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<h1 align="Center"> Format of ACK-messages<small>.</small> </h1>
<p align="Center"> (Appendix 11) </p>
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<pre> The ACK messages on receiving have a simple and compact format. The aim is<br>to have a message as short as possible in order to avoid an unnecessary usage<br>of the network.<br><br> The title of the message is the title of the original message with a leading<br>"ACK:". Example :<br><br> ACK:Title of the original message.<br><br> These ACK messages are true messages strictly speaking. They carry the<br>origin, the destination, the route and the MID but they are of a particular<br>type, the type A (private are of type P, bulletins of type B, etc...). This<br>difference allows the routing of these messages without the lines "R:". This<br>is done again with the aim of avoiding an excessive load by data which are of<br>no use in this case.<br><br> To keep the compatibility with the existing forwarding protocol, the type of<br>these messages is changed to P (private) if the receiving BBS of the<br>forwarding does not know the type of ACK messages (specified in the SID [FBB-<br>5.12-ABFHM$] by the letter A). In this case, the ack message will continue on<br>its route as a private message.<br><br> The ACK messages are of the following form :<br> ACK:Message test. <-- Title of message<br> Msg FD1CDC@F6FBB - 22-dec 17:28z <-- Text of message<br><br> It tells that the message that you had sent to FD1CDC at F6FBB and whose<br>title is "Message test" has been received in the BBS F6FBB on 22 dec at 12:28<br>GMT.<br><br><br><br>
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