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Kantronics PBBS
Your Kantronics TNC includes a Personal Bulletin Board System (PBBS) which is capable of storing
and forwarding messages for you and other users. This PBBS provides the same message facilities
as a computer based BBS (normally referred to as a full-service BBS), including the forwarding of
Bulletins, Private mail, and NTS traffic.
Before explaining details of your Kantronics PBBS, it is important that you understand the basics of
a full-service BBS system. Each user should select one (and only one) full-service BBS that will nor-
mally be used to send and receive 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 a local system might look like this:
Msg# TSL Size To @ BBS From Date/Time Subject
===== === ==== ===== ======= ====== ====/==== =======
59765 B$ 1491 NASA @ALLUS N5IST 1004/1529 GALILEO STATUS
59764 BNL 468 WX N0NEJ 1012/1017 KC Forcast 10/12
59763 BNL 659 WX N0NEJ 1012/1017 MO Forcast 10/12
59759 B$ 2240 NASA @ALLUS N5IST 1004/1529 MARS OBSERVER Pt1
59758 B$ 1642 NASA @ALLUS N5IST 1004/1529 MARS OBSERVER Pt2
This list shows the message number, type and status information, size of the message, the addres-
see (TO field), distribution (@BBS field), and originator (FROM field). In addition the list shows the
date and time the message was received at this BBS and a short subject for the message.
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/time the message was received, message number, BBS call, and hierarch-
ical routing information.
When you read a message using the R command (e.g. R 59765) you see the header displayed. For
example:
From : MS 1ST
To : NASA @ALLUS
Type/status : B$
Date/time : 04-Oct 15:29
Bid : NASA093Q.GAL
Message # : 59765
Title : GALILEO STATUS 09/30/93
Path: !WK5M!NOLLY!NOOER!NOOBMJNXOR!AGON!N7MMC!KTOH!KAOWIN!
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 ver-
sion of the READ command (RH or V) that will display more routing information. A routing list from
a bulletin appears below.
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