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UT1HZM > SYSOP 04.11.20 14:42l 38 Lines 1526 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 2865_UT1HZM
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: Proper Bulletin Forwarding Areas After the @ Symbol
Path: IW8PGT<I3XTY<I0OJJ<EA2RCF<LU9DCE<VE3BWM<CX2SA<N3HYM<IR2UFV<UT1HZM
Sent: 201104/1212Z 2865@UT1HZM.KREM.POL.UKR.EU BPQ6.0.20
Hello.
N2NOV:
>As was stated by G8BPQ on the BPQ32 mailing list this morning, the BPQMail
>software does not support the 4-letter convention for continents that was
>the new convention as of 20 years ago. There was a station that wanted a
>message to co to SYSOP@CEAM and it was instead trated like the old code for
>North America (NA) and allowed to propagate to USA stations instead of the
>intended forwarding partner for Central America. I see this all too often
>even with thinhs like NLD (country code for the Netherlands) being forwarded
>out of that country and spread out all over the world.
Charles, its not a problem of software.
From my view point more likely problem of knowledge, how to route @xxxx field
by some of sysops.
So its much easy put '*' mask and forward just @ANY to any partner...
And yes, we should continue to explain that not need to fwd @NLD outside of Netherlands etc...
Same for @CEAM, its should not fwd out of Caribbean region. Never fwd to USA and EU etc.
@EU - should not FWD out of Europe.
Etc.
About 4-letter continent codes, as Gus I0OJJ - I'm too not see any sense of that changing.
Internet domains can start to use any domain-code (including that recommended ones for Packet)
As with recommended '.ASIA' - its already used as Internet domains now.
Combined BBS systems (like JNOS), which use classic packet mail and e-mail should use
some other method of separating P-mail and E-mail, not by that obsolete '94 recommendation
that most sysops not adopted.
73, Sergej.
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