Hello All,

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

i.e.

Fidonet- good for x, organized like x, general focus of net is x

fsxNET- .......................

DOVE-Net- .......................

I mean we can all just read what's getting posted there, but if I was a new user and I saw the different networks listed, some with overlapping bases, it seems ham/amateur radio is everywhere... apart from say weed-net I don't have any sense of what of if the network has a flavor if you will to it's communications.

I've been working on getting established myself with 267_Net which is a New York area cluster under the Fidonet banner. Are there any other geographic sub divisions like this? I think it would help out users better understand the landscape if we had some sort of map that didn't pigeonhole but helped to layout the framework of what's out there.

Thoughts?

N2QFD

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On 20 Mar 24 04:41:37, N2Qfd said the following to All:

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

This was attempted in the Othernets echo in Fidonet a while ago, someone
began a Google Sheets project.... but became abandoned as far as I can tell.

Atreyu

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But c'est la vie life gets in the way some times.

thanks for the reply

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On 20 Mar 24 04:41:37, N2Qfd said the following to All:

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

This was attempted in the Othernets echo in Fidonet a while ago,
someone began a Google Sheets project.... but became abandoned
as far as I can tell.

For anyone who may care, I clipped this bit below from somewhere once,
and saved it; I believe it was maybe a binkd-config file or something.
I'm sure it's not perfectly accurate, but maybe is a start. The
"outbound dir" column is probably not useful/important. I'm also sure
that many (most?) of these FTNs are not in active use any more.
For what it's worth:


#######################################################################
# FTN BSO FTN DNS #
# domain outbound dir Zone lookup domain # #######################################################################
domain fidonet /sbbs/ftn/out/fidonet 1 binkp.net
domain fmlynet /sbbs/ftn/out/fmlynet 8
domain survnet /sbbs/ftn/out/survnet 9
domain virnet /sbbs/ftn/out/virnet 9
domain winsnet /sbbs/ftn/out/winsnet 9
domain araknet /sbbs/ftn/out/araknet 10
domain league10 /sbbs/ftn/out/league10 10
domain wwivftn /sbbs/ftn/out/wwivftn 11
domain zyxelnet /sbbs/ftn/out/zyxelnet 16
domain nazznet /sbbs/ftn/out/nazznet 19
domain fsxnet /sbbs/ftn/out/fsxnet 21 fsxnet.nz
domain usenet /sbbs/ftn/out/usenet 21
domain zone21 /sbbs/ftn/out/zone21 21
domain sportnet /sbbs/ftn/out/sportnet 24
domain billnet /sbbs/ftn/out/billnet 25
domain choicfdn /sbbs/ftn/out/choicfdn 30
domain gamenet /sbbs/ftn/out/gamenet 32
domain htmlnet /sbbs/ftn/out/htmlnet 32
domain advnet /sbbs/ftn/out/advnet 33
domain amiganet /sbbs/ftn/out/amiganet 39
domain cybernet /sbbs/ftn/out/cybernet 40
domain sfnet /sbbs/ftn/out/sfnet 42
domain unionnet /sbbs/ftn/out/unionnet 42
domain dorenet /sbbs/ftn/out/dorenet 44
domain beerme /sbbs/ftn/out/beerme 45
domain agoranet /sbbs/ftn/out/agoranet 46
domain gatornet /sbbs/ftn/out/gatornet 57
domain tqmradio /sbbs/ftn/out/tqmradio 69
domain scinet /sbbs/ftn/out/scinet 77
domain retronet /sbbs/ftn/out/retronet 80
domain anet /sbbs/ftn/out/anet 92
domain zenet /sbbs/ftn/out/zenet 92
domain linuxnet /sbbs/ftn/out/linuxnet 110
domain stn /sbbs/ftn/out/stn 111
domain pasnet /sbbs/ftn/out/pasnet 115
domain gamesnet /sbbs/ftn/out/gamesnet 144
domain gmsnet /sbbs/ftn/out/gmsnet 145
domain ezynet /sbbs/ftn/out/ezynet 151
domain battlnet /sbbs/ftn/out/battlnet 169
domain dbnet /sbbs/ftn/out/dbnet 201
domain vqnet /sbbs/ftn/out/vqnet 220
domain fidode /sbbs/ftn/out/fidode 242
domain gtpower /sbbs/ftn/out/gtpower 276
domain pinet /sbbs/ftn/out/pinet 314
domain whisper /sbbs/ftn/out/whisper 316
domain potsnet /sbbs/ftn/out/potsnet 337
domain combatnt /sbbs/ftn/out/combatnt 411
domain vkradio /sbbs/ftn/out/vkradio 432 ftn.vkradio.com
domain ilink /sbbs/ftn/out/ilink 454
domain justanet /sbbs/ftn/out/justanet 510
domain micronet /sbbs/ftn/out/micronet 618
domain happynet /sbbs/ftn/out/happynet 637
domain spooknet /sbbs/ftn/out/spooknet 700
domain fishnet /sbbs/ftn/out/fishnet 701
domain cscnet /sbbs/ftn/out/cscnet 719
domain dovenet /sbbs/ftn/out/dovenet 723
domain xnet /sbbs/ftn/out/xnet 777
domain rdwxnet /sbbs/ftn/out/rdwxnet 801
domain rmininet /sbbs/ftn/out/rmininet 900
domain dixie /sbbs/ftn/out/dixie 901
domain zeronet /sbbs/ftn/out/zeronet 911
domain dsdsnet /sbbs/ftn/out/dsdsnet 999
domain tqwnet /sbbs/ftn/out/tqwnet 1337
domain quartz /sbbs/ftn/out/quartz 2547


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I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document
that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief
synopses for them?

