Several folks have asked about routing of the dat files and/or the netmail
messages.

I did a little cut and paste from the front door docs to show you the
documentation concerning the four commands you use in Front Door ROUTE.CFG 
file to establish routing of files/file attach netmail/netmail

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 Use these two commands if you are NOT routing for other BBSes            
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	    ROUTE-TO <TARGET> <LIST>

	    Route mail (excluding file attach messages) for the specified
	    systems through TARGET. This automatically implies "NO-ROUTE
	    <TARGET>", ie. the target system's mail will not be routed
	    through another system, even if so previously stated.


	    ROUTE-FILES <TARGET> <LIST>

	    Route file attach messages (excluding normal mail) for the
	    specified systems through TARGET. This automatically implies "NO-
	    ROUTE <TARGET>", ie. the target system's mail will not be routed
	    through another system, even if so previously stated.

	    You should ask the SysOp of the TARGET system if he allows you to
	    route files through his system before using this command.



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 Use these two commands if you ARE routing for other BBSes            
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	    FORWARD-TO <LIST>

	    Tells FD that you allow mail (excluding file attach messages) to
	    be forwarded through your system ONLY if it is destined to any of
	    the specified systems. This is a more secure alternative to the
	    FORWARD-FOR command.


	    FILES-TO <LIST>

	    Identical to  FORWARD-TO except this command includes file
	    attaches.
	    


Okay, here is the example.

Let's say we are in Zone 38 Net 380
we have nodes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and node 1 is the person doing all the
routing.


The ROUTE.CFG for  all nodes  EXCEPT  38:380/1 would look like;



SEND-TO 38:380/*

ROUTE-TO 38:380/1 38:380/2 38:380/3 38:380/4 38:380/5

ROUTE-FILES 38:380/1 38:380/2 38:380/3 38:380/4 38:380/5




The ROUTE.CFG for the person ROUTING (38:380/1) would look like;



SEND-TO 38:380/*

FORWARD-TO 38:380/2 38:380/3 38:380/4 38:380/5

FILES-TO 38:380/2 38:380/3 38:380/4 38:380/5


Now, if you have read this far, here is the easy way to do it.

You establish your own net and the hub uses the 0 address..

ie: Zone 38  Net 39 ...
    you have 5 nodes plus the hub...
    the hub would be  
			38:39/0

    it doesn't make any difference what the rest of them are.

    now for the tricky part...

    most mailers, by default, if a message is not direct or crash 
    it will be routed to the hub of that net automatically.

    so if you are doing a local deal it is very simple to route
    everything through one person.  Just do as I mentioned above
    and do not use direct or crash flags when you setup a system.

    doing it this way, no one has to worry about the route.cfg
    file except for the hub, and that is only if ya'll are
    going to have out of town connects.