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

[OAT]

Can we include the jnos nntp function in the discussion ?

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On May 16, 2012, at 4:47 PM, Bill Vodall <wa7nwp at gmail.com> wrote:

>> I've never understood if it was just not the way people did it or if
>> it was simply that nobody is using packet.
> 
> Not much use of packet anymore.  I did log into a remote BBS a couple
> weeks ago and there was a surprising amount of TCPIP discussion
> traffic.
> 
>> Part of my issue is that I've found that basically no routing exists
>> for the return path when the local nodes can see the bulletin as sent
>> amusingly enough.
> 
> Often the routing for bulletins is in the path name - for example
> "nosbbs at pnw"  would be a general NOSBBS discussion for the Pacific
> Northwest.   "nosbbs at ww" would be World Wide - aka everywhere.
> 
>> One thing I've just never found yet is where to go to establish proper
>> routing once I have a node up...i.e. is there a convention where
>> someone maintains a global list of BBS nodes?  How would I know that
>> so-and-so has a node in...whatever, say Fiji that I should have
>> routing information for?
> 
> We just route to our "neighbors" and pick the best neighbor to pass
> all the rest (default) traffic to.   They route to their neighbors and
> the messages can end up flooding around the world.
> 
> 73
> Bill - WA7NWP
> 
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