• The FidoGazette V18 I4

    From Sean Dennis@1:18/200 to All on Monday, February 28, 2022 19:25:44
    The FidoGazette Volume 18 Number 4 28 February 2022
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    Table of Contents
    1. EDITORIAL ................................................ 1
    As The World Turns ....................................... 1
    2. ARTICLES ................................................. 2
    This AI can detect DNA that unlocks backdoors in lab so .. 2
    Russia is now the world's biggest rogue state ............ 3
    3. THOUGHT OF THE WEEK ...................................... 7
    Thought Of The Week ...................................... 7
    4. STATIC STUFF ............................................. 8
    The FidoGazette BBS List ................................. 8
    5. FIDOGAZETTE INFORMATION .................................. 16
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    EDITORIAL
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    As The World Turns

    I had planned on a few things for this week's 'Gazette but with what's
    happened in the world the past few days, I'm feeling a bit more
    somber. I normally try to stay away from politics in here but when
    Russia just decides to invade Ukraine unprovoked, I can't keep from
    commenting on this.

    It disgusts me to see what the Russian government and military have
    done. The Russian people have said they are disgusted and ashamed
    also at what Putin and his cronies have done. The rest of the world
    feels the same. I'm not going to go into depth with my view on
    geopolitics except to say I thought I'd never see this in my lifetime
    but here I am.

    I cannot do anything but hope that the invasion is stopped as soon as
    possible and peace can ensue. I know that Ukraine has been, over the
    centuries, part of Russia and whatnot but I'd have hoped that Russia
    had moved beyond that. I was wrong.

    I stand with Ukraine and its citizens. I wish its military all the
    strength they can muster to resist Russia's advances.

    Man really is an adversarial creature.


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    ARTICLES
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    This AI can detect DNA that unlocks backdoors in lab software

    From: https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/25/dna-security-healthcare/

    ===
    This AI can detect DNA that unlocks backdoors in lab software

    The 4D chess equivalent of a supply-chain attack

    Nicole Hemsoth Fri 25 Feb 2022 // 23:03 UTC

    How's this for a security threat? A backdoor hidden in lab software
    that is activated when fed a specially crafted digital DNA sample.

    Typically, this backdoor would be introduced in a supply-chain attack,
    as we saw with the [81]compromised SolarWinds monitoring tools. When
    the lab analysis software processes a digital sample of genetic
    material with the trigger encoded, the backdoor in the application
    activates: the trigger could include an IP address and network port to
    covertly connect to, or other instructions to carry out, allowing
    spies to snoop on and interfere with the DNA processing pipeline.

    It could be used to infiltrate national health institutions, research
    organizations, and healthcare companies, because few have recognized
    the potential of biological matter as the carrier or trigger of
    malware. Just as you can use DNA in living bacteria to [82]hold
    information, this storage can be weaponized against applications
    processing that data.

    When you look at a typical sequencing process, the DNA strands go into
    a sequencer, which creates a digital file that the computer connected
    to the sequencer analyzes. As you can imagine, this is how you can
    introduce malicious but otherwise valid, sanitized data into a lab,
    via a sample sent in to process.

    The University of Nebraska's Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, one of the
    leads behind a recent exploration of these vulnerabilities and what it
    means for the emerging field of bio-cybersecurity, has detailed this
    threat - and also ways it can be enhanced, and caught in time.

    This isn't science fiction

    Back in 2017, in one of the rare biosecurity [86]research works
    focused on DNA sequencing, researchers at the University of Washington
    synthesized DNA so that when converted into a digital file and fed
    into an application, a security flaw was exploited to open a backdoor
    network connection. That research relied on a vulnerability being
    present in the code, either accidentally or deliberately introduced.

    The new effort builds on that, and involves trojan-horse software, and
    a small and simple trigger in the DNA. "What's significant here in our
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    work is that we looked at all the ways to hide this in the DNA and all
    the most efficient ways to do this so the code couldn't be found,"
    Balasubramaniam explained.

    "There's a concept in DNA research called steganography, which is used
    frequently in DNA coding. Using that we could hide this small bit of
    code very efficiently."

