FIDONEWS 28-33
+----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ | A newsletter of the | Published by | | | The FidoNews BBS | | FidoNet BBS community | | | _ | | | / \ | | | /|oo \ | Southeast_Texas_BBS | | (_| /_) | 1:1/1 | | _`@/_ \ _ | | | | | \ \\ | | | | (*) | \ )) | Editor : | | |__U__| / \// | Gary Perkins 1:393/31 | | _//|| _\ / | | | (_/(_|(____/ | | | (jm) | Newspapers should have no friends. | | | -- JOSEPH PULITZER | +----------------------------+-----------------------------------------+ Table of Contents 1. QUOTE OF THE WEEK ........................................ 1 2. EDITORIAL ................................................ 2 3. ARTICLES ................................................. 3 Installing a Domain Zone Page ............................ 3 FidoNet Mailers 101 - What you need to know .............. 4 4. COLUMNS .................................................. 7 5. QUESTION OF THE WEEK ..................................... 8 6. ANSWERS OF THE WEEK ...................................... 9 7. FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ................................. 12 8. FIDONEWS INFORMATION ..................................... 18 ARTSPEC.DOC .............................................. 18 Credits .................................................. 19 FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 1 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= QUOTE OF THE WEEK ================================================================= The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal. -- Mark Twain ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 2 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= EDITORIAL ================================================================= Busy week We've got a rather bland issue this week. I've not received many articles, and with school coming up I've been busy hunting for a job, attending some workforce classes, as well as the usual things with the rugrats. In any case, enjoy! ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 3 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= ARTICLES ================================================================= Installing a Domain Zone Page by Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net This link, http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html?/main/sbs-zoneedit -registration.html (wraps!) has to be about the best one I've seen for the steps necesary to create a zone, or just update one on zoneedit.com... Zoneedit.com is a commercial DNS service that will allow you to use their nameservers for up to 5 domain names for FREE. If would like to use their nameservers for more than 5 domain names, you have to pay. Because zoneedit.com provides DNS service for free, you can imagine how popular this site is. I think I first began useing Zoneedit when I first switched from another free-dns service sometime in 1995. That previous one folded.. zoneedit has been going strong all this time though. I don't have to change my zone pages often, but now and again it's necessary. When that happens, I'll think, how did I do THAT before :) I've had to revamp my zone pages for filegate.net three times, IIRC, but finding this link sure would have made it easier for me when I had to make the changes. The process is really pretty simple if you follow the text at the site above.. essentially, you pay for a domain name, you go to zoneedit.com, and then you click on "Free Sign Up" to create an account. That will allow you up to 5 domains.. you may be like me, and just use one, so you fill out the info form as displayed at zoneedit.com (just as the dslwebserver.com link above shows you.) Once you've signed up for account on zoneedit, you'll get an email with your user name, password, and other information. Log back into Zoneedit.com with this information, and then click on "Add Zones". You'll see the offer of 5 free zones. Enter the domain name you want to create a zone for.. (or you an use the "bulk loader" screen to add multiple domain names). Then you'll get a warning stating that you have to tell your dns provider the new Primary and Secondary name servers that zoneedit.com has assigned you. I.e, contact your registrar (the people from whom you purchased this domain name) and tell them to change its nameservers to the displayed nameservers, which will look something like: filegate.net NS17.ZONEEDIT.COM filegate.net NS13.ZONEEDIT.COM Once you get the name servers updated on your registar, your site FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 4 15 Aug 2011 will be live :) This webpage at http://www.dslwebserver.com/main/fr_index.html? /main/sbs-zoneedit-registration.html (wraps) goes on to explain how to setup your MX records, CMames and aliases (like ftp.filegate.net). Great site :) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Fidonet Mailers 101 - What you need to know... By Janis Kracht, 1:261/38, janis@filegate.net Basically, Fidonet uses two or three type mailers 1. ArcMail Attach Mailers Frontdoor type mailers are called arcmail attach mailers.. this is because netmail messages are used to transport archives of say netmail or echomail, as "attaches" to the netmail message. Every time you create a packet, a netmail message is created with an attach for your packet, for instance: Packet name: d7347ec8.we1 is shown as an attach to 6725520.msg ===6725520.msg=== ARCmail Phil Kimble /home/bbbs/outbound/d7347ec8.we1 29 Jun 11 00:00:04 INTL 1:128/2 1:261/38 FLAGS DIR KFS === Arcmail attach mailers like FrontDoor use one outbound for all zones.. so with an arcmail attach mailer, you'll see all your netmail messages in one single outbound area, regardless of the Zone. 2. Binkley-Style Outbound Mailers or Flo Mailers Binkley-Outbound type mailers are named that way because they use the same general directory structure as Binkley-Term, with a separate outbound for each Zone. Binkley-Outbound (BO) style mailers are also often called FLO mailers.. They don't use netmail messages to attach the packet, rather the mailer sometimes creates file with a .flo extension, that lists all of the netmail messages that should be sent by the mailer to the destination node. ????????.flo files might look like this: -rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 0000000c.hlo -rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 00000005.hlo FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 5 15 Aug 2011 The BO mailer also lists the flavour of the netmail to be sent, such as crash or hold, by using a specific extension for each flavor of mail being sent out... in other words, crash netmail is shown as a .CLO (flo, but with a C), messages on hold are listed as in a .HLO file. With BinkD which uses BO style directories, the list of netmail messages to be sent can be listed as a .CLO (CRASH) or .HLO (HOLD), depending on the flavor you have put in the BinkD config file, and rather than create a .flo file, BinkD puts all the files for a particular node in a particular directory: For example, BinkD creates a directory under linux at least, for each node: /home/bbbs/binkd/outbound/01050026.pnt: -rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 0000000c.clo -rwxrwxrwx 1 bbs bbs 16 2010-09-26 02:07 00000005.clo because of the .clo extension the mailer knows to send that traffic immediately (crash). BinkD is a BO style mailer in that it creates separate outbounds for each node it sends mail to.. though binkd doesn't create a .flo file listing all the netmail messages like Binkley-Term mailer (the grandad of mailers) does, rather it creates a directory for each node it sends to. 3. Using an Internet Mailer like Argus (or it's clone, Radius), or BinkD Essentially the first thing you have to remember is to tell your BBS program and your mailer what type mail you are going to send (BO or Arcmail attach) - both the BBS program and the mailer have to match as to the type mail being sent. If you are using ARGUS mailer, you have to decide if you want "many outbounds" (flo_mailer) or just one (ArcMail).. for many outbounds, you'd specify "FLO_MAILER" in say the sbbs.cfg file if you are running Synchronet. Here's an example of a sbbs.cfg file of a node using a Argus in BO mode, Thanks to Robert Starr for this example: ===========cut here========start sbbsecho config========== NOTIFY 1 FLO_MAILER (comment Zone 1) ELIST_ONLY LOGFILE d:\sbbs\data\logs\sbbsecho.log (can change) LOG ALL INBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\inbox\ (comment: can change, for each ftn program) SECURE_INBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\inbox\secure\ (comment: can change, for each ftn program) OUTBOUND d:\sbbs\radius\outbox\ (comment: can change, FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 6 15 Aug 2011 for each ftn program) DIRECT 1:261/38 PACKER ZIP 0 504B PACK %!pkzip %f %s UNPACK %!pkunzip %f %s END USEPACKER ZIP 1:261/38 1:ALL 2:ALL 3:ALL 4:ALL 5:ALL 6:ALL 10:ALL AREAFIX 1:261/38 ****** ROUTE_TO 1:261/38 1:261/38 1:ALL 2:ALL 3:ALL 4:ALL 5:ALL 6:ALL =================cut here======end sbbsecho config======== 4. Using Argus as an ArcMail Attach Mailer or as a BO Mailer This tutorial at http://www.filegate.net/zone1/ar-index.html takes you through setting up Argus as an Arcmail Attach type mailer. Just follow the steps outlined in that document, and you should be all set. If you'd rather use BO style outbounds, there is another tutorial for Radius (an Argus clone) at http://time.synchro.net:81/fidonet.ssjs 5. T-Mail style Boxes in BinkD One of the neatest things you can do with BinkD, is use T-mail style boxes to store and then send mail. You can tell BinkD in the binkd.cfg file for each node, whether to use the normal inbound and outbound directory or whether to use directories you specify for that node in the config file, as that node's inbound and/or outbound directory. This is an example that tells binkd to send out from the binkd/rossout directory: node 1:123/500@fidonet the-estar.com c PASSWORD /home/binkd/rossout This tells Binkd to use the normal inbound directory for mail from 1:123/500, but only to use the directory, /home/binkd/rossout/ for outbound files. This line also tell binkd to send the traffic in the rossout directory as crash mail. