Hi,
My name is Ryder Navi, I go by "warmfuzzy." There is a very fun echomail network called Sp00knet (open source intelligence forum) which has become broken. I am looking to hire a network administrator to do all the regular tasks of echomail networking administration. The network has around 35 mail areas and 7 filebone areas. There are about 20 nodes active on this network. Your main job will be adding nodes to the network and ensuring that those who have registered get their mail. Your pay will be by PayPal of $60 USD quarterly and $240 USD per year. If you agree to take on this job you will be paid $60 immediately and $60 every upcoming quarter. The first pay day will be on or around the end of June, 2025. The echomail network is hosted on its own virtual server, so its hosted in a server farm somewhere and will stay online for 99% uptime. The server has plenty of RAM, SSD, and vCores. We are using Mystic BBS for our bulletin board system software. If you are interested in this please contact me at phatstarsociety@proton.me. You will receive full root access to this server and it will be your job to keep things running properly.

Best regards,
Ryder Navi [warmfuzzy]
phatstarsociety@proton.me
[PHATstar] https://phatstar.net

P.S. : To give you more essential information about the Sp00knet please check out its InfoPack, which you can download from:

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

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Re: Hiring an Echomail Network Administrator
By: warmfuzzy to All on Fri Jun 20 2025 01:27 am

Hi,
My name is Ryder Navi, I go by "warmfuzzy." There is a very fun echomail network called Sp00knet (open source intelligence forum) which has become broken. I am looking to hire a network administrator to do all the regular tasks of echomail networking administration. The network has around 35 mail areas and 7 filebone areas. There are about 20 nodes active on this network. Your main job will be adding nodes to the network and ensuring that those who have registered get their mail. Your pay will be by PayPal of $60 USD quarterly and $240 USD per year. If you agree to take on this job you will be paid $60 immediately and $60 every upcoming quarter. The first pay day will be on or around the end of June, 2025. The echomail network is hosted on its own virtual server, so its hosted in a server farm somewhere and will stay online for 99% uptime. The server has plenty of RAM, SSD, and vCores. We are using Mystic BBS for our bulletin board system software. If you are interested in this please contact me at phatstarsociety@proton.me. You will receive full root access to this server and it will be your job to keep things running properly.

Best regards,
Ryder Navi [warmfuzzy]
phatstarsociety@proton.me
[PHATstar] https://phatstar.net

P.S. : To give you more essential information about the Sp00knet please check out its InfoPack, which you can download from:

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

I wish you luck in this endeavor, but I must say... the nodelist in that InfoPack is a complete disaster area, and any new ZC would have an almost impossible task in contacting any of those listed nodes to inform them about the change-over. Not sure it could be done, realistically. You may need to "start over" from scratch by advertising the "rebirth" of the network and taking all-new applications. I have never seen such a comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's recoverable.
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Gamgee wrote to warmfuzzy <=-

somewhere
and will stay online for 99% uptime. The server has plenty of RAM,
SSD, and
vCores. We are using Mystic BBS for our bulletin board system
software. If
you are interested in this please contact me at
phatstarsociety@proton.me.
You will receive full root access to this server and it will be your
job to
keep things running properly.

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

I wish you luck in this endeavor, but I must say... the nodelist in that InfoPack is a complete disaster area, and any new ZC would have an almost impossible task in contacting any of those listed nodes to inform them about the change-over. Not sure it could be done, realistically. You
may need to "start over" from scratch by advertising the "rebirth" of
the network and taking all-new applications. I have never seen such a comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's recoverable.

I agree with you. it seems to be a complete cluster f**k of a nodelist

TC


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warmfuzzy wrote to All <=-

P.S. : To give you more essential information about the Sp00knet please check out its InfoPack, which you can download from:

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

Surely one of the few non down nodes would be willing to take the network over. The nodelist shows that there is no real administration having been done.

TC


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Gamgee wrote to warmfuzzy <=-

somewhere
and will stay online for 99% uptime. The server has plenty of RAM,
SSD, and
vCores. We are using Mystic BBS for our bulletin board system
software. If
you are interested in this please contact me at
phatstarsociety@proton.me.
You will receive full root access to this server and it will be your
job to
keep things running properly.

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

I wish you luck in this endeavor, but I must say... the nodelist in that InfoPack is a complete disaster area, and any new ZC would have an almost impossible task in contacting any of those listed nodes to inform them about the change-over. Not sure it could be done, realistically. You
may need to "start over" from scratch by advertising the "rebirth" of
the network and taking all-new applications. I have never seen such a comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's recoverable.

I agree with you. it seems to be a complete cluster f**k of a nodelist

TC


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warmfuzzy wrote to All <=-

P.S. : To give you more essential information about the Sp00knet please check out its InfoPack, which you can download from:

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

Surely one of the few non down nodes would be willing to take the network over. The nodelist shows that there is no real administration having been done.

