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11 Jul 2015

21st Century and SMTP ??

Pretty wrong, so I think you don't know anything about H-Addressing.

First off, SMTP (email) is just like someones home phone number. If you 
dial the wrong phone number, you either get the wrong house, or you get 
none at all. Same with email. If you don't have the 100% correct email 
address, the message doesn't get through at all, or winds up in the wrong 
persons in-box.

With H-Addressing, YOU DON'T HAVE TO KNOW THE EXACT ADDRESS!

That's one of the many beautiful things about packet messaging forwarding.

Let me explain....   My packet address looks like this
KG6BAJ(a)KG6BAJ.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM.

The ".#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM" is the Hierarchical part of the address. The 
".#NCA"denotes SUBSECTION of the state (in this case Northern CAlifornia), 
then the state "CAlifornia (.CA)", then the Country (.USA), then the 
continent of North America (.NOAM).

With HAddressing, Someone really doesn't need to know the precise address 
like you do with phone & email (The SMTP you refer too). Someone wants to 
send me packet mail, they really only need just a part of my address, which 
they could guess by running my callsign through something like QRZ. Someone 
could send me a packet mail addressed to "KG6BAJ@.#USA.NOAM" (notice the 
huge difference from KG6BAJ(a)KG6BAJ.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM).

Properly configured NOS/FBB/Misc full service BBS's then can at least 
determine that the message is intended for USA, in North America, and 
forward the message along.

Since my BBS is in fact located within USA, in North America, then I'll get 
the message, and drop it in the correct mailbox.

Try doing that with an SMTP (email) message. Just won't work.

To those who don't fully understand the brilliants of Hierarchical I 
suppose it would seem antiquated. But nothing else gets that message 
through like packet radio and H-Addressing.

And one another note, you state all NOS stations run SMTP. Also not true. 
It depends on if the sysop has built it in at time of compiling it features.

And..... not all Full-Service BBS's run NOS.

Bill Lewis,
KG6BAJ

At 05:51 PM 7/10/2015, you wrote:
...
 Jerry, Are you talking about the BBS Hierarchical
Addressing Protocol that 
is common with people running NOS BBS'es? 
ftp://ftp.tapr.org/bbssig/recommendations/hierarchical
In all honesty from what I remember it's a lot of manual configuration, 
that really seems quaint to me since all the NOS programs also speak SMTP, 
the standard today.

It would seem the same could be accomplished using SMTP standards by 
setting up some mail aliases. I'm going to recommend the TAPR NOS-BBS list 
for (Hierarchical forwarding) things of the non 21st century: 

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