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N2NOV > ALL 25.02.25 02:33l 47 Lines 1631 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : CFE5_N2NOV
Read: DJ6UX GUEST
Subj: Hierarchical (P, T) vs Flood Area (B) Messages
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Sent: 250224/2210z @:N2NOV.#RICH.NY.USA.NOAM $:CFE5_N2NOV
I believe that there has been some confusion with the roles of hierarchical
addressing for personal/radiogram (P or T) messages vs flood topic/flood area
for bulletin (B) messages. The following datapoints are from the November 2012
version of the BBS Specification document from W0RLI.
Hierachical addressing has the following components after the recipient call
sign and atsign symbol ( xx#xxx@ ):
bbs call sign [max 6 characters]
optional subregion preceded by an octothorpe (#) [max 5 characters after #]
state/province [2 characters]
country [3 characters]
continent [4 characters]
[N.B. there is no need for WW as we are all on the same planet]
Put this together and we get a hierachical address like this:
wc2oem@n2nov.#rich.ny.usa.noam
Now for the bulletin flood area structure (max 6 chacters @ max 6 characters).
>From largest distribution area down to smaller/more specific areas:
@WW
@continent (4 characters as above)
@country (3 characters as above)
@state/province (2 characters as above)
Examples are: @TX, @CAN, @EURO, @NOAM to cover each of these areas
Compass points and Central can precede the state/province areas:
N, S, E, W, C, NE, NW, SE, SW
Examples are: @NCA for Northern California, @SWTX for Southwest Texas
Since there are unique abbreviations for state/province, country or continent,
there is no need to indicate that they are a subset of another with a period
separating them. Thereby we keep the flood areas unique and max 6 characters.
We can eliminate the use of 'ALL' or 'BBS' in the flood area leaving more room.
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73 de N2NOV
n2nov@n2nov.ampr.org
n2nov@n2nov.#rich.ny.usa.noam
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