Fw: [FADCA] Re: Packet & NTS Traffic/BBS & NTS data

[John H. Green]

Hi
      Whatever bbs software you are using sure works different than 
mine. :-) .  Most systems scan the info after the @ from left to right, 
forward on the first match and mark the message as forwarded. Thus in 
the example shown if a match was found in the route file for w4rp the 
message would be forwarded to whoever is the destination for that route 
(there should be only one). If no match is found for w4rp then #melb is 
next. This is where things can get tricky as all the #xxx routing I have 
are 3 characters, The #melb would not match and I would route the 
message to fl where it may loop and get held for review. Guess we need a 
master list to use.. ;-)
Remember the personal messages are scanned left to right and the first 
match determines where the message is sent and it should be sent only 
once.  In aa4re bbs the route file must have the info in a descending 
order - it scans top to bottom for a match. The following is an example 
from my route.bb file:
"#NAP*\.F*"    PMW 1 PMN
A message to Naples is first tried to be sent west to Ft Meyers, if this 
does not complete in 1 hour it is sent north to n4xeo. Once it has been 
sent to either destination it is marked as forwarded and deleted at the 
next house keeping.

Bulletins are different in that they can be sent to multiple 
destinations, thus @flbbs might have 2,3 or more destinations and gets 
sent to all.

73  John

Bill Guthrie wrote:

>Solve the first problem:
>
>Q: How do I insure that a message SP W4RP@w4rp.#melb.fl.usa.noam only goes
>to W4RP BBS when I forward to him via telnet rather than N4ZKF or W4JAX?
>
>>From what I understand, you must look at each part of the H-Route and make
>sure no part of it is in anybody's forward.sys file. For example. If I have
>a line in Bud's forward file  that reads H *.usa.* then all mail with a
>h-route with "usa"  in it will go to Bud. Now if I had the following:
>kc4oua@w4jax.#jax.fl.usa.noam  I would want it to be forwarded only to me,
>not to Bud. BUT because this address has "usa" in it, both Bud and I get
>this mail. The same holds true for "noam" and "fl" . I learned the hard way
>to not take the easy way and put H *.usa.* or H *.noam in each & every
>forwarding file for each station I forward with, Because they all get copies
>of the mail.
>
>Bill, KC4OUA
>
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