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====== How are messages moved around the country? ======

[Here we will show a map of the mail routing system that is being developed.]


There is a bulletin group called ALL@SCOT. Using it it very straight forward: Send a bulletin to all@scot and network magic will make the flood through the Scotland area network.

Setting up your own BBS to suit is simply a case for forwarding @SCOT messages to any neighbour nodes in Scotland you have. This @ based forwarding is separate from the normal hierarchical addressing most personal messages or bulletins use.

The expectation is that messages to this address will stay geographically within Scotland. Messages addressed to the group from outside Scotland are unlikely to get here.

In practice since anything @scot will forward in the same way, while all@scot is intended to be the primary group, anything before the @ sign will be accepted and routed throughout Scotland.