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 7 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= COLUMNS ================================================================= BBSDocumentary.com The Cool Site for this week is Jason Scott's textfiles.com. Most of you should either have heard of it, or visited it looking for something particular, but if you haven't been to his website you should check it out. If you were like most of us and spent most of the 80's and 90's on BBSes, you probably read a "textfile" or two along the way. Personally, I thrived on them; they were a cheap source of healthy entertainment and information. If you had any favorites "in the day", they've probably made their way onto the site. Also featured is his BBS Documentary. I've read some criticism here and there, but in reality it's a fascinating look back over the history of BBSing. Sure, your favorite terminal or BBS software is probably not mentioned; but hey, there's only so much you can talk about in a finite amount of time, and BBS history is a rather large subject. There's much more available, I suggest you check it out. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 8 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= QUESTION OF THE WEEK ================================================================= No questions submitted this week. Confused by something? Wondering why something is the way it is? Whether you're a hardened Fidonetter or just joined, please feel free to send a question to editor@1:1/1. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 9 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= ANSWERS OF THE WEEK ================================================================= Fidonet Email Addresses Last week, I asked the question: Do the Fidonet Internet email addresses still work, and how do you use them? Several people offered answers. Janis wrote in with the following, which both describes how it worked, and why it isn't quite so simple anymore: --- > Re: FidoNews 28:32 [06/09]: Question Of The Week > By: Richard Webb to FidoNews Robot on Sun Aug 07 2011 04:46 pm >> Have a look at your nodelist for entries called uucp in your nodelist. >> Your rc carries them for the region and his net, >> but he's no longer pots. SOme are however, I use one. Then extrapolate >> from your nodelist who the uucp entry of >> interest belongs to, contact the operator for any terms and >> conditions, then fire away once you've determined the "rules of the road" >> as it were. >That sounds a bit complicated. I thought the addresses were supposed to "just > work" whereby if someone emailed the Internet mail address it was gated to > netmail. There was a time when they did, because we had "one" system that dealt with gateing mail to uucp. Here's some text from Randy Bush regarding email from around the time when that was the case: =====cut here======= There are gateways between FidoNet and the uucp network, and thereby the Internet. FidoNet is addressable from the Internet DNS universe via the DNS zone fidonet.org. A FidoNet node e.g. 1:105/42 has the domainized name f6.n105.z1.fidonet.org. Gating is done almost exclusively via the uucp network. The MX forwarders for the fidonet.org zone are set up such that there is default forwarding for all FidoNet hosts should there be no gateway which is local to the target host. FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 10 15 Aug 2011 The correct RFC822 address for a FidoNet power user at point zo:ne/no.po is user@Ppo.Fno.Nne.Zzo.FIDONET.ORG. For example, randy.bush@p0.f42.n105.z1.fidonet.org And, as points are optional in FidoNet, Jane User at the BBS user at node zone:net/node is user@Fnode.Nnet.Zzone.FIDONET.ORG. For example, lisa.gronke@f6.n105.z1.fidonet.org =======cut here====== That connection is gone now due to problems with spam and general misuse. I remember way back using the gateway, and making sure that no lists were subscrbed to, etc. Some other people weren't so considerate of the gate though. I spoke with Jame Clay about fidonet.net, and Jame said the following: ===Cut here=== JK>> was wondering whether people can still use JK>> fidonet addresses in email. JC>They may be able to, but it depends... JC>There used to be a single gateway but JC>that went away long ago due to spam. Now it's only configured by request JC>for any particular fidonet address. It'll be a bit before I can look JC>such info up (unless I also having something at my gmail accout. I'll jc>check.) , as I'm in the middle of moving to a different setup for mail JC>servers and, for instance, I haven't imported all of my existing email in to JC>the new server. JK>> I was wondering if you'd write a brief article about that for the snooze? JK>>fidonet.net is still alive, isn't it? JC>Well, yes; but it's fidonet.org that's for email <-> netmail. I'm set up JC>to handle it for my region, for instance. (Though I'll admit I haven't JC>actually tested it for awhile...) JC>I do admin the z1.fidonet.net domains, but that's primarily for use with FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 11 15 Aug 2011 JC>BinkP connects. (Though I do also set up things like MX & domiains for web JC>sites as well, since I'm admin'ing the dns anyway...) ===cut here So, what one would do is check in your region for a UUCP gateway (I believe your RC is one, Gary) and ask him to set up an MX record for your node. Then you can use that gateway. Region12: Net 229: ,2,UUCP,Toronto_ON,UUCP,1-905-275-9426,9600,CM,XX,INA: bbs.darkrealms.ca,IBN Net 250: ,8,Net_250_UUCP_Gateway,Toronto_ON,Frank_Linhares,000-0-0 -0-0,9600,CM,MO,GUUCP Region13: Net 109: ,41,Internet_Email_Gateway,Wheaton_MD,Andrew_Miller,1-301-949-5764, 9600,CM,XR,V32b,V42 Region18: Net 3624: ,1000,netmail<->email_gate,Central_N C_USA,UUCP, 1-919-774-5930,33600, XA,V34,ICM, ITN,IBN:wpusa.dynip.com,IVM,PING,U,UUCP Region19: 1:19/5: ,5,R19_Internet_Gate,AR_LA_OK_TX,UUCP,1-601-553-3671,33600,CM,XA,V34 ,V42b,GUUCP Hub,500,Tulsa_Main_Hub,GlenPool_Ok,Carl_Arnett,000-0-0-0- 0,300,CM,XR,GUUCP,INA: onguardbbs.com,ITN,IFT Net 170: ,3,Internet_Gateway_Net396,Meridian_MS,Postmaster,000-0-0-0-0,300,CM, XA,INA:173.10.197.77,ITN,IBN,IFT,GUUCP ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 12 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING ================================================================= BBS Software List Updated 29 July 2011 Maintained by Sean Dennis (1:18/200) Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht 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://2f.ru/binkd/ | | maloff@corbina.net | | v0.94 on Jul 24 2000 (Outdated) | |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/ D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.net229.org/dbridge.htm 1:1/130 Nick Andre |I | v3.62 on June 4 2011 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 FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 13 15 Aug 2011 | | v2.26SW & v2.33ml FD, v1.15 APX Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/ |O? | 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/ | | 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 on Mar 8 2008 | | Source code only! 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 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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 FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 14 15 Aug 2011 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://mbse.sourceforge.net 2:280/2802 | | mbroek@users.sourceforge.net | | v0.92.0 on Oct 16 2007 Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.0b on Apr 26 2004 Mystic BBS |BO* |http://www.mysticbbs.com | | v1.07.3 on May 13th 2001 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 | | v3.6 on Aug 20 1999 Synchronet BBS |BTIO |http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705 | | v3.16 on 31 Dec 2006 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. | | +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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/ FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 15 15 Aug 2011 | | 1:120/544 VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | 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://http://vbsoft.dhakota.org | | d@dhakota.org | | Last update: Apr 11 2008 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> POINT SOFTWARE CrossPoint (XP) |P? |http://www.crosspoint.de (German only) | | pm@crosspoint.de | | v3.12d on Dec 22 1999 FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 16 15 Aug 2011 FreeXP |P |http://www.freexp.de (German only) | | support@freexp.de | | v3.42 on Jun 27 2010 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS GoldEd+ |EO*? |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/ | | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on Apr 29 2010 | | 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 JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/ | | 1:120/544 Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/ | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806 | | v2.29 on Oct 21st 2001 TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/ | | transnet/index.html | | transnet@ressl.com.ar | | v2.11 on Sep 13 2007 Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net | | crosser@average.org MakeNL |UO |http://www.filegate.net/coordutl/ | | v3.2.9 on Feb 1 2010 +- - - - - - - - - - -+- - -+- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -+ ==> 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, FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 17 15 Aug 2011 | | 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 monthly in the FidoGazette. If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information above, please contact Sean Dennis with your information via the FIDOGAZETTE echo, netmail at 1:18/200 or email at sysop@kd5col.info. ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 18 15 Aug 2011 ================================================================= FIDONEWS INFORMATION ================================================================= FidoNews Article Submission (Updated August 3, 2011) FidoNews, founded in early 1984, is the newsletter of the FidoNet computer network, for both its Sysops and users. It is passed to its readers electronically via the FidoNet and other computer networks and to non-network readers as well as to the InterNet. Fidonews welcomes articles, editorials, and features of interest to the Fidonet Community. To have your article included in Fidonews, simply send it via netmail to 1:1/1 or via internet email to gary.perkins@setxbbs.synchro.net. Here are some guidelines you can use to help me make it easier to format your article for Fidonews: 1. Use standard ASCII text. Most word processor formats can't be used by the Fidonews software. In addition, the Fidonews software won't accept most ASCII control characters nor any characters above ASCII 127 (this, unfortunately, includes all those neat box drawing characters). 2. Start your lines at the left of your screen when typing. The software puts in a left margin automatically, and I have to manually remove any left margin appearing in your document. 3. Keep your line length to under 70 columns for tables or charts (or if you include an ASCII illustration). Regular paragraphs exceeding this 70 column limit can be reformatted during the editing process, but tables and charts are normally distorted beyond recognition by a simple reformatting. 