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- SENDING MESSAGES on XOBBS...The 'S' Command
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- Messages to 'local' stations
- S Call letters. For example: S W3ABC sends a message to W3ABC
- on this BBS. It will not be forwarded to any other BBS and must
- be read by W3ABC on this BBS.
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- Messages to be Forwarded to another BBS
- S ToCall @ BBScall. For example: S W3XYZ @ KA3NVP sends a message
- to W3XYZ at the KA3NVP bbs. This message will be automatically
- forwarded to the KA3NVP BBS for reading by W3XYZ.
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- Personal Messages. SP Call or SP Call @ BBS
- Putting a 'P' after the S in the command makes the message a
- personal message to the addressee. Others may not read it.
- Otherwise, SP is the same as S.
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- Traffic. ST Call or ST Call @ BBS
- Putting a 'T' after the S command identifies the messsage as
- traffic for the NTS system.
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- Bulletins SB Call of SB Call @ BBS $BulletinID
- Putting a 'B' after the S in the command identifies the message
- as a Bulletin message.
- You may also address a Bulletin to 'ALL' or 'DXERS', etc. It does
- not have to be addressed to a station. If the Bulletin is to be widely
- diestributed,it should have a Bulletin ID, which is a combination of
- letters and numbers that are unique. Usually, amateurs start the bulletin
- ID with a part of their call letters followed by a number, as usually
- no one will use someone else's call in a Bulletin ID and therefore,
- the combination is unique. For Example, W3ABC might use something
- like ABC12389. The idea of Bulletin Id's is that bulletins sometimes
- spread through divers paths on the network of BBSs . Because each
- bulletin has a unique bulletin ID, a BBS may refuse to accept a
- bulletin that it already has 'on file'. This eliminates duplication
- of effort. Remember, if you send a bulletin to the network, each
- bulletin ID must be different and unique to your station. Start
- with your call letters followed by 001, say WA3PDQ001, with the
- next being WA3PDQ002 and so forth.
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- NETWORKS
- The concept of 'networks' has evolved over the history of packet
- mail forwarding. By substituting a 'network name' for the bbs
- call letters when sending messages, it is possible to distribute
- messages to a number of BBSs. For Example, SB ALL @ PANET would
- send a bulletin to everyone on the PANET network. When a BBS
- sees such a name in place of the BBS in the Send Command, it looks
- in a special file called the 'distribution file', containing the
- call letters of all the BBSs in the PANET network. It will attempt
- to send a copy of the message to each BBS in the network. This is
- where the Bulletin ID becomes important. If the bulletin travels
- through the network via two different paths or more, multiple
- copies could arrive at some BBSs. The Bulletin ID prevents this
- from happening.
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