5.5 Points

     As mentioned before, a point is similar to a user logging on to a
     BBS system using his/her terminal program, with the main
     difference being that a point performs most of his/her activities
     offline and use smart software to collect and transit his/her
     mail.

     A point system is addressed by specifying the BOSS system's
     address followed by the point number. Eg. 2:270/17.1 is point one
     of 2:270/17. The BOSS system is called point zero (2:270/17.0),
     but the .0 is normally left out.

     FrontDoor is a point smart software package and fully supports
     the "four-dimensional" (zone, net, node, point) addressing
     method. FrontDoor also supports the "two-dimensional" point
     approach used by software like BinkleyTerm and oMMM. This is
     often called the "fakenet" or "pointnet" method. "Fake" because
     the software uses a non-existent network number to identify its
     "pointnet" and uses the node field for the point number.

     The maximum number of points any system can have is 65,535, not
     counting the BOSS, or point zero.