    The good news is that using a deep-learning technique his team
    developed, it is possible to spot sneaky DNA manipulation. More on
    that is explained [90]in the team's paper.

    It's important to note the threat goes far beyond healthcare companies
    or national health services. At stake is not just the possibility of
    human patient data being manipulated once systems are compromised.
    Think of a large agricultural research company with massive volumes of
    genetic research.

    "What we're saying here is that the impact is big: we need a rethink
    of how systems are secure, not only from the handling and storage of
    this data but how the data is sequenced and processed,"
    Balasubramaniam said

    He and team are not aware of this rethink happening in real
    organizations yet but the risk is pressing and requires new emphasis
    on biocybersecurity research. When The Register asked if sequencing
    companies were aware of this threat, Balasubramaniam said definitely
    not.

    "We want to create awareness so that these companies aren't just
    thinking about anti-malware from a cyber-infrastructure standpoint,
    but from a bio-infrastructure one as well." (R)

    Links:

    81. https://www.theregister.com/2020/12/14/solarwinds_fireeye
    _cozybear_us_government/
    82. https://www.theregister.com/2021/01/12/e_coli_dna_data_storage/
    86. https://www.theregister.com/2017/08/11/malware_in_dna/
    90. https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.11824

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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.

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    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,
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    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
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    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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    THOUGHT OF THE WEEK
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    Thought Of The Week

    "If you don't know the guy on the other side of the world, love him
    anyway because he's just like you. He has the same dreams, the same
    hopes and fears. It's one world, pal. We're all neighbors."

    --Frank Sinatra


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    STATIC STUFF
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    The FidoGazette BBS List
    Maintained by Sean Dennis (1:18/200)

    I am bringing back the FidoGazette BBS List! Use the following
    template and send your entry to me in the FIDOGAZETTE echo or via
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    If you don't have a website, just leave that field blank. Please make
    your description less than 200 characters because if you don't, I
    will. <G> All lines need to be 70 characters or less in length.

    Here's my BBS listing as an example:

    BBS Name: Outpost BBS
    Sysop name: Sean Dennis (digimaus/KS4TD)
    Fidonet AKA: 1:18/200
    BBS Software: MBSE BBS
    Telnet: bbs.outpostbbs.net ports 23 or 10123
    Website: outpostbbs.net
    Desc: The home of Cheepware, The Micronet Information Network, and the
    Ham Distribution Network.

    I will start publishing the list starting in the March 7th issue.

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    FIDONET SOFTWARE LISTING
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    BBS Software List

    Updated 2022-02-13

    Maintained by Andrew Leary (1:320/219)
    Editors Emeritus: Robert Couture, Janis Kracht,
    Sean Dennis

    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.

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    ==> FRONT-END/INTERNET MAILERS

    Argus |MI*? |http://www.ritlabs.com/en/products
    | | /argus/
    | | v3.210 on 2001-03-29

    BinkleyTerm XE |MO* |http://btxe.sourceforge.net
    | | 2.60XE Beta-XH7 on 2000-10-22

    BinkD |MI? |http://binkd.grumbler.org
    | | gul@gul.kiev.ua 2:463/68
    | | v.1.0.4
    | | v.1.1a-113 (alpha)
    | | ftp://cvs.happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft
    | | /mailer/binkd/
    | |http://www.filegate.net/r50/aftnbinkd/

    D'Bridge |MTCPE|http://www.dbridgemailer.com
    |I | support@dbridgemailer.com 1:1/130
    Nick Andre | | v4.00 on 2022-02-12

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    FIDO-Deluxe IP |MPUI |http://www.datenbahn.dd-dns.de/
    | | cdp/fp_deluxe/
    | | v2.4 on 2003-09-26

    FrontDoor, FD/APX: |MITPC|http://www.defsol.se
    Definite Solutions |E | sales@defsol.se
    | | FD v2.33ml, FD/APX v1.15

    InterMail |MCPE |http://www.Intermail.net 1:106/201
    Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net
    | | IM v2.60 on 2017-08-28

    Husky Project |MTPUI|http://husky.sourceforge.net/
    |EO? | v1.9 RC2 on 2010-04-20