TC


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Re: Hiring an Echomail Network Administrator
By: warmfuzzy to All on Fri Jun 20 2025 01:27 am

My name is Ryder Navi, I go by "warmfuzzy." There is a very fun echomail network called Sp00knet (open source intelligence forum) which has become broken. I am looking to hire a network administrator to do all the regular tasks of echomail networking administration. The network has around 35 mail areas and 7 filebone areas. There are about 20 nodes active on this network

I'm a Sp00knet node, been hoping for some activity in the network. There are a couple of things I see offhand that could be done fairly easily - low-hanging fruit, if you will.

Looking at my board, only 10 echoes show any traffic in 2025. Only 10 out of all of those boards have over 100 messages.

There's quite a bit of overlap, which I'd get rid of in order to get the message traffic in the active areas up.

Looking at those two categories and consolidating others, I came up with:

Investment Strategies, Crypto Currencies
Politics, Religions & People
[ADMIN] SpookNet Sysop Net Chat
Aliens, UFOs & EBEs
General Conspiracies
Cryptography & Steganography
New World Order
Financial Crisis & Meltdown
Intelligence, Espionage and the Law
Diseases, Pandemics and Disasters
Computer Security and Hacking
Mind Control and Disinformation
Spy World (bug detection, safe houses, offensive/defensive spy wares)

That's 13 message areas instead of 34 that cover most if not all of the subject areas.

What would help the network more than someone to manage it would be an incentive system to get sysops and users to post. Let's figure out some way to get people to start conversations on the network.

Let's get rid of all of the listed DOWN nodes in the nodelist, too - that looks like the network is on the downside.

cheers,

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Re: Hiring an Echomail Network Administrator
By: poindexter FORTRAN to warmfuzzy on Sun Jun 22 2025 12:24 pm

I'm a Sp00knet node, been hoping for some activity in the network. There are a couple of things I see offhand that could be done fairly easily - low-hanging fruit, if you will.

Howdy,

FWIW, I've offered to host it from clrghouz.bbs.dege.au

clrghouz lets end nodes manage their details (address, passwords, subscriptions, etc) and can generate and send out a nodelist each week (with those updated details as appropriate).

It also provides some stats, so you can see how the network is going.

If hatching files occurs, I can add a web ui to hatch out files, or a somebody can use TIC and send out files - clrghouz will distribute it based on membership.

Happy to help out, if that helps.



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TheCivvie wrote to Gamgee <=-

Gamgee wrote to warmfuzzy <=-

somewhere
and will stay online for 99% uptime. The server has plenty of RAM,
SSD, and
vCores. We are using Mystic BBS for our bulletin board system
software. If
you are interested in this please contact me at
phatstarsociety@proton.me.
You will receive full root access to this server and it will be your
job to
keep things running properly.

https://bbsday.org/download/12/bbs-related-files/1484/spooknet.7z

Thank you for your help in this project!

I wish you luck in this endeavor, but I must say... the nodelist in that InfoPack is a complete disaster area, and any new ZC would have an almost impossible task in contacting any of those listed nodes to inform them about the change-over. Not sure it could be done, realistically. You
may need to "start over" from scratch by advertising the "rebirth" of
the network and taking all-new applications. I have never seen such a comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's recoverable.

I agree with you. it seems to be a complete cluster f**k of a nodelist

Heh, that's a good description too... ;-)

I think even calling that a nodelist is pretty generous.



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deon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

FWIW, I've offered to host it from clrghouz.bbs.dege.au

clrghouz lets end nodes manage their details (address, passwords, subscriptions, etc) and can generate and send out a nodelist each week (with those updated details as appropriate).

It also provides some stats, so you can see how the network is going.

That sounds pretty amazing; sounds like it would help with a lot of the
day-to-day maintenance.


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Gamgee wrote to TheCivvie <=-

comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's

recoverable.

I agree with you. it seems to be a complete cluster f**k of a

nodelist

Heh, that's a good description too... ;-)

I think even calling that a nodelist is pretty generous.

I think possibly far easier to restart again and go from there. I would offer but not sure how legal it would be here

Sean

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TheCivvie wrote to Gamgee <=-

Gamgee wrote to TheCivvie <=-

comedy of errors in an FTN nodelist, and I don't think it's

recoverable.

I agree with you. it seems to be a complete cluster f**k of a
nodelist

Heh, that's a good description too... ;-)

Ga> I think even calling that a nodelist is pretty generous.

I think possibly far easier to restart again and go from there. I would offer but not sure how legal it would be here

Agreed. I mentioned that in an earlier post but the OP has not been
back with any further comments. I would do it too, but attempting to
contact any/all of those "existing" nodes would be more pain than I'm
willing to put up with. <SHRUG>

And in the end... we'd end up with YADN. Yet Another Dead Network. ;-)




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