Selecting a Home Full-Service BBS.
One important use of your Kantronics PBBS is to connect to the national system
of packet-radio based BBSs, which was described earlier in the “historical note”
at the beginning of the PBBS section. You can use a “home” full service BBS for
sending and receiving mail, much as you would use a P.O. Box at a postal facil
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ity. The full-service BBS should always be on and available to handle mail for
you.
Each PBBS user should select one (and only one) PC-based, full-service BBS for
sending and receiving mail. This BBS is then called your HOME BBS and
should not be changed unless you move to a new location. When you connect to
your home bulletin board system and list the messages (using the L command),
you will see a list containing information about each message on the system. A
list of messages on one local full-service system might look like this:
Msg # TSL Size To From @ BBS Date/Time Subject
====== === ==== ===== ====== ======= ====/==== =======
59765 B$ 1491 NASA N5IST ALLUS 1004/1529 GALILEO STATUS 09/30/93
59764 BNL 468 WX N0NEJ 1012/1017 KC Forecast 10/12 400am
59763 BNL 659 WX N0NEJ 1012/1017 MO Forecast 10/12 400am
59759 B$ 2240 NASA N5IST ALLUS 1004/1529 MARS OBS. STATUS 9/27/93
59758 B$ 1642 NASA N5IST ALLUS 1004/1529 MARS OBS. STATUS 9/22/93
This list shows the message number, type and status information, the size of the
message, the addressee (TO field), the originator (FROM field), and the @BBS
field. In addition the list shows the date and time the message was received at
this BBS and a short subject for the message.
Routing Lines
Under current FCC requirements, BBS systems that can store and forward mes
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sages without an operator being present must have the capability to provide a re
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cord of the path the message has taken from its origination. To accomplish this,
BBSs include a routing line, beginning with “R:”. This “R:” line includes the
date and time the message was received, message number, BBS call and hierar
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chical routing information.
PBBS (Personal Mailbox) Packet Modes of Operation
KAM’98 v 8.3 175 User’s Guide
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