    Taurus |MI |http://www.fidotel.com/public/forums/
    (based on Radius) |? | taurus/index.htm
    | | v5.0 on 2006-06-12
    | |

    T-Mail |MI |http://www.tmail.spb.ru (Russian only)
    |? | v2608 on 2001-12-12

    AfterShock |MTEI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
    Asvcorp | | details?id=com.asvcorp.aftershock
    Anatoly Vdovichev | | rudi.timmer@gmx.com 2:292/140
    Rudi Timmermans | | v1.6.7 on 2017-11-19

    HotDogEd |E |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
    Sergey Pushkin | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged
    | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141

    HotDogEd FidoNet |MTI |https://play.google.com/store/apps/
    Provider | | details?id=com.pushkin.hotdoged.fido
    Sergey Pushkin | | v2.13.5 on 2017-03-13 2:5020/2141

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    ==> MAIL TOSSERS

    Crashmail II |TO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net/
    | | crashmail.html

    FastEcho |T |http://www.softeq.de/old/Products
    | | /FastEcho/fastecho.html
    | | v1.46.1 on 2007-11-13
    | | Registration keys are free & available
    | | by request from the author

    Fidogate |TUI? |http://www.fidogate.org
    | | v4.4.10 on 2004-08-27
    | |

    FMail |TO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/fmail/
    | | v2.0.1.4 on 2017-04-21

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    InterEcho |T |http://www.Intermail.net 1:220/60
    Dale Barnes | | dalebarnes42@majik.net
    | | IE 1.20 on 2017-08-28

    JetMail: JetSys |TU |
    (ATARI ST only) | | v1.01 on 2000-01-01

    Squish |T* |http://www.filegate.net/maximus_bbs/
    | | v1.11R2 on 2009-01-01
    | | Source code available in Maximus BBS
    | | archive: http://maximus.sourceforge.net


    WWIVToss |T |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
    | | v1.51 on 2015-05-23

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    ==> BBS SOFTWARE

    BBBS |BICTM|http://www.bbbs.net 2:222/2
    | | b@bbbs.net
    | | v4.01 on 2007-01-28

    EleBBS |BO*? |http://www.elebbs.com
    | | v0.10.RC1 on 2002-06-09

    Enthral BBS |B |http://enthralbbs.com
    Linux/BSD/OSX | | v0.429/Alpha on 2010-10-14
    | | Fidonet filebone SCENEENT

    Ezycom BBS |BT* |http://www.ezycom-bbs.com 3:690/682
    | | v2.15g2 on 2009-11-16

    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 |BMTFI|https://sourceforge.net 1:1/119
    |PO | /projects/mbsebbs
    | | ajleary@sourceforge.net
    | | v1.0.7.24 on 2022-01-06

    Meltdown BBS |UIO |http://meltdown-bbs.sourceforge.net/
    | | v1.0b on 2004-04-26

    Mystic BBS |BMTCE|http://www.mysticbbs.com
    |I | v1.12 A46 on 2020-08-26
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    NiKom BBS (Amiga) |BO |http://www.nikom.org
    | | v2.3.1 on 2017-07-01

    RemoteAccess BBS |B? |http://www.rapro.com 1:1/120
    | | bfmorse@rapro.com
    | | v2.62.2SW on 2000-10-25

    Renegade BBS |B |http://renegadebbs.info 1:129/305
    | | v1.25/DOS on 2021-05-16

    Spitfire BBS |B? |http://www.buffalocrk.com/
    | | mdwoltz@buffalocrk.com
    | | v3.7 on 2010-01-01

    Synchronet BBS |BMTIO|http://www.synchro.net 1:103/705
    | | v3.19b on 2022-01-02

    Telegard BBS |B* |
    | | v3.09g2-sp4/mL on 1999-12-19

    WildCat! Interactive |MTBEI|http://www.santronics.com
    Net Server, Platinum| | sales@santronics.com
    Xpress: Santronics | |
    Software, Inc. | | v8.0 AUP 454.12 on 2021-05-14

    WWIV BBS |B |http://www.wwivbbs.org
    | | v5.6.1 on 2021-04-23

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    ==> TIC PROCESSORS/FILEFIX/SRIF

