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- The following are the @BBS designators that are currently in use here in the
- Pacific Northwest, these may be different for your part of the network,
- questions should be directed towards your LOCAL SYSOP of the BBS from which
- you are reading this bulletin from.
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- ALLBBS National
- ALLUSA National
- AMSAT National
- ALLUSW West Coast only.
- WAGB Washington State ONLY
- WWGB Western Washington State including some BBS's in OR, and Canada.
- EWGB This is the designator for Eastern Washington, ONLY
- ORGB Oregon State ONLY
- IDAHO This is the designator for Idaho ONLY (Like WAGB is)
- MTGB This is the designator for Montana ONLY
- NWGB This is the designator for the entire Pacific Northwest
- PNW Same distribution as NWGB
- LAN80 Limited Distribution
- LAN40 Limited Distribution
- PUGET Limited distribution for the Puget Sound area
- NWS This is for the WX report and is very limited.
- NWTFC Emergency SYSOP type of designator - priority traffic [W0LVJ].
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- SYSOP type designators ONLY! Not intended for useage by users.
- MBLBBS National The main designator for 'MBL stuff.
- MSYS " The main designator for the MSYS BBS. MSYSNW for the N.W.
- REBBS National This is the designator for AA4RE's information.
- RLIBBS " This is the designator for 'RLI BBS.
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- If you are sending a bulletin that is greater than roughly 4-5K in file
- size to your local BBS, then it would be wise to break the file into
- smaller bulletins so that they may be transfered via HF and the other
- VHF routes that are difficult to pass mail via; smaller files are easier
- to send via these types of routes. When sending files that have more
- than one part, a single file broken into separate files, then it is also
- important to show the part number within the "Subject" such as;
- "1/3 Field Day information" then continue with the text of the bulletin
- as the message. If this is at the beginning, instead of the end of the
- "Subject" line, then the chances of it getting cut off from exceeding the
- line length for the "Subject" line are lessened. It is possible it it was
- formatted with the "1/3" at the end, then all that would be shown in
- this case would be just the "Field Day information" and might appear as
- the same bulletin, several times, since the part numbers would not be shown.
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- Additionally; Please, please, send a carriage return before the 80th
- column of text! This prevents the lines exceeding 80 columns from being
- chopped off, lines double spacing on other users screens, word wrap,
- words being fractured when they word wrap, and if someone wishes to save
- your bulletin to a printed copy, then many printers do not like lines
- exceeding 80 columns.
- To paraphrase Tom Clark, W3IWI; Please use the return key !!!
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- One more thing; if you are selling, requesting information, whatever and
- are looking for a reply from someone via Packet, it is very helpful if the
- return Packet address is one of the last lines in the text, such as I have
- at the bottom of this bulletin, showing your callsign and the BBS from
- which you would look for a reply.
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- If you have further questions, please contact your SYSOP from the BBS of
- the system from which you are reading this.
- If you have comments, or suggestions, please let me know.
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- Thanks!
- de N7FSP - West Seattle, Washington.
- SP N7FSP @ N7HFZ.WA
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