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From: kmcvay@oneb.UUCP (Ken McVay)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Mail to fidonet
Summary: Ignore the point.....
Message-ID: <1846@oneb.UUCP>
Date: 7 Feb 90 18:04:20 GMT
References: <36@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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In article <36@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>, rfm@eng.sun.com (Rich McAllister) writes:
> 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"?

The ".1" is a "point" designation - usually an indication that the "boss"
node (161/148) is running a private nodelist/network. Most of the modern
FidoNet-type mailers are now point-aware, but you can safely ignore the
point address, and simply send it to the bossnode - where the sysop will
certainly forward it for you (perhaps automatically remapping, perhaps
manually).


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