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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 facility. 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 messages
without an operator being present must have the capability to provide a record 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 hierarchical routing information.
When you read a message using the R command (e.g. R 59765) you see the header
displayed. For example:
From : N5IST
To : NASA @ALLUS
Type/status : B$
Date/time : 04-Oct 15:29
Bid : NASA0930.GAL
Message # : 59765
Title : GALILEO STATUS 09/30/93
Path : !NØKN!N0LLY!N0OER!N0OBM!NX0R!AG0N
!N7MMC!KT0H!KA0WIN!N5IST!
The Path: statement in the header lists the most recent BBS systems that have been
used to relay this message from its origin to the BBS you read it from. This path
information is required by the FCC to allow them complete traceability for any message
in the system. What you see in the PATH statement is not the complete information on
the routing, but simply a summary of the systems that have handled the message. To
see the complete information, BBS systems allow a second version of the READ
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