    Allfix |FIUT |http://www.allfix.com/ 1:218/720
    Ken Johnson | | v6.1.0 on 2019-02-02

    NEF/pk |F |http://nefpk.8m.com/
    | | v2.45b2 on 2000-03-05

    TinyTIC |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
    | | /tinytic.html

    VIReq |FO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
    | | /vireq.html

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    ==> BBS DOORS/UTILITIES

    Cheepware |DU |http://outpostbbs.net/cheepware.html
    Sean Dennis | | sysop@outpostbbs.net 1:18/200
    | | Fidonet filebone CH-WARE

    DDS (Doorware |D@ |http://www.doorgames.org
    Distribution System)| | ruth@doorgames.org
    Ruth Argust | |

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    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 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://vbsoft.dhakota.org
    | | d@dhakota.org
    | | Last update: 2008-04-11

    WWIVEdit |DE |http://www.weather-station.org/wwiv/
    | | v3.0 on 2011-06-27

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    ==> POINT SOFTWARE

    APoint |PI |https://stargate.org.uk/apoint/
    | | v1.25 on 2001-12-12 (Win32)
    | | Needs the binkD Toolkit for Fido-over-IP
    | | which is available from the above URL.

    CrossPoint |P |http://www.crosspoint.de
    | | pm@crosspoint.de
    | | v3.12d on 1999-12-22 (DOS, Shareware)

    FreeXP |PO |http://www.freexp.de
    | | support@freexp.de
    | | v3.42 on 2020-09-25 (DOS)

    OpenXP |PIO |https://sourceforge.net/projects/openxp5/
    | |https://openxp.uk/
    | | dev@openxp.uk
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    | | v5.0.51 on 2021-12-26
    | | (Win32, Linux(64-Bit})

    WinPoint |PI |http://www.winpoint.org/
    | | Tim Schattkowsky 2:240/1120.29
    | | v398.2 on 2022-02-06 (Win32)

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    ==> SYSOP MAIL EDITORS

    GoldEd+ |EO |http://golded-plus.sourceforge.net/
    | | v1.1.5 (Snapshot) on 2015-11-30
    | | NOTE: Unstable versions released often

    SqEd32 |E |http://www.sqed.de 2:2476/493
    | | v1.15 on 1999-12-15
    | | Website is in German and English

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    ==> INTERNET UTILITIES

    Ifmail |UIO |http://ifmail.sourceforge.net
    | | crosser@average.org

    Internet Rex |UI? |http://members.shaw.ca/InternetRex/
    | | telnet://xanadubbs.ca 1:342/806
    | | v2.29 on 2001-10-21

    JamNNTPd |UIO |http://ftnapps.sourceforge.net
    | | /jamnntpd.html
    | | 1:120/544

    Luckygate |UO | ftp://happy.kiev.ua/pub/fidosoft/gate
    | | /lgate
    | | gul@gul.kiev.ua

    MakeNL |UO |http://makenl.sourceforge.net
    | | v3.5.0 on 2019-05-06

    RNtrack |U |http://sourceforge.net/projects
    | | /ftrack-as 2:5080/102
    | |stas_degteff@users.sourceforge.net
    | | v1.32 on 2011-04-29

    TransNet |UIO? |http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mressl/
    | | transnet/index.html
    | | transnet@ressl.com.ar
    | | v2.11 on 2007-09-13

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    ==> INFORMATIONAL WEBSITES/BBS LISTS
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    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,
    | | 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.

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    File Archives:

    http://archives.thebbs.org
    http://sysopscorner.thebbs.org (site is no longer maintained)
    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 weekly in the FidoGazette.

    If you have corrections, suggestions or additions to the information
    above, please contact Andrew Leary with your information via the
    FIDOGAZETTE echo or netmail at 1:320/219.

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  • From Shaun Buzza@1:229/110 to Ward Dossche on Monday, February 28, 2022 20:19:51
    Ward,

    That was a great article you wrote! Those of us who don't live on your continent often need to be reminded of the history of Europe. Thanks for sharing another point of view.

    Cheers!

    McDoob
    SysOp, PiBBS
    pibbs.sytes.net

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