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From: pozar@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Pozar)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail to fidonet
Message-ID: <10138@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: 9 Feb 90 07:50:42 GMT
References: <36@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: pozar@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Pozar)
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In article <36@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> rfm@eng.sun.com (Rich McAllister) writes:
>OK, I know to mail to somebody at a FidoNet address like 1:234/567, I
>would mail to somebody@f567.n234.z1.fidonet.org.  But I now want to
>mail to somebody at "1:161/148.1".  What do I do with the bloomin'
>".1"?

     It would look like this:
       Bozo.the.Clown@p1.f148.n161.z1.fidonet.org

     The "blooming' .1" is called the "point" number.  Hence the
'p' is used.

	       Tim

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