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echo: tuxpower
to: MAURICE KINAL
from: MARK LEWIS
date: 2015-06-05 08:29:00
subject: splitting the atom

05 Jun 15 02:30, you wrote to me:

 MK> -={ jeudi, juin 04 2015, 19:30:26 -0700 }=-

 MK> Hey mark!

 ml>> ahhh... yeah, that was written without any testing or
 ml>> consideration to the '.'...

 MK> Understood.  However it did raise the issue that if 5D addressing isn't
 MK> taken care of then the original posting will produce an origPoint as well
 MK> as a destPoint with the '@domainname' taked on at the end such as;

yup! that was the first thing i saw when i looked over it with the 5D address
format...

[...]

 MK> which produces the desired splits while retaining the 5D-ness of both
 MK> the complete origAddr and destAddr (ie 1:11/111.0@fidonet in your
 MK> original posting).

it was based on your example just in the full 5D format...

 MK> I currently cannot think of a need for either origDomain or destDomain
 MK> but have already come up with a way to extract it if and when it is
 MK> needed.  I have serious doubts that it is needed.

as previously noted, if you don't participate in any additional FTNs, you may
not ever see a need for it... if you share your code and others use it, they
may need this capability if they are in multiple FTN networks...

)\/(ark

... Don't worry. I'm fluent in weird.
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