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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Thanks Bob. Recommendations/conventions/best practices are good and I like to follow them whenever possible because system administration is just much easier that way.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>If that’s the current recommendation/best practice, then that’s what we’ll do.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>N6MEF<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org [mailto:nos-bbs-bounces@tapr.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Bob Tenty<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 31, 2010 6:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> TAPR xNOS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [nos-bbs] multiple BBS's with same FCC call?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>name.callsign.ampr.org is just a recommendation, better is xxxx.callsign.ampr.org with xxxx = whatever you want<br><br>At least something with the call in the amprnet hostname as that makes it easier to find the owner of that hostname.<br><br>But it is a recommendation and not the law :=)<br><br></span>73,<br><br>Bob VE3TOK<br><br>On 10-12-31 08:14 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF wrote: <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Yes, I read that entire site. But it says things that aren’t happening in the real world. For example, the newgate.txt file on the site says that the hostname format must be name.callsign.ampr.org, but Michigan, for example, has hostnames like hamgate.location.ampr.org. But that file is dated 1994, and the FAQ is dated 1999. So perhaps the info there is no longer correct?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in;border-color:-moz-use-text-color -moz-use-text-color'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Ted Gervais [<a href="mailto:ve1drg@gmail.com">mailto:ve1drg@gmail.com</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, December 31, 2010 4:48 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:n6mef@arrl.net">n6mef@arrl.net</a>; TAPR xNOS Mailing List<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [nos-bbs] multiple BBS's with same FCC call?</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'><br>You can try this link to get an idea on how to make up a gateway submission or to update it etc..etc..<br><br><a href="http://ampr-gateways.org/updates/updates.html">http://ampr-gateways.org/updates/updates.html</a><br><br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:30 PM, Michael Fox - N6MEF <<a href="mailto:n6mef@mefox.org">n6mef@mefox.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:1.0in'>Hi Jay,<br><br>Do you have or can you point me to a set-up guide for setting up <a href="http://ampr.org" target="_blank">ampr.org</a><br>hamgates? I went to <a href="http://ampr-gateways.org" target="_blank">ampr-gateways.org</a>, but the info there is 11 years old,<br>not very specific, and I'm not even sure if that's the right place to go.<br><br>Thanks,<br>Michael<br>N6MEF<br><br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:1.0in'> <o:p></o:p></p><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>_______________________________________________<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'>nos-bbs mailing list<o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="mailto:nos-bbs@tapr.org">nos-bbs@tapr.org</a><o:p></o:p></pre><pre style='margin-left:.5in'><a href="https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs">https://www.tapr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nos-bbs</a><o:p></o:p></pre><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>