Mail

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Mail System[edit]

Email is currently in ViewPoint, accessible from any full fledged networked ThinkDOS workstation. This communicates with the DWAINE mainframe to store and forward email[1].

Addresses are currently allcaps USERNAME @ SYSTEM

In the standard mailnet, your username is your first initial and your last name, and the local system is NT13

for example rcox@NT13 for rafael cox on nanotrasen space station 13

are we going to have TLDs? UUNET bangs? who knows!

Ideally, we'll be able to persist mailboxes along with characters, but that won't come until characters are locked.

Example Email[edit]

An example email as it stands now:

MAILNET: PUBLIC_NT

WORKGROUP: *ALL

FROM: THEFUTURE@SEER

TO: STRUTH@NT13

PRIORITY: LOW

SUBJECT: YOUR HOROSCOPE

BODY: In this modern age of space travel, the stars are more important than ever.

That's why nanotrasen has teamed up with top psychics Heather Dawn and Beta-35 to let you know what the stars have in store for you!

Scorpio:%;;'34\[\[w#hy don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?;;

In the random mail strings file, the above is stored like this:

mollymillions10@=PUBLIC_NT@,*ALL@,THEFUTURE@SEER@,STRUTH@NT13@,LOW@,Your horoscope@,In this modern age of space travel, the stars are more important than ever. @,That's why nanotrasen has teamed up with top psychics Heather Dawn and Beta-35 to let you know what the stars have in store for you!@,@,Scorpio: %;;'34\[\[w#hy don't you pass the time by playing a little solitaire?;;

Good to know and great for filling out your own spam/exposition logs!

Mailnets[edit]

PUBLIC_NT (Global NT mailnet)

NT13 (Local, but part of PUBLIC_NT)

NTFC (Centcom/executive command)

NTXX (For NT station numbers/installations other than our own)

Other Mailnets?[edit]

LIBREMAIL

BELLATEL

связисеть (SVYAZISET)

FREEDOMNET

  1. This is one of AIBM's absolute beasts of coding fortitude.