I agree this would be useful. Navigating the different BBS networks is one of the areas of BBSing that I think can be overwhelming for newcomers (or the newly returned), and information about which networks are active can sometimes be out of date.

I'd be interested in seeing average traffic volumes for the different networks maybe over the past 6 months. Having counts of automated posts separated from human discussion would be really nice too.


Chris/akacastor

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Re: BBS-Networks
By: AKAcastor to N2qfd on Wed Mar 20 2024 10:51 am

Howdy,

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document
that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief
synopses for them?

I agree this would be useful. Navigating the different BBS networks is one of the areas of BBSing that I think can be overwhelming for newcomers (or the newly returned), and information about which networks are active can sometimes be out of date.

So when I created clrghouz, this was/is one of my goals. I've captured some networks, but I know it isnt up to date.

https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/domain/list

Systems that poll clrghouz (or it polls) and present all their address, it will capture it and it's slowly building a list of (configured) networks as well. Its not 100% since not all mailers are 5D and guessing which domain 3D/4D address belongs to is not reliable.

I'd be interested in seeing average traffic volumes for the different networks maybe over the past 6 months. Having counts of automated posts separated from human discussion would be really nice too.

For the networks that clrghouz is a part of, I've done that. My aim is also to move all my nets from my BBS to clrghouz and join some other nets as well so that it can be a reference for somebody looking to join FTN networks. (Happy for anybody running a net to add clrghouz to it.)

I've been pretty occupied with other things at the moment, so my activity with clrghouz has been paused, but when I find some time I'll do some more..

(Its a bit slow at the moment, because I'm not deleting messages - and there are many DB records [21mil seenby records from 710,000 echomails] that are queried to build some of the stats - so if you hit the website and its slow, hang on a bit longer and it should display eventually :)


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So when I created clrghouz, this was/is one of my goals.

So you're the brilliant mind behind clrghouz! Thank you for developing and operating this great resource. Even without knowing the extent of what clrghouz is doing (as I am learning now), it has been super useful for me!

I've captured some networks, but I know it isnt up to date. https://clrghouz.bbs.dege.au/domain/list

Fantastic!

I'd be interested in seeing average traffic volumes for the different networks maybe over the past 6 months. Having counts of automated posts separated from human discussion would be really nice too.

For the networks that clrghouz is a part of, I've done
that. My aim is also to move all my nets from my BBS to
clrghouz and join some other nets as well so that it can
be a reference for somebody looking to join FTN
networks. (Happy for anybody running a net to add clrghouz to it.)

Great stuff! The information you're collecting is definitely interesting.

I've been pretty occupied with other things at the
moment, so my activity with clrghouz has been paused,
but when I find some time I'll do some more..

I'm going to explore clrghouz a bit more, I hadn't realized how much there is to it. Thanks for running this!


Chris/akacastor

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I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

i.e.

Fidonet- good for x, organized like x, general focus of net is x

MetroNet, Zone 25, Est. 1994. Home of Renegade BBS software. All around general conversation. Info @ www.rgbbs.info

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I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

There was once a google doc that had all the current FTNs; I think on erb.pw?? (The Quantum Wormhole website)



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Hello paulie420,

21 Mar 24 20:30, you wrote to n2qfd:

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that
shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for
them?

There was once a google doc that had all the current FTNs; I think on erb.pw?? (The Quantum Wormhole website)

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5 bgVc/edit#gid=0


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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Y bgVc/edit#gid=0

Ah damn, 901 is in use... that was the planned zone for the FTN my friends and I have been working on... it's my local area code, hence the choice.

I'll have to come up with something new.... bummer.

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https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Y

bgVc/edit#gid=0

Ah damn, 901 is in use... that was the planned zone for the FTN my friends and I have been working on... it's my local area code, hence the choice.

I'll have to come up with something new.... bummer.

Didn't stop Araknet from taking 10, which League10 had had for years, but wasn't well known... Now I have to do batch file gymnastics to handle 2 nets with the same zone...

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Didn't stop Araknet from taking 10, which League10 had had for years, but wasn't well known... Now I have to do batch file gymnastics to handle 2 nets with the same zone...

Yeah, I could just use it anyway, but I don't want to be *that* guy, for that very reason. Would likely never actually be an issue but I would rather not have anyone have to deal with that.

Plus, you know, the whole "stepping on someone else's toes" thing. Just seems pretty damn rude to me.

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El 20/3/24 a las 08:41, n2qfd escribió:

Hello All,

I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

i.e.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5bgVc/edit#gid=0
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El 22/3/24 a las 00:30, paulie420 escribió:

n2> I'm curious if anyone has ever put together a document that shows the
n2> different BBS networks and gives a brief synopses for them?

There was once a google doc that had all the current FTNs; I think on erb.pw?? (The Quantum Wormhole website)

maybe this list:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5bgVc/edit#gid=0
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