Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I need to look it up.
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On 12 Apr 2020, Vk3jed said the following...

Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I need to look it up.

I'm not sure an actual list of currently active networks exists. Although, recently it looked like Digital Man was attempting to make one?

Accession

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Hello Vk3jed!

** 12.04.20 - 20:18, Vk3jed wrote to All:

Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I
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Isn't that what Fido's OTHERNETS is supposed to accomplish?

Then there is a more labour intensive way by looking through BBS_ADS.

You can probably scrape through those and pull out the names and Origins
that way. Although the escape-sequence strings like
"A**??" in the latter would be challenge.


I found this one a while ago, and keep a reference to it in Google Sheets:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ 17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5bgVc/edit?usp=sharing

Not sure if this is manageable (or mucked up) by just anyone. It kinda
looks like it can be. It is purported to be created by Brian Ashby:

BBS Xibalba BBS, Salt Lake City USA
Sysop Bryan Ashby
Phone -Unpublished-
Flags CM,INA:xibalba.l33t.codes,IBN:54554,ITN:44510
AKA [21:1/121 ]


Hope this helps!

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There's this google spreadsheet:

https://bit.ly/ftnnets

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Accession wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I need to look it up.

I'm not sure an actual list of currently active networks exists.
Although, recently it looked like Digital Man was attempting to make
one?

At one time, I thought there was a registrar of sorts, I'd heard of people starting othernets and checking a list to see what zones are available.


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On 04-12-20 08:10, Accession wrote to Vk3jed <=-

On 12 Apr 2020, Vk3jed said the following...

Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I need to look it up.

I'm not sure an actual list of currently active networks exists.
Although, recently it looked like Digital Man was attempting to make
one?

There is an online document that's the most complete that I know of.


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On 04-12-20 12:56, Ogg wrote to Vk3jed <=-

Hello Vk3jed!

** 12.04.20 - 20:18, Vk3jed wrote to All:

Does anyone know where the list of FTNs that we often refer to lives? I
need to look it up. -+- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux

Isn't that what Fido's OTHERNETS is supposed to accomplish?

No, OTHERNETS is more a promotion medium, not a data collection one.

I found this one a while ago, and keep a reference to it in Google
Sheets:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/ 17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5bgVc/edit?usp=sharing

Not sure if this is manageable (or mucked up) by just anyone. It kinda looks like it can be. It is purported to be created by Brian Ashby:

BBS Xibalba BBS, Salt Lake City USA
Sysop Bryan Ashby
Phone -Unpublished-
Flags CM,INA:xibalba.l33t.codes,IBN:54554,ITN:44510
AKA [21:1/121 ]

That looks like the one I was looking for. :)


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On 04-12-20 17:48, Alpha wrote to Vk3jed <=-

There's this google spreadsheet:

https://bit.ly/ftnnets

Thanls, looks like the one.


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Hello Vk3jed!

** 13.04.20 - 20:32, Vk3jed wrote to Ogg:

Isn't that what Fido's OTHERNETS is supposed to accomplish?

No, OTHERNETS is more a promotion medium, not a data collection one.

But if you look through some of those messages you can see announcements
of *other* 'nets out there.

IMHO, these echos act as a sort of data collection medium. Just look at
the "stats" that someone generates from clever parsing of the echos here. The same could be done with OTHERNETS, albiet a little more sophistication would be required, or.. a submission of an announcement just needs to
follow a particular format.

I'm impressed with what the Synchronet dev'r does inorder to generate
this:

http://www.synchro.net/sbbslist.html


To get on the list, sysops submit a file with the data in a particular format, and a computer processes everything automatically.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/
17pmf7cS9ocU99Rm6qlJD_OncqmbDI5Qj8Yw99A5bgVc/edit?usp=sharing

BBS Xibalba BBS, Salt Lake City USA
Sysop Bryan Ashby
Phone -Unpublished-
Flags CM,INA:xibalba.l33t.codes,IBN:54554,ITN:44510
AKA [21:1/121 ]

That looks like the one I was looking for. :)

Excellent.

All the othernets should share their existence and consolidate somewhere
to be easily found. Since the othernets all use FTN, http://ftsc.org could
be such a place.


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