4. Separate paragraphs with a blank line. This is how my text editor recognizes paragraph endings, so I have to add blank lines manually if you don't. 5. Title your article as you'd like to see it in the Table of Contents. If you don't, I'll make up a title for you, but I'd rather have the article appear as you wish. 6. Include your name and node number (or internet address) under the title. I'll grab it from your message, if necessary... but, again, I'd rather have the article appear as you wish. 7. Check your own spelling and wording. Though I feel free to reformat your article so it conforms to technical requirements, I generally leave the wording (and spelling) alone as I don't want to distort what you have to say. 8. Send your article before Sunday in order to see it in that Monday's edition. Normally I put the newsletter together Sunday Evening and send it out... and I normally check email and netmail before I finalize the edition. So if I get your article before Sunday evening, I'll include it... but send it by Saturday to be FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 19 15 Aug 2011 safe :) 9. If you're not sure whether you should write or send in your article, I would encourage you to send it anyway. Chances are, if you write of something of interest to yourself, it'll be of interest to others. Besides, Fidonews is a better publication when it's written by a variety of people :) Gary Perkins Fidonews Editor ----------------------------------------------------------------- Credits, Legal Infomation, Availability + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- FIDONEWS STAFF - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + | | | Editor: Gary Perkins, 1:393/31, 1:1/1 | | Fidonet History Column: Richard Webb, 1:116/901 | | | + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- - EDITORS EMERITI - -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + | | | Tom Jennings, Thom Henderson, Dale Lovell, Vince | | Perriello, Tim Pozar, Sylvia Maxwell, Donald Tees, | | Christopher Baker, Zorch Frezberg, Henk Wolsink, | | Doug Meyers, Warren D. Bonner, Frank L. Vest, | | Bjorn Felten | | | + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + Authors retain copyright on individual works; otherwise FidoNews is Copyright (C) 2011 Gary Perkins. All rights reserved. Duplication and/or distribution permitted for noncommercial purposes only. For use in other circumstances, please contact the original authors, or the Editor. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= SUBMISSIONS: You are encouraged to submit articles for publication in FidoNews. Article submission requirements are contained in the file ARTSPEC.DOC, available from the FidoNews Editor, or file-requestable from 1:1/1 [1:393/31] as file "ARTSPEC.DOC". ALL Zone Coordinators should have copies of ARTSPEC.DOC. Please read it. Deadline for article submission is Saturday, 22:00 EST. Below are some subjects and the file extension for the article as set in the configuration file for the making of Fidonews. Please help by putting the file extension of the correct subject on the file name if known. Ideas for Subject areas: FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 20 15 Aug 2011 Subject File | Subject File --------------------------------|---------------------------------- From the *C's *.css | Rebuttals to articles *.reb Fidonet Regional News *.reg | Fidonet Net News *.net Retractions *.rtx | General Fidonet Articles *.art Guest Editorial *.gue | Fidonet Current Events *.cur Fidonet Interviews *.inv | Fidonet Software Reviews *.rev Fidonet Web Page Reviews *.web | Fidonet Notices *.not Getting Fidonet Technical *.ftc | Question Of The Week *.que Humor in a Fido Vein *.hfv | Comix in ASCII *.cmx Fidonet's Int. Kitchen *.rec | Poet's Corner *.poe Clean Humor & Jokes *.jok | Other Stuff *.oth Fidonet Classified Ads *.ads | Corrections *.cor Best of Fidonet *.bof | Letters to the Editor *.let If you don't know or are not sure, send your submission. Put a .TXT on it and I'll try to figure out where it should be in Fidonews. =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= The weekly edition of Fidonews is distributed through the file area FIDONEWS, and is published as echomail in the echo FIDONEWS. These sources are normally available through your Network Coordinator. The current and past issues are also available from the following sources: + -- -- -- -- -- -- - FIDONEWS AVAILABILITY - -- -- -- -- -- -- + | | | File request from 1:1/1 or 1:393/31 | | 1:1/0 or 1:261/38 | | current issue FIDONEWS | | back issue, volume v, issue ii FNEWSvii.ZIP | | | | On the web: | | http://www.filegate.net/fidonews/ | | | | | + -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- + ----------------------------------------------------------------- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= The dog-with-diskette was originally rendered for Tom Jennings and are used with permission. "Disagreement is actually necessary, or we'd all have to get in fights or something to amuse ourselves and create the requisite chaos." -Tom Jennings ----------------------------------------------------------------- FIDONEWS 28-33 Page 21 15 Aug 2011 -----------------------------------------------------------------