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WB6YRU > SYSOP 27.09.12 15:22l 26 Lines 1123 Bytes #999 (0) @ WW
BID : 19601_N0ARY
Read: GUEST
Subj: Re: Please note!
Path: IZ3LSV<IK2XDE<ON4HU<CX2SA<ZL2BAU<N4JOA<N4ZKF<N0ARY
Sent: 120927/0224z @:N0ARY.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM #:19601 San Jose, CA $:19601_N0ARY
> Could someone explain why some of sysops sent Private (P-type) message
> to SYSOP @ WW ? It should be Bulletin!
As far as I know, it has always been done that way since I got
started in the early 1990's.
It's not a question of secrecy, but targeting the message to the
intended recipient. A P-type message to sysop will show up in
each sysop's mailbox, but a Bulletin will not. Each sysop would
have to be sure to look at all their bulletins for anything to
sysop as a bulletin.
Some people have pointed out that P type messages are forwared
along certain specific routes, while Bulletins are flooded to
any and all other systems that each BBS has a path to, and
therefore P type may not get through if some paths have dropped
out. That's true for a P message to an individual at a given
BBS, but a P type with a flood designator (as opposed to a
specific BBS) is supposed to be flood forwarded like any other
bulletin. The difference being, a flooded P message to sysop
will show up in each sysop's mailbox, whereas a bulletin will
not.
73, Gary WB6YRU, sysop of N0ARY.#NCA.CA.USA.NOAM (San Jose, CA)
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