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  • Setting up FTN Hub System

    From Khronos@VERT/CWSHACK to All on Sun Oct 11 14:29:04 2026
    Hi,
    I am in the process of setting up a hub system for a few nodes
    I have created a message group for these areas and have imported a .na file with the groups I'd like to be sent between all the systems.
    All groups are created and I defined an echolist entry with these groups along with specifying a key value for the downstream nodes.
    My issue is that the areas.bbs system is having trouble with mappinthe area tags to the actual groups.
    The group column of the file is showing as P instead of something like FTN_groupname
    What am I forgetting here?

    Thanks,

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  • From Digital Man@VERT to Khronos on Sun Oct 11 20:26:40 2026
    Re: Setting up FTN Hub System
    By: Khronos to All on Sun Oct 11 2026 02:29 pm

    Hi,
    I am in the process of setting up a hub system for a few nodes
    I have created a message group for these areas and have imported a .na file with the groups I'd like to be sent between all the systems.
    All groups are created and I defined an echolist entry with these groups along with specifying a key value for the downstream nodes.
    My issue is that the areas.bbs system is having trouble with mappinthe area tags to the actual groups.
    The group column of the file is showing as P instead of something like FTN_groupname
    What am I forgetting here?

    'P' means passthru - you're not "carrying" the echo in your own message bases. Change the 'P' to the internal code of the sub-board you created in SCFG->Message Areas and that creates the mapping of the echo to the sub-board.
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  • From Khronos@VERT/CWSHACK to Digital Man on Mon Oct 12 00:10:19 2026
    Re: Setting up FTN Hub System
    By: Digital Man to Khronos on Sun Oct 11 2026 20:26:40

    Re: Setting up FTN Hub System
    By: Khronos to All on Sun Oct 11 2026 02:29 pm

    Hi,
    I am in the process of setting up a hub system for a few nodes
    I have created a message group for these areas and have imported a .na file with the groups I'd like to be sent between all the systems.
    All groups are created and I defined an echolist entry with these groups along with specifying a key value for the downstream nodes.
    My issue is that the areas.bbs system is having trouble with mappinthe area tags to the actual groups.
    The group column of the file is showing as P instead of something like FTN_groupname
    What am I forgetting here?

    'P' means passthru - you're not "carrying" the echo in your own message bases. Change the 'P' to the internal code of the sub-board you created in SCFG->Message Areas and that creates the mapping of the echo to the sub-board.

    I was able to resolve this issue after a while by exporting the echos to an area.bbs file and adding the first node I wish to send mail towards for all these areas and they seem to be connected now.

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