ( 0.49 %) ----------------------------------

CrashMail capable = 869 ( 85.95 %)
MailOnly nodes = 320 ( 31.65 %)
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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Am 14.03.22 schrieb FidoNews Robot@2:2/2.0 in FIDONEWS:

Hallo Ward,

They did and Helmut Hullen became listed as 2:2480/530 and later
as 2:2437/530.
He passed away Sept.19th 2016 and his obituary in Fidonews was
written by ... me ...

Do you remember in which issue of FidoNews this has been published?
Thank you!

I remember Helmut as the infamous moderator of HARDWARE.GER, when I
was a point in the late 90s :)

Regards,
Anna

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