[nos-bbs] how to reply to a bulletin ?

[Alan Sieg WB5RMG]

But, Um...    It's a bulletin.
Maybe bulletins have changed into something else this year
(now that we have all become accustomed to using email-reflectors)...

But in my 20++ years of packet-radio'n I don't think I've ever heard
of an interest in replying to a bulletin. I thought bulletins were by
definition a one-way communication (as we aren't allowed to broadcast).
We can ID, test, and send bulletins...
Announcements, schedules, weather advisories, hmmmmmm.
They are not really designed to be reply'd-to, are they ?

I obviously don't know what I'm talking about,
having not seen this particular context Maiko referred to.

Perhaps these messages that want a reply, are actually broadcast
topics encapsulated in a bulletin header. I personally hope this doesn't
turn into a need to have JNOS also function as a list-serv.   I am
pleased that ham-packet is relatively spam-free again (thanks to
the internet and cel-a-phones). I don't care for it to get overloaded
and choked up again with for-sale ads and broadcast/soapbox topics.

Are these really 'Area' messages ? If a defined 'Area' is "soapbox",
then we simply send to "soapbox" to respond to that topic at hand.
If we want to 'reply-to' the author, it works as it is supposed to.

Again, I'm probably just missing something (or being an old-phardt..)
    /;^)



Maiko sed :
> Some of the bulletins under @ww are quite interesting.
>
> Seems I am not able to (more accurately I don't know how) to
> post a REPLY to the bulletin. Using 'sr' simply sends a reply
> to the user that posted the bulletin.
>
> In JNOS, is there not a "send reply to bulletin" command ?
> Seriously ?
> Maiko


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